New Friday Notes:
notes for next week
The life
so short, the craft so long to learn
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org
ERR,
that is after we get it fixed, IF you have been having problems
getting to us it is because of a "server" problem. Our
crack team of specalists is/has been working on it and as soon as
she gets it fixed we will be back, without passwords et. al. At
this writting we are about 85% back.
THE LSA:
Christmas in Westgate @ Westgate Opera House
December 2 & 3, 2006 No admission fee
Saturday 10:30-3:00 p.m. & Sunday 2:00- 5:00 ? Westgate Opera House
Saturday 10:30-11:30 Crafts for the kids
Sunday 3:00 Variety Show
Christmas Trees and decorations on display.
Many craft and bake items for sale and raffle.
Live Christmas music to enjoy as you walk through Westgate's Winter Wonderland
Soup and Sandwich lunch will be available for purchase on Saturday.
All proceeds from this weekend will go towards the new library building.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will match money raised.
In case of bad weather, Christmas in Westgate will be held Dec. 9 & 10
Make Sure Your ISP Doesn't Filter Your Friday
Notes/Newsletters as Spam
From Heinz Tschabitscher, Edited by Ken
Your Guide to Email.
You may not be aware of it, but your Internet
Service Provider (ISP) is probably filtering all your email for
spam automatically. As long as they only filter out the spam this
is a good thing (though not even this should happen without the
user's consent), but important mail or newsletters may fall
victim to these spam filtering tactics, too. The ISP is certainly
not doing this on purpose, so you should inform them about the
situation to help avoid such false positives. If you are
suspecting that your ISP is filtering mail you do want to receive
— if you have signed up for The New Friday Notes for example,
but never got an issue, or delivery suddenly stopped:
•Visit your ISP's support Web site and look for
their spam policy.
o Maybe you can opt out of the filtering,
o whitelist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist]
certain senders manually (to make sure you're receiving the New
Friday Notes and other LSA mailings, whitelist the
"neilsa.org" domain, for example) or
o report specific problems through a dedicated
form.
• If you find neither of these options, contact
your ISP via email or by phone and describe the problem with as
much detail about the erroneously blocked email as possible. In
our example of Friday Notes not showing up in your Inbox, tell
your ISP something like:
Hi, I have need for e-mail from the NE Iowa
Library Service Area at neilsa.org Unfortunately, I am not
getting the Friday Notes (other mail) from NEILSA. Can this have
something to do with server-side spam filters catching this
wanted piece of mail? Could you please investigate this and
whitelist "neilsa.org"? thanks a lot!
County Library
Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any
spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as
county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al.
Reminder: as libraries move to new email
addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of
the change
VAN Service:
AEA 267 last delivery date will be Thursday
& Friday, December 21 & 22, 2006. They will resume
delivery on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007.
AEA 1 last delivery date will be Monday
& Tuesday, December 18 & 19, 2006. They will resume
deliver on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007
Dear Friends of
North-eastern Iowa Libraries,
Greetings from the Friends of the Decorah
Public Library. We have for some time thought that we all should
be sharing more ideas of what good things we are doing and
examples we might take from each other that could strengthen our
various endeavours. While there are many activities that we have
done over the past several years one production we would be
willing to share that we are excited about and has proven helpful
to our work is a power point program that we have developed to
present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to the
community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested
to see our presentation as a possible model which you might
develop for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois
Roberts, 506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski,
Decorah Public Library
202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101.
Jim Dale Decorah Friends of the Library
Chair
CE:
The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th
at West Union - Registration required or site is canceled, other
sites by request.
UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their
Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information
and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed
Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or
608-263-4452
Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview March
19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD
Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading,
learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in
helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary
Cameron will take participants through an overview of a
parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to
train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed
training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto
participate in the project at a later date.
Grow Your Own @ your library grants PLA is
now accepting applications for its popular Grow Your Own @ your
library institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine
public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to
staff members who are working to obtain a master's degree in
library and information science. One library from each of the
nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories
will be selected....
Great CE delivered right to your desktop!
Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug.
21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant
to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for
YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To
register go to www.ala.org/yalsa.
Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday
Notes of 08/25/2006:
PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses
E-Learning @ PLA, the online education program of the Public
Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of
its popular courses. New Planning for Results and Creating
Policies for Results will each be offered five times between
September 2006 and April 2007....
OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library
Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming
in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video
Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2
minutes, 39 seconds) FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/
STUFF:
Conclusion
http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp?bhcp=1
Many of the most important disconnects between library
priorities and millennial generation values are closely related
to the way libraries conceive, create, and provide public
computing infrastructure. The promise of seamlessness that stems
from ubiquitous computing access and instantly available
networked information is, unfortunately, stifled significantly
within the libraries of today. Certainly, accommodating changing
user preferences is not the only priority that drives library
decisions. A basic philosophical issue for libraries is the
extent to which we should move in the direction of the users and
how much we should expect users to move in our direction.
In a recent article,4 Carr discussed two indicators for change
in academic libraries in recent years: competition and electronic
information. Competition has driven libraries toward their users'
needs at least in terms of library as place; thus the abundance
of libraries that are remaking their physical space in the
likeness of a typical third space (for example, a coffee shop).
Unfortunately, support for user needs in terms of their virtual
information space still rigidly adheres to old values that force
online users to find other paths to information, often not even
realizing what their own library has to offer. Finding the right
way to achieve balance between traditional library values and the
expectations and habits of coming generations will determine
whether libraries remain relevant in the social, educational, and
personal contexts of the Information Age.
REPEAT:
Send us an e-photo of your library
[flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to
promote every one of our libraries.
Whats New blog - this
is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up
to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements,
changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you
share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin
sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php
Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org
Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.html
LINKS:
Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity
LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm
NEILSA continuing education http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html
NEILSA e-rate Consortia Blog ttp://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm
NEILSA monthly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm
NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org
NEILSA yearly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm
NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html
NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com
State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf
State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html
USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/
DUE DATES:
County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of
your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you
will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round
Robin, Legislative Days et. al.
NEILSA closed dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007
- December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas
January 27th Fayette
CLA Legislative Day is Saturday, from 9:00-10:30
April 3 at Shell Rock, Benny
Gambiani Library Butler County Library Association Meeting
April 19th Fayette
Spring Meeting is at 9:30 at the Arlington Public Library
September 19th
Fayette Fall Meeting is at the Clermont Public Library at
6:00 p.m
Oct. 2 at Allison Public
LibraryButler County Library Association Meeting
The State Library's calendar http://www.silo.lib.ia.us
Traffic Counter available on loan from the NEILSA
Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a
people counter is the way you can make sound strategic
decisions. With help from a Sensource counter, your library can
easily evaluate staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data
you can be confident that your decisions are based on facts not
guesswork.
If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at
NEILSA to reserve a time slot. If you would like to learn more
about how you can use the readings from the counter to better
manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your
staffing/use decisions we can arrange that at the same time.
The fine print stuff
blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/
EDITORS NOTES:
"x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for:
x = See & xx = See also
Edited by:
Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org
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COPYRIGHT
Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be
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and research only.
NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their
material and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken
LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting
The public is encouraged and welcome to attend.
Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba)
12:48:49 PM 
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