Thursday, December 14, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn FYI Items being sent from any AEA-267 library going to any AEA-1 library will not be going until after the delivery starts back up in January. Please mail these items. The last exchange for the year has already occured. ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Independence Public Library is in the midst of fundraising for their new library building. Recently they were awarded with a $550,000 grant from the CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Board, which is part of Vision Iowa. The fundraising total has just passed $2.5 million of the $3 million goal. The library will start to go through the formal process that leads to bidding and plans on breaking ground in the spring. The planned completion for the new Independence Public Library, which will give them six times the space they have now, is spring of '08!! Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org Have you completed your survey? ALA and Florida State University’s College of Information are surveying (PDF file) a national sample of public libraries regarding internet connectivity and computing access. Your library may have been chosen to participate (and incidentally be eligible to win a 2 GB iPod nano). The deadline for responding is February 1. More information on the project is available from the FSU Information Use Management and Policy Institute.... THE LSA: NEILSA closed dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 We need to know now that your're getting individual e-mail addresses more often with PLOW, which one or ones you want subscribed to mail lists. Materials costs are up: Periodicals increased by 7.8% Monographic materials - Hard cover increased by 6.2% CPI for the same period 3.4% FROM: Bowker Annual 2006 FROM this weeks EYE-OPENER from NWILSA 3) Dewey Cooks Makes Nice Christmas Gift: Last minute shoppers take note of this tasty gift idea. Dewey Cooks is a cookbook of 374 recipes from 23 states and 4 countries, all contributed by people from public, academic, school, and special libraries, as well as businesses that support libraries. This cookbook is the brainchild of Dubuque Public Library director Susan Henricks. Recipes are presented in Dewey Decimal order, complete with Library of Congress subject headings J But wait, there’s more: hundreds of quotes sprinkled throughout the book share what writers have had to say about food and cooking throughout history. And you can even take a virtual tour of the book here: www.dubuque.lib.ia.us Profits from Dewey Cooks will be donated to the Iowa Library Association Foundation. For one book, the cost is $15.00 + $3.75 shipping (add $5.00 shipping for 2 books, $6.00 shipping for 3; to obtain a quote for shipping more than 3, contact the editor at deweycooks@mchsi.com) Make check payable to Susan Henricks and mail your order to: Susan Henricks 2108 North Main Street Dubuque, IA. 52001 CE IF you went to Library 101 and need a certificate contact Ken right away please. 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: A good article in Nov/Dec 2006 Public Libraries p 40 Fund-raising Perks of Library Cafes includes a "rural" library coffee station. PLA’s proposed new service responses: A draft June Garcia and Sandra Nelson have reviewed all of the comments from the three open meetings during the 2006 Annual Conference and on the PLA Service Response blog, and they have identified 17 new or revised service responses. As the process continues, the service response descriptions will be expanded to include suggested target audiences, common library services and programs, required resources, and suggested measures for each. PLA will be accepting comments on this draft until January 1 and will present a revised draft at the upcoming Midwinter Meeting.... PLA Blog, Dec. 6 Net Neutrality proponents prepare for next battle A bill that would have allowed telecommunications and cable companies to prioritize internet content by allowing higher-speed information delivery for higher-paying customers has died. The 109th Congress closed early December 9 without action on the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006. But the Save the Internet coalition is gearing up to continue lobbying for network neutrality when the 110th Congress convenes.... Information Week, Dec. 11 Microsoft’s Live Search Books Tom Peters writes: “After playing around for an hour or so with the recently released public beta version of Microsoft’s Live Search Books, I have to admit—against some vague sense that my better judgment is failing me—that I like it. On December 6, when the beta version was released to the public, I conducted a couple of sample searches on phrenology and spontaneous combustion.” Discover what he found out.... ALA TechSource blog, Dec. 12 Spanish for library staff WebJunction is offering a variety of resources to help library staff learn and use Spanish in their work with Spanish-speaking patrons. Included is the workbook and mp3 audio tracks from Infopeople’s Survival Spanish for Library Staff course (54:51) that offers the Spanish pronunciation of commonly used library terms and selected patron questions with answers in Spanish.... WebJunction Internet search engine safety A recent survey conducted by antivirus software company McAfee compared the safety of leading search engines, using McAfee SiteAdvisor’s automated website ratings. It found that most search engines are similar in the safety of the sites they link to, though AOL has replaced MSN as the safest engine and Yahoo! replaced Ask as the engine with the most risky results.... McAfee, Dec. 11 REPEATS: 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 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.htm The Independence Public Library is in the midst of fundraising for their new library building. Recently they were awarded with a $550,000 grant from the CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Board, which is part of Vision Iowa. The fundraising total has just passed $2.5 million of the $3 million goal. The library will start to go through the formal process that leads to bidding and plans on breaking ground in the spring. The planned completion for the new Independence Public Library, which will give them six times the space they have now, is spring of '08!! 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. 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 June 21- 27 ALA 2007 Annual Conference in Washington D.C. 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.statelibraryofiowa.org/events 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 COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002: THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt COPYRIGHT Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright and is presented here for purposes of education 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) 4:42:57 PM