Friday, December 29, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn May you have a successful New Year From "the staff" at NEILSA Eunice, Ken & Denise NOTE: This will be short today because I spent my surfing time on e-rate this week and so no "STUFF" & I have an emergency book delivery to make so you lucked out - but I'll make up for it next year.   ANNOUNCEMENTS: VAN Service: AEA 267 will resume delivery on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007. AEA 1 will resume deliver on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007 THE LSA: NEILSA closed dates: 1/1/2007 Consortia members are listed on the Consortia Blog at: http://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm The Friends of the Elgin Public Library Invite you to their 10th Annual Book Sale At the Elgin Public Library, 214 Main St., Elgin, IA Friday, Jan. 12th, 8:00 – 6:00 and Saturday, Jan. 13th, 8:00 – noon Hardback and paperback adult fiction, mysteries, religious, Christian fiction, craft and cook books, business, sports, Westerns, classics, reference, humor, science, history, romance, biography, travel, Iowa topics, poetry gardening, parenting music, relationships, and rare books. Also youth and children’s books, puzzles, magazines, videos, DVDs, CDs, and audios. Door prizes!! Funds go toward the purchase of new materials of all kinds for the library. For more information, call 563-426-5313 Dates for LIBRARY 101 for 2007: March 22 [Thursday] June 8 [Friday] September 11 [Tuesday] December 6 [Thursday] AIR books are all in and ready for your groups to schedulecall or email Denise at the LSA. *******************************************REPEAT*********************************************************** LIBRARY ASSISTANT: Northeast Iowa Library Service Area. Full-Time salaried position, 40 hrs/wk. Salary: $17,000 to $21,000, depending on experience, with benefits including health/dental insurance. For job description/application visit: http://www.neilsa.org/searchcomm/index.html MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Legal resident of Iowa with valid Iowa drivers license, Ability to lift and move 50 pound packages; This position requires significant computer use; Detail work is major responsibility, bookkeeping experience/training a strong asset, this is the single most important job skill or personality trait for the position; Propensity for placing things in alphabetical and numerical order, you have to love filing One year paid full-time public contact work experience, public library/teaching experience a plus. DUTIES: In conjunction with other agency personnel, answer phones; assist Library Consultant in day-to-day operations. 6 hours a week are on the road making deliveries. About 30 hours a week are involved with significant detail work including, filing, organizing, tracking and assisting people on the phone or via e-mail/IM. Application package on line at http://www.neilsa.org/searchcomm/index.html Skill & knowledge tests may be required. Deadline: Until filled. Application forms received before Jan 12, 2007 will be given highest priority. An Equal Opportunity Employer. Application package on line. Your application must contain the following elements: NEILSA Application – 4 pages Resume – 1 or 2 pages Cover letter outlining strong points as related to duties in the posted job description – one sheet   NOTE: Incomplete applications will not be considered. Mail Application to: NEILSA – System Support I 415 Commercial St Waterloo, IA50701-1317 ****************************************************************************************** CE   Dates for the PLOW class, Getting Your Web Site Started. Date Location January 9 Des Moines January 10 Des Moines January 17 Waterloo January 18 Fayette January 19 Fayette January 22 Waterloo January 23 Council Bluffs January 24 Kalona January 25 Marshalltown January 26 Ottumwa January 29 Cedar Rapids January 30 Storm Lake January 31 Storm Lake February 1 DeWitt February 2 Burlington February 5 Cedar Rapids February 6 Sioux City February 12 Carroll February 13 Clear Lake February 14 Clear Lake February 19 Creston February 20 Fort Dodge February 22 Emmettsburg February 23 Emmettsburg February 27 Dubuque February 28 Spencer March 1 Sheldon March 2 Sheldon 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 9:00 to Noon Registration 8:30 -- March 19 at Oelwein & 26 at Waverly, 2007 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: NONE this week. 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 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 http://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.   Janurary 1 NEILSA Closed for New Yerars Day 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 17 7:30 Sumner, Bremer County 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 Library Butler 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 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 Hudson & Elkader Keystone) 10:31:17 AM