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August 2000 Issue Volume XXXVII, Number 6
Area Summer Reading Programs a Success
Teen Summer Reading Program "Takes Off" at MCPL
"MeteorRead," the 2000 Summer Teen Reading Program was launched at Marathon County Public Library on July 5th. Midway into the five-week program, 114 readers from the seven branches and two bookmobiles and 87 readers from the Wausau branch had chosen close encounters with library books and magazines. Teens were given a MeteorRead ticket at the time of checkout, and were asked to punch a hole or color a star for every fifteen minutes read. When a ticket was filled, it was returned to the library and entered into the Grand Prize Drawing for a weight bench. Weekly drawings were also held to select winners from tickets submitted that week.
MeteorRead was astronomically fun and a success in conveying that summer reading is not an alien concept. Mission Control (MCPL’s YA Committee) has decided to make the Teen Summer Reading Program an annual event. —Deb Fecteau & Deb Kindler, Marathon County Public Library
Summer Library Program Always a Big Success at
Rib Lake
- edited from an article by Mary Hebda and Aimee Hein
The Rib Lake Public Library staff has employed methods of promoting and providing fun-filled activities that ensure the success of their summer library programs from one year to the next. Following are some of the steps they take to ensure that success continues.
The Library's promotional activities begin in March in conjunction with early childhood screening by the Rib Lake School District. At that event, the library features an eye-catching display of books and other hands-on items, and distributes letters describing the upcoming summer library program. Then in April, a summer library program display is placed at the elementary school. Library staff visit each classroom and disseminate promotional materials and "treats" to all the students. For example, when the SLP theme was "Go Global, READ!" we provided fortune cookies!
Next we send letters to businesses in the Rib Lake community soliciting donations. Following the letter, we personally visit these businesses (on the date scheduled in the letter) to further solicit their help and provide them with ideas on what to donate. These efforts have been very successful, as the library receives donations based on summer library program themes rather than just $$!
Once the summer library program starts, participants receive reading sheets to log the hours read, along with clipart to color. Parent Participation Prizes are awarded to the parents of the top readers. However, all participants receive tickets, tokens or wristbands for every hour they read and for every storyhour they attend. Participants collect these tokens, tickets or wristbands, and spend them at the last storyhour of the summer, which is a fun-filled festival featuring games and refreshments based on the SLP theme. Library staff send pictures and captions of the summer library program to the local newspaper which does a great feature article of the event.
The culminating activity occurs at the "Ice Days Parade" where library staff as well as the summer's top reader dress in costume and throw leftover SLP prizes (like water balloons, glow-in-the dark stars and book bags) to the crowd.
This is only a brief description of the SLP itinerary that has been used by the Rib Lake Public Library over the past five years. For more information about how the staff has made and continues to make reading fun, and the library an exciting place to attend, contact Mary Hebda or Aimee Hein at 715/427-5769.
2001 Summer Library Program Theme -
If You Give A Kid a Library CardBecause of Jane Rober’s departure from the Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning (DLTCL) staff, arrangements were made to participate in Minnesota’s summer library program in 2001.
The Minnesota summer library program is administered by MELSA (The Metropolitan Library Service Agency) in St. Paul, Minnesota. MELSA has been administering the summer library program for the nine public libraries in the seven-county metropolitan area around Minneapolis/St. Paul for a number of years. In 2001 it will administer the program for the entire state of Minnesota for the first time. Jim Wroblewski who worked for many years as a librarian in Wisconsin is the executive director of MELSA. Judy Todd is the summer library program coordinator for MELSA. Information about MELSA and its 2000 summer library program can be found at the following web site: http://www.melsa.org/
Minnesota has tentatively selected a broad-based theme for 2001 which allows individual public libraries to be creative in their approach. It is "If you give a kid a library card." The theme is a take-off on Laura Numeroff’s books: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; If You Give a Moose a Muffin; etc.
There is a possibility that this could change, however. Like Wisconsin, MELSA obtains a nationally known children’s illustrator to do the art work for the summer library program. Minnesota is still negotiating for the illustrator for the program for 2001.
Although MELSA has offered a significant number of products for its summer library program, this will be the first year it will provide a manual. They are currently recruiting the writer/editor for this publication. Wisconsin libraries will have an opportunity to contribute to the manual.
A big section of Wisconsin’s summer library program manual is the list of summer library program performers. DLTCL intends to continue this list and make it available on our web site.
As final decisions are made in regard to the program, DLTCL will share that information with the Wisconsin library community. —Larry Nix, Director, DLTCL
I love words. Maybe that’s part of why I chose librarianship as my profession. Here are a couple of fun, "high-tech" (the only kind of ‘tech’ I like) phrases… Mouse potato - the online, wired generation’s answer to the ‘Couch Potato’ and Percussive Maintenance - the fine art of whacking an electronic device to get it to work again. They seem to go along nicely with Dilltickle - the phonetic pronunciation of DLTCL :> Now, on to meatier material.
You work in one of the wonders of the world! The public library has been called "one of the seven sustainable wonders of the world." The written wisdom of the world at the fingertips of anyone with a library card! The average American pays $20 a year in taxes to support public libraries and can save that much by borrowing instead of buying just one or two books. A book that is loaned ten times cuts not only cost but paper use per reader by a factor of ten. (Donella H. Meadows, Dartmouth College)
Afraid of Harry Potter - I’ve been truly amazed and gladdened at the media coverage on the release of the latest Harry Potter book…how wonderful to watch kids lining up to get a book to read! How wonderful that it makes news! Marylaine Block said (and I’ve edited here), "For the past several years, parents and politicians alike have been outraged that our schools have not succeeded in teaching all our kids to read. It seems more than passing strange, then, that when books come along that kids read eagerly, and pass on to their friends, adults start trying to ban those books from schools and libraries…Of course, not all the books that kids adore and grownups find alarming are great literature…But it doesn’t matter if the books are great literature or not. The point is, books that speak this powerfully to kids’ concerns and fears move them past their reading barriers, so that instead of reading one painful word after another, and forgetting by the end of the sentence what the sentence was about, they gulp down sentences and paragraphs and chapters whole…You would think people who want their kids to read would view such books as their allies, would even thrust them into their sons’ and daughters’ hands… Instead, many parents demand that these books be removed from schools and removed from libraries because of some threat they pose. What kind of threat? Often the complaint is about bad language, or portrayals of sexuality. Some books that deal with magic, like the Harry Potter stories, are condemned as satanic…I’m inclined to think those stated reasons are the "good" reasons, not the real reasons. I suspect the real reasons have more to do with a pervasive sense of disquiet these books arouse, which the censors may not even understand themselves, a sense that these books threaten their entire system of beliefs and values…In which case they are on to something, because many of these books are, in fact, deeply subversive. They look long and hard at the world grownups have made and find it wanting…Do you really censor Harry Potter because of magic, or because the book reveals so many adults to be clueless, humorless muggles? Don’t you really censor The Chocolate War because it reveals what ugly compromises adults must often make with their principles…I’m willing to believe the censors really do want their children to read. I’m less convinced they want their kids to think. I wonder if, ultimately, it’s a failure of trust –they don’t want their kids tempted by dangerous ideas because they’re afraid that, in a fair fight, their own values and beliefs wouldn’t win their sons’ and daughters’ hearts and minds…Librarians…are on the other side of a cultural divide from the censors, because we believe reason and goodness will triumph in a free marketplace of ideas; we believe the solution to dangerous speech is more speech to counteract it…That makes it hard for us to understand censors, let alone sympathize with their fears and reach out to them. At least until the ideas and beliefs WE hold dear are challenged…If you REALLY threaten us, we’re less convinced our ideas will triumph in that free marketplace. The fact is, our assumption that good ideas will triumph IS a belief, no more capable of proof than the world view of the censors we stand against…The issue is not the urge to protect our children – we feel that as much as censors do. The issue is whether we have the right to prevent other people’s children from having access to ideas we despise and fear." (see Marylaine.Com for other material by Marylaine Block) --Heather Eldred
Arthur Says - "Having Fun Isn’t Hard When You’ve Got a Library Card"
Marc Brown’s children’s character Arthur is helping ALA celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month in September. The star of the best-selling children’s book series and the #1 children’s television show will be featured on ALA posters and seen at events at libraries across the country reminding children that "Having Fun Isn’t Hard When You’ve Got a Library Card."
Libraries that host Arthur-themed events for Library Card Sign-Up Month in September will be eligible to enter a sweepstakes sponsored by ALA in which five public libraries will win a set of Arthur books donated by Little, Brown & Co. and Random House. The five grand-prize winning libraries will be drawn at random from all properly completed and postmarked entries. The deadline for entry is October 20, 2000. Winners will be notified on or before November 17, 2000.
Complete sweepstakes rules and information on "How to Host an Amazing Arthur Library Card Sign-Up Event," including how to rent an Arthur costume, are available on a new Web site at http://www.ala.org/pio/librarycard along with other great ideas and promotional materials for parents and librarians, including
clipart, public service announcements, suggestions on 50 ways to use your library card and more. Arthur posters and accompanying bookmarks are available from the ALA Graphics Catalog. To request a catalog, call 800-545-2433, ext. 5046, or see the ALA Online Store at www.alastore.ala.org/
Observed since 1987, Library Card Sign-Up Month is a time when the ALA and libraries across the country remind parents that a library card is the most important school supply of all. Studies show that children who are read to in the home and who use the library perform better in school and are more likely to continue to use the library as a source of lifetime learning.
Library Advisory Committee News
The WVLS Library Advisory Committee (LAC) met in August to discuss several items of business.
2001 System Plan & Budget. There were no issues raised regarding the continuation of goals and objectives from 2000. WVLS reported that funds would be available in 2001 to initiate two new programs and, after much discussion, both met with LAC approval. WVLS plans to join the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium e-book project in 2001. With this affiliation, WVLS may purchase e-book subscriptions and e-book readers, and fund continuing education activities for WVLS area libraries. The other program approved involves producing publicity materials promoting WVLS services and distributing them throughout the WVLS area.
Workshop Topics for 2001. The four regular workshop topics for 2001 will include virtual collection development; using the Internet to find information in specific subject areas (health, business, etc.); e-books (products available, costs, circulation procedures, etc.); and information technology and the future public library. Alternate topics will be Wisconsin authors and book repair.
2001 LSTA Grants. WVLS will be applying for three 2001 LSTA grants, two of which will be noncompetitive. The noncompetitive 2001 Special Needs Youth Grant ($17,700) will be a continuation of the 2000 Teens at Risk Grant. Funds from a noncompetitive 2001 Technology Grant ($19,300) will be used to partially subsidize the $100,000 cost to upgrade V-Cat from Dynix to Horizon/Sunrise. WVLS is also applying for $30,000 in the competitive technology grant category to help three area public libraries - Owen, Dorchester, and Westboro - join the V-Cat. The status of these grants will be made available in late November, 2000.
WVLS Services Survey. Preliminary results of the WVLS Services Survey indicate that cash grants and reference and referral service are not as valuable as they used to be, and that the courier service is very valuable to all of the libraries which responded to the survey. Final results of the survey will be tabulated and made available after all of the WVLS area public libraries have returned completed surveys.
Lisa Anderson, Antigo Public Library Director, was elected vice-chair/chair-elect of the LAC. The next LAC meeting is scheduled for December 5, 2000 at Marathon County Public Library. —Linda Orcutt
Hear What You Missed at the ALA Conference
Audiocassette recordings from the 2000 American Library Association’s annual conference are now available for loan from the Reference and Loan Library. The conference was held in Chicago, July 6-12, 2000, and this year 52 of the programs were selected for recording. The titles are listed below. This list, as well as lists of titles for the two previous annual conferences, may also be found at Reference and Loan’s web site at: http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/rll/indav.html
The programs may be helpful to librarians and others who could not attend the ALA conference, or who could not go to all of the meetings of interest. Descriptions of programs can be found in the conference preview section of the April 2000 issue of American Libraries. Audiocassettes may be borrowed from Reference and Loan through regular interlibrary loan channels. For more information contact Willeen Tretheway at 608/224-6171 or 888/542-5543 or willeen.tretheway@dpi.state.wi.us
Grolier National Library Week Grant Supports "@ Your Library" Campaign
U.S. libraries of all types are invited to apply for a $4,000 National Library Week Grant for the best library promotion/public awareness campaign tied to the goals and theme of National Library Week (April 1-7, 2001). The grant is sponsored by the Grolier Publishing Company and administered by the National Library Week Committee of the American Library Association (ALA). This year’s deadline is November 15, 2000.
Grolier Grant proposals should reflect the National Library Week 2001 theme "@ your library," which is also the "brand" for a new, five-year public awareness campaign sponsored by ALA to promote libraries and librarians nationwide.
The Campaign for America’s Libraries is a five-year commitment to speak in a unified voice about all types of libraries to communities, schools, academic institutions and businesses as well as to society, democracy and the digital age. The campaign was unveiled in July at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and will officially launch to the public during National Library Week 2001.
Libraries are encouraged to be as imaginative and inventive as possible in developing a local public awareness campaign or program for National Library Week that reflects this national theme. The theme, which is open-ended and provides lots of room for creativity, should be used on any and all promotional publicity material to support National Library Week.
An application form and guidelines are available from the ALA Public Information Office. (Phone: 800/545-2433, ext. 5041/5044; email: pio@ala.org; or visit the ALA Web site at www.ala.org/pio/nlw/grolierapp.html) The winner will be notified at the end of December and announced at the 2001 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Washington, D.C.
For more information about the Campaign for America’s Libraries, see the ALA Web site at http://www.ala.org/@yourlibrary
Laubach Literacy Seeks Applications for National Book Scholarship Fund
Laubach Literacy, the world’s oldest and largest literacy organization, is currently seeking grant applications for its National Book Scholarship Fund (NBSF), which distributes books and other educational materials to qualified adult literacy and education programs nationwide.
NBSF grants are designed to help local educational groups expand their work or to begin new programs among under-served populations. First priority is given to family literacy programs that work to improve the literacy skills of parents and their children. Grants are also awarded to programs that work with special groups, such as the homeless, refugees, people learning English as a Second Language, and adults with learning disabilities.
Last year, the NBSF gave $225,625 worth of in-kind grants to 96 programs. The fund has given $1,094,441 worth of grants to 546 programs since its inception in 1995. The NBSF is made possible through the support of foundations, corporations and individual donors across the country.
For more information or to apply for a National Book Scholarship Fund grant, contact Mara Roberts, project administrator; The National Book Scholarship Fund; Laubach Literacy; P.O. Box 131; 1320 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210; phone 315/422-9121; email mroberts@laubach.org.
For additional grant information, visit the NBSF web site at http://www.laubach.org/NBSF/indexnbs.html. The grant application will also be available online from September 1 to November 30, 2000. Grant applications will be accepted until December 7, 2000.
Founded in 1955 by literacy pioneer Dr. Frank C. Laubach, the organization has more than 1,100 member programs throughout the United States and 69 partner programs in 36 developing countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Its U.S. publishing division, New Readers Press, produces and distributes 700 titles of adult educational materials to more than 30,000 literacy organizations, schools, libraries and other institutions worldwide.
Covey Foundation Sponsors Library Grant Program
Lois Lenski, 1946 Newbery medalist for Strawberry Girl, had a lifelong concern that all children have access to good books. To support this goal she established the Lois Lenski Covey Foundation to provide grants to public and school libraries serving disadvantaged populations.
The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation annually has awarded grants, ranging from $500 to $5,000, to rural and urban public and school libraries and to agency libraries serving at-risk children. Funds are earmarked for purchasing books for young people rather than administrative or operational use. Successful applicants have proposed purchases to update their collections generally or to expand their holdings in special areas. The Foundation encourages applications from libraries with real need and limited book budgets.
A user-friendly, two-page application form is available from The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation; Attn.: Arthur F. Abelman, Moses & Singer; 1301 Avenue of the Americas; New York, NY 10019-6076. To qualify for year 2000 grants, completed application forms must be received no later than September 30, 2000.
(Channel Weekly, 7/27/2000)
Beyond Ink: Books and Literature on the Web
Have you ever tried to find a list of titles in a particular series or wonder where to find discussion guides? A patron has read everything by an author and would like similar authors. Do you know where to look? I’ve found some wonderful web sites that just may answer your questions.
Books In A Series
What’s Next http://www.kentlibrary.lib.mi.us/whats_next.htm
This is a great site for locating fiction books in series. You may search by
author, title or series. Books are considered a series if two or more of them
are linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits.
Discussion Guides
Reading Group Choices www.readinggroupchoices.com/
This site lists hundreds of titles with discussion guides. Some guides are
available on the site, contact information is given for the others. Both fiction
and nonfiction titles are included. There’s also information on starting and
running a successful discussion group.
Literature
Spark Notes http://www.sparknotes.com/
This is the site if you want study guides similar to Cliff Notes. These guides
are produced by students and graduates of Harvard University. Close to two
hundred titles are available and more are added frequently. You may also suggest
titles to them.
Online Literary Criticism Collection http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
The Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 3810 critical and biographical
web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title,
nationality, and literary period.
Read-A-Likes
These web sites will give you authors or titles that are similar to other authors, titles or subjects.
Canterbury Public Library www.ccc.govt.nz/Library/Guides/IfYouLike/
Readalike http://www.tased.edu.au/library/readalik/index.htm
Oprahlikes http://www.noblenet.org/wakefield/zraoprah.htm
General Book Web Sites
BookBrowser http://www.bookbrowser.com/
BookBrowser is a wonderful site for fiction readers. This site offers reading
lists in the following categories: Series & Sequels; If You Like...Try;
Place & Time; and Best of... You can also find author information, book
review, forthcoming titles and readers’ information featuring magazines,
conferences, newsletters, organizations and much more.
Webrary http://www.webrary.org/rs/rsmenu.html
This is an excellent source for bibliographies, discussion groups and guides,
genre sites, online bookstores and other sites for booklovers. There is also a
section where you may select fiction or nonfiction books by subject or genre.
(by Mary Dunn in Whirlpools, Jul/Aug 2000)
Interesting Language Stuff: The Top 45 Oxymorons
- Act naturally
- Found missing
- Resident alien
- Advanced BASIC
- Genuine imitation
- Airline food
- Good grief
- Same difference
- Almost exactly
- Government organization
- Sanitary landfill
- Alone together
- Legally drunk
- Silent scream
- Living dead
- Small crowd
- Business ethics
- Soft rock
- Butt head
- Military intelligence
- Software documentation
- New classic
- Sweet sorrow
- Child proof
- "Now, then..."
- Synthetic natural gas
- Passive aggression
- Taped live
- Clearly misunderstood
- Peace force
- Extinct life
- Temporary tax increase
- Computer jock
- Plastic glasses
- Terribly pleased
- Computer security
- Political science
- Tight slacks
- Definite maybe
- Pretty ugly
- Twelve-ounce pound cake
- Diet ice cream
- Working vacation
- Exact estimate
- Microsoft Works
- Extra-jumbo shrimp
- (grammarlady.com)
Director. Southwest Wisconsin Library System (Fennimore, WI). ALA/MLS, eligibility for Wisconsin Grade I certification and 5 years progressively responsible public library experience required. Mid to upper $40's depending on qualifications and experience; excellent benefits. Review of applications begins 11/1/ 2000.
Circulation Technician. Ripon (WI) College's Lane Library. Full-time position. Willingness to work some nights and weekends. Bachelor's degree, library data entry and supervisory experience preferred. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until position is filled.
TEACH - NET Connections Administrator. CESA 8. Full time position; salary and benefits follow CESA 8 policies. Desire someone with distance learning and teaching background. Beginning November, 2000 or earlier.
Computer & Network Services/Part-Time Computer Technician. Kenosha (WI) Public Library. High school diploma or equivalent. Ability to install, maintain, and troubleshoot hardware, software, and peripherals. Knowledge of computers, Windows 95, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer and local area networks. Hourly wage $10.96-$14.51. Application deadline is August 30, 2000.
EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information about these and other job opportunities, visit the Employment Opportunities page on the WVLS website at http://wvls.lib.wi.us
September - NATIONAL LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH - Contact the ALA Public Information Office; 50 E. Huron Street; Chicago, IL 60611; 800/545-2433, ext. 5041 or 5044; www.ala.org/librarycard/index.html
September 16 - WVLS Board of Trustees meeting - Tomahawk Public Library, Tomahawk - 9:45.
September 24 - 30 - BANNED BOOKS WEEK - contact: ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom; 50 E. Huron Street; Chicago, IL 60611; 800/545-2433, ext. 4223; www.ala.org/bbooks/
September 26 - "Security: How Seriously Should You Take It?" & "Wireless: Is It the Answer?" - a WVLS workshop - Marathon County Public Library - 9:30-4:00. See flyer attached to this issue of the Lamplighter for more information.
October 2 - November 10 - "Virtual Collection Development: a distance education course via the Internet" - participate when it fits your schedule, from your home or library - $285 - 3.0 CEUs - register by September 20th - contact Jane Pearlmutter at 608/262-6398 for further details.
October 15-21 - TEEN READ WEEK - contact: Young Adult Library Services Association; 50 E. Huron Street; Chicago, IL 60611; 800/545-2433, ext. 4390; www.ala.org/teenread/ Also, see of the July, 2000 issue of the Lamplighter.
October 19 - WVLS Executive Committee meeting - Marathon County Public Library - 3:30.
October 31-November 3 - 2000 WLA Conference - Green Bay.
November 1 - NATIONAL FAMILY LITERACY DAY - see article in this issue of the Lamplighter for information on literacy grants.
November 13-19 - NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK - for more information go to http://www.cbcbooks.org/pubs/aboutbw.htm .
November 18 - WVLS Board of Trustees meeting - Marathon County Public Library - 9:45.
December 5 - WVLS Library Advisory Committee meeting - Marathon County Public Library - 9:45.
December 14 - WVLS Executive Committee meeting - Marathon County Public Library - 3:30.
2001 Library Legislative Day Scheduled for February 13
Mark your calendars now for an important legislative event. Library Legislative Day has been scheduled for Tuesday, February 13, 2001 at the Inn On The Park in Madison. The Legislative Day Committee will schedule appointments with legislators in the Capitol for all attendees. This event will be especially important, as the 2001-03 biennial budget will be under discussion at that time. More information will be included in future issues of the Lamplighter.
Security: How Seriously Should You Take It?
&
Wireless: Is It the Answer?
A WVLS Workshop
DATE: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 TIME: 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Wausau Room, Marathon County Public Library, 300 North First Street, Wausau, WI
Linda Miller, LMA Techwork, has been implementing & maintaining security on workstations & networks in libraries since 1993. LMA Techwork has also, just completed a project that includes a wireless WAN installation to bring Internet access to a public library and school district.
Information technology experts say that security should be the highest priority for anyone responsible for managing technology. Yet, too often, security does not become a priority until an incident occurs. A well-rounded security program should preserve all mission critical operations, protect privacy & sensitive data, & protect information technology assets. In this session, we will discuss the key security issues for library technology managers.
Many people are quick to think of wireless as the answer when the need for more network drops is mentioned, but is it right for every situation? Certainly, wireless for both local area networks & wide are networks is a hot topic right now. This session will cover the key issues that libraries need to review when considering a wireless system.
NOTE: Any person planning to attend any session who needs some type of special accommodation in order to participate should notify WVLS at 715-261-7250.
MCPL asks that you not park in the lot immediately to the north of the library.
PROGRAM
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Coffee and conversation
9:30 a.m. – Noon
Security: How seriously should you
take it?
Viruses
& antivirus applications
Resources
for protecting the workstation, the network, & your data
Common
security gaps (including examples) & the basics of a good security plan
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wireless: Is it the answer?
Overview
of wireless technologies; examples of installations
Advantages
& disadvantages; costs; equipment options; information resources
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Security & Wireless
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Address & Phone ______________________________________________________
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ATTENTION: WESSLER SCHOLARSHIPS are available to cover some/all costs associated with attendance at reference and/or interlibrary loan continuing education events. If interested in becoming a Wessler Scholar, contact the WVLS office (715/261-7250) for more information. The application form and more information are available on the WVLS home page at http://wvls.lib.wi.us under "About WVLS & Services."
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