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FRIENDS
Friends are: those who like us…those we like…those who care enough about us to help when we need it (and sometimes help just because they want to whether we actually need it or not)… those who give out those all-so-important things called ‘hugs’ (whether literal or figurative).
Our personal worlds, and certainly the library world, would be much poorer places without friends/Friends. Whenever I use the word ‘Friends’, I always mean to include those who are formal members of the state and/or national ‘Friends’ group as well as various kinds of library groupies who just band together to do good things for their libraries. In my own definition, I also include library volunteers when I think of ‘Friends.’ Some folks also include library trustees in their definition of ‘Friends’ – I think trustees are certainly friends of libraries but they have specific statutory duties and responsibilities - that puts trustees’ activities on a somewhat different plane from other activities that support library functions. Still, as the old adage says, ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed.’
What do library Friends actually do?
Fellowship with other library Friends.
Raise funds in support of the library.
Invest in (library’s name) future.
Encourage gifts, endowments and memorials.
Nurture knowledge of library services.
Develop library services and special community programs.
Stimulate public support for the library.
(Adapted from the web site of the Friends of the Lake County Public Library, Merrillville, Indiana)
As I looked around the web at various library and Friends web sites, I often noticed that I had difficulty locating Friends information on a library’s site, i.e., there wasn’t an obvious link from the library’s main webpage. Friends are way too important to be hidden. Library/library board personnel should actively search for ways to promote their Friends groups.
There is some action under consideration by the Wisconsin Library Trustee Association (WLTA) to join forces with WLA’s Library Advocacy Round Table (LART)…and maybe with FOWL ??? This would certainly make sense to me – library advocates are advocates for libraries. They care enough to give of their time and effort to focus attention on the value of libraries. I very much like the idea of combining all kinds of library advocates into one easily recognized organization…they’re likely to have more persuasive power that way, too. Stay tuned for more news on this important discussion.
It was with real regret that decision-makers cancelled the 2nd annual Northwoods Conference for Library Friends, Supporters and Volunteers that was scheduled for October 15th in Medford. Jim Backus (a WVLS Trustee and VP of the MCPL Friends group) said that, by the deadline date, “we had received barely half of the registrations we felt were necessary to have a viable conference.” Watch for updates – I’m certain the concept of gatherings (of one kind or another) for library advocates is too valuable to be ignored. For some reason, this date/time/place/??? just wasn’t ‘right.’
-- Heather Eldred
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STURZL AND RHINELANDER
DISTRICT LIBRARY WIN WLA HONORS
WVLS is pleased to
announce the following Wisconsin Library Association award recipients for 2005:
SPECIAL SERVICE
AWARD: Alice Sturzl, School Library Media Director, School District of Laona
(This award is reserved for
individuals of noteworthy achievement as evidenced by substantial activities
and exceptional service to the library profession). Alice “gets up at o-dark-thirty in the
Northwoods to drive all over the state for meetings, bringing doughnuts that are still warm.” -- Kristine Adams Wendt,
Rhinelander District Library Director
“Alice
Sturzl was the heart of WLA … Her spirit, enthusiasm, dedication and love of
libraries have helped to charge and lift the work of the Association these many
years.” -- Larry
Martin, former WLA Executive Director
LIBRARY OF THE
YEAR: Rhinelander District Library
(This award is given annually to a Wisconsin
library for distinguished achievement and service.)
“We are very proud of our library and
the many ways in which it enriches the lives of citizens in the
greater Rhinelander area, regardless of age, interests, and educational or
financial background.”
-- Chief Executives of the five Rhinelander Area Joint Library District member municipalities
“We are very excited to receive this award,
which recognizes the excellent work of RDL staff members,
along with the outstanding support of citizens who count on RDL to meet their information needs.”
-- Kristine Adams Wendt, Rhinelander District Library Director
OTHER WINNERS INCLUDE:
DEMCO/Librarian of the Year – John Nichols, director of the Winnefox Library System and Oshkosh Public Library
Trustee of the Year – Kristi Williams, trustee, South Central Library System
WLA/Highsmith Award – “LaCrosse History Unbound,” Kelly Krieg-Sigman, director of the LaCrosse Public Library, and Anita Evans, director of the Murphy Library, UW-LaCrosse
Citation of Merit – Edwin Majkrzak, local historian and former library board member, Kiel
Congratulations to the
winners!
(Editor’s Note:
Info about the award winners was found on the WLA web site at
http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/awards/index.htm
)
RESTRAINT – Asset #31
Kids who have this asset
believe it’s important
not to be sexually active or to use drugs and alcohol.
Talk with your kids openly about the dangers of sex, drugs and alcohol. Make age-appropriate books available and provide accurate knowledge of the results of risky behavior. Your local county’s Health Department has many helpful resources on-hand and you can learn more about tobacco use at www.cdc.gov/tobacco. Teach and model appropriate behavior and healthy choices. Tell your children that if they find themselves in a situation where they are being pressured to do things they are uncomfortable with, you will come and get them – no questions asked. Talk about it later when everyone is calm and teach effective decision-making skills. Provide factual information and explain how and why the choices they make today will have long-term implications.
TELL A SILLY SCARY STORY
FOR YOUR NEXT HALLOWEEN PROGRAM!
You can tell the following
story any way that suits you, but this is the basic story:
A girl is sitting at home
watching TV, all alone, on a windy night…
She thinks she hears some BANGING in the distance, but it stops. Then she hears the BANGING again. And THEN she hears someone say, “I am the ghost with the blooooooooody fiiiiiiiiingers (quivery voice), and I want to get out of my grave.” She gets a little scared, but the voice was really far away, so she just shrugs it off and continues to watch TV.
A little while later, she hears a CREEEEAAAAK… She hears that voice again, and it says, “I am the ghost with the blooooooooody fiiiiiiiiingers (quivery voice), and I want to get out of my coffin.” A shiver runs down her spine, but the voice was still really far away, so she just shrugs it off and continues to watch TV.
A little while later, she hears some click-clack footsteps, and they seem pretty close to her house. Suddenly, she hears that voice again, and it says, “I am the ghost with the blooooooooody fiiiiiiiiingers (quivery voice), and I am walking down your street.” She isn’t sure if the ghost is talking to her, but she is starting to get more nervous, so she turns off the TV to get a better idea of how close this ghost is.
All of a sudden, she hears her front gate SLAM! She hears that voice again, only much closer, and it says, “I am the ghost with the blooooooooody fiiiiiiiiingers (quivery voice), and I am walking up to your house.” She feels faint. She doesn’t know what to do, but she decides that locking all the doors and the windows would probably be a good idea…
She is running, frantically, trying to get all of the doors and windows locked as she hears the click-clack of the ghost’s footsteps getting closer, AND CLOSER, AND CLOSER! The footsteps finally stop, but then the doorbell rings! She screams, but she is so scared that no sound comes from her mouth.
The ghost calls out, “I am the ghost with the blooooooooody fiiiiiiiiingers (quivery voice), and I am STANDING AT YOUR DOOR!” Deciding that she must try to be brave, the girl walks over to the door, puts her eye to the peep hole, and looks out to see who it is. Sure enough, there is a sad-looking ghost with bright red blood dripping from all of his fingers.
She doesn’t know why, and she doesn’t know how, but she manages to ask, in a timid little voice, “What do you want?”
The ghost looks into the peephole – like he can see her standing there. He holds up his bloody hands for her to see, and he says…
“Some band-aids, please!”
COOKING UP CULTURE PROGRAMS DRAW CROWDS
CCBC OFFERS
NEW INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM INFORMATION
RESOURCE ON WEB SITE
Are there some standard practices to follow to be prepared for a book complaint?
How can I avoid complaints about the books I choose for my classroom?
Is it censorship to reject an item I've ordered once I have seen it firsthand?
The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will provide thoughtful responses to these and other questions through its new web site feature: What IF* Questions and Answers on Intellectual Freedom.
What IF* is a question-and-answer forum on intellectual freedom and censorship, especially with regard to books for children and teenagers in classrooms and libraries.
The What IF* forum is not designed to respond to specific challenges to materials. Instead, it is a place to turn to ask questions before a challenge occurs, and to help you think through what the principles of intellectual freedom look like in practice.
What IF* will draw upon the expertise of former CCBC director Ginny Moore Kruse, who is nationally known for her leadership in intellectual freedom work. Ginny founded the CCBC's award-winning Intellectual Freedom Information Services, which provide Wisconsin librarians and teachers with timely, book-specific information in situations where there is a pending or actual challenge. (If you are a Wisconsin librarian or teacher facing a potential or actual book challenge, call the CCBC at 608-263-3720 to ask for assistance from this service. You can read more about it at www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/freedom/IFServices.asp )
Ginny and CCBC librarian Megan Schliesman will respond to each question that is submitted to What IF*. All questions are confidential and will receive a personal reply. Some questions and their responses will be chosen for anonymous inclusion in the What IF archives so that others can learn from them.
To find out more about What IF*, and to submit a question, go to
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/freedom/whatif/default.asp
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian;
Cooperative Children's Book Center
32 TIPS TO INSPIRE INNOVATION FOR YOU AND YOUR LIBRARY
Steve Abram, SirsiDynix Vice-President of Innovation and past president of the Ontario Library Association and Canadian Library Association has written articles in the July, August and October 2005 issues of SirsiDynix OneSource which provide 32 tips for inspiring innovation in your library. Following are a few of Abram’s tips and the links to his articles.
2. Good not Perfect.
… this is the one that many of us
have difficult dealing with. We are, after all, a profession that covets
the perfect catalog record, believes that we can organize all of the world’s
knowledge for universal access, AND sits behind desks
offering to answer all comers’ questions … It is a challenge for us to know when
to release new products and services and when to decide something is done,
finished, and complete. Perfection as an attitude gets in the way of this
decision.
3. It’s not the number
of steps that cause delays in development – it’s the space between the steps.
… Now I am not saying that
rushing is good, but good project management minimizes the space between the
steps to stay focused on achieving the milestones and ultimate goal … By
sticking to a pattern of innovation and improvement, things stay dynamic and
engaging.
5. Prefer action over
study.
If you or your team is studying
something to death – remember that death was not the original goal! I have
been in libraries where their system folks in the host institution were studying
whether to upgrade from Windows 95 to 98 in 2005! Scary. Although we
have a great core competency in research and study, we must know
when to fish or cut bait. In risk-adverse cultures this is particularly
difficult. What needs to be learned and understood is that delay is as big a
risk as poorly considered action. Pilots and good processes reduce your risk
(and provide learning opportunities too.)
12. Get out of your
box!
It is unlikely that you
are the alpha user profile. Understand that. I know that as a librarian I am
pretty limited in my ability to really connect with the challenges faced by
newbie library, Web, or database searchers. I am not saying that I can’t
overcome this, but I have to be explicitly aware that my training, biases, and
experiences have forever changed me and my perceptions of the information
world. It also means that when I am designing services for seniors, kids,
teens, challenged communities, the “differently-abled,” or even other
professions like lawyers or engineers, I have to keep in mind that I need to be
aware of and prioritize their needs and competencies over my own. I find that
it pays to remind myself that I am not trying to create products and services
for mini-librarians – and that this is a poor goal in the first place. I need
to understand the user’s context and needs and not project my own onto them.
13. “Productize.”
“Be able to physically
point at your product or service. It’s a problem that so many library products
and services are intangible. Until we can name them and point to them as if
they were a tangible service or product, they will be undervalued and
underappreciated by our users. It will also be difficult for our supporters to
articulate what it is that truly makes their library experience
transformational.”
19. Ask the three magic questions:
· “What keeps you awake at night?
· If you could solve only one problem at work, what would it be?
· If you could change one thing and one thing only, what would it be?
I have discovered that these questions are truly magic. They start conversations with users rather than delivering simple answers. They’re open-ended instead of closed-ended, yes or no answer questions. … These questions work every time to delve deeply into our users’ needs and personal goals. When we are armed with that knowledge, then our libraries are unstoppable.
23. Understand the adoption curve.
I love the adoption curve. It
explains so much about why certain people are not as comfortable as others with
innovation and change. Yet everyone (or nearly everyone) eventually adapts to
changes in our world. Basically, new innovations need to attract the use and
attention of 15% of your target group before they break the overall inertia of
the entire market. Bridging the chasm between the early adopters and the
greater majority is a major deal. I have found that in the early phases of a
new or innovative product that the opinions of early adopters are most useful.
As the product progresses through its lifecycle, the reactions and opinions of
later adopters become increasingly important.
(For links to Steve Abram’s articles, go to the October 2005 SirsiDynix OneSource E-Newsletter at http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/ and click on the title of Steve Abram’s article [which will provide links to the 2 previous articles] or; go to the October 2005 issue of Marketing Treasures at http://www.chrisolson.com/marketingtreasures/vol14/Vol14N10OCTOBER05.html and click on the links to each of the three articles.)
PRINTABLE HALLOWEEN
BOOKMARKS
Here's a trick to treat all those
seasonally-spooky folks that will visit your library in October.
These beauties come four to each letter-size sheet of paper, are in Acrobat format and can be easily copied onto colored card stock and cut to provide an assortment of nifty, and ever-so-creepy, bookmarks for Halloween. The first two sheets (8 bookmarks) feature classic images such as Frankenstein's monster, Wolf Man, Mr. Hyde and other popular ghouls of interest to students of movie horror and for the enjoyment of all. The final three sheets feature more contemporary images - fun for everyone and great for kids.
Get them now at http://www.ssdesign.com/librarypr/download/odds_and_ends/hbookmarks2000.pdf and put a goose bump or two between your pages!
To put a final chill in
your Halloween campaign, try some of these terrifying fonts and dingbats:
http://www.fontsnthings.com/holiday/halloween.html or
http://www.fontsnthings.com/themes/spooky.html
THE LATEST TREND IN
PARIS – BOOK VENDING MACHINES!
Readers craving Homer,
Baudelaire or Lewis Carroll in the middle of the night can get a quick fix at
one of the French capital’s five newly-installed book vending machines.
“We have customers who know exactly what they want and come at all hours to get it,” said Xavior Chambon, president of Maxi-Livres, a low-cost publisher and book store chain that debuted the vending machines in June. “It’s as if our stores were open 24 hours a day.”
Stocked with 25 of Maxi-Livres best-selling titles, the machines cover the gamut of literary genres and tastes. Classics like The Odyssey by Homer and Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland share the limited shelf space with such practical must-haves as 100 Delicious Couscous Recipes and Verb Conjugations. “Our biggest vending machine sellers are The Wok Cookbook and a French-English dictionary, said Chambon, who added that poet Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal – The Flowers of Evil also is “very popular.”
Regardless of whether they fall into the category of high culture or low, all books cost a modest $2.45.
Installed in four busy Metro stops and a chic street corner in central Paris, Maxi-Livre’s distributors were designed to bypass the characteristic vending-machine-drop, which can be punishing for books. “We knew that French bibliophiles would be horrified to see their books falling into a trough like candy or soda,” Chambon said. “So we installed a mechanical arm that grabs the book and delivers it safely.”
Books are but the latest offering in France’s ever-expanding vending machine market, which is responding to off-hour demand for everything from toilet paper to carnations. –
Buffalo News; 8/22/05Did you know that pumpkins are not a vegetable – they’re a fruit! Pumpkins, like gourds, and other varieties of squash are all members of the Cucurbitacae family, which also includes summer squash, melons, and cucumbers.
Pumpkins are native to the Western hemisphere, and were completely unknown in Europe before the time of Columbus. In fact, pumpkins have been grown in America for over 5,000 years.
The word “pumpkin” is from the French word “ponpions,” which means “large melon.”
One cup of cooked, unsalted pumpkin has only 40 calories, and provides (among other things): 37 mg of calcium, 564 mg of potassium, 2650 IU of Vitamin A, and 12 grams of carbohydrates.
The bright orange color of pumpkin is a dead giveaway that pumpkin is loaded with an important antioxidant called beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is one of the plant carotenoids converted to vitamin A in the body. Current research indicates that a diet rich in beta-carotene may reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer and offers protection against heart disease (as well as some degenerative aspects of aging).
PUMPKIN HUMOR:
What do you get when you take the
circumference of a pumpkin and divide it by its diameter?
Pumpkin Pi!
How do you mend a broken
Jack-o-lantern?
With a pumpkin patch!
(Source unknown)
USB
FLASH DRIVE TROUBLESHOOTING
One problem we have occasionally seen is that the USB drive isn’t recognized or “seen” by the computer. Some brands may require that extra drivers be installed in order to work properly but the USB drive is supposed to be compatible with Windows ME / Windows XP / Windows 2000 / Mac 8.6 or above / Linux 2.4.0 or above, without the use of any driver.
Sometimes the problem isn’t a missing driver but a conflict with assigning drive letters. If you plug in your USB drive but it doesn’t appear in Windows Explorer or My Computer, check to see if you have used up the drive letters for other network or removable drives. For example, if you already have drives associated with A:, C:, D:, E:, and G:, and then plug in your USB drive, the computer might not recognize it. If your system maps a network drive to the first available drive letter after the drive letters for the local volumes and CD-ROM drives then you might have a conflict. It tries to assign E:, F:, or G: to the USB drive and can’t because those letters are already in use.
To fix this, do the following:
Right-click on MY Computer and click Manage.
Under Computer Management (Local), click Disk Management.
In the right window, right-click the new drive and select Change Drive Letter and Path(s).
Click Change, and in the drop-down box select a drive letter for the new drive that is not already assigned to another drive.
Click OK and OK again.
You
should now see the USB drive in My Computer. To prevent this from happening in
the future, assign the highest available drive letter when you map a drive
rather than the lowest. Windows XP does this by default to prevent this type of
conflict.
(contributed by Marlys Brunsting in WLA’s Media and Technology Section
Newsletter, Fall 2005)
WEB SITES OF INTEREST (tourist traps on the information superhighway!)
Resources for Home Preserving Pumpkins
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/tips/fall/pumpkins.html
“Pumpkins offer far more than a door-stop at
Halloween.” From the National Center for Home Food Preservation, this site
provides ideas and safety tips for various methods of preserving pumpkin flesh
and seeds, including canning, freezing, drying, and pickling. Features link to
further information on the preparation of pumpkin butter, fruit leather, and
canned winter squash.
(LII New this Week; 10/13/05; Copyright
2005 by Librarians’ Index to the Internet, LII)
SeniorNet -
http://www.seniornet.org/php/default.php
Older persons have had many
different websites aimed at their own special interests for years, but the
SeniorNet site may prove to be one of the more interesting ones out there. As
the homepage declares, the site is intended to "Bring Wisdom to the Information
Age," and this it does quite well. Visitors can peruse one of the main headings
located on the top of the homepage, and the choices range from Technology to
Volunteering. Within each of these sections, visitors can read brief articles
about such topics as Alzheimer's disease, reading for pleasure, and the benefits
of volunteering. Visitors can also join one of the many lively moderated
discussion boards. Some of the topics covered by such forums include current
events, literature, pets, and finances.
(The Scout Report; 8/5/05; Copyright
Internet Scout Project 1994-2005,
http://scout.wisc.edu/ )
Updated,
Compare Public Libraries Database
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/compare/
Compare Public Libraries allows users to
compare one library (the library of interest) with similar libraries (the
comparison group). For example, a user may wish to compare one library’s total
circulation with the total circulation of a group of libraries with similar
total expenditures. Once you complete your analysis you can view the results
and download them as an Excel file. This data tool has just been updated with
information for fiscal year 2003.
(Resource Shelf; September 2005;
http://www.resourceshelf.com )
Skype 1.4.0.7.1
http://skype.com/
With costs of all types of consumer goods on
the rise, users might be looking for any deals they can find. One program that
might help with these costs is the Skype application, which uses peer-to-peer
technology via the Internet so that users can make long-distance calls. The
program includes a sophisticated encryption and a surprisingly excellent level
of audio fidelity. The program is compatible with computers which run Windows
XP or 2000.
(The Scout Report; 10/14/05; From The
Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005.
http://scout.wisc.edu/ )
Historical Fiction Websites
Soon’s Historical Fiction http://www.histfiction.net/
The Maiden’s Crown http://randomhouse.com/crown/maidenscrown/
Prehistoric Fiction http://www.trussel.com/f_prehis.htm
Fictional Rome http://www.stockton.edu/%7Eroman/fiction/index.htm
(WLA Readers’ Section Newsletter; Spring 2005)
October
October 30 – On Halloween
Eve in October 1938, at the young age of 23, Orson Welles and his Mercury
Theatre on the Air broadcast “The War of the Worlds,” causing a nationwide
panic. Thousands of listeners believed that Martians were truly invading the
Earth. After the incident, the Federal Communications Commission investigated
the program but found that no laws had been violated. Today there are FCC rules
prohibiting the broadcast of false information, concerning crimes and
catastrophes. Also worth noting: Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin
in 1915, and he died October 10, 1985.
October 31st - Halloween
November
AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH www.defenselink.mil/specials/nativeamerican01/inner.html
November 6 – Meet Kate DiCamillo in Wausau! Join Kate DiCamillo (author of Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread) for a 10:00 a.m. brunch at the Wausau Country Club ($15; reservations required); a 1:00 p.m. Author Talk at the John Muir Middle School Auditorium; or, a 4:00 p.m. book signing at Marathon County Public Library. For more details, call 715/261-7200 or visit www.mcpl.lib.wi.us/events.html
November 14 – National Young Readers’ Day, sponsored by the Center for the Book and Pizza Hut – www.bookitprogram.com
November 14-20 – NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK – for more information, visit the Children’s book Council, Inc. on the web at www.cbcbooks.org
November 19 – WVLS Board of Trustees meeting – Marathon County Public Library – 9:30 a.m.
November 19 – 4th Annual International Children’s and Young Adult Literature Celebration – “Open a Door … Open a Book … Open your Mind … to the World” – Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, Madison – 8:15-5:00 – $55 - for details, visit http://wioc.wisc.edu/childlit/2005/2005.htm
November 19, 2005 – January 29, 2006 – Paul Zelinsky exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau.
December
December 1 – WVLS V-Cat Council meeting – T.B. Scott Free Library, Merrill – 9:30 a.m.
December 16 – WVLS Executive Committee meeting – Marathon County Public Library – 9:30 a.m.
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