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Congratulations, Douglas Lay!
The Awards and Honors Committee
of the Wisconsin Library Association has announced that WVLS Trustee Douglas Lay
has been named WLA’s 2008 Trustee of the year!
This award, which is conferred upon an outstanding library trustee, recognizes Doug’s long-term dedication and commitment to the advancement and development of library service in Wisconsin. Doug’s resume, which includes a 24-year tenure on the WVLS Board of Trustees, a 29-year membership in WLA, appointments to the LSTA Advisory Committee and COLAND, and active involvement in WLTF and Library Legislative Day activities for a number of years, is certainly impressive.
In addition, this honor signifies how very much the Wisconsin library community values and appreciates Doug’s contributions. Doug will be honored at WLA’s Awards and Honors Banquet on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at the Madison Marriott West in Middleton.
Congratulations, Doug! This recognition is well deserved and long
overdue!
(Marla Sepnafski,
Director, Wisconsin Valley Library Service)
New Director Named at Rhinelander District
Library
Please join us in welcoming Ed Hughes as the new
Director of the Rhinelander District Library. His first day was August 18,
2008, and he is already enjoying being back in Wisconsin and working with
the staff, library board and community. Previously, Ed was a supervisor at
one of USA Today’s “Top Ten Libraries”, the Rapid City Public Library in
Rapid City, South Dakota.
Ed and his wife, Bobbalee, are happy to be back in Wisconsin living closer to his family and back in the state where he grew up. While growing up in Appleton, he remembers vacationing in the Rhinelander area. He received his Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Ed also has experience working in academic
libraries, such as the University of Wyoming and the University of Wisconsin -
Stout. He loves to see others develop their skills and grow, which is why he
relishes the management aspects of his job.
(Inese Christman, WVLS)
V-CAT Administrator /
Technology Coordinator
The Wisconsin Valley Library Service (WVLS) is
seeking an innovative, personable, team-oriented individual who will join us
in our quest for a new library automation system.
In addition to this primary responsibility, the V-CAT Administrator / Technology Coordinator also administers the integrated library system (currently using SirsiDynix Horizon software, version 7.4.1); coordinates WVLS technology efforts in cooperation with WVLS Tech Team members and program managers; maintains the V-Cat Informational web site; and maintains and manages a mission-critical WAN with 32 service outlets.
WVLS is a federated public library system located in Wausau, Wisconsin. WVLS provides service to 25 public libraries and 212 non-public libraries in its 7-county service area. For more information about WVLS, visit our Web site at http://wvls.lib.wi.us
Compensation range for full-time position: Salary negotiable depending on experience and qualifications. Attractive benefits package is provided. Complete job description and application forms are available at http://wvls.lib.wi.us/jobs/jobopp.html
Mail cover letter, resume, application form and salary history, and complete contact information for three references to: Human Resources Division, Wisconsin Valley Library Service, 300 N First Street, Wausau, WI 54403. Applications received by Friday, September 19th will receive first consideration. Position will remain open until qualified candidate is determined.
Questions about this position and the application process may be referred to Barbara Freimund (telephone: 715/261-7250; freimund@wvls.lib.wi.us)
WVLS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Coming Soon – Teen Read Week
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
has planned some exciting things to help celebrate Teen Read Week held
October 12 – 18, 2008. This year’s theme is “Books with Bite @ your library!”
You don’t want to miss this, so register your library before September 12,
2008 at this website
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2008/index.cfm
Why should you register? YALSA is a nonprofit organization that depends on its members for support. By registering, you are letting them know that teen literacy is a concern and you are willing to do something about it!
- The first 4,000 registrants will receive one free paperback from Galaxy's Golden Age series, courtesy Promotional Partner Galaxy Press.
- Twenty-five registrants will be chosen at random to receive a complete set of titles from Zest Books (about fifteen books total). The drawing will be held on Monday, Sept. 15, 2008.
- All Teen Read Week registrants will receive a complimentary issue of TeenInk magazine, courtesy Nonprofit Supporter TeenInk. Issues will be sent after registration closes on Sept. 12.
- The first 1,000 registrants who register in September will receive a free movie poster featuring The Secret Life of Bees.
- All registrants can download YALSA's pocket-sized, illustrated “Books with Bite Recommended Reading Pamphlet”, full of recommended titles drawn from YALSA's awards and booklists and annotated by YALSA's Teen Read Week committee. These tri-fold pamphlets can be printed on 8.5 x 11" paper, cut to size, and then handed out to teens by the dozens.
(Young Adult Library Services Association website, August 25, 2008)
Any Schools or Libraries Interested In a Unique
Presentation?
Is your school or library
interested in having speaker Karen Land talk about her Iditarod adventures?
Karen travels in a small, economical Toyota Rav with two dogs, Borage and Jigs,
in the back seat, and her dog sled, mushing clothing, and gear stashed in a
travel carrier on top!
Karen does several talks in one day. She visits schools during the day and local public libraries in the evening. Usually, the students love the talk AND Borage so much that they often bring their parents and friends back to the library in the evening for more! The school and library talks are unique.
Currently, Karen is gathering a list of schools and libraries who would like to book a program. Karen requires at least 10 presentations in the same state before she is willing to come to Wisconsin to present her program.
If your school or library is interested in this program, please contact Stacey K. Orr, Adult Services Coordinator, at the E.U. Demmer Memorial Library, 6961 W. School St., PO Box 760, Three Lakes, WI 54562, or e-mail Stacy at: sorr@wvls.lib.wi.us
WPLC Receives
‘Digital Pioneer’ Award
Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) was one of 13 recipients of the
“Digital Pioneer” award (aka the “Digies” award) presented at OverDrive’s
Digipalooza ‘08 conference on July 26 in Cleveland. The award recognizes
OverDrive partner libraries that have shown excellence and leadership in
delivering digital media downloads to their communities through successful
collection development, website management, and promotion and community
outreach.
WPLC was chosen for this award from the hundreds of public libraries and consortia that offer OverDrive-supplied media for leading technologies for authentication for member libraries. The full list of recipients and their areas of accomplishment is available at: http://www.overdrive.com/aboutus/getArticle.aspx?newsArticleID=20080804, the OverDrive website. WVLS is a member of WPLC and feels honored to be a part of this consortium.
Congratulations WPLC!
New Tool for Estimating Social Security Benefits
People planning for retirement got a new tool this
week: a fast and easy online estimator for their Social Security benefits. It
can be found at:
http://ssa.gov/estimator/
The Social Security Administration unveiled its new retirement estimator on its web site, and it takes just a few points and clicks and some personal information to produce benefit estimates within a few minutes.
The new calculator will be followed this fall by an updated online application for benefits that Social Security Administrator Michael Astrue promises will reduce application time from the current 45-minute process to 12 minutes – and eliminate the need for follow-up visits to the agency field offices.
The online calculator permits future retirees to
create a more accurate estimate of benefits since people can factor in a higher
estimate of their upcoming earnings. People can factor in different
alternatives for retirement ages.
(CNNMoney, July 23,
2008)
ALA and Scholastic Library Publishing Announce
2009 National Library Week Grant
Libraries across the United States are invited to apply for the $3,000
Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant, which will be awarded
to a single library for the best public awareness campaign incorporating the
2009 National Library Week theme, "Worlds connect @ your library."
The grant is sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing, a division of Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, and is administered by the Public Awareness Committee of the American Library Association (ALA). This year's application deadline is October 17, 2008. National Library Week is April 12-18, 2009.
All proposals must use the "Worlds connect @ your library" theme, which incorporates The Campaign for America's Libraries' "@ your library" brand, on any and all promotional and publicity material supporting National Library Week activities. The grant application form and guidelines are available on the campaign website www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/nlwgrant, or call the ALA Public Information Office at (800) 545-2433, ext. 2148.
The winner will be announced following the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver. Information on last year's winner, the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, NC, and the winning application can be viewed at the campaign website found at: www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/nlwgrant.
In the September 2008 issue of Real Simple magazine, the editor announced the start of their very own “No-Obligation Book Club”. You can participate online at this address: http://realsimple.com/bookclub. This book club is for people who enjoy discussing books with others, but can’t deal with the deadlines and reading assignments of regular book clubs. This book club is here if you want to attend, read at your own pace (more or less), weigh-in if you have an opinion – or not.
The September issue also features responses to
their monthly question which was “What is the best book your book club has
read?” The responses are very interesting and offer insight into titles that
are great for discussion, and may just be the book for your book club to
explore.
(Heather Eldred,
Director Emerita, WVLS)
End of the Line for Cassette Tapes
If you’ve been a librarian for more than a couple of
years, you probably have memories connected to cassette tapes – circulating
those books ‘n’ tape combinations; practicing your storytime songs or puppet
shows or storytelling; or learning songs in your car on the way to work.
But those days are over, and the cassette tape will soon join its brother, the 8-track, and its cousins, the 5 ¼ and 3 ½ inch floppy disks and the VCR cassette, in the Misty Never-Never Land of Obsolete Technologies.
This New York Times story, “Say So Long to an Old Companion…Cassette Tapes,” reminds us of what’s passing. It reflects on the things that made cassettes special, right to the end:
While the cassette was dumped long ago by the music industry, it has lived on among publishers of audio books. Many people prefer cassettes because they made it easy to pick up in the same place where the listener left off, or to rewind in case a certain sentence is missed…
Cassettes have limped along for some time, partly because of their usefulness in recording conversations or making a tape of favorite songs, say, for a girlfriend. But sales of portable tape players, which peaked at 18 million in 1994, sank to 480,000 in 2007, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. The group predicts that sales will taper to 86,000 in 2012.
That’s the end of the line for cassettes, but can you guess where cassettes hung on longer than anywhere else? In libraries, of course. Libraries accept and give up technologies reluctantly (why do you think it took libraries 12 years or so to get into video gaming?), and this story reminds us how perfect cassettes have always been for one important kind of library material:
…for audio books, the cassette is an oddly elegant medium: you can eject it from your car, carry it home and stick it in a boombox, and it will pick up in the same place, an analog feat beyond the ability of the CD.
Now that books are available on
CD, and soon they’ll all be downloadable, the things that I will not miss
are the careful rewinding of the tape or the splicing of the broken tape to get
it back together again for one more check-out.
(The Monkey Speaks
Blog, July 31, 2008)
Some of the “52 Ways to Use Your Library Card” (In Celebration of Library Card Sign-up Month)
1. Borrow or download an audiobook for your next road trip or commute.
2. Take a computer class.
3. Learn about home improvement.
4. Connect with other people in the community.
5. Read a newspaper from another city.
6. Find a quiet spot, curl up with a book and enjoy.
7. Decide which computer to buy using a consumer guide.
For more ideas go to: http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/otherinit/card/librarycard.cfm
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a unique learning experience and opportunity to connect with
others. Conference cost is $10.00. This fee includes handouts, beverages, snacks, and a box lunch. (Please note that there is plenty of free parking and that the facility is handicap accessible). If you have questions or comments or need special accommodations to attend this conference, please contact Inese Christman at 715-261-7256. Sponsored by the Friends of the Marathon County Public Library, the staff of the Wisconsin Valley Library Service, and with the support of the Wisconsin Library Trustees and Friends. |
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9:00
a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Registration and Refreshments
9:30
a.m. - Noon “Autism 101” with Tammi Poppe, owner/consultant for C.H.A.S.A.E.R.
LLC (Community, Home and School Autism Education Resource). Currently on the
advisory board and a trainer for the National Professional Development Center
for Autism Program, Tammi works closely with UW’s Waisman Center and DPI.
Besides developing and teaching autism curriculum for Northeastern WI. Technical
College, Tammi presents workshops around the country, advocates for people who
have an autism spectrum disorder, and is honored to be the mother of a child
with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Noon - 12:45 p.m. Box Lunch - $5.00 Sandwich, salad, dessert and beverage
12:45 p.m .– 2:15 p.m. “Autism 101” continued with Tammi Poppe
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. “Celebrating Differences” with the Kids on the Block (KOTB) from Marathon County Special Education. Puppeteers Cheryl Adams, C. Ann Dietrich and Mary Beth Raether are certified in the field of special education and have been educating children and adults about disabilities since 1985. “Kids on the Block” perform in the Japanese style of puppetry called “bunraku.” This educational program is designed to create positive attitudinal and behavioral changes, raising disability awareness and sensitivity.
WVLS member libraries participating in the 2008 LSTA Literacy grant are required to send at least one representative to this event. This WVLS workshop is open to all interested persons. If accommodations for your disability are needed, please call 715-261-7255 at least 48 hours in advance.
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To Register: Send this completed form (along with a check if you’d like the box lunch) made out to: Wisconsin Valley Library Service, ATTN: Beth Sillars, WVLS, 300 N. First St., Wausau, WI 54403
Name: ______________________________________________ Amt. enclosed: _______
Library: __________________________________________________________________
Registration Deadline is September 15, 2008
Welcome to OPAL: Online Programs for All
By now you may have heard about OPAL, the online training
program that WVLS belongs to as an institutional member. WVLS utilizes OPAL as
a convenient mileage-free way to hold online meetings or offer library
information training sessions. If you haven’t heard of OPAL, here is a quick
7-minute screen movie that offers an overview of how the OPAL software works:
http://www.tapinformation.com/WILD200706.wmv (10.4 MB WMV file).
OPAL, or Online Programming for All Libraries, is an international collaborative effort by libraries and other organizations to provide web-based programs and training for library users and library staff members.
These live events are held in online rooms where participants can interact via voice-over-IP, text chatting, synchronized browsing, and other functions. Everyone is welcome to participate in OPAL programs. Usually there is no need to register. Nearly all OPAL programs are offered free of charge to participants.
Examples of OPAL public online programs include book discussion programs, interviews, special events, library training, memoir writing workshops, and virtual tours of special digital library collections. Here is a link to their current list of upcoming programs: http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm
OPAL is administered by TAP Information Services, a small company that helps libraries and other organizations innovate. OPAL was founded in 2003 by the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center, the Alliance Library System, and the Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service.
If you would like a “tour” of the OPAL system,
need help in checking out your computer equipment, or would like to host a
meeting via OPAL, please contact Inese Christman, 715-261-7256 or via e-mail at
ichristman@wvls.lib.wi.us.
(Inese Christman,
WVLS)
What Is
Your Neighborhood’s Walk Score? -
http://www.walkscore.com
With gas at $3.00+ a gallon,
there’s never been a better time to live in a walkable neighborhood. Check out
your city to see what is in walking distance of where you live. Even Rothschild
is listed.
(Librarians’ Internet Index, July 31, 2008)
Learn a
Language the Social Way –
http://livemocha.com
Livemocha is the
first-of-its-kind online language-learning community. It includes fun and
interactive lessons that move at the right pace for you and provides the
opportunity to have native speakers review and assist you with your speaking and
writing.
(Librarians’ Internet
Index, July 31, 2008)
American Library Association – The State of America’s Libraries Report -
http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/presscentera/piopresskits/2008statereport/2008statehome.cfm
In this report, find out how
libraries of all kinds continue to play an expanding role in American
communities, serving the needs of patrons of all ages and reaching out to those
who have been underserved.
(American Libraries
Direct, August 27, 2008)
Picture
This Puzzle by Ann Mroczenski
Can you find the 6 differences between these two pictures of the park bench
at the Marathon Co. Public Library in Wausau?
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SEPTEMBER
National Library Card Sign-Up Month, find more information at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/mediarelationsa/factsheets/librarycardsign.cfm
Sept 1 Labor Day
Sept 8 International Literacy Day, http://www.reading.org/association/meetings/literacy_day.html
Sept 16 Winnefox & OWLS Library Systems - Children’s Services Workshop, Ripon Public Library, 9:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Sept 18 WVLS Workshop – 2008 LSTA Literacy Grant - Project Inclusion at the Marathon County Public Library, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Sept 20 WVLS Board of Trustees Meeting at the Marathon County Public Library, 9:30 a.m.
Sept 24 Wisconsin Day, http://dpi.wi.gov/eis/observe.html
Sept 25 Annual Meeting of the System Youth Services Liaisons, Madison
Sept 25 NFLS – How to Weed Without Losing Your Mind! Workshop, New Glarus Public Library, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. For details, contact Jamie Matczak at: jmatczak@mail.nfls.lib.wi.us
Sept 27-Oct 4 Banned Books Week sponsored by ALA http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.cfm
OCTOBER
National Book Month http://www.nationalbook.org/nbm.html
October 2 V-Cat Council Meeting, 9:30 a.m., Abbotsford Public Library
October 2-3 Northwest Children’s Book Conference at the Telemark Resort and Conference Center, details at http://www.telemarkeducation.com/book_conference.html
October 11 Northwoods Conference for Library Friends, Supporters, and Volunteers at the Rothschild Village Hall, 8:30 a.m.
October 12-18 Teen Read Week 2008 - “Books With Bite”, details at: http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2008/index.cfm
Oct 18 WVLS Executive Committee Meeting at the Marathon County Public Library, 9:30 a.m.
November
American Diabetes Month, find more information at: https://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
Nov 2 Daylight Savings Time Ends
Nov 4 Election Day – Don’t forget to VOTE!
Nov 4 – 7 Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, Madison, Marriott West, Middleton, details at: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/conferences/2008/index.htm
Nov 8 WVLS Board of Trustees Meeting at the Marathon County Public Library, 9:30 a.m.
Nov 11 Veteran’s Day
Nov 13 WVLS Workshop on “Starting and Energizing Your Book Club and How to Enhance Your Storytimes to Spark Early Literacy”, Northcentral Technical College. Watch for further details.
Nov 27 & 28 Thanksgiving Holiday - WVLS Office Closed
A3: The bird from the last puzzle flew in, again.
B1: The red car is now a white truck.
B5: The pine tree grew fast!
C1: Buffy (my dog) is waiting for her walk.
C2: Someone forgot their backpack.
E5: A couple of dandelions have sprung up.
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 at http://wvls.lib.wi.us/About/wessler.htm
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