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Did you know……that Reference librarians in the nation’s public and academic libraries answer more than seven million questions weekly? Standing single file, the line of questioners would stretch from Boston to San Francisco. --ALA Quotable Facts About America's Libraries
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System Celebration registration underway
System Celebration invitations were mailed this week to libraries and trustees throughout the South Central Library System, and registrations should be returned or completed online by Sept. 1. The event, which is scheduled Sept. 15 at Morels restaurant in Middleton, is our annual thank you to the staff, trustees, and mayors/village presidents of SCLS member libraries for their support and efforts throughout the year.
This year’s program will include singer and storyteller Stuart Stotts, a long-time favorite among Summer Library Programs and libraries in general. He will perform some of his original songs and share stories from his new book about Wisconsin librarian Lutie Stearns.
To register, you can return the RSVP that was mailed with your invitation, or you can use the online RSVP form (be sure to indicate if you require a vegetarian meal). Payment for meals should be sent to the South Central Library System, 5250 E. Terrace Drive, Suite A-2, Madison, WI, 53718-8345, by Sept. 1, 2005. This year's meal cost is $15.99, but there is no charge for local elected officials, head librarians (or designee) of member libraries of all types, and current trustees of SCLS area library boards. You do have the option to pay for your meal if you believe there is an ethical conflict with SCLS paying for your meal.
For more information, or to register online, visit www.scls.info/about/systemceleb.
Reform bills introduced in State Senate
Two legislative proposals -- SB 272 and SB 273 -- relating to libraries were introduced in the State Senate Monday, Aug. 1.
SB272, which relates to the organization and funding of public libraries and public library systems, would require that each county pay for the library use of its residents in another county, even across system borders. For more information about all the provisions of this bill, visit www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/SB272hst.html.
SB 273 makes a host of language changes to the statutes governing public libraries. More detail on the contents of this bill is available at www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/SB273hst.html.
Both bills have been assigned to the committee on Veterans, Homeland Security, Military Affairs, Small Business and Government Reform.
More than 800 patrons have offered to ‘speak up’ for their library
Since the program was announced late in 2004, more than 800 library patrons have indicated their willingness to “speak up” for their library by signing the yellow campaign cards that are being displayed throughout the South Central Library System.
During the recent state budget deliberations we asked members of this list to contact their legislators, and the word we received back was that this patron input had a significant positive impact.
The goal of the campaign is to collect patron names and e-mail addresses so we can better educate them about the value and impact of the public library. This is an ongoing effort that can pay potentially significant dividends when we need patrons to “speak up” for libraries at the local, county, or state level.
If you need additional cards or posters (8.5x11 or 11x17), contact Mark Ibach.
LINK upgrades and Windows XP -- Why and when?
The LINK network is starting to show signs of age, so it's a good thing that various infrastructure upgrade projects are starting to pick up steam. While official documentation about new LINK technologies will come in the form of policy memos and procedures manuals, we'll be trying to keep the news coming in more bite size chunks as well, starting with this brief update about Windows XP.
LINK doesn't use Windows XP for staff or patron computers -- yet. You probably knew that, but you probably weren't aware that the primary reason is that some of our core servers still rely on Windows NT 4. In particular, the SMS remote control software used by the LINK help desk is not compatible with Windows XP. To upgrade SMS properly basically requires upgrading all of the core Windows domain infrastructure, and that will affect all Windows-based technologies in the network. To ensure continuity of service during this transition, we're taking the time to make sure everything is accounted for before proceeding.
Planning and compatibility testing for a Windows domain migration has been underway for some time, and its configuration is tightly bound to characteristics of the Wide Area Network (WAN). In turn, the WAN will be undergoing significant change when the state implements its BadgerNet Converged Network (BCN), also in planning for a long time. The good news is that many of the unknowns about these migrations have become “knowns” in recent months, weeks and days. Things are really starting to fall into place.
A more detailed timeline and executive summary of migration events is being worked out and should be available next month. For now, we can clarify that the big picture will probably look like this:
Do you have question? Comments? Sure you do! Send them to gregb@scls.lib.wi.us.
The Brodhead Public Library Board has approved Dimension IV's plans for a new library. These plans will be presented at the Aug. 8 Brodhead City Council meeting. The board also has voted to become a LINK library in 2006.
Geri Cupery will be the new Youth Services Librarian at McFarland Public Library, starting Monday Aug. 8, replacing Susan Herr-Hoyman.
The Kraemer Library & Community Center held a root beer float party on Friday, July 29. The community was invited to enjoy a free root beer float and browse the central display case that contains a large collection of root beer cans, bottles and other memorabilia on loan from area resident Reed Andrew. (click on the image at left for larger view)
Madison Public Library has the following staffing changes (effective dates have yet to be determined on several): Carla Di Iorio has been promoted to Collection Development Coordinator in Technical Services (100 percent). Carla has been the acting Collection Development Coordinator since Vada Mayfield retired; Heidi Marzen is the new Branch Supervising Librarian 3 position (100 percent) at Meadowridge/South Madison; Molly Warren has accepted the Librarian I position (100 percent) in Reference and User Services, effective Sept. 6; Kelly Verheyden has accepted the Youth Librarian position (100 percent) at Central, effective Sept. 6; Carolyn Forde has accepted the Youth Librarian position (90 percent) at Central. She will be in Spain this fall on a leave of absence and will return in December; Kate Odahowski assumed the Cataloging Librarian position (80 percent) in Technical Services effective July 5; Carolyn Shaffer, Youth Services Librarian, resigned effective Aug. 5, to pursue a full-time position in adult reference, library administration or library technologies. She is currently working at Half Price Books on the east side of Madison.
Sir Galvanized, on display in front of the Reedsburg Public Library this summer as part of the annual Summer Library Program, was created by local artist Rusty Ziegler of Rusty Creations. This piece will be on display at the library until the end of August. (click on the image at right for larger view)
The August issue of WSLL @ Your Service is available from the Wisconsin State Law Library at http://wsll.state.wi.us/newsletter/issue05aug.html.
Past CEs available on videotape
Did you miss a great continuing education program earlier this year? How about Michael Sullivan’s “Connecting Boys with Books” (100 percent of the library staff attending this program rated it “5” out of “5”!) or the Reference program on “Consumer Medical Information?”
Seven of the CE programs offered earlier this year are now available on videocassette. To see a list of the programs and to order a tape delivered to you, go to the SCLS Continuing Education web pages and look for Videotaped Programs by Date: www.scls.info/ce/program/tapedate.html.
Directors, if you’d like to view any of these programs for CE hours, we’ll be glad to send you the DPI activity report that corresponds to the program you wish to view. Hours would be counted in Category C -- self-directed learning. Complete the evaluation on the activity form and include it with your Annual Summation at the end of the year.
Questions? Comments? Contact Mary Wepking.
-- Mary Wepking, Continuing Education Coordinator
Partnering with the Madison Children's Museum and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Shawn Brommer, SCLS Youth Services and Outreach Coordinator, co-created a book discussion curriculum that encourages middle school students to discuss themes of community, civic engagement and the democratic process.
The program, called “Think Outside the Book,” has been piloted at the Ashman Branch Library in Madison and with the Girl Neighborhood Power group, which is based out of the Atwood Community Center. Shawn will present the curriculum to SCLS member libraries at a meeting this fall and will discuss the program in a session during the WLA annual conference in La Crosse on Friday, Oct. 28.
Libraries will circulate journals for 60 Books project
South Central Library System member library patrons will have the opportunity this fall to participate in a year-long book arts, writing, and journaling project called “60 Books.”
Created for the Wisconsin Book Festival by the Bone Folders Guild (a book arts group based in Madison), the project will feature 60 blank books, one of which will be distributed to each SCLS member library before the 2005 Wisconsin Book Festival, Oct. 14-16, 2005. For the next 10 months, until Aug. 15, 2006, these books will be available for checkout by library patrons. The Public Library Advisory Committee (PLAC) of the SCLS Board has approved this project for SCLS member library participation.
Patrons will be encouraged to write in these books, and to draw, paint, collage, etc. -- in short, to use the book as a journal. Subsequent patrons will add their own stories, drawings, and so forth, creating a communitywide collaborative work of art.
At the close of the circulation period, the 60 books will be removed from the libraries’ collections and brought together for a traveling exhibit, which will debut as part of the Fifth Annual Wisconsin Book Festival, Oct. 18-22, 2006. After its Madison display period, the exhibit will be available for rotating display in any or all of the participating libraries.
Since SCLS libraries will circulate and house these books, the content must remain compliant with existing library guidelines covering subject matter. The approved plan is for each library to regularly inspect its book to ensure that it remains in compliance with existing library policy on content. In the event a patron puts disallowed content into a book, that book should returned to Mary Knapp at Madison Public Library so the content can be excised from the book by the Bone Folders Guild. At the end of the 10-month circulation period the excised items may be displayed with the final exhibit at the Bone Folders’ discretion, but will be presented in such a way that the component can be removed when the exhibit is displayed at a library.
For more information about the project, contact Mary Knapp, Madison Public Library, at (608) 266-6359 (mknapp@scls.lib.wi.us) or Alison Jones Chaim, director of the Wisconsin Book Festival, at (608) 265-5595 (alison@wisconsinbookfestival.org). More information about the Wisconsin Book Festival is available at www.wisconsinbookfestival.org, and you can read more about the Bone Folders Guild at www.valleyridgeartstudio.com/bone_folders/.
1990-2005 SCLS Intersystem Delivery Service celebration
This summer marks the 15th anniversary of the humble origins of our SCLS Intersystem Delivery Service.
Back in the summer of 1990 when a Reedsburg patron returned a book to the Milwaukee Public Library, this is the journey the book made. Beginning in Reedsburg, it traveled to Madison, then on to Orfordville (ALS). The Arrowhead driver dropped it off at Elkhorn (LLS), and it was stored in Racine for several days. The Lakeshores driver made the final stretch to Milwaukee twice a week. South Central and the southeast Wisconsin systems developed a series of system border delivery exchanges with adjacent library systems in an effort to avoid the hassle of return mailing interlibrary loan materials to Milwaukee Public Library.
Despite its convoluted path and seven- to 10-day transit, the convenience, staff-time savings and reduced postal costs demonstrated that our "cooperative system pass-through delivery service" had tapped into a great unmet need in the state library community that could no longer be ignored.
From this fledging 1990 start, SCLS Intersystem Delivery Service grew through a series of federal grants, marketing efforts, service contracts, inter-library cooperation and several generations of dedicated and innovative delivery staff into a unique, reliable and renowned library-owned and operated delivery service.
Below are some of our service milestones.
On Sept. 27, 2005, from 3:45-6 p.m., we plan to celebrate our accomplishments with an open house and party. Everyone is invited, so join your co-workers and colleagues over cake and nonalcoholic refreshments and speculate upon the next 15 years of Statewide Resource Sharing. The party will be held at the Delivery facility, 1601 Gilson Street, Madison. (map).
Volunteers needed to stuff ballots for WLA fall election
The Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) Nominations Subcommittee on elections is soliciting help to stuff ballots for the WLA fall election. The group will gather Tuesday, Aug. 16, from 1-3:30 p.m. at the WLA office, 5250 E. Terrace Drive, Suite A-1, in Madison.
This is a great opportunity for you to serve your state library association. If you are able to volunteer, contact Bob Bocher by email at Robert.Bocher@dpi.state.wi.us. Bob says he’ll provide free pizza.
ALA, Scholastic Library Publishing announce 2006 National Library Week Grant
All types of libraries across the United States are invited to apply for the 2006 Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant, which will be awarded to a single library for the best public awareness campaign incorporating the official campaign theme, "Change Your World @ your Library" during National Library Week (April 2-8, 2006).
The grant is sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing and is administered by the Public Awareness Committee of the American Library Association (ALA). This year's application deadline is Oct. 17, 2005.
All proposals must use the "Change Your World @ 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. Guidelines for using the brand are available at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary under the "download logos" section.
A grant application form and guidelines are available on The Campaign for America's Libraries website at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/nlwgrant. Information also is available from the ALA Public Information Office at (800) 545-2433, ext. 4020 (mhumphrey@ala.org).
The winner will be notified and announced at the 2006 ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio. Information on last year's winner, the Haverford Township Free Library, Haverford, Pa., and the winning application are available at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/nlwgrant.
For more information about The Campaign for America's Libraries visit www.ala.org/@yourlibrary.
Continuing Education -- www.scls.info/ce/
August 25 -- Reader's Advisory on the Latest Titles and Hot Authors, with Jane Jorgenson, Reference Librarian, Madison Public Library-Ashman Branch, 9:30-11:00 a.m., SCLS Administration & Portage County Public Library, Stevens Point.
September 7 -- Badgerlink: Newspapers, with Linda Miller, 1:30-4 p.m. SCLS Training Room E.
September 9 -- An Early Literacy Symposium for Youth Services Librarians, with Jane Marino, director of the Bronxville (NY) Public Library and author of "Babies in the Library" and other books for the very young child, 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m., American Family Insurance, Building "A" Training Center, 6000 American Parkway, Madison.
September 21 -- Reference USA Business, with Tana Elias, Madison Public Library, 9-11:00 a.m., SCLS Training Room E.
September 22 -- Bridging the Generation Gap (compressed Video Broadcast), with Deborah Spring Laurel, Laurel & Associates Ltd., Madison (WI), 9 a.m.-noon, with broadcast sites at SCLS Administration and Portage County Public Library, Stevens Point.
September 26 -- Ancestry Library & HeritageQuest, with Jean Anderson, Sun Prairie Public Library, 9-11:30 a.m., SCLS Training Room E.
September 29 -- Badgerlink: Newspapers, with Linda Miller, 9-11:30 a.m. (tentative), Charles & Joan Lester Library, Nekoosa.
October 5 -- What Do I Read Next, with Liz Amundson, Madison Public Library, 9-10:30 a.m., SCLS Training Room E.
October 14 -- Literature Resource Center (LRC), with Dawn Foster, Portage Public Library, 9-11:30 a.m., SCLS Training Room E.
October 20 -- The Boomers are Coming! What Do They Want? (compressed video broadcast), with Allan Kleiman, Chair, RUSA/RSS Library Service to an Aging Population Committee (ALA) and Head of Reference, Westfield Memorial Library, (NJ), 9-11:30 a.m., SCLS Administration & Portage County Public Library, Stevens Point.
November 8 -- Badgerlink: Humanities, with Linda Miller, 1:30-4 p.m., SCLS Training Room E.
November 11 -- Reference USA Business, with Tana Elias, Madison Public Library, 9-11:00 a.m., SCLS Training Room E.
November 17 -- Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales: 2006 SLP Workshop, with Kathy Ross (keynote), Geri Ceci Cupery, Kim Ropson, and Karen Wendt, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Olbrich Gardens, Madison.
November 30 -- Badgerlink: Humanities, with Linda Miller, 9-11:30 a.m. (tentative), Pinery Room, Portage County Public Library, Stevens Point.
December 2 -- Badgerlink: Ethnic Information, with Linda Miller, 9 - 11:30 a.m., SCLS Training Room E.
For more information about marketing and public relations, contact Mark Ibach.
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