From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 1 19:04:51 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:08 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ala (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Laura McCaffery" Subject: ala I vote for the not so structured vendor provided place and sustenance and hope it will be close to the PLA meeting. lmc Laura Hibbets McCaffery Readers Services Allen County Public Library 900 Webster Street Fort Wayne IN 46802 260-421-1200x2303 This is my opinion and mine alone. The views, opinions, and judgements expressed in this message are solely those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved by the Allen County Public Library. From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 2 22:38:06 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Reference procedure (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Robert Finch" Subject: Reference procedure Providing friendly effective reference is a three-step process. Step = one is to greet every patron and say; "Hi can I help you?" If they say = "no" then say; "If you need any help please feel free to ask." If they = say "yes" than start the reference interview. Step two is that for = any shift change or when a new reference librarian mans the desk the new = reference librarians should go ask patrons; "Are you finding everything = you need?" Step three is to ask every patron when they leave; "Did you = find what you were looking for?" If they hesitate or say; "No." Then = proceed with the reference interview. In between step one and step = three depending on staffing, sightlines, or library arrangement the = reference staff should keep an eye on patrons and when possible with out = hovering ask them if they are finding everything okay. This seemingly simple yet fundamental process is based on = both research and experience. (Neither of which I'll bore you with = right now.) The idea is to identify yourself to the patron and tell = them your job. Patrons may not know the difference between a page, a = circulation clerk, or reference librarian so identifying yourself tells = them. Also a librarian hard at work at the desk is an intimidating = figure. Patrons may be too afraid or embarrassed to ask for reference = help. Every experienced librarian has had a stammering meek patron say = "I'm sorry to bother you." Being friendly and approachable combined = with the patron knowing you and what your job is (by virtue of the = greeting) will make it easier for them to ask for reference help when = they need it. =20 Asking people when they leave if they found what they were looking for = is a vital part of this process. Some people never ask for help and may = think that they have done an effective search when they have not. What = you are trying to avoid is a patron going back home or back to work and = telling everyone that the library didn't have anything when in fact the = library had exactly what they were looking for. The library is in competition with the Internet as an information = service provider. Friendly, effective, but most important EASY TO USE = reference service is the best answer to competition from the Internet. = When the patron gets Internet overload or burned by some "net legend" we = want the patron to remember that the last time they used the library, it = was almost as easy to use as rolling out bed and logging on to the 'net. =20 =20 Robert Finch ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 2 22:38:14 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Weeded Books (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: PeggyLGB@aol.com Subject: Weeded Books Thank you everyone who has responded to my questions regarding weeding books in the collection. You have certainly clarified and given me a plethora of information to share with my other trustees. I truly appreciate your help. However, I knew that if I wanted good reliable information I needed to ask a librarian. Peggy Blass From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 2 22:38:21 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Disposal of weeded books (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: espicer Subject: Re: Disposal of weeded books When we have discards that remain unsold after several months on the sale shelves, our Friends box them up, load them on a truck, and haul them to a recycling center about thirty miles away! You might check to see if there is a major recycler (this one deals in scrap metal and many other types of recyclables) in your area that would take books. We are able to take paperbacks to our local recycler (they told us to put them in the phone book bin), but hardcovers require special handling. Our Board and staff are so appreciative of our Friends who care enough to make this extra effort! We all feel better about NOT putting our discards in the dumpster! Ann Perrigo, Director Allegan (MI) Public Library espicer@triton.net PeggyLGB@aol.com wrote: > Hi I am am a trustee in Marblehead MA. During a recent election, one of the > candidates at a televised Candidates Nights dropped a bomb and displayed > boxes of disposed books. At this juncture we are not questioning the weeding > process but trying to understand it, but we would like suggestions what do to > do with the books. We give them to the Friends for their sales, but not all > books are sold and we have very little storage space. Due to budget > constraints (this is Massachusetts) we do not have the staff to go around and > deliver the books to shelters, etc. Any suggestions would be delightful. > > Peggy Blass > Trustee Abbot Library > > peggylgb@attbi.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 2 22:38:36 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] USA Patriot Act of 2001 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Chris Rippel Subject: USA Patriot Act of 2001 Dear Colleagues, I am aware of the ALA's Guidelines for Librarians on the U.S.A. Patriot Act, etc, but I would like to know how librarians have actually respondedto the Patriot Act. Has anyone modified their policies, procedures, and training related to patron confidentiality? If yes, what changes did you make? Thanks, Chris Rippel Central Kansas Library System 1409 Wiliams Great Bend, Kansas 67530 620-792-4865 (voice) 620-792-5495 (fax) crippel@ckls.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 2 22:38:48 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Promoting your town (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Chris Rippel Subject: Promoting your town Dear Colleagues, If an out-of-town visitor stops in the library and wants to find out where to go in your town, what do you say and give to them? Does anyone have any cool and interesting ideas? Thanks, Chris Rippel Central Kansas Library System 1409 Wiliams Great Bend, Kansas 67530 620-792-4865 (voice) 620-792-5495 (fax) crippel@ckls.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:15:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Josh Goldstein Subject: Here are the responses to our bibliotherapy survey. Thank you to all who participated! Author Title Publisher Illustrator Topic Alexander, Sue Nadia the Willful Pantheon Books, 1983 Lloyd Bloom Death Bahr, Mary The Memory Box Albert Whitman and Company, 1992 David Cunningham Death Balaban, Nancy Learning to Say Goodbye Signet Books, 1989 Death Bang, Molly Garrett When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry Blue Sky Press, 1998 Anger Ballard, Robin Goodbye, House HarperCollins, 1994 Moving Barron, T.A. Where Is Grandpa? Puffin Books, 2000 Chris K. Soentpiet Death Benson, Edmund and Susan Benson Temper, Temper Arise Foundation, 2000 Anger Borden, Louise Good Luck, Mrs. K! Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1999 Adam Gustavson Illness Boucke, Laurie Infant Potty Training White-Boucke Publishing, 2000 Potty Training Brimmer, Larry D. Country Bear’s Good Neighbor Boyds Mills Press, 2001 Sharing Brown, Laurene Krasny Dinosaurs Divorce Little, Brown and Company, 1993 Marc Talon Brown Divorce Brown, Laurene Krasny and Marc Talon Brown When Dinosaurs Die Little, Brown and Company, 1998 Death Brown, Marc Talon Arthur’s Baby Little, Brown and Company, 1998 New Baby Buchanan, Doris Smith A Taste of Blueberries Harper and Row, 1971 Charles Robinson Death Bunting, Eve December Voyager Books, 2000 David Diaz Homelessness Bunting, Eve Some Frog! Harcourt Children’s Books, 1998 Scott Medlock Divorce Bunting, Eve Wednesday Surprise Turtleback Books, 1989 Divorce Buscaglia, Leo The Fall of Freddie the Leaf Henry Holt and Company, 1982 Death Carlson, Nancy L. I Like Me! Turtleback Books, 1988 Self-Esteem Carter, Dorothy Bye Mis’ Lela Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998 Henry Stevenson Death Caseley, Judith Pricilla Twice HarperCollins, 1995 Divorce Caseley, Judith Harry and Willy and Carrothead HarperCollins, 1991 Tolerance Caseley, Judith Bully Greenwillow Books, 2001 Bullying Christiansen, C.B. My Mother’s House, My Father’s House Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1989 Irene Trivas Divorce Clements, Andrew Big Al Picture Books Studio, 1991 Friendship Clifton, Lucille Everett Anderson’s Goodbye St. Martin’s Press, 1983 Death Cohen, Miriam Will I Have a Friend? Aladin Paperbacks, 1989 Lillian Hoban Friendship/ First Day of School Cole, Joanna How I Was Adopted HarperCollins, 1995 Maxie Chambliss Adoption Coles, Robert The Story of Ruby Bridges Scholastic Inc., 1995 Prejudice/ Racial Equality Cowen-Fletcher, Jane Mama Zooms Scholastic Inc., 1993 Disabilities Cutler, Jane Darcy and Gran Don’t Like Babies Turtleback Books, 1993 New Baby Dabcovich, Lydia Mrs. Huggins and Her Hen Hannah Dutton Children’s Books, 1985 Death DePaola, Tommie Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs Turtleback Books, 1973 Death DePaola, Tommie Now One Foot, Now the Other G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981 Illness Despelder, Lynn Ann and Albert Lee Strickland The Last Dance McGraw-Hill, 2001 Death Everitt, Betsy Mean Soup Harcourt Children’s Books, 1992 Anger Freidman, Ina R. How My Parents Learned to Eat Turtleback Books, 1984 Tolerance Gantos, Jack Joey Pigza Loses Control Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2000 Hyperactivity (ADHD) Gantos, Jack Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998 Hyperactivity (ADHD) Girard, Linda W. We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo Albert Whitman and Company, 1989 Linda Shute Adoption Girard, Linda W. At Daddy’s on Saturday’s Albert Whitman and Company, 1987 Divorce Gould, Deborah Grandpa’s Slide Show HarperCollins, 1987 Cheryl Harness Death Gray, Libba M. My Mama Had a Dancing Heart Scholastic Inc., 1996 Raul Colon Death Gregory, Nana How Smudge Came Turtleback Books, 1997 Disabilities Grindley, Sally A New Room for William Candlewick Press, 2000 Carol Thompson Moving Hamilton, DeWitt Sad Days, Glad Days Albert Whitman and Company, 1995 Gail Owens Depression/ Worries Harris, Audrey Why Did He Die? Lerner Publications, 1965 Hazon, Barbara Shook Why Did Grandpa Die? Golden Books Publishing Company, 1985 Pat Schories Death Havill, Juanita Jamaica’s Find Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986 Friendship Henkes, Kevin Wemberly Worried HarperCollins, 2000 Depression/ Worries Henkes, Kevin Chrysanthemum HarperCollins, 1996 Tolerance Herron, Caroliva Nappy Hair Random House Books for Young Readers, 1997 Joe Cepeda Prejudice/ Racial Equality Hesse, Karen Poppy’s Chair Scholastic Inc., 2000 Death Hest, Amy You’re the Boss Baby Duck Candlewick Press, 1997 Jill Barton New Baby Hickman, Martha Last Week My Brother Anthony Died Abingdon Press, 1984 Randi Julien Death Johnson, Dolores Grandma’s Hands Cavendish Children’s Books, 1998 Abandonment Jordan, Mary Kate Losing Uncle Tim Albert Whitman and Company, 1989 Judith Friedman Death Kantrowitz, Mildred When Violet Died MacMillan, 1973 Death Kasza, Keiko The Pig’s Picnic G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988 Self-Esteem Kelman, Judith Fly Away Home Bantam Books, 1996 Homelessness Kleven, Elisa A Monster in the House Dutton Children’s Books, 1998 New Baby Kraus, Robert Leo the Late Bloomer HarperCollins, 1971 Jose Aruego Self-Esteem/ Maturity Kohlenberg, Sherry Sammy’s Mommy Has Cancer American Psychological Association, 1993 Lauri Crow Illness Lionni, Leo It’s Mine McGraw-Hill, 1986 Sharing Mayer, Mercer There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Turtleback Books, 1968 Nightmares/ Fear Mayer, Mercer There’s Something in My Attic Turtleback Books, 1988 Nightmares/ Fear Mazer, Anne The Salamander Room Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1991 Steve Johnson Nightmares/ Fear Miglis, Jenny Feelings Little Simon, 2002 Jenine Pontillo Positive Reinforcement Miller, Philip J. and Sheppard M. Greene We All Sing With the Same Voice HarperCollins Children’s Book Group, 2000 Paul Meisel Effects of 9/11 Mitchell, Lori Different Just Like Me Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc., 1999 Tolerance McNamara, Jill My Mom is Dying Augburg Fortress Publishers, 1994 David LaRochelle Death Munson, Derek Enemy Pie Chronicle Books, 2000 Tara Calahan Bullying Munsch, Robert We Share Everything! Scholastic Inc., 1999 Michael Martchenko Sharing Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds King of the Playground Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1991 Nola L. Malone Bullying Nickle, John The Art Bully Scholastic Inc., 1999 Bullying Osofsky, Audrey My Buddy Henry Holt and Company, 1994 Ted Rand Disabilities Park, Barbara Mick Harte Was Here Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1995 Death Peterson, Jeanne W. I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf HarperCollins, 1977 Deborah Kogan Ray Disabilities Perry, Patricia and Marietta Lynch Mommy and Daddy are Divorced Dial Books, 1978 Divorce Phister, Marcus Rainbow Fish North-South Books, 1995 Friendship Piper, Watty The Little Engine That Could Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1978 George and Doris Hauman Positive Reinforcement Polacco, Patricia Thundercake Philomel Books, 1998 Nightmares/ Fear Polacco, Patricia Thank You, Mr. Falker Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1998 Disabilities Roth, Susan L. It’s Still a Dogs New York Simon and Schuster, 2001 Effects of 9/11 Roth, Carol Little Benny’s Sleepless Night North-South Books, 1999 Valeri Gorbachev Nightmares/ Fear Russo, Marisabina Grandpa Abe Greenwillow Books, 1996 Death Rylant, Cynthia Dog Heaven Blue Sky Press, 1995 Death Rylant, Cynthia Cat Heaven Scholastic Inc., 1997 Death Shannon, David No David Blue Sky Press, 1998 Hyperactivity (ADHD) Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman A Big Fat Enormous Lie Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1978 David M. McPhail Lying Shipton, Jonathan No Biting, Horrible Crocodile! Golden Books, 1995 Claudio Munoz Bullying Shriver, Maria What’s Wrong With Timmy? Little, Brown and Company, 2001 Sandra Speidel Death Shriver, Maria What’s Heaven? St. Martin’s Press, 1999 Sandra Speidel Death Stiles, Norman I’ll Miss You Mr. Hooper Random House, 1984 Death Titherington, Jeanne A Place for Ben HarperCollins, 1987 Sibling Rivalry Vigna, Judith I Wish Daddy Didn’t Drink So Much Albert Whitman and Company, 1988 Alcohol/Drug Abuse Vigna, Judith She’s Not My Real Mother Albert Whitman and Company, 1980 Divorce/ Step Parents Vigna, Judith My Big Sister Takes Drugs Albert Whitman and Company, 1990 Alcohol/Drug Abuse Vigna, Judith Gregory’s Stiches Albert Whitman and Company, 1974 Stiches Vigna, Judith Saying Goodbye to Daddy Albert Whitman and Company, 1991 Death Vigna, Judith Grandma Without Me Albert Whitman and Company, 1984 Divorce Viorst, Judith The Tenth Good Thing About Barney Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1971 Erik Blegvad Death Wachter, Oralee No More Secrets For Me Little, Brown and Company, 1984 Jane Aaron Sexual Abuse Walton, Rick Will You Still Love Me? Dessert Book Company, 1992 Brad Teare Sibling Rivalry Wells, Rosemary Yoko Hyperion Books for Children, 1998 Tolerance Wilhelm, Hans I’ll Always Love You Turtleback Books, 1985 Death Josh Goldstein joshgo7222@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:15:24 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] White House Conference on School Libraries (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Maxwell, Eileen" Subject: White House Conference on School Libraries For Immediate Release IMLS Contacts: 202-606-8339 Mamie Bittner Giuliana Bullard LAURA BUSH TO HOST WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON SCHOOL LIBRARIES TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2002, 9:00 AM to 12 NOON EST Mrs. Bush will host a White House Conference on School Libraries to discuss the latest research on libraries, student achievement, and successful local programs. Mrs. Bush will also announce the names of the leadership council and advisory committee for The Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries. Mrs. Bush will be joined by her co-host Dr. Robert Martin, a career librarian and Director of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. OPEN PRESS The White House - East Room Washington, DC BACKGROUND: Mrs. Bush is a former librarian and a longtime supporter of public libraries and school libraries. She organized this conference to call attention to the role that libraries play in America's schools and communities, and to make a major announcement about the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries. Speakers will include: * Dr. Vartan Gregorian, Carnegie Corporation; * M. Christine DeVita, President, Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds; * Dr. Keith Curry Lance, Director of Library Research Service, State Library and Adult Education Office of the Colorado Department of Education; and * Dr. Susan Neuman, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, U. S. Department of Education. A discussion will feature the following national panel: * Dr. Steven R. Wisely, Medford School District, Medford, Oregon; * Dr. Gary Hartzell, University of Nebraska at Omaha; * Faye Kimsey-Pharr, Lakeside Academy of Math, Science and Technology, Chattanooga, Tennessee; * Kathleen Smith, Cherry Creek High School, Cherry Creek, Colorado NOTE: For those members of the press who do not have White House press credentials, but would like to attend, you must fax your name (as it appears on your driver's license), social security number, and date of birth to (202) 456-6771 no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, June 3, 2002. You do not need to confirm that it has been received. If you request clearance, you will need to arrive at the Northwest Gate at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 4. The Northwest Gate is located on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in the northwest corner of the White House complex. As you face the White House from Pennsylvania Avenue, this is the gate directly in front of the West Wing. Press will be escorted from the Press Briefing Room to the East Room at 8:45 a.m. About the Institute of Museum and Library Services - The Institute is an independent federal agency that fosters leadership, innovation, and a lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's museums and libraries. Created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, PL 104-208, IMLS administers the Library Services and Technology Act and the Museum Services Act. For more information contact IMLS at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 202-606-8536, or . ### ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:15:31 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] First-Ever Survey of Technology Use and Digitization Activities i (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Maxwell, Eileen" Subject: First-Ever Survey of Technology Use and Digitization Activities i <> For Immediate Release IMLS Contacts: 202-606-8339 Giuliana Bullard gbullard@imls.gov Mamie Bittner First-Ever Survey of Technology Use and Digitization Activities in Libraries and Museums A federal report quantifies, for the first time, the prevalence of computers, software, and information sharing technologies in the day-to-day work of museums and libraries. The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services surveyed more than 700 libraries and museums about their technology use and digitization activities. Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Dr. Robert Martin said, "This baseline study provides our first snapshot of the state of technology use and digitization by the nation's libraries and museums. It depicts pockets of digitization activity and planning that are making collections much more widely accessible. It is clear that emerging technologies are connecting more people to the services and information museums and libraries provide." The report surveyed activity in museums, public libraries, academic libraries and State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs.) Basic information technologies have made their way into a majority of American museums and libraries. * Eighty-seven percent of museums and at least 99 percent of surveyed libraries use at least some technology, most commonly: desktop computers, Internet access, e-mail, standard office software, Web sites, and computerized collection catalogs. The survey found that museums' use of technology is strong in the medium-sized and large museums, but lags significantly in the smaller museums. * Sixty-seven percent of the museum respondents have budgets less than $250,000. Sixty percent of these small museums have desktop computers and only 41 percent have Web sites. Thirteen percent of these museums indicated no technology use, not even desktop computers. * The findings indicate that museums have fewer sources of funds for investment in technology, relying on operating funds, gifts from donors, and in-kind contributions. Twenty percent of responding museums report having no funding for technology. Digitization, the process of converting, creating, and maintaining materials in electronic representations so they can be viewed via computer, is a recent development in the work of museums and libraries, but one that is expected to grow. * The leading digitizers SLAAs with more than 78 percent reporting digitization activities in the past year. * Thirty-two percent of museums, 34 percent of academic libraries, and 25 percent of public libraries are digitizing materials. The Institute will use the survey findings to encourage best practices in digitization activities including policy development, use of digital registries, and collaboration. Future studies may explore barriers to technology adoption and digitization and study how museums and libraries can collaborate on the systematic digitization of American collections. The 42-page The Status of Technology and Digitization in the Nation's Museums and Libraries reports data collected from public libraries, academic libraries, State Library Administrative Agencies, and museums of all types, from art galleries to zoos. It includes 17 profiles of libraries and museums using technology in innovative ways to expand and improve public service. To obtain free copies of the report, e-mail the Institute at imlsinfo@imls.gov , or access it electronically from the agency Web site: http://www.imls.gov/Reports/TechReports/intro02.htm About the Institute of Museum and Library Services - The Institute is an independent federal agency that fosters leadership, innovation, and a lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's museums and libraries. Created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, PL 104-208, IMLS administers the Library Services and Technology Act and the Museum Services Act. For more information contact IMLS at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 202-606-8536, or . ### ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:16:11 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Media Labels (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: PTomka@aol.com Subject: Re: Media Labels Having searched for different "genre" of music type labels for quite some time and never finding any, I finally created a color coding system using the half inch colored dots you can find at most office supply places. We use red for country, orange for rock, yellow for Christian, green for classical and blue for blues and jazz. Then, there is a small sign over the collection that identifies those color codes. Just one option, I'm sure there are others. Pam Tomka Washington District Library Washington, IL From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:16:44 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] In-house electronic communication (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Janet Palumbo Subject: In-house electronic communication Our library is in the process of phasing out our current in-house mail service (Lotus cc:Mail). Obviously most people have an e-mail address of some sort but we are looking for a product that might facilitate inter-office mail and address book options too. What are you using, what costs are involved - if any, and what training was necessary. Are there any products you would not recommend? Thanks, Janet Palumbo Automation Committee Oak Lawn Public Library Oak Lawn, IL 708 422 4990 janetP@lib.oak-lawn.il.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:17:07 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] SEEKING ALA COUNCIL CANDIDATES (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Ann Sparanese Subject: SEEKING ALA COUNCIL CANDIDATES SECOND POSTING - CONSIDER YOURSELF! NOMINATING COMMITTEE SEEKS CANDIDATES The ALA 2003 Nominating Committee is soliciting nominees to run on the 2003 spring ballot for the offices of ALA president-elect and Councilor at large. The Nominating Committee will select two candidates to run for President-elect and no fewer than 66 candidates for the 33 at large Council seats to be filled in the 2003 spring election. The president-elect will serve a three-year term: as president-elect in 2003-2004, as president in 2004-2005, and as immediate past president in 2005-2006. Councilors at large will serve for three-year terms, beginning after the 2003 ALA Annual Conference and ending at the adjournment of the 2006 Annual Conference. Members who wish to make nominations should submit the following information: nominee name; present position; institution; address; telephone; fax; and e-mail address. Self-nominations are encouraged. Nominees should complete the Potential Candidate Biographical Form available at https://cs.ala.org/potentialcandidates/index.cfm. Nominations and forms are requested by June 10, 2002 but will be accepted until August 1, 2002. Nominations may be sent to any member of the 2003 Nominating Committee. Committee members are: Ann C. Sparanese, Chair, Head of Adult & Young Adult Services, Englewood Public Library, c/o 146 St Nicholas Ave., Englewood, NJ 07631-1639, Email: sparanese@yahoo.com; Rolly J. Lee, Jr., Director, Mount Vernon Public Library, c/o 81 Saint James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238-1210, Email: rodneyjlee@earthlink.net; Jeanne Franco Martinez, Component Director, Education Service Center, Region 20, 1314 Hines Avenue, San Antonio, TX 78208-1899, Email: jeanne.martinez@esc20.net; Stephen Prine, Library of Congress, c/o 148 Duddington Place SE, Washington, DC 20003-2609, Email: spri@loc.gov; Robert B. Marks Ridinger, Northern Illinois University, Founders Memorial Library, 15 E Founders Memorial Library, Dekalb, IL 60115-2868, Email: rridinger@niu.edu; Katia Roberto, Special Collections Cataloger, Southern Illinois University, Library Affairs, Mail Code 6632, Carbondale, IL 62901-6632, Email: kroberto@lib.siu.edu; Stephanie C. Schmitt, Manager of Serials Services, Yale Law Library, P.O. Box 207098, New Haven, CT 06520-7098, Email: stephanie.schmitt@yale.edu; Theresa A. Tobin, Head Librarian, MIT Humanities Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Email: tat@mit.edu; Harriet C. Ying, Branch Manager, Prince George's County Memorial Lib, Surratts-Clinton Branch, 9400 Piscataway Road, Clinton, MD 20735-363, Email: hy0078@mail.pratt.lib.md.us. To encourage diversity and leadership development, the Committee will refrain from nominating any current Councilors for election to another term. However, the Committee encourages all Councilors who wish to continue their service to the Association to file as petition candidates. Petitions will be available from Lois Ann Gregory-Wood, Council Secretariat, ALA, 50 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611, email lgregory@ala.org, or during the 2002 Annual Conference or 2003 Midwinter Meeting. Petitions require 25 signatures for names to be included on the 2003 ballot. Thanks, Ann Sparanese Chair, 2003 ALA Nominating Committee Englewood Public Library Englewood, NJ From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:17:14 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Adult programming (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Annette Weiss Subject: Re: Adult programming I schedule an investment series of eight to ten speakers every year. If someone is new to the program (I often use tried and true speakers) I make a point of telling them that this program is for information services and while they certainly may put out business cards or contact information on their handouts they may not ask for participants name, phone and address. I also always make a point of listening to the first presentation of a new speaker to make sure it is up to our standards. I also supply an evalutation form to the group and encourage that they give me feedback. I really haven't had any problems with this. Annette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So let me get this straight: You want information about why reference librarians always answer a question with another question, right? Annette Weiss Phone: (248) 553-0300 Adult Services Librarian Fax: (248) 553-3228 E-Mail: weissann@metronet.lib.mi.us Farmington Community Library 32737 W. 12 Mile Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 48334 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 30 May 2002, Karen Duree wrote: > I may have already sent this question to the list, but I can't find it in my > sent emails. I am looking for written guidelines to be used when scheduling > outside speakers for adult programs. I am particulary concerned about > library sponsored programs that feature speakers such as an investment > counselor from one of the major companies. I would want to make sure that > the library sponsored program does not become a sales pitch by any speakers > we invite to do a program. Do any of you have such guidelines that the > speaker must agree to? KD > > > Karen M. Duree > Assistant Director > Jefferson County Library > 7479 Metropolitan Blvd. > Barnhart, MO 63012 > Phone: 636-461-1914 > Fax: 636-461-1915 > Email: kduree@mail.jefcolib.lib.mo.us > > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:17:27 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (A call to arms.) (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Jean Hewlett Subject: Re: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (A call to arms.) I agree with the comments below, but I still think it's worth writing a letter to LucasFilm about the librarian stereotype. Remember that the first Indiana Jones movie had Indie making snide comments about removing artifacts and the final one had him shouting "This belongs in a museum!" I'm convinced that happened because lots of archeologists complained. Jean Hewlett North Bay Cooperative Library System, Santa Rosa CA nbclsref@sonic.net All opinions are my own, and do not represent those of my employers. Community Relations Department wrote: > > In my opinion, American are too thin skinned. We avow we have the right to > complain about everything that doesn't conform to our needs. > > Instead of choosing to see this as a negative stereotype, I choose to > celebrate the fact that even a character as intelligent and capable as > Obi-Wan Kanobie chooses to visit a library when he doesn't know something > and once there consults a librarian, bun or no bun. > > You go, elderly looking human woman! > > Nancy McShane > Community Relations Department > Springfield-Greene County Library District > http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/ > comrel@mail.sgcl.org > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew DiTomasso" > To: "Multiple recipients of list" > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:23 PM > Subject: [PUBLIB] Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (A call to arms.) > > > I was very upset to see a very negative parody of a librarian in "Star > Wars: Attack of the Clones". I think the American Library Association > should contact Lucas and ask him what the deal is. > > > > I think one of the great things about science fiction it that it can be > used to show how certain aspects of society, life, culture taken to an > extreme can be bad. Out of all the things to pick on, why must Lucas pick > on the poor underpaid and overworked librarian? > > > > For those of you who didn't see the movie, there is a scene where Obi-Wan > Kanobie uses a sort of furturistic library in order to find the location of > a hidden planet and/or solar system. When he asks the librarian, played by > an elderly looking human woman complete with a hair bun (if I remember > correctly), she tells him something like "Well, If it is isn't in our > databases, it dosen't exist." > > > > Lucas makes money hand over fist thanks to Star Wars and I see that there > is an educational foundation bearing his name. I toured their web site and > as expected I found very little to do with libraries there as well. Can we > find out what his problem is? > > > > > > Take the time to write him and complain, this is a snail-mail address I > found on the internet: > > > > George Lucas > > PO Box 2009 > > San Rafael, CA 94912 > > > > I'm sure you can find some sort of email contact at lucasfilms.com or > starwars.com. You might not get Lucas himself, but if you bug his staff > enough, I'm sure he will hear about it. > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > Matthew DiTomasso > > Circulation, Technical Services and Reader's Advisory Librarian > > Mount Pleasant Public Library > > [Opinions expressed here are my own] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Westchester Reads! > > http://www.westchesterlibraries.org/ > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************* > > Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, > > this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there > > to a plain text message. > > ********************************************************************* > > > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:17:42 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Ethics Institutes date clarification (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Margaret Van Patten Subject: Ethics Institutes date clarification If you rcvd a goldenrod colored flyer about the Ethics institute please note that the day of the week is incorrect for the June workshop. The date is June 28 however the day of the week is Friday. See below for details. Please feel free to cross-post and pass on to anyone who might be interested. New York Library Association's Institute: Ethics in the Electronic Age Due to the popular demand and feedback from the 2001 Institute on Ethics the NYLA Continuing Education Committee is pleased to present Ethics I again in 2002. A workshop on the ethical implications of policy-making, information provision and public service in libraries. A librarian who attended one of the sessions in 2001 stated that she often refers back to her notes from the workshop as the need arrives in her library setting. We urge you to sign up for this important topic. Take a day away from the necessary but mundane workaday tasks to examine the big picture so that you can better make ethical decisions regarding your library's policies and procedures. Presented by Susan Lehman Keitel Executive Director New York Library Association Friday, June 28, 2002 Plattsburg Public Library 19 Oak Street Plattsburgh, New York 12901 (A great way to start a summer weekend in the beautiful Adirondack region.) Or Friday, September 20, 2002 Nassau Library System 900 Jerusalem Ave. Uniondale, N.Y. 11553 ? Are your library's professional practices and those of your staff always ethical? ? Are your policies ethical? ? Are your procedures ethical? Library staff, librarians and library trustees face questions of ethics daily, but rarely is this important aspect of library service openly, fully and thoughtfully discussed and analyzed. What happens when ethics and law conflict? This full-day workshop is designed to help participants become competent and comfortable in examining ethical dilemmas in library and information services. Participants in this workshop will discuss the ethical issues that libraries routinely encounter, including: -The ethics of selection, collection development and weeding -Fundraising -Competing claims of social responsibility and confidentiality with library records and practices -Filtering software on Internet terminals -Gift policies, including gifts with "strings" attached -Fees for library services -Writing staff recommendations -Real and virtual space allocations -Dealing with problem patrons -Setting library hours ABOUT THE PRESENTER Susan Lehman Keitel is the Executive Director and lobbyist for the New York Library Association. She is certified by the Institute of Global Ethics as a trainer in ethical fitness, a broad approach to addressing the skills of thinking and acting ethically in our personal and professional lives. "My training through IGE has qualified me to lead groups in developing the skills necessary to become ethically fit. The structure of identifying ethical dilemmas and resolving them is the substance of my workshops." She believes that libraries must begin the dialogue about the ethical use of information that will accompany patrons throughout this electronic information age and develop the expertise and policies to make librarians experts and leaders in this field. WHO SHOULD ATTEND - Library Directors - Library Trustees - Librarians - Members of Friends of Libraries -Interested administrators & support staff. Participants will receive 0.45 CE Units SCHEDULE: 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and registration 10:00 - 12:30 Session I 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own) 1:30 - 3:30 Session II REGISTRATION Pre-registration is required, and space is limited. To register, please return the attached form by mail, fax, or e-mail. You are registered and your place reserved when your payment arrives at NYLA. You will be contacted by NYLA only if the workshop is filled. Please select either the Plattsburg Public Library or Nassau Library System site. RATES NYLA member: $85 Non-member: $120 REGISTRATION FORM Ethics in the Electronic Age Name Organization Address Daytime phone E-mail Fax I will attend ___June 28, 2002 at the Plattsburg Public Library ___September 20, 2002 at the Nassau Library System ___NYLA Member $85 ___Non-member $120 ___Join NYLA now as a first-time member for $25 and pay NYLA member rate. Renewing/lapsed members: contact NYLA office ___Check (Payable to New York Library Association) Credit card ___Visa ___Discover ___MasterCard Credit card number Expiration date Signature Total enclosed Make checks payable and returnthis form to: New York Library Association 252 Hudson Avenue Albany, NY 12210-1802 For further information: Phone: 800-252-6952 Fax: 518-427-1697 E-mail: mail to: :nylaoffice@pobox.com Homepage: www.nyla.org Directions: Plattsburg Public Library 19 Oak Street Plattsburgh, New York 12901 From the west (e.g. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse) go east on the NYS Thruway (90) to the Northway (87) going north. From Albany and points south of Albany take the Northway (87) going north. Exit the Northway (87), bearing left, at Highway 22 (N Catherine St,) turn left onto Highway 3 East (Cornelia St,) turn right onto Oak St. From points due east of Plattsburg one can take Route 11 or Route 81 or Route 56 to Highway 3 East. Once in Plattsburg from Highway 3 East (Cornelia St,) turn right onto Oak St. http://www.cefls.org/plattsburgh.htm Nassau Library System 900 Jerusalem Ave. Uniondale, N.Y. 11553 From the east or west: Southern State Parkway to Meadowbrook Road (exit 23); north to Jerusalem Ave; west about one mile. Nassau Library System on left, opposite A. Holly Patterson home. From the north or south: Meadowbrook Parkway to exit M5, Rte. 24 (Hempstead Turnpike) west to Uniondale Ave. (McDonalds restaurant on left corner); south to Jerusalem Ave.; east about one mile. Nassau Library System on right, opposite A. Holly Patterson home. http://www.nassaulibrary.org/policy/about.html ******************************************************************* Meg Van Patten, Head BALDWINSVILLE Reference and Adult Services PUBLIC LIBRARY Baldwinsville Public Library 1948 - 1998 33 East Genesee Street PRESERVING THE PAST Baldwinsville, New York 13027 & PRESENTING THE FUTURE (315) 635-5631 ext. 206 [voice] (315) 635-6760 [fax] megv@bville.lib.ny.us [e-mail] http://www.bville.lib.ny.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:17:53 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] June CD HotList (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Rick Anderson" Subject: June CD HotList The June issue of CD Hotlist is now available! This month includes reissues from the likes of Gordon Mumma, X and Bob Marley, some new work for music-boxes, and a plethora of work all the way from Telemann to Tom Waits! Click here: http://www2.library.unr.edu/anderson/cdhl/index.htm Dan Cherubin Editor From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:18:00 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Volunteer Advisory Committee (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Stark, Richard" Subject: Volunteer Advisory Committee The Ottawa Public Library is looking into creating a Volunteer Advisory Committee to advise us on our volunteer services. We would like to hear from other public libraries who have set up such committees. We are mainly interested in seeing Terms of Reference for such a committee and hearing what type of committee composition you have put in place (i.e. no. of volunteers and staff on the committee). Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Richard Stark ******************************************************** Richard Stark, Manager Access, Outreach and Volunteer Services Ottawa Public Library 1049 Bank St. Ottawa ON K1S 3W9 ph. (613) 730-1082 ext 2 fax (613) 730-2884 email: Richard.Stark@library.ottawa.on.ca ******************************************************** From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:18:28 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (A call to arms (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Ann Ryan Subject: RE: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (A call to arms Ann Ryan Library Support Services Manager North Shore Libraries Ph (09) 486-8472 Fax (09) 486-8519 annr@shorelibraries.govt.nz [snip] As far as writing Lucas to complain-- feel free. But expect to be drowned out by the people complaining about the lackluster romance, the awful dialogue, and the 'fact' that since the clones (and their original) are 'hispanic' (the actor is in fact not hispanic, if I remember correctly), 'Lucas is continuing his tradition of making brown people the enemy' (Yes, people are complaining about this). Tracey Callison ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 18:18:50 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] headphones (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Suzy Coleman Subject: headphones We are a crowded library, and I was not only worried about sanitation, but headphones getting knocked around and damaged, so I got headphone extention cables for around $8 each and plugged thoes into the back of the PC, then I used 'Bell wire staples' that are used to keep telephone wires in place (I got them at the local hardware store) so that the extension cable wouldn't 'walk'. Patrons bring in their own headphones, which they usually already have on around their neck! They just plug into the cable end and they've got sound if they want it. Suzy Coleman suzyc@lincc.lib.or.us Gladstone Public Library Gladstone OR Has anyone found a good source for covers for headphones that make it easy to keep them sanitary? Or, as an option, disposable headphones? We have found a source for headphones for $1.80 each with replaceable foam ear pads but are wondering if there is a better solution. Our dollar store does not always have headphones in stock (just the earbuds which we don't want to use). Thanks. Linda Matula Schwartz Systems Librarian Whitehall Township Public Library 3700 Mechanicsville Road Whitehall, PA 18052 -- "If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." George Orwell From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 22:57:44 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Wider/Wiser (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." Subject: Wider/Wiser Greetings, I hope that my article "Are Wider Library Units Wiser?" in the June/July issue of American Libraries will engender some discussion here and elsewhere. As an adjunct to that article, I have posted a number of new pages to the haplr-index.com website. (See below). There I try to cover some of the issues that the 2500 word limit in American Libraries kept me from covering. I have listed additional publications on the issue, a planning checklist, and a number of state library sites that have legislative and other information on library districts. Special district libraries are the fastest growing type of U.S. library organization even though only 19 states have laws that permit them. Some of us in Wisconsin are hoping to bring the enabling legislation tally to 20 next year. I also hope that ALA will soon develop a model district library law for the remaining 30 states that need them. As I noted in my article, some have made the case that the formation of special districts for libraries runs a major public policy risk. Popular items like parks and libraries in "a la carte" districts can soak up public funds. That leaves less for important but non-attractive government functions like accounting or road building. The converse of this argument is that all too often local government officials use the very popularity of library services to our own detriment. City mayors have used this strategy in local budget battles. Threatening to close a branch library in Gotham causes the city council member to rally to the defense of his or her branch and voila, the budget is restored. Meanwhile other less popular city services are protected from scrutiny. When the ship is sailing smoothly, perhaps good manners are in order, and the nod and wink strategy may apply. But when the budget-cutting iceberg of the present economic downturn threatens, it is our professional duty to fight for space on the lifeboats. If a district can be that lifeboat, then it may be time for some to get aboard. But only 19 states have provided for library district legislation. A.L.A should provide model legislation for the formation of library districts. It should do so soon. See: http://haplr-index.com/wider_and_wiser_units.htm Thomas J. Hennen Jr. thennen@haplr-index.com http://www.haplr-index.com Voice: 262-886-1625 Fax: 262-886-5424 6014 Spring Street Racine, WI 53406 "Share knowledge, seek wisdom." From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 22:58:34 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: PUBLIB digest 2055 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." Subject: RE: PUBLIB digest 2055 Greetings, The recent thread in PUBLIB digest 2055 on weeded books and what to do with them, reminded me of a posting that was re-printed in Unabashed Librarian in 1998. It may be useful still. Books by the pound sales Sat, 12 Sep 1998 15:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Louise Schimmel recently asked about pricing for book sales in libraries. I suggest pricing them by the pound (or kilogram if you prefer). When I was at Watonwan County Library in Minnesota, we had a large, antique butcher's scale that we used. We marked down the sign every day of the sale. On day one of the sale, before the doors even opened, we marked things down from $2 to $1. Hey that's how retail stores do it, why not us? People came in and snapped up the paperbacks and childrens books. On day 2 we marked things down to 50 cents, and mostly cleared out the hardcover fiction. On day 3 we marked it down to a 25 cents and started clearing hardcover nonfiction and donated copies of National Geographic. By Day 5, at 10 cents, the remaining items were a scraggly lot, but we still got bargain hunters. On day 7 we marked the remainders down to a penny a pound. We always had the sale in Fall. On day 7 a guy we knew with a wood burning stove that he heated his home with would come to buy the remainders at a penny a pound. Our price was cheaper than firewood and just as efficient, he said. The board loved not having to store unsold stock from one sale to the next, and not having to put unwanted items in the garbage. The staff loved not having to individually price the books, or change the prices as the sale went on. Bargain hunters loved it - we had lots of repeat visitors. Many of the books were re-cycled by donation and subsequent sale numerous times. And the press loved it. We always got good press photos of someone standing at the antique scale with a tower of books and a bargain hunter's smile. Datcalmguy Thomas J. Hennen Jr. thennen@haplr-index.com http://www.haplr-index.com Voice: 262-886-1625 Fax: 262-886-5424 6014 Spring Street Racine, WI 53406 "Share knowledge, seek wisdom." From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 22:57:06 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest 2055 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: KTDyer@aol.com Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2055 In a message dated 6/3/2002 3:02:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, publib@webjunction.org writes: > We all feel better about > NOT putting our discards in the dumpster! Because the library does weeding of books that won't sell at a book sale, the dumpster is now kept locked so that we no longer have periodic hysterics over thrown-out books. --Karen Dyer ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 3 22:56:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:09 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest 2055 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: KTDyer@aol.com Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2055 In a message dated 6/3/2002 3:02:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, publib@webjunction.org writes: > When we have discards that remain unsold after several months on the sale > shelves, our Friends box them up, load them on a truck, and haul them to a > recycling center about thirty miles away! This is terrific! Terrific that the Friends will haul them off and terrific that they will haul them 30 miles! We don't have a truck or access to one. However, other things we do for our semi-annual used book sales are: (1) The last day of our sale is a bag sale. Buy a bag for $3 and fill it with books for free. (2) During the last hour of the sale, all books are free. (3) Our library administration will send out burlap bag thingies held up by tubing. We can put books in them and they will be picked up and taken to a recycling center. We don't have any trouble with people waiting for bag day or waiting for the last hour of the sale because they know all the good stuff will be gone. Some people take their chances on the bag day but we make out okay. --Karen Dyer, Friend and Commissioner ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:13:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] International Listserv Search (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Jason F Subject: International Listserv Search Hello, I am in need of joining a listserv that has international participants discussing, well, anything: the environment,health, technology, etc. I would love to find one that dealt with library issues, for instance, intellectual freedom, copyright issues. I am a grad student in Emporia, Kansas. Thank you for any help anyone might be able to throw my way, Jason Fenimore Emporia Public Library Interlibrary loan 110 East 6th Emporia, KS 66801 illepl@carrollsweb.com 620-340-6454 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:13:24 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ALA Program Announcement (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Sarah Caltvedt" Subject: ALA Program Announcement Do you really know your community? How do you get people to come to your library? How do you keep them coming back? RUSA/MOUSS Services to Adults Committee presents: Making Our Place Their Place: Marketing, Advertising and Programming Monday, June 17, 2002 Wyndham Hotel, Room Centennial A 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Ulla de Stricker, of Ulla de Stricker Associates, Canada, will discuss how to develop community relationships using demographics in the design of programs and services and how we can make our libraries desirable destination places. A question and answer period will follow. Sarah C. Caltvedt Assistant Director Elmhurst Public Library 211 Prospect Elmhurst, IL 60126 630-279-8696 fax 630-279-0636 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:13:39 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] MARS Happy Hour -- Join Us! (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Kelley Lawton" Subject: MARS Happy Hour -- Join Us! MARTIANS are meeting at ALA! Machine Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) invites members, would-be members, and all * interested * parties to the MARS Happy Hour! Get the low down on what's important to the section. Meet the people who make things happen, or perhaps the librarians who will point you in the direction of those involved in support, planning, services, products, and publishing. They'll be looking for you too. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Date: Friday, June 14, 2002 Time: 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Location: Ruth's Chris Steak House, Downtown Atlanta 267 Marietta Street (at the Embassy Suites) http://www.ruthschrisatlanta.com A nice Georgia breeze on the patio overlooking Centennial Park, with live bands and other exciting activities. Specialty drinks as well as the usual offerings are available for purchase, and also a variety of hors d'oeuvres and light snacks. Questions? Kelley Lawton, MARS Outreach Committee Chair kla@duke.edu or (919) 660-5864 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:13:57 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] MARS Program at ALA, Sunday 6/16: "Bringing Resources Together: The Digital Library Meets Google!" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Alan Stewart" Subject: MARS Program at ALA, Sunday 6/16: "Bringing Resources Together: The Digital Library Meets Google!" Please excuse cross-posting and please mark your calendar: RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section presents: Bringing Resources Together: The Digital Library Meets Google! Sunday, June 16 10:30 am - Noon Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) Room A411 The multitude of databases, Web sites, and other information tools at people's fingertips is generating interest in super-discovery tools such as MetaLib, ENCompass, and WebFeat, which can search across and act as gateways to multiple databases. * How well do they interpret the mix of results? * Do they simplify the research environment? * How well do users succeed with them? * What kind of visual clues and cues can be built in to help users? Program speakers explore the possibilities and pitfalls of these new systems: Keynote: "The Search for the Holy Grail: Why One-Stop Searching is Both Essential and Hopeless" Roy Tennant (California Digital Library) "Enhancing Resource Discovery and Access: MetaLib and SFX at the Boston College Libraries" Bob Gerrity and Theresa Lyman (Boston College Libraries) "Cool Web Tool: One Interface, Many Databases" Jennifer Lucas, Jed Moffitt and Meg Rheingold, (King County Public Library) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Alan Stewart North Regional Manager Memphis - Shelby County Public Library & Information Center Randolph Branch 3752 Given Memphis, TN 38122 e-mail: stewarta@memphis.lib.tn.us phone: 901-452-0929 fax: 901-454-9594 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:14:26 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Title Source II (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Eileen Simmons Subject: Title Source II We've been using Title Source II for a while now, and it has been a thorn in my side the whole time. I have a number of complaints. First, and foremost, it irks me no end to pay to extra to spend my money with Baker & Taylor. It grates on me even more that they have the nerve to charge by user license on top of what they charge to subscribe to Title Source II. It shouldn't matter to them whether we have 5 people ordering or 1. They still get our book dollars. And then there is response time. You're right. It's the pits, and it's really gone down hill the last few months. In the past when we complained (their salesman would rather not talk to me, he's heard my complaints so often), they want to blame it on our firewall. But it's better on evenings and weekends, so I suspect it's not us. I plan to continue to complain. Obviously I don't recommend the product. We subscribed because staff really wanted the convenience of web ordering, but that convenience is not a reality. Eileen Simmons Everett Public Library 2702 Hoyt Ave. Everett, WA 98201 425.257.8022 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:14:39 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Attack of the clones (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Eric Riley Subject: Re: Attack of the clones Actually I was a little upset by the portrayal of the archivist too, but I took a peek at the Star Wars Visual Dictionary and found out more about the character. She (whose name I can't remember) built the archives from the ground up and mostly from her own knowledge. She was formerly an active Jedi as well. But the dictionary talks about her pride for the archives and about how her pride sometimes clouds the truth. This ties interestingly with Yoda's comment to Obi Wan that (I think) Pride is a flaw more common among Jedi. So, please don't get twisted about bad portrayals of librarians, it's just a portrayal of a bad librarian. Eric Riley ===== Z682.4 .G39 R55 1976 "Non pilus tam tenuis ut secari non possit." -- St. Minutia My Site is: www.geocities.com/licinius __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:14:54 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest 2056 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Laurie_Latimer@ci.mesa.az.us Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2056 Thanks Josh...I found your bibliotherapy results extremely interesting. Thanks for sharing. From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:15:03 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] re: "tickler file" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Forister, Ann" Subject: re: "tickler file" Thanks to all the PubLibbers who responded to my query about putting our "Tickler File" on our computers. Things move much like molasses around here so who knows when we'll actually do something with the information but I certainly appreciate those who took the time to send me their suggestions. Ann Forister Reference Librarian Roseville Public Library aforister@Roseville.ca.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:15:13 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Teens as library computer volunteers (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Joanna Hazelden Subject: Re: Teens as library computer volunteers We found it worked very well. We started with college students and then later added high school students. We are just training our new Cybernavigators for 2002. In addition to benefiting from their help and computer knowledge, we get kids in who are starting to think about career choices and then recruit them as hard as we can!. We've had kids who returned successive years. They also serve as positive role models for the children they work with. Joanna Hazelden Chicago Public Library http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/003cya/teened/tech37intro.html ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:15:18 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Sno-Isle Regional Job Postings for the Week of June 4, 2002 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Valerie Worrell Subject: Sno-Isle Regional Job Postings for the Week of June 4, 2002 Sno-Isle Regional Library System has an opening for Island Region Manager, 40 hours/week located at the Marysville Service Center in Washington State. Job #0239 Open Until Filled - Consideration of applications will begin on June 14, 2002. For more information and to obtain an application on this employment opportunity, please visit our website at http://www.sno-isle.org/employment/ or contact our Job line at (360) 651-7040. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sno-Isle Regional Library System has an opening for Public Services Assistant III - Children's Liaison, 20 hours/week located at the Granite Falls/Marysville Libraries in Washington State. Job #0241 Closing 06/05/02. For more information and to obtain an application on this employment opportunity, please visit our website at http://www.sno-isle.org/employment/ or contact our Job line at (360) 651-7040. ____________________________________________________________________________ Sno-Isle Regional Library System has an opening for Public Services Assistant I - Substitute, No Guaranteed Hours located within the North Region Libraries in Washington State. Job #0242 Closing 06/07/02. For more information and to obtain an application on this employment opportunity, please visit our website at http://www.sno-isle.org/employment/ or contact our Job line at (360) 651-7040. ____________________________________________________________________________ Sno-Isle Regional Library System has an opening for Library Assistant II / Collection Development 20 hours/week located at the Marysville Service Center in Washington State. Job #0235 Closing 06/07/02. For more information and to obtain an application on this employment opportunity, please visit our website at http://www.sno-isle.org/employment/ or contact our Job line at (360) 651-7040. ____________________________________________________________________________ Valerie Worrell Sno-Isle Regional Library Human Resources Phone: 360-651-7004 Fax: 360-651-7151 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:15:35 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Personnel cuts (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Cris Adams" Subject: Personnel cuts This is for PUBLIBers who have faced budget cuts in personnel or know of someone who has: Have you come up with any innovative ways(hey--even slightly crazy ideas are welcome at this point!) to spread the work out amongst your remaining staff and not cut services? For example, if you normally have four part-time Pages who shelve, shelfread and assist in circulation during busy times, but now you have two due to budget cuts, how have you gotten it all done while maintaining everybody's sanity? Any thoughts would be welcome. Thanks in advance, Cris Adams Hobbs Public Library Hobbs, NM From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:15:49 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Staff Recognition Article (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "SHY LIBRARIAN magazine" Subject: Staff Recognition Article Hello: An informative article on STAFF RECOGNITION is featured in the current issue (Summer 2002) of THE SHY LIBRARIAN, a quarterly, ad-free, print magazine promoting libraries, librarians and books: Standing Ovations and Rave Reviews: Tulsa's Approach to Staff Recognition By Barry Hensley, Tulsa City-County Library System, Chair, Library Employee Recognition Committee, Tulsa, Oklahoma Full text of this article is available on THE SHY LIBRARIAN website at: www.shylibrarian.com/archives/Summer2002/archive.htm Joseph Cadieux, Publisher THE SHY LIBRARIAN Magazine 67 Van Buren Avenue West Hartford, CT 06107 USA 860-521-4182 www.shylibrarian.com publisher@shylibrarian.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 01:16:24 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] PUBLIB function at ALA Annual, Atlanta (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: PUBLIB function at ALA Annual, Atlanta Friday, June 14 (Flag Day!) we will have a PUBLIB get-together at ALA. The time and location are still being shaped up. The vote was 17-1 in favor of a vendor-sponsored event. The vendor is WebFeat, http://www.webfeat.org and we are very appreciative of the event sponsorship. Buttons will be handed out at the door, and we will try to schedule the event so PLA-ers attending the PLA activity can get to the PUBLIB party. As a reminder, the PUBLIB function is open to everyone, old-timers and newbies, lurkers and Chatty Kathies--even PUBLIB wannabes. You don't have to do anything, it doesn't matter if you've never posted, etc. All we want is to see your smiling face. Everyone on PUBLIB "is somebody," so come on over and set a spell, and we'd be thrilled if your significant other, your friend who isn't on PUBLIB, your boss, your co-worker, or your ALA roommate came with you. The "lil" List Mom, ---------------------------------------------- Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw lii.org: Information You Can Trust! ---------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 14:57:45 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Fw: ALA Membership Meetings (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Diedre Conkling" Subject: Fw: ALA Membership Meetings [PUBLIB folks, if you would like to see a copy of the document prepared about ALA Membership Meetings and how they work please contact me and I will send it to you.] You Are Invited! All ALA Members have the opportunity to directly express their interests, concerns and suggestions for the development of the American Library Association at the annual Membership Meetings. The ALA Special Presidential Task Force on Membership Meetings has made several suggestions for discussion topics. If you have others please let us know by contacting Michael Golrick, chair, at mgolrick@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us or any of the other committee members. The meeting times are: MEMBERSHIP I Saturday, June 15 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Georgia World Congress Center, Hall B5 (Precedes the Opening General Session with Robert Hughes, in the same room.) MEMBERSHIP II Monday, June 17 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Georgia World Congress Center, Auditorium (Immediately follows the program "A Morning with Michael Moore," in the same room.) Some suggested topics for discussion are: Certification (ALA/APA), a CIPA Update, and the Open Meetings Policy, and ALA and the US Patriot Act and whatever you may add. A drawing will be held to award 1 free Toronto registration for each 100 attendees. Attached you will find information about ALA Membership Meetings, how they are conducted and how to prepare a resolution. Please let us know if you need any other information. The Resolutions Committee will staff a table in the ALA Office Area at the Georgia World Congress Center on: Sat., 6/15, 11am-1:30pm Sat., 6/15, 1:30-4pm Sun, 6/16, 1-3pm Mon., 6/17, 2-5pm Tues, 6/18, 2-3pm -------------- Members of the Presidential Task Force on Membership Meetings Kathleen E. Bethel kbethel@northwestern.edu Marcia L. Boosinger boosimi@auburn.edu Carolyn L. Cain caincj@chorus.net Diedre Conkling dconklin@OregonVOS.net Michael A. Golrick, Chair mgolrick@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us Robert P. Holley aa3805@wayne.edu Charles E. Kratz, Jr. kratzc1@uofs.edu Vivian Melton vbm195941@aol.com Kent Oliver, Executive Board Representative, oliverke@oplin.lib.oh.us Diedre Conkling Lincoln County Library District P.O. Box 2027, Newport, OR 97365 Phone & Fax: (541) 265-3066 Work: diedre@mail.crsn.lib.or.us Home: dconklin@OregonVOS.net From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 14:58:39 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Library Journal seeks Politician of the Year nominations (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Oder, Norman (RBI-US)" Subject: Library Journal seeks Politician of the Year nominations Library Journal seeks nominees for its sixth annual Politician of the Year award, given to an elected official who has expressed significant support for and attention to libraries. Past winners include Pennsylvani Governor Tom Ridge (2001), Houston Mayor Lee Brown (1999), and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (1997). Please send nominations, including an explanation of the politician's impact on libraries, by July 1, via e-mail (preferably) to Norman Oder at noder@lj.cahners.com or via regular mail to: Norman Oder Library Journal 245 W. 17th Street New York, NY 10011 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 14:58:45 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ALA Program on VideoTeleconferencing (VTC) in Libraries (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Fishel, Frederick C." Subject: ALA Program on VideoTeleconferencing (VTC) in Libraries At this year's ALA Conference in Atlanta, the LITA Telecommunications Special Interest Group Presents: VideoTeleconferencing (VTC) in Libraries. Date: Sunday June 16th Time: 1:30 to 3:30pm Location: Georgia World Congress Center; Building B, Level 3; Rooms B308/309. At a time when budgets for travel and expenses are shrinking, libraries are turning to VTC technology as a cost-effective way to conduct meetings, present programs and conduct staff training. A panel of speakers will introduce VTC technology and describe projects in Nashville, Tennessee and New York City that show how libraries can use VTC to improve services to its community. Panelists include: Sarah A. Lake Vertical Markets Manager Polycom Inc. Dr. Stephen P. Shao Jr. Director, Project DIANE (Diversified Information and Assistance NEtwork) Tennessee State University Nashville, Tennessee Kathy Degyansky Assistant Director, Programs and Services Queens Borough Public Library Jamaica, New York The LITA Telecommunications SIG business meeting will be held on Sunday June 16th from 4:30 to 5:30pm in the DeKalb Room of the Hilton Hotel, 255 Courtland Street NE. The meeting is open to all, please join us. If you are a new LITA member, this is an excellent opportunity to get involved in program planning & presenting at the annual conference. I hope this stimulates some interest and involvement, please bring your ideas to the table on Sunday. ----------------------------------------------------------- Fred Fishel Applications Development Manager Information Systems & Technology Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Boulevard Jamaica, New York 11432 Voice: 718-990-8505 Fax: 718-657-5899 Email: ffishel@queenslibrary.org These opinions are my own and not those of the Queens Borough Public Library From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 14:59:10 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals http://www.llrx.com/features/usapatriotact.htm "Within hours after the September 11 attacks, the FBI began serving search warrants to major Internet Service Providers to get information about suspected electronic communications.2 Within a week, police and FBI agents received tips that some suspects used libraries in Hollywood Beach and Delray Beach, Florida. FBI agents have since requested computer sign-in lists from other libraries. President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law on October 26, 2001. This law is expected to greatly increase the number of requests for sign-in lists at libraries." See also USA Patriot Act http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotact.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 20:19:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] self service holds pickup (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Elise Kahn" Subject: self service holds pickup We are considering making Reserves/Holds available for our patrons to pickup without having to go through the circulation desk. I searched the archives and found very little on this subject. I would like to hear what experiences other libraries have with this. Good? Bad? Do the patrons like it? Thank you. Elise Kahn Circulation Supervisor Pacific Grove Public Library Pacific Grove, CA 93950 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 20:19:30 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Accessible workstation (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Michele Lauer-Bader Subject: Accessible workstation I am currently in the market for a wheelchair-accessible workstation (not a computer but the furniture) and have found an affordable solution from the Mayline Company. They sell a VariTask Adjustable Workcenter in both a hand crank and a motorized model. I would like to go with the motorized model but I am interested in feedback from anyone who has one (it does not have to be the same company and model although that would be great). Do you love it? Hate it? Any problems or horror stories? Would you purchase it again? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Michele Lauer-Bader, Assistant Director, Half Hollow Hills Community Library, 55 Vanderbilt Parkway, Dix Hills, NY 11746-5897, (voice) 631-421-4530, ext. 72, (fax) 631-423-8946, (email) mlauerba@suffolk.lib.ny.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 20:19:37 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Responsible Adult supervision (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: June Brittingham Subject: RE: Responsible Adult supervision It is sad to see parents continually expecting their children to be totally cared for by schools and libraries. Over the past several years these children's physical and many times emotional needs have been met by these kind strangers in the schools and libraries. What's even sadder, is that many parents expect these institutions to raise their children, but then don't even allow that institution control over a child's actions. If the child is scolded, corrected or God forbid touched in anyway, many parents are ready to sue or file criminal charges in a heartbeat. That's not to say there aren't questionable 'professionals" in these institutions. I know there are, but as a whole, parents are expecting us to teach and raise their children, including babysitting and now teaching values and morals, but refuse to give us the permission to do so. Libraries have become so much more active than they were years ago. More people are coming in and out, more community programs are being held, huge amounts of people visit the internet access computers daily, and librarians just cannot be aware at all times of what a child alone is doing or seeing in their library even though they care about the child's welfare and safety. June Brittingham From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 20:19:57 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Strike Three on Library Porn (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: Strike Three on Library Porn Strike Three on Library Porn Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2002, page A18 "There's no technology that's as good as a parent." "[T]here are alternative--and more effective--ways to protect minors from inappropriate content, and the latest court ruling is a sensible roadmap." __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 5 20:20:14 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:10 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Promoting your town (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Kate Wolicki Subject: RE: Promoting your town "If an out-of-town visitor stops in the library and wants to find out where to go in your town, what do you say and give to them?" My favorite sources are travel guides. I stock lots of Chicago guides (being so close to the City makes this much easier for our library than for many) so I use those, and we also have local suburbs guides that include Niles. Our Chamber of Commerce has a great guidebook that comes out every year or two, and we keep lots on hand for patrons, local and not. It includes business listings, a little background on the town, etc. We also give out Park District guides, which list the parks and the amenities at each one (pools, mini golf, baseball diamonds). We also might give some personal experience advice: "Not speaking as a librarian, but as an ordinary person, I'd say you might be interested in Z club." Sometimes even opening the phone book will help stir the librarian's mind. Kate Wolicki Niles Public Library District From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 18:06:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] 3 Day Course in Document Imaging and Document Management: Summer 2002, Fall 2002 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Steve Gilheany" Subject: 3 Day Course in Document Imaging and Document Management: Summer 2002, Fall 2002 ***** 3 Day Course in Document Imaging and Document Management: Summer 2002, Fall 2002 ***** New paper on the shift in document imaging to 600 dpi scanning. Free .pdf textbook now includes all new papers added during the past 3 months in both the third and fourth printing of the Seventh Edition.. The course --- This document management and document imaging course is available free for self-study on the Internet in the form of these whitepapers and slides, which are available at [http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/whitepapers]. All of the materials can be downloaded with a single click and then printed with a single click. All of the materials are in a single full text searchable PDF file. All acronyms are spelled out. You can also download the materials as native Microsoft Office files so that you can incorporate these materials in your presentations or papers. The in-person course is free to graduate students in library science and to persons traveling from Africa. If you would like to attend in person, the course is taught as a three day class four times per year in the Los Angeles area; with details at the website above. This course is for managers who have been assigned to manage a document imaging system, and must start immediately, but can spend three days to study the subject and its background. This course is designed to assist managers to be more effective in bringing the immediate and long term benefits of document imaging and document management to their organizations and to their organizations’ clients, customers, and constituents. Students will gain an understanding of how document imaging can be used and managed in both small and large-scale organizations. Document imaging is the process of taking documents out of file cabinets, and off shelves, and storing them in a computer. This course provides an understanding of the details that there is often no time to review in the rush to implement a system. The course content is intended to be useful to students in their professional work for twenty years into the future and is also intended to be useful for planning to preserve digital documents forever. The course may be too broad for those students seeking to learn a specific software application. Students will learn about the technology of scanning, importing, transmitting, organizing, indexing, storing, protecting, searching, retrieving, viewing, printing, preserving, and authenticating documents for document imaging systems, and archives. Image and document formats, metadata, XML (eXtensible Markup Language), multimedia, rich text, PDF (Portable Document Format), GIS (Geographic Information Systems), CAD (Computer Aided Design), VR (Virtual Reality) and GPS (Global Positioning System) indices, image enabled databases, data visualization, finite element analysis models, animations, molecular models, RAM (Random Access Memory) based SQL (Structured Query Language) databases, knowledge management, data warehousing, records inventories, retention schedules, black and white, grayscale, and color scanning, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), multispectral imaging, audio and video digitizing, destructive (lossy) and non-destructive (lossless) compression, digital signatures and seals, encryption, the three components of vision: resolution, color, and motion, the imaging technology of continuous tone, halftoning, dithering, and pixels, RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) fault tolerance, ECCs (Error Correcting Codes for RAID, CD, and DVD), and mirrored site disaster planning will be discussed. System design issues in hardware, software, networking, ergonomics, and workflow will be covered. Emerging technologies such as the DVD Digital Video Disc, HDTV (High Definition TV), and very high speed Internet, intranet, and extranet links, Internet protocol stacks, and Internet 2 will be presented. The course will include the DVD’s role in completing the convergence of the PC and television, the convergence of telephony, cable, and the Internet, the merging of home and office, the merging of business and entertainment, and the management of the resulting document types. Can everything be digitized? The course follows Shakespeare through being (or not to be), love, wisdom, knowledge, information, data, bits, and discernable differences (optical disc pits). Many professionals including records managers, librarians, and archivists work with document management issues every day. While not limited to these professionals, this course builds on the broad range of tools and techniques that exist in these professions. The class content is designed so that students can benefit from each part of the class without fully understanding every technical detail presented. This course is designed for non-technical professionals. Several system designs will be done based on system requirements provided by the students. System designs are done to provide an understanding of the design process, not to provide guaranteed solutions to specific problems. There is no hands-on use of scanning equipment. The course is designed to improve the ability of non-technical managers to participate in, and to direct, technical discussions. Instructional techniques include storytelling, iconic objects, and videos. Interaction between students is considered an important part of the learning experience. The course covers a wide variety of materials and provides a foundation for understanding the many types of document management. However, some people might find the materials presented too broad for their purposes. If, in the course materials, you find a single area of great interest to you, but you have no interest in the other topics, it might be better if you included just a portion of the class in a self-study plan. Because the technology continues to evolve rapidly, and the spread of technology is also occurring rapidly, the course continues to evolve and is different each time it is taught. Instructor: SteveGilheany@ArchiveBuilders.com, BA CS, MBA, MLS Specialization in Information Science, CDIA (Certified Document Imaging System Architect), CRM (Certified Records Manager), Sr. Systems Engineer, 20 years of experience in digital document imaging. The next class is in the Summer: Friday, July 26, 2002, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Saturday, July 27, 2002, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Sunday, July 28, 2002, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the downtown Los Angeles Marriott Hotel, Conference Room 312. There will also be a free visit to an archives and records center on Monday, July 29, 2002, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Beginning and ending times may change slightly. See the website for the course description and location. The Fall course is scheduled for Friday, October 18, 2002, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Saturday, October 19, 2002, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Sunday, October 20, 2002, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. There will also be a free visit to an archives and records center on Monday, October 21, 2002, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Enrollment is limited. Please call +1 (310) 937-7000 for questions about the course. All enrollments are on a space available basis, with consent of the instructor. The cost of the course is US$425.00 and includes a printed copy of the course materials. Satisfaction guarantee: a full refund will be made up to two weeks following the end of the course. The course carries no credit. It is suggested that students submit the course materials for continuing education credit review by their professional organizations. Students are encouraged to read the course materials and to speak with the instructor to determine if the course will be suitable for their purposes. Archive Builders disclaims all responsibility beyond the presentation of the course materials. 28995v111 27006v013 Because there is no charge for making a room reservation, and room costs increase when availability is limited, students are encouraged to make reservations as early as possible. The course materials are updated from time to time, please check the version numbers. The instructor has taught classes similar to this course to document imaging users and managers, in legal records management, to librarians and archivists, and to various industry groups. He has worked in digital document management and document imaging for twenty years. His experience in the application of document management and document imaging in industry includes: aerospace, banking, manufacturing, natural resources, petroleum refining, transportation, energy, federal, state, and local government, civil engineering, utilities, entertainment, commercial records centers, archives, non-profit development, education, and administrative, engineering, production, legal, and medical records management. At the same time, he has worked in product management for hypertext, for windows based user interface systems, for computer displays, for engineering drawing, letter size, microform, and color scanning, and for xerographic, photographic, newspaper, engineering drawing, and color printing. In addition, the instructor has nine years of experience in data center operations and database and computer communications systems design, programming, testing, and software configuration management. He has an MLS Specialization in Information Science and an MBA with a concentration in Computer and Information Systems from UCLA, a California Adult Education teaching credential, and a BA in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His industry certifications include: the CDIA (Certified Document Imaging System Architect), the AIIM Master, and AIIM Laureate, of Information Technologies (from AIIM International, the Association of Information and Image Management, [http://www.AIIM.org]), and the CRM (Certified Records Manager) (from the ICRM, the Institute of Certified Records Managers, an affiliate of ARMA International, the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, [http://www.ARMA.org]). The following is an example of the course materials available at [http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com] There are also several papers that describe various document management topics in prose. Computer storage requirements for various digitized document types: 1 scanned page (8 1/2 by 11 inches, A4) = 50 KiloBytes (KByte) (on average, black & white, CCITT G4 compressed) 1 file cabinet (4 drawer) (10,000 pages on average) = 500 MegaBytes (MByte) = 1 CD (ROM or WORM) 2 file cabinets = 10 cubic feet = 1,000 MBytes = 1 GigaByte (GByte) 10 file cabinets = 1 DVD (WORM) 1 box (in inches: 15 1/2 long x 12 wide x 10 deep) (2,500 pages) = 1 file drawer = 2 linear feet of files = 1 1/4 cubic feet = 125 MBytes 8 boxes = 16 linear feet = 2 file cabinets = 1 GByte Displays and projectors: UXGA 1600 x 1200 1.92 million pixels HDTV = UXGAW (UXGA Wide) 1920 x 1200 2.304 million pixels QXGA (Quad XGA) 2048 x 1536 3.146728 million pixels QSXGA (Quad SXGA) 2560 x 2048 5.24288 million pixels QUXGA (Quad XUXGA) 3200 x 2400 7.68 million pixels QUXGAW or QUXGA-W (Quad UXGA Wide) 3840 x 2400 9.216 million pixels Steve Gilheany, CRM Contact: SteveGilheany@ArchiveBuilders.com http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 18:06:27 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Duplicates Available (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Stephen.Pomes@mms.gov Subject: Duplicates Available If you cannot read the message, please contact me directly. I'll send you the link. The MMS Library has more duplicate items available to libraries. To see the list of titles, please use the following link. http://www.webspawner.com/users/stephenpomes/index.html No postage reimbursement is necessary. Please send all responses to Laurie.Gaillard@mms.gov. Laurie manages the gifts and exchanges program. Stephen V. Pomes, Librarian Library U.S. Dept. of Interior Minerals Management Service 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd., ms 5031 New Orleans, LA 70123-2394 United States of America Telephone: 504-736-2521 Fax: 504-736-2525 E-Mail: stephen.pomes@mms.gov ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:06:07 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] teens as library volunteers (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Mary K Chelton Subject: teens as library volunteers One of the best examples of using teens as technology helpers is the grant-funded program in the Free Library of Philadelphia. It was written up in the third Excellence in Library Services for Young Adults book published by ALA in 2000. Mary K. **************************************************************************** Mary K. Chelton, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, 254 Rosenthal Library, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367; Phones: (718) 997-3667 (direct/voice/voicemail), 3790 (general office), 3797 (fax). Home: 35 Mercury Ave., East Patchogue, NY 11772. Phone: (631)286-4255, no home fax. E-mail: mchelton@optonline.net **************************************************************************** From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:06:55 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] On Internet speech, librarians to the rescue (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: On Internet speech, librarians to the rescue From: Don Wood -------------------- On Internet speech, librarians to the rescue -------------------- Steve Chapman June 6, 2002 The people who have advanced the cause of free speech have often been wild, radical or dangerous types--communists, anti-Semites, pornographers, war resisters, flag-burners, and the like. Today, storming the barricades of censorship and rejecting the demands of conformity, we have a different group of firebrands: America's librarians. Your image of a librarian may be a prim spinster whose idea of proper communication is to put a finger to her lips and say, "Shhhh!" This time, though, the librarians' message to the federal government is: "Don't you dare shush my patrons!" The battle is over government regulation of access to cyberspace. The Children's Internet Protection Act of 2001 requires all federally funded libraries and schools to install computer filters to block sites offering child pornography, obscenity or anything "harmful to minors." Noting that the Internet offers a lot of images and text that would make Hugh Hefner blush, our elected representatives decreed that libraries should prevent patrons from seeing such material, inadvertently or by choice. This is a worthwhile goal, but in practical terms, the only way to seal off the stuff that falls outside the bounds of free speech is to seal off a lot of stuff Americans have a right to see and produce. That's why the American Library Association went to court to challenge the law--arguing that the job of librarians is to help children and adults make use of their 1st Amendment rights, not to violate those rights. It's also why a special federal court panel last week overturned the CIPA, finding that it was burning a lot of wheat along with the chaff. The Internet boasts some 2 billion Web pages and is growing like kudzu in a greenhouse, adding 1.5 million pages every day, or more than 1,000 a minute. Companies that sell filters can't possibly put human eyeballs on more than a microscopic fraction of those sites, so they have to rely on key words and other identifiers to figure out which ones to block. But this is not a very accurate method. Since key word searches can't evaluate photos, dirty pictures can get through. Meanwhile, a lot of things that should get through somehow don't. One expert called by the government in this case admitted that between 6 percent and 15 percent of the sites blocked by filters didn't meet the filter companies' definition of sexually explicit material, never mind the law's. This approach is worse than official censorship. It's officially sponsored censorship that delegates to private vendors the task of deciding what is fit to see and what is not. And the people in Washington don't even know what's being censored--because filter companies treat that information as a proprietary secret. Congress told these suppliers, "We'll let you decide what to suppress, even though we don't know what you're suppressing." The judicial panel noted that among the sites that were put off limits were those set up by a Knights of Columbus group, a Christian orphanage in Honduras, a Libertarian candidate for the California legislature, a Louisiana cancer treatment facility, a bed and breakfast in North Carolina and Southern Alberta Fly Fishing Outfitters--which may have gotten in trouble for glistening shots of naked trout. And, wouldn't you know it, one of the library filters blocked a satirical Web site called "Dumb Laws." Like, maybe, the Children's Internet Protection Act? The unreliability of filters, unfortunately, is in the nature of the beast. As the judges explained, the evidence showed "not only that filtering programs bar access to a substantial amount of speech on the Internet that is clearly constitutionally protected for adults and minors, but also that these programs are intrinsically unable to block only illegal Internet content while simultaneously allowing access to all protected speech." CIPA is the moral equivalent of trying to eliminate pornographic magazines by burning down every other newsstand. So does the ruling mean libraries can do nothing to keep smut away from our children? Of course not. Even before the law was passed, libraries had created policies designed to minimize the dangers posed by the Internet without sacrificing its immense value. Some allow youngsters to use only filtered computers, while providing unfiltered access to adults. Some have policies that bar patrons from looking at illegal sites, with violators losing their library privileges. Others put computers in highly visible public areas to discourage children from going to pornographic sites. None of these alternatives is as satisfying as a foolproof technological fix, but that perfect option turns out to be a fantasy. So maybe we should learn to trust our librarians. ---------- E-mail: schapman@tribune.com Copyright (c) 2002, Chicago Tribune -------------------- Improved archives! Searching Chicagotribune.com archives back to 1985 is cheaper and easier than ever. New prices for multiple articles can bring your cost down to as low as 30 cents an article: http://chicagotribune.com/archives From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:07:01 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest 2059 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Arlene Wright Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2059 Chris, Using Community Service Volunteers is a successful solution for our shelving needs. Of course, careful screening and firm statements of expectations on both sides are necessary. A contract, with schedule, is signed before training begins. Depending on the circumstances we have worked with volunteers from 10 to 200 hours each. These individuals do not take the place of regular, paid employees, but are great for filling holes in the schedule. Several keep coming back for an hour or two per week after their formal time is over. Feel free to contact me if you would like more details. Arlene Wright Adult Services Manager Council Bluffs Public Library 400 Willow Ave Council Bluffs IA 51503 712-323-7553 awright@cbpl.lib.ia.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:07:07 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Job opening for Cataloger in Wichita Falls, TX (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Becky Morrison Subject: Job opening for Cataloger in Wichita Falls, TX POSITION : Librarian I – Cataloger (entry-level) INSTITUTION: Wichita Falls Public Library, Wichita Falls, TX (North Central Texas) SALARY: $26,270/yr. REQUIREMENTS: MLS or coursework leading to MLS required. Knowledge and ability to apply Anglo-American Cataloging rules, LCSH, and MARC21 coding in the cataloging of library print and AV materials. Experience in use of OCLC and Horizon system preferred. Excellent Internet and on-line searching skills. Must possess excellent communication and leadership skills and be able to handle reference inquiries. Some nights and weekends. CONTACT: Ms. Linda Hughes, Library Administrator, Wichita Falls Public Library, 600 11th St., Wichita Falls, TX 76301, (940)767-0868, ext 229, e-mail: lhughes@wfpl.net OR Personnel Department, City of Wichita Falls, Memorial Auditorium, 1300 7th Street, Room 100, Wichita Falls, Texas 76301, (940)761-7615. CLOSES: June 14, 2002 An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:07:26 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Personnel Cuts (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Lisa Costich" Subject: Re: Personnel Cuts If you don't cut services when your budget is cut, then you are proving to the politicians that you had too much money in the first place. We librarians feel, rightly, that we provide an important service, and we are loathe to reduce open hours, limit access, and so forth. But this attitude is a double edged sword. While protecting access, we also exhaust ourselves, and teach the politicos that we will work for peanuts. So my advice would be, if you have fewer staff, then be open fewer hours. **The views, opinions, & judgements expressed in this message are solely those of the author. **The message contents have not been reviewed or approved by the Allen County Public Library. Lisa Costich, Manager Tecumseh Branch Library Allen County Public Library Fort Wayne, Indiana From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:07:32 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Self service holds pickup (PUBLIB digest 2059) (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Janet Fielden Hilderman" Subject: Self service holds pickup (PUBLIB digest 2059) Regina Public Library has so far implemented self service holds pickup at 5 or 6 of its 9 locations. Our branch (annual circulation: 342,000) just implemented self-serve holds last week. So far, all the comments have been positive. We have the shelves about ten feet from the circulation desk, and there is a sign instructing people to "Please collect your holds here and take them to the desk for check-out". We still keep interlibrary loan items behind the circulation desk, because they don't belong to us, but everything else is on the self-serve shelves. From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:07:39 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Children's programs on video (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: hodginss@SLS.LIB.IL.US Subject: Children's programs on video I am seeking libraries that have recorded their children's programs on video for check-out or broadcast. I heard through the grapevine that there was a library doing this program in N.C., but can't remember the name! I would like to find out start-up cost, process, and copyright issues. We would like to tweak our programs to fit video, and circulate with manipulatives used during program. Any info would be appreciated! hodginss@sls.lib.il.us Shannon Hodgins Head of Youth Services Thomas Ford Memorial Library 800 W. Chestnut Street Western Springs, IL 60558 From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:08:56 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: Linking to bookstores Message-ID: Sender: Norman Belk Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2059 Hello! I am investigating whether any libraries have policies and/or procedures concerning linking FROM the library's website. Specifically, I would also like to know about linking to book stores: (1) Do you link exclusively to online book stores? or (2) If you do link to bookstores are they both storefront and online? or 3) Do you link to book stores that may have a web-site but no online purchasing available. (4) Do you link to book sales associations such as the South Eastern Independent Booksellers Association. You could reply to the list or e-mail me directly at nbelk@infoave.net. Many thanks, Norman Belk From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:09:07 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: ALA Membership Meetings (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Diedre Conkling" Subject: Re: ALA Membership Meetings Well, we spent a fair amount of time trying to put together a message to you that had correct information. After finally posting this message yesterday it was discovered the the meeting information for ALA Membership Meeting II was incorrect. Here is the correct information: MEMBERSHIP II Monday, June 17 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Georgia World Congress Center, Ballroom We did not mention that for a real ALA Membership Meeting we need to have a quorum of members present. If a quorum is not present the meeting then becomes a discussion and no resolutions can be sent directly to ALA Council. Of course, all this really means is that you may still adopt whatever agenda you want to adopt and discuss whatever issues you want to discuss. You could even have resolutions presented and vote on them. Any resolutions that passed would not go directly to ALA Council but there will be plenty of ALA Council members at the Membership Meeting and any of them could be asked to take the resolution to ALA Council. (They are the folks with the white ribbons on their badges that say "ALA Council" or "Chapter Councilor" or something similar.) Below is the revised announcement. --------------------------------------------------------- You Are Invited! All ALA Members have the opportunity to directly express their interests, concerns and suggestions for the development of the American Library Association at the annual Membership Meetings. The ALA Special Presidential Task Force on Membership Meetings has made several suggestions for discussion topics. If you have others please let us know by contacting Michael Golrick, chair, at mgolrick@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us or any of the other committee members. The meeting times are: MEMBERSHIP I Saturday, June 15 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Georgia World Congress Center, Hall B5 (Precedes the Opening General Session with Robert Hughes, in the same room.) MEMBERSHIP II Monday, June 17 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (not 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.) Georgia World Congress Center, Ballroom (not in the Auditorium Some suggested topics for discussion are: Certification (ALA/APA), a CIPA Update, and the Open Meetings Policy, and ALA and the US Patriot Act and whatever you may add. A drawing will be held to award 1 free Toronto registration for each 100 attendees. Attached you will find information about ALA Membership Meetings, how they are conducted and how to prepare a resolution. Please let us know if you need any other information. The Resolutions Committee will staff a table in the ALA Office Area at the Georgia World Congress Center on: Sat., 6/15, 11am-1:30pm Sat., 6/15, 1:30-4pm Sun, 6/16, 1-3pm Mon., 6/17, 2-5pm Tues, 6/18, 2-3pm -------------- Members of the Presidential Task Force on Membership Meetings Kathleen E. Bethel kbethel@northwestern.edu Marcia L. Boosinger boosimi@auburn.edu Carolyn L. Cain caincj@chorus.net Diedre Conkling dconklin@OregonVOS.net Michael A. Golrick, Chair mgolrick@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us Robert P. Holley aa3805@wayne.edu Charles E. Kratz, Jr. kratzc1@uofs.edu Vivian Melton vbm195941@aol.com Kent Oliver, Executive Board Representative, oliverke@oplin.lib.oh.us Diedre Conkling Lincoln County Library District P.O. Box 2027, Newport, OR 97365 Phone & Fax: (541) 265-3066 Work: diedre@mail.crsn.lib.or.us Home: dconklin@OregonVOS.net ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:09:35 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Attack of the Clones (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Leslie Sutherland Subject: RE: Attack of the Clones I enjoyed the movie but then I'm an aging Star Wars fan. George Lucas has always been accused of creating cliched and one-dimensional characters - so the protest should extend beyond the character in question. I was pleased to see that Obi Wan could still go to a library and be given "real" rather than "virtual" assistance. If anything, this movie will remind us to be cognizant of our own failures in providing good reference service. Just a thought.... L. Sutherland, Oakville Public Library, Ontario, Canada. From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:09:41 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] California Web Site Reaches 10,000th Record (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: California Web Site Reaches 10,000th Record Contact: Karen G. Schneider Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet E-Mail: kgs@lii.org http://lii.org/press/ June 6, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE California Web Site Reaches 10,000th Record (POINT RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA) On Thursday, June 6, 2002, lii.org (the Librarians' Index to the Internet) added its 10,000th Web site. The hallmark record--describing Americorps, a service organization whose members earn educational credits for activities such as mentoring youth and building affordable housing--was contributed by volunteer indexer Julianna Hamann, a San Diego resident who has contributed close to 200 records to the lii.org database. lii.org is a searchable, browsable Web site created and managed by librarians and funded by the Library of California, a resource-sharing initiative for libraries. When asked why the self-described "grandmotherly" type would contribute content to the lii.org database, Hamann replied: "When I was a little girl, six years old, a refugee, new to the United States from Hungary, I was afraid to utter a word because of my language barrier. My mother's words still ring in my ears, 'Open your mouth and ask questions. This is America. They don't punish you for asking. Knowledge will set you free.' Since then, words became my allies." Hamann will receive an lii.org t-shirt and a certificate for a free course through Infopeople, a training project that has brought thousands of courses to librarians and end-users throughout California. lii.org began in 1990 as a gopher bookmark list created by Berkeley reference librarian Carole Leita. In the mid-90s, lii.org was adopted by Berkeley Public Library as an in-house resource. lii.org moved to federal funding in 1997, acquired several part-time staff, and became a signature project of the Library of California in 2000. Diane Davenport, Library Manager, Berkeley Public Library, commented, "what Carole Leita started as her own bookmark file over ten years ago has grown to be one of the most respected Internet sources. As a file now updated and maintained by hundreds of librarians, it's a testament to librarians' abilities at evaluating, organizing, and making reliable information available." Lii.org has three core services: a high-quality, searchable, browsable, multi-subject Web site; a weekly mailing, New This Week, that reaches over 13,000 subscribers; and--an initiative less than a year old--special thematic collections, topics for which have included September 11, Black History Month, Tax Time, Yucca Mountain, and The Grapes of Wrath. Under the leadership of librarian Karen G. Schneider since October, 2001, lii.org content is created and managed by over 130 volunteer indexers and four other permanent staff: Martha Gifford, Assistant Coordinator and Senior Editor; Wendy Hyman, Associate Editor; Pat Fell, Cataloger, and Bill Moseley, Programmer. lii.org has received additional grant funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Library Services and Technology Act, and is hosted by UC Berkeley SunSITE. http://lii.org/press/ -- END -- From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:09:57 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Accessible workstation (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Mary Pauli Subject: Re: Accessible workstation We have 4 of the Mayline tables (one surface, not two; heavy duty; motorized) We didn't get the extended height tables, but the ones we did get move high enough to use them standing (good for people with back problems) We have had them for about 2 years and have had absolutely no problems with them. They are easy to operate, quiet, and the local company that we purchased them through installed the tables quickly and easily. I wouldn't recommend the manual tables if you are providing access to people with disabilities. Defeats the purpose! We received a discount for buying 3+, so check with your local company for a price break. We have office system furniture (cubical-like) at one branch, so had the installer attach an existing table-top to the Mayline base at that branch. Saved us money and kept the decor consistent. We purchased the heavy duty base because we wanted to place the CPU on the table to provide easy access to the floppy drive for users. (If someone is in a wheelchair, bending down to the CPU on the floor can be a problem) The heavy duty base meant we could load up the table with the CPU, 19" monitor (for people with low vision), printer, and speakers. I would recommend having the installer put the sticker with the up and down arrows next to the rocker switch, rather than on the switch, as it comes off with use if it is on the switch. If you have heavy use by people with hand flexibility disabilities, you might put something on the switch to make it less slick. I hope you like them as much as we do. Mary Pauli Reference Librarian Clackamas County Library Oak Grove, OR Michele Lauer-Bader wrote: > I am currently in the market for a wheelchair-accessible workstation (not a > computer but the furniture) and have found an affordable solution from the > Mayline Company. They sell a VariTask Adjustable Workcenter in both a hand > crank and a motorized model. I would like to go with the motorized model > but I am interested in feedback from anyone who has one (it does not have > to be the same company and model although that would be great). Do you love > it? Hate it? Any problems or horror stories? Would you purchase it again? > Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Michele Lauer-Bader, Assistant Director, Half Hollow Hills Community > Library, 55 Vanderbilt Parkway, Dix Hills, NY 11746-5897, (voice) > 631-421-4530, ext. 72, (fax) 631-423-8946, (email) mlauerba@suffolk.lib.ny.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:10:14 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Broadway series at the Library (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "White, Elizabeth" Subject: Broadway series at the Library I am interested in working in conjunction with our local performing arts center to host a series of programs featuring cast and crew of their Broadway productions. They are very receptive to the idea. I've heard of other libraries doing this where an actor(s), who is in town appearing in a musical, comes to the library and talks about his/her acting career, the musical, etc. Has anyone done anything like this and, if so, I would like to know some specifics of the planning and implementation. Did you pay the actors? Did you obtain grant money?, etc. I will greatly appreciate any feedback. Liz White Dunedin Public Library ewhite@dunedinfl.net From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:10:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Promoting your town (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Elizabeth Cuckow" Subject: RE: Promoting your town "If an out-of-town visitor stops in the library and wants to find out where to go in your town, what do you say and give to them?" We use the convention and visitor's bureau web site a lot, as well as the Wyoming guidebooks from the collection. This summer we will also be able to use the calendar that I created for our adult summer reading program booklet. It lists lots of events and attractions in town and around the area, some of which are time-sensitive, such as Cheyenne Frontier Days (last full week in July). We get a lot of visitors in the summer so it should be pretty handy. Elizabeth Cuckow Manager, Information Services Laramie County Library System 2800 Central Ave., Cheyenne WY 82001 www.lclsonline.org 307.634.3561 ext. 141 ecuckow@larm.lib.wy.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:11:24 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] An ethical question (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Mark Wright" Subject: An ethical question I have an ethical question to throw out. This happened to me several years ago and I'm curious how others would have handled it. Someone called the library asking for reference help in locating a lost family member who lived in our town. This type of question is a fairly common occurrence, and we generally do what we can to help people find their relatives. In this case the individual was looking for his father, a man he had never met, whom he said was once married to his mother briefly before taking another wife and having another family here in town. So far it was a fairly straightforward situation. The problem was that the man in question was recently deceased, the former husband of a current library staff member! As a rule we do not give out information over the phone about library staff members, but in this case the situation was obviously more complicated. I decided that I should give the man the same amount of help I would have given him had there been no relationship to any staff member, and gave him contact information so he could call his father's second wife to gain some knowledge about his father. I explained my ethical dilemma to him, and asked that he not mention that he had gotten her number from the library. The staff member in question never mentioned, to me at least, having received a call from this man, and I never asked. My curiosity remains unsatisfied to this day. What would you have done? Mark Wright _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 6 22:11:43 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:11 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Libraries without public Internet access (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Peter Gourlay Subject: Libraries without public Internet access I'm looking for information on public libraries that do not offer public Internet access computers, including those libraries that used to offer access but no longer do. I am not really interested in libraries that don't offer access due to technical issues (very small or remote libraries), and I am looking at libraries in the US and Canada. If anyone has information on this, or the names of some libraries, I would greatly appreciate it. Perhaps this is a dead-end, and all public libraries now offer Internet access (?). Peter Gourlay (pgourlay@nwpl.ca) Reference Librarian New Westminster Public Library From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:52:18 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: California Web Site Reaches 10,000th Record (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Dan Robinson" Subject: Re: California Web Site Reaches 10,000th Record Congratulations!!! A good milestone to pass and reason to celebrate. A database should always celebrate at certain points... 10,000... 100,000... and 1,000,000 records. You've created (or had a hand in) something that others feel is worthwhile. Dan Robinson drobinson@hwwilson.com On 6 Jun 02, at 19:16, Karen G. Schneider wrote: > Contact: > Karen G. Schneider > Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet > E-Mail: kgs@lii.org > > http://lii.org/press/ > > June 6, 2002 > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > California Web Site Reaches 10,000th Record > > > (POINT RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA) On Thursday, June 6, 2002, lii.org (the > Librarians' Index to the Internet) added its 10,000th Web site. The > hallmark record--describing Americorps, a service organization whose > members earn educational credits for activities such as mentoring youth > and building affordable housing--was contributed by volunteer indexer > Julianna Hamann, a San Diego resident who has contributed close to 200 > records to the lii.org database. > From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:52:28 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Self service holds pickup (PUBLIB digest 2059) (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Peg Bredeson Subject: Re: Self service holds pickup (PUBLIB digest 2059) Not having seen this system I wonder how people find their holds - is it by their name or barcode number? If by name, it seems like it would be quite an invasion of privacy since others could see what's waiting for you. Even by barcode number, it could be a chilling system if you want to reserve a "sensitive" item. Has a barrier been set up by using this public retrieval system? I understand that books on the shelf are public, but they don't have your ID attached to them. Just wondering... Peg Bredeson Janet Fielden Hilderman wrote: >Regina Public Library has so far implemented self service holds pickup at 5 >or 6 of its 9 locations. Our branch (annual circulation: 342,000) just >implemented self-serve holds last week. So far, all the comments have been >positive. We have the shelves about ten feet from the circulation desk, and >there is a sign instructing people to "Please collect your holds here and >take them to the desk for check-out". We still keep interlibrary loan items >behind the circulation desk, because they don't belong to us, but everything >else is on the self-serve shelves. > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:52:35 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Broadway series at the Library (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Nann Blaine Hilyard Subject: RE: Broadway series at the Library Liz, I'll bet your state arts and humanities councils would be a source for funding. Nann @the library in Lake Villa, Illinois which is far, far, far off Broadway -----Original Message----- From: White, Elizabeth [mailto:EWhite@DUNEDINFL.NET] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [PUBLIB] Broadway series at the Library I am interested in working in conjunction with our local performing arts center to host a series of programs featuring cast and crew of their Broadway productions. They are very receptive to the idea. I've heard of other libraries doing this where an actor(s), who is in town appearing in a musical, comes to the library and talks about his/her acting career, the musical, etc. Has anyone done anything like this and, if so, I would like to know some specifics of the planning and implementation. Did you pay the actors? Did you obtain grant money?, etc. I will greatly appreciate any feedback. Liz White Dunedin Public Library ewhite@dunedinfl.net From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:52:44 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: An ethical question (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Mark Arend Subject: RE: An ethical question > Someone called the library asking for reference help in > locating a lost > family member who lived in our town...The problem was that the > man in question > was recently deceased, the former husband of a current > library staff member! > I decided that I should give the man the same amount of help > I would have > given him had there been no relationship to any staff member, I would have done this as well--checking the phone book and giving out the information publicly available. I would have mentioned he was recently deceased. > I explained my ethical dilemma to him, and asked > that he not mention that he had gotten her number from the > library. I would not have done this. But I probably would have told the co-worker about the call. From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:52:51 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] CIPA decision (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Julie Bauer Subject: CIPA decision Is anyone but me feeling uneasy about the CIPA decision? I admit I've only read the news articles, not the decision itself, but it seems as though the judges' decision was based on the shortcomings of filter technology. As we all know, filters fail to block some sites that they should while blocking others that they shouldn't. The judges seemed to be saying that because filters restrict access to some "harmless" sites, they infringe on free speech. If we follow that logic, then will filters be permissible if they can be perfected? I think some people would still have objections to filters even if they worked perfectly. Who gets to decide what is pornography and what isn't? The filter manufacturers? What do you think? Has anyone out there studied the decision? I'd love to hear that I'm wrong. Julie Bauer Weston Public Library Weston, Massachusetts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:53:28 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] "PubLihb" or "PubLibe"? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Susan McGowan" Subject: "PubLihb" or "PubLibe"? Dear PubLibbers: Here's a Friday kind of question for you. I recently had the pleasure of hearing Karen Schneider, one of our fearless moderators, speak to a local librarian's group. In her talk, she mentioned Publib, and pronounced the word with a long i. Does everyone say it this way? I realize that that matches with "Library," but it seems an awkward way to say it. What's the consensus? I will bow to the collective will! Susan McGowan Reference Coordinator Morton Grove Public Library Morton Grove, IL (847) 965-4220 smcgowan@webrary.org http://www.webrary.org Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect official Library policy. From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:59:43 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] "PubLihb" or "PubLibe"? In-Reply-To: <200206071525.IAA28313@webjunction.org> Message-ID: >> In her talk, she mentioned Publib, and pronounced the word with a long i. Which means it's whatever you want it to be, because the other moderator pronounces it with a short i ...this is very much like a reference question we had today: is it HOnus or HONus Wagner? (Only his parents knew for sure??) And there was the time I was writing a web page for our visually handicapped patrons ..running them through speech synthesizer, different voices..and found some voices read "librarian" as LIE-brarian, others as LIB-rarian. It's your call...do you want to be a PubLibber or a PubLiebber? You're all smart, funny and helpful...that's all that matters! Sara, the short I From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:59:51 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Nonfiction RA Guru? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Kate Wolicki Subject: Nonfiction RA Guru? Does anyone out there consider themself very knowledgable about NONfiction readers' advisory? I'm part of a group working on finding possible speakers for a possible program for ref librarians, but have only found dead ends thus far ("I don't know THAT much." "not enough for a whole program") I don't have access to any library research databases to even look for someone who's been writing articles about this lately. And, if there's no one who's looking into this right now, may I suggest it as a good research topic for a student who wants to be a guru some time in the future? Nonfiction RA was part of my RA course but I get the sense we all need a little more advice about it, and tools for nf ra that are affordable and useful. Kate Wolicki From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 20:59:59 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Chapter-a-Day (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Vorce, Teresa" Subject: Chapter-a-Day I would like to hear from libraries that offer the Chapter-a-Day service to their patrons. Do patrons and staff like it? How much staff time is involved in setting up, publicizing, and maintaining this service? Thanks. Teresa Vorce Frederick County Public Libraries (MD) From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 21:00:04 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ALAET- June 7, 2002. No. 93. (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: kmccook@tampabay.rr.com Subject: ALAET- June 7, 2002. No. 93. A LIBRARIAN AT EVERY TABLE June 7, 2002. No. 93. Sources and Sites for librarians building community. http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/ HAWAII TO LAUNCH STATEWIDE 211 IN JULY Hawaii will convert their statewide I&R service, currently called "Ask Aloha United Way," to a 24 hour a day/ seven day a week service called Aloha United Way 211. The new service will be officially launched on July 15, 2002. This 211 service in Hawaii will mean that people on all the islands can dial this simple 3-digit number for help. http://www.211.org/ WHERE ARE THE KIDS? URBAN INSTITUTE RESEARCH. When school's out, where are the kids? New Urban Institute research shows that slightly more than one-third of elementary schoolchildren with working parents are in relatives' care during the summer. Another 24 percent are in summer programs. ...more than 1 in 10 kids regularly spend time alone or with a sibling under 13... 10 hours a week on average." http://www.urban.org/ IMPACT OF ARTS EDUCATION ON WORKFORCE How the arts can help build a highly skilled 21st century workforce. The Impact of Arts Education on Workforce Preparation documents the positive outcomes of integrating the arts into education and youth intervention programs. Prepared by the National Governors's Association's Center for Best Practices in consultation with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), the report describes how economic vitality depends on a highly educated and creative workforce. Findings from current research linking the arts and learning are highlighted, as are examples of innovative arts programs across the country. http://www.nasaa-arts.org/nasaanews/nga.shtml -- Kathleen de la Peña McCook kmccook@tampabay.rr.com University of South Florida, Library & Information Science A Librarian at Every Table http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/ From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 21:00:33 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: An ethical question (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: MLuskin Subject: Re: An ethical question IMNSHO: Re the question of giving out information about someone in your town who was a staff person's husband, I think that telling that the person was related to staff was a breach, unless the staff person okayed it. That would not be information that would be available through the usual means. As long as you use public records like the phone book or the internet you're fine; if you give out information from patron records, word of mouth, gossip, etc., that is a privacy issue. You could always give the contact information of the person making the inquiry to the person they are looking for (if the person isn't deceased) and let them decide if they want to make contact. ===== Merry Luskin, Oakland CA Reference librarian and handspinner Weeder, Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 21:00:41 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: PUBLIB digest 2060 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Richard Hart Subject: RE: PUBLIB digest 2060 I handled a number of these questions for my library during the time I was Local History/Local information librarian. My rule of thumb was that I would send anything that's public record -- city directory entries, newspaper information, etc. -- but not anything from the library's records or other confidential town records. One time I found that someone was still in town, by finding she had a library card, but her phone number was unlisted. I called & explained the situation, that someone saying he was an old friend was trying to reach her. She did not want me to release her name & phone number. I did mention his name to her, which I was uncomfortable about even though he'd made it clear he could be contacted by anyone. Another situation was when I knew about the people personally, having lived here all my life. In several cases like that, I asked the residents if they minded contact or other information being given out. Sometimes people are glad to be put in touch. With celebrities or very wealthy people (this town has a bunch of them), it often came down to saying that we knew they still lived here, but that no other information was available. The one thing in your message that puts up a warning flag for me is your request to the questioner that he not tell someone you'd given him the info. Again, the key thing is whether it's legitimately public information. If you feel the fact that you gave it out needs to be hidden, there may be a problem there. It's an interesting issue that I'm sure many of us have faced... -- Richard Hart (Greenwich Library) >> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 19:11:24 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Mark Wright" > To: publib > Subject: An ethical question > Message-ID: > > > I have an ethical question to throw out. This happened to me > several years > ago and I'm curious how others would have handled it. > > Someone called the library asking for reference help in > locating a lost > family member who lived in our town. This type of question is > a fairly > common occurrence, and we generally do what we can to help > people find their > relatives. In this case the individual was looking for his > father, a man he > had never met, whom he said was once married to his mother > briefly before > taking another wife and having another family here in town. > So far it was a > fairly straightforward situation. The problem was that the > man in question > was recently deceased, the former husband of a current > library staff member! > As a rule we do not give out information over the phone about > library staff > members, but in this case the situation was obviously more > complicated. > > I decided that I should give the man the same amount of help > I would have > given him had there been no relationship to any staff member, > and gave him > contact information so he could call his father's second wife > to gain some > knowledge about his father. I explained my ethical dilemma to > him, and asked > that he not mention that he had gotten her number from the > library. The > staff member in question never mentioned, to me at least, > having received a > call from this man, and I never asked. My curiosity remains > unsatisfied to > this day. > > What would you have done? > > Mark Wright > From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 21:00:49 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: An ethical question (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Andrea Johnson Subject: Re: An ethical question I think it would depend on how well I knew the staff member in question. If I knew her well enough, I might approach her with the question, and ask her what she'd like me to tell the patron. If I didn't do that, I'd probably have done what you did. Andrea Johnson andielib@yahoo.com --- Mark Wright wrote: > I have an ethical question to throw out. This happened to me several years > ago and I'm curious how others would have handled it. > > Someone called the library asking for reference help in locating a lost > family member who lived in our town. This type of question is a fairly > common occurrence, and we generally do what we can to help people find their > relatives. In this case the individual was looking for his father, a man he > had never met, whom he said was once married to his mother briefly before > taking another wife and having another family here in town. So far it was a > fairly straightforward situation. The problem was that the man in question > was recently deceased, the former husband of a current library staff member! > As a rule we do not give out information over the phone about library staff > members, but in this case the situation was obviously more complicated. > > I decided that I should give the man the same amount of help I would have > given him had there been no relationship to any staff member, and gave him > contact information so he could call his father's second wife to gain some > knowledge about his father. I explained my ethical dilemma to him, and asked > that he not mention that he had gotten her number from the library. The > staff member in question never mentioned, to me at least, having received a > call from this man, and I never asked. My curiosity remains unsatisfied to > this day. > > What would you have done? > > Mark Wright > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 21:00:54 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] IMLS Seeks Comment on Draft Guidelines for Proposed Program (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Maxwell, Eileen" Subject: IMLS Seeks Comment on Draft Guidelines for Proposed Program IMLS Seeks Comment on Draft Guidelines for Proposed Program The President's budget proposes a $10 million initiative to recruit and train new librarians. The initiative recognizes the key roles libraries and librarians play in supporting both the formal education process and the independent learner. IMLS has drafted a set of goals for the proposed program and is in the process of developing draft guidelines. Your continued input on program development is welcome. IMLS invites ALA Annual Meeting attendees to join in discussion of program development in Atlanta on Monday, June 17, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. GWCC room B207. The goals, draft guidelines for the proposed program and an invitation to provide additional input can be found at: Mamie Bittner Director Public and Legislative Affairs Institute of Museum and Library Services 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20506 Fax (202) 606-8591 Phone (202) 606-8339 From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 7 21:00:59 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Directory of Current, Ongoing & Open Technology Grants, Second Edition 2002 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Partnerships for Community" Subject: Directory of Current, Ongoing & Open Technology Grants, Second Edition 2002 Press Release Partnerships for Community, Inc. introduces two new publications this month: The Supplement of Corporate Technology Funders, Second Edition 2002. and The Directory of Current, Ongoing & Open Technology Grants, Second Edition 2002. The Supplement describes available support from over 110 corporate technology funders offering various types of assistance for technology and technology programs and for other community, education and cultural initiatives.12-pages. The Directory features over 350 listings of valuable grants and resources that are current, open & ongoing. 45 pages. These publications are in addition to the Partnerships newsletter, Technology Grant News, published 4 times a year, that brings you the technology grant news on a timely basis as it is released. More information may be found at: http://www.technologygrantnews.com http://www.technologygrantnews.com/page0019.html Katherine Foster Information Specialist Partnerships for Community, Inc. 561 Hudson Street, #23 New York, N.Y. 10014 (212) 929-4347 FAX: (212) 645-7495 info@partnershipsforcommunity.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 8 11:34:05 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: "PubLihb" or "PubLibe"? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Dan Robinson" Subject: Re: "PubLihb" or "PubLibe"? pub lib (short i). this is the second list that I'm on to have this type of query... . Dan Robinson drobinson@hwwilson.com On 7 Jun 02, at 17:55, Susan McGowan wrote: > Dear PubLibbers: Here's a Friday kind of question for you. I recently had > the pleasure of hearing Karen Schneider, one of our fearless moderators, > speak to a local librarian's group. In her talk, she mentioned Publib, and > pronounced the word with a long i. Does everyone say it this way? I > realize that that matches with "Library," but it seems an awkward way to say > it. What's the consensus? I will bow to the collective will! > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 8 11:34:23 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Chapter-a-Day (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Dutcher, Henry" Subject: RE: Chapter-a-Day Hi Teresa-- Funny you should ask today. Just last night I had a patron raving about it to me. We have been offering the original part of the club for a year. The last time I checked, which has been a few months now, we had 135 signed up and growing. People really like it a lot. We did some up front publicity and it is on our web site. We do not do much more though. The initial PR got us a very favorable editorial in the local paper. The kind you can not buy. The only real work now is that I try to make sure I use their future offers list and have a copy of every book in our library. Some I would not have normally bought, but not many. Hope that helps Henry Dutcher Library Director Enfield Public Library 104 Middle Rd. Enfield, CT 06082 860-763-7550 860-763-7514 Fax hdutcher@enfield.org -----Original Message----- From: Vorce, Teresa [mailto:TVorce@fredco-md.net] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 9:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [PUBLIB] Chapter-a-Day I would like to hear from libraries that offer the Chapter-a-Day service to their patrons. Do patrons and staff like it? How much staff time is involved in setting up, publicizing, and maintaining this service? Thanks. Teresa Vorce Frederick County Public Libraries (MD) From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 8 11:34:56 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Personnel cuts (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Linda Wallace" Subject: Personnel cuts Cris, I feel the same way Lisa does. If you continue to offer the same = services and hours that you did before the cuts, I think it sends the = message that you really didn't need the personnel you had. Yes, you = could probably have volunteers perform some of the duties of the 'lost' = personnel, but I believe that volunteers should be used for "special = projects" and should not be relied on for daily routine tasks. ( this is = also the policy the Library Board of Directors.) Our town holds a public hearing on the town budget and due to some = shifting of accounts to the library that had previously been town = expenses(that's another story), our library would have taken a what = would have been a deep budget reduction. When I announced at the = hearing that this would mean less hours, less services and less = materials, the support from the community to have the library budget = increased to cover the reduction was overwhelming. We are now in the = process of restoring the funds.=20 Just my opinion. Linda Wallace LLWallace@snet.net Head Librarian Jonathan Trumbull Library Lebanon, CT=20 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 8 11:35:07 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ALA Program on Marketting Virtual Referene Services -- Saturday 6/15/02 3:00-5:30 pm - GWCC A302 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Stephen Coffman Subject: ALA Program on Marketting Virtual Referene Services -- Saturday 6/15/02 3:00-5:30 pm - GWCC A302 (fwd) If you starting a virtual reference service or even thinking of starting a virtual reference service … and you are coming to ALA in Atlanta … this is the one program you won't want to miss .... ----------------------------- Marketing Virtual Reference Services or PR for VR 3:00-5:30 Saturday, June 15, 2002 Room A302 Georgia World Congress Center (One floor below Auditorium for Opening General Session) ---------------------------- Here's what people are saying about marketing and virtual reference ... "It's impossible to overstate the importance of marketing in virtual reference; without it, even the finest service will die of starvation" --- John Tisch, librarian, Philadelphia, PA. "It's probably the single most important factor in the success of your service ... neglect it at your peril" --- JoAnne Gilaney, librarian, Sydney, Australia. 'It's the difference between 35 questions per hour and 35 questions per week" --- Michelle Fiander, Manager, Web Reference Center, LSSI "Your new online reference service is so cool ... it's a shame more people haven't heard about it" --- Marianne Smythe, undergrad student and library patron, Boston, MA "If you make a product good enough, even though you live in the depths of the forest the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway" --- William Randolph Hearst, tycoon, San Simeon, CA -------------------------- And Here's Who's Talking at ALA ... 3:00-3:05 - Welcome and Announcement of the First Ever Samuel Swett Green Award for Exemplary Virtual Reference Service Steve Coffman, Kay Henshall and Arthur Brady 3:05-3:25 - Karen Hyman, Director of the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative on marketing techniques used to launch and publicize the QandANJ statewide virtual reference service, one of the busiest virtual reference services in the world (http://www.qandanj.org/) 3:25-3:50 • Bill Schickling, Gaylord Information Systems will show how they have integrated virtual reference directly within their Polaris catalog ... and how the creation of such 'smart' catalogs and databases can help drive traffic to your service by putting a librarian in front of your patrons whenever they need help (http://www.gis.gaylord.com/) 3:50-4:05 • Lisa Horowitz and friends from MIT on effective marketing in academic environments --- current practice and future plans (http://libraries.mit.edu/) 4:05-4:30 • Boyd Karren of Soter Associates (advertising and marketing firm used by Horizon / Dynix and other library vendors) on lessons from the private sector, how libraries can take advantage of marketing and media strategies used in the business world without breaking the budget (http://www.soter.net) 4:30-4:50 • Tracy Strobel of the highly successful KnowItNow project on the various strategies they are using to market their service in Cleveland, Ohio (http://www.knowitnow24x7.net/) 4:50-5:10 • Linda Wallace and Peggy Barber of Library Communications Strategies (and formerly of ALA Public Relations) on marketing lessons from the QandA Café project in Northern California (http://www.librarycomm.com) 5:10-5:30 • Tutor.com on how to take advantage of the new integration between LSSI Virtual Reference and the Tutor.com services to help reach school-age children (www.tutor.com) Come early and stay late. Food and refreshments will be provided. And we look forward to seeing you all there. From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 8 11:35:20 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:12 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Update on PUBLIB Soiree at ALA Atlanta (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: Update on PUBLIB Soiree at ALA Atlanta Dear folks, this is the current info as I have it: Our function will be Friday, 6/14, 6-8 p.m. somewhere in the Omni. It will be hosted by Webfeat. I'll post a room number when it's available. Everyone is welcome--come meet new people, share good times with buddies. It should be really fun! I will make sure the concierge is privy to our location. Cheers, ---------------------------------------------- Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw lii.org: Information You Can Trust! ---------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 9 23:22:08 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:13 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] PUBLIB FAQ (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: PUBLIB FAQ It's pretty limited, but see: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/publib/pubfaq.htm It's linked from our main page. Unfortunately, so is something I had removed--the publib "reference desk" which is seriously outdated. Don't know what happened... sometimes old files resurface! ---------------------------------------------- Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw lii.org: Information You Can Trust! ---------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 9 23:22:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:13 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] MDSC Publishing in Quebec (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Bruce Bumbalough Subject: MDSC Publishing in Quebec The library is billing billed for a publicatiopn and directory listing in something called the American Business Directory or perhaps the American Corporate Directory. IOt is published by MDSC Publishing in Quebec, Canada. We have received no product at all. I am almost certain (from materials supplied by those on Stumpers-L and Libref-L) that this is a scam. My director would like to know if other libraries have not received a product. Soory for the duplication. Earlier questions were posted to Stumpers-L and Libref-L. -- Bruce L. Bumbalough Reference Librarian Grapevine Public Library Grapevine, Texas Voice: (817) 410-3404 Fax: (817) 410-3084 email: bbumbalough@grapevine.lib.tx.us The opinions are mine. From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 9 23:22:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:13 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: CIPA decision (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Seth Finkelstein Subject: Re: CIPA decision Julie Bauer wrote: > What do you think? Has anyone out there studied the decision? I'd > love to hear that I'm wrong. I'm not a lawyer. But I'm a programmer who has been working against censorware for years. You may be interested in my article analyzing the decision: "Federal library censorware law (CIPA) overturned" http://sethf.com/freespeech/censorware/essays/cipa_analysis.php > If we follow that logic, then will filters be permissible if they > can be perfected? I've been attempting to have considered in the debate, that censorware has a fundamental architectural problem in that it is NOT a "filter". It's a control system. The difference is that it requires controlling people, not "filtering" out disfavored content. This is a structural difficulty. It leads to censorware having to ban anonymity, privacy, language translators, even huge digital library archives, because these all represent escapes ("loopholes") in the needed control. I'm overjoyed that the court apparently considered this argument as factor in its decision. See also my first CIPA comments at http://sethf.com/pipermail/infothought/2002-May/000010.html -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf@sethf.com http://sethf.com Censorware Pre-Slipped Slope: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 9 23:22:57 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:13 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Children's and Youth Services Librarian, St. Peters, MO (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Jim Brown Subject: Children's and Youth Services Librarian, St. Peters, MO Position Available: Children's and Youth Services Librarian St. Charles City-County Library District Spencer Road Branch St. Peters, MO Full time position, 40 hours. Working hours will include days, evenings and Saturday rotation. Duties are approximately 50% in Children's and 50% in Young Adult. Position Information: Full time Children's and Youth Services Librarian position available in a busy suburban public library setting. Children's services component includes significant public service responsibilities offering Children's reference and reader's advisory service. Activities include responding to customer inquiries in person, by telephone and by email using reference collections and electronic resource products. Also, responsible for assisting with Children's program development and implementation, outreach activities, and collection development. Young Adult responsibilities include coordination of program development and implementation, outreach activities, reference and reader's advisory service, collection development, and liaison with other professional and paraprofessional staff both within the Branch and within the District. Education and Experience Must have an accredited Masters in Library Science, excellent communication skills and experience in public or customer service. Prefer experience in Children's and Young Adult programming, Internet proficiency, collection development and bibliographic instruction. New graduates will be considered. Excellent benefits. Salary from $35,784 to $43,548 for MLS; $40,260 to $48,972 with second masters degree. The St. Charles City-County Library District is a Hennen's top American Library (Hennen's American Library Rating Index). The Library District is located just west of St. Louis, MO in one of the Midwest's fastest growing counties. For more information visit our web page: http://www.win.org/library/ Send resume by Friday, June 28, 2002 or call for an application: 636-441-2300, ext. 1581. Resumes can also be emailed to: jcinco@mail.win.org Human Resources Coordinator St. Charles City-County Library District P.O. Box 529 St. Peters, MO 63376 Equal Opportunity Employer From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:35:01 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Free bookmarks for summer (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: ce Subject: Free bookmarks for summer Here's your chance to get free bookmarks for your library patrons. The Romance Reader and The Mystery Reader websites have bookmarks available to libraries for the cost of the postage. All we ask is that you send us the stamps (no envelopes, please - these are pre-packaged). These are mixed sets of bookmarks - half from each site. For a set of 175, send us five 34-cent stamps; for a set of 350, send us seven 34-cent stamps, and for a set of 600, send us ten 34-cent stamps. Send your request to: TRR/TMR Bookmarks, P.O. Box 2516, Midland, MI 48641-2516. Act now before the postage rates increase! We can honor all requests that reach us by June 30th. Thank you. Cathy Sova, Sr. Editor www.themysteryreader.com www.theromancereader.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:35:11 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: MDSC Publishing in Quebec (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Nann Blaine Hilyard Subject: RE: MDSC Publishing in Quebec Hello, Bruce -- PubLibbers discussed this (or something similar) and, yes, it is a scam. If they get nasty, tell them to provide the purchase order number that you used to order it. Of course they won't have one because you didn't give them one because you never ordered the item. I'd ignore their communications. Or you could tell them that you're en route to Nigeria to claim the umpteen million dollars that was left to you by the former president. You'll talk to MDSC Publishing when you get back. Nann @the library in Lake Villa, Illinois -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Bumbalough [mailto:bbumbalough@grapevine.lib.tx.us] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [PUBLIB] MDSC Publishing in Quebec The library is billing billed for a publicatiopn and directory listing in something called the American Business Directory or perhaps the American Corporate Directory. IOt is published by MDSC Publishing in Quebec, Canada. We have received no product at all. I am almost certain (from materials supplied by those on Stumpers-L and Libref-L) that this is a scam. My director would like to know if other libraries have not received a product. Soory for the duplication. Earlier questions were posted to Stumpers-L and Libref-L. -- Bruce L. Bumbalough Reference Librarian Grapevine Public Library Grapevine, Texas Voice: (817) 410-3404 Fax: (817) 410-3084 email: bbumbalough@grapevine.lib.tx.us The opinions are mine. From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:35:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Cites & Insights July 2002 issue now available (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Walt_Crawford@notes.rlg.org Subject: Cites & Insights July 2002 issue now available Cites & Insights 2:9 (Whole issue 23) is now available for your PDF pleasure at: http://cical.home.att.net This 18-page issue includes: * Perspective: Scholarly Journals and Grand Solutions * Following Up: Four items * Copyright Currents: DMCA and lots more (6 pages) * Trends & Quick Takes: Nine items * The Good Stuff: 13 (or 14) articles * Product Watch: 11 (or 13) items * Cheap Shots & Commentary: one article -Walt Crawford- From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:35:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: CIPA decision (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "James B. Casey" Subject: Re: CIPA decision Julie Bauer wrote: >Is anyone but me feeling uneasy about the CIPA >decision? I admit I've only read the news articles, >not the decision itself, but it seems as though the >judges' decision was based on the shortcomings of >filter technology. As we all know, filters fail to >block some sites that they should while blocking >others that they shouldn't. The judges seemed to be >saying that because filters restrict access to some >"harmless" sites, they infringe on free speech. > >If we follow that logic, then will filters be >permissible if they can be perfected? I think some >people would still have objections to filters even if >they worked perfectly. Who gets to decide what is >pornography and what isn't? The filter manufacturers? > >What do you think? Has anyone out there studied the >decision? I'd love to hear that I'm wrong. >-------------------------------------------------------- > Given that there are literally millions of new web sites created around the world every month --- and that the number may even be escalating -- it is highly problematic that filters will ever be able to function "perfectly". At least no software device (or any human being) would ever be able to make vast numbers of instant and "perfect" value judgments as to what is "constitutionally protected" and what is to be considered "indecent". It is clearly impossible, if not patently absurd to pronounce that such super decision making could ever be made possible. We're not dealing as much with the issues of technology as the complexities of human communication, relationships and thought. However, it is the legislatures which create the laws and purportedly reflect the will of the people. Legislatures act upon what is perceived to be in the "public good" and join with various Presidents in deterimining the composition of the courts. In other words, courts can change over time and may come to weigh factors differently in the future. In truth, CIPA is a very dumb law which should never have emerged from the Congressional Committees during the Summer and Fall of 2000. However, ALA's stand absolutely proscribing the use of filters --- "use of filtering software to block Constitutionally protected speech is a violation of the Library Bill of Rights" --- was deemed to be unreasonable and unrealistic even by some of the "Liberal" Congresspersons who had been among our strongest supporters in the past. Hence, CIPA was signed into law, and we had to endure 18 months of difficult regulations tied to the E-Rate program and incur vast expense of defeating the bill in Federal Court. As a Member of Council, I have been urging that the ALA Policy on Filtering be modified to make the "violation of the Library Bill of Rights" be the failure of Libraries to offer patrons a choice of unfiltered Internet access. James B. Casey --- My own views as a Public Librarian and ALA Council Member (1996-2000, 2001-) > From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:35:35 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: CIPA decision (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Walt_Crawford@notes.rlg.org Subject: Re: CIPA decision Julie, I held off on responding until I saw other responses. While I don't necessarily disagree with Seth F., I'd put it a little differently, with the following caveats: 1. I'm absolutely not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. 2. I'm also not a filter expert, but I've been reading WAY too much about filtering as part of "Cites & Insights" 3. I am, however, a rhetoric graduate and sometimes student of the way language and images work, which does enter into these comments: If it was possible to build a perfect filter, then I suspect Congress could pass a constitutional law requiring use of such filters (although that's far from certain), but "perfect" would need to include full disclosure to librarians as to what was being blocked and why. But, in my opinion--based on what I know of language and image processing, and I believe also in the opinions of Geoffrey Nunberg (who knows a lot more about this stuff), Benjamin Edelman, and certainly Seth, the statement above is one of those logically-true statements along the lines of "If the moon is made of green cheese, then all librarians are supremely intelligent and never make mistakes." The statement is logically true because the first clause is absolutely false...but the statement also has no significance. I do not believe it is possible to build a perfect filter. A perfect filter could not block Google cached pages as a category. A perfect filter could not block translation or anonymity sites as categories. A perfect filter for images would need to distinguish between entirely-legal and socially-uplifting nudes in classic art and censorable nudity in other environments. A perfect filter would need to recognize that a Nasty Picture that's had the flesh all tinted blue was still a Nasty Picture... And so on, and so on, getting into millions of clauses about the way language works, particularly the English language with its three million words and warehouses of homonyms and ambiguities. Will Congress keep trying? Possibly so. I keep wondering whether the censorship folks just hope to bankrupt ALA through an endless series of court cases, all of which ALA and ACLU eventually win... Sincerely, Walt Crawford --responding to-- Is anyone but me feeling uneasy about the CIPA decision? I admit I've only read the news articles, not the decision itself, but it seems as though the judges' decision was based on the shortcomings of filter technology. As we all know, filters fail to block some sites that they should while blocking others that they shouldn't. The judges seemed to be saying that because filters restrict access to some "harmless" sites, they infringe on free speech. If we follow that logic, then will filters be permissible if they can be perfected? I think some people would still have objections to filters even if they worked perfectly. Who gets to decide what is pornography and what isn't? The filter manufacturers? What do you think? Has anyone out there studied the decision? I'd love to hear that I'm wrong. Julie Bauer Weston Public Library Weston, Massachusetts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:36:16 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Email addresses (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Jan Gilgore" Subject: Email addresses Hello My Board has come and asked if we could begin collecting E-mail = addresses for mass announcements. Books sales, programs, etc. I know = some of you use them for reference and reserves but does anyone use them = for mass announcemnts. I think the postage rate increase may have = something to do with this request. =20 Jan Gilgore Youngstown Free Library 240 Lockport St. Youngstown, NY 14174 jgilg@nioga.org ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:36:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] PUBLIB Linking to bookstores (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Robin K. Blum" Subject: PUBLIB Linking to bookstores 10) Linking to bookstores by PUBLIB Dear Pub-Libbers, Regarding this post, I'd like to encourage libraries who do link to bookstores to stick with the independent bookstores, i.e., the American Booksellers Association BOOKSENSE program (www.booksense.com) or the regional booksellers assocations or their favorite local bookseller (most of whom now can sell books on-line as well as at their brick & mortar businesses). As local libraries reflect the unique character of each of their communities, so do local booksellers. Amazon, B&N, Borders, etc. reflect big-business, corporate America, and the bottom line...$$$$. Please help your local bookstores and help keep them in business...you're both in the business of getting folks to read and enjoy what they read. Robin K. Blum In My BookR http://www.inmybook.com ."the greeting card .and bookmark .in one!" From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:36:33 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] experience with Microfilm Scanner (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Gerard Mittelstaedt Subject: experience with Microfilm Scanner Hi, We are evaluating the possibility of purchasing an ImageMouse Plus microfilm digital reader. Most of its use would be to read, 35mm newspaper microfilm. I note that the ad talks about 24x to 28x on the low end. Most 35mm newspaper is filmed at something less than 24x, theoretically making the print too large when viewed with a 24x lens. Then there is digital reprocessing possible. - >From the point of view of an actual user, what is you experience with this device? Gerard Mittelstaedt mittelst@mcallen.lib.tx.us McAllen Memorial Library http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us 601 N. Main McAllen, TX 78501 USA From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:36:47 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Self service holds pickup (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: MLuskin Subject: Re: Self service holds pickup My library set up a self-service holds pickup shelf. The items are completely covered with paper with the patron's name and pickup deadline on it. However, the paper is simply held on with rubber bands so anyone could snoop under the paper. I think that patron privacy is not being protected, though as far as I know there haven't been any complaints. ===== Merry Luskin, Oakland CA Reference librarian and handspinner Weeder, Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:36:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] News stories appearing in the June 10 American Libraries (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Gordon Flagg" Subject: News stories appearing in the June 10 American Libraries News stories appearing in the June 10 American Libraries Online > Minnesota Eliminates Its State Library Agency > First Lady Promotes School Libraries at White House Conference > Fire Destroys Stark County, Ohio, Branch > Houston's "Virtual Desktop" Vendor Wins Controversial Three-Year Contract > Mystery of the Locked Library Thefts Solved in France American Libraries' Web site also features the latest "Crawford Files" columns by Walt Crawford; "Internet Librarian" by Karen Schneider; "Technically Speaking" by David Dorman; AL's "Career Leads" job ads; listings of conferences, continuing-education courses, exhibitions, and other events from AL's "Datebook"; and Tables of Contents for the current year. Do you have a comment to make about anything appearing in American Libraries? The editors encourage signed e-mail letters on recent content or matters of general interest to the library profession in the Reader Forum section. Send 250 words or less to americanlibraries@ala.org. From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:36:59 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Job Posting - Librarian 5 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Norman Belk Subject: Job Posting - Librarian 5 POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT POSITION: Librarian V, Information Services Manager FLSA: Exempt SALARY: $48,223 per year minimum, plus benefits AVAILABLE: July 2002. Occasional evening & weekend work. CLOSING DATE: June 30, 2002 FUNCTION: Under limited supervision by the Director of Public Services, is responsible for the administration, supervision, and effective operation of Reference and Internet Services (including telephone reference, database services, and Internet services for adults and young adults), the Law Library, Interlibrary Loan, and the South Carolina Room. REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES: Extensive knowledge of library and information science principles, functions, policies, procedures and terminology; of methods for communicating concepts, general information, and task-oriented information in oral, written and electronic forms; of general and specialized reference sources including the Internet; of reference practices and techniques including effective reference interview skills; and of telephone reference practices and techniques. Thorough knowledge of administrative and supervisory theories, methods, and skills, including effective time management for self and others; of customer service practices and techniques; and of reader interest levels, materials, books and authors. Considerable knowledge of the functions of Public Services including the interaction of multiple units within and without the Division; of personnel practices and techniques including interpersonal skills; and of a wide range of classical, standard and contemporary books, electronic databases, periodicals, government documents, and publications for adult and young adult patrons. General knowledge of procedures for public library operations; of business mathematics, with emphasis on statistics; of the Law Library; of local government information; of genealogical research; of interlibrary loan practices and procedures; of circulation operations, computer and telecommunications equipment as it relates to the Main Library; of computer software and networking for libraries, of computer and telecommunications concepts and terminology; of the functioning of various business and/or library oriented computer programs; of various MARC formats and authority control; REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES: (continued) of current trends in industries and governments producing and distributing library materials, including electronic databases; book and serial publishing and audiovisual production; of local community and library histories; and of current community trends, organizations, associations, governments, libraries, community leaders, and government officials. Must have good public speaking ability. Must be able to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds and have the ability to push book carts weighing over 100 pounds. MINIMUM TRAINING & EXPERIENCE: Master’s degree in library science from an ALA-accredited university, and five (5) years of progressive professional supervisory experience. Must have recent experience with reference services. Must be certified, or eligible for certification as required by the South Carolina State Library. Greenville County Library System may change assigned work location and schedule of any position depending upon the needs of the system. .. Applications will be taken at Job Service, 706 Pendleton Street, Greenville, SC 29601, (864) 242-3531. Current staff please contact Ann Bishop, ext. 2262 or e-mail Ann_B. ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:37:28 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Principal Librarian, Voorhees, NJ (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "DelPidio, Barbara" Subject: Principal Librarian, Voorhees, NJ JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Job Title: Principal Librarian Open: 06/10/02 Customer Education Close: 07/01/02 Department: Reference Department Voorhees Branch Salary: $38,128 - $49,742 Hours: 35 hours - Full Health Benefits Day hours. Some night and weekend hours. Description of Duties The Camden County Library System is seeking a customer education librarian. The person in this position will have strong training skills and will have the ability to develop and teach classes on subjects such as the Internet, email, basic computer skills, and word processing programs. Specific duties are: · Develop and present training programs and classes that help our patrons and staff use library resources (both print and electronic) and learn about current technologies. · Work with the branch managers and the customer education librarian at South County to develop and schedule training programs that can be offered system wide at all library branches. · Work with the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative to provide trainings to staff of libraries in Southern New Jersey. · Coordinate and maintain schedule for the computer training lab at the Voorhees branch. · Provide general reference assistance at the reference desk at the Voorhees branch. · other related duties as required. Requirements: Education: A Master's degree in Library or Information Science from an accredited college or university. Experience: Two (2) year of librarian experience. NOTE: Open to residents of Camden County, Atlantic County, Burlington County and Gloucester County. If the candidate who accepts the position does not currently reside in one of the above listed counties, the candidate must become a bona fide resident of Camden County within one (1) year of starting employment. If you are interested in applying, please submit a letter of interest and resume by 5 PM on July 1, 2002 to: Lauren Campbell, Human Resources Manager - Fax 772-6105 or email your letter of interest and resume to lcampb@camden.lib.nj.us We meet the learning, recreational and information needs of our customers, providing an open environment for our community. The Camden County Library is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Employer ============================================== Barbara DelPidio Human Relations Department Camden County Library System 203 Laurel Road, Voorhees, NJ 08043 Phone: (856) 772-1636 Fax: (856) 772-6105 E-mail: bdelpi@camden.lib.nj.us Web: http://www.camden.lib.nj.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:37:35 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Personnel manuals (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Gail Alter Sacco" Subject: Personnel manuals Hello all-- I am working with a staff committee to revise our personnel manual. Our research seems to indicate that common practice regarding recommendations means only verifying employment (dates and position) not actually providing a reference. Is that what you all do? Truthfully, this is not very helpful either when one is evaluating a candidate or looking for a job. Also--we use progressive discipline here, but the process is not written. One resource I used recommended that this not be written in a manual because it can be used against the library and because personnel issues can vary greatly and the ways of managing them need to have flexibility. Any comments on this? Many thanks. Gail Alter Sacco Director Voorheesville Public Library 51 School Road Voorheesville, NY 518-765-2791 saccog@uhls.lib.ny.us www.voorheesvillelibrary.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:37:40 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] The New FBI Guidelines and Other Anti-Terrorism Efforts: What (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: The New FBI Guidelines and Other Anti-Terrorism Efforts: What ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and Committee on Legislation Monday, June 17, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, GWCC B406/407 The New FBI Guidelines and Other Anti-Terrorism Efforts: What Every Librarian Should Know*** In the wake of September 11, the US government has passed legislation and taken other steps to increase its eavesdropping capability--in recent days revising the FBI's critical guidelines on surveillance. Foreign governments are pursuing similar measures, such as the new Convention on Cybercrime, its controversial Protocol on Racist Speech, and data retention provisions just approved by the European Union. Come learn about the risks posed by these policies, review your rights and responsibilities under the new rules, and find out how to communicate your concerns to the President and the Congress. Speaker: Alan B. Davidson, Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Technology ***formerly entitled, "The Draft Convention on Cybercrime: What Every Librarian Should Know" See Intellectual Freedom Programs at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ifprograms.html __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 10 20:37:48 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Costs of stand-alone system vs. consortium (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karling Abernathy" Subject: Costs of stand-alone system vs. consortium Can someone who has recently selected a stand-alone system give me some idea of costs and staffing support needed? We serve a population of 80,000, with 100 computers (public and staff) on our LAN. We presently have 1 1/2 network people, one of whom interfaces with our existing multi-type consortium of 80 libraries. We have 140,000 items and a patron database of 25,000. Thanks, Karling Abernathy, Support Services Manager, Rapid City Public Library 1-(605) 394-6139, Ext 227. ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:23:00 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Children's Programming (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Johansson, David" Subject: Children's Programming To Publibbers: The Pryor Public Library (a county seat city funded library that serves 9,000 in the city and 23,000 in the county) is experiencing declining attendance in our existing story times for 3&4 year olds during the school year [due to Oklahoma offering the pre-K for four year olds]. This presents an opportunity to re-allocate resources to programming for younger children and their caregivers. Question: What storytime type of services (besides the summer reading program) do libraries that are about our size offer to young children and their caregivers? (Description and frequency of the sections offered, Target age group(s), + structure of the individual sessions of the programs would be appreciated.) As a sample reply: We used to do 2 sessions (Fall and Spring) that had 2 sections of 8 weekly sessions for 3+4 year-olds and 1 section of 5 weekly sessions for 2 year olds with their caregivers. These would involve crafts occasionally. But usually they included some sing along songs, reading a few books, and watching about an 8 minute film strip of a book. Please respond to me directly. I will summarize replies as may be appropriate by about June 18th. Thank you! David Johansson Fax: 918 825 0856 Library Director Email: johanssond@pryorok.org Pryor Public LIbrary Phone: 918 825 0777 505 E. Graham Ave. Pryor, OK 74361 From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:23:08 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Email addresses (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Dan Robinson" Subject: Re: Email addresses Better make sure that any addresses that are 'collected' know what they're going to get. Collecting email addresses for one purpose and using them for another can get you reported as spammers. Be sure that any form that asks for an email address has a note that it can be used to send library promotional announcements... and give a check box to opt out. I think you'll find that some folks won't mind overdue notices (if you email them), but draw the line at promotional stuff. Dan Robinson drobinson@hwwilson.com On 10 Jun 02, at 17:38, Jan Gilgore wrote: > Hello > My Board has come and asked if we could begin collecting E-mail = > addresses for mass announcements. Books sales, programs, etc. I know = > some of you use them for reference and reserves but does anyone use them = > for mass announcemnts. I think the postage rate increase may have = > something to do with this request. =20 > Jan Gilgore > From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:23:38 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Personnel manuals (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Michael Golrick" Subject: RE: Personnel manuals HI- This does not answer your question....but recently a worker from another city department was caught smoking in the Library. I called the supervisor, and received a copy of a letter which was sent to the worker. Interestingly, it was called a "verbal" reprimand. It reminded him that smoking in the building violates federal, state, and city laws (and the City policy is dated 1993!) What was also interesting was the last line of the letter which said that further violations "may or may not result in progressive discipline steps." Michael Michael A. Golrick mailto:mgolrick@bridgeportpubliclibrary.org City Librarian, Bridgeport Public Library -----Original Message----- Topic No. 13 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:37:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Gail Alter Sacco" To: publib Subject: Personnel manuals Message-ID: Hello all-- I am working with a staff committee to revise our personnel manual. Our research seems to indicate that common practice regarding recommendations means only verifying employment (dates and position) not actually providing a reference. Is that what you all do? Truthfully, this is not very helpful either when one is evaluating a candidate or looking for a job. Also--we use progressive discipline here, but the process is not written. One resource I used recommended that this not be written in a manual because it can be used against the library and because personnel issues can vary greatly and the ways of managing them need to have flexibility. Any comments on this? Many thanks. Gail Alter Sacco Director Voorheesville Public Library 51 School Road Voorheesville, NY 518-765-2791 From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:23:47 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Preamble Added to Questions and Answers on Privacy and (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: Preamble Added to Questions and Answers on Privacy and A preamble (which answers "What prompted the Intellectual Freedom Committee to take on the privacy question now?") was added to the Questions and Answers on Privacy and Confidentiality. This Q&A is being developed by the ALA IFC to answer questions raised in comments to date on the draft Interpetation on privacy. This preamble is available at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/privacyqanda.html#whyprivacynow The latest Q&A (updated 6/10/02 with the preamble), is the final draft copy before the ALA 2002 Annual Conference in Atlanta. The Q&A is available online at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/privacyqanda.html See also Second Draft Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights on Privacy http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/draftprivacyinterpretation.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:23:53 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Collection Development (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen Bary" Subject: Collection Development Please forgive the cross posting. What tools do you use for collection development? We have used Brodart and Baker & Taylor selection lists, but are happy with neither. There were several problems with B&T. One of the sticking points with Brodart is that in addition to charging us a hefty sum for the selection lists, the rep just advised that they consider us obligated to purchase titles from the lists only from them. That seems a little cheeky. What do you use for selection of materials? Is there something you do in addition to reading the review journals and tracking ILL requests, or is there another source for tracking reviewed titles that we should know about? What other sources of information do you use for selection of materials? I’m interested in hearing from any library of any size, but particularly from small to medium sized libraries that do not have centralized collection development departments. Thanks! Karen Bary Westminster Public Library Westminster, Colorado Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:24:12 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Publihb or Publibe (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Sarah Haman" Subject: Re: Publihb or Publibe Ah, Ha! You say tomato, I say tomaato! :) :) :) :) Sarah Haman Reference Librarian Mendocino County (707)463-4493 hamans@co.mendocino.ca.us **************************************** Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and = entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. -- Marshall = McLuhan ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:24:26 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Can't miss @lanta programs & special events! (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Laura Hayes" Subject: Can't miss @lanta programs & special events! The ALA Public Programs Office presents several educational programs and special author events that you can't miss! At the ALA Annual Conference in @lanta this week, check out: LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage Saturday, Sunday and Monday - 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Booth #2270 in the Exhibition Hall Songs & Stories from Good Ol' Girls Saturday - 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m., GWCC Auditorium; Doors open at 3:15 p.m. Seating is limited. Culture Unplugged: Authors, Artists and Musicians LIVE! @ your library Sunday - 8:30 - 10:00 am, GWCC B306 Talking About Dying Won't Kill You: Resources for End of Life Programs Sunday - 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, GWCC B306 Open Mic Poetry Reading Sunday - 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., GWCC A314 Last Acts Reception Sunday - 5 - 7 p.m., Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Calgary Room PRIME TIME: Tuning into Family Literacy Monday - 8:30 - 10 am, GWCC A403 A Place for Poetry: A Multifaceted Approach to Poetry in Your Library Monday - Part One 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Part Two 1:30 - 5:30 p.m., GWCC B403 Pass the Popcorn, Please: Viewing and Discussion Series for Adults in Libraries Monday - 10:30 a.m. - Noon, GWCC B306 Stop by the Public Programs Office booth in the Exhibition Hall - #2264. Enter our daily drawing, pick up free posters, bookmarks and postcards, and find out more about grant opportunities and cultural programming for your library. And, you can still register for the "Creating Community Dialogue: Cultural Programs for Adults" Preconference on Friday, June 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. On-site registration opens at 8:00 a.m. in the Georgia World Congress Center. Cost is $175. For more information about any of these programs, please visit www.ala.org/publicprograms/events . ALA Public Programs Office Linking Libraries, Communities and Culture www.ala.org/publicprograms publicprograms@ala.org ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:24:36 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Email addresses for "mass mailings" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Julie Bauer Subject: Email addresses for "mass mailings" I recently saw a presentation from the staff at Memorial Hall Library in Andover, Massachusetts (http://www.mhl.org/). Their patrons can sign up to receive a weekly (I think) email with library news, and they also send out occasional emails with important announcements. ===== Julie Bauer Information Services Librarian Weston Public Library Weston, Massachusetts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:24:47 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Combining Friends and Foundations (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "cindy john" Subject: Combining Friends and Foundations We are looking for information on libraries that have found it more expedient to combine their friends of the library group with their library foundation. If your library has joined the organizations, or has considered this, would you please email me personally. I will be happy to share any information I receive with anyone who is interested. Thanks once again, publibbers, for your assistance. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Cindy John Research & Planning Librarian Phone: (604) 331-4092 Vancouver Public Library Fax : (604) 331-4080 350 West Georgia St. Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B1 Email: cindyjoh@vpl.ca ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:25:12 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Director Search Announcement (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Melora Ranney Subject: Director Search Announcement Library Director Position Opening The Charles M. Bailey Public Library seeks a full-time (32 hrs/wk) Library Director to be responsible for the administration of operations and services for library services in Winthrop, a town of 6,000 in central Maine. A Masters Degree in Library Science from an ALA-accredited university and 2-5 years of experience in library administration are preferred. To apply, please send a resume and letter of application to: Director Search, Charles M. Bailey Public Library, 39 Bowdoin Street, Winthrop, ME 04364. Review of applications will begin July 1 and will continue until position is filled. Complete job description available on the Winthrop web site at: http://www.winthropmaine.org/library.htm From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:25:22 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Self service holds pickup (PUBLIB digest 2059) (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Janet Fielden Hilderman" Subject: RE: Self service holds pickup (PUBLIB digest 2059) Books are labelled with patron's surname. It is true that anyone could see what is there, but so far we haven't noticed anyone looking, and no one has expressed concern about lack of privacy. We are willing to offer the option of keeping material behind the desk, if anyone expresses this concern. -----Original Message----- From: Peg Bredeson [mailto:bredeson.peg@als.lib.wi.us] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 6:19 AM To: jhilder@rpl.regina.sk.ca Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: [PUBLIB] Self service holds pickup (PUBLIB digest 2059) Not having seen this system I wonder how people find their holds - is it by their name or barcode number? If by name, it seems like it would be quite an invasion of privacy since others could see what's waiting for you. Even by barcode number, it could be a chilling system if you want to reserve a "sensitive" item. Has a barrier been set up by using this public retrieval system? I understand that books on the shelf are public, but they don't have your ID attached to them. Just wondering... Peg Bredeson Janet Fielden Hilderman wrote: >Regina Public Library has so far implemented self service holds pickup at 5 >or 6 of its 9 locations. Our branch (annual circulation: 342,000) just >implemented self-serve holds last week. So far, all the comments have been >positive. We have the shelves about ten feet from the circulation desk, and >there is a sign instructing people to "Please collect your holds here and >take them to the desk for check-out". We still keep interlibrary loan items >behind the circulation desk, because they don't belong to us, but everything >else is on the self-serve shelves. > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:25:37 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] charging research fees (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Mark Arend Subject: charging research fees One of our libraries recently had this question come up: a local newspaper asked them to do some fairly extensive research; library staff spent a couple of hours answering the questions. Are there any libraries in towns smaller than about 8,000 population who charge businesses for extensive research? Anyone have a policy they can share? Thanks ------------------------------- Mark W. Arend, Field Services Librarian WCTS Winnefox Library System 121 Park Ave. 106 Washington Ave. Berlin, WI 54932 Oshkosh, WI 54901 (920) 361-1916 (920) 236-5220 (920) 361-3746 (fax) mailto:arend@mail.winnefox.org http://www.winnefox.org/ "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy." -- James Madison From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:25:42 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: GRAND RAPIDS, MI LIB POSITION (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Mary Lou Kowalewski Subject: RE: GRAND RAPIDS, MI LIB POSITION LIBRARIAN I: The Grand Rapids Public Library is seeking professionals with an ALA accredited MLS degree for two (2) Librarian I Branch & Children’s Services positions and one (1) Circulation Services Supervisor Librarian position. Grand Rapids is an urban system serving a regional population of 500,000 in a growing West Michigan community. Positions are full time and may require knowledge of children’s literature and programming; ability to perform reader’s advisory; knowledge of integrated library systems and professional standards; ability to plan, organize, schedule, assign and evaluate work of subordinates; knowledge of reference materials and their use; proficiency in using computers for reference service and for delivery of information; ability to effectively utilize Internet resources; ability to assess patron needs and communicate with a diverse public. Prefer successful experience working with children and young adults and supervisory and/or branch experience. Position requires evening and Saturday work. Minimum salary: $41,623 with excellent benefit package. Send resume to: Grand Rapids Public Library, 111 Library St NE, Attn: Business Office, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 or apply on-line at www.grpl.org. Position open until filled. AA/EOE From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:25:50 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Patrons placing holds (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Cris Adams" Subject: Patrons placing holds If your library allows patrons to place their own holds through your online public access catalog, what pros and cons have you found? Thanks in advance, Cris Adams Hobbs Public Library Hobbs, NM From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 11 22:26:01 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Sno-Isle Regional Job Postings for the Week of June 11, 2002 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Valerie Worrell Subject: Sno-Isle Regional Job Postings for the Week of June 11, 2002 Sno-Isle Regional Library System has an opening for Island Region Manager, 40 hours/week located at the Marysville Service Center in Washington State. Job #0239 Open Until Filled - Consideration of applications will begin on June 14, 2002. For more information and to obtain an application on this employment opportunity, please visit our website at http://www.sno-isle.org/employment/ or contact our Job line at (360) 651-7040. ___________________________________________________________________________ Valerie Worrell Sno-Isle Regional Library Human Resources Phone: 360-651-7004 Fax: 360-651-7151 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 12 02:27:29 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:14 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Tasmin Bolton to be Presented with First SS Green Award at Marketing Virtual Reference Services Program at ALA (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Stephen Coffman Subject: Tasmin Bolton to be Presented with First SS Green Award at Marketing Virtual Reference Services Program at ALA Tasmin Bolton of the University of Winnipeg Library Wins S.S. Green Award for Best Reference Transaction Steve Coffman of Library Systems and Services LLC is pleased to announce that Tamsin Bolton, Information Literacy Intern for 2001/02 at the University of Winnipeg Library has won the first $500 bimonthly award for the best transcript of a virtual synchronous reference transaction. She graduated from the Master's of Library and Information Science at McGill University in 2001. The award is named in honor of Samuel Swett Green, the founder of reference services in the United States and will be presented at ALA in Atlanta on Saturday, 15 June at the “Marketing Virtual Reference Services” program at 3pm in GWCC A302. It is all together fitting and appropriate that the Award should be presented at Marketing Virtual Reference Services, because it is the skill, expertise and dedication of librarians like Tamsin that distinguish us from so many of our competitors on the Web. This transaction was selected by a nine-member panel of distinguished practitioners and researchers panelists including Marie Radford (Pratt Institute), Marianne Sweet (SJRLC), James Rettig (University of Richmond), Tracy Strobel (Clevenet), Ilene Rockman (Editor, Reference Services Review), Barbara Quint (Editor, Searcher Magazine), and Amy VanScoy (NCSU). John Richardson, LSSI's Presidential Scholar, chaired the panel and helped maintain the single blind review status of the award. In selecting the best electronic transcript of a chat or live and real time transaction (but not an email transaction), the panel considered relevant quality factors such as accuracy of the answer, user as well as librarian satisfaction, and utility of the answer to the user. In support of their selection, members said: “I think one of its strengths is that it demonstrates that the chat medium has far more potential than many seem willing to allow it. If our standard for judging quality of any reference transaction in any medium is a well managed (open-ended questioning, confirming with the patron that information offered meets need etc.), face-to-face reference transaction, then this shows that chat can incorporate the strengths (as well as some of the pitfalls) of face-to-face. It also illustrates some of the challenges that reference librarians can expect to encounter that were absent from face-to-face (although sometimes present in telephone reference); for example, the diagnosis of the presence/absence of client software on the patron's machine is problem we can anticipate will recur, given the infinite permutations of equipment, PC speed, modem speeds, ISPs, loaded client software, user knowledge, and user comfort level.” Yet another says, “It stands out from the others for the librarian's humor, relaxed tone, and overall warm vibes. User generous in praise, information given is appropriate.” The next deadline is 14 July 2002; and interested submitters should review the panel's checklist at http://purl.org/net/checklist and then submit their transcript to http://orca.pwl.com/greenaward/green_submit.html. # 30# From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:12:50 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Children's Programming (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Margie Cyr Subject: Re: Children's Programming David: When I was the Children's Librarian in Moore, Ok, we ran a day care storytime. It met monthly and was open for all/most of the day cares in the community. We had a large meeting room so it fit many little bodies. We used the same format as a regular storytime but modified it for very large groups. For fingerplays & crafts, each day care leader would work with their individual groups on the floor. It worked very well and was successful. Later, when I was working in Maryland, the facility and community was quite different so we took the storytimes out on the road and did monthly outreach storytimes in the day care / preschool centers. It was also very popular and successful. Both types brought in many parents and families to the library than would have otherwise come if we had just limited the storytimes to stay-at-home families. Margie Cyr Director, Old Bridge NJ Public Library From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:13:06 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ALA program announcement-Reference Research Forum (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Nancy W Colborn Subject: ALA program announcement-Reference Research Forum **This message has been cross-posted; please excuse duplication** The RUSA MOUSS RESEARCH & STATISTICS COMMITTEE PRESENTS: THE 8th ANNUAL REFERENCE RESEARCH FORUM Sunday, 1:30-3:30pm, Georgia World Congress Center, Room A403 Three research projects in the field of reference services will be presented by their authors, with a discussion following. This year’s presenters are: A Comparison of Questions Asked in Face-to-Face, Chat, and E-mail Reference Interactions by Charlotte Ford, Reference Librarian, Birmingham-Southern College Library Many libraries are experiencing an increase in the number of computer-mediated reference interactions and a simultaneous decline in the number of in-person reference interactions. In this changing environment, it is crucial for us to understand how these types of interactions differ from each other. A key part of this involves understanding the types of questions that library users are asking online as compared to the types of questions they ask in face-to-face encounters. I will discuss the results of an analysis of reference questions asked via each medium in over 300 reference interactions that took place in a single library in 2001. The results of chi-square tests done to check for significance of selected differences across media will also be presented and the implications of these differences discussed. Search and Rescue: Repair Strategies of Remote Users Searching the Online Catalog by Nancy Turner, Electronic Resources Librarian, Syracuse University Library and Susan Beck, Head, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Dept., New Mexico State University Library Transactions logs from this library’s online catalog indicate that half of the searches are conducted beyond the boundaries of the physical reference desk areas. Without direct assistance from library staff, how do users search the catalog? When presented with results sets of zero or several thousand hits, how do they repair their search queries? Analyzing transaction logs allows us to virtually “peek” at search behavior and use the results to inform and improve our own reference and instruction techniques. What are Undergraduates Thinking? Implications for the Reference Interview by Etheline Whitmire, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison How do undergraduates handle ill-structured questions when completing a term paper assignment? Interviews with fifteen undergraduates revealed that students at various stages of intellectual development exhibited different information seeking behavior patterns when searching for information in general, on the Web, and using the library’s online public access catalog (OPAC). Implications of these findings for reference and information services are discussed. Eric Novotny Phone: 814-865-1014 Arts and Humanities Library Fax: 814-863-7502 Pennsylvania State University E-mail: ecn1@psu.edu University Park, PA 16802-1800 http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/arts/humanities/history/mywebs/his tory_page.htm From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:13:44 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Fwd: New ABC TV PSAs for Libraries (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Jacob Wang Subject: Fwd: New ABC TV PSAs for Libraries --- Sandy wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:12:52 -0700 > To: calix@listproc.sjsu.edu > From: Sandy > Subject: New ABC TV PSAs for Libraries > > > ALA NEWS For Immediate Release June 11, 2002 > > Contact: Deborah Davis 312-280-2148 > > ABC Television Network has produced five new public service > announcements (PSAs) featuring prime time stars talking about the > importance of today's libraries. Part of the network's Children First > series, these PSAs reflect an ongoing relationship between ABC and > The Campaign for America's Libraries, that began last summer. > > Three of the spots have been placed into national, network rotation > -- offering the library community tremendous exposure worth millions > of dollars in national airtime. These spots feature Lisa Gay Hamilton > (The Practice), Brad Sherwood (Whose Line is it Anyway) and Courtney > Thorne Smith (According to Jim) and will run through mid-September. > > Two other PSA featuring Diana Maria Riva (Philly) and Larry Joe > Campbell (According to Jim) have been made available to ABC's 219 > affiliates around the country. > > The new spots complete a package that already includes PSAs with > Meredith Vieira from the daytime talk show The View and Lynn Herring > from General Hospital. Those spots have been airing throughout the > year. > > To ensure that the PSAs featuring Riva and Campbell get airtime from > affiliates, libraries across the country are urged to contact their > local ABC television stations. A tip sheet called "Get On Board @ > your library: How You Can Promote ABC PSAs" is available online on > the campaign Web site at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/abcpsatips with > ideas for reaching out and working with local television spots now > and throughout the year, as well as contact information for local ABC > stations. The PSAs are not available for use on other networks or on > cable outlets. > > Libraries are encouraged to let the ALA Public Information Office > know if their local stations are airing the spots. Send email to: > atyourlibrary@ala.org or call 800-545-2433, ext. 4020. > > @ your library*, The Campaign for America's Libraries, is a > multi-year public education effort sponsored by ALA to speak loudly > and clearly about the value of libraries and librarians in the 21st > century. Founding partners in the campaign include Wells Fargo Home > Mortgage, Major League Baseball, Morningstar Foods Inc., maker of > Hershey's Milk, Woman's Day Magazine, 3M Library Systems, the > International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and > the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. > > For more information on the campaign, visit www.ala.org/@yourlibrary. > > Forwarded by Sandra Reuben > CLA Chapter Councilor to ALa > > -----------------------------------------------------------------calix-+ > How to get off CALIX: Subscribers are strongly encouraged to keep > abreast of CLA and California library news via this mailing list. > To sign off from the list, send email to listproc@listproc.sjsu.edu with > the following request: SIGNOFF CALIX or UNSUBSCRIBE CALIX in the body > of the message. Make sure your subject line is blank and nothing other > than the command is in the body of the message. > -----------------------------------------------------------------calix-- > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:14:50 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Combining Friends and Foundations (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Nann Blaine Hilyard Subject: RE: Combining Friends and Foundations Hi, Cindy -- There was a program about this very subject at the PLA conference in Phoenix. The speakers were from St. Paul, MN, and San Francisco. I'd suggest contacting Paul Petersen at SPPL or Susan Hildreth at SFPL. Nann @the library in Lake Villa, Illinois -----Original Message----- From: cindy john [mailto:cindyjoh@vpl.ca] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [PUBLIB] Combining Friends and Foundations We are looking for information on libraries that have found it more expedient to combine their friends of the library group with their library foundation. If your library has joined the organizations, or has considered this, would you please email me personally. I will be happy to share any information I receive with anyone who is interested. Thanks once again, publibbers, for your assistance. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Cindy John Research & Planning Librarian Phone: (604) 331-4092 Vancouver Public Library Fax : (604) 331-4080 350 West Georgia St. Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B1 Email: cindyjoh@vpl.ca ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:15:18 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Job posting (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Christine Lind Hage Subject: Job posting JOB POSTING 1 Full-Time Community Relations Specialist Clinton-Macomb Public Library Position: (including evening and weekend hours) Salary: $31,795 - $38,665 Benefits: Full Benefits Dates: Deadline for applications: July 1, 2002 Interviews anticipated: July 8, 2002 Decision anticipated by: July 15, 2002 Starting date: ASAP This person reports to the library director and will plan, coordinate and implement programs, special events and publications (newsletter, bookmarks, flyers, posters, etc.) for the library. Required skills, education and training: Bachelor's Degree in graphic arts, journalism, communications or related field as well as experience with desktop publishing Computer proficiency in office applications (Microsoft environment) Knowledge, skill and ability in the area of desktop publishing (PageMaker, Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint, Web page design) Keyboarding skills Ability to express self clearly and concisely both in oral and written form. Must be a self-starter, to manage multiple projects effectively, and to meet deadlines. Essential Functions of the job: This person will be able to perform the following essential job duties with or without a reasonable accommodation: Publications * Plans and implements a proactive media relations program for the library. * Artistic and creative ability to facilitate the design of printed pieces, displays and other presentations. * Writes and lays out a quarterly newsletter which is mailed to the entire library district. * Writes news releases for all programs and events, special announcements, change in service, and promotes community awareness of library's resources, services and programs. * Creates flyers and posters to promote library and Friends of the Library activities. * Layouts and prints the library's annual report. * Selects printers based on competitive bids * Prepares reports and materials for library board meetings. * Assembles data on library operations, collection and services for use in reports. * Prepares the monthly statistical report for board packets. * Monitors media coverage of library programs. * May from time to time contact local businesses for donations to support programs. * May write grant proposals. * Assembles and delivers board packets. Programming responsibilities * Plans and coordinates library programs for adults and children. * Handles room bookings for all library-meeting rooms. * Coordinates volunteer programs and volunteer recognition. * Creates exciting and innovative programming consistent with the mission statement of the library. * Cultivates partners for joint community projects. Assists library-related organizations in the coordination of special events, activities and programs. Marginal Functions: * Answer phones. * Supervises arrangements and assists with organization of receptions, public meetings, and fund-raisers for the library and Friends' organization. * Maintains cooperative relationship with volunteers and provides clerical assistance with their projects. * Manages library mailing list. Critical Mental Requirements Continuously: * Is accurate. * Uses good organizational skills * Able to maintain confidentiality of library records and administrative matters Frequently: * Able to work independently and assume responsibility. * Able to work effectively with associates supervisors and customers. * Able to be flexible, work under short time constraints, and meet deadlines * Able to make administrative decisions, interpret policies. * Able to interact with co-workers and supervisors. * Able to interact with the public. Critical Physical Requirements: Continuously: * Seeing * Sitting Frequently * Keyboarding * Writing to complete forms * Manual dexterity for operating small tools such as scissors, glue sticks, rulers, art supplies and digital cameras. Occasionally * Walking * Lifting, pushing, pulling or carrying objects weighing up to 50 pounds. * Stooping, crouching, reaching Apply to: Christine Lind Hage, Director, Clinton-Macomb Public Library, 43245 Garfield, Clinton Township, MI 48038-1115. Candidates should submit a letter of application, a resume, samples of previous publications and three references. Christine Lind Hage ALA Councilor at large Director, Clinton-Macomb Public Library 43245 Garfield Road Clinton Township, MI 48038-1115 USA 586/226-5010 voice 586/226-5008 fax From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:15:35 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] publications (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Kathleen McCorkle" Subject: publications We get MDSC publication bills every year and I don't even open them = since they called me last year and insisted the former Librarian had = ordered their publications. This was two years after she had passed = away. I am not sure how she contacted them, perhaps ESP mail? We are = very small and one person does it all as far as ordering goes. There = are some advantages to knowing all that goes on in your library! Kathleen McCorkle Librarian Sedan Public Library 115 N. Chautauqua Sedan, KS 67361 sedanlib@terraworld.net 620 725 3405 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:16:00 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: buying books (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Kathleen McCorkle" Subject: Re: buying books This may seem too simple but we ask people what they want. Especially = the patrons that do not come in often as those are the ones we need to = learn what to buy for. If we have what they want, we see them more = often. We also use Book List and catalogues and don't forget amazon, a = great resource. We buy mostly from B&T for adult books as they give us = the best price but We also buy from any other source we chose. =20 Kathleen McCorkle Librarian Sedan Public Library 115 N. Chautauqua Sedan, KS 67361 sedanlib@terraworld.net 620 725 3405 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:17:13 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] email announcements (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Nancy Richards Subject: email announcements As Julie Bauer recently wrote we do use email to alert patrons to new services, collections, and programs. We do it perhaps twice a month. Separately, patrons can receive email notification for reserves and overdue notices. Patrons can sign up for both of these email services on our website: www.mhl.org See "email alerts" and "email notification" on the right side. In addition, patrons may complete a paper form in the library to sign up for either service. Nancy E. Richards Coordinator of Circulation & Technical Services Memorial Hall Library Elm Square Andover, MA 01810 (978) 623-8401 fax: (978) 623-8407 nrichards@mhl.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:17:31 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Protecting CD-ROMS (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Nancy Richards Subject: Protecting CD-ROMS We have a large computer book collection and many of the titles are accompanied by a CD-ROM. These titles are very popular and are going back and forth to our consortium members via truck delivery. Recently we have gotten back quite a few cracked CD-ROMS. We do not want to circulate the disc separately from the book, but we hope someone has devised a method to protect the disc in transit or from bookdrop return. Any good ideas? Nancy E. Richards Coordinator of Circulation & Technical Services Memorial Hall Library Elm Square Andover, MA 01810 (978) 623-8401 fax: (978) 623-8407 nrichards@mhl.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:18:09 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Collection Development (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Beth Nicholson" Subject: Re: Collection Development We have subscribed to Brodart's TIPS for several years now. About a year ago they informed us that we could not renew unless we were their primary vendor, although in the past a different person had told us it didn't matter. As you say, we pay a hefty sum for it, but didn't wish Brodart to be our primary vendor. We cancelled for a couple of months, but it drove the staff crazy since it is the best way we have found for multiple staff members to mark reviews and have multiple reviews in the same place. I talked to the national sales manager about my unhappiness, but it didn't help alot. We bit the bullet and resubscribed and order the minimum figure from Brodart that they will allow us to. It infuriates me because we pay alot for the service, we hate their electronic ordering, and we get better discounts elsewhere. If anyone knows of something similar to TIPS, I'd love to try it. Beth Beth Nicholson, Director Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library 404 W. Pike Street Clarksburg, WV 26301 (304)627-2236 FAX (304)627-2239 nicholsb@clark.lib.wv.us ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Bary" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:26 PM Subject: [PUBLIB] Collection Development Please forgive the cross posting. What tools do you use for collection development? We have used Brodart and Baker & Taylor selection lists, but are happy with neither. There were several problems with B&T. One of the sticking points with Brodart is that in addition to charging us a hefty sum for the selection lists, the rep just advised that they consider us obligated to purchase titles from the lists only from them. That seems a little cheeky. What do you use for selection of materials? Is there something you do in addition to reading the review journals and tracking ILL requests, or is there another source for tracking reviewed titles that we should know about? What other sources of information do you use for selection of materials? I'm interested in hearing from any library of any size, but particularly from small to medium sized libraries that do not have centralized collection development departments. Thanks! Karen Bary Westminster Public Library Westminster, Colorado Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:18:36 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Gate Computer grants - appeals (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Lisa Solverson" Subject: Gate Computer grants - appeals Hello everyone, I've been a lurker for the past few years, and now I'm asking for some = help. Wisconsin will receive the Gates computers in 2003 and the application = is due next week. =20 Has anyone successfully appealed to receive more computers than the = Foundation assigned them, and would you be willing to fax or e-mail a = copy of your appeal? If your appeal was not successful, would you also be willing to share = your letter? We are located in a rural community of just over 4,000, open 54 hours a = week with 5.89 FTE staff. I realize I need more information than I have at my fingertips, and am = looking for ideas to have a successful appeal. Thanks in advance. Lisa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lisa Solverson, Director McIntosh Memorial Library 118 E. Jefferson St. P.O. Box 821 Viroqua, WI 54665 608-637-7151=20 608-637-8608 (fax) ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:19:41 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Gaylord and LSSI Collaborate to Develop First "Smart" Library Catalog (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Stephen Coffman Subject: Gaylord and LSSI Collaborate to Develop First "Smart" Library Catalog FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Syracuse, New York and Germantown, Maryland. Gaylord Information Systems (GIS) and LSSI announced today that Polaris will be the first library automation system to seamlessly integrate the functions of the library's public access catalog with live reference service through LSSI's Virtual Reference ToolKit. The exchange of data between Polaris and LSSI will enhance the experience of library users by providing access to a librarian at multiple points in the search process. “We’re calling it a ‘smart’ catalog”, said Steve Coffman, VP of Product Development for LSSI, “because there are librarians inside. We are taking advantage of the new virtual reference technology to offer help to patrons right inside the catalog where they most need it. And it’s not just a passive link, either. The new ‘smart’ Polaris system can sense when the patron may be having difficulty and offer live reference assistance. It is a wonderful example of what you can make when you sit down and think about how these systems can work together… and, of course, we’ve only scratched the surface here” said Coffman, “there are lots of others things we can do to integrate the reference function in the catalog and we can use a similar approach to create ‘smart’ databases and Web resources of all types.” "Gaylord and LSSI are taking significant steps toward providing a more satisfying experience for library patrons," said Anita Wagner, GIS vice president of business development. "Integrating our two systems means that if a PAC search doesn't retrieve the expected results the patron will receive an automatic prompt to initiate a reference session (like this http://www.gis.gaylord.com/images/VRT/VRT1.htm). Prompts will appear at appropriate points during the search process, reminding patrons that reference help is readily available. We are excited to be the first ILS vendor to work with LSSI to integrate our two products in such a way that will help library patrons find what they need and reduce the frustration that can be associated with PAC searches. No other ILS vendor is even coming close to providing this type of integration to virtual reference services," added Wagner. The system also makes it easy for a patron to enter a virtual reference session. “We already have their patron record in the catalog,” said Wagner, “ we can use that to automatically log them on to a reference session … and all the patron has to do is ask a question.” (http://www.gis.gaylord.com/images/VRT/VRT4.htm) Patrons using Virtual Reference ToolKit can choose to maintain with LSSI a history log of their reference transactions. These logs can then be displayed within their Polaris patron accounts, providing patrons with a single point of access to information about their library account (http://www.gis.gaylord.com/images/VRT/VRT2.htm and http://www.gis.gaylord.com/images/VRT/VRT3.htm to see an actual transcript) . "Polaris users already can access their patron accounts for information on fines and fees, items checked out, and items on hold," Wagner said. "Now, they can use the same patron account to track open reference queries and access a log of completed reference questions and answers." "Virtual reference is all about meeting patrons where they are, and providing the specific reference assistance they need at that point. The breadth and richness of resources provided by Polaris guarantees heavy use by patrons, and immediate, live reference assistance neatly completes the picture," said Coffman. "Tightly coupling virtual reference with a library's online catalog puts the service exactly where-and when-the need for help arises. Plus, it is one of the most effective and least expensive ways of marketing you service --- if you put your service in front of your patrons when they need help, there is a much greater likelihood they will use it. The new ‘smart’ Polaris catalog will debut at the Marketing Virtual Reference Services program at ALA (3:00-5:30 Saturday, June 15, Room A302 GWCC) … or come and see it for yourself at the Gaylord exhibit at ALA (Booth 1518) or LSSI (Booth 846). Or contact us on the Web at http://www.gis.gaylord.com/ or LSSI at vrhome.virtualreference.net We look forward to seeing you all there. From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:20:01 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] public library membership fees (for local residents) (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Shelley Mardiros" Subject: public library membership fees (for local residents) Question: Are there any public libraries in the U.S.A. that charge LOCAL RESIDENTS an annual fee for a membership card (or borrowers' card) to borrow books from their local public library? Background: I know that Alberta and Quebec are the only provinces in Canada where some public libraries charge an annual fee to local residents for the card that permits them to borrow books. (Fees range from a few dollars to $25+ per year for a membership card). About half of Quebec libraries charge local residents membership fees, and every major library in Alberta (with the exceptions of Banff and Lloydminster Public Libraries) charges local residents annual membership fees. I believe that Alberta and Quebec are the only jurisdictions in North America where this practice (charging annual library membership fees to local residents and rate-payers) is in place. I would like a citation to support this belief (or a citation to prove I'm wrong, if there are U.S. public libraries that charge local residents an annual fee for a borrowers' card.) I'm not referring to fees charged to non-residents. I'm not referring to other kinds of fees (to rent a room, or borrow a-v materials, or pay for photocopies etc.) I am a member of the (fee-free!) Banff Public Library board. I have just been elected to the Alberta Library Trustees Association board and am advocating elimination of public library membership fees for local residents across Alberta. I have searched extensively for a U.S. jurisdiction where local residents pay an annual fee for a borrowers' card at their local public library, and I have not found any. But that is not quite the same as providing evidence (or a source or a citation) that US public libraries do not charge local residents an annual membership fee. Can anyone help me? I would be very grateful. Proving a negative has got me stumped. Please direct any relevant info to mardiros@telusplanet.net From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:20:28 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] eNewsletter Possibilities: Topica? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Joe Cadieux Subject: eNewsletter Possibilities: Topica? http://www.email-publisher.com/signup/faq.html If so, any thoughts on its value would be appreciated. jcadieux@westhartford.org West Hartford Public Library Community Services Division Thank you. ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:21:14 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Funny "stumper" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Pineville Library" Subject: Funny "stumper" Today a customer called for a poem her sister used to read her, and she = couldn't remember the name of the poem, but was sure the poet was named = Reward Chipland. (She spelled the last name.) While I realized who = was sought when I heard this, my colleague at the reference desk didn't = immediately, and checked the standard sources. When she asked the = caller if she was certain of the spelling of the last name, she was = first told it was Shipman instead of Chipland, then that it might have = started with a K.=20 My staffer asked "Could it be Rudyard Kipling?" "Yes!" was the reply. To further identify the poem, L. asked if she = remembered the first line. =20 "Oh, yes. "By the seas of Hoochie Coochie" "Gitchee Goomee?" =20 "Yes! That's it."=20 L. explained that this poem is by Longfellow instead of Kipling, offered = to send her a book containing the work, and left her satisfied (and us = chortling). =20 This story supplants the one of our high schooler who didn't believe me = when I swore we had no books about George Washington's sojourn at Fort = Knox....but probably not the oft-repeated story of the patron desiring = the 'poem about the red boat"=20 (The Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam).=20 Happy reference!=20 Ron Day, Asst. Director Bell Co. Public Libraries http://www.tcnet.net/~pinevillelib ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:21:42 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Kalamazoo County (MI) Community Information Database on CD ROM (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Saul Subject: Kalamazoo County (MI) Community Information Database on CD ROM The Kalamazoo Public Library announces its newly-developed Kalamazoo Area Community Information Directory on searchable CD-ROM for 2002. The new CD features the library’s entire database of 2,368 businesses and 939 social and human services agencies, self-help organizations, and community service groups in Kalamazoo County. Kalamazoo Public Library began to enter information about the local area into databases in 1972. Staff now contacts each business, agency and organization listed to update information each year. Business records include SIC codes, sales figures, workforce composition, import, export and government contracts, and ownership information. Agency/organization records include goals and services, geographic area served, fees and other sources of support. Many records list web sites and email addresses; with an Internet connection, these become live links. The new directory on CD-ROM, which is designed for Windows 98 and higher, was introduced in May, 2002. The new product costs $19.95 plus $2.00 for shipping and handling. For more information on the new Kalamazoo Area Community Information Directory on CD-ROM, or to place an order, please call (616)553-7844 or write the library at the address below. -- Community Information Database Kalamazoo Public Library 315 S. Rose St. Kalamazoo, MI 49007 -- ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:22:28 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] C-Span Coverage of White House Conference on School Libraries (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Maxwell, Eileen" Subject: C-Span Coverage of White House Conference on School Libraries Dear Colleague, On June 4, 2002, Laura Bush hosted a White House Conference on School Libraries to discuss the latest research on libraries, student achievement and successful local programs. Mrs. Bush was joined by her co-host, Dr. Robert Martin, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and education, library, government and philanthropic leaders from across the country. Experts and panelists offered compelling stories of the power of school libraries to make a difference in student achievement. You can watch C-Span's coverage of the White House Conference at: http://www.cspan.org/classroom/ Also, copies of the conference proceedings can be downloaded from the IMLS Web site at: http://www.imls.gov/pubs/whitehouse0602/whitehouse.htm Eileen Maxwell Public Affairs Specialist Institute of Museum and Library Services 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Suite 510 Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8339 202-606-8591 (fax) emaxwell@imls.gov Subscribe to Primary Source, the IMLS monthly e-mail newsletter, for important museum and library news http://www.imls.gov/utility/subscrbe.htm. From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 14 14:31:41 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:15 2005 Subject: PUBLIB Party 6-8 Friday at Omni Message-ID: One last reminder... tonight, Friday, 6-8 p.m. at the Omni Hotel, Webfeat will be hosting the PUBLIB get-together at the Omni Hotel, which is very close to the Georgial World Congress Center. Everyone is welcome--subscribers, spouses, hangers-on. I still don't have a suite location. I will be there early with th ebag of buttons, and will ensure ththat the concee concierge is alerted. Perhaps we can brible someone to sit in the lobby and wave people to wherever this event takes place! Excuse my typing--PUBLIB is extremely slow today and it is hard to correct the text. Take care, see you there (SARA will be there too!!!) Karen G. Schneider PUBLIB co-moderator From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:42:36 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Assistive Devices (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "A. Courtney" Subject: Assistive Devices We are looking into purchasing assistive devices to aid access to our holdings and equipment by patrons with disabilities. We identified Zoom Text and JAWS for possible purchase. Is there anyone on the listserv with experience with either of these or similar products, and who can answer to the following questions? Is it compatible with WinSelect security? Does it work equally well with Netscape, Internet Explorer, and word processing? How difficult is it to set up on a system? How is the tech support from the company? How difficult is it for a patron to figure out and use? We noticed there are libraries that have both. How are the products different? We are looking into tools to help people with low vision as a first round. We are aware of a need for adjustable height tables and TTY. What other situations or devices should we consider in our next round? Aida Courtney Branch Head Courtney@netrom.com Lake Hiawatha Branch Library Parsippany-Troy Hills Public Libraries, NJ From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:42:48 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Subject: >From Cindi@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US Mon Jun 17 09:27:10 2002 Received: from dmcpl.dayton.lib.oh.us ([66.213.25.2]) by sunsite.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12487 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dayton.lib.oh.us ([131.187.96.149]) by DAYTON.LIB.OH.US (PMDF V5.2-31 #38905) with ESMTP id <01KJ1CNW88AM006Q1V@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US> for publib@webjunction.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:26:38 EST Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:25:43 -0400 From: Cindi Chibis-Fladen Subject: position posting X-Sender: "Cindi Chibis-Fladen" To: publib@webjunction.org Message-id: <3D0E0D87.53C09519@dayton.lib.oh.us> Organization: Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en]C-dmcpl-staff (WinNT; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en Please post: Reference Librarian Main Library The Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library is seeking a Reference Librarian at the Main Library. This Main Library Division maintains collections in the areas of local history, genealogy, magazines and government documents. Job Responsibilities: Under the direction of the Division Manager. Responsibilities include: selects, organizes, and maintains the Dayton Local History Collection in an efficient and orderly manner; provides staff orientations to the Collection and related indexes as needed. Provides general reference service at the Local History and other reference points; develops and maintains ready-reference collection for the Local History reference desk; answers local history correspondence. Provides direction to Local History Clerk and library aides in the Local History Room and develops displays and other promotional materials. Job Qualifications: Ability to use Internet and other new information technologies and excellent community relations skills required. Awareness of Division services, collections, indexes, research tools and the local history of Dayton a plus. MLS and experience with historical collections preferred. Fringe Benefits: Salary $30,617.60-$34,340.80 with exceptional fringe benefits. Location: The Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library is the 8th highest rated urban library in the nation. Dayton is an attractive city with a low cost of living. The city offers a surprising variety of cultural and educational institutions within a twenty mile radius. Ohio’s libraries are among the best funded in the country and the Dayton and Montgomery County Library enjoys strong local support. Application Process: Send letter of application and resume to Cindi Chibis-Fladen, Personnel Manager, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, 215 East Third Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402. From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:43:13 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] In-Reply-To: <200206191728.KAA25220@webjunction.org> Message-ID: Don, please resend with subject... btw, it's probably not you, we had server probelms! On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 publib@webjunction.org wrote: > This message was submitted by to list publib@webjunction.org. If you > forward it back to the list, it will be distributed without the paragraphs > above the dashed line. You may edit the Subject: line and the text of the > message before forwarding it back. > > If you edit the messages you receive into a digest, you will need to remove > these paragraphs and the dashed line before mailing the result to the list. > Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you > should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. > > ----------------------- Message requiring your approval ---------------------- > Sender: > Subject: > > >From dwood@ala.org Mon Jun 17 10:08:06 2002 > Received: from smtp.ala.org ([66.158.92.200]) > by sunsite.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17470 > for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:08:06 -0700 (PDT) > Received: from ALA-MTA by smtp.ala.org > with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:10:51 -0500 > Message-Id: > X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.2 > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:10:39 -0500 > From: "Don Wood" > Subject: The New FBI Guidelines and Other Anti-Terrorism Efforts: What > Every Librarian Should Know > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-874 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > The slides from the program, "The New FBI Guidelines and Other > Anti-Terrorism Efforts: What Every Librarian Should Know," sponsored by > the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and Committee on Legislation, and > presented at the 2002 ALA Annual Conference, will be available online at > > http:\\www.cdt.org\ala > > by this afternoon (June 17, 2002) or tomorrow. > > Speaking at the program (Monday, June 17, 10:30 am–12:00 pm, GWCC > B406/407) was Alan B. Davidson, Associate Director, Center for Democracy > and Technology. > > The program description: > > In the wake of September 11, the US government has passed legislation > and taken other steps to increase its eavesdro/pping capability—in > recent days revising the FBI’s critical guidelines on surveillance. > Foreign governments are pursuing similar measures, such as the new > Convention on Cybercrime, its controversial Protocol on Racist Speech, > and data retention provisions just approved by the European Union. Come > learn about the risks posed by these policies, review your rights and > responsibilities under the new rules, and find out how to communicate > your concerns to the President and the Congress. > > The program was audiotaped. For information on how to purchase the > audiotape, please contact the Office for Intellectual Freedom, > nperez@ala.org. The program will also be published in the Newsletter on > Intellectual Freedom. For information on how to subscribe, please > contact the Office for Intellectual Freedom, nperez@ala.org. > > See also > > USA Patriot Act > http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotact.html > > and > > Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom > http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/nif_inf.html > > > __________________________ > > Don Wood > Program Officer/Communications > American Library Association > Office for Intellectual Freedom > 50 East Huron Street > Chicago, IL 60611 > 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 > Fax: 312-280-4227 > dwood@ala.org > http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ > http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html > intellectual freedom @ your library > Free People Read Freely* > > "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek > and receive information from all points of view without restriction. > It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which > any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. > Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and > disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A > http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html > From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:43:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] library dedication programs (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Michelle Gibbs Subject: library dedication programs Hello, Our library is planning to open our new building in January or February of next year, and we are starting to get our dedication ceremony organized. Does anyone out there in publibland have a leftover program that they would be willing to share with us? Thanks in advance for your assistance. By the way, you're all invited to our dedication -- watch our website for details! ________________________________________________________________________ Michelle Gibbs, Adult & Administrative Services Librarian Cudahy Public Library voice: 414-769-2245 4665 S. Packard Ave. fax: 414-769-2252 Cudahy, WI 53110 email: michelle.gibbs@mcfls.org http://www.mcfls.org/cpl ____________________________________________________________________________ From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:43:51 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] public library "choice" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Kate Wolicki Subject: public library "choice" I have been thinking about public school choice debates and have come to a question: how well does "public library choice" work for small libraries? Let me define this better: taxpayers pay for their local "home" library but use a nearby community's larger library instead. At my library, we get a lot of out-of-district patrons who insist that their (often smaller) home libraries are terrible. They use our library despite ILL & Bestseller restrictions. We encourage them to visit their home library but are not averse to serving them by letting them check books out or ask reference questions. Some of these patrons have not used their home library in years, and only return "home" to renew their library cards. I had long assumed that these non-district patrons generally balanced out between libraries, but now I'm not so sure. I wonder: do these patrons defeat referenda for their home libraries because they think their library is too small to be any good? Does the lack of home library use by these library-goers cause lower stats that make the library unable to defend its need for MLS staff, larger numbers of books, etc, causing the library to become poorer monetarily and in other ways? Do smaller libraries resent larger ones serving "their" patrons directly? Does "public library choice" make poor libraries poorer or worse? (and, which is not an appropriate question for this listserv, but might be a good question for another: if so, would school choice end the same way?) I am NOT suggesting that small libraries = poorer service or that poorer libraries = poorer service, just wondering how large and small libraries and library academics (I think that's a good way to describe us Publibbers) feel about this issue. Kate Wolicki From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:44:34 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest 2061 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: KTDyer@aol.com Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2061 IMHO, recognizing the imperfections of filtering programs is a great step. How could filtering be perfected? Just asking the question--who makes the judgment and by what criteria?--to me eliminates the possibility of a "perfect" filter. Also, the contents of the Internet change drastically daily. While I would rather see the decision based on the need for local control rather than federally mandated "one size fits all" solutions, I still do not see how the criteria of a "perfect" filter could be met. I have a friend who has said she is going to read the 195-page decision. If I get info from her, I'll post it. --Karen Dyer who is THRILLED about CIPA and thinks it was about time for some good news! > If we follow that logic, then will filters be > permissible if they can be perfected? I think some > people would still have objections to filters even if > they worked perfectly. Who gets to decide what is > pornography and what isn't? The filter manufacturers? > > What do you think? Has anyone out there studied the > decision? I'd love to hear that I'm wrong. > > Julie Bauer > Weston Public Library > Weston, Massachusetts > ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:44:46 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBL"long i"B (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: KTDyer@aol.com Subject: Re: PUBL"long i"B In a message dated 06/08/2002 4:21:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, publib@webjunction.org writes: > In her talk, she mentioned Publib, and > pronounced the word with a long i. It will always be PUBLIB (long "i" as in "library") to me. --Karen Dyer ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:44:51 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Job Announcement (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Linda Funk" Subject: Job Announcement Anderson Public Library, approx. 40 mi. NE of Indianapolis in IN, needs a full-time experienced Computer Systems Technician for installations, networks, troubleshooting, and instruction. The job requires a BA/BS degree in a computer field, applicable work experience, plus excellent communication and people-skills. Starting salary range: $29,392-$36,733 yr. minimum, with great benefits! See details at www.andersonlibrary.net to apply by June 30. EOE Linda Funk, HR Mgr., Anderson Public Library, 111 E 12th St Anderson IN 46016; lfunk@and.lib.in.us ; fax 765-641-2468; phone 765-641-2199. From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:44:58 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Subject: >From twirick@erielibrary.ecls.lib.pa.us Tue Jun 18 09:41:55 2002 Received: from erielibrary.ecls.lib.pa.us (erielibrary.ecls.lib.pa.us [63.160.38.132]) by sunsite.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10533 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from StaffWorkroom (fakehost-10-0-1-99 [10.0.1.99]) by erielibrary.ecls.lib.pa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA09090 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:32:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000e01c216e7$165c4f40$6301000a@StaffWorkroom> From: "Terry Wirick" To: "PUBLIB" Subject: General Science Index offer Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:42:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Our library has the General Science Index from June 1988 to May 1994 = that we would like to offer to any interested library. Only charge would be for the postage to send it to you.=20 We would like a reply by July 5th. Thanks, Terry Erie County Public Library ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:45:04 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Privacy and the Public Library: Implications (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Marija Sanderling Subject: Privacy and the Public Library: Implications Privacy and the Public Library: Legal and Philosophical Implications for Librarians. SPIF (The Society for the Promotion of Intellectual Freedom) is proud to present Jon Meyer, Attorney from the firm of Backus, Meyer, Solomon, Rood, and Branch, LLP, Manchester, NH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2002 at 10:00 a.m. at the SEABROOK LIBRARY 101 Centennial Street Seabrook, NH (603) 474-2044 Attorney Meyer has worked with and for the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union for many years. He will be addressing and assessing the issue of Privacy and the Public Library: Legal and Philosophical Implications for Librarians. Please join us for a discussion on this important issue. The facility is fully handicapped-accessible. Free admission and free refreshments! All are welcome. ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:45:09 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] call for contributors (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "ICT Editor" Subject: call for contributors Hi all - I'm seeking article contributors for the next two issues of the Info Career Trends electronic newsletter for information professionals. ICT seeks short, practical articles that advise career-minded librarians on professional development issues. Personal experiences are solicited; the tone is friendly and focused on individual career development rather than on how best to run a library. Please note that these are thematic issues, and address queries toward the appropriate theme. September's theme, "professional communication," encompasses all aspects of communicating professionally, including writing for publication, participating electronically, presenting at workshops and conferences, and creating online and offline content. November's theme, "specialization," encompasses topics such as the process of planning for a specific career in librarianship, escaping being pigeonholed in one specialty or field, changing specializations, and making decisions on an area of specialization. Please feel free to query on topics not specified in these lists, just ensure that your query fits into the appropriate issue theme. Contributor guidelines are accessible online at http://www.lisjobs.com/newsletter/theme.htm#contrib . Address all queries via e-mail to editor@lisjobs.com ICT is a free, bimonthly e-mail newsletter. More information can be found online at http://www.lisjobs.com/newsletter/ . Thanks, - Rachel -- Subscribe to the free Lisjobs.com professional development newsletter, Info Career Trends! http://www.lisjobs.com/newsletter/ -- From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:45:45 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Statement Regarding CIPA Case (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: Statement Regarding CIPA Case According to Jenner & Block, the three-judge panel in the CIPA case held that the FCC and IMLS cannot withhold funds on the ground that a public library has failed to install mandatory filters on every computer. The Court held that "[b]ecause of the inherent limitations in filtering technology, public libraries can never comply with CIPA without blocking access to a substantial amount of speech that is both constitutionally protected and fails to meet even the filtering companies' own blocking criteria." While this decision is directly binding only on the agencies and is not a directive to any particular library, the factual findings and legal conclusions of the Court may serve as useful precedents for other lower courts. ALA thus urges any library using mandatory filtering software to consult with legal counsel to reevaluate their Internet Use Policy and assess the risk of future litigation. __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:45:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Job posting: Reference Librarian (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: wanda green Subject: Job posting: Reference Librarian Tom Green County Library System in the bustling West Texas community of San Angelo is seeking a reference librarian for the adult services department. In performing adult services functions: provides reference services to patrons using both print and electronic resources, serves on Collection Development Committee, and assists in administration of Adult Services department. Master's Degree in Library Science required. Salary: $ 25,567/ Year, + benefits package. Position open until filled. Applications can be downloaded at http://www.co.tom-green.tx.us/personnel/ Cheers, Wanda Green Wanda.Green@co.tom-green.tx.us Coordinator, Adult Services Tom Green County Library 113 West Beauregard San Angelo, TX 76903 915-655-7321; FAX:915-659-4027 From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:46:06 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Car Repair Databases (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Dani Lichtenberg Subject: Car Repair Databases I am writing to see which libraries subscribe to online car repair databases such as Alldata, Mitchell 1, or Chilton. Do patrons like them? Can patrons access the database(s) from home? How is the ease of use, and usefulness? We are currently considering adding a product of this kind to our list of databases, and would like to hear about your experiences with the various products available. Any information you can provide will be welcome! Thank you, Dani Lichtenberg Palm Beach County Library System p005386b@pb.seflin.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:46:14 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Kate Wolicki Subject: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem I'm so frustrated about this I could spit. When we first migrated to a web-based catalog, we found that Internet Explorer has a nasty habit. There is an "Autocomplete" function that can be turned on to complete web addresses (mildly annoying), passwords (argh), and "forms" which apparently means ANYTHING TYPED IN A TEXT BOX. Now, we want Autocomplete to be off altogether, because otherwise it saves patrons' catalog searches & search engine searches. Obviously a major privacy issue. So, we turn autocomplete off. Explorer's nasty habit is that when Autocomplete is off, it constantly asks patrons if they would like to turn it on. And, never stopping to read popup boxes, patrons always click "yes" or "okay" and Autocomplete is back on again, saving searches and web addresses. What kills me is Autocomplete, unlike most everything else on our computers, remains at the settings at which the patron left it even after the computer is restarted. So you can never say, oh, okay, it's morning, I don't have to check on Autocomplete until this afternoon. Comp Serv tells us there's nothing they can do about this, that it's IE's little twist. They can neither make the settings automatically Autocomplete-off, nor keep IE from asking people "do you want to turn Autocomplete on?" Has anyone else noticed this problem or come up with a fix? I am crossing my fingers that a Publibber can help. Kate Wolicki Niles PLD From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:46:43 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Do you have more questions about CIPA/NCIPA? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: Do you have more questions about CIPA/NCIPA? I am gathering additional questions about CIPA/NCIPA on behalf of an author of a CIPA FAQ. See: http://www.llrx.com/features/cipa.htm by noted lawyer Mary Minow... If it doesn't answer your questions, send them to me at kgs@bluehighways.com Thanks! Karen G. Schneider PUBLIB co-mom From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:46:48 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Call for Shy BOOK REVIEWERS (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "SHY LIBRARIAN magazine" Subject: Call for Shy BOOK REVIEWERS THE SHY LIBRARIAN magazine (www.shylibrarian.com) is now seeking book reviewers for fiction and non-fiction titles for ADULTS. THE SHY LIBRARIAN is a quarterly, ad-free, print magazine with a focus on library marketing, public relations, and programming. Currently the magazine also reviews roughly 100 new books per issue, primarily books for children and teens, as well as many professional titles. Later this year, SHY will expand in size and scope and begin regularly reviewing dozens of new books for adult readers, predominately from independent, small, alternative, and university presses. WANTED: Serious reviewers only (you must work in a U.S. library or an academic institution), please apply to become a SHY book reviewer at: www.shylibrarian.com/shyreviewerapply.htm Thank you. THE SHY LIBRARIAN Magazine 67 Van Buren Avenue West Hartford, CT 06107 USA 860-521-4182 www.shylibrarian.com reviewers@shylibrarian.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:46:56 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Quote for the Day (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "GraceAnne A. DeCandido" Subject: Quote for the Day For your delectation and amusement: Computers in Libraries, May 2002. from a list of things overheard at the Computers in Libraries Conference, March 13-15: - "The problem is, we librarians are really, really smart. And the rest of the world just isn't." GraceAnne A. DeCandido, MLS Blue Roses Consulting ~ Writing ~ Editorial ~ Web Content New York City ~ ladyhawk@well.com http://www.well.com/user/ladyhawk/gadhome.html Ten Graces for New Librarians http://www.well.com/user/ladyhawk/albany.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:47:03 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Computer Desks -- Recommendations? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Gerry Vogel Subject: Computer Desks -- Recommendations? Disclaimer: I am posting this message on behalf of a friend/associate in the library community who is not a regular "lister" and not an employee of my library. Does anyone have specific recommendations on COMPUTER DESKS or TABLES and CHAIRS to purchase for a forthcoming computer training lab? Ones that would hold two computers each for a total of 14-16? Specific models or manufacturers (or distributors one can get these from) will help. Cost is not the main issue -- mainly, do they WORK WELL? Do you LIKE THEM? Please reply direct unless you think other list members might be interested as well. -- ========================================================= Gerry Vogel, Assistant Manager, Adult Services Division Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library 215 E. Third St., Dayton OH 45402 tel:937-227-9559, fax: 937-227-9528 www.dayton.lib.oh.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:47:54 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] computer lab web sites (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "George Bergstrom" Subject: computer lab web sites Hello publibbers... I want to thank everyone for the responses and apologize for the lenght of time between request and summary. After receiving many helpful suggestions and tips of sites to check out, we were very close to going live with our new site, so I thought I'd wait and then include a link to what we had done. We did finally decide to make the labs a department, so after coming to our web site ( www.vigo.lib.in.us) follow the link to departments and click on the 'computer labs'. Below I list some of the sites people sent, that I consulted and found helpful. Thanks again for all your help. George ------------------------------------------------------ Anderson Public Library www.and.lib.in.us Aurora Public Library http://odyssey.aurora.lib.co.us/screens/ncl.html Chicago Public Library: Computer Connection www.chipublib.org/003cpl/computer/cscomputer-connections.html Cyber Centers of Arlington Virginia www.co.arlington.va.us/lib/cyber/ Lexington Public Library: Computer Center www.lexpublib.org/compcenter/index.html Richmond Public Library: Ironwood Branch Technology www.rpl.bc.ca/rplinfo/ironwood/faq/technology.html --------------------------------------------------------------- George C.A. Bergstrom Computer Lab Supervisor Vigo County Public Library One Library Square Terre Haute, IN 47807 www.vigo.lib.in.us gbergstrom@vigo.lib.in.us (812) 232 - 1113 ext. 403 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:47:58 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Bi-lingual library signage (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Michelle Swain" Subject: Bi-lingual library signage Hello!, or should I say Ola! I just received a grant to get bi-lingual english/spanish signage for our library, and I am looking for some suggestions for vendors, styles, etc. The primary library vendors have custom signage available, but I'm also looking to replace our english/ADA signs with english/spanish/ADA signs, and I haven't found a source for these. I don't want to take a regular sign and add the spanish underneath, because this looks to me like an afterthought, and I'm trying to communicate a sense of normalcy not exception. Does this make sense? I was hoping that maybe some libraries in the Southwest might have some nice signs and a vendor they could recommend. Reply to me direct, and I'll summarize for the list. Michelle ----- M i c h e l l e R. S w a i n Director, Arkansas City Public Library 120 E. 5th Avenue Arkansas City, KS 67005-2695 VOICE (620) 442-1280 FAX (620) 442-4277 mswain@acpl.org http://www.acpl.org/ From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 16:49:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: Jobs in Marin CA Message-ID: SENIOR LIBRARIAN (BRANCH MANAGER) APPLICATION CLOSING DATE SALARY July 26, 2002 by 5:00 pm $4,743-$5,644/Monthly* RECRUITMENT #: 0402-02-05 YOU'RE INVITED TO APPLY: The Marin County Human Resources Department and the Marin County Library Department are announcing a recruitment for Senior Librarian (Branch Manager). The eligible list established from this recruitment may be used to fill the current vacancy at the Civic Center Branch and any other vacancies that may occur. Eligible lists remain active for a minimum of six (6) months. TENTATIVE EXAM SHEDULE: Depending on the number of qualified candidates, a supplemental application screening may be used to determine which candidates will be invited to the oral interview examination. ORAL INTERVIEW EXAMINATION: August 13, 2002 (Tentative Hiring Interview Date by Library Department: August 29, 2002) Duties: Under administrative direction, a Senior Librarian (Branch Manager) directs the day-to-day activities and performs professional library services in a large branch library. Oversees the activities and supervises subordinate supervisory, professional and support staff. Duties may include but are not limited to the following: t Plans, schedules, supervises directly and through subordinate supervision, coordinates, reviews and evaluates the work of assigned professional and support staff. t Recommends staff selection and disciplinary action when appropriate; evaluates the work of staff; trains staff in work procedures. t Participates as a member of the administrative team in planning for the assigned function; makes budget recommendations to administrative staff; monitors the budget for the assigned function. t Reviews, selects and recommends de-selection of books, videos, audio and electronic materials and information resources to meet community needs. t Coordinates the development of branch collections; plans and conducts programs and exhibits for the local community. t Represents the library before local community groups and communicates library policy and budget priorities to the public; seeks input from local groups and individuals regarding library policy and collections; and maintains communication with the local press. EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS: Possession of a Master's degree in an appropriate library curriculum from an ALA college or university and three years of experience as a professional librarian, two years of which were at a journey, lead or supervisory level in a public or academic library setting. Experience in a public library setting is highly desirable. t Knowledge of: Principles, practices, and techniques of library science and service; principles and techniques of staff supervision and training; reference materials and automated and non-automated reference search techniques; resources and activities of the community to which assigned; and principles of communication and for obtaining input into community library resource needs. t Skill in: Planning, organizing, supervising, reviewing and evaluating the work of assigned staff; training staff in work procedures; monitoring a budget and making effective operational and procedural recommendations to administrative staff; evaluating and responding appropriately to community needs; and making effective presentations to public groups. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Will be required to work evenings and weekends. LICENSE: Some or all positions in this classification may require possession of a valid California driver's license. Employees who drive on County business to carry out job-related duties must possess a valid California driver's license for the class of vehicle driven and meet automobile insurability requirements of the County including review of a recent DMV history. The County will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability upon request. If a driver's license is required, at the time of the selection interview by the appointing authority, applicants will have to furnish a recent DMV driving record. ON LINE APPLICATIONS: You may apply on line at: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/Jobs From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 18:04:26 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: Shy Librarian Message-ID: The Summer 2002 issue of THE SHY LIBRARIAN (www.shylibrarian.com) is now out. SHY is a quarterly, ad-free, print magazine with a focus on library programming, public relations, and marketing. The Summer issue features: . The Last Unicorn? Library Outreach Where You Might Not Expect It By Kimberley Barker, Outreach Librarian & Asst. Professor, Georgia College & State University, Ina Dillard Russell Library. . Getting the Bugs Out: Insuring Safe and Successful Library Programs By Brett W. Lear, Library Manager, Jefferson County Public Library, Lakewood, Colorado. . It's Cool Having Teens Work in the Library... It's Cold When They're Not Paid By Kurstin Finch Gnehm, Program Officer, Urban Libraries Council, Manager of the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds-supported "Public Libraries as Partners for Youth Development" initiative. . Dear Biblia: Library Advice Column "Dear Biblia" is Amanda Credaro, who is also known at the Warrior Librarian [ Full Text Available: www.shylibrarian.com/archives/Summer2002/dearbiblia02sum.htm ] . Standing Ovations and Rave Reviews: Tulsa's Approach to Staff Recognition By Barry Hensley, Tulsa City-County Library System, Chair, Library Employee Recognition Committee, Tulsa, Oklahoma. [ Full Text Available: www.shylibrarian.com/archives/Summer2002/tulsa2002summer.htm ] . Custom Or Service: What They Want Versus What We're Giving By Peter Lisker, Interim Management Person (IMP), Department of Extension Services, Buffalo & Erie County (NY) Public Library. . There Are So Many Books... So Little Time Opinion Column by Gerry Molyneaux, Media Librarian & Library Book Discussion Leader, West Hartford Public Library, Connecticut. . Writing a Weekly Library Newspaper Column Jonathan Sabin, Information Coordinator, Manatee County Public Library System, Bradenton, Florida. . A New Frontier for an Academic Library By Martha Bace, Assistant Professor for Monographic Cataloging at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. . Editor's Column: Effectively Handling Library Communications in a Crisis By Marcia Trotta, Director, Meriden Public Library, Meriden, Connecticut . Just What Would Sallie Askew Do? By Lisa Bartle, Reference librarian at the California State University, San Bernardino. [ Full Text Available: www.shylibrarian.com/archives/Summer2002/askew02sum.htm ] . The Mobile Library A Short Story by Liz Palmer QUOTE: After the children left, Chloe looked at her messy van. "Here's a job I've been looking forward to - tidying up." Chloe kissed Trevor's felt mouth with the mouth of the Nutsy costume. "Thank you - for everything." . This issue of THE SHY LIBRARIAN also includes over 80 reviews www.shylibrarian.com/books/summer2002/reviews.htm of new books for children and teens, as well as reviews of professional books for librarians and teachers. SHY reviews are written by librarians and teachers in the United States of America. To contribute to THE SHY LIBRARIAN, please send an email to: publisher@shylibrarian.com THE SHY LIBRARIAN Magazine 67 Van Buren Avenue West Hartford, CT 06107 USA 860-521-4182 www.shylibrarian.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 18:05:03 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Robert Sullivan" Subject: Re: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem > Comp Serv tells us there's nothing they can do about this, that it's IE's > little twist. They can neither make the settings automatically > Autocomplete-off, nor keep IE from asking people "do you want to turn > Autocomplete on?" Has anyone else noticed this problem or come up with a > fix? I am crossing my fingers that a Publibber can help. If you're using Windows NT, go to this Registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms and set the AskUser value to a (DWORD) 0 and it will stop asking this question. If you're using another version of Windows, it should be in a similar place. Bob Sullivan Schenectady County Public Library Schenectady Digital History Archive From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 18:05:12 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Julie James" Subject: RE: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem You didn't mention what version of IE you're using, but this covers most of 5 and 6: Adjusting AutoComplete Settings To modify your settings for the AutoComplete feature or clear all items from the list of form or password suggestions, follow these steps in Internet Explorer: On the Tools menu, click Internet Options . Click the Content tab. Click AutoComplete . Click to select the appropriate AutoComplete check boxes, or click Clear Forms or Clear Passwords to clear all saved items from the appropriate AutoComplete history. [UNCHECK ALL OF THEM FOR PUBLIC MACHINES] Click OK , and then click OK . http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q217148 HTH- Julie ~ Julie James Thomasville Public Library 14 Randolph Street Thomasville, NC 27360 336/474-2696 direct 336/474-2690 branch 336/472-4690 fax jjames@co.davidson.nc.us -----Original Message----- From: Kate Wolicki [mailto:Kwolicki@nileslibrary.org] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:02 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [PUBLIB] MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem I'm so frustrated about this I could spit. When we first migrated to a web-based catalog, we found that Internet Explorer has a nasty habit. There is an "Autocomplete" function that can be turned on to complete web addresses (mildly annoying), passwords (argh), and "forms" which apparently means ANYTHING TYPED IN A TEXT BOX. Now, we want Autocomplete to be off altogether, because otherwise it saves patrons' catalog searches & search engine searches. Obviously a major privacy issue. So, we turn autocomplete off. Explorer's nasty habit is that when Autocomplete is off, it constantly asks patrons if they would like to turn it on. And, never stopping to read popup boxes, patrons always click "yes" or "okay" and Autocomplete is back on again, saving searches and web addresses. What kills me is Autocomplete, unlike most everything else on our computers, remains at the settings at which the patron left it even after the computer is restarted. So you can never say, oh, okay, it's morning, I don't have to check on Autocomplete until this afternoon. Comp Serv tells us there's nothing they can do about this, that it's IE's little twist. They can neither make the settings automatically Autocomplete-off, nor keep IE from asking people "do you want to turn Autocomplete on?" Has anyone else noticed this problem or come up with a fix? I am crossing my fingers that a Publibber can help. Kate Wolicki Niles PLD From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 18:05:32 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Michael Moore at ALA / Regal Cinemas (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Andrea Johnson Subject: Michael Moore at ALA / Regal Cinemas Has anyone heard of a letter-writing campaign to Regal Cinemas in regards to Michael Moore's new film, "Bowling for Columbine"? (Moore spoke at ALA Annual on Monday and mentioned that Regal has announced, sight unseen, that it will not show his film at any of its theaters.) I'll be writing a letter to Regal with respect to their censorship, but I'd be happy not to re-invent the wheel, and I was wondering if anyone had heard about this. A brief web search turned up nothing about Regal's decision. I was hoping we'd all be up in arms to defend this film. Anyone else interested in helping me draft a letter and raise some hell? Andrea Johnson andielib@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 18:05:49 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] reading the CIPA decision (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: mbobkoff@cybermesa.com Subject: reading the CIPA decision Over on the Web4Lib list, Andrew Mutch from the Waterford, MI library system suggested that if possible people should actually _read_ the CIPA decision. I took his advice--well, I'm only up to p.12 of 50 [!] of a printout I made in very tiny type, but I've skimmed ahead to see where it's going--and am really glad I've begun. Judge Becker (or his clerk, I suppose) is surprisingly readable and jargon free. Not sure it's what you want to curl up on the couch with after work, but extremely rewarding to have an independent observer's view of libraries, the internet, society, public fora, and filter technology. If you've got the time and energy (and eyesight), well worth reading. Miriam Bobkoff work: mbobkoff@ci.santa-fe.nm.us Santa Fe Public Library home: mbobkoff@cybermesa.com [ Santa Fe Poetry Broadside ] [ http://sfpoetry.org ] [ now featuring Issue #27, June 2002 ] From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 18:10:45 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: We're back! Message-ID: Yes, there was a hiatus of a couple of days, so if you didn't receive posts from 16-19 June, not to worry..it's sending, not receiving end! Nice to meet many of you at the very generous WebFeat PubLib reception. the geographic range represented was impressive..as was, as I said, the thought of how many millions of people you/we collectively serve in our libraries. ALA reminded me, again, of how very much I like librarians..what smart, engaging, funny! committed people. Hooray! you... Sara Weissman, co-moderator From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 21:56:51 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: We're back! (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Andrea Johnson Subject: Re: We're back! The WebFeat PUBLIB reception reminded me, again, of how very lucky we are to have this listserv, and how unique and cool it is. So Hooray! back to our esteemed co-moderators -- thanks for making this great thing possible. Andrea Johnson --- PUBLIB wrote: > Yes, there was a hiatus of a couple of days, so if you didn't receive > posts from 16-19 June, not to worry..it's sending, not receiving end! > Nice to meet many of you at the very generous WebFeat PubLib reception. > the geographic range represented was impressive..as was, as I said, the > thought of how many millions of people you/we collectively serve in our > libraries. > ALA reminded me, again, of how very much I like librarians..what smart, > engaging, funny! committed people. Hooray! you... > > Sara Weissman, co-moderator > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 21:57:02 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest 2061 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Sue Kamm Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2061 Let us not forget that filters were initially designed for use on private home computers. I still believe that the best filter against sexually explicit or other material that a parent finds offensive for his or her child is that parent sitting with the child and helping it make judgments about what's appropriate and what's not. We librarians have enough to do dealing with students who expect us to be mind-readers in assisting them to do their homework, breaking up fistfights between two people who want the WALL STREET JOURNAL and want it RIGHT NOW!, and keeping an eye on the slice-and-dice folks who scissor out pictures from books and magazines (copies of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS resemble Swiss cheese) to baby-sit little darlings on computers. -- Your friendly CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor-at-Large, Sue Kamm Truest of the Blue, Los Angeles Dodgers Think Blue Week 2000 email: suekamm@mindspring.com Visit my web page: http://suekamm.home.mindspring.com/index.htm "Fernando Valenzuela has pitched a no-hitter. . . . If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky." -- Vin Scully, June 29, 1990 From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 21:57:11 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Car Repair Databases (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Annette Weiss Subject: Re: Car Repair Databases Yes we subscribe to Alldata. The librarians thought it was wonderful and we proceded to weed many, many print manuals. In fact the librarians prefer the database but the patrons do not. I have called Alldata and they have been very helpful and friendly. However people who know (those would be people who work on cars) are not impressed. Annette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So let me get this straight: You want information about why reference librarians always answer a question with another question, right? Annette Weiss Phone: (248) 553-0300 Adult Services Librarian Fax: (248) 553-3228 E-Mail: weissann@metronet.lib.mi.us Farmington Community Library 32737 W. 12 Mile Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 48334 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Dani Lichtenberg wrote: > I am writing to see which libraries subscribe to online car repair > databases such as Alldata, Mitchell 1, or Chilton. Do patrons like them? > Can patrons access the database(s) from home? How is the ease of use, and > usefulness? > > We are currently considering adding a product of this kind to our list of > databases, and would like to hear about your experiences with the various > products available. Any information you can provide will be welcome! > > Thank you, > Dani Lichtenberg > Palm Beach County Library System > p005386b@pb.seflin.org > > > > > > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 21:57:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: public library "choice" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Sue Kamm Subject: Re: public library "choice" Using the California model (which may not reflect how the issue may be treated in other states), most public libraries are part of a city or county government. Except for special library districts, public library boards do not have direct taxing authority. Bond issues -- usually for new libraries or renovation of old ones -- have been placed on assorted ballots. As fallout from Prop. 13 [ptui, ptui,ptui], some library districts and cities have attempted to establish special taxing districts to enable them to collect more revenue. California has a program going that have alleviated the problem you describe. One is Universal Borrowing. What this means is that any library which is a member of Universal Borrowing will get X dollars for transactions conducted by people outside the taxing district. The other solution, which has been used by libraries who are serving non-residents of their service area, is to charge a fee for library cards. One library, located near the border of Ventura County and Los Angeles County, charged $100 per year for their card. IIRC, cards are free for those who live, work, or attend school in the city. If Illinois libraries are a taxing body, these solutions might not work. Implementing some kind of statewide program with transaction-based reimbursement from the state government may help, but you'd doubtless have to work on the legislature and governor to get the necessary legislation. -- Your friendly CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor-at-Large, Sue Kamm Truest of the Blue, Los Angeles Dodgers Think Blue Week 2000 email: suekamm@mindspring.com Visit my web page: http://suekamm.home.mindspring.com/index.htm "Fernando Valenzuela has pitched a no-hitter. . . . If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky." -- Vin Scully, June 29, 1990 From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 21:57:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Dove Subject: Re: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem In the same dialog box where you turn off autocomplete, there should be an option to "Prompt me to save passwords." Uncheck this and it won't prompt anymore. Dove Engle West Asheville Branch Library Asheville NC From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 20 21:57:31 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:16 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest 2061: CIPA decision (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Dan Robinson" Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2061: CIPA decision Personally, I feel that the decision might have gone the other way, or not been so decisive if the filtering companies didn't insist that their blocklists were proprietary. With open blocklists, a library could make an informed decision about how to set the parameters of the filter. And, mistakes could be corrected quickly. Dan Robinson drobinson@hwwilson.com On 20 Jun 2002 at 14:00, KTDyer@aol.com wrote: > IMHO, recognizing the imperfections of filtering programs is a great step. > How could filtering be perfected? Just asking the question--who makes the > judgment and by what criteria?--to me eliminates the possibility of a > "perfect" filter. Also, the contents of the Internet change drastically > daily. > While I would rather see the decision based on the need for local > control rather than federally mandated "one size fits all" solutions, I still > do not see how the criteria of a "perfect" filter could be met. From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 11:30:28 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ALAET- June 21, 2002. No. 95. (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: kmccook@tampabay.rr.com Subject: ALAET- June 21, 2002. No. 95. A LIBRARIAN AT EVERY TABLE June 21, 2002. No. 95. Sources and Sites for librarians building community. http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/ CONTENTBANK FOR LOW-INCOME & UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES Contentbank.org, is a new online resource for information, tools and people dedicated to building Internet content that works for low-income and underserved communities.It is a project of the Children's Partnership, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, that undertakes research, analysis, and advocacy to place the needs of America's nearly 70 million children and youth,particularly the underserved, at the forefront of emerging policy debates. The hallmark of The Children's Partnership is to forge agendas for youth in areas where none exist, to help assure that disadvantaged children have the resources they need to succeed, and to involve more Americans in the cause for children. http://www.contentbank.org/homepage.asp CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND TAX-CUT STUDY Annual effects of the new tax cut over the next decade, shows the giveaway makes it one of the most lopsided tax cuts in history: Americans with average incomes over a million dollars will be handed an astonishing $121 billion in tax cuts in the year 2010 alone--more than all the rest of American taxpayers combined according to a new analysis of the 2001 tax cut issued by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Children's Defense Fund. Click on "New analysis." http://www.childrensdefense.org/whatsnew.php URBAN MOBILITY REPORT The mobility provided by the nation's transportation system is the subject of discussion everyday. The 2002 Urban Mobility Report provides data on the performance of some elements of the transportation system in 75 urban areas.The nation's longest-running study of traffic jams this year shows urban congestion growing in three increasingly visible ways:The time penalty for making "rush-hours" trips is greater. The period of time that travelers might encounter traffic ongestion is longer. The number of streets and freeways that are congested is higher.These statistics provide the comparative data needed to balance transportation needs and opportunities with other societal imperatives whether those are other infrastructure assets or other programs. http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/ -- Kathleen de la Peña McCook kmccook@tampabay.rr.com University of South Florida, Library & Information Science A Librarian at Every Table http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/ From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 11:30:39 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] request for the address of an american publishing firm (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: =?iso-8859-1?q?Joel=20Diedhiou?= Subject: request for the address of an american publishing firm Dear Publibbers, I am in search for the electronic address of the american publishing firm, KAMAROON. Can anybody overthere help me ? Thanks in advance Joel Eric DIEDHIOU Responsable de la Documentation du Centre Africain d'Etudes Supérieures en Gestion ( CESAG.) Bld du Gle De Gaulle BP 3802 Dakar Sénégal( West Africa) Tel. (221) 839 73 60 ; fax (221) 821 32 15 E-mail : jdiedhiou@yahoo.com http://www.cesag.sn --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 11:30:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: public library "choice" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Julie Bauer Subject: Re: public library "choice" Kate raises a very interesting issue about large libraries pulling in patrons from smaller towns. We are a small library that draws patrons from some larger towns. There are various reasons, some of them temporary --the library in one neighboring town is being rebuilt -- others based on perceived differences. I have heard from out-of-town patrons that they come here regularly for the following reasons: more parking, easier to get to, more liberal rules on computer usage, nice staff (I love that one), no fees for videos or bestsellers, shorter lines at the circulation desk. So, as they say, size isn't everything. I suspect the reverse is true as well, and some of our townspeople go to other area libraries. Those people may put value on different qualities, such as a larger collection or perhaps foreign language materials, of which we have very few. Or they may perceive our "friendly" staff people as intrusive. Or we may have failed to waive a fine they thought they shouldn't pay. Or they don't like the color of the carpet. Or I remind them of the evil Mrs. Smith who taught second grade. I'm not sure how much of this would apply to public school choice. I hope (I really really hope) that parents would approach the choice of schools more carefully than our patrons do the choice of libraries, since the stakes are so very much higher. ===== Julie Bauer Information Services Librarian Weston Public Library Weston, Massachusetts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 11:30:58 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Hard Times in Denver, Too (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: Hard Times in Denver, Too http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E687211%257E,00.ht ml "Eleven full-time and three part-time Denver Public Library staff members will be laid off to help offset city and state budget cuts totaling more than $4.67 million. The library also will reduce spending for books and materials and trim statewide services. "City Librarian Rick Ashton said, 'Our guiding principle in reducing staff is to make the reduction in such a way as to have the least impact on services to the public.'" ---------------------------------------------- Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw lii.org: Information You Can Trust! ---------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 11:31:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] I Dreamt the Death of Free Speech Now (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." Subject: I Dreamt the Death of Free Speech Now Greetings, A musing on the CIPA: I Dreamt the Death of Free Speech Now To the tune of I dreamt I saw Joe Hill last night by Earl Hawley Robinson "I dreamt the death of free speech now..." I dreamt the death of free speech now In every library. But judges know, as amendments go, Free speech can't die, it's first. Free speech can't die, it's first. In CIPA, once there was a plan to halt the knowledge flow They're using kids; and that's a crime, but Free speech is still not dead. Free speech is still not dead. If Proper Types can kill free speech The Constitution will not stand. Takes more than bills to change the law, Free speech just will not die. Free speech just will not die. But standing there as big as life Is the @ we still can use... So send this on, for free speech sake It's time to organize It's time to organize Free speech ain't dead, It cannot die, you see. When library users need to know Librarians are on their side Librarians are on their side >From San Diego up to Maine, In school and library People seek and find truth in Free speech and libraries! Free speech and libraries! I dreamt the death of free speech now In every library. But judges know, as amendments go, Free speech can't die, it's first. Free speech can't die, it's first. For reference: In 1914, during struggles over free speech in Utah, IWW organizer and songwriter Joe Hill was, most people said, framed on a murder charge. Even appeals from President Wilson did not stop his execution in 1915. Fellow Wobbly songwriter Earl Hawley Robinson wrote "I Dreamt O Saw Joe Hill Last Night" at a leftist summer camp in 1936. In 1967 Bob Dylan angered some, including no doubt recently un-blacklisted Robinson, and inspired others with his variation, "I Dreamt I Saw St. Augustine." "I dreamt I saw Joe Hill Last Night" by Earl Hawley Robinson http://crixa.com/muse/unionsong/u017.html -------------------------------------- I also have a longish piece on the first ever copyright case - involving St. Columba, the monk who would have been Ireland's patron saint but for his banishment to Scotland because he started a war by copying a prayer book! The king ruled "to every cow its calf, to every book its owner." Some have rumored that this "Battle Book of the Clan O'Donnell" may still be around... Let me know. Thomas J. Hennen Jr. thennen@haplr-index.com http://www.haplr-index.com Voice: 262-886-1625 Fax: 262-886-5424 6014 Spring Street Racine, WI 53406 "Share knowledge, seek wisdom." From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 11:31:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Pryor Library Children Services replies summary (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Johansson, David" Subject: Pryor Library Children Services replies summary Dear Publibbers: Thank you to everyone that replied to my posting on children's services re-structuring at the Pryor Public Library. The replies are helpful. Carole Fior gives an excellent summary of the services offered in Florida that also applies to the responses that I received. Following her reply are several replies that spell out the services offered at particular libraries. Carole D. Fiore Library Program Specialist/Youth Services Consultant Florida Department of State Division of Library and Information Services R. A. Gray Building Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 Many places are finding that since many mothers are now working, there are fewer and fewer children to attend traditional story times that are offered during the day. Many libraries have had success doing family story time programs in the evening or on the weekends. You can also take your story time service out to the child care centers where the children are during the day. The children are there -- not at home with their parent or care giver. You could also find out from the department of licensing who the home based child care providers are. These are typically much harder to reach as they cannot transport the children to the library for programs and they need your services desperately. You can also start working in partnership with the department of health, WIC centers, birthing centers, and other child serving agencies to offer Born to Read type programs where parents of newborns are provided information about reading aloud to their children. This, too, is primarily an outreach program. Children's librarians need to get out into the community to reach children and their families. Feel free to call or e-mail me if you need additional information. ******************************************** We do a separate story-time for 3 year-olds, story-times for 4-5 year olds, and a set for 2 year-olds, as well as a lap-sit program for 0-24 month olds. We have established an outreach program to area day-care and pre-school facilities. Our Children's person visits each day-care or pre-school on the list once a month for a storytime, no craft included. She may take along a puppet or some flyers about an up-coming library program, or just a flyer that says something to the effect of "The public library visited us today and I got to hear a story," with our library name, address, phone, and website on it, with a picture to color in. A local charter school (K-2 grades) visits us weekly, one class per day, for a story and basic library skills instruction (they have no in-house library. For the most part, we have to sell the day-cares/pre-schools on the idea. However,once sold, they like that we do visit. As we have money in the budget, we will add day-cares to our list of places we visit. ************************************************* We started a program where we bring story-time to them. We go to Head Start and eight local daycares. We trained volunteers to do the story-time and most go once per week some go every other week. The same volunteer goes to the same daycare. The initial purchase of new books was funded by a Laura Bush Literacy grant. We grouped them in "Story-time Packets" which included books, songs, finger plays and a few have little crafts. Some have a theme and some don't. The Volunteer records which packet they use at each daycare so repeats won't happen for quite a while. The volunteers pick up the packets at the library sign in their volunteer hours and then return the packets. As a related service, we have bins of 20 books and for each classroom the volunteer visits they also deliver the book ins. The next time they visit they bring a new bin of books and pick up the old ones. The books in the bins are checked out to the daycare and come from our regular children's collection. I gather the bins and then check them out every week. I rotate the bins alphabetically and when the last school is done with them, they are cleaned and then put back in to regular circulation. This means that every week, I am rotating bins and selecting 3 new bins of books. This way the teacher has appropriate high quality books in the classroom between visits. This program began in September 2001. It appears to be appreciated by the schools, children and parents. We occasionally give out bright stickers at our library programs that say "I visited my public library today" We also printed some that say "My public library visited me today" to bring to the daycares. We have profiled some of our volunteers in our newsletter and the local newspaper did an article followed by a number to call if you'd like to volunteer. Our most successful group of volunteers in this program are retired teachers, but we still could use more volunteers. This does require some funding to have the storytime packets and it does require some time to recruit, screen and train volunteers. The follow-up once we have a regular volunteers is mainly greeting and saying how much her time volunteeringis appreciated. You could decrease your sessions for the general public and invite daycares to book a session for their school. Many daycares have transportation and could come to you. ****************************************** In addition to our toddler and preschool story hours, the Public Library offers a Baby Lap-sit story hour once a week for a half an hour for children aged 3 months through 2 years and their caregivers. The children's librarian does simple songs with hand gestures, has a selection of children's toys spread out on a large decorated bed sheet, and, of course, reads some stories. Our story hours go from September through May, with every age group meeting once a week. Our Summer reading program goes for 6 weeks in June and July, and we include a Baby Lap-sit program in that too. Parents can earn prizes for their children by reading to them. We think you're never too young to be read to! **************************************** 2 suggestions: 1. Offer storytimes for children ages 6 mos. to 2 years. We have baby time and toddler time as well as preschool story-time. The story-times for the youngest ones are VERY popular. There is lots of good literature on emergent literacy and early brain development that backs up doing a storytime of this type and there are lots of good books on how to do it. 2. Do programs AT the preschools. ********************************** My name is Linda Ernst, Children's Librarian for the King County Library System in Washington and author of Lapsit Services for the Very Young (Neal-Schuman, 1995) and Lapsit Services for the Very Young II (Neal-Schuman, 2001). Developing library programs and services for young children, under the age of 3 years, and their caregivers is a much needed and in my opinion vital part of public library service. Here are a few ideas for story times with the very young: * Toddler story time for children ages 2-3 years old with adult. Offer this program in the mornings since afternoon naptime will impact attendance. I do my program at 10:30am before the library opens and end at 11am so everyone can then go right into the library and look at books. Programs consist of stories with simple plots and often in rhyme, interactive songs, flannel stories, and nursery rhymes. At the end of each program the children are given an activity sheet to take home and continue the language building experience, simple craft to do or booklist that reflects the theme of stories, if there was one. * "Mother Goose on the Loose" or "Lapsit" - Offer 2 sessions (fall and spring) which can be held one evening a week for the month, running 4-5 weeks. Ages 12-24 months with caregiver. Registration may be use to limit size of group or not. The program consists of nursery rhymes, action rhymes, age appropriate stories and songs/music. The program would last about 20-25 minutes with a "sharing time", art activity or playtime for children to interact and adults to connect at the end. This program may also be offered once a week during the day (we find 10:30am the best for our branch) or even once a month throughout the school year. The above program outlines and other program ideas, age appropriate program materials, various services and how to evaluate your community in order to see how best you can serve this age group can be found in both of my books. I do programming for infants, pre-toddler (12-24 months) and 2-3 year olds. By re-allocating resources to serve the very young you will be encouraging life-long library users not only of the children you will serve, but the adults as well. Thank you. Linda L. Ernst dljernst@earthlink.net Lapsit Services for the Very Young. Neal-Schuman, 1995. Lapsit Services for the Very Young II. Neal-Schuman, 2001. *********************** David: This is an issue that is impacting my children's programs as well here in New Jersey. For the last five years I have been doing programming with very young children. I have a 15 minute nursery rhyme program for 6 months to 17 month old children and their caregivers. I use a combination of flannelboards, puppets, creative dramatics and other things based on well known fingerplays and nursery rhymes. For ages 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 I do a 20 minute mother goose nursery rhyme program. Caregivers always included of course. Again, I use a variety of methods to introduce these mother goose rhymes to the children. There is a Toddler Time program for children, ages 2 1/2 - 3 1/2, and their caregivers. This program, which is approximately 30 minutes long, is based along the lines of a more traditional storytime. I use shorter stories, fingerplays, flannelboards, etc. Sometimes a craft is included, but it's not a good idea to get the patrons used to having a craft all the time. Especially if staffing is an issue in your library. ********************************************** When I was the Children's Librarian in Moore, Ok, we ran a day care storytime. It met monthly and was open for all/most of the day cares in the community. We had a large meeting room so it fit many little bodies. We used the same format as a regular storytime but modified it for very large groups. For fingerplays & crafts, each day care leader would work with their individual groups on the floor. It worked very well and was successful. Later, when I was working in Maryland, the facility and community was quite different so we took the storytimes out on the road and did monthly outreach storytimes in the day care / preschool centers. It was also very popular and successful. Both types brought in many parents and families to the library than would have otherwise come if we had just limited the storytimes to stay-at-home families. Years ago in Baltimore County, we noticed this trend with more working mothers, more daycare, etc. making it difficult for people to attend week after week. Instead of enrolling children for 4-weeks of storytimes, we went to special event story times. One was Winnie the Pooh's Birthday Party, another was Big Bird Storytime, or Easter Parade. That way they could attend one even if not able to come weekly. That pulled the attendance back up. They also tried Pajama Storytimes where it was held in the early evening and the kids came in pajamas. I was lukewarm about those. Virginia Allain Weslaco Public Library Director 525 S. Kansas Avenue Weslaco, TX 78596 phone: 956-973-3138 fax: 956-969-4069 or 956-968-8922 David Johansson Fax: 918 825 0856 Library Director Email: johanssond@pryorok.org Pryor Public LIbrary Phone: 918 825 0777 505 E. Graham Ave. Pryor, OK 74361 From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 12:51:01 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Kathryn Bloomberg Subject: Re: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem I too am having problems with AutoComplete on our web-based catalog. I unchecked the "prompt me to save passwords" box and the AutoComplete box still pops up. Anyone have any other ideas on how to make it stop? Thanks, Kathy Bloomberg-Rissman Principal Librarian Upland Public Library 450 N. Euclid Ave Upland, CA 91786 909 931-4202 kbr@ci.upland.ca.us -----Original Message----- From: Dove [mailto:dove8@bellsouth.net] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 6:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: MS Internet Explorer 5 Privacy Problem In the same dialog box where you turn off autocomplete, there should be an option to "Prompt me to save passwords." Uncheck this and it won't prompt anymore. Dove Engle West Asheville Branch Library Asheville NC From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 12:52:16 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] CIPA and a backwards glance (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: CIPA and a backwards glance I haven't talked much about filtering for a while, as I consider myself a "filtering expert emeritus." I have long completed the most important goal I set for myself--to give our profession a vocabulary and framework for understanding this issue. It was extremely satisfying to hear the theories and facts first shared as "new information" profession-wide in the mid-90s referred to as standard profession-wide knowledge in 2002. I wasn't alone in this work, but in 1996, when I first explored this issue, there weren't many other librarians looking at filtering, and at times I did feel my shorts flying in the breeze (no problem--they stay dry that way). There were also several dozen librarians--some PUBLIB'ers, which you may pronounce any way you like it--who helped examine filters for The Internet Filter Assessment Project. In retrospect--and this may be a gender-based problem--I took far too many pains to point out that this project was "unscientific." Most of the "studies" that came out since then were neither as detailed, structured, for that matter based on actual librarian and user behavior as TIFAP. Quite a bit of the "expert analysis" offered to support mandated filtering was neither. Some of it appeared to have been typed with one hand. ;) The really expert work happened in the background, without fanfare, by people many of you will never meet, and helped earlier court actions set the stage and conduct the dress rehearsals for the decision you read about CIPA. Protests from the vendors to the contrary, the facts about filtering have changed little (I have often said that the publisher could almost get away with a reprint of my original book with "2nd Edition" on the cover and title page, and no other changes). Filters continue to be inherently flawed tools for managing anything as subtle or elusive as intellectual content--"mechanical tools wrapped around subjective judgment," as I have written--patrons continue to find the Internet overall a great tool, a handful of patrons continue to find new ways to abuse library services, including Internet access, and libraries continue to find new ways to manage their Internet access. I have periodically followed up on the technology, and not surprisingly, there are no new earth-shattering technologies. Anyone who tells you otherwise is blowing smoke up your behind. Amazingly, the courts recognized that librarians really are intimately aware of their communities' needs, and are able to fine-tune their policy and procedural approach to Internet access using such tools as are now available (in my talks, I often said that library managers should always be given enough rope to hang ourselves). Those libraries that let the Internet manage itself soon learn that failure to act is also a decision--but failure to manage should not be confused with failure to filter. Ironically, for an issue that began with librarians painted as mindless drones controlled by an unseen politburo, we demonstrated repeatedly what we know from other library services: every library community is different. Some of the librarians testifying on behalf of the government made the best argument *against* CIPA; libraries in northern California shouldn't be controlled by library management decisions made in South Carolina. As for the library professor who testified on behalf of the government--I had to grin--can any Illinois graduate imagine Leah Estabrook (former dean) testifying on behalf of CIPA? We also became very sophisticated in our discussions--far more ingenuous than people assume librarians can be (sometimes the assumptions made about our profession are excellent protective coloring). The mandatory-filtering camp made the argument repeatedly that the early arguments against filtering referred to keyword blocking, so a lot of us put the emphasis on site blocking, lest we appear unsophisticated. In reality, the newsletter I publish every week has been blocked a number of times by servers around the world--sometimes when we reference gay topics, but sometimes for reasons unclear to any of us--and I have long heard convincing stories demonstrating that despite what you might think, keyword blocking is far more prevalent than either side of the court case realizes. But we learned to play by the rules. Maybe next time we will learn how to set the rules ourselves. There are other lessons learned, but I'll save those for another day. Where am I going with this discussion? I don't know. It's Friday, and I'm procrastinating over finishing the part of a LSTA grant that makes me nutty--plugging in the numbers over and over again, as if reframing the data 18 times made me a better librarian. At any rate, I enjoyed Tom's Ballad of CIPA, I shouted with joy when the CIPA decision was announced, and despite a couple of small concerns, I really do think the Supreme Court is very reluctant to interfere with the essence of the First Amendment and dictate such draconian censorship. And finally, I think the filtering battle has made us confront and examine some of the deepest issues we have had to worry about in librarianship. We are not a "rubber stamp" profession, and we can provide our own adult supervision, thank you very much, without unwanted or unwarranted assistance from vendors, courts, or censors. ---------------------------------------------- Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw lii.org: Information You Can Trust! ---------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:43:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: public library "choice" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Anne Christensen Subject: Re: public library "choice" I'm presuming this is a specific geographical area like a city vs. county or different townships within a county? Our circulation system allows us to keep statistics on borrowers who are outside our borrowing area. We have a reciprocal agreement with the rest of the county which it tracks. It also tracks how many cards are issued to users outside the county but within the state and how many are from the other 49 states. I don't know if it's collegiality or part of some agreement, but the numbers are passed to the local municipalities so they can know how many of their clients need our services. Might such a report be possible in this case? This would put the responsibility of PR and service improvement on the other libraries - as well as giving them "ammunition" for their own budgeting battles! Anne Christensen Librarian II Phoenix Public Library achriste@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:43:58 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Car Repair Databases (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Anne Christensen Subject: Re: Car Repair Databases We now subscribe to ALLDATA and it is available via any pc in our buildings. They do not offer remote access. I'm not sure any of them do as they would surely lose their primary customers - auto repair shops - in the process. Our patrons adore Alldata for 2 reasons - 1) the diagrams are to die for and 2) they no longer are frustrated by missing pages in our Big 'Ol Mitchell's Manuals. Alldata does have some printing quirks which are their problem, not ours, but our patrons still like having it. (The quality of the diagrams and their readibility is still outstanding, it's just a bit circuitous to print) We still receive Mitchell's on CD at our central library. It offers a slightly different look at the information and the printing may be a bit easier for the average user to understand. Anne Christensen Librarian II Phoenix Public Library achriste@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us > > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:44:30 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: Internet Privacy Issues, take 2 (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:55:07 -0400 From: Miriam Neiman To: plib2@webjunction.org Subject: Internet Privacy Issues, take 2 Thanks for the information on autocomplete and IE 5.0. We hope it works for us, too. When I shared it with my director, she had another question for the list: Does anyone have written town policies for what information is made available on the Internet? For instance, a citizen in our town is quite concerned that dog license information is available on the web. The town's GIS information is also publicly available. Other towns may choose not to post this information or to password protect it. Apparently, the town manager has gathered a group of people from various departments to address this issue and create a policy. If they have some examples to follow, it would make their job somewhat easier. TIA, The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer. Miriam Neiman YA/Reference Librarian/Web Page Mistress Welles-Turner Memorial Library Glastonbury, CT http://www.wtmlib.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:44:36 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Hard Times in Denver, Too (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Blake Carver" Subject: Re: Hard Times in Denver, Too Bah Humbug. I'm not sure how many stories I read everyday, but on any given day I'd say I see more than a few dozen library oriented stories. Most times I don't post them to LISNews, and we don't read them on PUBL'eye'B because they are of local interest, but this sad story reminded me that the bad news gets more press than the good. For every story on cutbacks, layoffs and even closings, there is another covering a new library, a new program to increase funding or some other good news. Just hit any news search engine, and do a search on library, libraries, or maybe librarian. Read a few of the good ones, and let them sink in, and pass them on for everyone to see. "We" {librarians} get more good stories than bad, and I think over all we're doing ok. This one from the USAToday probably got the widest circultion: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020620/4208527s.htm "The American Library Association checked out of its annual convention in Atlanta on Wednesday, after hushing critics who predicted the Internet would make libraries irrelevant. The evidence: near-record levels of spending on library construction and surges in visitors amid the economic downturn. More than $686 million was spent last year to build 80 libraries and renovate 132 others, a 15% rise in spending over a decade ago" ----------------------------- Blake Carver LISNews.com Librarian and Information Science News http://www.lisnews.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen G. Schneider" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: [PUBLIB] Hard Times in Denver, Too > http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E687211%257E,00.ht > ml > > "Eleven full-time and three part-time Denver Public Library staff > members will be laid off to help offset city and state budget cuts > totaling more than $4.67 million. The library also will reduce spending > for books and materials and trim statewide services. > From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:45:02 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Hard Times in Denver, Too (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: RE: Hard Times in Denver, Too Blake, as one library jernlist to another, I totally agree there is much good news out there, and we should certainly share it with one another. However, I saw this post as list-worthy because: * It showed up on another, non-librarian list, with some interesting discussion that followed * I thought the article had some intriguing angles that might stimulate discussion--like the couple at the end of the article who thought libraries should bite the bullet, even though they are in libraries 8 hours per week! * "Overall," libraries are NOT doing o.k., financially, and before states go final with their budgets and library services throughout our nation are decimated, we need to be screaming this from the rooftops. This specific story is something many of us can relate to right this moment--I'm living out the day-to-day suspense of what it means to be funded by an entity that has just had an 80% cut, and could be due for more, and my story is better than most, because I think we'll actually survive. (Isn't our balladeer, DatCalmGuy Tom Hennen, about to publish an article about our national funding woes?) I would very much like a Smile To Be My Umbrella, but for right now many of us will settle for cold cash. All the good will in the world won't keep library doors open without it. If I'm wrong about the national funding crisis in our libraries, somebody, please correct me. ---------------------------------------------- Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw lii.org: Information You Can Trust! ---------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:45:07 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Auto repair Manuels (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Kathleen McCorkle" Subject: Auto repair Manuels I know librarians like the data bases best but they are very hard to lay = on a work bench or under a car with a work light on them while you are = working on a car or truck. For something very minor it could be printed off but my spouse would = look at me like I had lost it if I suggested going to the library (he = has to clean up and change clothes) go to the library, looks at the = info, (goes home and changes clothes) crawling under or into the area = he needs and then finding out he needs a little more info than he = originally thought. Then (he has to clean up change clothes) goes back = to the library.......... We check out all kinds of craft, sewing and = cookbooks, why would auto manuals be different? I know they get dirty = but so do our other books. Peanut butter anyone? Kathleen McCorkle Librarian Sedan Public Library 115 N. Chautauqua Sedan, KS 67361 sedanlib@terraworld.net 620 725 3405 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:45:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: CIPA and a backwards glance (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Dan Robinson" Subject: RE: CIPA and a backwards glance Speaking of CIPA, this is just out: >From the NY Times online: High Court to Consider Net Filters By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:23 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration renewed its legal fight against Internet pornography on Thursday, asking the Supreme Court to permit Congress to pressure public libraries to block sexually explicit Web sites. A three-judge panel in Philadelphia last month struck down the Children's Internet Protection Act, which would have taken effect next month......... http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Filtering.html Dan Robinson drobinson@hwwilson.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen G. Schneider [mailto:kgs@bluehighways.com] > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:04 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [PUBLIB] CIPA and a backwards glance > > > I haven't talked much about filtering for a while, as I > consider myself > a "filtering expert emeritus." I have long completed the most > important > goal I set for myself--to give our profession a vocabulary > and framework > for understanding this issue. It was extremely satisfying to hear the > theories and facts first shared as "new information" > profession-wide in > the mid-90s referred to as standard profession-wide knowledge > in 2002. > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:45:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Censorware design, blacklist sizes (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Seth Finkelstein Subject: Censorware design, blacklist sizes A couple of notes about censorware, stemming from the CIPA discussion: I'm one of the few people who has actually delved into the internals of censorware. I can talk about some of this now. In the main, censorware is not at all sophisticated. Again, calling it "filtering" just gives an impression that it's more than it is. The vast majority of censorware simply works like this: 1) Take URL, for example http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Censorware/20010306_eff_nrc_paper1.html 2) Look up URL, see if it is on the relevant blacklists: a) By the name of the host (www.eff.org) b) By the address of the host (209.237.229.14) c) Possibly, by a keyword in the URL (e.g. the string "eff") That's *it*. That's all that's being done in almost all cases (the more exotic stuff doesn't have a large market share, because it tends to fail in extremely embarrassing ways). Years ago, when one lawyer used to smear many censorware critics as opposing "technologies", I had a joke that I wasn't against the string-comparison programming-library routine (i.e., that was the sum total of the "technologies", comparing strings for matching items). You aren't buying a "pornography filter". That's the PR. You're getting a huge blacklist. That's what it is, operationally. It is humanly impossible to examine the blacklist, especially for a busy librarian. They're huge. Enormous. Tens, even hundreds, of thousands of items. I've gone through some blacklists in part, e.g. for censorware reports and the _Loudoun_ case. It was an exhausting, tedious, job to examine even a portion. And the blacklist changes all the time. Anything can be slipped into it, so a hypothetical librarian would be to be doing this every day. Examining it yourself is just not viable (and if you think it is, well, I can give you a great deal of practice to prove your case ...) I haven't been very successful in getting these concepts into the debate, because it seems to be too technical, too easily overwhelmed by the hot-buttons of "parents!" "children!" "SEX!". But there's no magic, no AI, just a massive blacklist run in secret. -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf@sethf.com http://sethf.com Anticensorware Investigations - http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 16:46:39 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Hard Times in Denver, Too (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Sue Kamm Subject: Re: Hard Times in Denver, Too Where have all the flowers gone? It is PAST time that library administrators started thinking about other solutions to lack of funding, partiticularly libraries financed by a broader juristiction -- city, town, or county. Rather than following what Dever City Librarian Rick Ashton says ("Our guiding principle in reducing staff is to make the reduction in such a way as to have the least impact on services to the public."), we should reduce staff at points where there will be the MOST impact on services to the public. If we cut back on shelvers (in our library, they're designated as "aides;" other libraries may call them "messenger clerks" or "pages"), and books aren't reshelved promptly, the public will notice. If administators reduce the number of hours the library is open because clerical support staff has been laid off, the public will notice. If the library cannot catalog new books (such as best-sellers), or offer telephone reference because librarians have been laid off, the public will notice. If there is litter on the floor and overflowing trash baskets in public areas because custodial staff has been laid off, the public will notice. If computers crash and can't be brought online again because the library couldn't renew the maintenance contract and/or the techies have been laid off, people will notice. Librarians have been nice people for too long. We offer what passes for service just to keep doors open and please the public. Even those jurisdictions where librarians and other library staff are organized into unions, people are afraid to take job actions (a case of "blue flu" on Benjamin Franklin's birthday, for example). WE need to demonstrate graphically how budget cuts affect our services. Wimpy statements that a library's layoffs won't have an impact on service are not the answer. -- Your friendly CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor-at-Large, Sue Kamm Truest of the Blue, Los Angeles Dodgers Think Blue Week 2000 email: suekamm@mindspring.com Visit my web page: http://suekamm.home.mindspring.com/index.htm "Fernando Valenzuela has pitched a no-hitter. . . . If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky." -- Vin Scully, June 29, 1990 From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 19:28:12 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] NYTimes.com Article: The Librarian's Web Dilemma (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: dwood@ala.org Subject: NYTimes.com Article: The Librarian's Web Dilemma This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by dwood@ala.org. /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com. http://www.starbucks.com/default.asp?ci=1015 \----------------------------------------------------------/ The Librarian's Web Dilemma June 20, 2002 By JOHN SCHWARTZ How do libraries give adults a free run of the Internet while shielding children from material that may be inappropriate? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/technology/circuits/20FILT.html?ex=1025692419&ei=1&en=de51bb0b61749d5c HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact onlinesales@nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help@nytimes.com. Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 19:28:24 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "June Vanderryst" Subject: Please post to the PUBLIB listserv: Do you write Teen Mystery scripts? Would you like to share them with=20 your colleagues? The Plano Public Library System is interested in gathering and posting Teen Mystery scripts on our library web site. http://www.planolibrary.org/children/TeenMysteryResource.htm=20 What better way to inspire mischief and fun at the library than hosting a Teen Mystery Night! We have a couple of our own mysteries to share and would love to add your mystery to our web site. We can create a link to your script or post your original script on our web site. Share your ingenious schemes and dastardly deeds with your colleagues. After all, a mischievous mind is a terrible thing to waste. If you are interested in sharing your scripts please e-mail me directly for more information. Please feel free to share this e-mail with others not on this list. Thanks! Libby Whitcomb=20 L.E.R Schimelpfenig Library=20 5024 Custer Road=20 Plano, Texas 75023=20 972.769.4200=20 libbyw@plano.gov=20 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 19:28:38 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Hard Times in Denver, Too (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Jerry Kuntz" Subject: Re: Hard Times in Denver, Too I think the best way we could prevent more stories like this is to make it a priority of the profession to support new, current independent research studies proving the link between local economic downturns and higher local library use. I've heard anecdotally that there was once such study in the 1970s, but haven't heard of anything since. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Karen G. Schneider" Reply-To: kgs@bluehighways.com Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:33:02 -0700 (PDT) >http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E687211%257E,00.ht >ml > >"Eleven full-time and three part-time Denver Public Library staff >members will be laid off to help offset city and state budget cuts >totaling more than $4.67 million. The library also will reduce spending >for books and materials and trim statewide services. > >"City Librarian Rick Ashton said, 'Our guiding principle in reducing >staff is to make the reduction in such a way as to have the least impact >on services to the public.'" > >---------------------------------------------- >Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org >Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet >lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw > lii.org: Information You Can Trust! >---------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- Jerry Kuntz Electronic Resources Consultant Ramapo Catskill Library System jkuntz@rcls.org -- From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 19:28:57 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Auto repair Manuels (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Dianne Harmon Subject: RE: Auto repair Manuels We asked our head of maintenance about car repair manuals online or on a CD-ROM. He looked at us as if we were out of our minds. He said almost the exact same things that Kathleen reported. We are not giving up our printed car repair manuals!!! Dianne Harmon Joliet Public Library Joliet, IL -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen McCorkle [SMTP:sedanlib@terraworld.net] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [PUBLIB] Auto repair Manuels I know librarians like the data bases best but they are very hard to lay = on a work bench or under a car with a work light on them while you are = working on a car or truck. For something very minor it could be printed off but my spouse would = look at me like I had lost it if I suggested going to the library (he = has to clean up and change clothes) go to the library, looks at the = info, (goes home and changes clothes) crawling under or into the area = he needs and then finding out he needs a little more info than he = originally thought. Then (he has to clean up change clothes) goes back = to the library.......... We check out all kinds of craft, sewing and = cookbooks, why would auto manuals be different? I know they get dirty = but so do our other books. Peanut butter anyone? Kathleen McCorkle Librarian Sedan Public Library 115 N. Chautauqua Sedan, KS 67361 sedanlib@terraworld.net 620 725 3405 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 19:29:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] thank you to Webfeat! (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: thank you to Webfeat! What a GREAT TIME was had by all... was it just a week ago that Todd Miller and Gail Rosenberg of Webfeat (www.webfeat.org ) were treating us to a super spread in their suite, complete with mountains of yummy food, soothing beverages, a great view, and the chance to mingle with our friends or sink back into a cushy chair? What a Cadillac of an event that was... compared to some of our shenanigans, where we have been tossed from bars because it was dinner time, or arrived to find the restaurant had closed due to broken a/c, or were simply crammed elbow-to-elbow in a smoky bar! Three cheers for our vendor supporters! Thanks, Webfeat! ---------------------------------------------- Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw lii.org: Information You Can Trust! ---------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 19:29:31 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] LSTA software (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" Subject: LSTA software For smaller grants, I can see how Excel is jes' fine for calculating LSTA dollars--you know how you have to knit one, perl one, criss-crossing all that data and presenting it in different ways? But after tracking down an elusive numerical error, I'm thinking it would be great to either have an enhanced Excel spreadsheet or separate grant software. Does this stuff exist? Is it Friday afternoon yet? Can we go home? ---------------------------------------------- Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw lii.org: Information You Can Trust! ---------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 21 21:46:38 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:17 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Censorware design, blacklist sizes (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Dan Robinson" Subject: Re: Censorware design, blacklist sizes Granted, one person, or group, examining a blocklist would have a very tough time of it... however, if they weren't secret, we'd have a whole bunch of people doing it. I think there would be quick changes in blocked sites very quickly. Hundreds of thousands of items? With open lists, people who are used to dealing with millions of items will sort it out in a decent amount of time.... or less. Dan Robinson drobinson@hwwilson.com On 21 Jun 2002 at 14:10, Seth Finkelstein wrote: > A couple of notes about censorware, stemming from the CIPA > discussion: > > I'm one of the few people who has actually delved into the > internals of censorware. I can talk about some of this now. In > the main, censorware is not at all sophisticated. Again, calling > it "filtering" just gives an impression that it's more than it is. > .............. > You aren't buying a "pornography filter". That's the PR. > You're getting a huge blacklist. That's what it is, operationally. > > It is humanly impossible to examine the blacklist, especially > for a busy librarian. They're huge. Enormous. Tens, even hundreds, of > thousands of items. From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 22 16:25:37 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:18 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Censorware design, blacklist sizes (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Seth Finkelstein Subject: Re: Censorware design, blacklist sizes Dan Robinson wrote: > Granted, one person, or group, examining a blocklist would have a > very tough time of it... however, if they weren't secret, we'd have a > whole bunch of people doing it. I think there would be quick changes > in blocked sites very quickly. Please tell me how many hours per week you're willing to volunteer for unpaid QA for censorware blacklists. I'm serious. Getting people to do such scut-work is a major limiting factor for any examination. If you meant someone *else* was going to do it ... well, that's what everyone else says ... See the discussion below for speed of unbanning. And remember, this is with regard to a court expert report, published for months. > Hundreds of thousands of items? With open lists, people who are used > to dealing with millions of items will sort it out in a decent amount > of time.... or less. They will? Free database programming too? Maybe it's barely possible now that the tech recession has hit. I used to joke that the programming effort I put into this work would have fueled an IPO (now I suppose I should add "during the glory days"). I don't mean to be so hard on you. What I'm trying to convey is that blacklist evaluation is a very boring and time-consuming job. The secrecy is of course a major factor. But the sheer size of it, and the mind-numbing task of examination, is another significant aspect. According to the CIPA decision: 16. In October 2001, Edelman published the results of his initial testing on his Web site. In February and March 2002 he repeated his testing of the 6,777 URLs originally found to be blocked by at least one of the blocking products, in order to determine whether and to what extent the blocking product vendors had corrected the mistakes that he publicized. Of those URLs blocked by N2H2 in the October 2001 testing, 55.10% remained blocked when tested by Edelman in March 2002. Of those URLs blocked by Websense in the October 2001 testing, 76.28% remained blocked when tested by Edelman in February 2002. Of those URLs blocked by SurfControl's Cyber Patrol product, only 7.16% remained blocked, i.e., Cyber Patrol had unblocked almost 93% of the Web pages originally blocked. Because the results posted to his Web site were accessed by an employee of SurfControl (as evidenced by Edelman's records of who was accessing his Web site), we infer that Cyber Patrol had determined that 93% of all 6,777 pages, or 6,302 Web pages, were originally wrongly blocked by the product. -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf@sethf.com http://sethf.com Anticensorware Investigations - http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 22 16:25:48 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:18 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] public library "choice" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." Subject: public library "choice" Greetings, Writing about Public Library "Choice" in PUBLIB Digest 2069, Kate Wolicki asks a series of important and insightful questions. "How well does "public library choice" work for small libraries?" she asks. She goes on to add "Let me define this better: taxpayers pay for their local "home" library but use a nearby community's larger library instead." I have thought about these and related issues a lot in recent years. I would guess that it is being a federated library system director in one of the counties that stretch in that megapolis from north of Milwaukee through Chicago to Gary - one continuous urbanized area with hundreds and hundreds of civil jurisdictions - and lots of library traffic back and forth between them all. There is an irony that, in an information age that has broken down many physical barriers, the tax districts we inherited from the 19th century still dictate most of our library planning and policy. Geographically based property taxes may have worked well enough for their time - though I doubt even that. But they fail badly in our more mobile and cyberspace centered 21st century. Kate assumes that this unequal use of libraries is mostly a problem of size - larger libraries being the potential problem for their smaller neighbors. I don't think that is exclusively the case. A well-funded and well-located smaller suburban library can draw a lot of business from a larger community, especially if it is close to the bigger city's border in an area far from city branch libraries. There are many examples in our area, and looking at the HAPLR database for the Chicago suburban area where Kate is located, I think I can guess at a number of similar examples there as well - libraries in variously sized communities that have less in resources than most of their neighbors do. I am willing to bet that one could predict the net lenders and net borrowers on the basis of the relative inputs for materials, staffing and hours. A hundred years and more ago, library visionaries dreamed of a day when one could go to any community and ask not whether they HAD a library but rather WHERE it might be located. Of course they were glossing over the tax equity questions, but hey, that's just something that visionaries are SUPPOSED to do. For tomorrow our vision should be a day when ALL our library users can point to ALL our libraries as "OURS" - a walk-in library world as borderless as the Web! But the tax structures and library statistics methods we use stand in the way, even as the Web and the mobility of the automobile break down borders and taxing distinctions. Writing in number 9 in Publib 2070, Sue Kamm comments on the issues here, noting that "Implementing some kind of statewide program with transaction-based reimbursement from the state government may help, but you'd doubtless have to work on the legislature and governor to get the necessary legislation." If we are going to realize a vision of universal access, we must level the playing field more than we have done until now. Only better evaluation and mandatory minimum standards will do the trick. In Waukesha County, we have approached the issues from two directions at once. First is a reimbursement scheme similar to the one Sue Kamm urges, only at the County level rather than at the state level. The second piece of the strategy is a set of required library standards. The standards help assure that the traffic between libraries (we call it crossover borrowing) is based on traffic patterns rather than a community's refusal to adequately fund its own library and drive customers to their neighboring library. With the standards, we also developed a formula for measuring the degree to which a community library is serving its own residents well. It is called the Library Service Effort Ratio. The ratio helps us monitor the degree to which a library is serving its own residents locally. A larger library must score 95% or better on this ratio. If it does not meet the Library Service Effort Ratio it must either a) meet numerical standards for hours open, staffing, and materials collections, or b) pay a substantial tax penalty because its residents will be taxed at the county level as if the library had no library at all. We hope the local officials will choose to beef up their own libraries rather than subject their residents to an additional county levy - a levy that is designed to collect money from communities without libraries and distribute it to libraries. Kate Wolicki also enquired: "Does "public library choice" make poor libraries poorer or worse?" I think that the short answer is possibly so. A longer answer would deal with the degree to which there are county, regional, or state plans in place that deal appropriately with the issues involved. The answers are different in an affluent suburban county than in a poor rural one and so no one solution is universally applicable. If people are choosing a neighbor library because their own is substandard, then there should be a strategy to force the community to improve its library. That strategy requires county, regional or state participation. If, on the other hand, the user's choice is simply a matter of natural traffic patterns or job commuting patterns, there may be no remedy other than a recognitions that property taxes are a 19th century construct that do not mesh well with 21st century commuting behavior. For further discussion of the standards and related issues, see the County Library Services Plan on our web site at: http://www.wcfls.lib.wi.us/ Follow the link to: 2001 to 2003 Waukesha County Library Services Plan: Final Report; and the link to Library Standards Thomas J. Hennen Jr. thennen@haplr-index.com http://www.haplr-index.com Voice: 262-886-1625 Fax: 262-886-5424 6014 Spring Street Racine, WI 53406 "Share knowledge, seek wisdom." From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 22 16:26:07 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:18 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Auto repair Manuels (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Anne Christensen Subject: RE: Auto repair Manuels ...hmmm...we certainly wouldn't give up our printed manuals, but the local "cash-only" repair "business" clients we serve are wild about having the online service onhand! (They were glad for the old CD product too.) It depends, I think on whether you want an efficient way to ensure the information is there for your users right when they need it *and* whether you have the budget to have both formats on hand to serve both preferences! In a perfect world...;-) Anne Christensen Librarian II Phoenix Public Library achriste@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Sat Jun 22 16:26:22 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:18 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] monry crunch (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Laura McCaffery" Subject: monry crunch I think we have to realize - and I am sure that we do - that libraries are not alone in having budgets cut. When the tax money coming into the state of municipality or taxing unit shrinks because of an economic downturn and loss of revenue, amounts going to any and all units tend to shrink. In many states special legislattive sessions are grappling with the shortfall (not too well in some cases) and cutting budgets. As a librarian in our Nonprofit Resource Center, I see the added amount of people competing for the foundation dollars to fill out the budget as well as to handle the added burden of mor clients. A catch 22 for sure. (No apologia but some musings on the trickle down, up and around effect of less tax revenue.) I guess I would err on the side of trying to provide the best customer service I could with the assets I have. I know how I feel when I go into a place of business and receive poor service- and that is often dictated by the desire for profit, not the lack of funds. Laura Hibbets McCaffery Readers Services Allen County Public Library 900 Webster Street Fort Wayne IN 46802 260-421-1200x2303 This is my opinion and mine alone. The views, opinions, and judgements expressed in this message are solely those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved by the Allen County Public Library. From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 23 15:22:10 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:19 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Library SHORT STORIES (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "SHY LIBRARIAN magazine" Subject: Library SHORT STORIES WANTED: Library Short Stories THE SHY LIBRARIAN magazine is accepting short stories (under 1,500 words) for publication in each issue of the print quarterly. Submitted fiction must feature a librarian or a library setting, but does not have to be about librarianship per se. One piece is published per issue with the writer receiving $25 and five free copies of the magazine. Submissions may also appear on THE SHY LIBRARIAN website (www.shylibrarian.com), with permission. Please send your short-short story submissions to: shortstory@shylibrarian.com. SHY's next short story will appear in the Fall 2002 issue of the magazine. Deadline for submission: July 15. (Please feel free to re-send this message to any writers that you may know.) THE SHY LIBRARIAN Magazine 67 Van Buren Avenue West Hartford, CT 06107 USA 860-521-4182 shortstory@shylibrarian.com www.shylibrarian.com Need Library Advice? Ask DEAR BIBLIA... www.shylibrarian.com/archives/Summer2002/dearbiblia02sum.htm You may be sorry you asked. From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 23 15:22:23 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:19 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Blacklisting at our public libraries. (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Don Saklad Subject: Blacklisting at our public libraries. Blacklisting at our public libraries. Why don't our public libraries negotiate with vendors that the blacklistings be public if the vendors want their wares that censor used at our public libraries?... Bidding for cities, towns and counties vendors should be a more public process! Curiously, oo__ Don Warner Saklad Weblog guide to problematical library use http://saklad.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 24 11:22:21 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:20 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Censorware design, blacklist size (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Margaret N. Waznis" Subject: Re: Censorware design, blacklist size > It's not so much the volume of sites as their instability that makes this idea unworkable. After all, our profession built WorldCat, what I understand to be the world's largest bibliographic entity, one record at a time with thousands contributing over decades. No one did it as a volunteer, but because it was a cooperative effort that you got something for in return. I could conceive of a massive cooperative effort to review URL's in order to give public libraries a professionally evaluated universe of URL's, but the fact that URL's change from day to day makes this kind of project impossible. Betty Waznis San Diego County Library > Dan Robinson wrote: > > Granted, one person, or group, examining a blocklist would have a > > very tough time of it... however, if they weren't secret, we'd have a > > whole bunch of people doing it. I think there would be quick changes > > in blocked sites very quickly. > > Please tell me how many hours per week you're willing to > volunteer for unpaid QA for censorware blacklists. I'm serious. > Getting people to do such scut-work is a major limiting factor > for any examination. If you meant someone *else* was going to > do it ... well, that's what everyone else says ... > > I don't mean to be so hard on you. What I'm trying to convey > is that blacklist evaluation is a very boring and time-consuming job. > The secrecy is of course a major factor. But the sheer size of it, and > the mind-numbing task of examination, is another significant aspect. > > From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 24 11:22:34 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:20 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Rotating depository collections question (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Melora Ranney Subject: Rotating depository collections question Greetings. I am working with a service which circulates depository collections of large print materials to public libraries throughout the state. If you are working with a similar program and have a good system for tracking and distribution, I'd be grateful to hear your comments. Thank you. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Melora Ranney, Outreach Coordinator Maine State Library State House Station 64 Augusta, ME 04333-0064 (207) 287-5653 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ From plib2 at webjunction.org Mon Jun 24 11:22:58 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:20 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: PUBLIB digest 2069 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Liz Hawkins Subject: RE: PUBLIB digest 2069 Responding to Kate Wollicki wondering about serving out-of-district people -- I think most librarians are so committed to service we would endorse "seamless" or "transparent" service. I think most of us would simply like to help people get what they want without having to observe policies or barriers like district or system boundaries, fees for this or that, or turning away people who can't meet some political or policy criteria. Regarding patrons using big libraries vs. small: some people will always seek the widest selection, the deepest levels, quantity over quality -- whatever. My feeling is: if my patrons are happy when they are here in my branch, knowing I and our staff are delivering the best possible service -- AND patrons also choose to use the Main Library -- there's nothing wrong with that picture. Liz Hawkins, Manager Evergreen Branch Library 9512 Evergreen Way Everett, WA 98204 425-257-8270 lhawkins@ci.everett.wa.us "These are my opinions. From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 25 03:06:21 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:21 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] News stories appearing in the June 24 American Libraries (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Gordon Flagg" Subject: News stories appearing in the June 24 American Libraries News stories appearing in the June 24 American Libraries Online > Feds Ask Supreme Court to Review CIPA Ruling > Atlanta Conference Draws 21,000 As ALA Takes on Salary Issues > Library of Congress Sets Royalty Rate for Webcasters > Bush Declassifies 23,000 More Pages from the Reagan Years > Zena Sutherland Dies at 86 > Yale Thief Sentenced for $1.5-Million Book Heist > Planetarium Still on Track for Minneapolis Public Library > National Library of Canada Buys Country's First Newspaper American Libraries' Web site also features the latest "Crawford Files" columns by Walt Crawford; "Internet Librarian" by Karen Schneider; "Technically Speaking" by David Dorman; AL's "Career Leads" job ads; listings of conferences, continuing-education courses, exhibitions, and other events from AL's "Datebook"; and Tables of Contents for the current year. Do you have a comment to make about anything appearing in American Libraries? The editors encourage signed e-mail letters on recent content or matters of general interest to the library profession in the Reader Forum section. Send 250 words or less to americanlibraries@ala.org. From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 25 03:06:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:21 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Microfilm readers (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Mary Thiedeman" Subject: Microfilm readers Hello, I am trying to replace three Dukane microfilm readers and am having a difficult time even locating readers that don't also print. We have several Canon Microfilm Digital Scanner 400 machines plus other machines that print. What we really need are several new machines that are easily operated and only read. Has anyone on the list purchased microfilm readers recently? Can anyone recommend reliable, reasonably priced brands? Thank you so much for your time and input. Mary Thiedeman Morrisson-Reeves Library 80 North 6th Street Richmond, Indiana 47374 765-966-8291 FAX 765-962-1318 From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 25 03:06:30 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:21 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Library Specialist - Electronic Resources Pleasant Hill, CA (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: dfontana@ccclib.org Subject: Library Specialist - Electronic Resources Pleasant Hill, CA Library Specialist - Electronic Resources The Contra Costa County Library seeks to fill an immediate vacancy for a Library Specialist - Electronic Resources. The individual selected for this position will plan, coordinate, implement and manage projects and activities related to new technology services and electronic/online reference resources, including the library's Internet presence, the library catalog Internet resources, the library intranet, online database resources and local community information. Major responsibilities for this position include; maintaining the library's home page and Internet resources, including the web-based online catalog; selecting, acquiring, and classifying specialized Internet and other electronic reference resources, and training library users, volunteers, and staff in their use; evaluating and recommending and implementing new library technologies for integration into the library's core reference services; increasing public awareness and use of the library's electronic resources and services; assiisting in collection development and analysis in electronic environment; and measuring the use of the library's electronic resources with statistical and narrative reports. The employment list established from this examination may remain in effect for six months. Minimum Qualifications: License Required: Valid California Motor Vehicle Operator's License. Education: Possession of a graduate degree from a school of librarianship accredited by the American Library Association. Experience: Two years of full-time or its equivalent professional library experience. Selection Process: 1. Application Filing: A completed Contra Costa County Application and Supplemental Questionnaire must be received or postmarked by the final filing date indicated below. Resumes may not be substituted for the official application or supplemental questionnaire and late applications or applications received without a supplemental questionnaire will be disqualified. It is the applicant's responsibility to allow adequate mail or delivery time. PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS 2. Application Evaluation: Depending on the number of applications received, an Application Screening Committee may be convened to review and evaluate each candidate's application and supplemental questionnaire. Individuals deemed best qualified for the position will be invited to participate in a competitive oral interview. 3. Oral Interview: An oral interview will be conducted by a Qualifications Appraisal Board. The Board will evaluate the job related qualifications of each candidate. Immediately prior to the oral interview, candidates may be given a problem exercise and asked to respond to it as part of the examination process. Candidates must receive a rating of at least 70 from a majority of the Board members to be ranked on the employment list. (Weighted 100%) Supplemental Questionnaire The purpose of this questionnaire is for you to specify your qualifications and experience in job related areas. This supplemental questionnaire will also be used to assist in determining the most qualified applicants from among those applying. Please limit your response to three total pages. Although you may submit a resume, do not answer the questionnaire by indicating "please see resume". 1. Describe your experience selecting, designing, implementing and supporting technology to deliver information services in a library environment. Specifically indicate your experience evaluating and selecting online resources, including subscription services, database services and reaching remote library users through technology. 2. Describe in detail your experience with web page development, including both the design and content. 3. Describe your experience delivering presentations and marketing library services or resources. 4. Describe your experience with library bibliographic maintenance. 5. Describe your experience teaching library users, staff and volunteers in the use of library technologies including the Internet and electronic resources. Salary Range: $3,975/mo - $5,077/mo. Final Filing Date: July 12, 2002 Link to application: http://agency.governmentjobs.com/contracosta/app/ccc_application.pdf Debbie Fontana, ASA III Contra Costa County Library (925) 646-6423 (925) 646-6461 FAX dfontana@ccclib.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 25 03:06:37 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:21 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights is (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights is Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/privacyinterpretation.html This new Interpretation of the ALA Library Bill of Rights was adopted by the American Library Association Council on June 19, 2002, at the ALA 2002 Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. See also Questions and Answers on Privacy and Confidentiality http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/privacyqanda.html __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 25 03:06:50 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:21 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: thank you to Webfeat! (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Andrea Johnson Subject: Re: thank you to Webfeat! Hip, hip, hooray! Thanks a bunch, Webfeat! Andrea Johnson andielib@yahoo.com --- "Karen G. Schneider" wrote: > What a GREAT TIME was had by all... was it just a week ago that Todd > Miller and Gail Rosenberg of Webfeat (www.webfeat.org ) were treating us > to a super spread in their suite, complete with mountains of yummy food, > soothing beverages, a great view, and the chance to mingle with our > friends or sink back into a cushy chair? What a Cadillac of an event > that was... compared to some of our shenanigans, where we have been > tossed from bars because it was dinner time, or arrived to find the > restaurant had closed due to broken a/c, or were simply crammed > elbow-to-elbow in a smoky bar! > > Three cheers for our vendor supporters! Thanks, Webfeat! > > ---------------------------------------------- > Karen G. Schneider kgs@lii.org http://lii.org > Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet > lii.org New This Week: http://lii.org/ntw > lii.org: Information You Can Trust! > ---------------------------------------------- > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 25 03:06:53 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:21 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Car Repair Responses (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Dani Lichtenberg Subject: Car Repair Responses I want to thank everyone for sending responses to my question about car repair databases. If you are thinking about responding, and have not responded yet, I encourage you to do so! It seems like this is a very pertinent topic right now, judging from the messages I have received so far (17 messages, and counting...) I am going to wait a few more days to see if there is any more feedback, and then I will surely summarize for the list, as many have requested. Thanks again, Dani Lichtenberg Palm Beach County Library System p005386b@pb.seflin.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 25 03:06:57 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:21 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Facilities consultants (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Julia Aker" Subject: Facilities consultants We are doing a facility feasibility study for our main library and two small branches before the end of the year. The board wants to use a consultant that is NOT associated with an architectural firm. Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions on a consultant anywhere in the United States? If you have used a consultant, could you please give me a ballpark figure on the cost? I don't want to waste my time if we can't afford them. Thanks in advance! Julia Aker, Library Director Jackson Co. Public Library 303 W. Second St. Seymour, IN 47274-2147 812-522-3412 ext. 223 812-522-5456 (fax) www.japl.lib.in.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Tue Jun 25 03:07:36 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:21 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] budgets in the red (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." Subject: budgets in the red Greetings, Writing about "Hard Times in Denver, Too" Karen Schneider responded to Blake Carver's comments that not all the library news is bad. You asked if you are wrong that there is a crisis. I believe that you are very right, Karen, though I doubt that Blake meant totally minimize their real problems around the country. Karen added that she understands that I am writing an article on the national library budget crisis. That is indeed the case, and I hope to see it published in October. Libraries got through the Great Depression and various Wars, we will probably survive this crisis too, but it is disturbing. I find solace in the ALA report that Two new national studies show that Americans are using their libraries more than ever, and 91 percent of adults believe public libraries will play an important role in the future, despite all of the information available on the Internet, but it is still troubling to have mayors and other elected officials tell me that there is no need for us now that the Internet does it all... See http://www.ala.org/news/v8n5/studies.html Karen, you added that you my CIPA ballad, "I Dreamt the Death of Free Speech Now." So, with all due apologies to Dylan: Budgets in the red How many books can we fail to buy Before we can call it a theft? Yes, 'n how many staff can we just let go Before there are no answers left? Yes 'n how often can the censors strike Before seekers are bereft? The answer, my friend, is budgets in the red We must answer to budgets in the red. Datcalmguy Thomas J. Hennen Jr. thennen@haplr-index.com http://www.haplr-index.com Voice: 262-886-1625 Fax: 262-886-5424 6014 Spring Street Racine, WI 53406 "Share knowledge, seek wisdom." From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:25:06 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] budgets in the red (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." Subject: budgets in the red Greetings, Writing about "Hard Times in Denver, Too" Karen Schneider responded to Blake Carver's comments that not all the library news is bad. You asked if you are wrong that there is a crisis. I believe that you are very right, Karen, though I doubt that Blake meant totally minimize their real problems around the country. Karen added that she understands that I am writing an article on the national library budget crisis. That is indeed the case, and I hope to see it published in October. Libraries got through the Great Depression and various Wars, we will probably survive this crisis too, but it is disturbing. I find solace in the ALA report that Two new national studies show that Americans are using their libraries more than ever, and 91 percent of adults believe public libraries will play an important role in the future, despite all of the information available on the Internet, but it is still troubling to have mayors and other elected officials tell me that there is no need for us now that the Internet does it all... See http://www.ala.org/news/v8n5/studies.html Karen, you added that you my CIPA ballad, "I Dreamt the Death of Free Speech Now." So, with all due apologies to Dylan: Budgets in the red How many books can we fail to buy Before we can call it a theft? Yes, 'n how many staff can we just let go Before there are no answers left? Yes 'n how often can the censors strike Before seekers are bereft? The answer, my friend, is budgets in the red We must answer to budgets in the red. Datcalmguy Thomas J. Hennen Jr. thennen@haplr-index.com http://www.haplr-index.com Voice: 262-886-1625 Fax: 262-886-5424 6014 Spring Street Racine, WI 53406 "Share knowledge, seek wisdom." From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:25:39 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] A washingtonpost.com article from: dwood@ala.org (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: dwood@ala.org Subject: A washingtonpost.com article from: dwood@ala.org You have been sent this message from dwood@ala.org as a courtesy of the Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com FBI Begins Visiting Libraries To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37774-2002Jun24.html FBI Begins Visiting Libraries By Christopher Newton WASHINGTON –– The FBI is visiting libraries nationwide and checking the reading records of people it suspects of having ties to terrorists or plotting an attack, library officials say. From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:25:59 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: public library "choice" (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Whitewright Public Library Subject: Re: public library "choice" At 08:32 AM 6/21/02 -0700, Julie Bauer wrote: >Kate raises a very interesting issue about large >libraries pulling in patrons from smaller towns. We >are a small library that draws patrons from some >larger towns. We're a small library in a rural area with a city population of ~2,000. We're on the county line, and it takes about half an hour to get to either county seat, which is where the larger libraries are located. Or you can go south for 45 minutes or so to the suburbs of Dallas, which are growing by leaps and bounds. However, we have people from all of these "big city" areas who visit our library. Like Julie mentioned, there are a variety of factors involved. Most who've told us a reason say it's mainly due to the staffing. We only have 1.5 staff members, plus a handful of volunteers, but people have told us they feel more comfortable asking us for help. They're also more able to find us to ask for help as well. Many have said in the larger libraries they feel lost and don't want to "look stupid" by asking questions. The road goes both ways between small and large libraries. I think of it as a sort of chain store type thing. For example, each Barnes & Noble carries basically the same items, or they can special order them for you (just like we can ILL), but everyone tends to have a "favorite store" for some reason. Perhaps you like their couches better, or the store layout, or their Starbucks has better coffee. :) Chris Ely ===================== Whitewright Public Library Whitewright, Texas P: 903.364.2955 F: 903-364-5680 www.whitewright.lib.tx.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:26:16 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] FBI in Your Library (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: FBI in Your Library FBI in Your Library http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/fbiinyourlibrary.html See also Intellectual Freedom Issues http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/issues.html __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:26:22 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Publib party (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Sarah Flowers Subject: Publib party I want to add my appreciation to Todd and WebFeat for the great party at ALA. The thing I liked best was the setting--it was possible to move around and chat with different people, and you could actually hear what they were saying. The problem with crowded bars and restaurants is that you usually end up sort of stuck in one place, because it's too hard to move, and it's often so noisy you can't hear yourself, let alone anyone else. It was really great to put some faces to familiar names. Sarah Flowers, Community Librarian Morgan Hill Library, a Santa Clara County Library 17575 Peak Avenue/Morgan Hill, CA 95037 sflowers@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:26:27 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Sno-Isle Regional Job Postings for the Week of June 25, 2002 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Valerie Worrell Subject: Sno-Isle Regional Job Postings for the Week of June 25, 2002 Sno-Isle Regional Library System has an opening for Island Region Manager, 40 hours/week located at the Marysville Service Center in Washington State. Job #0239 Open Until Filled - Consideration of applications will begin on June 14, 2002. For more information and to obtain an application on this employment opportunity, please visit our website at http://www.sno-isle.org/employment/ or contact our Job line at (360) 651-7040. ___________________________________________________________________________ Valerie Worrell Sno-Isle Regional Library Human Resources Phone: 360-651-7004 Fax: 360-651-7151 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:30:20 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] FEN Newswire: House Questions Ashcroft on Bookstore, Library, (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: FEN Newswire: House Questions Ashcroft on Bookstore, Library, For further information, contact: Chris Finan, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, (212) 587-4025 For Immediate Release HOUSE QUESTIONS ASHCROFT ON BOOKSTORE, LIBRARY, NEWSPAPER SUBPOENAS NEW YORK, N.Y., June 25, 2002 -- The House Judiciary Committee wants to know how many subpoenas the Justice Department has issued to bookstores, libraries and newspapers under a controversial provision of the USA PATRIOT Act, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression reported today. The committee has also asked whether any safeguards have been adopted to prevent an abuse of the power to search these records, which was granted under Section 215 of the act. ABFFE President Chris Finan welcomed the Judiciary Committee inquiry. "Booksellers and libraries are worried that Section 215 will have a chilling effect on free speech," Finan said. "These are the questions that we have wanted to ask." On June 13, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the ranking Democrat on the committee, sent Attorney General John D. Ashcroft a 12-page letter seeking details about the implementation of 50 provisions of the PATRIOT Act, including Section 215. The letter asks for written answers by July 9 and indicates that hearings will follow. Although it does not criticize the PATRIOT Act directly, the Sensenbrenner/Conyers letter seems to suggest that the Justice Department should exercise restraint in seeking subpoenas for bookstore, library and newspaper records. Section 215 gives the government far more power to search bookstore, library and newspaper records than it has ever possessed. The FBI can request a court order in a secret hearing before a special "spy" court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), making it impossible for anyone to oppose the request on First Amendment grounds. In addition, the FBI does not need to show a compelling need for the information; it is sufficient to prove that it is relevant to an investigation. Without recommending them, the letter identifies two potential safeguards: "requiring supervisory approval" before the records are sought or "requiring a determination that the information is essential to an investigation and could not be obtained through any other means." The letter is available at http://www.house.gov/judiciary/ashcroft061302.htm. (Bookstore, library and newspaper records are covered in Question 12.) ABFFE, the bookseller's voice in the fight against censorship, believes that protecting the confidentiality of bookstore and library records is essential for the preservation of First Amendment rights: if people believe that law enforcement officials can gain easy access to their records, they lose the freedom to buy or borrow the books they want and need. Most recently, ABFFE supported Denver's Tattered Cover Book Store in its successful fight to prevent police from obtaining the records of one of its customers. In April, a unanimous Colorado Supreme Court cited the danger of a chilling effect in quashing a search warrant that had been issued to the Tattered Cover. __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:30:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] publib@webjunction.orgpublib@webjunction.org (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Mignon Morse" Subject: publib@webjunction.orgpublib@webjunction.org The Library's Summer Reading Club program will be Ken-N-Jim. Please join us for great entertainment at 11:00 a.m. All programs are free and open to the public. If you want more information on the upcoming library programs, please access the Library's website at http:www.ci.wylie.tx.us. I am trying out some new email software for the Library's email list. If you do not wish to be on this list and/or you are receiving duplicate emails, please contact me at m.morse@ci.wylie.tx.us. Thank you for using YOUR library, Mignon Morse Library Director Smith Public Library 800 Thomas Street Wylie, Texas 75098 http://www.ci.wylie.tx.us/library From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:30:31 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Position posting (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Cindi Chibis-Fladen Subject: Position posting Please post: Children’s Librarian Position Available The Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library is seeking a Children’s Librarian for the Huber Heights Branch Library. This, our busiest branch, is located in a strip mall on the border of an urban suburban neighborhood. The Huber Heights Branch serves a diverse group of patrons who have a strong supportive appreciation of the branch’s materials and services. Programs for children of this agency span from infant story times to programs for fifth and sixth graders. Job Responsibilities: Under the direction of the Branch Manager. Responsibilities include providing reference assistance to children through print and electronic resources; providing readers advisory for children, parents and teachers; developing and coordinating children’s activities; presenting programs to promote library use; selecting and ordering books and other materials appropriate for children’s needs. Job Qualifications: Ability to use Internet and other new information technologies and excellent community relation skills required. MLS preferred and prior children’s service in a public library a plus. Fringe Benefits: Salary $31,532.80-$35,360.00 with exceptional fringe benefits. Location: The Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library is the 8th highest rated urban library in the nation. Dayton is an attractive city with a low cost of living. The city offers a surprising variety of cultural and educational institutions within a twenty mile radius. Ohio’s libraries are among the best funded in the country, and the Dayton and Montgomery County Library enjoys strong local support. Application Process: Send letter of application and resume to Cindi Chibis-Fladen, Personnel Manager, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, 215 East Third Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402. From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:30:43 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] LJ Fall Computer Book Preview Article (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "ICT Editor" Subject: LJ Fall Computer Book Preview Article Hi all - For a "computer book preview" roundup article to be published in LJ this fall, I'm looking for several librarians to interview on the trends you see in what your patrons are looking for in computer "how-to" and technology guides. I'd ideally like to talk to people from several different sizes of libraries, so don't feel yours is too small (or too large!). If you order computer books and/or often help your users locate these guides, and wouldn't mind taking a few minutes to answer some questions, please let me know at rachel@lisjobs.com . I'd be happy to e-mail questions so that you can answer at your convenience. Thanks! - Rachel Gordon -- Subscribe to the free Lisjobs.com professional development newsletter, Info Career Trends! http://www.lisjobs.com/newsletter/ -- From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:30:52 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Printing and cost recovery (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Michele Lauer-Bader Subject: Printing and cost recovery We are getting ready to roll out a print management system (LPT One) for the public. We are currently discussing how to price copies, both color and black & white. My inclination is to charge 10c for black and white and 25c for color. However, nothing is yet set in stone and I would be interested in pricing at other public libraries and how the prices were determined. Has anyone calculated their cost per copy for both color and black and white. We will be using HP laser jet printers and are looking at the HP 2250, HP2200 and the HP4100. I will post responses to the list. Thanks in advance. Michele Lauer-Bader, Assistant Director, Half Hollow Hills Community Library, 55 Vanderbilt Parkway, Dix Hills, NY 11746-5897, (voice) 631-421-4530, ext. 72, (fax) 631-423-8946, (email) mlauerba@suffolk.lib.ny.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:31:06 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] LIBRARY DIRECTOR -- what's good / what's bad ? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "SHY LIBRARIAN magazine" Subject: LIBRARY DIRECTOR -- what's good / what's bad ? • What's GOOD about being a LIBRARY DIRECTOR? • What's BAD about being a LIBRARY DIRECTOR? THE SHY LIBRARIAN magazine is initiating a “what’s good/what’s bad” COLUMN to appear in upcoming issues of the quarterly, ad-free magazine. If you have an opinion on what’s good OR what’s bad about being a LIBRARY DIRECTOR (and you certainly DON'T have to be a director to have an opinion), please post to publib. Or send responses to SHY at: opinions@shylibrarian.com (where requests for anonymity will be absolutely honored). THE SHY LIBRARIAN magazine 67 Van Buren Avenue West Hartford, CT 06107 USA 860-521-4182 www.shylibrarian.com Need Library Advice? Ask DEAR BIBLIA... www.shylibrarian.com/archives/Summer2002/dearbiblia02sum.htm You may be sorry you did. From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:33:12 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Library Construction (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: mcharton Subject: Library Construction Hi folks, I have just been lurking for a while. I have been helping a friend with how library construction projects can be kept less expensive. I am actually looking for someone willing to accept an article written by the two of us. I don't want to be seen as advertising my friends book or what he does in consulting so for more information there, please email me privately. Thank you. Mike Mike Charton http://www.geocities.com/MICHAELCHARTON From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:34:50 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: Saklad on BPL Message-ID: Our Regional and so called Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse City of Boston Public Libraries Departments have censored legitimately public municipal documents produced by Boston Public Library. In general Boston City Hall Departments like the City Council deflect people attempting to obtain public information such as the stenographic transcript of public meeting of City Council. Boston needs a Mayoral Directive and City Council Order for the routine transmittal of public municipal documents to a municipal reading room at our Boston Public Library Government Documents Department. Our BPL President Bernie Margolis denies that there's any difficulty contrary to actual practices of BPL Departments and Branch Libraries. Our BPL Board Chair who is also an elected legislative official doesn't respond on the matter See also http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.WebLogs.com/stories http://zork.net/~dsaklad don@saklad.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:34:58 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Position open (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Mary Killian" Subject: Position open West Bloomfield Township Public Library Position Opening Young Adult Librarian III, Main Library The West Bloomfield Township Public Library, Main Branch has been renovated and expanded to 63,812 sq.ft. total in the last two years. Highlights include a separate, young adult room with materials, computers, tables and comfortable seating. Annual circulation of 1.2 million, with a staff of 40 FTE’s. The Library is seeking an enthusiastic, creative librarian to lead our services to teens. This newly created position requires someone who is outgoing with a sense of humor and the ability to relate to teens POSITION: Young Adult Librarian III, Main Library Full-time (35 hours per week) Includes evening and weekend hours, Position reports to Head of Adult Services QUALIFICATIONS: MLS from an ALA accredited institution; public library experience in either youth or adult services; Strong interpersonal and public service skills; Knowledge and appreciation of young adult materials and culture; Enthusiastic about undertaking outreach initiatives. RESPONSIBILITIES: Creates, plans, organizes and directs all operations and initiatives for young adult services; Responsible for budget; Collection development; Reader’s advisory; Reference service; Outreach activities; Other duties as assigned. SALARY RANGE: $37,500 - 51,909 per year BENEFITS: Medical, Dental, Optical, Disability and Life Insurance coverage; Retirement Plan; Deferred Compensation Plan; Vacation; Holiday, Personal and Sick Leave; Longevity Program DEADLINE: Friday, August 23, 2002 APPLICATION: Letter of application, resume and three references to: Clara N. Bohrer, Director West Bloomfield Township Public Library 4600 Walnut Lake Road West Bloomfield, MI 48323 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:35:04 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] NEDCC's Preservation Workshops (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Jamie Doyle" Subject: NEDCC's Preservation Workshops =20 Managing Preservation:=20 A Series of Five Coordinated Workshops Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center =20 If your institution has had a preservation planning survey = and is ready to take the next step, if it has not yet developed a = systematic preservation program, if it needs to make the current program = more effective, or if you feel the need for additional preservation = education, NEDCC has designed a program just for you. The cycle of = workshops is designed to provide systematic preservation training to = staff of small to mid-sized museums, historical organizations, archives, = libraries, and records repositories. As a series, the workshops will = provide the information needed to design, implement, and maintain an = effective preservation program for documents, books, photographs, and = other paper-based materials. =20 =20 The program is designed for the full-time professional with = part-time preservation responsibilities. Institutions may be small to = mid-sized archives, museums, historical organizations, records = repositories, or public, academic, or special libraries with paper-based = materials of enduring value for research. The series is not designed to = address the specific needs of general circulating collections or large = academic research libraries.=20 =20 Curriculum and Schedule: September 11-13, 2002 Fundamentals = of Preservation December 11-13, 2002 = Collections Maintenance March 26-28, 2003 = Emergency Preparedness=20 June 5-6, 2003 = Preservation Technologies September 11-12, 2003 Preservation = Administration =20 Faculty will include Steve Dalton, NEDCC's Director of Field = Service; Lori Foley, NEDCC's Field Service Representative; Jane Hedberg, = Preservation Program Officer, Harvard University Library; Janet Gertz, = Columbia University; Wes Boomgaarden, Ohio State University Libraries; = Barbara Lilley, New York State Library. =20 =20 The cost of the full series is $600. Each participant is = expected to attend all sessions. Lunches will be provided. = Transportation, lodging, and other meals are the responsibility of = participants. Full payment is required upon notification of acceptance. = All sessions will be held at NEDCC's facility in Andover, = Massachusetts. If you require accommodations, a block of rooms has been = reserved for each session at the Andover Inn (978- 475-5903), = approximately 2 miles from NEDCC. Participants are responsible for = their own reservations. =20 The Managing Preservation series is limited to twenty = participants selected based on their applications. Application = information and a more detailed agenda are posted on NEDCC's web site at = . =20 If you have questions, contact Lori Foley, = , at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 = Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810; 978 470-1010. =20 The program is made possible by the generous support of=20 the National Endowment for the Humanities. ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:35:09 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Library Vacancy: Genealogy Librarian, Shreveport, LA (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Jennie Paxton" Subject: Library Vacancy: Genealogy Librarian, Shreveport, LA ** please excuse any duplication ** SHREVE MEMORIAL LIBRARY BROADMOOR BRANCH PROFESSIONAL VACANCY (02-BR-9) LIBRARIAN II GENEALOGY LIBRARIAN SUMMARY: Under administrative supervision, this is responsible professional library work, which involves the application of professional library techniques and procedures to a resource center. Performs related and other work as required. REQUIRED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: Attainment of B.A. or B.S. from an accredited university/ college; attainment of graduate degree in Library and/or Information Science from an ALA-accredited university. REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES AND SKILLS Good knowledge of professional library principles, practices and procedures Demonstrated ability to: (1) handle both routine and long-range planning; (2) establish and maintain effective working relationships with the public and other staff; (3) supervise, train and evaluate support staff; (4) schedule department staff and work flow for maximum effectiveness; (5) communicate effectively, orally and in writing, to groups and invidivuals; (6) use application software. GENERAL DUTIES * Serves as a working supervisor of the Genealogy Department of the Broadmoor Branch (a major resource center). Is acting Branch Manager in the absence of the Branch and Assistant Branch Managers. * Responsible for all aspects of assigned area (Genealogy Services). * Selects, trains, schedules, supervises & evaluates 1 full-time and 5 part-time support staff. * Oversees daily activities; assigns tasks; coordinates work flow. * Provides assistance to patrons of all ages with answers to reference questions and with help in locating materials. * Responsible for collection development in assigned areas. * Coordinates with supervisor regarding major departmental decisions. * Has the ability to use various computer programs and databases, including CD-ROMs. * Performs other duties as required. THE LIBRARY Shreve Memorial Library is the largest public library system in Louisiana. The main library serves as a circulating library for downtown workers and residents, a resource center for research, with special collections in government documents, petroleum/geology, Louisiana Collection, Larkin Edwards (rare book collection), and back-up collection for the system's nineteen branches and one bookmobile. The main library also houses the system's administrative, support and technical services offices. The library system has a combined holdings of over 665,000 items and an annual materials budget of almost $750,000. A 10-year 5.26 mills property tax was passed in 1996. This is providing for the expansion of 10 existing full-time branches, the building of two new outlets and the expansion of 9 part-time branches. The materials budget is expected to be in excess of $1,000,000 by the end of the 10-year building program. Broadmoor's new state-of-the-art 32,000 square feet building, which serves as a resource center for the southeastern portion of the parish, opened in April 2000. The Genealogy Collection is one of the largest in the South. THE AREA Shreveport (and its sister city Bossier City) are two progressive cities in Northwest Louisiana steeped in Southern style! Shreveport and Bossier City are rich in attractions, festivals, cultural activities and fine food. Shreveport-Bossier serves as the trade and cultural center of the 200-mile radium extending into Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, known as the Ark-La-Tex. Some of the attractions include horse racing from Louisiana Downs, one of the nation's largest thoroughbred racetracks, the American Rose Center, North America's largest park dedicated to the rose, theatre, ballet, opera, a symphony, museums, outdoor recreation at local lakes and parks, five dockside riverboat casinos with entertainment districts being developed on both sides of the Red River, a variety of festivals year-round, and family attractions including a Sci-Port Discovery Center and IMAX theatre. With a low cost of living, Shreveport is a desirable place to live. http://www.shreveport-bossier.org BENEFITS 12 days vacation/year (with increases every other year), 10 paid holidays/year + 1 personal day, 15 days sick leave/year. Medical, dental and life insurance; (library pays 60% of employee's health insurance). Excellent retirement system (with the City of Shreveport). Tuition reimbursement available (after one year of employment). APPLICATION DEADLINE Review of resumes will begin immediately and resumes will be accepted until the position is filled. STARTING DATE Position available July 22, 2002 SALARY: $2282/month + benefits CONTACT: Send letter of application, resume and three professional references to Jennie Paxton, Human Resources Coordinator, Shreve Memorial Library, P.O. Box 21523, Shreveport, LA 71120-1523 or fax to (318) 226-4780 or e-mail to jpaxton@smlnet.sml.lib.la.us (Wordperfect or Word formats only). If you have questions regarding the application process, contact Jennie Paxton at (318) 226-4789. Contact Betty Cannon (318) 869-0120 or Cindy Ortego (318) 226-5881 if you have questions regarding the position. A criminal background check and a drug screening are part of the pre-hire process. June 25, 2002 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:35:24 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Librarian's Book Club (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Troy Johnson" Subject: Librarian's Book Club For those librarians that are interested in another type of professional development opportunity there is a Librarian's Book Club that has been in existence for one year and has discussed a dozen different books related to the library profession. The Librarian's Book Club is a group to read and discuss books that are about libraries and the library profession. Every two months the Librarian's Book Club will select a new book to discuss. All you need to do is get yourself a copy of the current book and subscribe to the discussion list. Click on the book covers to learn more about the current selection. The website for the LBC can be found at http://culaw2.creighton.edu/library/lbc/ Troy Johnson, Electronic Services Librarian Creighton University School of Law Email: troyj@creighton.edu Phone: 402 280 2832 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:35:30 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Friends representative on Library Board (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Deb Messling Subject: Friends representative on Library Board Are there any examples of libraries in which the Friends group appoints a voting representative to the library board? Our board consists of people appointed by the municipalities we serve, so there's an element of political accountability to our governance. Our concern is that a Friends representative would be answerable only to a private entity and thus would lack that element of accountability. On the other hand, the Friends raise a lot of money, conduct terrific programs, and feel they deserve a policy-making role in the library. ----------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling, Director Eastern Monroe Public Library 1002 North Ninth Street Stroudsburg, PA 18360 570-421-0800 mcpl@ptd.net ------------------------------------------------------------ From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:35:35 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] AkCLU Applauds Decisive Action by Anchorage Assembly, (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: AkCLU Applauds Decisive Action by Anchorage Assembly, Alaska Civil Liberties Union An Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union P. O. Box 201844, Anchorage, AK 99520-1844 Phone: (907) 258-0044 Fax: (907) 258-0288 Email: akclu@alaska.net *PRESS RELEASE * PRESS RELEASE * PRESS RELEASE * PRESS RELEASE* AkCLU Applauds Decisive Action by Anchorage Assembly, Unanimously Repealing Mayor's Library Policy and Reinstating Free Speech at Municipal Public Libraries FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 Jennifer Rudinger, Executive Director Alaska Civil Liberties Union (907) 258-0044 ANCHORAGE- The Alaska Civil Liberties Union (AkCLU) today commended the Anchorage Assembly for reinstating free speech and robust public discourse at the Z. J. Loussac Library and other municipal branch libraries. Last night, by a unanimous vote of 9-0, the Assembly passed an ordinance that repeals the restrictive library exhibit policy issued by Mayor George Wuerch last month and instead installs the Anchorage Municipal Libraries Exhibit Policy recommended by the Library Advisory Board on July 31st of last year. The ordinance was sponsored by Assembly member Allan Tesche. AkCLU Executive Director Jennifer Rudinger testified in support of the ordinance and urged the immediate repeal of the Mayor's policy. "In his continuing battle against the First Amendment, the Mayor last month issued a convoluted, complicated and confusing policy that banished all exhibits by members of the community to the bottom floor of the library - where there are no books and where library patrons do not routinely go - and imposed vague, unworkable and at times contradictory criteria to be used in determining what displays would and would not be permissible," Rudinger said. In her testimony Tuesday night, Rudinger cautioned the Assembly that the Mayor's current library policy would have led to the same problems of arbitrary interpretation and selective enforcement that landed the Municipality in federal court last summer when the AkCLU successfully sued the Municipality over the Mayor's unilateral removal of a gay pride exhibit entitled "Celebrating Diversity Under the Midnight Sun." A ban on all exhibits originating outside the library has been in place by orders of the Mayor since the controversy erupted last June, with the exception of the gay pride exhibit after the AkCLU obtained a court order to get it reinstalled in the third-floor library display area. Regarding last summer's controversy, Rudinger testified, "The problems last summer had nothing to do with the wording of the former library policy, which had been working just fine for many, many years. The problems last summer stemmed from this Administration's arbitrary interpretation of that library policy." Rudinger concluded her testimony by explaining that while arbitrary interpretation by a government official who abuses his power is always a danger, the Library Advisory Board's policy is much less likely to lead to arbitrary enforcement - and thus less likely to land the Municipality back in court over some future controversy - because the Library Advisory Board's policy is simple, clear, concise and easy for everyone to understand. Rudinger praised the all-volunteer Library Advisory Board for giving so much of their time, their labor and their hearts and souls to make Anchorage a better community in which to live. Also testifying in favor of the ordinance last night were: a Loussac Library employee; members of the Library Advisory Board; members of the Anchorage community who asserted their right to receive information and to engage in free speech; and members of community groups such as the Anchorage Waterworks Project, the Blacks in Alaska History Project, and Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), who have exhibited displays in past years but would be excluded under the new policy issued by the Mayor last month. There was no testimony in opposition to the ordinance last night. Mayor George Wuerch was not in attendance. -- END -- See also Exhibit Spaces and Bulletin Boards: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/exh_spac.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:35:42 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Staff evaluations (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: ANNR@kpl.gov Subject: Staff evaluations We are reexamining our staff evaluation process and forms. I have just three short/quick questions: How often do you evaluate salaried staff? Is performance linked to salary increases? Do you use a form or is it more "freestyle"? Thanks. As always, the experience and advice of other libraries is helpful and appreciated. Ann Rohrbaugh - Kalamazoo (Michigan) Public Library From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:35:49 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Reposting ALAWON on NCIPA from 6/26 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Claudette Tennant" Subject: Reposting ALAWON on NCIPA from 6/26 If you've already seen this, please forgive the cross-posting. We're trying to get the word out as widely as possible. ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 11, Number 53 June 26, 2002 In This Issue: ALA Advises Holding Certification on NCIPA for E- rate July 1 looms as the deadline for complying with the Neighborhood Children's Internet Protection Act (NCIPA) for those libraries who are receiving 2002 E-rate discounts for Internet access or internal connections. A three-judge panel from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania declared the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) unconstitutional with respect to public libraries. This does not remove NCIPA as a requirement for public libraries participating in the E-rate program. Guidance concerning how NCIPA certification will be handled in response to the Courts' decision is expected from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) within the next few weeks. Based on consultation with the FCC, ALA urges libraries to refrain from filing certification forms until this FCC order is issued and legal counsel have had an opportunity to review it. Put simply, we advise libraries to comply with NCIPA now but to certify compliance to the FCC after the order and possibly new forms have been issued and evaluated. Certification on Form 486 is not required until later. Libraries participating in consortia face a unique issue because their certification is included with their letter of agency on Form 479. ALA urges libraries that must sign a Form 479 before receiving new direction from the FCC to write in a substitute certification for NCIPA rather than check a box for CIPA certification. For example: I certify that my library has complied with the requirements of the Neighborhood Children's Internet Protection Act. Things to remember: NCIPA requires that a library adopt an Internet safety policy that addresses five issues: (1) access by minors to "inappropriate matter"; (2) safety and security of minors when using e-mail, chat rooms and other forms of direct electronic communication; (3) unauthorized access, including hacking and other unlawful online activities by minors; (4) unauthorized disclosure of personal identification information of minors; and (5) measures designed to restrict minors' access to harmful materials. NCIPA does not prescribe any specific manner in which to address these issues and does not require filtering or mandate any specific policy. In addressing the Internet safety policy, NCIPA requires libraries to hold at least one public meeting or hearing with reasonable notice to the public. The meeting must have been held prior to July 1, 2002, and may have been held prior to the enactment of NCIPA. NCIPA does not define reasonable public notice, but libraries should determine whether local or state regulations define the requirements for an open meeting. The deadline for NCIPA certification on Form 486 is 120 days after the start of service. This is October 29 for services that start on July 1. HOWEVER, a library must be in compliance with NCIPA as soon as it starts receiving services. For many libraries their service start date is July 1. If you have any questions regarding NCIPA, please call Claudette Tennant at ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy (1-800- 941-8478) or your state coordinator. ****** ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. To subscribe to ALAWON, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc@ala.org or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. To unsubscribe to ALAWON, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478 toll-free; fax: 202.628.8419; e-mail: alawash@alawash.org; Web site: http://www.ala.org/washoff. Executive Director: Emily Sheketoff. Office of Government Relations: Lynne Bradley, Director; Camille Bowman, Mary Costabile, Don Essex, Patrice McDermott and Miriam Nisbet. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Jennifer Hendrix, Carrie Russell, Claudette Tennant. ALAWON Editor: Bernadette Murphy. Claudette W. Tennant Internet Policy Specialist Office for Information Technology Policy American Library Association 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 403 Washington, DC 20004 1-800-941-8478 From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:35:54 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Library, Librarian, and Librarianship Quotes (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: Library, Librarian, and Librarianship Quotes Library, Librarian, and Librarianship Quotes http://www.sis.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/quotes/libquotesac.html Ray Bradbury "You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library every day of your life." Writer's Digest, Feb. 1976, submitted by Karen Weaver __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Wed Jun 26 20:36:12 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:22 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Tech TV Story (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Hampton M. \"Skip\" Auld" Subject: Tech TV Story To Publib, ALA Member Forum, and other lists (Please excuse duplication): Tomorrow evening at 8:30 pm EST, "Tech Live" will feature a segment on Chesterfield County Public Library's use of Internet filters. The program will be on Tech TV, which is available to digital cable subscribers. Peter Barnes, Washington bureau chief for TechTV, wanted a story about a library continuing to use filters even after the Children's Internet Protection Act was declared unconstitutional by the 3-judge court in Philadelphia on May 31. (According to the CIPA decision, 7% of American public libraries filter adult as well as children's computers.) Mr. Barnes interviewed two mothers and me at our new Chester Library this afternoon. The segment is expected to run about 2 minutes, even though he interviewed for over 2 hours. A written story will complement the broadcast and will be available at www.techtv.com. Skip Auld Hampton M. "Skip" Auld Assistant Director Chesterfield County Public Library 9501 Lori Road Chesterfield, Virginia 23832-0297 Phone: (804) 748-1767 Fax: (804) 751-4679 Email: auldh@co.chesterfield.va.us Website: http://library.co.chesterfield.va.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:08:26 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Children's Internet/CD ROM sign up (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Cathy Kiedrowski Subject: Children's Internet/CD ROM sign up First of all, I would like to say thank you to the members of this list. You have helped us out in past (with a DVD case question and a coloured dot question.) We now have another interesting question that I hope that some of libraries out there have already found an answer to. The Cambridge Libraries are interested in hearing from any libraries who have an effective solution to sign up on the Children's Internet and Interactive Stories computers. Self sign up doesn't work with young children and in some of our branches the reference desk does not have a sight line to the area where the children's computers are located. We do not require library cards to use the computers and we are booking these machines in 20 minute time slots. Has anyone found an effective solution to the sign up dilemma that can used for children? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cathy Kiedrowski Manager, Information Services Cambridge Libraries 1 North Square Cambridge, ON N1S 2K6 ckiedrowski@library.cambridge.on.ca From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:08:40 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] LIBRARY WEBSITE FOR YOUTHS (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: WBancroft@wollongong.nsw.gov.au Subject: LIBRARY WEBSITE FOR YOUTHS Hi, We are currently planning the redesign of a youth section (13-18 years) within a local government library website. Overall objective is to raise the awareness of library services to youth and provide access to web based resources. Appreciate advice on smart ideas, insights, things that work (and don't work), examples of good library sites etc catering for youths. TIA, Wilma Bancroft Children & Youth Services Librarian Wollongong City Council Locked Bag 8821 South Coast Mail Centre NSW 2521 Voice: (02) 4227 7435 Fax: (02) 4227 7551 email: wbancroft@wollongong.nsw.gov.au From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:08:48 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Theft insurance (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." Subject: Theft insurance I am wondering if any libraries out there have and can share information on insurance against theft of materials. I know that some libraries have insurance for catastrophic loss in case of flood, fire and the like, but what about theft? Datcalmguy Thomas J. Hennen Jr. thennen@haplr-index.com http://www.haplr-index.com Voice: 262-886-1625 Fax: 262-886-5424 6014 Spring Street Racine, WI 53406 "Share knowledge, seek wisdom." From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:09:02 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: staff evaluations (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "John Richmond" Subject: Re: staff evaluations 1) We evaluate all staff once a year, in May-June; end of the fiscal year is June 30, so evaluations have to be done by then. All staff are also evaluated after the first six months of service...but that's a one-time thing. 2) Performance is linked to increase. For better or for worse. 3) We use a form. No one likes it. It includes a self-evaluation form, plus the supervisor's form. But then, I've never met anyone who met an evaluation form that he or she really liked. We're considering dropping the self-evaluation for some employees who work, say, 6-7 hours a week, and do the same things all the time. This might be a mistake, but we're considering it. All things subject to changes of mind, the phase of the moon, how much sleep the library director has gotten on any given night, and the scarcity or abundance of chocolate.... John Richmond, Director Alpha Park Public Library District 3527 South Airport Road Bartonville, IL 61607-1799 Phone: (309) 697-3822, ext. 12 Fax: (309) 697-9681 "Human kind cannot bear very much reality." -- T. S. Eliot ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:09:25 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Periodical possibilities (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Carol M. Guerriero" Subject: Periodical possibilities I'm looking for some input. We are a public library in the Detroit Metro area serving a pop. of 100,000 or so. I handle the periodicals for the main branch, which opened about fifteen years ago. At that time, we purchased a dozen or so magazine titles from subjects like art, science, and business that are not found in a lot of libraries (along with most of the standard news/sports/family titles). Since then, we have not really established ourselves as a major source for any of these subjects, and with rising subscription costs, smaller budgets and online access, I'm trying to predict the future of these specialized titles as well as the whole collection. I'm asking any Publibbers with any ideas, thoughts, or comments to speak up. I'm not really looking for "how we did it",(this is just a question, we are not in the middle of any major reorganization) but more general thoughts on the future of periodicals, and what direction a periodical collection in a medium/large public library should be taking. Should we go for just a casual reader collection, increase our holdings of more obscure titles (not available online), cut back severely and invest in periodicals in other formats, etc. And what about microforms!!! I'm waffling quite a bit on this myself, but I'd like to hear from others! (That is, if anyone else thinks about these things -- as a periodical librarian, I often feel like I'm driving a Yugo while the techies are zipping past in their Cameros....gee, they don't even steal Rolling Stone anymore.) Thanks in advance. Carol Guerriero ***Subscribe to our monthly Livonia Civic Center Library library e-newsletter at 32777 Five Mile Road livonia.lib.mi.us*** Livonia, Michigan 48154 (734)466-2485 cmg@tln.lib.mi.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:09:31 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Supervising Librarian Position Open (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: JKeenan Subject: Supervising Librarian Position Open The Elizabeth (NJ) Public Library seeks to hire a Supervising Branch Librarian to manage its three branch libraries with a staff of eight FTEs, and an annual material budget of $80,000. This is an excellent opportunity for someone interested in gaining library supervisory and management experience. The supervisor trains and evaluates staff, develops the collections, and implements programming for the branches. The annual salary is $45,149. There is an excellent benefit package including full health, dental, and prescription benefits. Persons interested in the position must have a Master's degree in Library or Information Science from an accredited college or university, and have a minimum of three years of librarian experience. Prior supervisory experience is not required. The position is available immediately. To discuss the position further, please call Library Director Joseph Keenan at 908-354-6060, extension 7253. Those interested in applying for the position may mail, fax, or email their resumes with three references to: Joseph Keenan, Library Director Elizabeth Public Library 11 South Broad St. Elizabeth, NJ 07202 Fax: 908-354-5845 Email: jkeenan@elizpl.org Joseph J. Keenan, Jr., Library Director Elizabeth Public Library 11 South Broad St. Elizabeth, NJ 07202 phone: 908-354-6060, ext. 7253 fax: 908-354-5845 web page: www.elizpl.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:09:36 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Libraries and the USA Patriot Act (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: Libraries and the USA Patriot Act Libraries and the USA Patriot Act http://www.ala.org/news/v8n9/patriotact.html "On October 25, 2001, Congress passed the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act" (USA PATRIOT Act.) This law broadly expands the powers of federal law enforcement agencies investigating cases involving foreign intelligence and international terrorism." __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:11:39 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] What is your library planning for Banned Books Week 2002? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: What is your library planning for Banned Books Week 2002? What is your library planning for Banned Books Week 2002 (September 21-28)? We need several really good examples for press releases, editorials, letters to the editor, talks, etc. Please send us information on what you are planning. Are you planning to display banned books in a unique way? Are you planning on conducting a read-a-thon in which students read passages from banned books? Are you planning on discussing the dangers of suppressing books and ideas? Whatever you plan on doing, we'd like to hear about it, so we can share your ideas with others. Thank you for your willingness to share! For details on Banned Books Week 2002, see http://www.ala.org/bbooks/ _________________________ "[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."--Judy Blume "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."--Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas "Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment."--ALA Library Bill of Rights "Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."--Walt Whitman "Only the suppressed word is dangerous."--Ludwig Borne ________________________ __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:11:50 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Merritt Fund Helps Librarians in Need (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: Merritt Fund Helps Librarians in Need **PLEASE POST TO ALL LISTS OF INTEREST TO LIBRARIANS!!** Dear Friends, It's hard to believe, but after more than thirty years of assisting librarians, there are still those out there who don't know about the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund. And what they don't know ... can't HELP them. A sister organization to the American Library Association, the Merritt Fund gives unique aid to librarians who face: · Workplace discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, age, disability, or place of national origin; · unfair employment practices; · professional and personal adversity due to their defense of intellectual freedom. Since its inception in 1970, the Fund has provided over $80,000 in grants to support librarians in their fight for intellectual freedom and professional integrity. Some of the individuals who received grants include: · A school librarian who was denied tenure in a small-town district for vague reasons. The librarian had faced continued resistance to her stands for intellectual freedom. A $1,000 grant from the Merritt Fund helped pay bills that had backed up until she found a new position. · A medical librarian who was terminated without just cause. The Merritt Fund granted $1,500 so she could secure legal counsel. · A public librarian who did not support the library board's request to restrict children's access to the adult section of the library and was forced to resign. The Merritt Fund provided a $1,430 grant to assist with attorney costs. If you or someone you know faces a professional and personal challenge of this kind, go to http://www.merrittfund.org/ for an application. At the Merritt Fund Web site you also will find information about donating to the Fund (contributions are always needed and welcome!), and can learn more about Dr. LeRoy C. Merritt and the Fund established in his name. Help us spread the word about the Merritt Fund, and help us directly assist librarians in need. If you have any questions, please call or email the Merritt Fund (800-545-2433, then ext. 4226; merritt@ala.org). Sincerely, LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund Trustees June Garcia, Senior Trustee Virginia Moore, Trustee Francis J. Buckley, Jr., Trustee LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund 50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60616 toll-free: (800) 545-2433 x4226 phone: (312) 280-4226 fax: (312) 280-4227 merritt@ala.org www.merrittfund.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:11:55 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest 2076 (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Pam Schwotzer Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest 2076 Re: adding Friends of the Library rep to Library Board Deb, I love our Friends of the Library dearly, but do not feel they belong on the Board of Trustees. The Friends group exists to help the library (fundraising, voluteers, etc.) with the direction of the Director (or other staff members, however it works in each library), not to run the library or to set policy. I have seen many Friends groups get confused on this role and it only leads to too many bosses. That said, I think it's important for the Trustees (and, of course, the Director) to keep good lines of communication open between the two groups, to invite the Friends to attend Trustee meetings as welcome guests or even speakers, and for the Trustees to attend Friends' meetings. The Friends should be kept informed of the Library's plans, vision, hopes, dreams and wishes, should be asked for ideas and opinions, and should be profusely and publicly thanked for their many efforts. Where would we be without them? But don't add them to the Board. We cannot serve both Trustees and Friends. Pam Schwotzer North Hampton Public Library North Hampton, NH nhpl@nhplib.org opic No. 18 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:35:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Deb Messling To: publib Subject: Friends representative on Library Board Message-ID: Are there any examples of libraries in which the Friends group appoints a voting representative to the library board? Our board consists of people appointed by the municipalities we serve, so there's an element of political accountability to our governance. Our concern is that a Friends representative would be answerable only to a private entity and thus would lack that element of accountability. On the other hand, the Friends raise a lot of money, conduct terrific programs, and feel they deserve a policy-making role in the library. ----------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling, Director Eastern Monroe Public Library 1002 North Ninth Street Stroudsburg, PA 18360 570-421-0800 mcpl@ptd.net ------------------------------------------------- From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:12:01 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] List of Duplicate Items (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Pomes, Stephen" Subject: List of Duplicate Items The MMS Library has more duplicate items available to libraries. To see the list of titles, please use the following link. http://www.webspawner.com/users/stephenpomes/index.html No postage reimbursement is necessary. Please send all responses to Laurie.Gaillard@mms.gov. Laurie manages the gifts and exchanges program. Stephen V. Pomes, Librarian Library U.S. Dept. of Interior Minerals Management Service 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd., ms 5031 New Orleans, LA 70123-2394 United States of America Telephone: 504-736-2521 Fax: 504-736-2525 E-Mail: stephen.pomes@mms.gov ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:12:07 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Friends Membership Dues (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Leah Ducato Rudolph" Subject: Friends Membership Dues Our annual dues is now $5.00/family. I'm wondering if that is on the = low side with the cost of postage going up and printing, etc. We have = about 6-8 mailings/year to our membership regarding book sales and = programs. Let me know what your Friend's membership entails. Thanks. Leah Ducato Rudolph =20 ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:12:14 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Responses to facilities consultants (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Julia Aker" Subject: Responses to facilities consultants Thanks to everyone for their input. I thought other libraries may be interested in the results: Doug Zyskowski (daz@metronet.lib.mi.us): We have had great luck with PSA out of Dallas. We've worked with Denelle Wrightson out of that office. She has built over 60 public Libraries. She did a fine job on our program. Nann Blaine Hilyard, Lake Villa, IL (nhilyard@lvdl.org): I highly recommend Anders Dahlgren. Phone 608-276-5762; acdahlgren@aol.com. Anders has done many facilities studies, particularly in the Midwest. He did a building program for us in 1991 ($7500? but that was 11 years ago). This year we've had him help us rearrange the furniture so we can make the best use of our space and at the end of July he will conduct focus groups for us. His fee for this work is $4700. Christine Lind Hage,Clinton-Macomb Public Library, MI (Christine@cmpl.org): We used: George Lawson, George Lawson Consulting, 1007 Brookridge Ave, Ames IA 50010 (515) 232-5679 glawson@netins.net He was reasonably priced, on time and we liked his work. He has lots of national experience in public library consulting. Lily Lau, East Central Library Services, Cedar Rapids, IA (llau@ecls.lib.ia.us): I have passed on your name to George Lawson. He is a building consultant from Ames, Iowa. I coordinate a small LSTA building consultant grant program for the State Lib. of Iowa. George has done the majority of building consulting in this state. The libraries that have used him have been pleased. Nancy Tessman, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah (ntessman@mail.slcpl.lib.ut.us): I can wholeheartedly recommend June Garcia and Ron Dubberly who led our facility study in 1997-98. They did a terrific job with both substance and credibility and the efforts paid off in a decision to expand branches and replace the Main Library. We are in construction now. You can reach June at (303) 757-7420...She lives in Colorado. I can look up the costs if you need them, but scopes can vary. I do know they were a less expensive alternative than some of the responses we received and we felt very satisfied with the value. Terri Delke, Greenfield Public Library, WI (terri.delke@mcfls.org: Anders Dahlgren was the Wisconsin State library buildings consultant (until the division cut the position for budgetary reasons). He's worked in library projects in Wisconsin and Illinois and probably elsewhere. Anders is a librarian but does not work for any architectural firm. Anders C. Dahlgren, Library Planning Associates, P O Box 44006, Madison WI 53744-4006. Business phone: 608 276 5762, email: acdahlgren@aol.com Sandra Collins, Northland Public Library, Pittsburgh, PA (collins3@eiNetwork.Net): We recently completed a similar study - The consultant we used is Bob Smith, 140 W. Lafayette #10, Medina OH 44256 (330)723-6544 smith@apk.net He is a retired library director - Our cost was around $20,000. Peggy Mahan, Easttown Library & Information System, Berwyn, PA (pmahan@ccls.org): We used Allen Martineau of Barnes & Roche. His fee is high (I believe it is close to $300/hr now), but we felt we got our money's worth and have had a very successful $4.2 million campaign because of his leadership, especially with the feasibility study (about $12K) and early stages of our capital campaign. He does travel! Mr. Allen Martineau, Barnes & Roche, Rosemont Business Campus. Building Three, Suite 110, 919 Conestoga Road, Rosemont, PA 19010, 610-527-3244 Sherry Hupp, Cromaine District Library, Hartland, MI (shupp@cromaine.org): We have been working with George Lawson and are very pleased. He does consulting on the entire range of library guilding planning from feasibility studies on. We initially hired him to do the building program for a 46,000 sq. ft. facility. He has assisted us and our architects with site selection and will be assisting us through the schematic design phase. George communicates very well with board, staff and the public. His speaking and writing are direct and to the point, lots of attention to detail and a great sense of humor. His fees are reasonable. I recommend you contact him: George Lawson, 1007 Brookridge Av., Ames, IA 50010 512-232-5679 glawson@netins.net Bob Smith, Consultant (smith@apk.net): I would be glad to put together a proposal for you to present to the Board. As I mentioned, I was the Director of the Medina County District Library, Medina, OH and in 1998 we received the "Library of the Year Award". (See Library Journal, June 15, 1998). Jay K. Lucker, Consultant (jklucker@mit.edu): tel: 781-862-4558 fax: 781-860-0545 A colleague forwarded your email regarding library consultants. ALA publishes a "Directory of Library Building Consultants" that includes the kind of person you are seeking. There are independent library consultants listed as well as architects who consult. The last paper edition was published in 1999; the list is now online through the ALA Web site. You do have to pay for access but I think it's worth the cost. I am a library bulding consultant and I do consult on public libraries. I work primarily in the northeast and I think you would be better served by finding someone closer to home. Kathy Page (kpage@ionix.net): The LAMA Building Consultants Directory will help you - there are plenty of non-architecturally associated consultants and the directory has a geographical approach. Go to LAMA's website to access. Wicky Sleight, Kirkwood Public Library, St. Louis, MO (jtz000@mail.connect.more.net): In regard to your query about consultants, I have two suggestions: 1) My partner and I do facility consulting. He is a professional interior designer, member of ASID, certified by National Counsel of Interior Design Qualifications, member and attendee at ALA. Yesterday he began a job consulting with a four-year college library here in Missouri. He has over 30 years experience in space planning and design for all types and sizes of libraries. He works within your budget and with existing furniture, shelves, etc. if that is what you need. I have an MLS and also over 30 years experience in libraries. Fees are $600 a day plus expenses or if you want detailed plans, $4 a square foot. 2)We used, at Kirkwood Public Library ` Bob Smith, from Medina, Ohio. He did focus groups, meetings with staff board, Friends, community leaders, and wrote a needs assessment (which said we needed a new building). He then did an extensive building plan. I believe the fee for the needs assessment was $6000 and the building plan $10,000. I am at home so don't hold me to those figures. So, if you are just looking at your facility and planning for better space utilization, I would recommend H. Hadley Sleight, ASID. If more, then Bob Smith. Evelyn Walker, Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, IN (evelynw@evpl.lib.org): We hired Bob Rolph for our feasibility study. He reviewd 7 branches and a main library and I believe his fee was over $25,000 but not sure. We also interviewed Anders Dalgreen who Carmel used and I was impressed by him but the bd went with Bob. Bob was fine not complaining just thought Anders seemed more current. He would probably charge the same. You could call Wendy at Carmel for her take on him. IF you want to contact Bob his email is: plcbob@bitstream.net Good Luck and if you check out our web (www.evpl.org) you can see the design of our new Central (currently under construction, scheduled to open in 04, our new Oaklyn to open in Dec.) We are also planing another new branch and renovation of East West and Stringtown. Catherine O'Connell, Boca Raton Public Library, FL (oconnell@bocalibrary.org): We have been working with Ron Dubberly and company, originally with his firm Dubberly Associates, Inc. which is now Dubberly Garcia. We have been working with them for several years, doing both long-range planning and construction planning, building programs, etc., etc. We are moving slowly... our fault, not theirs. But we expect to have them involved through the construction phases. Right now we expect a referendum for November for 2 libraries. Originally Ron was basically a one person shop with others he could call on for specific, individualized expertise, but he recently merged with June Garcia. June did some of the early work on our project. I can recommend both to you without hesitation. As for costs... any consultant is going to be expensive, but if you get a good one, they are worth it and will save you from making costly mistakes. I don't want to get into what we've paid Ron... it would probably scare you. But, remember we've been working with them for about 3 years and the Work Orders we've issued have been broad in scope and included many things most communities would not do, for instance, 2 community surveys [one in-house and one telephone] as well as focus groups and Open Houses. Ron has worked closely with our architect, who is a Florida architect...on the West Coast of FL. They have worked well together and produced incredibly good building programs and preliminary floor plans that actually work for the Library. Ron and his team also listened to what WE were saying. Before I came here, there was a referendum for one building that failed by 88 votes. This time we need to get it right and we need to have plans that fit the needs of the community. Ron was open to helping us with that. I am sure that he would be able to work with virtually any good architect. Ron was willing to tailor his work for us to just what we needed and within the costs we felt the City would pay. And that, as you know, varies from city to city. If you give Ron a call, I'm sure he could talk with you about costs and what he would recommend for your specific purpose. He is located in Atlanta and his phone number is 404-264-0072. Since he has been our primary contact, I do not have June Garcia's phone number at present, but I'm sure Ron could be of help. Julia Aker, Library Director Jackson Co. Public Library 303 W. Second St. Seymour, IN 47274-2147 812-522-3412 ext. 223 812-522-5456 (fax) www.japl.lib.in.us From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:12:44 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Criss-Cross Survey (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "David Clayton" Subject: Criss-Cross Survey Our Electronic Reference & Information Department is reviewing our policies for providing criss-cross service to callers. Any information you could provide concerning the questions listed below would be helpful. We will make sure to send to results by e-mail to all participants. Replies can be posted online, however, we’d prefer to have them sent to the following e-mail address: davidlibrarian@hotmail.com Do you provide criss-cross service over the telephone for patrons? If you do provide this service, do you: limit those you serve to local county residents only? limit the search range to your local county? provide the service on a call-back basis, or at the time of the call? limit your search to standard directories such as those from the R.R. Polk Co. and Hill-Donnelly Corp., and/or other resources such as electronic databases and Websites? allow more than one address and/or phone number search per. call? provide near-by listings (addresses close to a given address)? Lastly, what is the daily or weekly amount of requests you receive? _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:13:42 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Online Now: New FBI Guidelines and Other Anti-Terrorism (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: Online Now: New FBI Guidelines and Other Anti-Terrorism The slides from the program, "The New FBI Guidelines and Other Anti-Terrorism Efforts: What Every Librarian Should Know," sponsored by the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and Committee on Legislation, and presented at the 2002 ALA Annual Conference, are available at: http://www.cdt.org/ala/ala.ppt Speaking at the program (Monday, June 17, 10:30 am–12:00 pm, GWCC B406/407) was Alan B. Davidson, Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Technology. The program description: In the wake of September 11, the US government has passed legislation and taken other steps to increase its eavesdro/pping capability—in recent days revising the FBI’s critical guidelines on surveillance. Foreign governments are pursuing similar measures, such as the new Convention on Cybercrime, its controversial Protocol on Racist Speech, and data retention provisions just approved by the European Union. Come learn about the risks posed by these policies, review your rights and responsibilities under the new rules, and find out how to communicate your concerns to the President and the Congress. The program was audiotaped. For information on how to purchase the audiotape, please contact the Office for Intellectual Freedom, nperez@ala.org. The program will also be published in the Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom. For information on how to subscribe, please contact the Office for Intellectual Freedom, nperez@ala.org. See also USA Patriot Act http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotact.html and Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/nif_inf.html __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely* "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:13:55 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: PUBLIB digest - staff evaluations (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: K Smuz/Dunedin Subject: Re: PUBLIB digest - staff evaluations We are a medium-sized public library. Hope my responses will help. > We are reexamining our staff evaluation process and forms. I have just > three short/quick questions: > 1. How often do you evaluate salaried staff? New staff are evaluated at 6 months and 12 months; after the first year, they are evaluated annually. > 2. Is performance linked to salary increases? Yes, somewhat. Our library is part of the city government and the city uses a convulted process for determining raises. part of it is cost of living, and part of it is based upon the employee's rating on the evaluation. > 3. Do you use a form or is it more "freestyle"? We have a form designed by the city which rates the employee from 0 (not acceptable) to 4 (excellent). But for each category, the supervisor is allowed to add comments and is encouraged to give examples of why they rated the employee as they did, so I suppose that part of it is sort of freestyle. There is also room at the end for both the supervisor and the employee to add any general comments. > -- Kathy Smuz Dunedin Public Library 223 Douglas Ave. Dunedin, FL 34698 (727) 298-3080 FAX (727) 298-3088 From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:14:03 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Friends representative on Library Board (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Karl Pearson Subject: Re: Friends representative on Library Board On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Deb Messling wrote: > Are there any examples of libraries in which the Friends group appoints a > voting representative to the library board? > > Our board consists of people appointed by the municipalities we serve, so > there's an element of political accountability to our governance. Our > concern is that a Friends representative would be answerable only to a > private entity and thus would lack that element of accountability. > > On the other hand, the Friends raise a lot of money, conduct terrific > programs, and feel they deserve a policy-making role in the library. > The Library Board in Los Gatos, CA, serves in an advisory rather than administrative capacity. The five members are appointed to three-year terms by the Town Council. By practice, at least one of the Board members represents the Friends -- essentially acts as a communications channel between the Library Board and the board of the Friends group. (I'm not positive, but I suspect that all Board members also hold membership in the Friends, even if not active there.) Because the Brown Act in CA forbids public commission members to meet unofficially in groups consisting of a quorum or more (at least three, in our case), only two "official" Friends can be on the Board. Karl Pearson From plib2 at webjunction.org Thu Jun 27 22:14:14 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:23 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk: New Sites, News, and More (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: gary price Subject: The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk: New Sites, News, and More Hello from D.C. A quick note to alert the list that The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk weblog to a weblog/newsletter of possible interest. The blog features web search news, research tips, and links to new full-text documents that have some reference value. It's updated daily. Please stop by and feel free to sign-up (free) for the weekly email reminder. Here is an abridged version of this weeks reminder. Visit the site for all of the content. cheers, gary price p.s. Feel free to share this email with others in your organizations who might find the site useful. Thanks! -------------- ------------- This e-mail CONTAINS ONLY A FEW of the POSTINGS THAT you'll find on the web site. To See It All Visit: http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/ New Material is Posted Daily! -- http://resourceshelf.freepint.com -- Thursday, June 27, 2002 Web Resources of the Week News Compilations 1) AsiaToday Every weekday, this service (free) from the Asia Society compiles and organizes news stories about and relating to Asia and places direct links to the content on this page. Sources include the BBC, Asia Times, The Economist, and Sydney Morning Herald. Categories include East Asia, South Asia, AustralAsia, Business & Economics, and Magazine Articles. A full archive of each days links are available and can be browsed by date or searched by keyword. AsiaToday was launched in September of 1999. AsiaToday is also made available via e-mail (note registration box, upper-left side of page). The compilation is usually delivered by 11 a.m. Eastern time. time. --- Road Construction--United States and Canada--Searchable Database 2) Rand McNally's Road Construction Database (U.S. and Canada) Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (1 Item) Political Action Committees--United States--Statistics Source: Federal Election Commission Just Released, Financial Activity of Political Action Committees (1/1/2001-3/31/2002) - Wednesday, June 26, 2002 Public Libraries--United States Source: CNN Judith Krug and Emily Sheketoff of the American Library Association Discuss FBI Issue on CNN -- http://resourceshelf.freepint.com -- Tuesday, June 25, 2002 Web Search--Teoma Teoma Launches Toolbar Health Information--Information Quality Source: The Washington Post "Rx for the Future: Get an Ix" Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Wildfires--United States Source: NIFC/NICC National Interagency Fire Center Key Resources from the Site Internet Usage--United States Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project Full-Text Report, The Broadband Difference: How Online Americans' Behavior Changes with High-Speed Internet Connections at Home Smuggling--United Kingdom Shopping--United Kingdom Source: House of Commons Library Full-Text Report, Cross Border Shopping and Smuggling - Monday, June 24, 2002 Electronic Library Projects Source: Detroit Free Press "Michigan's Pioneering e-Library Has New Look" The Web--Linking Issues Source: Financial Times "Reasons to Think Before you Link" - Sunday, June 23, 2002 Web Search Industry Source: E-Commerce Times "The Serious Business of Internet Search Engines" -- http://resourceshelf.freepint.com -- Saturday, June 22, 2002 Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Poverty--Worldwide--Statistical Reports Source: UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) Full-Text Report, "The Least Developed Countries Report 2002" - Friday, June 21, 2002 Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents E-Government--Worldwide Source: United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance Full-Text Report, Benchmarking E-Government: A Global Perspective - Celebrities--Lists & Rankings Source: Forbes Now Available, Forbes Celebrity 100, 2002 ed. - Thursday, June 20, 2002 Web Search--Spam Source: News.Com Spammer Attacks AOL's Search Engine Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents - A Couple of Webby Award Winners - Tolerance--United States Source: Southern Poverty Law Center Webby Award Winner: Tolerance.Org I noticed that this important site was awarded a Webby Award the other night. While the entire site is highly useful and valuable, here are a few portions of the site that could be of use in a ready reference situation. 1) U.S. Map of Hate Groups, 2) Identify Hate Incidents in the U.S. (Stories in the Mainstream Press, Limit by State/Type of Incident), Hate in the News upcoming events and recent events. -- Nature Source: National Wildlife Federation Webby Award Winner: eNature.Com Ready reference suggestions: eNature Online Field Guides, Native Plant Guide, Zip Guides, (Wildlife Guides by Zip Code), ParkFinder. See Also: A List of the Other Webby Award Winners (Many of Other Quality Resources) - http://resourceshelf.freepint.com - Do you know of OTHERS who might find this weekly e-mail update of VALUE? Please FEEL FREE to share it with them. This e-mail CONTAINS ONLY A FEW of the POSTINGS THAT you'll find on the web site. To See It All Visit: http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/ New Material is Posted Daily! The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk Update Week 66 http://resourceshelf.freepint.com ------- End From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:44:16 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ALAET - June 28, 2002. No. 97. (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: kmccook@tampabay.rr.com Subject: ALAET - June 28, 2002. No. 97. A LIBRARIAN AT EVERY TABLE June 28, 2002. No. 97. Sources and Sites for librarians building community. http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/ POVERTY IN AMERICA: BEYOND WELFARE REFORM Population Reference Bureau, June 2002. Report provides background for deliberation on reauthorization of the Welfare Reform Act. Includes poverty measures, data on the widening income gap, geography of poverty, and the consequences of poverty. In many cases the welfare poor have become the working poor. Thanks to PP. http://www.prb.org/pdf/PovertyInAmerica.pdf EMPTY PROMISES: THE MYTH OF COLLEGE ACCESS Due to record-high financial barriers nearly one-half of college-qualified low-income and moderate income high school graduates--over 400,000 students fully prepared to attend a four-year college, will not be able to do so. Over the next decade 4.4 million will not attend 4-year colleges. For these students the promise of a college education is an empty one.Prepared by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. http://www.ed.gov/offices/AC/ACSFA/whatnew.html THE ECOLOGICAL OVERSHOOT OF THE HUMAN ECONOMY Sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. In an attempt to measure the extent to which humanity satisfies this requirement, we use existing data to translate human demand on the environment into the area required for the production of food and other goods, together with the absorption of wastes. Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 1980s. According to this preliminary and exploratory assessment, humanity's load corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and grew to 120% in 1999. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/142033699v1 -- Kathleen de la Peña McCook kmccook@tampabay.rr.com University of South Florida, Library & Information Science A Librarian at Every Table http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/ From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:45:40 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] child porn in art books? (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Jeannes Subject: child porn in art books? Hello all, Can someone tell me how the child porn laws work as far as art books? For example, we have a how-to art book with a photo of a nude child that details how to draw and paint the child from the photo. How do the child porn laws affect this kind of stuff? Please respond to jeannes@pclibrary.org Thanks a million, Jeanne From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:45:50 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: Librarians Book Club (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Dale Greenbaum Subject: RE: Librarians Book Club Maybe one of the TV networks could pick this up and promote it!!!! With choices by Librarians rather than celebrities.... From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:46:00 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Library Book Sales Update (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Steve Mauer Subject: Library Book Sales Update If you are selling donated books for a buck or two, or are breaking your backs at your book sales for very little return, or think you might be blowing it big time, selling good books for a quarter apiece... Check out: http://www.Librarybooksales.org If you have not joined yet, is a great way to raise money for your library, take back some shelf space and learn how to evaluate and price old and rare books. Since we last spoke, we have: - Added a video conference/web cast and powerpoint presentation, originating from UC Berkeley. - We are up to almost 150 libraries, from 27 states. - We have several Special Collections libraries on board - The mailing options has been simplified - Number of visitors to the project is increasing exponentially - San Diego County has 25 branches signed up and has hired data entry people (I think they get it!) So, if you are looking for something to do in your spare time this summer, check it out. We think you will dig it! -- Steve Mauer librarybooksales.org Project Coordinator http://www.librarybooksales.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:46:58 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: NM Job Posting (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:51:25 -0600 From: Personnel REFERENCE LIBRARIAN City of Hobbs, New Mexico $11.99 per hour to $19.56 per hour (DOE) SHIFT: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Monday & Tuesday 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Wednesday & Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday GENERAL DESCRIPTION To serve as reference librarian and reader's advisor to library patron; to select young adult and adult non- fiction books that will be of interest to area readers. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Education and Experience Masters degree in Library Science from a library school accredited by the American Library Association and must receive a New Mexico State Professional Certificate within six months of employment. Prefer two (2) years library experience in a public library. Necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (A) Skills dealing with reference interview techniques. (B) Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with patrons, employees and the general public. (C) Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing. (D) Skill in operation of listed tools and equipment. TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED Library computer system, copy machine, microfilm/fiche reader/printer, phone, typewriter, and office equipment. Apply: Personnel Department City of Hobbs 300 N. Turner Hobbs, NM 88240 Voice: (505) 397-9230 FAX: (505) 397-9212 email: personnel@hobbsnm.org AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER/SMOKE & DRUG FREE WORKPLACE Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of application! From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:47:04 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] The Patriot Act: Last Refuge of a Scoundrel (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Don Wood" Subject: The Patriot Act: Last Refuge of a Scoundrel The Patriot Act: Last Refuge of a Scoundrel http://www.ala.org/alonline/netlib/il302.html "The Patriot Act is not antiterrorism legislation; it's antispeech legislation, and is no more a direct response to the September 11 attacks than the Children's Internet Protection Act is a direct result of sincere concern by members of Congress about the safety of minors. The cold, cynical reality is that the Patriot Act is a bloated hodgepodge of speech-chilling law that lurked in congressional corridors not only before September 11 but in large part before the Bush administration. It was hustled into reality in the post-9/11 environment so quickly, secretively, and undemocratically that our Bill of Rights had been clocked with a one-two punch well before any of us realized it was under attack." __________________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood@ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html intellectual freedom @ your library Free People Read Freely® "Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas."--Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:47:11 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] special project bonuses (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "AUDREY BETCHER" Subject: special project bonuses Does anyone have a policy that compensates exempt-level employees for large special projects? Audrey Betcher, Director Rochester Public Library 101 2nd St SE Rochester, MN 55904 (507) 285-8011 audrey@rochester.lib.mn.us www.rochesterpubliclibrary.org From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:47:17 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Color Printing for the Public (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "hrogerson" Subject: Color Printing for the Public We are considering getting a color printer for users of our busy 9 public-access computers in Reference to print to and would like to hear from other libraries that have color printers: 1. Do you have an ink jet or laser color printer? Which type is more expensive to run? 2. What do you charge for color vs. black & white print-outs? 3. How do you prevent printing in color by accident by patrons? 4. Have you run into any other issues that we should be thinking about? Thanks in advance for your responses. From plib2 at webjunction.org Fri Jun 28 16:47:35 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:24 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Translation Policy (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Anna Cocca" Subject: Translation Policy Our large urban library would like to know how other public libraries communicate to a linguistically diverse library public about library programs, initiatives, projects and other general information. Have any public libraries that serve multicultural populations formulated a Translation Policy as part of an official Communication Plan? Thank you Anna Cocca Planning & Development Toronto Public Library Ontario, Canada From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 30 22:49:02 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:25 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] News stories appearing in the July 1 American Libraries Online (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Gordon Flagg" Subject: News stories appearing in the July 1 American Libraries Online News stories appearing in the July 1 American Libraries Online > FBI's Interest in Library Records Piques Congressional Ire > Saudi Man Arrested for Overdue Videos, Suspected of Terrorist Links > House Attempts Again to Ban Virtual Child Pornography > Layoffs Expected after Governor Withholds Washington State Library Funds > Anchorage Officials Reject Mayor's Library Exhibit Policy > $7.2 Million Restored to L.A. County Library Budget > Transgendered Librarian's Rights Upheld > Former Illinois Library Director to Restore Embezzled Funds > School to Public Library: Keep Reading List to Yourself > Twelve-Year-Old to Appear in Court for Overdue Books > Student Pelted with Jelly for Avoiding Reading American Libraries' Web site also features the latest "Crawford Files" columns by Walt Crawford; "Technically Speaking" by David Dorman; AL's "Career Leads" job ads; listings of conferences, continuing-education courses, exhibitions, and other events from AL's "Datebook"; and Tables of Contents for the current year. Do you have a comment to make about anything appearing in American Libraries? The editors encourage signed e-mail letters on recent content or matters of general interest to the library profession in the Reader Forum section. Send 250 words or less to americanlibraries@ala.org. From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 30 22:49:08 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:25 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] RE: GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN - JOB OPENING (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: Mary Lou Kowalewski Subject: RE: GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN - JOB OPENING LIBRARIAN III-SUPV: The Grand Rapids Public Library is seeking a Librarian with advanced professional & supervisory experience to take overall responsibility for planning, management, and evaluation of services and staff in a major service region of our library system. Grand Rapids is an urban library system serving a diverse regional population of 500,000 in a growing west Michigan community. Seeking demonstrated leadership skills, the ability to relate well with the community, and a clear vision of the role of technology in a public library. QUALIFICATIONS include: ALA accredited MLS degree; expertise in current library service technologies and automation; strong administrative & leadership skills; ability to apply trends and developments in library work; knowledge of children’s services; and ability to use computers for various reference and reporting functions; 4 yrs of progressively responsible professional librarian experience including 2 yrs experience in branch service and/or reference & readers advisory and 2 yrs of progressively responsible supervisory experience. SALARY: $45,971 to 58,673. Submit letter of application and resume to: GR Public Library, Attn: Business Office, 111 Library St NE, Grand Rapids MI 49503 or apply on-line: www.grpl.org. Position open until filled. AA/EOE From plib2 at webjunction.org Sun Jun 30 22:50:34 2002 From: plib2 at webjunction.org (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 10:46:25 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Latest Library Scandal (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." Subject: Latest Library Scandal LIBRARIES UNDERVALUED FOR YEARS, SAYS INFORMANT Dateline: Washington, 29 June 2002 In the latest auditing scandal to rock this scandal-ridden nation, it was revealed today that auditors have been using accounting practices that conceal the true value of libraries! "This could be bigger than World Com, Enron and Martha Stewart," said one librarian who, acting patriotically (sic), wished to remain anonymous. "Americans trust their libraries to provide solid information. If their own city's balance sheet has undervalued the library more flagrantly than WorldCom, how will the average user ever trust the library again? I'm just glad I got rid of my high tech library stock before this was revealed, I can tell you that! What is this world coming to?" This reporter could find no librarians willing to talk about the scandal, even off the record. Still, one brave soul had been doing a clarion call for some time. Barry Libert is with Arthur Anderson, or at least he until recently. . His speaking engagements have dried up lately, but last year he was a hot item. Said Libert to his audiences: "Those chairs you're sitting on, they're worth more than you are," the principal from Arthur Andersen, the world's largest accounting firm, tells the crowd. "They're assets. You're expenses." SmartBusiness, a Ziff Davis Company notes that Libert was "talking about the worth of intellectual capital-intangibles like people, ideas, reputations, relationships, and legally protected intellectual property such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Intellectual capital usually goes unaccounted for on financial statements. By some calculations, as much as three quarters of the value in today's companies doesn't show up on their balance sheets." In today's environment, though, who will credit a spokesperson from Anderson? No one it seems paid Libert an attention on his statements for the private sector businesses. Most library observers hope there is still time to salvage public sector audit accountability. http://www.smartbusinessmag.com/print_article/0,3668,a=8427,00.asp One other, more credible reporter spoke out in the May 15, 2001 of Library Journal. Andrew Richard Albanese was on the track of the need to re-assess library value. Says Albanese, "Nashville is one of a growing number of cities that are moving away from the traditional view of library as cost center. Rather, local officials and politicians, under whose collective purview libraries fall, are seeing them more as equity anchors, as investment magnets that help expedite the revitalization of a neighborhood or community." He added "Kansas City Library Director Dan Bradbury says the city's business community is keenly aware of the role the library can play in resettling the downtown area." Despite rare exceptions, it is not expected that local municipalities will immediately re-state their balance sheets to put the library on the asset side of the ledger, but there are hopes in some quarters. As citizens are using libraries more and more for a variety of purposes, many of them are joining the growing chorus demanding accountability in their public sector audits. "Give them credit where it's due," said one happy user as he left the library yesterday. "Libraries help build community, we should repay the favor." http://www.edd-apa.org/archives/su01A2.htm With apologies to the Onion, Datcalmguy Thomas J. Hennen Jr. thennen@haplr-index.com http://www.haplr-index.com Voice: 262-886-1625 Fax: 262-886-5424 6014 Spring Street Racine, WI 53406 "Share knowledge, seek wisdom." From plib2 at sunsite.berkeley.edu Sat Jun 1 19:04:51 2002 From: plib2 at sunsite.berkeley.edu (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 15:35:29 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] ala (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Laura McCaffery" Subject: ala I vote for the not so structured vendor provided place and sustenance and hope it will be close to the PLA meeting. lmc Laura Hibbets McCaffery Readers Services Allen County Public Library 900 Webster Street Fort Wayne IN 46802 260-421-1200x2303 This is my opinion and mine alone. The views, opinions, and judgements expressed in this message are solely those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved by the Allen County Public Library. From plib2 at sunsite.berkeley.edu Sun Jun 2 22:38:06 2002 From: plib2 at sunsite.berkeley.edu (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 15:35:29 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Reference procedure (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: "Robert Finch" Subject: Reference procedure Providing friendly effective reference is a three-step process. Step = one is to greet every patron and say; "Hi can I help you?" If they say = "no" then say; "If you need any help please feel free to ask." If they = say "yes" than start the reference interview. Step two is that for = any shift change or when a new reference librarian mans the desk the new = reference librarians should go ask patrons; "Are you finding everything = you need?" Step three is to ask every patron when they leave; "Did you = find what you were looking for?" If they hesitate or say; "No." Then = proceed with the reference interview. In between step one and step = three depending on staffing, sightlines, or library arrangement the = reference staff should keep an eye on patrons and when possible with out = hovering ask them if they are finding everything okay. This seemingly simple yet fundamental process is based on = both research and experience. (Neither of which I'll bore you with = right now.) The idea is to identify yourself to the patron and tell = them your job. Patrons may not know the difference between a page, a = circulation clerk, or reference librarian so identifying yourself tells = them. Also a librarian hard at work at the desk is an intimidating = figure. Patrons may be too afraid or embarrassed to ask for reference = help. Every experienced librarian has had a stammering meek patron say = "I'm sorry to bother you." Being friendly and approachable combined = with the patron knowing you and what your job is (by virtue of the = greeting) will make it easier for them to ask for reference help when = they need it. =20 Asking people when they leave if they found what they were looking for = is a vital part of this process. Some people never ask for help and may = think that they have done an effective search when they have not. What = you are trying to avoid is a patron going back home or back to work and = telling everyone that the library didn't have anything when in fact the = library had exactly what they were looking for. The library is in competition with the Internet as an information = service provider. Friendly, effective, but most important EASY TO USE = reference service is the best answer to competition from the Internet. = When the patron gets Internet overload or burned by some "net legend" we = want the patron to remember that the last time they used the library, it = was almost as easy to use as rolling out bed and logging on to the 'net. =20 =20 Robert Finch ********************************************************************* Due to deletion of content types excluded from this list by policy, this multipart message was reduced to a single part, and from there to a plain text message. ********************************************************************* From plib2 at sunsite.berkeley.edu Sun Jun 2 22:38:14 2002 From: plib2 at sunsite.berkeley.edu (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 15:35:29 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Weeded Books (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: PeggyLGB@aol.com Subject: Weeded Books Thank you everyone who has responded to my questions regarding weeding books in the collection. You have certainly clarified and given me a plethora of information to share with my other trustees. I truly appreciate your help. However, I knew that if I wanted good reliable information I needed to ask a librarian. Peggy Blass From plib2 at sunsite.berkeley.edu Sun Jun 2 22:38:21 2002 From: plib2 at sunsite.berkeley.edu (PUBLIB) Date: Wed May 18 15:35:29 2005 Subject: [PUBLIB] Re: Disposal of weeded books (fwd) Message-ID: Sender: espicer Subject: Re: Disposal of weeded books When we have discards that remain unsold after several months on the sale shelves, our Friends box them up, load them on a truck, and haul them to a recycling center about thirty miles away! You might check to see if there is a major recycler (this one deals in scrap metal and many other types of recyclables) in your area that would take books. We are able to take paperbacks to our local recycler (they told us to put them in the phone book bin), but hardcovers require special handling. Our Board and staff are so appreciative of our Friends who care enough to make this extra effort! We all feel better about NOT putting our discards in the dumpster! Ann Perrigo, Director Allegan (MI) Public Library espicer@triton.net PeggyLGB@aol.com wrote: > Hi I am am a trustee in Marblehead MA. During a recent election, one of the > candidates at a televised Candidates Nights dropped a bomb and displayed > boxes of disposed books. At this juncture we are not questioning the weeding > process but trying to understand it, but we would like suggestions what do to > do with the books. We give them to the Friends for their sales, but not all > books are sold and we have very little storage space. Due to budget > constraints (this is Massachusetts) we do not have