[Publib] RE: Publib Digest, Vol 52, Issue 54
Melissa Kennedy
mkennedy at oak-brook.lib.il.us
Mon Aug 3 15:12:44 EDT 2009
I wish they had been clearer about the circumstances - obviously they didn't go into much detail since they wanted maximum effect. I guess the family should pay for a card or go to their own library depending on what the arrangements are in their town, but it sure is sad to see a kid who loves to read discouraged from doing it. I'd like to know the outcome but we'll probably never know.
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Publib Digest, Vol 52, Issue 53 (naftaly at crandalllibrary.org)
2. Re: Qur'an Koran on CD: where can I get (Sue Kamm)
3. Back in the Black (Backwage at aol.com)
4. Enhanced Content vendors (Osborne, Donna)
5. Re: Qur'an Koran on CD: where can I get (Tony Ross)
6. Upcoming Classes from Lyrasis! (Jenny Liberatore)
7. RFID project (Andrea Taylor)
8. what happened? (Meyers, Sue)
9. RE: Back in the Black (Dusty Gres)
10. RE: Back in the Black (Henriksen, Phalbe)
11. RE: disinfecting stuffed animals (terry.lawler at phoenix.gov)
12. RE: disinfecting stuffed animals (terry.lawler at phoenix.gov)
13. RE: disinfecting stuffed animals (Paula Laurita)
14. Re: Resume Writing Software (Sharon Foster)
15. Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals (Theresa Grieshaber)
16. Re: Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals (Backwage at aol.com)
17. Re: Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals (terry.lawler at phoenix.gov)
18. Re: Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals (terry.lawler at phoenix.gov)
19. Re: Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals (Ann Perrigo)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:05:05 -0400
From: naftaly at crandalllibrary.org <naftaly at crandalllibrary.org>
Subject: [Publib] Re: Publib Digest, Vol 52, Issue 53
To: <publib at webjunction.org>
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I will be out of the office until Monday, August 10, 2009.
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:43:49 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: Sue Kamm <suekamm at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [Publib] Qur'an Koran on CD: where can I get
To: Arthur Gross <agross at decatur.lib.il.us>, publib at webjunction.org
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You might inquire at your local mosque.
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>Sent: Jul 31, 2009 8:16 AM
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>Subject: [Publib] Qur'an Koran on CD: where can I get
>
>Publibbers,
>I need a good version of the Qur'an on audio for our library. I know companies
>like Recorded Books offer a nicely packaged version of the Holy Bible, but for
>some reason mainstream audio publishers do not offer this other major work.
>I wonder why? Suggestions?
>Arthur
>wArthur Gross
>AV/Reference Librarian
>130 North Franklin Street
>Decatur, Illinois 62523
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:54:38 EDT
From: Backwage at aol.com
Subject: [Publib] Back in the Black
To: publib at webjunction.org
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I am informed by the papers that the recession is ending. I told my wife
(laid off from her job some weeks ago) this and advised her that she had
three days to find a job that paid what the old one did. Actually I said
this to myself in the shower so as to avoid injury.
On another note, many libraries have found their funding (and as a result,
their staffing, programs and hours) greatly reduced during this recession.
I have a question for their directors: what have you planned for the
better times to come?
It has always amazed me that libraries, being public institutions, do not
often share their plans with their putative owners, the citizenry. This is
either because a.) They don't have plans, or b.) They don't want you to
know 'em. I would give a dollar to know what a library in a financial fix
intends to do as it comes back into solvency. Mind you, private businesses
have to sketch this out for their investors. Usually with public libraries
what you see is a sort of groping along--deciding to hire again when it is
found that enough money is available for positions; increasing materials
budgets when money is there for this.
Interestingly, during the pre-recession boom times, many larger libraries
went on interview binges; some of them had hiring ads posted for years on
end. The reason for this was because the applicant/new hire flow couldn't
keep up with the outflow of folks who left for other positions.
[LAPL, County of Los Angeles, King County, NYPL, Chicago--these and similar
systems are the ones who hung out at ALA Annual like dogs at a butcher
shop, trying to snare candidates. They are the "who" in this.]
Let me show you what I mean by lack of planning. Back a few months, our
local monster library systems would interview candidates every week. This
obviously eats up administrative time, librarian time, HR time. And money.
You would think that alternatives would be sought. I would bet you any
amount of money that when they start hiring again, they will go back into
lock-step with the old unproductive ways. Here's why:
1. Nobody knows about this. If anybody compared the number of
interviewed candidates to those hired, it would raise questions of efficiency. But
this doesn't happen and the band plays on.
2. The libraries' starting pay is so low (for their region) that they
can't expect to keep people when all the new hires want is to gain experience
before departing for more profitable work. So the merry-go-round of
eternal interviewing whirls on. And costs plenty. But these are hidden costs,
whereas increased pay would be visible and excite all sorts of upset. Not
to mention pushing up pay further along the line. Even so, it would be an
exchange of money for labor rather than throwing cash out for no return.
Better to use senior librarians to interview candidates two days a week,
forever, with all that means in terms of lost work. This is what happens when
you let a library run its own hiring without scrutiny.
3. What do you want to bet that no public library in our land has ever
revealed what happens to those who are hired? Meaning, how long they stay,
how they advance--that sort of thing. Know why they don't? It would make
the larger systems look bad to show how they hire and shed librarians. The
unit costs for hiring would be too high to defend, and people might ask
why. Better to keep all that "internal." They do this by pretending not to
know, not compiling figures, or by hiding under privacy rules. So tell us,
large library systems, what's your turnover rate?
M. McGrorty
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:57:30 -0400
From: "Osborne, Donna" <dosborne at berkeley.lib.sc.us>
Subject: [Publib] Enhanced Content vendors
To: PUBLIB listserv <publib at webjunction.org>
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We're planning to add enhanced content to our catalog when we move to
Symphony in October. Besides Syndetic Solutions, what other vendors
offer enhanced content (covers, reviews, summary, etc.)?
Thanks for your help.
--
Donna Osborne, Director
Berkeley County Library System
100 Library Street
Moncks Corner, SC 29461
843-719-4243 Office
843-719-4732 Fax
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:16:43 -0400
From: Tony Ross <rosseroo at gmail.com>
Subject: [Publib] Re: Qur'an Koran on CD: where can I get
To: publib at webjunction.org
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That's good question, it looks like the best (It got generally good reviews
on Audible.com)version is done by a company in the UK and sells for about
$80 or so: http://www.noorbox.com/
Tony Ross
District of Columbia Public Library
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:16:50 -0400
From: Jenny Liberatore <jenny.liberatore at lyrasis.org>
Subject: [Publib] Upcoming Classes from Lyrasis!
To: "'publib at webjunction.org'" <publib at webjunction.org>,
"'inlibraries at lists.in.gov'" <inlibraries at lists.in.gov>,
"'scla-list at scla.org'" <scla-list at scla.org>, "'gla at lists.clayton.edu'"
<gla at lists.clayton.edu>, "'fl-lib at list.dos.state.fl.us'"
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The following classes will be brought to you soon by Lyrasis, online and around the region. For more information or to register, please visit www.lyrasis.org. Keyword: Classes and Events. Please keep an eye out for our weekly discount codes as part of our educational stimulus program and save when you register for certain classes.
Making the Most of Social Bookmarking in Your Library (Live Online)
08/25/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Advocacy: Public Officials (Live Online)
8/25/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
The Resource Sharing Detective (Live Online)
08/25/2009 - 08/26/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST two consecutive days
Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session (FREE! Live Online)
08/25/2009, 1:00pm-2:00pm EST
Caring for Originals During Scanning Projects (Live Online)
08/25/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST
OCLC Connexion Browser Searching Skills (Live Online)
08/25/2009 - 08/26/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST two consecutive days
RSS and Other Internet Feeds in the Library: Making Content Convenient (Live Online)
08/25/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST
SAVE $25 when you register. Enter discount code RSS090825.
OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics (Live Online)
08/25/2009 - 08/27/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST three consectutive days
Demonstrating Value Evaluating Library Services (Live Online)
08/26/2009 - 08/28/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST three consecutive days
SAVE $25 when you register. Enter discount code DMV090826.
MediaWiki Administration for System Administrators (Live Online)
08/26/2009 - 08/27/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST two consecutive days
Turning Community Partnerships into Dollars (Live Online)
08/27/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis (Live Online)
08/27/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Marketing Your Library Reference Service (Live Online)
08/27/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:25:11 -0700
From: "Andrea Taylor" <ataylor at ci.fullerton.ca.us>
Subject: [Publib] RFID project
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:34:50 -0400
From: "Meyers, Sue" <Susan.Meyers at libraryweb.org>
Subject: [Publib] what happened?
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:45:15 -0400
From: "Dusty Gres" <gresd at ohoopeelibrary.org>
Subject: RE: [Publib] Back in the Black
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Wow. And here I was told yesterday that I shouldn't look for any good news
until at least 2012.now I need to start deciding what I am going to do with
all that money is going to start flowing in within the new few days?
The recession being over does not mean that we will have money to spend or
that governmental agencies will have money to give us. It will be several
years before those agencies can reach level again after using reserves,
contingency funds and borrowing against the tax digest.and several years
before I can reach level after using our contingency funds and borrowing
against the equipment replacement funds.
The shortest time any of my professional staff has ever worked here is 3
years.although now that I am looking at having to do unpaid furloughs that
may change; and unpaid furloughs affect retirement benefits, so - no
retirement for a while for the long-timers - oh, and interviews? Oops --
hiring freeze.
What am I planning when I get all my money back? Ha!
Dusty Gres
Director
Ohoopee Regional Library System
610 Jackson Street
Vidalia, GA 30474
http://www.ohoopeelibrary.org
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speeds.
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On Behalf Of Backwage at aol.com
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:55 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Back in the Black
I am informed by the papers that the recession is ending. I told my wife
(laid off from her job some weeks ago) this and advised her that she had
three days to find a job that paid what the old one did. Actually I said
this to myself in the shower so as to avoid injury.
On another note, many libraries have found their funding (and as a result,
their staffing, programs and hours) greatly reduced during this recession.
I have a question for their directors: what have you planned for the better
times to come?
It has always amazed me that libraries, being public institutions, do not
often share their plans with their putative owners, the citizenry. This is
either because a.) They don't have plans, or b.) They don't want you to know
'em. I would give a dollar to know what a library in a financial fix
intends to do as it comes back into solvency. Mind you, private businesses
have to sketch this out for their investors. Usually with public libraries
what you see is a sort of groping along--deciding to hire again when it is
found that enough money is available for positions; increasing materials
budgets when money is there for this.
Interestingly, during the pre-recession boom times, many larger libraries
went on interview binges; some of them had hiring ads posted for years on
end. The reason for this was because the applicant/new hire flow couldn't
keep up with the outflow of folks who left for other positions.
[LAPL, County of Los Angeles, King County, NYPL, Chicago--these and similar
systems are the ones who hung out at ALA Annual like dogs at a butcher shop,
trying to snare candidates. They are the "who" in this.]
Let me show you what I mean by lack of planning. Back a few months, our
local monster library systems would interview candidates every week. This
obviously eats up administrative time, librarian time, HR time. And money.
You would think that alternatives would be sought. I would bet you any
amount of money that when they start hiring again, they will go back into
lock-step with the old unproductive ways. Here's why:
1. Nobody knows about this. If anybody compared the number of interviewed
candidates to those hired, it would raise questions of efficiency. But this
doesn't happen and the band plays on.
2. The libraries' starting pay is so low (for their region) that they can't
expect to keep people when all the new hires want is to gain experience
before departing for more profitable work. So the merry-go-round of eternal
interviewing whirls on. And costs plenty. But these are hidden costs,
whereas increased pay would be visible and excite all sorts of upset. Not
to mention pushing up pay further along the line. Even so, it would be an
exchange of money for labor rather than throwing cash out for no return.
Better to use senior librarians to interview candidates two days a week,
forever, with all that means in terms of lost work. This is what happens
when you let a library run its own hiring without scrutiny.
3. What do you want to bet that no public library in our land has ever
revealed what happens to those who are hired? Meaning, how long they stay,
how they advance--that sort of thing. Know why they don't? It would make
the larger systems look bad to show how they hire and shed librarians. The
unit costs for hiring would be too high to defend, and people might ask why.
Better to keep all that "internal." They do this by pretending not to know,
not compiling figures, or by hiding under privacy rules. So tell us, large
library systems, what's your turnover rate?
M. McGrorty
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:56:54 -0400
From: "Henriksen, Phalbe" <phenriksen at alexandercountync.gov>
Subject: RE: [Publib] Back in the Black
To: <Backwage at aol.com>, <publib at webjunction.org>
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So tell us, large library systems, what's your turnover rate?
M. McGrorty
Too bad you didn't ask us small library systems!
Here are the start dates for four of the six staff here (not counting
me):
4/15/1976 (two people)
4/01/1978
4/02/1990
11/08/2004
Interviewing is a *very* small part of my job here!
Phalbe Henriksen
Director
Alexander County Library
Taylorsville, NC
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:19:24 -0700
From: terry.lawler at phoenix.gov
Subject: RE: [Publib] disinfecting stuffed animals
To: "Lise Chlebanowski" <lchlebanowski at avondale.org>
Cc: Val Meyerson <val at charlevoixlibrary.org>, publib at webjunction.org
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:26:24 -0700
From: terry.lawler at phoenix.gov
Subject: RE: [Publib] disinfecting stuffed animals
To: "George Hazelton" <ghazelton at mail.henry.public.lib.ga.us>
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:22:56 -0500
From: "Paula Laurita" <plaurita at athenslimestone.lib.al.us>
Subject: RE: [Publib] disinfecting stuffed animals
To: <terry.lawler at phoenix.gov>, "'Lise Chlebanowski'"
<lchlebanowski at avondale.org>
Cc: 'Val Meyerson' <val at charlevoixlibrary.org>, publib at webjunction.org
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:43:28 -0400
From: Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Publib] Resume Writing Software
To: Ruth Ann Montgomery <montgomery.ruthann at als.lib.wi.us>
Cc: publib at webjunction.org
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Google Docs has some resume and cover letter templates.
http://docs.google.com/templates
Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
Librarians bring order out of chaos.
http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Ruth Ann
Montgomery<montgomery.ruthann at als.lib.wi.us> wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation for resume writing software that could be used by job seekers on our libraries' computers. Some are not satisfied with the Word Templates for resumes. Thanks
>
> Ruth Ann Montgomery
> Director
> Arrowhead Library System
> 210 Dodge Street
> Janesville, WI 53545
> montgomery.ruthann at als.lib.wi.us
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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:29:35 -0700
From: "Theresa Grieshaber" <theresag at scfl.lib.ca.us>
Subject: [Publib] Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals
To: publib at webjunction.org
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Dear Friends,
I have to admit that I really don't see the point of having stuffed animals in the children's room in the first place. I believe that it does absolutely no good whatsoever to disinfect them in the dishwasher, unless you do it every single night. So you disinfect them. Then you put them out and the first germy preschooler who gets hold of one, completely undoes your disinfecting! People, this is how epidemics start!
Remember that an old trick among Indian fighters was to send over infected blankets to the Native Americans. Since they had little or no immunity to white people's diseases, it worked like a charm.
Remember that asthma is rampant these days. Asthmatics don't just get a head cold or an earache. We get galloping asthmatic bronchitis instead, and increasingly it is resistant to antibiotics. Your hygiene practices can easily make an asthmatic sick for a month or more. Believe me, I do know what I am talking about.
I also question how thoroughly you can disinfect something as thick with stuffing as a teddy bear. Sure, you can sterilize the surface, but there is no way to get to the innards of the thing. There is also no way to check the innards, either.
Then there is the question of mold, mildew, and dust mites deep down inside. How can you be sure that the item is thoroughly dried out inside?
Parents should supply children with their own stuffed toys. If you must have toys, let them be things with a hard surface, like a toy truck, or a frisbee, or a plastic ball. These are things you CAN effectively sterilize.
Theresa Grieshaber
Modesto CA
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Message: 16
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:39:44 EDT
From: Backwage at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Publib] Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals
To: theresag at scfl.lib.ca.us, publib at webjunction.org
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In a message dated 7/31/2009 5:32:31 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
theresag at scfl.lib.ca.us writes:
Remember that an old trick among Indian fighters was to send over infected
blankets to the Native Americans. Since they had little or no immunity to
white people's diseases, it worked like a charm.
Now you've given away the secret. For a while it worked--kids were
getting sick, then staying home in droves. Now nobody is going to come play with
the poisoned toys anymore. I hope you're happy now.
But we still have the swine flu spray for the magazines to get rid of the
old folks!
M. M.
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:24:54 -0700
From: terry.lawler at phoenix.gov
Subject: Re: [Publib] Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals
To: Theresa Grieshaber <theresag at scfl.lib.ca.us>
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:26:47 -0700
From: terry.lawler at phoenix.gov
Subject: Re: [Publib] Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals
To: Backwage at aol.com
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Message: 19
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:34:42 -0400
From: Ann Perrigo <annatapl at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Publib] Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals
To: terry.lawler at phoenix.gov
Cc: Backwage at aol.com, theresag at scfl.lib.ca.us, publib at webjunction.org
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Or perhaps it's head lice!
Ann @ Allegan
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:26 PM, <terry.lawler at phoenix.gov> wrote:
> HA!!! Not at my library. I often see a kid here during school hours.
> When I ask them why they aren't in school (I KNOW, I'm not supposed to!)
> they always say: I have Pinkeye, or: I'm too sick with {insert communicable
> disease} to go to school. :)
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> To: theresag at scfl.lib.ca.us, publib at webjunction.org
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> Sent by: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
> Date: 07/31/2009 05:39PM
> Subject: Re: [Publib] Re: Disinfecting stuffed animals
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>
> In a message dated 7/31/2009 5:32:31 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> theresag at scfl.lib.ca.us writes:
>
> Remember that an old trick among Indian fighters was to send over infected
> blankets to the Native Americans. Since they had little or no immunity to
> white people's diseases, it worked like a charm.
>
> Now you've given away the secret. For a while it worked--kids were getting
> sick, then staying home in droves. Now nobody is going to come play with
> the poisoned toys anymore. I hope you're happy now.
>
> But we still have the swine flu spray for the magazines to get rid of the
> old folks!
>
> M. M.
>
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