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Table of Contents
1. DLTCL programs at WLA conference
2. List of libraries eligible for Gates grants finalized
3. New Gates Foundation grants seek innovative approaches to using community libraries
4. Major library partners launch HathiTrust Shared Digital Repository
5. Wisconsin student selected as grand-prize winner of Step Up to the Plate @ your library
6. Reminder to complete the ALA technology survey
7. Website of the Week – TV Converter Box Coupon Program
8. Calendar
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1. DLTCL PROGRAMS AT WLA CONFERENCE
The Department of Public Instruction’s (DPI) Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning (DLTCL) will sponsor or co-sponsor the following programs at the Wisconsin Library Association's (WLA) conference on November 4-7, 2008:
November 5, 2008
“BadgerLink Update!” -- 11:00 to 12:00 noon -- Lisa Reale, Reference and Loan Library, will demonstrate the following features of BadgerLink databases:
• How to access and perform a review of resources
• Federated searching
• Link with Google Scholar
• EBSCO’s Page Composer
“Creating a Vision for the Future of the Wisconsin Document Depository Program in the 21st Century” -- 11:00 to 12:00 noon -- Abby Swanton, Reference and Loan Library, will conduct a discussion about the changing world of government information and the Wisconsin Document Depository Program. Topics will include collection development policy modifications that need to be made to build stronger state government document collections and what should be distributed in print vs. electronically.
“Email as Public Records” -- 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. -- Amy Moran, Department of Administration, will explore the complex issues of trying to determine when email is a public record and must be retained and when it is not. The broader issues of determining when any document in electronic format is a public document and subject to retention will also be discussed.
“Status of Standards-Based Interlibrary Loan in Wisconsin” -- 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. -- Bob Shaw, Wisconsin Library Service (WiLS), and Terry Wilcox, Reference and Loan Library, will share how interlibrary loan requests travel from one library to another, regardless of which ILL software each library uses. Since February 2008, WiLS has been receiving WISCAT AGent ILL requests within WiLS' resource sharing management software called ILLiad. Terms such as ISO, Z39.50, SIP2, NCIP are also beginning to creep into discussions. What does implementing these standards actually mean? How might it change workflow in your library?
“Literacy Coaches and Programs for Tweens” -- 4 to 5:15 p.m. -- Kelly J. Meyers, Association of Wisconsin School Administrators (AWSA), Emilie Amundson, DPI Division for Academic Excellence; Marcia Sarnowski, Winding Rivers Library System; and Barbara Huntington, DLTCL, will discuss how schools and public libraries can work together to support literacy for “tweens” and teens.
“Intermingling Worlds: How Access Services, ILL, and Reference can Work Together” -- 4 to 5:15 p.m. -- Heather Weltin, UW-Madison Memorial Library; Martha Farley Berninger, Reference and Loan Library; and Connie VonDerHeide, Wisconsin State Law Library. The skills required as an effective librarian in Access Services, ILL, and Reference often overlap. This session will present librarians from three types of libraries—academic, public, and special—who work in all three areas. They will show how the skills, e.g., citation searching, customer service, supervision, and training, that they developed in each area complement each other.
Thursday, November 6
“Privacy 2.0 Implications” -- 8:45 to 10 a.m. -- Helen Adams, former school library media specialist, and Bob Bocher, DLTCL, will discuss amended Wisconsin statutes that require publicly-funded libraries (including academic libraries) to provide library surveillance records to law enforcement officers, without a court order, under certain circumstances. The presenters are authors of the book “Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries,” and will discuss a broad range of library privacy issues.
“What's New Under the Dome” -- 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. -- Rick Grobschmidt, DLTCL; Jessica MacPhail, Racine Public Library, WLA Federal Relations; and Paul Nelson, WLA Library Development and Legislation Committee, will convey the current status of library legislation at the state and federal levels, review progress, and assess efforts on behalf of the 2008 WLA legislative agenda, provide a summary of the 2008 election results, and a preview of the state’s 2009-2011 biennial budget.
“WISCAT Update” -- 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. -- Vickie Long, Terry Wilcox, and Beth Palmquist, Reference and Loan Library, will discuss new or improved features of WISCAT as well as updates on interlibrary loan, cataloging, and the Z39.50 gateway.
“National Broadband Problem” -- 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. -- Bob Bocher, DLTCL, and Mike Mietz, BadgerNet Services, will give the library perspective of insufficient broadband challenges. Most of this increase has been on BadgerNet, the state's telecommunications network. This program will review the broadband issues and solicit suggestions on what factors the state should consider for the next BadgerNet network.
“Roadmap to the Future of Wisconsin Libraries” -- 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. -- Richard Grobschmidt, Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction, DLTCL, and Kathy Pletcher, Associate Provost for Information Services, UW-Green Bay, will discuss the Council on Library and Network Development’s (COLAND) Visioning Summit which was held on May 5-6, 2008. Library leaders and supporters explored the future of Wisconsin libraries and this program will present the vision, values and strategic directions that resulted from the Summit. COLAND is interested in feedback from the WLA community on these ideas.
Friday November 7
“Dynamic Children & Teen Departments” -- 8:45 to 10:00 a.m. -- Jill Lininger, Racine Public Library, and Barbara Huntington, DLTCL, will give a virtual tour of the coolest youth spaces in Wisconsin libraries and describe some of the interesting teen areas, shelving and display choices as well as unique and creative reading nooks in Wisconsin libraries.
“Serving Patron's Information Needs 24/7” -- 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. -- Martha Farley Berninger, Reference and Loan Library, and Mark Beatty, WiLS, will demonstrate a range of virtual reference services, the staffing and training considerations, and the benefits and challenges of virtual reference.
2. LIST OF LIBRARIES ELIGIBLE FOR GATES GRANT FINALIZED
The list of libraries eligible for the Gates Foundation's Online Opportunity personal computer (PC) grant program will be available on Friday, October 17. A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) will also be available Friday. Both of these documents will be linked to the DPI's grant Website at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/gatespcgrant.html .
One requirement for the grant is that libraries must have at least some public access PCs that are more than four years old and they must have a sufficient number of PCs as defined by the foundation. The age of a library's PCs is determined by running the TechAtlas PC inventory program. In some areas of the state library system staff will run TechAtlas for their eligible libraries. (Systems will be contacting their libraries regarding this.) For libraries that will be running TechAtlas by themselves, the DLTCL is working with TechAtlas staff to establish library-specific logins and passwords which will be distributed to libraries by the end of the month.
If you have any questions, review the FAQ when it is posted or contact Bob Bocher, DLTCL technology consultant at 608-266-2127 or robert.bocher@dpi.wi.gov.
3. NEW GATES FOUNDATION GRANTS SEEK INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO USING COMMUNITY LIBRARIES
An initial study of International City/County Management Association (ICMA) members found some communities using their public libraries for compelling new projects, like providing services for teen and immigrant residents and supporting recycling and public safety. Over the next two years, with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ICMA intends to multiply those novel practices and demonstrate the value of public libraries in supporting sustainable communities.
In November 2008, local governments will be able to apply for an ICMA Public Library Innovation Grant. Grants will be 18 months in length, and will focus on using the public library to address community priorities and issues. During the project, ICMA will provide a total of $500,000 in Public Library Innovation Grants to cities, towns, and counties. Individual grants will likely range from $25,000 to $75,000.
More than a year ago, ICMA began working with the Gates Foundation on the Local Government and Public Libraries Initiative to engage local government managers as leaders in support of public libraries. An ICMA survey conducted in November 2007 indicated that less than half of the responding local government managers reported that the chief librarian/library director was a member of the local government management team and only 41 percent reported weekly meetings with the chief librarian/library director. These statistics suggested that for many local government managers, libraries are not being used to strategically address community needs. If local government managers remain unaware of and uninvolved in the changing role of libraries, these valuable community assets will be forced to tackle obstacles alone and will struggle to meet broader community needs.
As a result, a 26-member ICMA advisory committee looked at a variety of ways to strengthen the partnership between communities and libraries. The committee identified areas where public libraries could play a larger role in delivering services, including public safety and disaster preparedness, sustainability, health, immigration, civic engagement, and economic development. The advisory committee also noted that a strong relationship between the library and the local government manager is vital for the success of these services and improves the overall health of the community.
All Innovation Grants will be anchored by a partnership between the office of the chief administrative officer (city, county, and town managers) and the public library, recognizing the importance of the manager/librarian relationship to create and sustain change. The grantees will be supported by a series of leadership workshops and project coaching. The aim of the professional development component is to solidify the partnership, ensure the short-term success of the project, and secure new capacity for the awardees that will support the long-term use of libraries in addressing community goals.
Applications for the Public Library Innovations Grants will be available in November, and grants will be awarded in February 2009. ICMA members who would like to receive e-mail updates on the program should contact Molly Donelan at mdonelan@icma.org.
For more information about ICMA’s Local Government and Public Libraries Initiative, visit http://www.icma.org/public_libraries.
4. MAJOR LIBRARY PARTNERS LAUNCH HATHITRUST SHARED DIGITAL REPOSITORY
A group of the nation's largest research libraries, including the UW-Madison Libraries, are collaborating to create a repository of their vast digital collections, including millions of books. These holdings will be archived and preserved in a single repository called the HathiTrust. Materials in the public domain will be available for reading online.
Launched jointly by the 12-university consortium known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and the 11 university libraries of the University of California system, the HathiTrust leverages the time-honored commitment to preservation and access to information that university libraries have valued for centuries. UC's participation will be coordinated by the California Digital Library (CDL), which brings its deep and innovative experience in digital curation and online scholarship to the HathiTrust.
"This effort combines the expertise and resources of some of the nation's foremost research libraries and holds even greater promise as it seeks to grow beyond the initial partners," says John Wilkin, associate university librarian of the University of Michigan and the newly named executive director of HathiTrust. Hathi (pronounced HAH-tee), the Hindi word for elephant incorporated into the repository's name, underscores the immensity of this undertaking, Wilkin says. Elephants also evoke memory, wisdom and strength.
As of today, HathiTrust contains more than 2 million volumes and approximately a billion pages, about 16 percent of which are in the public domain. Public domain materials will be available for reading online. Materials protected by copyright, although not available for reading online, are given the full range of digital archiving services, thereby offering member libraries a reliable means to preserve their collections. Organizers also expect to use those materials in the research and development of the Trust.
Volumes are added to the repository daily, and content will grow rapidly as the University of California, CIC member libraries, and other prospective partners contribute their digitized content.
Each of the founding partners brings extensive and highly regarded expertise in the areas of information technology, digital libraries and project management to this endeavor. Creation of the HathiTrust supports the digitization efforts of the CIC and the University of California, each of which has entered into collective agreements with Google to digitize portions of the collections of their libraries, more than 10 million volumes in total, as part of the Google Book Search project. Materials digitized through other means will also be made available through HathiTrust.
HathiTrust provides libraries a means to archive and provide access to their digital content, whether scanned volumes, special collections or born-digital materials. Preserving materials for the long term has long been a mission and driving force of leading research libraries. Their collections, accumulated over centuries, represent a treasury of cultural heritage and investment in the broad public good of promoting scholarship and advancing knowledge. The representation of these resources in digital form provides expanded opportunities for innovative use in research, teaching and learning, but must be done with careful attention to effective solutions for the curation and long-term preservation of digital assets.
The Midwest-based CIC includes the universities of the Big Ten, plus the University of Chicago. Partner libraries represent Indiana University, the University of Illinois, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Penn State University, Purdue University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Combined, they serve more than 385,000 students, employ more than 190,000 faculty and staff, and expend $6 billion in research and development.
The University of California system includes ten research universities at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz plus the system-wide California Digital Library, with more than 220,000 students, 170,000 faculty and staff.
For more information about HathiTrust, visit http://www.hathitrust.org/.
5. WISCONSIN STUDENT SELECTED AS GRAND-PRIZE WINNER OF STEP UP TO THE PLATE @ YOUR LIBRARY
Thanks to a trip to his local library, 11-year-old Oscar Youngquist is about to take another journey – this time to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith drew Youngquist’s name as the grand-prize winner of the Step Up to the Plate @ your library® program.
Developed by the American Library Association (ALA) and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Step Up to the Plate officially wrapped its third season with the national drawing. The winner was randomly chosen from among eligible contestants who correctly answered a series of baseball trivia questions developed by the Hall of Fame’s library staff.
As the grand-prize winner, Youngquist, a Chicago Cubs fan from Racine, Wisconsin, will travel with a family member to Cooperstown, N.Y., for the Hall of Fame’s World Series Gala on Saturday, October 25. He will also receive a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum and archives.
“We make tremendous use of the library,” said Grant Youngquist, Oscar’s father. Grant had begun to use the Racine Public Library for home schooling resources, and the Step Up to the Plate display really hit home.
The library promoted the program with a book display in the adult department, which featured books on Racine’s baseball history, including the Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Baseball League. The library drew further attention to the program by linking to Step Up to the Plate @ your library on its Web site and blog, and by sending press releases to the local media. Directions on how to register online and paper entry forms were made available on the library’s bulletin board.
“All Oscar talks about is baseball,” said Grant. “He couldn’t be more excited about going to the Hall of Fame.”
Step Up to the Plate @ your library teams up two American pastimes - baseball and libraries - to encourage fans of all ages to use the print and electronic resources at their library to answer a series of trivia questions. This year’s program celebrated the 100th anniversary of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Contestants who answered four questions from the playbook correctly were entered into the national drawing.
In addition to the grand-prize winner, 20 first prize winners were drawn prior to the grand-prize ceremony in Cooperstown. Each winner will receive a commemorative hardbound copy of the “Hall of Fame Yearbook”; a copy of “Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’” by Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles; a Hall of Fame T-shirt; a commemorative set of 20 Hall of Fame baseball cards; a miniature souvenir Akadema Pro baseball glove; and an ALA Graphics “History Lives” poster featuring Jackie Robinson.
First-place winners from Wisconsin include:
Age 10 and under category: Kevin Jacob Nitz, New Berlin, and Sophia Timm, Appleton
Age 11 to 13 category: Matthew Gehne, Racine
For more information, go to http://www.ala.org/baseball.
6. REMINDER TO COMPLETE THE ALA TECHNOLOGY SURVEY
A national survey of public library funding and technology access was mailed to over 7,000 public libraries nationwide in early September. In Wisconsin, 216 libraries have been requested to complete the survey. A list of these select libraries is at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/xls/alatechsurvey.xls. The survey is funded by ALA and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Many state libraries use the survey data for peer comparison, budget requests, advocacy, testimony before legislative bodies, and much more. ALA uses the data to lobby before Congress for LSTA funding and other library programs. A high survey response rate is critical for such uses to continue.
As of today, just 14% of the 216 select Wisconsin libraries have completed the survey. In past years Wisconsin has had a 75% response rate. The survey deadline is November 7. The Web-based survey can be accessed at http://survey.pnmi.com/ . The survey has 21 questions and will take about 40 minutes to complete. If you have any questions on the survey, or need assistance in completing it, e-mail support@plinternetsurvey.org.
7. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
TV Converter Box Coupon Program -- https://www.dtv2009.gov/ -- At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. Congress created the TV Converter Box Coupon Program for households wishing to keep using their analog TV sets after February 17, 2009. The program allows U.S. households to obtain up to two coupons, each worth $40, which can be applied toward the cost of eligible converter boxes. This website links to the coupon application form.
8. CALENDAR
November 4-7, 2008 – Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, Middleton
November 11-12, 2008 – Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA) Meeting, Madison
November 14, 2008 – Council on Library and Network Development, location to be announced
January 9, 2009 – Council on Library and Network Development, location to be announced
March 22-24, 2009 – Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association (WEMTA) Spring Conference, Madison
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Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning
PO Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439
FAX: (609) 266-8770
For questions about this information, contact Roslyn M. Wise (608) 266-6439
Last updated on 10/31/2008 10:45:32 AM
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