Background materials for COLAND Summit

Advocacy

Act for Libraries
http://www.actforlibraries.org/index.php

Campaign for Wisconsin Libraries
http://www.wisconsinlibraries.org

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Wisconsin Becomes 21st Century Skills Leadership State
http://dpi.wi.gov/eis/pdf/dpi2007_06.pdf
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/images/stories/states/wi2pagerwebsite.pdf

Economic Impact/Economic Development

Economic Contribution of Wisconsin Public Libraries to the Economy of Wisconsin, NorthStar Economics, Inc., 2008
http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/econimpact.html

Economic Impact Studies and Resources
http://www.dpi.wi.gov/pld/economimpact.html

Governor Announces Grow Wisconsin Initiative to Increase Jobs and Raise Incomes, Wisconsin Governor's Office, 2003
http://www.wisconsin.edu/summit/articles/GrowWisconsin.pdf
http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=12933

Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development, The Urban Library Council, 2007
http://www.urbanlibraries.org/files/making_cities_stronger.pdf

Worth Their Weight: An Assessment of the Evolving Field of Library Valuation, Americans for Libraries Council, 2007
http://www.actforlibraries.org/pdf/WorthTheirWeight.pdf

Governance

Pat Fisher, Ellen Miller, and James Connor, Effective Governance for Rural Libraries, WebJunction, 2007
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=18472

Library/School Library Media Center Roles and Services

The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition: A report to OCLC membership, OCLC, 2004
http://www.oclc.org/reports/escan/introduction/default.htm

2006 School Library Media Study: Student Learning Through Wisconsin School Library Media Centers, Department of Public Instruction
http://dpi.wi.gov/imt/lmsstudy.html

Bringing People Together at the Library (In Focus Webinar #16)
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=18621

Cynthia Nikitin and Josh Jackson, Libraries that Matter, Project for Public Places, 2006
http://www.pps.org/info/newsletter/april2007/libraries_that_matter

Kaplan, Allison G., Is Your School Librarian 'Highly Qualified?', Phi Delta Kappan, December 2007

Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public Leadership and Attitudes about Libraries in the 21st Century, Public Agenda, 2006
http://www.actforlibraries.org/pdf/longoverdue.pdf

Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space, Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005
http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub129/pub129.pdf

Mates, Barbara T., Information Access for People With Disabilities, Library Technology Reports, May/Jun2004, Vol. 40 Issue 3
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=13620275&site=ehost-live

Nina Sonenberg, Libraries for the Future: Innovation in Action, Libraries for the Future, 2005
http://www.actforlibraries.org/pdf/LFFInnovationinAction.pdf

Other Resources
http://www.americansforlibraries.org/LFF_Resources_P.html#iia

School Libraries Work, Scholastic Research and Results, Scholastic Library Publishing, 2004(?)
http://librarypublishing.scholastic.com/content/stores/LibraryStore/pages/images/slw_04.pdf

SLA and the Global Community: Gaining Worldwide Recognition, Information OutLook, v.12 No.2, February, 2008

Smith, Bruce, Statewide Library Delivery in Wisconsin: The Present and Future Landscape, South Central Library System, 2008
http://dpi.wi.gov/coland/pdf/wi_statewide_delivery.pdf

Reading

Talks Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks: hello open-source learning, TED Ideas worth spreading (Internet site)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/25

To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence, National Endowment for the Arts, 2007

Resource Sharing

COLAND Biennial Report on the Condition and Progress of Wisconsin Libraries, 2006-2007, Department of Public Instruction, 2007
http://dpi.wi.gov/coland/pdf/COLAND_Biennial_Progress_Report_2006-07.pdf

COLAND Issues Paper on ILL and Resource Sharing in Wisconsin, February 23, 2008

Manifesto for Rethinking Resource Sharing, Rethinking Resource Sharing Policies Committee, 2007
http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org/manifesto.html

State Superintendent's Report on Intertype Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing 2005-09, Department of Public Instruction, 2007
www.dpi.wi.gov/coland/pdf/coland_biennial_report_2005-09.pdf

Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Guidelines, Department of Public Instruction, 2005
http://www.arts.gov/pub/pubLit.php

State-level Library Service Websites

Ask?Away
http://www.askaway.info/

Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dltcl/tm-lib2-svcs.html
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dltcl/index.html

Delivery Services (South Central Library System Statewide)
http://psw.scls.lib.wi.us/delivery/

Wisconsin Educational and Technology Media Association
http://www.wemtaonline.org/se3bin/cliente.cgi?siteid=1000292

Wisconsin Health Science Library Association
http://www.whsla.mcw.edu/

Wisconsin Heritage Online
http://www.wils.wisc.edu/

Wisconsin Historical Society
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Wisconsin Library Association
http://www.wla.lib.wi.us

Wisconsin Library Services WiLS)
http://www.wils.wisc.edu/

Technology

BadgerNet: Wisconsin's Statewide Telecommunications Network
http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/pdf/badgernetupdate.pdf

Bocher, Robert, A Summary of the ALA Study on Library Bandwidth Issues, Department of Public Instruction, 2007
http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/pdf/alanetstudy.pdf

Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future, UCL, 2008
http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf

Information Searches that Solve Problems, How people use the internet, libraries, and government agencies when they need help, PEW/Internet and American Life Project and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 30, 2007
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Pew_UI_LibrariesReport.pdf

Library Information and Technology Advisory Committee Issue Papers
These papers are available at http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/pld/litac.html#background%20papers

• Information Literacy: Wisconsin's 21st Century Libraries
• BadgerLink
• Consumer-Driven Digital Products: Downloadable audio/video and the impact on libraries
• Virtual reference services
• Interlibrary Loan

Meeting the information needs of the American People: Past Actions and Future Initiatives, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, March 2008.
http://www.nclis.gov/about/MeetingtheInformationNeedsoftheAmericanPeople-NCLISFinalReport.pdf

Perceptions of Idaho's Digital natives on Public Libraries, Idaho Commission for Libraries, 2007
http://libraries.idaho.gov/files/default/2007-digital-native-rpt.pdf

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World: A Report to the Membership, OCLC, 2007
http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm

For questions about this information, contact Shiela A. Pollock (608) 224-5395

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