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Channel Weekly--Vol. 7, No. 29, April 14, 2005 |
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Table of Contents
1. Preliminary LSTA
program for 2006 1. PRELIMINARY LSTA PROGRAM FOR 2006 State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster approved the preliminary LSTA grant program and budget for 2006 after receiving the recommendations of the LSTA Advisory Committee and considering comments from a public hearing held in conjunction with the LSTA Advisory Committee meeting on March 29 and 30 in Madison. Final decisions on the LSTA program for 2006 will be made in November and are dependent upon the total dollars available, including the federal LSTA appropriation for FY 2006 and carryover, applications submitted, and other factors. Congress will be considering the federal budget for FY 2006 over the next several months. The LSTA funds will, once again, facilitate experimentation, demonstration, and enhanced library services in Wisconsin.
Among the grant
categories available for funding in 2006 are: LSTA applications for 2006 are due September 9, 2005, and must be submitted online. General information on the LSTA program is available on the web at: http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/lsta.html. The LSTA Information and Guidelines for 2006 is available on the LSTA website at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/pdf/guide06.pdf. The Information and Guidelines contains detailed information on the LSTA program, including the schedule, grant categories, and preliminary budget. Print copies of the Information and Guidelines will be available in May and will be mailed to public library system staff. Other requests for print copies should be sent to Peg Branson at 608/266-2413 or peg.branson@dpi.state.wi.us. 2. IMTT TO MAKE PRESENTATION AT WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION CONFERENCE On Friday, April 22, 2005 from 2:45 until 3:30, Barry Golden and Donna Steffan from the DPI's Instructional Media and Technology Team will introduce middle level educators to best practices and 21st Century Skills and tools that enhance learning and support closing the achievement gap for all students. These instructional strategies and tools cluster within four areas: Digital-Age Literacy, Information Communication Technology, Inventive Thinking, and High Productivity. When addressed within this learning context, these skill clusters provide educators with a learning environment that fosters higher student achievement and prepares students and educators with a common understanding of the skills needed by students, citizens, and workers in the digital age. Scientific-based research shows that when library media specialists and classroom teachers collaboratively teach these learning strategies immersed within a technology rich environment, students master content objectives more readily. Assessment strategies and tools for determining student proficiency of technology literacy that is required by the end of 8th grade will be shared. The presentation is part of the Wisconsin Association for Middle Level Education conference, "It's A Golden Opportunity." 3. PUBLIC LIBRARY RECORDS RETENTION GROUP MEETS On April 12, an informal group began work to establish a model schedule for public library records retention in Wisconsin. Anita Doering, the archivist at the La Crosse PL, has taken the initiative to put this group together which includes representatives of public libraries, library systems, the Wisconsin Public Records Board, the DPI, and the State Historical Society. The goal of this group is to produce a model public library records retention schedule that can be adopted or adapted for local library use. Under Wisconsin law, public records must be retained at least 7 years unless a shorter time has been approved by the Wisconsin Public Records Board. All governmental organizations (including public libraries) need to approve a formal policy statement (like a resolution or ordinance) that lays out procedures for dealing with obsolete records. In addition, prior to destroying public records, you must give the State Historical Society at least 60 days written notice. The model schedule developed by this group will help Wisconsin public libraries comply with Wisconsin's public records law, discard obsolete records in a legal and orderly manner, and preserve records that may have historical value. In 1990, the DPI worked with a task force to develop a Records Retention Schedule for Wisconsin School Districts that has been adopted by most Wisconsin school districts (and is available at http://www.doa.state.wi.us/docs_view2.asp?docid=195). Please contact Mike Cross (michael.cross@dpi.state.wi.us) or John DeBacher (john.debacher@dpi.state.wi.us) if you have questions about this project. 4. READ ON WISCONSIN FOR APRIL Here are Read On Wisconsin's featured books for April. Please share them with your students, children, and co-workers.
Preschool (0-2): From
Head to Toe by Eric Carle Visit the website (http://readon.wi.gov) for more information about these books. Take advantage of the web log. Students can post reviews and answer thematic questions related to the stories. It is a great way for students to share their opinions and ideas with students across the state. Other opportunities available:
- Class visit by Mrs.
Doyle: Visit the website for details on how to request Mrs. Doyle to come
to your classroom to talk about reading 5. RLL STAFF SEEKS SOURCE OF QUOTE RLL staff are trying to locate the source, which is thought to be a poem, for the following quote: "And his breed unlike the rest/Cannot leave things as he finds them/Though he finds them at his best." Standard quotation and poetry indexes have been checked. Internet searches have also been done, only to discover that others are also looking for the origin of these words. Anyone who can provide a clue or the full answer may contact June Huizenga, RLL reference librarian, by e-mail at june.huizenga@dpi.state.wi.us or by phone toll-free at 1-888-542-5543 (#5). 6. VENDOR DEMONSTRATIONS FOR RESOURCE SHARING TECHNOLOGIES SCHEDULED FOR MAY 26, 2005 The May 26 vendor demonstrations (see article in last week's Channel Weekly, Volume 7, Number 28) will be held at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI in room 325 and 326. The anticipated agenda is below: 9:30 Overview of technology scenarios to be demonstrated 10:00-12:00 Demonstration by Auto-Graphics 12:00-1:30 Lunch on own 1:30-3:30 Demonstration by OCLC 3:30-4:30 Discussion and comments about technology scenarios Library staff members from all types of libraries are invited to attend to learn more about these technologies and to offer comments. In order to assure there is enough room and to plan for refreshments, Division staff would like to know who is planning to attend, although registration will not be required. Please send names, telephone numbers, and email addresses for any staff members from your library or organization that plan to attend to Gil Franco at gilbert.franco@dpi.state.wi.us. Please respond for the May 26 date by May 16, 2005. 7. JOAN AIROLDI, FORMER WISCONSIN LIBRARIAN, WINS AWARD PEN American Center has named Joan Airoldi, a librarian and library director in rural Washington State who challenged an FBI effort to search patron records, as the recipient of this year's PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. Airoldi will receive the $25,000 prize at PEN's annual Gala on April 20, 2005 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Airoldi was the director of the Northern Waters Library Service, headquartered in Ashland, for many years before moving to Washington. On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent visited the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library System in rural Washington, a library not much larger than a family home. The agent demanded the names of all library patrons who had borrowed the book Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America. The FBI made the request after a reader contacted the agency to report that someone had left a handwritten note in the margin of the book that said, "If the things I'm doing is considered a crime then let history be a witness that I am a criminal. Hostility toward America is a religious duty and we hope to be rewarded by God" a nearly direct quote of a statement Osama Bin Laden made in a 1998 interview. As a librarian and the Director of the Whatcom County Rural Library District, Joan Airoldi organized and guided the library's efforts to fight the request, protecting patrons' right to read what they wish free of government scrutiny. The Deming branch refused to provide information to the visiting agent, and the library system informed the FBI that no information would be released without a subpoena or court order. The library Board then voted to fight any subsequent subpoena in court. On June 18, a grand jury subpoena was served requesting the names and any other identifying information of patrons who had borrowed the Bin Laden biography since November 15, 2001. At a special meeting of the Board, the library resolved to go ahead with a motion to quash subpoena on the grounds that the request infringed on the First Amendment rights of readers; that libraries have the right to disseminate information freely and confidentially, without the chilling effects of disclosure; and that Washington state's library confidentiality laws protected the records. Commenting on the subpoena, Airoldi said, "Libraries are a haven where people should be able to seek whatever information they want to pursue without any threat of government intervention." On July 14, the library learned that the FBI had withdrawn the grand jury subpoena. This is the thirteenth anniversary of the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, which was established by actor Paul Newman and author A. E. Hotchner to honor a U.S. resident who has fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word. More information on the award is available at http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/810. 8. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK Dictionary of Wisconsin History http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/ Ever wonder where the word Winnebago came from, before it meant a large, lumbering motor home? What about a curlew, a gorget, or a round forty? All these terms and more can be found in the Dictionary of Wisconsin History, being built at the Wisconsin Historical Society, a spin-off from the society's Turning Points digital project (http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints), a special collection aimed at making documentation on the most important events in Wisconsin history easily accessible to teachers, students, and lifelong learners. As society staff worked on materials for Turning Points, they found many words and proper names that were not defined in standard dictionaries that might confuse readers. These terms were saved in a database, with short explanations, eventually becoming the Dictionary of Wisconsin History, with over 1,000 terms, including over 120 Indian tribes, and more than 300 short entries for prominent people. The Dictionary is still growing, and users are invited to submit terms. And, by the way, Winnebago is an obsolete name for the Ho-Chunk Indians, a curlew is a shore bird, a gorget is a breast plate, and a round forty is a forty-acre lumber allotment "whose boundaries were not strictly observed by logging companies (who took so many trees outside of it that the parcel resembled a circle rather than a square)." 9. CALENDAR April 13-15, 2005 - Wisconsin Educational Media Association Spring Conference, Green Bay April 18-20, 2005 - Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians Spring Conference, Madison April 25-26, 2005 - Wisconsin Health Science Library Association 2005 Conference, Oshkosh May 4, 2005 - National Library Legislative Day, Washington DC May 11-13, 2005 - Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries Spring Conference, Appleton May 20, 2005 - Council on Library and Network Development, Superior May 25, 2005 - Resource Sharing Technology Vendor Demonstration, Pyle Center June 23-29, 2005 - American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago June 26-30, 2005 - National Educational Computer Conference, Philadelphia PA August 16-17, 2005 - From Vision to Practice3: Digital Evaluation, Mosinee August 18-19, 2005 - From Vision to Practice3: Digital Evaluation, Oconomowoc September 16, 2005 - Resource Sharing Technology Vendor Demonstration, Pyle Center October 6-9, 2005 - American Association of School Librarians Conference, Pittsburg, PA October 25-28, 2005 - Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, La Crosse November 29-30, 2005 - LSTA Advisory Committee meeting and public hearing, Madison December 9, 2005 - Library and Information Technology Advisory Committee (LITAC), Madison For more details about these and other meetings, see the WISDOM calendar at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/wisdom.html and the BadgerLink and WISCAT training site at http://www.wiscat.lib.wi.us/pdf/Gates08282004.pdf. Return to the Channel Weekly Home Page For information about Channel Weekly or to submit article ideas, please contact : Roslyn Wise, Editor, at (608) 266-6439
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