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1. ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE APPROVES LIBRARY TASK FORCE BILLS On February 21, the Assembly Committee on Urban and Local Affairs recommended passage of SB 272 as well as SB 273, both on an 8-0 vote. The committee also approved three amendments to SB 272: * Assembly Amendment 1 (Pridemore)--This amendment would allow a county board to implement a reciprocal borrowing reimbursement plan. A municipality that does not comply with the reciprocal borrowing plan could be denied exemption from the county library tax. This proposal was originally recommended by the State Superintendent's Task Force on Library Legislation and Funding. * Assembly Amendment 3 (LeMahieu)--This amendment removes Section 10 of the bill (the provision that would allow a library system to adopt a reciprocal borrowing reimbursement plan and make participation in that plan a requirement of library system membership). * Assembly Amendment 4 (Gottlieb)--This amendment removes the provision that would require municipalities forming new joint libraries to support the joint library at an equal levy rate. The two bills have already been approved by the State Senate, but without amendment. The next step is for the bills to be acted on by the full Assembly. SB 272 and SB 273 are based on the recommendations of the State Superintendent's Task Force on Public Library Legislation and Funding. The legislative history and copies of the bills and amendments are available at http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/SB272hst.html and http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/SB273hst.html. Representative Stephen Freese (R-Dodgeville) is the Assembly sponsor of these bills, and Senator Leibham (R-Sheboygan) is the Senate sponsor. Representative Freese served on the State Superintendent's Task Force on Public Library Legislation and Funding. More information on the work of the Task Force is available at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/liblegis.html. 2. ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING ON AB 1022 AND RECOMMENDS PASSAGE On February 21, the Assembly Committee on Urban and Local Affairs held a hearing on AB 1022 and also voted to recommend passage on a 6-2 vote. Assembly Bill 1022 would create an alternate method of qualifying for exemption from the county library tax. Under current law [Section 43.64(2)] municipalities with libraries that support their library at a levy rate equal to or above the county library levy rate qualify for exemption from the county library tax. Under AB 1022, even a municipality that supports its library at a levy rate lower than the county library levy rate could qualify for exemption, so long as the municipality supports its library at its average support level for the previous three years. Use of the alternative method for qualifying for exemption would require approval by the county board. AB 1022 was introduced by Representatives Gielow, Gottlieb, Jeskewitz, and LeMahieu, by request of Ozaukee County Board. The legislative history and a link to the bill are available at http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/AB1022hst.html. 3. LSTA ADVISORY COMMITTEE APRIL MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING The LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) Advisory Committee will meet April 11-12, 2006, to make recommendations on the preliminary budget and grant categories for the LSTA program for 2007. The meeting will take place at the Crowne Plaza, 4402 East Washington Avenue, Madison. A public hearing will be held April 11, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in conjunction with the meeting. Interested individuals may offer comments and suggestions on the LSTA program for 2007 at the public hearing. Those unable to attend the hearing may submit written comments to Peg Branson by fax (608/266-2413) or email at peg.branson@dpi.state.wi.us. Written comments must arrive by April 10 for inclusion in the hearing. Preliminary Ideas for 2007 will be available on the LSTA website in early March. If you have questions about the LSTA program, contact Peg Branson at peg.branson@dpi.state.wi.us or at 608/266-2413. 4. 2006 NATIONWIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY INTERNET SURVEY The Information Use Management and Policy Institute at Florida State University, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and ALA, is surveying public libraries throughout the country regarding their Internet connectivity and services. The 2006 Public Libraries and the Internet study survey is now available for completion. All public libraries in the state should have received a letter (sent to the director) within the past week providing more details on the survey. The deadline for completion is March 17. The survey website is at http://www.plinternetsurvey.org/. This site serves as the gateway to the survey and also provides background on the study. The survey has two parts: 1) questions relevant to library branches, and 2) questions related to library systems. For many libraries, there is no distinction between a branch and a system. The web-based survey is designed to differentiate between libraries with and without branches, so it will automatically account for your library's specific situation. (NOTE: The term "library systems" refers to individual public libraries and not any of Wisconsin's 17 regional library systems.) Public libraries in Wisconsin have had a high rate of return on past surveys and the Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning encourages all public libraries in the state to participate in the 2006 survey. 5. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2005 CHANNEL AVAILABLE ONLINE The November-December 2005 issue of Channel, the newsletter of the Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning, is now available on the web at http://dpi.wi.gov/channel/pdf/chn4102.pdf. Among the articles in this issue of Channel are: * Public library systems share $15 million in state aid Previous issues of "Channel" are available at http://dpi.wi.gov/channel/channel.html. Issues of Channel Weekly are available at http://dpi.wi.gov/channel/chweekly.html. 6. NEW BOOKS AT REFERENCE AND LOAN LIBRARY Both public and school librarians looking for an up-to-date survey of library work with children may want to borrow "Fundamentals of Children's Services" by Michael Sullivan. The book, published as part of the American Library Association's Fundamentals Series, covers both innovative and standard practices in such areas as collection development, programming, homework support, and the Internet. Hot issues and cutting-edge trends are addressed along with hands-on, proven strategies for success in working with children. Divided into several parts, "Fiore's Summer Library Reading Program Handbook" provides a comprehensive overview as well as concrete details for planning summer library activities. Part one gives librarians what they need to make the case for increased investment in such programs; part two covers planning and design; and parts three and four focus on strategies for organizing and promoting activities. Successful programs are described in detail and an appendix includes a list of summer reading program themes by state. "Bienvenidos! Welcome! A handy Resource Guide for Marketing Your Library to Latinos" is the result of two El Paso Texas librarians' passion for drawing Latino populations into the library. It is based on librarians' experiences in the Latino community and is designed to provide advice to those just beginning to serve this population. Strategies and ideas for program planning are complimented by lists of resources for ordering print, audio, and video materials. School library media specialists and librarians at special libraries may request these titles by sending an e-mail to rllill@dpi.state.wi.us. Public and academic libraries may request these titles through their local interlibrary loan network. 7. WISCONSIN HUMANITIES COUNCIL INVITES ESSAYS The Wisconsin Humanities Council (WHC) invites scholars, writers, and creative thinkers from all disciplines and professions to submit essays for two new WHC-sponsored features in The Wisconsin Academy Review (soon to re-launch under a new name!). All writers (or topics) should have some sort of relationship to Wisconsin. The first feature, The Humanities Moment, asks writers to ruminate on a life-defining moment, one in which the humanities played a transformative role (e.g. your discovery of a life-changing novel, a historian's lecture that swayed your political allegiance, a symphony that made you fall in love, an anthropologist's visit to your family farm, etc.) The use of humor is encouraged. Payment is $200 with a 1,200-word maximum. The second feature, The Public Scholar, asks humanities scholars and professionals to write engaging, entertaining, and compelling essays on any topic. The purpose of these essays is to demonstrate, to a non-academic audience, the vitality of humanities scholarship and the relevance of the humanities to pressing contemporary issues. Authors are encouraged to think provocatively and creatively-essays with titles such as "Huck Finn and John Ashcroft: American Boyhoods" and "Brett Favre as Greek Mythological Hero" are welcome. Payment is $350 with a 2,700-word maximum. The selection process is competitive and submissions become property of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Excerpts from the essays may be reprinted on the WHC Web site, and in development and publicity materials. Send submissions to: Masarah Van Eyck, Wisconsin Humanities Council, 222 S. Bedford St., Suite F, Madison, WI 53703. Please include a daytime phone number and an e-mail address with your submission. The Wisconsin Humanities Council is the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 1972, the WHC has served the people of Wisconsin through both a grant program and humanities projects of its own. Its mission is to create opportunities for all the people of Wisconsin to engage in critical exploration of the histories, arts, ideas, and values of their own and other communities. 8. EBSCO PROVIDES NEW FEATURE EBSCO has introduced a new feature which displays the most common subjects, authors, and journals available for a specific query along the left hand side of the search results page. This will eliminate the need to look at individual records in the result list in order to find related terms. A user can click on any of the headings in the left-hand menu and receive a new result list for that heading. 9. WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY POSTS INFORMATION ON WOMEN'S HISTORY The Wisconsin Historical Society has put thousands of pages about Wisconsin women on its Web site, free for you to print, download, copy, or share some other way with your students. For Women's History Month 2006, the emphasis in on documents that recover the voices of "forgotten" women such as minority women, factory workers, maids, laundresses, teenagers, farm wives, and other women who didn't write books or make headlines. Look for them below with an asterisk next to the date. This message gives you three things: Lesson Plans based on original documents; Primary Sources by or about women (each with an annotation explaining its content and significance); and Background Essays on Wisconsin women. Click, copy, paste, print, and download whatever you like, for any educational or non-commercial use. The "Email Us" link at the foot of every document's page comes right to the historical society director, so don't hesitate to use it. The goal is to provide same day response. I. 12 LESSON PLANS. These all are based on, and include links to, original documents available on the historical society site. Unless marked as elementary, these are better suited for middle and high school level: Wild Rice Harvest (elementary) 1830: Early Women Settlers in Wisconsin 1846: Should Women Be Allowed to Own Property? *1846: A Teenage Girl's Diary, from Ohio to Wisconsin (elementary) *1850: An Indian Woman in the Sandy Lake Tragedy *1854: A Real-Life "Little House" Girlhood on the Wis. Frontier 1863: Wisconsin Women Help Civil War Soldiers: It's a "Fair" Thing (elementary) *1910: Should Indian Girls Be Mainstreamed? 1911: Should Women Be Allowed to Vote? 1921: Let's Vote on It (elementary) 1943: The All-American Girls Baseball League *1988: From Laos to La Crosse, A Hmong Girl's Memoir 14 Ways to Use Original Documents in the Classroom II. WISCONSIN WOMEN'S DOCUMENTS. Each of these has an explanation of where it came from and why it's important, but there aren't any lesson plans built around these. *1702: Indian women and French men in the fur trade era *1766: Glory-of-the-Morning, a Ho-Chunk chief Brief life of Glory-of-the-Morning: *1824: A Métis girl comes to Green Bay as a new bride: Brief life of Elizabeth Baird: *1827: Exploitation of Indian women by white traders at Prairie du Chien 1826-1841: Recollections of a young mother in the Lead Region 1829-1834: Juliette Kinzie's memoir of life at Fort Winnebago *1820s: Wisconsin's first public school teacher, Electa Quinney 1832: Sarah Bracken flees from the Black Hawk War 1833: The first German women to settle in Milwaukee 1839: A pioneer mother's life in Sheboygan *1842: Fugitive slave Caroline Quarlls escapes through Wisconsin 1856: Margarethe Schurz opens America's first kindergarten in Watertown *1864: The diary of domestic servant Addie Tripp in Onalaska 1860s: A former student recalls Milwaukee Female College http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=399 1860s: Documents of women on the Civil War home front 1875: Lavinia Goodell becomes Wisconsin's first woman attorney 1880: Temperance advocate Frances Willard of Janesville 1880: A Milwaukee activist testifies in favor of women's voting rights 1882: A secret women's suffrage club in Richland Center 1891: 19th-century women journalists in Wisconsin *1895: Ojibwe girls learn to use sewing machines, 1895 1900: Early women office workers in state government 1910: Excerpts from Milwaukee's "Settlement House Cookbook" Brief life of Lizzie Black Kander: *1911: What the government thought Indian girls needed to know 1911: Pictures of the woman suffrage movement in Wisconsin 1911: Suffrage publications from the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association 1911: Reminiscences of suffragist Olympia Brown *1914: Hearing testimony by shop-girls and working women around the state *1917: An African-American woman describes coming to Beloit from Mississippi 1918: The World War One letters of nurses Helen Bulovsky and Margaret Rowland 1918: Women's contributions to the World War One home front 1920: State regulations for women workers 1920: A sketch of Meta Berger, Milwaukee socialist Life of her: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=770 1921: Wisconsin passes the nation's first equal rights bill *1935: Black women join the Milwaukee Handicraft Project 1930s: Kenosha women's lives during the Great Depression *1938-1941: a maid, laundry worker, and "cigarette girl" describe their jobs in unemployment hearings 1940s: World War Two photographs taken by Dickey Chapelle of Shorewood Life of Chappelle: 1940s: World War Two letters from WAC Luida Sanders, of Wittenberg 1940's: The Racine Belles baseball team *1946: Women metal fabricators in Fort Atkinson *1991: Hmong women are greeted by racist taunts in Lacrosse III. BIOGRAPHIES & BACKGROUND ESSAYS BY HISTORICAL SOCIETY STAFF A short history of women in Wisconsin, with some links to original documents: Hundreds of pictures of Wisconsin women throughout history Brief lives of some famous 19th-century Wisconsin women 1760: Ho-Chunk chief Glory of the Morning 1848: German "Forty-eighter" Mathilda Anneke 1870: Attorney Lavinia Goodell 1890: College president Ellen Sabin 1900: The Suffrage Movement 1912: Suffragist Theodora W. Youmans 1920: Belle Case La Follette 1920s: Author Zona Gale 1950s: Novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder 1960s: Civil rights activist Vel Phillips The Wisconsin Historical Society's new 500-page history of Wisconsin women 10. GPO LAUNCHES ONLINE BOOKSTORE On February 23 the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) launched its new Online Government Bookstore at http://bookstore.gpo.gov. This new system has many distinct features not previously offered to GPO consumers, but often requested. Some of these include: - Improved search capabilities; These are just some of the many new features you will discover when you place your next order online with the new and improved U.S. Government Online Bookstore. If you have questions or comments, please use the GPO online help service at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/help/index.html. To ensure that your question is routed to the correct area, please choose the category "Online Bookstore" and the appropriate subcategory, if any. You may also contact the GPO Customer Contact Center at 866-512-1800 (Toll-free), or at 202-512-1800 (DC Metropolitan Area), Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m., EST. 11. READ ACROSS AMERICA Originally created as a one-day event to celebrate the joy of reading on March 2, Dr. Seuss's birthday, NEA's Read Across America has grown into a nationwide initiative that promotes reading every day of the year. NEA's Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on or around Dr. Seuss's birthday. NEA's Read Across America also provides NEA members, parents, caregivers, and children the resources and activities they need to keep reading on the calendar 365 days a year. In cities and towns across the nation, teachers, teenagers, librarians, politicians, actors, athletes, parents, grandparents, and others develop NEA's Read Across America activities to bring reading excitement to children of all ages. Governors, mayors, and other elected officials recognize the role reading plays in their communities with proclamations and floor statements. Athletes and actors issue reading challenges to young readers. And teachers and principals seem to be more than happy to dye their hair green or be duct-taped to a wall if it boosts their students' reading. For a list of resources to help you plan an event or host an activity at your library see http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/index.html. 12. WOMAN'S DAY MAGAZINE WANTS TO LEARN HOW THE LIBRARY HAS CHANGED LIVES The magazine announced the editorial initiative to learn how the library has changed lives in its March 7 issue, which reached subscribers last week. In the issue, the magazine declares that libraries are magical places and asks readers to submit their stories in 700 words or less. Stories can be sent to womansday@ala.org from now until May 10, 2006, when the promotion closes. Four of the submissions will be featured in an upcoming issue of Woman's Day. Librarians can promote the initiative in their library by downloading free promotional tools from the ALA @ your library® Web site, http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/sponsorship/wdchangelives.htm. Tools include a sample press release, downloadable logos, sample newsletter copy and flyer. In the same issue, Woman's Day highlights the two winners from last year's editorial initiative, which asked people why they would want to research their family trees at the library. The four-page article features librarians Howard Grueneberg from the Urbana (Ill.) Free Library and Shellie Cocking from the San Francisco Public Library guiding the winners through library resources to help them discover new parts of their family history. It also includes a sidebar with tips on plotting family history from ALA member Stephen C. Young of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Young is chair of the genealogy committee for the Reference and User Services Associations (RUSA) history section. Woman's Day is a Founding Partner of The Campaign for Americas Libraries, the ALA's multi-year public awareness and advocacy campaign to promote the value of libraries and librarians in the 21st century. 13. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK Terrorism Knowledge Base -- http://www.tkb.org/Home.jsp -- This site is the one-stop resource for comprehensive research and analysis on global terrorist incidents, terrorism-related court cases, and terrorist groups and leaders. The Terrorism Knowledge Base illuminates the current status of terrorism today. It takes users through the history, affiliations, locations, and tactics of the terrorism entities operating across the world at this moment. The database features interactive maps, biographies on key terrorist personalities, dynamic graphs, and succinct summaries on who is who and what is what inside the shadowy world of terrorism today. 14. CALENDAR February 24, 2006 - Library and Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison March 5-7, 2006 - Wisconsin Educational Media Association/Brainstorm 2006 Spring Conference, Wisconsin Dells March 10, 2006 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, Madison March 21-25, 2006 - Public Library Association National Conference, Boston March 28-31, 2006 - Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians conference, Stevens Point April 11-12, 2006 - Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Committee spring meeting and public hearing, Madison May 2, 2006 - National Library Legislative Day, Washington DC May 3-5, 2006 - Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries meeting, Wisconsin Rapids May 12, 2006 - Council on Library and Network Development, Platteville June 22-28, 2006 - American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans October 31-November 3, 2006 - Wisconsin Library Association, Wisconsin Dells 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/training.html. 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