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1. STATE SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTS NEW LSTA ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster announced new appointments to the LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) Advisory Committee this week. The new members are Phyllis Davis, Director, South Central Library System; Terry Dawson, Director, Appleton Public Library; Jim Gingery, Director, Milwaukee County Federated Library System; Jane Pearlmutter, Associate Director, UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies; and Zora Sampson, Director, Library, Information, Instructional Technology, UW Barron County, Rice Lake. Continuing members of the committee are Becca Berger, Director, Door County Library; Walter Burkhalter, Director, Mid-Wisconsin Federated Library System; Fred Marini, District Media Director, Melrose-Mindoro School District; Rhonda Puntney, Youth Services/ Special Needs Coordinator, Lakeshores Library System; Veronica Thompson, Library Media Specialist, Rufus King High School, Milwaukee; Terrance Burton, Director, Ebling Library, UW-Madison; Paula Kiely, Deputy City Librarian, Milwaukee Public Library; Paul Onufrak, Automation Librarian, Eastern Shores Library System; and Elizabeth Richmond, Associate Professor/Reference Librarian, UW-Eau Claire. Members on the committee serve staggered three-year terms The committee advises the state superintendent and the Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning on the development of the long-range plan for the LSTA program, annual grant priorities and categories, and applications and recommendations for grant awards. More information on the LSTA program is available at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/lsta.html. 2. FREE LITFINDER TRAINING FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY STAFF Two hands-on training sessions will be held April 26 at 8:30 a.m. and at 10:30 a.m. in the computer lab of the Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Registration is limited to 20, one attendee per computer. Each session is 1.5 hours to allow plenty of time for Q&A. Andrea Muncy of Thomson Gale will be the presenter. This is an excellent opportunity for public library staff to learn firsthand what LitFinder offers and how to use it effectively to serve library patrons. Registration: email vickie.long@dpi.state.wi.us or phone toll free (888) 543-5543 press 1 and then press 2 for Vickie Long. If travel to this hands-on training is out of the question for you, two web conference sessions are available in May to anyone (Wisconsin public or school library staffs, school teachers, and any citizen) without registration. Simply scroll down this email to the web session descriptions and use the links provided there to attend the session of your choice. LitFinder is freely accessible to any Wisconsin resident on BadgerLink at http://www.badgerlink.net What is LitFinder? LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more. Users can find everything from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the poetry of Maya Angelou, the love poetry of the 13th century to contemporary poems by African American women, the inaugural speeches of George Washington through George W. Bush, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to stories by up-and-coming writer Elizabeth Weld, or essays on such subjects as the arts, science, and religion. LitFinder also features 850 Spanish-language poems with English translations, and coverage of more than 600 nationalities and ethnicities and approximately 27,000 women writers. It focuses on contemporary works, including more than 3,500 full-text poems published for the first time in the current year, and new content is loaded on a quarterly basis. Fact Sheet (2 pages) http://www.gale.com/pdf/facts/LitFinder.pdf; Navigation Guide (6 pages) http://www.gale.com/pdf/navguide/LitFinder_nvg.pdf WEB SESSIONS: No Registration Needed Topic: LitFinder Training Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006 Time: 3:00 p.m., CDT Meeting number: 563 672 481 Meeting password: (This meeting does not require a password.) Please click the following link to see more information, or to join the meeting. NEW USER? Prepare your computer in advance of the meeting by clicking New User on the navigation bar. https://btconferencing.webex.com/btconferencing/j.php?ED=90111632&UID=38384292 Teleconference: Dial-In: 877-384-0533 Participant Passcode: 96960964 To add this meeting to your calendar program (for example, Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes), do the following: * For all calendar programs (except Lotus Notes), click the following link, or copy the link and paste it into your Web browser: https://btconferencing.webex.com/btconferencing/j.php?ED=90111632&UID=38384292&ICS=MI *For Lotus Notes, follow these steps: 1. Right-click the attached iCalendar format (*.ics) file, and then choose View. 2. Click Import All. A new broadcast email message is added to your Inbox. 3. Open the new message. 4. Click Respond button. A menu appears. 5. Click Accept. The host requests that you check for compatibility of rich media players for Universal Communications Format (UCF) before you join the session. UCF allows you to view multimedia during the session. To check now, click the following link: https://btconferencing.webex.com/btconferencing/systemdiagnosis.php Topic: LitFinder Training Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Time: 11:00 a.m., CDT Meeting number: 569 363 891 Meeting password: (This meeting does not require a password Please click the following link to see more information, or to join the meeting. NEW USER? Prepare your computer in advance of the meeting by clicking New User on the navigation bar. https://btconferencing.webex.com/btconferencing/j.php?ED=90111827&UID=38384807 Teleconference: Dial-In Number: 877-384-0533 Participant Passcode: 96960964 To add this meeting to your calendar program (for example, Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes), do the following: * For all calendar programs (except Lotus Notes), click the following link, or copy the link and paste it into your Web browser: https://btconferencing.webex.com/btconferencing/j.php?ED=90111827&UID=38384807&ICS=MI *For Lotus Notes, follow these steps: 1. Right-click the attached iCalendar format (*.ics) file, and then choose View. 2. Click Import All. A new broadcast email message is added to your Inbox. 3. Open the new message. 4. Click Respond button. A menu appears. 5. Click Accept. The host requests that you check for compatibility of rich media players for Universal Communications Format (UCF) before you join the session. UCF allows you to view multimedia during the session. To check now, click the following link: https://btconferencing.webex.com/btconferencing/systemdiagnosis.php 3. CCBC CHOICES 2006 NOW AVAILABLE CCBC Choices 2006, highlighting 237 books for children and young adults from the 2005 publishing year, is now available from the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The books recommended in CCBC Choices 2006 are chosen by the CCBC librarians. CCBC Choices has selections for children from birth through age 18. Wisconsin Public Library System youth services liaisons will be receiving copies for CCBC Choices 2006 for distribution to each public library and branch in their system in the next week or so. CCBC Choices is published by the Friends of the CCBC, who make Choices available at no cost to librarians, teachers, and others in Wisconsin. If you would like additional copies of CCBC Choices sent to you via Delivery, contact Megan Schliesman at schliesman@education.wisc.edu Please keep in mind schools in your area that might be interested in obtaining Choices. For information on how to receive Choices from outside Wisconsin, or how to have a copy of Choices sent to someone in Wisconsin via U.S. mail, go to http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/choices.asp As always, copies of Choices are available to pick up at the CCBC, 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290, on the UW-Madison campus. 4. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK FirstGov: Government Science Portal - http://www.science.gov/ - This site features real-time relevancy ranking to government science retrieval. This technology, funded by the Department of Energy, helps citizens sort through the government's reservoirs of research and return results most likely to meet individual needs. An advanced search capability and other enhancements were added. Each agency selects its best science information for science.gov. Two major types of information are included - selected authoritative science Web sites and often hard-to-access scientific databases (specific content varies by database). This gateway to government science information allows searches across 30 databases and more than 1,700 science Web sites. Science.gov currently accesses over 47 million pages of government science information. 5. CALENDAR 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 Return to the Channel Weekly Home Page For information about Channel Weekly or to submit article ideas, please contact:
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