1. UW-Madison, SLIS Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses for public librarian certification
2. Library Journal Paraprofessional of the Year nominations due January 10, 2007
3. Academic Libraries: 2004
4. OWLS' New On-Line Catalog includes Spanish interface
5. Librarians start reference blog for public library staff
6. Touring WWII history exhibits seek host libraries
7. Website of the Week - Exploring Space: The Quest for Life
8. Calendar
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REMINDER - Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Channel Weekly will not be published next week (November 23). The next issue of Channel Weekly will be the November 30 edition.
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1. UW-MADISON, SLIS WINTER/SPRING 2007 ONLINE COURSES FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIAN CERTIFICATION
UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announced its Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses, including those courses that can be taken to meet the requirements for grades two and three Wisconsin public librarian certification. The schedule for those courses is listed below. Complete course information and registration instructions for these and other courses may be found on the website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed.
WINTER/SPRING 2007
Basic reference
January 22-April 14, 2007
Basic public library management
January 22-April 7, 2007
The following certification courses will be available as Summer-by-the-Lake courses in Madison.
Public Library Administration
June 24-27, 2007
Instructor: Kelly Krieg-Sigman
Cataloging
August 13-17, 2007
Instructor: Debra Shapiro
For answers to questions contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452.
2. LIBRARY JOURNAL PARAPROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR NOMINATIONS DUE JANUARY 10, 2007
Library Journal (LJ) will honor one support staffer with its eighth annual Paraprofessional of the Year award in its March 1, 2007, issue. Sponsored by Brodart, which underwrites the $1500 cash prize and a reception at the American Library Association conference in June, the award recognizes the essential role of paraprofessionals, now the largest constituency of library workers, in providing excellent library service. It places special emphasis on the efforts of the winner to further the role of paraprofessionals in the library profession. The winner will be profiled in the March 1 issue of LJ.
The criteria are excellence in performing their job, including
contribution(s) enabling the library to best serve its constituents and/or its community (whether town, college/university, school, or corporation), the encouragement of reading and the use of the library's resources, a commitment to free access to information for all, and the candidate's work to build networks, organizations, and/or groups to back excellence in library work and new career paths for support staff, and improved communication and the breaking down of barriers between support staff and the MLS librarians with whom they work.
Nominations are due January 10, 2007. Nominating letters should name the candidate and describe in 500 words or less why the nominee deserves the award. Supporting letters and accompanying material will be considered, but the nominating letter itself will be of prime importance. Nominations may be e-mailed to akim@reedbusiness.com or mailed to: Ann Kim, c/o Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010.
3. ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: 2004
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has just released "Academic Libraries: 2004." The selected findings and tables in this report, based on the 2004 Academic Libraries Survey, summarize services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The report includes a number of key findings: During fiscal year (FY) 2004, there were 155.1 million circulation transactions from academic libraries' general collection. During a typical week in the fall of 2004, 1.4 million academic library reference transactions were conducted, including computer searches. The nation's 3,700 academic libraries held 982.6 million books, serial backfiles, and other paper materials, including government documents, at the end of FY 2004. Academic libraries spent $2.2 billion on information resources during FY 2004.
To download, view and print the report as a pdf file, please visit: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007301.
4. OWLS' NEW ON-LINE CATALOG INCLUDES SPANISH INTERFACE
Earlier this year the Outagamie Waupaca Library Systems' OWLSnet library consortium simultaneously launched two versions of a new online catalog, InfoSoup and InfoSoup en espaņol! The new catalog allows patrons to search for books and media, do homework and research using online databases, ask a reference question using AskAway online reference, or peruse booklists of best literature.
In addition to the catalog, patrons have access to two newly designed databases, New Materials for all new library materials and Nuevas Materias exclusive to Spanish language new materials. Both tools assist patrons to find the most current material and place holds directly from the database into the catalog. The Spanish database includes all new materials added by OWLSnet libraries written, subtitled, or spoken in Spanish, including bilingual editions.
The decision to provide an improved Spanish language interface was a top priority when the consortium of fifty one libraries selected the software for the migration to the catalog. With an eye on the rising Latino population in Northeast Wisconsin, system staff knew that providing bilingual access was vital to increase both library visibility in local communities and efforts to reach out to new library users. Spanish speaking patrons can now register for library cards, receive library notices and read local circulation policies in their native language.
5. LIBRARIANS START REFERENCE BLOG FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY STAFF
Jan Dibble (Oshkosh PL) and Rochelle Hartman (LaCrosse PL) have started a reference blog for public library staff called Wisconsin Reference Klatch. The purpose is to share ideas, issues, successes, problems, concerns, anecdotes, conference or workshop notes, etc., and/or to discuss the "future of reference" in public libraries. The URL is http://www.wisconsinref.blogspot.com/.
Since the blog is just getting started, comments are encouraged, including those that are provocative, interesting, or relevant to the future of reference. Readers may become contributors by sending their email address to Rochelle at r.hartman@lacrosse.lib.wi.us or to Jan at dibble@oshkoshpubliclibrary.org.
6. TOURING WWII HISTORY EXHIBITS SEEK HOST LIBRARIES
TRACES Center for History and Culture, a Midwest/WWII history museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota has announced that both of its mobile exhibits will be visiting select Midwest states in the spring and fall of 2007.
The BUS-eum 2, with the exhibit "VANISHED: German-American Civilian Internment, 1941-48," will tour eight eastern Midwest states in spring 2007, in partnership with regional state historical societies, state librarians/library associations and humanities councils. The BUS-eum 2 exhibit tells the stories of 15,000 German-American civilians imprisoned by the U.S. government during WWII. The Midwest was the site to 18 of the U.S. government's 60 camps and centers.
The first BUS-eum, containing the exhibit "Behind Barbed Wire: Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany," will show in eight western Midwest states in fall 2007. The BUS-eum 1 exhibit tells the stories of Midwest soldiers and airmen captured in WWII and kept as Prisoners of War (POWs) in Nazi Germany. This exhibit explores their experiences topically--looking, for example, at their capture, interrogation, camp life, art/theater in the camps, escape attempts, death marches at the war's end, liberation and return to the U.S. reconciliation, etc.
If you would like more information about hosting either exhibit, please contact Eric Brandt at 651.292.8700 or programs@TRACES.org. More information about TRACES can be found at http://www.TRACES.org.
7. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Exploring Space: The Quest for Life -- http://www.pbs.org/exploringspace/ -- Our galaxy alone contains hundreds of billions of stars, giving scientists a vast cosmic frontier to search. Could alien life be looking up at its own sky and asking, 'Is there life out there?' Learn from this PBS site about the amazing quest for life that begins on Earth and extends into the heavens above.
8. CALENDAR
November 29-30, 2006 - LSTA Advisory Committee meeting and public hearing, Madison
January 12, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development, location to be announced
January 23, 2007 - Wisconsin Library Legislative Day, Madison
February 9, 2007 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
February 27, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Waterford
March 7, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, DePere
March 9, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development, location to be announced
March 13, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Rice Lake
March 25-27, 2007 - Wisconsin Educational Media Association Spring Conference, Madison
April 3, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Fond du Lac
April 12, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Fennimore
April 18, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Hurley
April 19, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Wausau
April 26, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Sparta
May 2, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Eau Claire (WAPL preconference)
May 2-4, 2007 - Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries, Eau Claire
May 11, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, location to be announced
May 11, 2007 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
October 12, 2007 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, 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/training.html.
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