1. Library donation bill signed by Governor
2. LSTA meeting and public hearing scheduled
3. Deadline for "Connecting to Collections Bookshelf" extended to April 30
4. Update on NFB NEWSLINE
5. Staff training fact sheets offer
6. CCBC pod casts begin
7. CCBC Choices 2008 available after March 8
8. Website of the Week - PublicRadioFan
9. Calendar
1. LIBRARY DONATION BILL SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
Senate Bill 1 was signed by Governor Doyle on March 5, and has been published as 2007 Act 61. The new law allows a library board to transfer donations made to the library to a charitable organization exempt from federal income tax under the Internal Revenue Code, provided the organization's purpose is to provide support for the public library. The law also makes valid such transfers made by library boards prior to the effective date of the new law.
Wisconsin library law also allows a public library board to transfer donations made to the library to the treasurer of the municipality or county that established the library; entrust them to a public depository; or transfer them to the library board's financial secretary. More information on the legal options for the handling of library funds is available in Trustee Essential #9 (http://www.dpi.wi.gov/pld/te9.html).
The author of SB-1 was Senator Russ Decker and the bill was supported by the Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Library Association.
2. LSTA MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED
Wisconsin's LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) Advisory Committee will meet in Madison on Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10, at the Comfort Inn and Suites Madison, 4822 East Washington Avenue, to discuss grant proposals and make award recommendations for LSTA projects to take place in 2009.
As a part of the meeting, there will be a public hearing beginning at 1 p.m. on April 9 for interested persons to make suggestions on the LSTA program for 2009. Final guidelines for the 2009 LSTA program will be developed in March 2009. If you are unable to attend the public hearing, written comments may be submitted by letter, fax, or e-mail to Terrie Howe, P.O. Box 7841, Madison, WI 53707-7841; fax number (608) 266-2529; email address teresa.howe@dpi.wi.gov. Testimony must arrive by 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 8th for inclusion in the hearing.
3. DEADLINE FOR "CONNECTING TO COLLECTIONS BOOKSHELF" EXTENDED TO APRIL 30
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), has extended the deadline for applying for the IMLS "Connecting to Collections Bookshelf," a core set of books, online resources, and a user's guide that are essential for the care of collections. The bookshelf has received support from the Getty Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. A simple electronic application for the free IMLS Bookshelf is available at http://www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf.
The IMLS Bookshelf focuses on collections typically found in art or history museums and in libraries' special collections, with an added selection of texts for zoos, aquaria, public gardens, and nature centers. It addresses such topics as the philosophy and ethics of collecting, collections management and planning, emergency preparedness, and culturally specific conservation issues. Recipients of the Bookshelf will also receive a guide with answers to common questions about collections care that can be answered by the Bookshelf. A guide to online resources on collections care has also been prepared by Heritage Preservation (HP), a national non-profit organization working to preserve America's collective heritage. Both documents are available online on the IMLS Web Site at http://www.imls.gov/collections.
The IMLS Bookshelf will be awarded free in this last application period March 1 - April 30, 2008, with recipients announced in July 2008. Instructions, qualifications, and the content of the IMLS Bookshelf, along with the online application, can be found at http://www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf. Twenty libraries, museums and local history societies in Wisconsin have already received the bookshelf in the latest round of awards (see list at http://www.imls.gov/news/2008/021908_list.shtm#WI). Priority will be given to smaller institutions, but large museums and libraries with special collections are also eligible to apply. Federally operated institutions, for-profit institutions, and libraries that do not hold special collections are not eligible to receive the Bookshelf. For more information on the IMLS Bookshelf, email Terry Jackson at jackson@aaslh.org, or call 615-320-3203.
The Bookshelf is part of Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action, a multi-year initiative to help improve the care of our nation's collections. IMLS began the initiative in response to A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections, a 2005 Heritage Preservation study supported by IMLS, which documented the dire state of the nation's collections. See http://www.imls.gov/collections for more information.
4. UPDATE ON NFB-NEWSLINE
Use of NFB-NEWSLINE, a free news service from the National Federation for the Blind, continues to grow. Nationally, NFB-Newsline users clocked 2,801,830 minutes of use. Wisconsin ranks 6th nationwide in the number of registered users at 2,271. NFB-NEWSLINE recently began sending special e-mail bulletins to all subscribers who have provided an email address. Bulletins contain the most important advancements and the newest features of the service and share tricks of the trade in navigating NEWSLINE. Subscribers can also arrange to receive their newspapers via email and can obtain personalized TV listings.
Several users shared their stories with NFB-NEWSLINE. A retired physician jokingly refers to getting his newspaper "delivered to his bedside." When he wakes up in the middle of the night, he can dial NEWSLINE and listen to the newspaper stories. He reports that he now reads several newspapers every day, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor. He especially likes the science sections, saying that when he had his eyes, he didn't know this was available and didn't have time, but now can read as much as he wants. A blind vendor who runs a commissary in a Nashville jail was recently pleased to be able to read his own classified advertisement that he had placed in a Nashville newspaper. He says that "NEWSLINE opens up a world of information and a blind person can be just as informed nationally, locally, and globally as a sighted person." He says he uses NEWSLINE 14-20 hours per week.
5. STAFF TRAINING FACT SHEETS OFFER
The WebJunction "Staff Training in Libraries: 2007 Fact Sheets" provides insights into how public and academic libraries support, deliver and evaluate staff training programs. Libraries were randomly selected to participate in a Web-based survey from May 15 to July 1, 2007. These fact sheets highlight key findings on how staff training is provided in terms of training formats, ROI and dollars spent. While the survey response rate was low, libraries may nonetheless find the fact sheet valuable to examine the library's staff training programs.
http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=541.
6. CCBC POD CASTS BEGIN
The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) has begun weekly pod casts providing a glimpse of what is happening at the CCBC, and featuring a few good books. Currently the pod casts are accessible on the CCBC web site at http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/podcasts/podcasts.asp. RSS feed to automatically receive the pod casts will be available in the future.
7. CCBC CHOICES 2008 AVAILABLE AFTER MARCH 8
The latest edition of Choices, the Cooperative Children's Book Center's annual best-of-the-year list, highlighting 279 books for children and teens from the 2007 publishing year, will be available after March 8. A copy of CCBC Choices 2008 will automatically be sent to every public library in Wisconsin through the statewide youth services liaisons. For more information or to obtain additional copies, visit the website at http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/choices.asp.
8. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
PublicRadioFan.com -- http://publicradiofan.com/ -- A web site featuring listings for thousands of public radio stations and programs around the world. Follow the audio links to hear your favorite programs and discover new ones. (Website link courtesy of refdesk.com.)
9. CALENDAR
March 14, 2008 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, Hartford
April 3, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Winding Rivers, La Crosse
April 6-8, 2008 - Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association spring conference, Milwaukee
April 9-10, 2008 - Library Services and Technology Act Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
April 16, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Milwaukee and Waukesha, Milwaukee
April 16, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Eastern Shores and Manitowoc-Calumet, Manitowoc
April 16-18, 2008 - Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians annual conference, Manitowoc
April 24, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Arrowhead, Janesville
April 30-May 2, 2008 - Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries annual conference, Stevens Point
May 5-6, 2008 - COLAND Statewide Library Strategic Visioning Summit, Green Lake
May 19, 2008 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
June 26-July 2, 2008 - American Library Association annual conference, Anaheim, California
June 29-July 2, 2008 - 2008 National Educational Computing Conference, San Antonio, Texas
October 10, 2008 - 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://dpi.wi.gov/rll/wiscat/training.html.
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