Friday, March 11, 2011

NETLS Updates & Information 3/11

Geographic Meetings – LAST SESSION

Balch Springs; Tuesday, March 15, 10 a.m. to noon
Balch Springs Public Library, 12450 Elam Rd; (972)913-3000

We discuss NETLS services and ask attendees to note services used in the past year and to rank services in their order of importance.

We also reviewed the proposed state budget for SFY 2012 and SFY2013 noting the priorities outlined by Peggy Rudd, State Librarian in her letter to supporters.

In light of the current uncertainty, in particular for SFY2013, I ask you to review services offer by NETLS or TSLAC that you rely upon and use the coming fiscal year to shift this reliance to your local community.

State Budget Issues

Stay up to date with legislative issues impacting libraries with TLA’s Texline. Use these advocacy resources to respond to local, state and national issues. Use ALA’s advocacy publication, Libraries: The place of opportunity, for analysis of current and recent issues.

TLA just released another TexLine. See the latest, March 10. Says House has NOT recommended funding K-12 databases, Senate has set telecom bill aside for two weeks, TSLAC Senate budget hearing was Monday (more here).

Just Received from CTLS:

This is a link to library data sheets for each State Rep and Senate district, and it has just come to our attention that these may not have been distributed to all the systems:

http://www.ctls.net/docs/datasheets.html

My understanding is that these were produced by the PIO at TSLAC.

Book Pricing (Nonfiction adult)
Yankee Book Peddler (a B&T company) continues to analyze sales of nonfiction adult books. Based on their review plan they note overall titles per Dewey area and average the price. If you are have to value your collection or are planning to develop nonfiction collections try this chart ( .xls from September, 2010). Here is a list of trade publishers (.xls) with the number of items published and their average cost.

Libraries making their impact
 Maximize the Potential of Your Public Library, a publication of ICMA (ICMA International City/County Management Association, presents library partnerships with other entities to improve communities.


Members of the Texas Municipal League will find brief library use statistics from ALA’s 2010 State of America’s Libraries Report (Apr. 11, 2010) and the Texas Voter Survey on Libraries, 2008 in the January 2011 edition of Texas Town and City.

Futurist Steven Abram lists three additional reports that factor in Local Government Strategies for Public Libraries.

Mr. Abram and State Librarian offer this podcast examining expectations for our library futures. See more on this topic on the Library Developments blog.

Seeking
Volunteers for our NETLS Awards committee… please contact Robin Hayles if you are interested in contributing to this program of recognition.

NETLS In- person training

Feedback from this series has been great – do yourself a favor and attend!

The Four R’s of Volunteer Management – Presenter, Mary Beth Harrington, Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations

All workshops 9 to noon. Register here.

  • March 16, Texarkana (rescheduled)

"Getting Up to Speed: Understanding and Sustaining Your Broadband"

Join Christine Peterson in Balch Springs on Wednesday, March 23 for this important workshop sponsored by TSLAC. Registration and more information here.

Upcoming webinar hosted by the TX Workforce Commission.

WorkInTexas and Other Career Tools for Your Library- Tuesday, March 29th, 10 AM:

WorkInTexas is the official job matching system of Texas that helps job seekers search for jobs online and find the perfect job match. In this second webinar hosted by the Texas Workforce Commission, Scott Eychner, Program Supervisor, will explain how you can assist library patrons looking for a new job, applying for unemployment insurance benefits or looking for local labor market information using WorkInTexas and related career tools.

You can register for this webinar at http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/webinars/index.html.

Computer and Job Hunting Classes

I attended and received positive feedback from last week’s TSLAC sponsored webinar on the TWDL.org project. A collection of workshop offerings for job hunters and computers novices was mentioned in the discussion. If you would like your workshops listed, please send me your schedule of classes.

Tecknimedia computer training disks

These CDs have a limited lifespan. They were distributed to NETLS member libraries last spring and summer and have an end date of May 31, 2011. If you aren’t using them, please do! If you are using them make sure you take them out of use on the end date.

To make sure you have this disk look on the face of the white label to the right of the TWDL logo for the words “End Date: 05/31/2011”. The disks have mouse and basic commands to master moving, resizing, minimizing windows, etc.

TLA Conference Stipends

Several TLA Units and Supporters offer financial assistance to assist funding for attendance at the TLA Annual Conference. Check out these resources from the TLA website:

Conference Stipends

Congratulations to Shala Stone, of the Rains County Public Library! Shala was chosen from a pool of 13 applicants for the District 5 Annual Conference Scholarship. This is a $300.00 award given to a first-time attendee of the TLA Annual Conference.

Jay Blint of Ingram Library Services offers library staff and supporters free exhibit hall passes for the coming conference. If you did not receive this offer, ask NETLS to forward the invitation to you OR contact Jay Jay Blint, Regional Account Manager for Texas. phone: 214 605 0562 or email: Jay.Blint(at)ingrambook.com

TLA Webinars

TLA offers a variety of webinars. Some of the session are premium sessions for which there is a fee. TLA also offers webinars that are free to everyone, even nonmembers. Visit the TLA CE page for course listing. Note the link to archived webinars (on the left) the archives contain free and premium ($35) webinars. Upon completion of a webinar generate your own certificate of completion by clicking the CE Registration and Credit Certificate link on the left to access the account information you provided when you took the course. The certificate appears on the browser screen and can be email to yourself.

Tweet, Tweet – a little birdie told me… NETLS tweets

Annual Book Price Update http://t.co/IPWSrfU from Yankee Book Peddler figures average adult nf cost, inc. by Dewey 10's, recent is 2009-2010

Philbradley ebooks on borrowed time | Books | The Guardian http://bit.ly/i7wIL2 Very short item, but a good set of comments. 4:50 AM Mar 7th via bitly Retweeted by you and 6 others

Five-store Michigan chain Schuler Books adapts and diversifies by offering Google e-books and expanding sidelines http://bit.ly/gFMkTL 6:43 AM Mar 7th via web Retweeted by you and 9 others

RT: Cool: Mr. Edison’s Kindle: Fifteen amazing gadget ideas that were way, way ahead of their time. http://bit.ly/ezyz56 8:00 PM Mar 5th via HootSuite Retweeted by you and 4 others

How to spell the name of that Libyan leader. http://n.pr/ewyFru 11:31 AM Mar 6th

Truth in Advertising - http://pcweenies.com/2011/02/17/truth-in-advertising/

Ebooks and Libraries - A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy http://bit.ly/h0bFhK @Liz Burns's take 8:03 AM Mar 6th via HootSuite Retweeted by you and 3 others

Navigating e-gov resources will be important for thee forseeable future. Learn important skills in new e-course: http://t.co/oLyvaPm ~~$200.

'Tweet Viewer' Virus Spreads On Twitter http://tcrn.ch/enxriU by @alexia 1:51 PM Mar 5th via WordPress.com VIP Retweeted by you and 100+ other

10 Ways Twitter Will Make You a Better Employee, Better at Your Job and Benefit Your Library... http://fb.me/PPHzWBpo

Book Industry Communication - Blog: AT LAST, A LIBRARY RFID STANDARD http://t.co/7L35KzZ

Ten Years Of Library Internet In A Small Town http://t.co/hia0CWL. ~~Great testiment on how libraries help change lives ~~

· RuralLibAssoc The ARSL Conference will be held September 8-11, 2011 in Frisco, TX. More information and early registration coming soon! arsl.info

If your library Tweets, let us know and we’ll add you to our list!

.. & If you offer downloadable e-books..

Check out the Sony Reader library program.

Help the library community

Library Journal compiling a national Job Satisfaction Survey: http://app.fluidsurveys.com/s/LJjobsatisfaction/ reporting the results in the June issue. Please take a moment to complete the survey – tell them how things are in Texas!

Grant Help

Check out these ideas from Movie Licensing USA about finding grant funding for public performance rights. They added tips to strengthen your application here.

Itsy Bitsy Babies

Dr. Jim Thomas is seeking libraries in (relatively) close proximity to work with him on grant applications to offer a series of weekday morning classes introducing infants and their caregivers to very early learning activities. Dr. Thomas will conduct 4 sessions in the fall of 2011 or spring 2012 to help your library kick off the series. If you are interested in discussing this possibility please complete this brief form. 

Save with Group Purchase
If your library plans to subscribe to the RDA Toolkit, order through LLIBS to get in on a group purchase discount.  Contact Lisa Winter for more information.
 
 
 
 
Did you know…  Among Mobile Phone Users, Hispanics, Asians are Most-Likely Smartphone Owners in the U.S. http://t.co/v1qIkOl (Nielsen)
 
~~ Implications here for reaching people in these demographic groups
 
 See the new publication from the Pew Hispanic Center, Latinos and Digital Technology, 2010 by Gretchen Livingston



Compares rates of Internet use, including cell phone use, home broadband access, and types of online activities engaged in by race/ethnicity, nativity, dominant language, age, education, income, and area of residence. Discusses factors behind disparities.

American Academy of Dermatology Invites Applications for Shade Structure Grant Program Grants of up to $8,000 will be awarded to nonprofits working to provide permanent shade structures designed to provide ultraviolet ray protection for outdoor public spaces frequented by children under age 18....
Deadline: April 22, 2011

Opportunities…share your favorites

· Schedule science exhibits through University of Texas at Dallas Contact Science Program.

· Humanities Texas mini-grants throughout the year support visiting scholars for library programming.

· The Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections exhibit is one of the traveling exhibits from The Women’s Museum.

· Astronomy on Wheels through the Fort Worth Museum of Science and Industry provides a mobile planetarium.

· Turn your students on to SlimeKids – don’t miss the book trailers.

Coming soon on a computer near you:

Upcoming Webinars listed on TSLAC Library Developments Blog

See the listing of archived presentations. Guest access is available.

Q. So, what exactly is a courseinar?
A. Archived webinar + online course = courseinar

Huh? A courseinar is a recording of a webinar (often referred to as an archived webinar) that TSLAC places into short course format on their online training site here: https://onlinetraining.tsl.state.tx.us/.

More on courseinars

Upcoming Infopeople Webinars



Also available: Librarian Live Podcasts

Management and Training topics

Ebsco’s free online training schedule

Webinar tip…

Find webinars here, too. Note some are *not* free.

Check our CE Page, too….

March 13 Begin daylight saving time

March16 Four Rs of volunteer management, Texarkana

March 15 Geographic meeting, Balch Springs

March 23, Getting up to speed: understanding and sustaining your broadband, Balch Springs

March 31 Postmark deadline for TLA Annual Conference mailed registration

March 31 Submit annual library reports and system membership application

April 4 Deadline for TLA Annual Conference online registrations

April 10-16 Celebrate National Library week (visit for resources and special days)

April 12-15 TLA Conference, Austin Convention Center

April 18 Deadline for Why I Need My Library video contest for teens

By April 22 Apply for sunshade grant

By April 30 Apply for Target Store Early Childhood Reading Grants

Save the date! NETLS membership meeting May 24!

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Below the line …

Lightweight e-readers are too light?

Read an auto biography (Readers advisory is needed)

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