- Ballots for At-Large representatives now available; governance election results announced
- Don’t forget to request Libraries for Real Life promotional materials
- Check out SCLS parking map before visiting
- Member/Staff News
- SCLS pays most of WLA membership cost for directors
- It's time to update library contact information for printed directory
- Plan now for Feb. 16 Library Legislative Day
- Madison Public Library adds Value Line Investment Survey online
- HeritageQuest Online added to BadgerLink
- R&LL introduces ‘Found in Wisconsin’
- ‘Coming Up Taller Awards’ program seeks nominations
- Continuing Education Calendar
Ballots for At-Large representatives now available: governance election results announced
Ballots for the at-large representatives for the Administrative Council are now available at www.scls.info/committees/ballots.html.
Please keep in mind that:
- each library can vote only once -- multiple votes from one library will not be counted.
- each library votes only for their own at-large representative -- check the list on the ballots page to determine which representative is yours.
- voting will close at 11 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 21 -- representatives will be announced on Tuesday, Dec. 22.
The results from the governance elections for cluster representatives are below, and include the run-off results from Cluster 11.
Cluster 1 -- Arpin, Marshfield, Pittsville, Vesper, Wisconsin Rapids
- Administrative Council: Wisconsin Rapids
- Delivery Committee: Cindy Schult, Arpin
- ILS Committee: Andy Barnett, Wisconsin Rapids
- Technology Committee: Rob Mader, Marshfield
- Administrative Council: Portage County
- Delivery Committee: Bob Stack, Portage County
- ILS Committee: N/A (No ILS participants in the cluster)
- Technology Committee: Deb McCabe, Portage County
- Administrative Council: Wyocena
- Delivery Committee: Dan Calef, Adams County
- ILS Committee: Cathy Borck, Wisconsin Dells
- Technology Committee: Mary Friesen, Wyocena
- Administrative Council: Baraboo
- Delivery Committee: Peggy Heidenreich, Sauk City
- ILS Committee: Maureen Palmer, Plain
- Technology Committee: Sue Ann Mobley, Reedsburg
- Administrative Council: Sun Prairie
- Delivery Committee: Kristine Millard, Lodi
- ILS Committee: Debbie Bird, Sun Prairie
- Technology Committee: Trish Priewe, Lodi
- Administrative Council: Cross Plains
- Delivery Committee: Elizabeth Bauer, Middleton
- ILS Committee: Diana Skalitzky, Marshall
- Technology Committee: Erick Plumb, Monona
- Administrative Council: Belleville
- Delivery Committee: Joan Behm, Cambridge
- ILS Committee: Jaime Vache, Stoughton
- Technology Committee: Janis Merkle, New Glarus
Don’t forget to request Libraries for Real Life promotional materials Libraries have long played a vital role in helping shape the quality of life in our communities, and capturing and sharing these personal stories helps libraries capitalize on the goodwill they foster. This is the impetus behind the new project “Library For Real Life,” and the reason SCLS is urging every SCLS member library to use the available promotional materials. Trish Priewe, Lodi Woman’s Club Public Library, designed the promotional materials for the project.
“Libraries For Real Life” was developed by the SCLS Marketing and PR Advisory Committee, which identified a need for a system wide method to collect and share the positive stories about how libraries change lives.
The title -- “Libraries For Real Life!” -- reinforces the reality that today’s public libraries are vibrant, dynamic community resources that meet the information, education, and recreational needs of residents of all ages. There is little doubt about the impact libraries have, and sharing those stories is critical to the continued success of these vital community institutions.
We encourage each library to link to www.librariesforreallife.org, using one of the buttons designed for that purpose. You can install the web button yourself, or Rose Ziech will take care of that for you at your request (if SCLS hosts your library’s website). We also encourage libraries to download the press release from the “Information for Libraries” link near the bottom of the page and ask your local newspaper to publish it. Posters, table tents, bookmarks, and printed story submission forms are available free of charge by placing a print request with Mark Ibach.
For more information about the project, click on the website’s “Learn More” link, or contact Mark Ibach.
Check out SCLS parking map before visiting
Because SCLS now shares its parking lot with many other offices, it’s important to check out our parking map and be sure to park in the spaces allocated to us. You can access the color map at www.scls.info/about/locations.html (click on “Where to park when visiting SCLS”). Be sure to park in the spaces nearest our building, marked in yellow on the map.
Member/Staff News
The November 2009 LINK Library Statistics Summary is posted on Automation's website at http://automation.scls.lib.wi.us/reports/circulation/circindex.html. Both PDF and Excel versions of this report are posted.
This is a reminder that you can view the LINK Update blog at http://scls.typepad.com/link/. Recent Topics Include: No More Phone Tag! Save on Long Distance!; Purchasing retail and rental versions of DVDs; New Don't Miss Lists for National Book Award Winners; and Automation Move Downtime Details. If you don't remember the username and password to access this page, it can be found at http://automation.scls.lib.wi.us/announce.html.
SCLS pays most of WLA membership cost for directors
You may have received your WLA Membership Renewal reminder from WLA recently, and as you know, SCLS will pay up to $100 toward WLA membership for directors of SCLS member libraries or branches, or their designees.
WLA is offering many membership services online including conference registration, renewing your membership, or creating a new membership. As part of your WLA renewal reminder, your username and password were also emailed to you. If you have forgotten your password, click on the "Forgot your password?" link and the information will be emailed to you. If you want to renew your membership (or join WLA) online, follow these steps:
- Log in with your username and password
- Click on the Join WLA or Renew Now tab
- Enter the amount for your dues
- Select the divisions and units you would like to join
- Click Continue
- Enter your payment information
- Click on Send Check if you're sending a check for the amount of your dues that's over $100
- Click on Call-in Payment if you'd like to use your credit card to pay the amount of your dues that's over $100 (at this time, Credit Card only accepts complete payments)
- Click on Submit to complete the transaction
- Print a receipt by clicking on My Profile and then My Form Receipts
- Click on the icon in front of the receipt and print
- Send a copy of the receipt to Jean Anderson at SCLS
- Include check to WLA for the difference (or call WLA directly to make a credit card payment)
If any of your contact information has changed, please update it by clicking on My Profile and making the necessary changes.
You may also choose to use the print form. If you renew using the print form, fill in all the necessary information -- including the amount of your dues -- and send it to Jean Anderson, SCLS Continuing Education Coordinator, with any additional payments. She’ll take care of the rest.
WLA membership forms submitted to her before the end of January 2010 will be taken care of at the February 2010 SCLS Board meeting. For Trustee memberships to WLA, please contact Heidi Moe.
It's time to update library contact information for printed directory
As the end of 2009 approaches, it's time again for you to review your library's contact information on our website to make sure it's up-to-date. As you know, we use information from www.scls.info/pro/directory.html to prepare our printed directory.
We include the library name, address, phone and fax numbers, hours (including summer), library URL, a library email if appropriate, and the name, email, and phone number for the director. To help us expedite this annual project, we ask that you use the online form to make any revisions. It's also important that you submit the form even if your library's information is correct. Otherwise, we have no idea whether all libraries have reviewed and/or updated their information. If your existing information is correct, simply enter your library's name, then type "No Changes" in the line for address.
To help us get the printed directory finished as soon as possible, we ask that you review your directory information by Dec. 31, 2009.
Plan now for Feb. 16 Library Legislative Day
Developing and nurturing relationships with state legislators is a critical component of any library’s overall advocacy plan, and the Wisconsin Library Association’s Library Legislative Day is the perfect time to take action.
Scheduled Feb. 16, 2010, the day begins at the Inn on the Park in Madison, and later moves to the State Capital for legislative visits. Speakers in the morning session will provide an overview of legislative issues affecting libraries, and will share tips on how to maximize your time with legislators.
In 2009, SCLS’s Public Library Advisory Committee (PLAC) set a goal of having 25 percent of all member libraries attend Library Legislative Day. That goal was reached, and this year we’d like to exceed that level of library participation. We’d also like to double attendance this year, so libraries are encouraged to bring along a resident, elected official, student, Friend, or trustee.
There is no cost to attend, unless you opt for the lunch that is available for purchase. Information for the 2010 event has been posted to the WLA website, and we encourage you to reserve the date and make plans to attend.
Library Legislative Day is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Library Association and the Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association. Tony Evers, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will be one of the featured speakers.
Madison Public Library adds Value Line Investment Survey online
Madison Public Library has purchased an online subscription to the Value Line Investment Survey. Formerly available in paper at six of our nine libraries, the new online service is available at all nine Madison public libraries, as well as remotely to City of Madison residents with valid library cards.
Value Line is best known for the Investment Survey, one of the most widely read investment services in the world. Value Line online offers the same one-sheet summary as the Investment Summary, but also includes more up to date information on the stocks covered, as well as stock screening, custom reports, industry information, historical data, and email alerts. Madison Public Library’s subscription also includes the Value Line Special Situations Service.
Madison Public Library chose to switch from paper to online access to Value Line after much public input from individual investors and local investment clubs. Paper access will continue for at least six months at most locations that currently subscribe.
Want to learn more? Visit the Value Line page of Madison Public Library's site, or call Terry McMenamin at (608) 266-6359
HeritageQuest Online added to BadgerLink
The Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning (DLTCL) has added ProQuest’s HeritageQuest Online to BadgerLink as of Dec. 1, 2009.
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources -- rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. 18th Century or 20th Century? European or Native American? Farm or Factory? East Coast or West Coast? Where does your American past begin? Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources -- with coverage dating back to the 1700s -- that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
The collection consists of six core data sets:
- U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. In total the collection covers more than 140 million names.
- Genealogy and local history books deliver more than 7 million digitized page images from over 26,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Titles have been digitized from our own renowned microform collections, as well from the American Antiquarian Society via an exclusive partnership.
- Periodical Source Index (PERSI), published by the Allen County Public Library, is recognized as the most comprehensive index genealogy and local history periodicals. It contains more than 2 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800.
- Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files to help identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era.
- Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents, and heirs from 1865-1874, offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors prior to and immediately after the Civil War.
- LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set records the memorials, petitions, and private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, with a total of more than 480,000 pages of information. The U.S. Serial Set is not available to academic libraries according to the ProQuest contract with LexisNexis. Therefore, academic libraries will not be able to utilize this portion of HeritageQuest, while all other portions are available.
Libraries with contracts beginning after Dec. 1, 2009, should not renew those contracts. For those libraries that have contracts with renewal dates before this time, ProQuest will provide a refund or prorated credit to customers.
BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources for Wisconsin residents. Users can search approximately 20,000 full-text magazines, journals, newspapers, reference materials and other specialized information sources. Included are over 8,000 full text magazines and journals, over 1,500 newspapers and newswires, and approximately 6,800 full text books. Full text articles are taken from 2,900 historical newspaper titles. In addition, the BadgerLink vendors provide access to automobile repair manuals, company profiles, country economic reports, industrial reports and yearbooks, biographies, primary historical documents, charts, images, schematics, maps, poems, essays, speeches, plays, short stories, author audio programs and book readings, author video programs, book reviews or discussion guides, and many other full text resources not available through regular internet search engines. The project is funded through the Universal Service Fund with support for staffing provided by the Library Services and Technology Act funds received from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
For any questions regarding BadgerLink, contact [email protected] or complete a support request form at http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/wiscat/bl_sup.asp.
R&LL introduces ‘Found in Wisconsin’
The Reference and Loan Library recently released Found in Wisconsin, the updated Wisconsin Online Collection. Found in Wisconsin makes it easy for library patrons of all ages to search for and link into digitized books, photographs, videos, and other resources available on the websites of libraries, historical societies and museums statewide. The database contains entries for materials that are either about Wisconsin or which were created by Wisconsin residents, authors and scholars.
Found in Wisconsin allows you to search for individual items, or entire collections of digitized objects, such as “Let’s Go to the Circus,” a compilation of nearly 100 historic photographs of circus activities. The site offers “one-stop shopping” for digital content and collections hosted by libraries, museums and historical societies statewide, and it offers links directly into content, regardless of which organization hosts the collection itself.
Found in Wisconsin, available on the BadgerLink homepage, offers more tools for user interaction and a more robust technical platform than its predecessor, the Wisconsin Digital Collection. The database was created and is maintained by the staff of the Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library, and feedback is welcome.
Users of Found in Wisconsin can subscribe to an RSS feed that provides updates on sites newly added to the database. You can also send a note recommending specific content that you’d like to see added, or a general recommendation for types of materials you’d like to have included in this growing collection. Users of Found in Wisconsin can even rate individual entries and send comments on their favorite sources.
‘Coming Up Taller Awards’ program seeks nominations
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in partnership with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) invites nominations for the 2010 Coming Up Taller Awards. The program, now in its 13th year, honors excellence in afterschool, out-of-school, and summer arts and humanities programs for underserved children and youth. Other program partners include the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Each year, the Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and reward exceptional programs that cultivate character development and life skills in young people. Award recipients receive $10,000 each, an individualized plaque, and an invitation to attend the annual Coming Up Taller Leadership Enhancement Conference in Washington, D.C. The Coming Up Taller Awards ceremony has traditionally been held in the fall at the White House, with the awards bestowed by the President’ Committee’s Honorary Chairman, First Lady Michelle Obama.
At the Coming Up Taller awards ceremony held at the White House last month, Mrs. Obama called the Coming Up Taller awardees’ achievement in the arts and humanities ”a bridge to achievement in life.”
IMLS encourages eligible museums and libraries to apply at www.pcah.gov/cut.htm. The nomination deadline is Jan. 29, 2010. For more information, visit the URL above, or call (202) 682-5409.