Good morning! In today's Eye-Opener....
1) Olympic Inspiration
2) New Children & YA Lit Booktalks
3) Meetings / Events This Week
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1) Olympic Inspiration
The Winter Olympics get underway this Friday February 12 with opening ceremonies in Vancouver. Always great TV Viewing, so libraries could bring TVs front and center for people to watch some the broadcasts. And when not watching the coverage, the TV will be handy to hold Olympic contests of your own with a news Wii Game "Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games". This Wii game included downhill skiing, snowboarding, bobsledding, hockey, and more - 27 events in all.
The events are coupled with a coin system where items and extras can be purchased in the shopping village. After each event, you'll get scored based on your rank in the event and any emblems you earn can be traded in the shop for Mii gear, logos, in-game music - all kinds of loot. Just sayin' ....some fun winter programming here for kids and adults alike.
We found "Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games at Amazon for under $50. ANd don't forget you can borrow the Wii game system from Northwest LSA; find our lending policy and reservation form on our website http://www.nwils.lib.ia.us/spcollendpol/wiirental
One more idea to chase away the winter blahs: check out WINTER SPORTS STARRING YOU at JibJab. With photos of yourself, put your face on figure sakters, extreme skiers, and other winter sports athletes dancing in the snow. Remember ElfYourself? That's also JibJab, it's year-round fun! Thanks to Jean Chesterman for this idea and for contributing this article!
Sign up anytime for the annual New Children & YA Literature Booktalks sponsored by the Library Service Areas and the AEAs. Sit back and enjoy booktalking, where 3 media specialists highlight the best books from 2009 for preschool ages through grade 12. The date is Feb24 over the ICN - and there are plenty of ICN locations to choose from. The CE CATALOG shows you where; cost is $10 per person, made payable to Northwest Iowa Library Services.
3) Meetings / Events This Week
It's a smorgasbord of online classes this week! Beginning tomorrow morning, Tuesday, February 9, with another Career Reading Roundtable. "The Civility Solution" by P.M. Forni is up for discussion. "...Many of us find ourselves confronted with rudeness everyday and don't know how to respond. The author shows us what to do when confronted with bad behavior by being assertive as well as civil..." 9:30-11:30am with Roy Kenagy leading the discussion.
Tomorrow is also Part 2 of a 5-part series called "The Board's Role in Human Resources". In Part 2 "Compensation & Benefits", job descriptions come back into play, because updated job descriptions are necessary before a productive discussion of salaries can take place. We'll talk about job comparisons amongst different occupations and suggest how boards can arrive at fair compenstation by using tools like the Pay Equity Toolkit. Aimed at library trustees, tomorrow night's program, Feb. 9, is from 6:000-7:30pm.
Rounding out the week, Friday Feb. 12, is Managing Facilities for Results. Look at the library's phusical facility in terms of these common elements: structural, service space, furniture & equipment, and shelving & Signage. Standards for public libraries in Iowa call for library staff to conduct a space needs assessment every 5 years. In times of zero budget growth - and often budget reductions - building expansion may not be in the cards. Discuss how to "re-purpose" existing space to make way for new services and programs. Catch this one 9:30-11:30am.
NOTE: All classes described here take place in NORTHWEST ADOBE ONLINE CLASSROOMS - we have serval, each with a unique URL. SO registering in the CE CATALOG ensures receiving follow-up emails with date, time, and the right link to the right room. Join us 1,2 or all 3! Call with questions....
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