1) Early Bird Award to Spirit Lake
2) Annual Report Tip Regarding WILBOR Titles
3) 13Things Class #3 Favorite Blogs
4) Announcements / Office Hours This Week
1) Early Bird Award to Spirit Lake
Annual report season is officially open—hooray for that time of year, right?! Electronic filing via WebCollect opened a few weeks ago. And it’s safe to say that Spirit Lake Library wins the 2010 early bird filing award. At least Spirit Lake’s is the first report our office received in paper copy. If only we had a prize—I guess knowing yours was the first annual report completed is its own reward!
This should come as no surprise for a library that has benefited from the dedication of Linda Bolluyt as director. This month, Linda celebrates 30 years at Spirit Lake Library. Congratulations, Linda, on an impressive career milestone!
2) Annual Report Tip Regarding WILBOR Titles
Back to annual reports—if you are among the WILBOR libraries, you’ll be glad for this tip. When filling out the annual report, WILBOR libraries can count WILBOR audio books as part of your collection only if you have added the MARC records to your own catalog.
Here are the numbers to report:
WILBOR audio book holdings of 3,962. WILBOR audio book titles of 2,910.
Every WILBOR library can count downloaded audio book circs in the circulation section of the report. For your library’s circ stats, check your account information via Content Reserve. Thanks to Karen Burns on the WILBOR Team and Scot Dermont with the State Library for relaying these stats!
3) 13Things Class #3 Favorite Blogs
Northwest LSAs new online series called “13Things” is underway—2 sessions complete, 11 more to go. So there’s still plenty of opportunities to join our conversation about using web tools in the library to change the way we work.
Class #3 is this Thursday August 19. The focus is blogs, but not in the way you might think. No expectation here that you’ll begin your own blog—unless you want to! While we will make quick mention of some blog builders, the real focus is on finding favorite blogs to read to stay current and connected on the job.
Two speakers this week help you get started with finding favorite blogs: Sue Kroesche with Le Mars P.L. and Becky Bilby with Orange City P.L. Both Sue and Becky are blog lovers, writing their own but reading many more. They’ll share their favorites and open a discussion about this technique to keep current and find enjoyable, valuable, professional reading.
For 13Things or any other online class, we truly urge you to pre-register in the c.e. catalog. Registering ensures that you receive follow-up emails with important class information, as well as the link to the Adobe classroom. In addition, we’ve created a dedicated website to help wrangle everything associated with this series, from the schedule to background reading, homework assignments, and speaker biographies. Attendees will be directed to this website in each class.
Join us Thursday for “Finding Favorite Blogs,” episode 3 of 13Things!
4) Announcements / Office Hours This Week
The Reorganization Committee meets again on Wednesday August 18 at Pleasant Hill Public Library. This committee is studying ways to redesign library support services in Iowa, those services you’ve come to know from the LSAs and the State Library. 9:30AM start time.
Episode #3 of 13Things is this Thursday August 19, online in NWILS Adobe Classroom, 9:30-11:00AM. Please pre-register in the c.e. catalog.
And with a lot of road-tripping this week, office hours are shortened nearly every day: Office hours for the week of August 16:
Monday 8:00—1:00
Tuesday 8:00—1:00
Wednesday 8:00—1:00
Thursday 8:00—5:00
Friday 8:00—5:00
Monday, August 16, 2010
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