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ARIZONA COLORADO KANSAS MONTANA NEBRASKA NEVADA NEW MEXICO NORTH DAKOTA OKLAHOMA SOUTH DAKOTA UTAH WYOMING MPLA Newsletter A Publication of the Mountain Plains Library Association June 2004 Volume 48 #6 INSIDE Hot Jazz and Hot Topics INSIDE: 3 ..... International Meeting Come Jam With Us at the CAL/ 4 ..... President’s Letter 5 ..... MemberClicks’ New Features MPLA Conference Oct. 21-24 6 ..... Call For Papers It is a major coup for the CAL/MPLAOctober 2004 Conference to 7 ..... Call For Award Nominations book Connie Willis, six-time Nebula and Hugo award winner as the 7 ..... Teton Director Leaving opening keynote speaker as well as Avi, the Newbery Medal win- 8 ..... Leadership Institute ner, for the closing session. In 9 ..... Business Sense addition, Michael Willhoite will 10 ... Prairie and Plains Website be the speaker at the Julie J. 11 ... “No Frontiers to Information” Boucher Memorial Lecture. His 12 ... Hungry for Book Groups book Daddy’s Roommate is one of the most challenged books in our 13 ... MedlinePlus Prescription libraries. In between the fun will 14 ... Around the MPLA Region be an excellent offering of hot, 23 ... Upcoming Events informative workshops and 23 ... Upcoming Conferences seminars, and entertaining cool 24 ... Geneology Websites jazz. Jazz is the theme – make it happen for you at the CAL/ MPLA Conference Oct. 21-24, 2004 at the Denver Tech Center in Visit our Website Denver. For more information on the conference, check out http://www.usd.edu/mpla www.cal-webs.org/conference.html. MPLA Listserv Submit Your Ideas! To subscribe, contact Weavers Help Make Conference Connections [email protected] Making great connections at library conferences with cool people, ideas, and restaurants can be more than random luck. The Weavers’ Project at the upcoming CAL/MPLA Conference in Denver, Oct. (Continued on page 3) MPLA Newsletter, June 2004 The MPLA Newsletter is published MPLA Officers bi-monthly. Material of regional interest may be submitted to: President Vice-President/President-Elect Past President Lisa Mecklenberg Jackson Carol Hammond Beth Avery Jean Hatfield MPLA Newsletter Editor Inter. Business Info. Centre Leslie J. Savage Library Johnson County Library Montana Legislative Reference Center 15249 North 59th Ave. Western State College Box 2933 State Capitol, Room 110 Glendale, AZ 85306 Gunnison, CO 81231 Shawnee Mission, KS 66201 (602) 978-7234-P (970) 943-2898-P (913) 261-2345-P P.O. Box 201706 (602) 978-7762-F (970) 943-2042-F (913) 261-2325-F Helena, MT 59620-1706 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (406) 444-2957--Phone (406) 444-2588--Fax Executive Secretary Recording Secretary [email protected] Joe Edelen Basha Hartley I.D. 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South Dakota Utah Wyoming Mary Caspers-Grape Peter Kraus Vacant ISSN 0145-6180 Page 2 MPLA Newsletter, June 2004 (Continued from page 1) collaborating with teachers, to developing 21-24 will help you make connections three ways! bibliographic instruction for off-campus students. It can be a frontline tip from reference and circulation First, weavers (a term for great networkers who like or a backroom strategy from tech services and people and enjoy connecting them with other people cataloging. Volunteers and board members are also and resources) will again be staffing our resource invited to participate. Consider that your great idea table and wandering around the conference to help is something some other library might want to copy, you with any kind of need. So, if you are looking to so please be clear and concise. Your contributions connect with local librarians, find a class, or solve a will be edited, organized, and shared with other sticky problem, we will be there for you! libraries before and during the CAL/MPLA Conference. Pick your favorite “brags” about your Second, we will be offering help and advice to MPLA library and send us: members before and during the conference, looking for information to make their visit to Colorado Your name, position, and library complete. Do you want insider tips on restaurants Your cool tip or idea--50 words or less and shopping from locals? Want to know the off- the-beaten track places that native (and near-native) Anyone who works in a MPLA library can contribute, Coloradoans visit? Help making your trip into town including our great state libraries. We have two goals smoother? No matter how big or small your concern, - that every MPLA library of every type contributes the Weavers are here to help! Whether your iguana at least one idea and that we gather at least 1,000 gets sick on the road, you need a place to buy ideas! You can help by sending in your ideas AND handmade jewelry, you want the best fish in town, encouraging colleagues and co-workers to do or are looking for size 12 high heels, we can help. likewise. Maybe you work with someone who takes for granted their contributions and needs to realize Third, we have a way for you to connect with libraries how good they really are. What is commonsense for of all types before and during the conference... you might be a magic solution for someone else! Big or little, you have something to share. Sorry, we can The Mountain Plains library community is not return print submissions. considered one of the most innovative in the country! Please help us collect your best ideas to Please send your ideas and concerns to The Jam share with other libraries before and during the Session, c/o Pat Wagner, Pattern Research, PO Box Colorado Association of Libraries/Mountain Plains 9100, Denver CO 80209 or e-mail them to Library Association meeting. We are looking for [email protected]. (If you don’t receive an e-mail everything from tips on managing library users at acknowledgment within 48 hours, please send again.) closing, to successful Web initiatives, to Sorry, we can not accept ideas over the phone. Fourth Annual International Meeting Focuses on User Information Skills A user information skills conference, Information Please consider attending and participating by... Competencies: Toward Program Implementation, will • Submitting a paper; be held in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México will • Reporting on a user education program experience; be held Oct. 21 to 23, 2004. Juárez University • Exhibiting/demonstrating user education materials; Libraries invite librarians, educators, library products • Taking part in discussion groups. and services suppliers, and professionals involved For more information, please see the conference’s in the facilitation of information literacy Website at www.uacj.mx/dhi/ or contact the competencies, to participate in its fourth organizers via e-mail: Jesús Cortés at [email protected] international conference. or Jesús Lau at [email protected]. MPLA Newsletter, June 2004 Page 3 I don’t spend a lot of time thinking President’s Letter about leadership, although it’s some- By Carol Hammond thing I use every day in my work as a library director, and for this year as the On becoming a leader president of a large professional group.