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Stats: Doc . 733 .is 6 7 F55 LOAN uur,M A PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH DAKOTA STATE JJ COPY "-***Stats 1***i^m" Bismarck, North Dakota 58505 ;?.i!Rgr- f'-Ev"lti¥han, State Librarian Telephone: 224-2490 Volume 15, Number I January 25, 1985 BILL STATUS ON-LINE! INTERLIBRARY LOAN MEETING COMPUTER SEARCHES AVAILABLE! HELD IN JAMESTOWN Are you getting questions from patrons NOVEMBER 28th about the time or date of a committee hearing on a bill? Does someone want to On November 28, 1984, a statewide know what your local representative is interlibrary loan meeting was held at the sponsoring this legislative session? North Dakota State Library in Bismarck. There's no need to get in a cold sweat Thirty-four interlibrary loan librarians over such reference questions. No matter from all types of libraries in the state where you are in North Dakota, the gathered to discuss daily concerns in answer is just a phone call away. The interlibrary loan. State Library has made arrangements to have access to the legislative documents Utilizing = advance input from the of the 1985 Legislature via computer. This librarians, Darrell McNamara, State means that as soon as action on a bill is Library, led the group through a lively made and entered into the computer discussion of both Easy Link interlibrary system, from the floor, we will be able to loan procedures and on-going ILL tell our patron, or yours, about it. The protocol, procedures, and miscellaneous same computer that we use for Easylink problems. can now be used for this purpose. Cindy Larson, State Library Business The following searches are possible: Officer, gave Easy Link libraries a cost (1) bill number; (2) committee hearing update on their use of the new Easy Link information; (3) bill activity by date; (4) system. Val Morehouse, State Library senate sponsor; (5) house sponsor; (6) Automation Consultant, brought the Easy senate committee sponsor; (7} house Link users up to date on new committee sponsor; (8) bill search by developments on the use of this system subject of the bill; (9) comparison by and distributed new forms, etc. that had section number with the Century Code; been developed to aid them in this use. and (10) bill status summary. One interesting development was the plans To initiate a computer search of a bill to form a committee to rewrite the ILL status, call the State Library reference manual for statewide use and to update staff. You must have information on one the existing ILL code for North Dakota. of the access points listed above in order More on this later! to initiate an effective search. Contact people on the State Library staff are: Many topics were discussed and lengthy Darrell McNamara, Mary Braaten, Leeila minutes of the meeting were sent to all Bina, Betty Sorynczynatyk, and Renae libraries in early January, 1985. If you Gall. have any questions concerning the minutes or would like a copy sent to you, This project is a cooperative effort of the contact Darrell at the State Library or call State Library, the Central Data 224-4654. Processing Department, and the Legislative Council. North Dakota State Bismarck, ND 58505! FLICKERTALE NEWSLETTER Page 2 STATE LIBRARY BUDGET HEARING 2. Radio "Talking Books" is a program that makes local newspapers and national magazines available to persons who are unable to read standard print. The The State Library hearing before the equipment for a mini radio station and Government Operations Section of the special receivers were purchased with House Appropriations Committee was held donations from fraternal organizations, Thursday, January 10. The State Library private business and United Way. staff would like to publicly thank the Volunteers read the local newspapers - following colleagues and friends of including grocery ads - and are trained libraries who spoke on behalf of HB 1011, and scheduled by a temporary employee of the State Library Appropriation: George the State Library. Radio "Talking Books" Saiki, President of Dakota Radio is now offered only in the Information Service; Darrell Kline, "Radio Bismarck-Mandan area. To extend the Talking Book" patron; Lloyd Marchand, service statewide, the State Library asked North Dakota Association for the Blind; for and was granted in Governor Olson's Duke Ellingson, Volunteer for DRIS; budget, a ,5 FTE consultant. Chris Huber, President of North Dakota Lions Clubs; Dennis Page, Director, Grand Forks Public Library; Jan The State Library is asking the Hendrickson, Director, Hazen Public Legislature to reinstate its request of a Library; Marlene Ripplinger, Director, 1.0 FTE Volunteer Coordinator to operate Harvey Public Library; Jerry Kaup, and maintain the mini radio station and NDLA President and Director, and train and coordinate the volunteer Director of Minot Public Library; and readers. The cost of this position is Cyndy Schaff, Director of Williston $35,673. Community Library and President of the Governor's Advisory Council on Libraries. 3. The State Library's Request of $250,000 for books and materials was The thirty-plus librarians, trustees, and reduced by $40,000 in Governor Olson's Advisory Council members who also budget. attended the hearing can well attest to the effectiveness of their testimony. The Rural Schools will be hurt most of all if four areas of concern that were expressed the State Library is unable to maintain its by State Librarian Ruth Mahan and the special collections of A-V materials, art above speakers were: books, and non-fiction books. To help small libraries and to contribute to its 1. State Aid - State Aid to Public share of materials for statewide resource Libraries is used for (1) the purchase of sharing, the State Library will ask the new books and library material; (2) Legislature to reinstate $40,000 to the increasing the number of hours that book budget. libraries are open, and (3)increasing service to special groups of people 4. The State Library is asking for $6,780 (nursing homes, shut-ins, rural citizens, to contract with the Bureau of and children), (continued on next column) Governmental Affairs, UND, to publish Structure of State Government and the Directory of Sfate"Officials. On the following page is a summary of the 1985-87 State Library Budget Request. HB 1011 will be discussed by the House Appropriations Committee at some future date. The State Library will send a quick mailing to you when HB 1011 is out of committee with recommendations. NORTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY iiilllllii Illlllllllll! FLICKERTALE NEWSLETTER 3 3105 00237 2579 Page NORTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY HB 1011 BUDGET REQUEST Initiai Budget Request to Current Total Request Recommendation Reinstate Request Business Office $ 151,194 $ 145,313 $ 145,313 (6200) Statewide Library- 1,118,489 1,032,976 35,673 1,108,649 Service (1.0 FTE (7100) Volunteer Coordinator for Dakota Radio Inform ation Service (DRIS) program) 40,000 (books & materials) State Govt. Services 218,985 171,362 6,780 178,142 (7200) (Structure of State & Directory of State Officials) Governor's Advisory 23,000 23,000 -0- 23,000 Council on Libraries/ Continuing Education (8200) Blind & Physically 213,918 213,918 213,918 Handicapped Services (8300) Library Services 72,046 72,046 72,046 to Institutions (8400) State Aid to 1,500,000 1,025,000 475,000 1,500,000 Public Libraries (8600) $3,297,632 $2,683,615 $557,453 $3,241,068 FLICKERTALE NEWSLETTER Page 4 PUBLIC LIBRARY Jamestown Public, and Mandan Public to increase the amount of public library materials in the North Dakota database. CONS T R U C TION_ GRAN TS Currently, the only public library The State Library mailed information to finished with retro is Veterans Memorial each public library the last week of in Bismarck. December concerning Library Services and Construction Act. (LSCA) Title II grants. MINITEX Reports - Val Morehouse Included was an application packet, due introduced the MINITEX portion of the back at the State Library on February 1, agenda by recapping details of the 1985, for federal money for public library Steering Committee's September '84 letter to MINITEX concerning North Dakota's construction. OCLC Archival Database tapes: (1) the coverage and contents of the tapes; (2) This construction may include: storage location; (3) tape maintenance and handicapped accessabiiity; new verification; (4) merging and stripping to construction; an addition to an existing tapes; (5) identify of the vendor who will building; renovation of an existing perform the above. NDLAC guest. Bill building; energy conservation measures; DeJohn, Director of MINITEX, presented and/or preparation for automation a working document, "ideas on the Future (computer). of MINITEX OCLC Archival Tapes". This document contains suggestions for If you have any questions about a maintaining and utilizing the database potential project, the forms themselves, tapes, with proposed services to MINITEX or general information about this, please members. call Cindy Larson at. the State Library (1-800-472-2104). MINITEX Role in Automation - DeJohn than presented his ideas on MINITEX's ********************** developing roie in automation. Top priorities are (1) the RFP for the database tapes, and (2) the MULS project NDLAC COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETS to upgrade all MULS records to CONSER level in one machine-readable data file Twenty-one libraries' reps, plus that groups of members, such as the representatives from MINITEX and the North Dakota libraries, could access, or Governor's Advisory Council on Libraries, even dump into regional online systems. met as the North Dakota Library HECB, a MINITEX funding authority, has Automation Committee of the Whole at earmarked $200,000 for the MULS project. Jamestown on December 5, 1984. Commencing with "good news", State Considerable internal reorganization is in Librarian Ruth Mahan reported on the progress at MINITEX.