THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION December 2008 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 38 • Issue 4 Librarians Under Construction: a Life of Continuous Education Auction!

Exhibits

Donna James and Zach Packineau at the auction

Keynote speaker Jenifer Grady

Networking

Margaret Read MacDonald and Marvia Boettcher

MPLA President Rob Banks

2008 NDLA Presidents Donna James and Phyllis Bratton Conference Auctioneers Al Peterson and Jason Mosser Table of Contents President’s Message...... 3 Election Results...... 4 Director’s Corner...... 4 2008 NDLA Awards...... 5 NDLA Membership Report...... 9 Laura Bush Attends the ND Community Leaders Dinner...... 9 Browsing in the Cyberstacks...... 10 State Documents Recognized for Excellence at Conference...... 11 On the DOCket...... 12 Message from the NDLA Intellectual Freedom Committee...... 13 People Stuff...... 14 Published quarterly by the 2009 Spring Workshops...... 14 North Dakota Library Association North Dakota in Print...... 15 Editorial Committee 2008 NDLA Conference Exhibitors...... 19 Marlene Anderson, Chair Karen Anderson Rachel White Joan Erickson Good Stuff from Around the State...... 20 TechTips & More...... 23 Production Artist Mountain Plains Library Association...... 25 Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley Dakota BookNet Promotes Regional Books...... 26 Subscription Rate Dickinson Area Public Library $25/year Celebrates 100 Years of Service...... 27 Advertising Rates NDLA 2008 Conference Resolutions...... 28 (per issue) Greetings from MPLA President...... 30 $100 – full-page ad $50 – half-page ad Tracking Legislation in 2009...... 30 $25 – quarter-page ad Treasurer’s Report...... 31 For information contact: NDLA Membership Application...... 32 Marlene Anderson, Chair 2008-2009 NDLA Executive Board...... 33 The Good Stuff Editorial Committee

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The Good Stuff - Page 2 - December 2008 President’s Message By Phyllis Bratton, NDLA President

Well, the 2008 annual We also learned the importance of being conference has come and prepared at the conference. No one expected gone. I feel as if a storm has that a server would burn out, severely limiting passed through my life! Our most of our Internet access. I don’t think I will theme was lifelong learning ever schedule a live demonstration in the future and growth as professionals, without having a PowerPoint back up! and believe me, planning a conference is certainly a Keynote speaker Jenifer Grady inspired us to learning experience! continue working on our careers, to improve our credentials, and to fight for ourselves as well We experimented a lot with this conference as our libraries. Throughout this year I will be – a CE program, a conference book, a post- highlighting opportunities to further our personal conference – because experimentation is part of and professional development as librarians. We both growth and learning. I am happy to report are responsible for our own lives and education, that the experiments were a success. and especially in these tough economic times cannot afford to get behind the learning curve. 214 people came to the conference – one less than our largest recorded number. Many of these Thanks for making the conference a success by were first-time attendees who came for the CE coming, by participating, and by keeping home track in school librarianship. With seven people services going so that someone else could attend. pre-registered and another eight indicating that I am proud to serve with all of you! they would come, we were expecting at most 25 people to take advantage of this opportunity. We were blown away to have 49 librarians enroll in the program! The numbers caused some Donna James, problems in terms of space and handouts, but for NDLA President the most part the participants handled these with 2007-08 grace and good humor. Most people want this track to continue.

The post-conference was another experiment – would people stay for a Saturday morning seminar? You did, and Michael Sullivan delivered such a terrific program that several participants have asked to have him speak again. Networking The One Conference/One Book program was a leap in the dark – would people like the book? Read it? Come prepared to talk about it? Again, you did, and again, people are asking to make Registration: Kathy this a conference tradition. Thomas, Clarice Hackman, and Tony Stukel

The Good Stuff - Page 3 - December 2008 Director’s Corner By Rachel White, Editorial Committee Member Michele Reid, Dean of Libraries, North Dakota State University June 2008 saw the arrival of a long-awaited new Dean of Michele’s research interests is the application of the of Libraries at NDSU. Michele Reid made the trek policy governance model to consortial governance, and westward from McDaniel College, a private liberal arts she is a regular writer and presenter on information college northwest of Baltimore, where she was director literacy, technology in libraries, and civic engagement in of the Hoover Library and served as the College’s academic libraries. first-ever Chief Information Officer. Michele is not Michele was most interested in moving to Fargo for the a newcomer to the Midwest, having held the library opportunity to make a difference at the NDSU Libraries. directorship of Ripon College in Wisconsin and the During her tenure, the Libraries’ web presence has been assistant director’s post at Washburn University Library completely revamped, and a new online catalog was in Topeka; a role that also had her overseeing the launched. reference, technical services, and system departments. Michele also spent time at the South Dakota State When not working, studying, or writing on matters Library in Pierre where she was the director of public technological or managerial, she enjoys spending services. time with her writer husband, Bill. During their years in Pierre, Michele and Bill owned and restored Michele received her M.A. in library studies from a house that was listed on the National Register of the University of South Florida, has a master’s degree Historic Places. All of Michele’s talents are being in medieval history from Rutgers University, and a put to good use as she works to unpack her home in bachelor’s degree in history and Spanish from the Fargo, acclimatize four cats to a house that features University of Central Florida. She is currently pursuing “some of the longest baseboard heating units known to an executive PhD in Managerial Leadership at Simmons humankind,” and find the optimum location for many College in Boston. Michele has been an active member bookshelves and an antique LP collection. in ALA, ACRL, and LAMA, and is a mentor in ALA’s New Members Roundtable Career Mentoring Program. One Welcome Michele!

2008 NDLA Election Results Secretary: Shelby Harken (elected at the conference Submitted by Johanna McClay Bjork, business meeting) Nominations and Elections Committee Chair The slate of candidates was approved at the May 2008 Government Documents Roundtable Chair: Executive Board meeting. Two officer candidates later Naomi Frantes withdrew, Leslie Deering (President Elect) and Kathy Health Science Information Section Chair: Zaste (Treasurer). In accordance with the bylaws, their Travis Schulz withdrawals were noted on the mailed ballots. Secretary: Chandra Hirning Three proposed bylaw changes (see details in August GMR Regional Advisory Council Representative: 2008 issue of The Good Stuff) were approved by the Barbara Knight membership. New Members Roundtable Chair: Sara Devereaux A total of 306 ballots were mailed and 142 were Secretary: Kathy Jo Cline returned, for a voting rate of 46.4%. Public Library Section Chair: Toni Vonasek Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2008 Secretary: Cheryl Lackman election. If you are asked to run for a leadership position School Library & Youth Services Section Chair: in the future, please consider saying yes. Beth Greff NDLA Officers 2008-09 Secretary: Lesley Gunderson President Elect Laurie McHenry Technical Services Roundtable Chair: Secretary Zach Packineau Elizabeth Jacobs Treasurer Michael Safratowich Secretary: Judith Koester Section and Roundtable Officers 2008-09 Incoming officers assumed their positions on Friday, Academic & Special Libraries Section Chair: September 26, 2008. Victor Lieberman The Good Stuff - Page 4 - December 2008 Results 2008Compiled by Marlene Anderson,NDLA Editorial Committee Awards Member Editor’s note: These awards were presented at the 2008 NDLA Conference. Congratulations to all the honorees!

Librarian of the Year: Michael M. Miller

The Librarian of the Year Award recognizes an NDLA member who has made notable contributions to the North Dakota library profession, has furthered significant development of libraries in North Dakota, or has performed exemplary statewide service for an extended period of time. Michael M. Miller, director and bibliographer of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at North Dakota State University Libraries, was named NDLA’s 2008 Librarian of the Year for his continued record of exemplary work in the preservation of the cultural record of the Germans from Russia and for making that record accessible to citizens of North Dakota and the world. Miller has been a librarian at NDSU since 1967 and an active member of NDLA for 42 years. In 1978, he proposed the development of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection (GRHC). Building upon his own heritage, he has dedicated his professional career to the preservation of the written, physical, and oral history of this major immigrant group in North Dakota. The GRHC started with a small collection of digital technologies to preserve records and make donated books, which has grown into a collection them accessible throughout the world. of thousands of items used by citizens and In a letter of nomination Kathryn Thomas, NDSU researchers in North Dakota and throughout the documents librarian, wrote, “I believe Michael world. The collection is now one of the biggest, if Miller is highly deserving of the 2008 Librarian not the biggest, scholarly resource on this cultural of the Year Award. Due to his efforts, the heritage group. of the Germans from Russia in North Dakota and Beyond books, Miller has also worked to preserve beyond is being preserved and recognized. This physical items to record the history of the Germans is a legacy he will leave for future generations of from Russia. He has partnered with a costume North Dakotans, for without Michael's vision, the curator to preserve textiles and with history faculty Germans from Russia Heritage Collection would to launch the Dakota Memories Oral History not exist. Michael is known worldwide as an Project. Through interviews with more than 150 invaluable resource on German-Russian history individuals, the oral record of the Germans from and heritage. Those of us fortunate to know him Russia is being preserved. Miller has also partnered personally can testify to his dedication and passion, with public broadcasting to reach a larger audience and to his kindness and generosity.” Dr. John through video and audio. He has effectively used Cox, Professor and head of the Dept. of History, The Good Stuff - Page 5 - December 2008 Philosophy, and Religious Studies at NDSU, wrote Donna has also worked with the North Dakota that Miller “is an exemplar of the best of two Department of Public Instruction to improve the worlds; the old North Dakota and the new North requirements of the school library media program. Dakota. He is a careful preservationist of much She teaches several courses throughout the state of our state’s cultural and social history, but he is ensuring teachers have the opportunity to meet also a pioneer who makes maximal use of web, these requirements and improve their skills in the video, and DVD technology, of partnerships with profession. Donna tirelessly promotes the library public media, and of cutting-edge historiographical media profession and served as the 2007-08 practices such as oral history. He is a pioneer, if president of NDLA. you will, in the living history of pioneers.” The award recognizes school superintendents, elementary and/or secondary school principals, or President’s Award: Augie Ternes district directors of instructional materials centers (currently in administrative office and directly The President’s Award is given at the discretion of responsible for a school or a group of schools), who the NDLA President for outstanding service to the have made significant contributions and have been Association. This year’s recipient is Augie Ternes strongly supportive in maintaining or strengthening of Grand Forks, who has assisted with NDLA’s tax an exemplary school library media program within preparation on a volunteer basis for several years. public schools of the State of North Dakota.

Youth Excellence Program of the Year ALA/AASL Statement of Commendation: Award: Bismarck Public School Libraries Valley City State University The Youth Excellence Program of the Year Award Kirsten Baesler announced that the ALA/American was presented to Bismarck Public School Libraries. Association of School Librarians awarded a Darlene Schwarz, school district Library Media Statement of Commendation to Valley City State Coordinator, accepted the award on behalf of the University for its new Masters in Education 21 Bismarck school libraries, which are staffed by with Concentration in Library and Information 14 library media specialists and 24 library support Technologies program. Donna James, Director staff positions. of VCSU’s Allen Memorial Library, accepted the The award recognizes school or public libraries that award. exemplify excellence in library services to youth. In part, the application for commendation read: The mission of Bismarck Public School libraries is "The new Master of Education program at Valley to empower students to be enthusiastic readers, City State University, designed for teachers at critical thinkers, skillful researchers, and ethical either primary or secondary level, now offers users of information. a concentration in Library and Information School Library Administrator of the Year Award: Donna James Major Benefactor Award: Friends of the Leach Public Library Donna James, Director of Allen Memorial Library at Valley City State University, was recognized for The Friends of the Leach Public Library in her dedication to the VCSU Masters in Education/ Wahpeton were presented with the Major Library & Information Technology program. She Benefactor Award for 25 years of support, has made significant contributions to the school fundraising, volunteering, and advocacy of library media program both as an administrator and a library media specialist by spearheading the the Leach Public Library. Among their special effort to establish a master’s degree in education activities is a “Chocolate Chocolate” fundraiser with a concentration in library and information that has become a noted community event and technologies at VCSU. Donna successfully led has raised thousands of dollars for the library. the effort to acquire a grant from the Laura Bush The Major Benefactor Award recognizes a Foundation, administered by the Institute of person or persons who have made significant Museum and Library Services, which will pay for contributions to a library or libraries in North up to 21 credits of tuition for some 45 present and Dakota and is sponsored by the Executive Board. future school library media specialists.

The Good Stuff - Page 6 - December 2008 Technologies. This new program is working luncheon on Thursday. MacDonald was also the toward meeting both the AASL and NCATE School luncheon speaker and entertained the crowd with Library Media Specialist Preparation Standards.” her marvelous storytelling abilities. To the delight The program currently meets the North Dakota of all, NDLA’s own Marvia Boettcher helped Department of Public Instruction Standards for MacDonald tell one of the stories. the preparation of library media specialists. DPI recognizes the importance of the library program NMRT Grassroots Grant: Aubrey Madler as an integral part of the school community and advocates for school libraries which support student and Harmony Higbie learning and achievement. The Grassroots Grant is sponsored by NMRT (New Kirsten noted that this award was not a “slam Members Roundtable) and gives new librarians dunk.” The ALA/AASL Executive Board deliberated and future librarians a chance to attend the NDLA the issue and recorded the following in their conference by funding conference attendance for minutes: “Discussion was held regarding up to two members. One award goes to a student commending a program that has not yet met AASL currently enrolled in an ALA-accredited MLS or NCATE (National Council for Accreditation program, and the second to a librarian with less of Teacher Education) standards. It was decided than six years of experience who is attending an to commend the creation of a program and to NDLA conference for the first time. Among the encourage the attempt toward accreditation.” requirements of the grant is submitting an article about the conference experience for publication in The Good Stuff. This year’s grant recipients were Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award Aubrey Madler and Harmony Higbee. Here are This award recognizes literature that children like their stories. to read. Librarians nominate books in various categories and school children from throughout 2008 NDLA Conference Experience the state vote on their favorites. The award is By Aubrey Madler, Information Specialist, sponsored by NDLA and is administered by the UND Rural Assistance Center School Library and Youth Services Section (SLAYS). This year’s winners include: Not only was this my first NDLA conference, it • Picture Book Category: Bad Dog, Marley! by was my first library conference, and I was slightly John Grogan overwhelmed by all the activity and new faces. • Intermediate Category (for those transitioning However, it didn’t take long to feel like part of the from picture to chapter books): Toys Go Out: group as many librarians chose to transfer their Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable service talents from their library patrons to their Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone new peer. Thank you for your hospitality and for Called Plastic by Emily Jenkins welcoming me to the conference. • Juvenile Fiction Category: Marley: a Dog Like I appreciate that NDLA focuses on advocacy No Other by John Grogan and professional development as reflected in • Non-Fiction: Go to Sleep, Gecko! by Margaret this year’s theme. I find both aspects essential Read MacDonald to the longevity of libraries and librarianship. Margaret Read MacDonald was on hand to The conference remained true to its promise receive her award, which was presented at the by offering many opportunities to build on our knowledge base and to collect ideas for advocacy. The pre-conference session on copyright was well Friendly Booth Award: Scott Spanier, worth the extra time and served as an excellent Follett Library Resources precursor for the conference sessions held in the days that followed. Networking opportunities The Friendly Booth Award is sponsored by were plentiful as I enjoyed visiting with those I the New Members Roundtable (NMRT) and is hadn’t seen in a while, and meeting several new presented to the conference exhibitor who best librarians from across the state and from different shows knowledge of product, attractive display, types of libraries holding various positions. It was exemplary salesmanship, and friendly support for a true glimpse into the diversity of our wonderful libraries. profession.

The Good Stuff - Page 7 - December 2008 Conference attendance can be considered of reflecting about events in order to plan for a privilege that many library budgets simply future activities has also poised my library cannot permit. The Grassroots Grant program for success in expanding our services to is an excellent step toward closing the gap adolescents. At the encouragement of between those that can attend and those that conference speakers and informal conversations cannot. However, I would love to see an option with other librarians, I have developed a for virtual attendance to future conferences. MySpace account for the Underwood Public Today’s technology allows for video streaming, Library. I often saw teens looking at pictures online discussion, webinars, and much more, of one another through MySpace, but I never giving those unable to travel a chance to considered that they would like to see pictures participate in some of the valuable conference from library events through this same resource. offerings. Let’s leave no librarian behind! Until I am hoping that by posting pictures and giving then, I hope many, as I have, will take advantage teens the opportunity to comment on events, of the conference materials found on the NDLA MySpace will serve as my primary means website at www.ndla.info/Conference/08conf. of publicizing events. The ultimate goal of htm. expanding teen services in my community is to make “lifelong learners” into “lifelong library I thoroughly enjoyed my experience at the 2008 users” and the 2008 NDLA conference has NDLA Conference in Mandan. I want to thank been and will continue to be instrumental in Lori West for spearheading the Grassroots Grant reaching this aim. program as well as all members of the New Members Roundtable, the grant contributors, and anyone else who assisted with the program. I look forward to attending future conferences, contributing back to the Association, and Innovative Book Cart Competition working with the gracious librarians found throughout North Dakota. The First Annual Innovative Book Cart Competition, coordinated by Mark Holman, was held at the 2008 NDLA conference. Three very enthusiastic entrants got this annual activity off to a good start. 2008 NDLA Conference in Action The award-winning favorites, as voted on by By Harmony Higbie, Underwood Public Library conference-goers, were: A major goal in the field of education has been • Gold Book Cart Award: Arlene Gunderson, Viking to create “life-long learners.” NDLA affirmed Media Center, Viking Elementary School, Grand the importance of this goal and gave librarians Forks the opportunity to practice it themselves • Silver Book Cart Award: Doris Ott and the North during the 2008 conference, “Librarians Under Dakota State Library Staff Construction.” As one who is both new to North • Bronze Book Cart Award: Christine Kujawa and Dakota and the profession, the conference Zack Packineau, Bismarck Public Library provided practical resources to further equip library staff members in serving the public. For photos of this year’s winners, go to www. Perhaps the greatest benefit to my library came geocities.com/exlibrisesque/bookcartwinners.html. from sharing resources and experiences with Mark Holman noted that the entrants found the other librarians. Sessions regarding teen services, experience “to have benefits that went beyond led by Kevin King of the Kalamazoo (Michigan) the obvious fun of the whole thing.” The “jazzed Library System and Charlotte Hill of Bismarck up” book carts served as the focal point for High School, have given me direction as I seek library events and activities, and the process of to expand the services offered to this age group creating the carts brought staff from diverse library through my institution. departments together to think creatively, problem This was the first year that the Underwood Public solve, and work as a team. Library has participated in celebrating Teen Read We hope that there will be more participants in Week. Conference speakers aided in the success the next competition. Start thinking about your of the event by sharing ideas regarding effective library’s entry now! ways to advertise events to teens. The importance

The Good Stuff - Page 8 - December 2008 Welcome to NDLA! New members since the last issue of The Good Stuff are Candice Davis (Belcourt); Pam Wohlsdorf (Bismarck); Karen Keller (Bottineau); Karlene Warner (Devils Lake); Verena I. Gillis (Dunseith); Diane Olson (Ellendale); Sandra Olschlager (Fessenden); Donna Metzger (Grand Forks); Louine Ness (Hazen); Reagen A. Thalacker (Jamestown); Beth Undem (Leal); Darlene Fairaizl (Mandan); Linda Dammel (Medina); Julie Burkhart (Minot); Toni Gredesky (Wahpeton); Heather Lisa Davidson (West Fargo); and Deb Syvertson (Willow City).

Joining us at our annual conference in Mandan were: Rachel Lacher, Mari Ferguson, Kimberly Peterson, and Gwyn Ridenhour (Bismarck); Claudia Park and Sharon Paintner (Carrington); Corina Zalesky (Dickinson); Kimberly F. Peltier (Dunseith); Mrs. Laura Bush attends Jan Nowatzki, Deb Swenson, Patty Molm, the North Dakota Community and Kristin Hektner (Fargo); Laureen F. Leaders Dinner with Jetty (Fort Totten); Stacey Hauff (Fort Yates); North Dakota State Librarian Debra Walen (Glenfield); Marlene Boyce, Doris Ott in Bismarck, North Linda Dalzell, Kwangsoo Han, Pat Hastings, Dakota on Oct. 2, 2008. Ginger Trzynka, Judy Hager, Kathy Hill, Gail Hasz, Jennifer Dodds, and Kari Budge White House photo by Chris Greenberg (Grand Forks); Kay Rotvold (Hillsboro); Eva Branvold (Inkster); Pamela Boepple (Killdeer); Joleen Risovi (Maddock); Judy Ringgenberg (Mandan); Mary Ann Greenwald and Membership Report Stephen Elfstrand (Mankato, Minn.); Roberta Froehlich (McClusky); Roberta Bell (New (as of November 12, 2008) Town); Brenda Herland (Parshall); Andrea Compiled by Kathy Thomas Brownley (Regina, Sask.); Angela Kitzman Membership Chair (Rolette); Jim Hochhalter (Surrey); Bridget Bloodworth (Turtle Lake); Mary Jo Moorhead Academic & Special Libraries Section...... 102 (West Fargo); Gayla Schill (Wing); Kim Health Sciences Information Section...... 33 Nelson (Winnipeg, Man.); and Pat Gustafson Public Library Section...... 136 (Wolford). School Library & Youth Services Section.....108 Government Documents Roundtable...... 37 Help us increase our membership in New Members Roundtable...... 49 2009—tell other library staff about NDLA! Technical Services Roundtable...... 59 Membership information and forms can be Associate members...... 15 found on our web page at www.ndla.info. Institutional members...... 12 The NDLA membership year is January to Trustees...... 42 December. New members...... 62 Total members...... 388

The Good Stuff - Page 9 - December 2008 Browsing in the Cyberstacks Compiled by Rachel White, Editorial Committee Member

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If you are a fan of foreign films, Netflix subscriber, you can finally put the tear-off many selections are available in French, but only address flap to good use. This site features folding a small percentage includes English subtitles. directions for several animal shapes, aircraft, and even a snack tray for your favorite film food. BicycleTutor Unlike traditional origami which requires square http://bicycletutor.com/ paper, you do not need to alter or cut the tear-off After a hard summer of cycling, your wheeled flap in any way before you begin. Surprise the steed might need a bit of a tune-up. If you’re not people on your Christmas card list this year by mechanically inclined, or don’t have a local bike turning your old envelope flap into a completely shop, BicycleTutor has video tutorials for over 40 new envelope! bicycle repair projects. 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You can zoom in, out, Happy Birthday to You Appendices, Documents, and pan all around on maps as widely varied as and Sound Recordings the Pony Express route map or a full-color map http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/rbrauneis/ of the Land of Oz. Non-map selections are also happybirthday.htm available for your perusal, including construction If you save your professional development reading specifications for the Berlin Wall, and the original for the cold winter nights, then reading the patent drawing for the Wright Brothers’ flying appendices to Professor Robert Brauneis’ research machine. on the copyright status of the song “Happy Birthday” will fill many of them. I downloaded beta.NFB.ca the article itself from the Social Science Research http://beta.nfb.ca/index-en/ Network at http://papers.ssrn.com/ by searching View over 400 Canadian documentaries, the good professor’s name. Marvel at the animated shorts, and other films produced by the detective work done, and see if anyone truly does award-winning National Film Board at this beta own the rights to the world’s most popular song. site. Watch “The Big Snit,” an animated favorite If you have never been part of a project looking of mine, and see if dedicated Scrabble players are to find the copyright owners of a piece of music, The Good Stuff - Page 10 - December 2008 State Documents photograph, or other work, reading this article Recognized for Excellence and appendices will show what an arduous process it can be. at Conference Rachel White, Editorial Committee Member Digital Image Magazine’s List of 25 Free Stock and GODORT Chair Photo Sites Three deserving state documents rose to the top www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/ at the NDLA annual conference, but only one featured/25-free-stock-photo-sites/ could take top honors! North Dakota History: Has the job of updating the library’s website Readings about the Northern Plains State, a or revamping the library newsletter has fallen collaborative effort of the North Dakota Center to you this winter? With all of the copyright, for Distance Education and the State Historical ownership, and rights fears raised by the Happy Society of North Dakota, was awarded the 2008 Birthday article above, perhaps you’re looking for Notable Document Award. Sharing second place worry-free stock images that you can use in your honors were Terry Shoptaugh’s "You Have Been library media, or the occasional presentation. Kind Enough to Assist Me" : Herman Stern and Some of the 25 sites compiled by Digital Image the Jewish Refugee Crisis Magazine provide absolutely free access to , published by the North their images, while others require you to pay a Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, and Nature minimal use fee. Searchability, image resolution, in the Balance: CO2 Sequestration, a DVD and organization varies by site, so be sure to read co-produced by the University of North Dakota’s the terms of services of each site carefully. If you Energy & Environmental Research Center and can’t find the precise photo you’re looking for, Prairie Public Television. featured site Photo Rogue even takes requests! NDLA members chose the three top docs from Library Finds seven nominated state publications displayed at http://libraryfinds.wordpress.com/ the Government Documents Roundtable’s booth. Library Finds is a blog featuring treasures found by an anonymous “techie” who works at a Copies of North Dakota History and "You Have university, and spends his down time scouring Been Kind Enough to Assist Me” have been the university library for beautiful and unusual forwarded to the Chair of the ALA Notable examples of the printed word. Usually organized Documents Panel for evaluation and possible by theme, our intrepid techie has already inclusion on the national list of Notable investigated parts of the library’s book collections Government Documents, which is usually and provided visual reviews of cookbooks published in the May 15th issue of Library (and includes the results of a recipe), various Journal. The Nature in the Balance DVD was not editions of Homer, books on typography, and eligible for submission to the national panel, as phrenology. The librarians this writer works with it was produced in 2005, and only documents have obviously been a good influence, as links produced in 2007-2008 are included in the ALA to Worldcat records for the books are provided competition. The DVD had been distributed when available. Many photos of the featured as part of the March 2008 state depository item are also featured at the blog, and more shipment. photos are provided in the associated Flickr photostream. You may be inspired to search out If you are an avid state documents reader, some of your own library’s hidden gems. nominate your favorites from the 2008-2009 publishing cycle by dropping me an e-mail Feel free to send some of your favorite websites ([email protected]) with the title and publishing to me at [email protected]. Maybe you’ll see details. Perhaps you’ll see it in next year’s one of your favorites in a future Browsing in the glittering display of North Dakota’s best! Cyberstacks column. The Good Stuff - Page 11 - December 2008 On the DOCket By Marilyn Johnson, Legislative Council Library

Legislators convene for the state's 61st legislative Analysis of the 2009-11 Executive Budget: session on January 6, 2009. All elected state Supplement to the Report of the Legislative officials take office January 1, except for the Council Budget Section - Issued in January Governor, who takes office December 15, and 2009, this document looks at the Governor's all legislators, who take office December 1. recommended appropriations and estimated What follows is a quick review of key legislative revenues. The analysis reviews major documents (beyond bills and resolutions). program changes, aid to political subdivisions, These documents are available online from the appropriations for all agencies, state employees, legislative branch home page at www.legis. special funds, and trust funds. The publication nd.gov/. includes elected state officials' salaries, history of state employee salary increases, and a section on North Dakota Legislative Drafting Manual 2009 state school aid. - A must for anyone drafting proposed legislation. Only legislators, the Legislative Council, and 61st Legislative Assembly, State of North Dakota standing committees can introduce bills. Senate and House Rules and Committees - The (Executive branch agencies and the Supreme manual will appear the first week of January Court have their bills automatically introduced 2009. In addition to rules and standing by the standing committee that will be holding committee assignments, the guide contains a hearings on their bills.) However, lobbyists, list of House and Senate leadership, a list of citizens, and others can organize their ideas in elected officials, including the legislators, a list bill draft form for their legislators to consider of legislative interns, and House and Senate submitting to Legislative Council staff for a form procedural committees. Procedural committees and style check to ensure uniformity, avoid include Delayed Bills, Employment, Rules, and duplication, and determine constitutionality of Correction and Revision of the Journal. measures before introduction. Budget Status Report for the 2009-11 Biennium Report of the North Dakota Legislative Council, - This report will be available about one month Sixty-First Legislative Assembly 2009 - The report after adjournment of the 2009 session and is released after the November 2008 Legislative is known as the final budget status report. It Council meeting. This document summarizes examines legislative changes made to the the work of the 2007-08 interim committees on executive budget's revenue and expenditure which legislators served while studying issues recommendations. The report shows final budget crucial to the future of the state. Recommended status for each department as well as what the legislation, along with a brief description of Governor recommended and what the Legislative purpose, is listed by bill number at the end of the Assembly appropriated during the 2009 session. document. The report includes a list of all study directives made by the 2007 Legislative Assembly, Final Bill Status Report, Sixty-First Legislative those selected from that list for study by the Assembly - This report is released after the Legislative Council, and those not chosen. legislative session and indicates all actions taken

The Good Stuff - Page 12 - December 2008 by legislators by bill and resolution number. The document includes a topical index, an index by sponsor name, and a guide to sections of the North Dakota Century Code affected by bills.

2009 North Dakota Century Code Title Summaries - Printed following the session, the summary briefly describes all the bills that passed. This short description providing bill number is arranged by North Dakota Century Code (the state's permanent statutes) title--examples include Title 15, Education; Title 20.1, Game, Fish, Message from Predators, and Boating; Title 26.1, Insurance; Title 50, Public Welfare; and Title 65, Workforce Safety the NDLA and Insurance. Intellectual Analysis of Legislative Changes to the Executive Freedom Budget, 2009-11 Biennium - This report, which comes out in May or June following the session, Committee compares the Legislative Assembly's changes to The NDLA Intellectual Freedom Committee agency budgets as recommended by the Governor. is available to assist all North Dakota The document also includes special funds analysis, librarians faced with challenges and analysis of full-time equivalent state employees, intellectual freedom questions. Even if you historic comparison of state spending, and do not require assistance, please inform numerous general fund revenue and appropriations the committee of challenges for statistical charts. This narrative document provides a purposes. convenient way of locating specific program funding or directives included in a state agency's If you haven’t already seen it, check out appropriation for the next biennium. the revised North Dakota Intellectual Freedom Handbook for Libraries, which is 2009-11 Biennium Report on Compliance with available on NDLA's website (www.ndla. Legislative Intent - The report will be available info). The handbook includes information in the summer of 2010. Arranged alphabetically on handling challenges and how to respond by agency name, this document reviews activities to complaints. There are also sample forms, with regard to operations, appropriations, staffing, guidelines, policies, and much more! budget, and other mandated changes. At the end of the report is an analysis of special funds such Your 2008-09 NDLA Intellectual Freedom as the Budget Stabilization Fund, Capitol Building Committee: Fund, Coal Development Trust Fund, Community Health Trust Fund, Lands and Minerals Trust Fund, Christine Kujawa, Chair, Bismarck Public and Permanent Oil Tax Trust Fund. Library Paulette Nelson, Minot Public Library Kathy Jo Cline, Beulah High School Library Steve Axtman, North Dakota State Library Sandi Bates, Chester Fritz Library, UND Aubrey Madler, Rural Assistance Center, UND Center for Rural Health

The Good Stuff - Page 13 - December 2008 people Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member Stuff Congratulations to Linda Allbee who was elected to librarian Diana Marten, and administrative library the ELUNA (Ex Libris Users of North America) Aleph assistant Darlene Mahowald joined the ranks of retired Product Working Group for a two-year term. She will persons. Christie Condit, Kenmare substitute librarian, serve as chair of the Aleph Product Leadership Group. also left her position. The new library administrator Linda was also chosen by ELUNA to participate in for Ward County Public Library is Julie Burkhart. She Aleph 20.0 collaborative testing in Jerusalem, Israel, in started in August and heads up a team that includes January 2009. these other new faces: bookmobile librarian Michelle Demchuk, bookmobile librarian/driver Phyllis Dr. Sheila Collins, who was the director of the Buechler, and Tami Gravesen, Kenmare substitute Gordon B. Olson Library at Minot State University, librarian. There are still some familiar faces at the has taken a new position as the executive director of library, too. Linda Brunner, administrative library Libraries at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, assistant, and Kenmare Branch Librarian Pauline Oklahoma. Dr. Collins started her new job on Nielsen continue to be on the job. Congratulations September 29, 2008. Sarah Henderson is serving as and best wishes to all! the interim director at Minot State. Eric Stroshane, Head of Public Services at the North An open house retirement celebration was held on Dakota State Library, was among a small number of October 29, 2008, to honor Pat Jensen for fifteen state employees nominated for the Governor's Award years of service as the head librarian at the Linson for Excellence in Public Service to State Employees. Memorial Library in Stanley. Best wishes for your This prestigious award recognizes state employees for retirement, Pat. their dedication and contributions to the people of North Dakota. Stephanie Jensen, Circulation Associate at the Bismarck Public Library, was featured in the "Employee Hats off to Iris Swedlund, the first ever recipient Spotlight" in the library's quarterly newsletter, Library of the North Dakota Education Association School Connections. Stephanie started as a library page in Librarian of the Year Award, which was presented at 2001 at the public library when she was a high school the annual NDEA convention in Fargo in October. student. This fall she began her online graduate The award is given to a current school Library Media program with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Association member for outstanding achievement School of Information. Stephanie also works part-time in promoting the school library. Iris, who is the as an assistant in the Allied Health Campus Library at librarian at the Velva School and Public Library and Bismarck State College. an active member of NDLA, was described as "a force for change in her library." Another NDLA member, There have been many changes at the Ward County Kirsten Baesler, was one of the three finalists for this Public Library in Minot in the past few months. award. Congratulations to Iris and Kirsten on this Library administrator Jan Murphy, bookmobile well-deserved honor! Save the Date! 2009 Spring Workshops The North Dakota State Library 2009 Spring Workshops are scheduled for March 23-24 in Bismarck and March 26-27 in Fargo. The theme is Destination: Library and will focus on the importance of libraries in communities.

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Ashes in the End ($12.97, CD) book and the authors, visit their website at www. is the latest release from Wicked angelicbirth.com/index.html. Darling, a Bismarck-based band that's been around in one form or Buick Riviera, which was filmed in the area another since 2002. The CD can around Fargo and Kindred, North Dakota, won be purchased through CDbaby. the Heart of Sarajevo award for best film at the com, which describes the genre as Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2008. Its two "industrial goth rock." For more stars shared the best actor award. Kate Barry information, visit the band's site at produced the movie and plans to premiere it www.myspace.com/wickeddarling. at the Fargo Theater once distribution deals are worked out. The movie reflects the ethnic A 1953 version of The Big Book of Mother Goose hatred of the Bosnian Conflict in the 1990s when is the seventh in a series of classic reproductions two immigrants, a Muslim and a Serb who fled from the collections of the State Historical Society Croatia, meet by chance on a deserted North of North Dakota. The original book was printed Dakota highway. The film is based on the novel by Grosset & Dunlap and illustrated by Alice "Buick Riviera" by Miljenko Jergovic. Schlesinger. The reproduction sells for $12.95 and is available at the North Dakota Heritage Sherri Coleman of Bismarck Center Museum Store in Bismarck, the Pembina teamed up with Sheilah State Museum in Pembina, the Chateau de Mores Kaufman to write The Canola Interpretive Center in Medora, the Missouri- Gourmet: Time for an Oil Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Change! ($20, 224 p., pbk.), Williston, and several other bookstores statewide. which features recipes that For more information, visit www.history.nd.gov/ use canola oil. Canola is museumstore/. an important part of North Dakota agriculture and Coleman is the Director Betty Smokov of Steele has been a of Marketing and Health Promotion for the newspaper columnist for a Steele Bismarck-based Northern Canola Growers newspaper for many years. Now Association. The Canola Gourmet is available she has turned the information from local bookstores and online from www. gathered for those columns into BarnesandNoble.com and www.Amazon.com. a book entitled Bikes, Trikes, Toads, and Roads: a Lifetime of A former Ashley resident, Jannifer Quaschnick Stories ($19.95, pbk., 166 p.). Hoffman, has penned Ceremony of Deception The collection of anecdotes, stories, and historical ($14.99, 375 p., pbk.), a historical romance set in facts about life in North Dakota spans more than Wyoming Territory in 1868. Hoffman now lives 125 years and includes 70 original photos. For in Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota, and is currently more information, visit www.smokovranch.com/. working on a manuscript for her sixth book, Blood Crystal. For more information, visit her Two former Grand Forks residents have website at www.janniferhoffman.com/. collaborated on Birth of an Angel ($35.95, 32 p., hardcover), a beautifully illustrated poem. The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection Judy Rae Smith did the writing and Susan Wilson at NDSU Library in Fargo has published Church Marcley did the illustrations. The authors were Book II: Evangelical Lutheran Friedens Gemeinde in Grand Forks in September for their Central 1894-1965 ($35, 180 p., softcover). The book High School 50th class reunion. The book is is a translation of the original church record available in Grand Forks area bookstores and books from Peace Lutheran Church in McIntosh from online booksellers Barnes & Noble.com and County. Dorothea Bergstedt Ziegler of Dickinson Amazon.com. For more information about the translated the German script and Orion A.

The Good Stuff - Page 15 - December 2008 Rudolph of Ashley compiled the book and took Publishing site at www.langmarc.com/default.asp. included photographs of all the tombstones at Peace Lutheran Cemetery. For complete Dr. Michelle M. Sauer, Associate Professor of information, visit www.ndsu.edu/grhc. English and coordinator of the Gender/Women's Studies program at Minot State University, is Cooking with RSVP Volunteers ($15, spiralbound) the editor of Honoring Human Herstory: a is a cookbook fundraiser for the Dakota West Celebration of Women's Heritage (113 p., pbk.), Chapter of RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer a collection of essays. Part one features essays Program). Project coordinator Beverly Hafele about "... women in today's society who are noted that a picture of the cook who submitted making an impact on our world through their the recipe accompanies each recipe. Recipes are lives and female experiences," while the essays also printed one to a page, a format which older in part two "... examine individual women and citizens find easier to read. The Dakota West groups of women during different eras, ranging chapter includes volunteers from Adams, Billings, from medieval to modern, who contravene Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope, the norm in some way." In 2007, Sauer edited and Stark counties. The cookbooks are available another collection of essays published by the at the RSVP office (1173 Third Ave. West #16, T Minot State University Press entitled, "Women in Rex Plaza, Dickinson 58601) or by calling 701- the Picture" : a Celebration of Women's History 227-8421. You can also find more information & Heritage (119 p., pbk.). For more information, at http://rsvp.ndsu.nodak.edu/dakota_west.htm. including how to obtain copies of these works, RSVP is a federally funded program matched by contact Dr. Sauer at michelle.sauer@minotstateu. local dollars and sponsored by North Dakota edu. State University as an outreach project. A native of Kidder County, Judy With the help of the students of Sweet Briar R. Cook, has penned an historical School west of Mandan, Penny Wolf has penned account of homesteading, A Cow Named Sue ($7.50, 20 p., pbk.), a featuring her grandparents, all of children’s book about Salem Sue, the world's whom arrived separately in central largest Holstein cow, which stands on a hill above North Dakota between 1905 and the town of New Salem. The author lives on a 1907; her parents, the second dairy farm near New Salem and each page of her generation to live on the land; and book is filled with colorful illustrations by the her own 1950s childhood. If This K-8 students at Sweet Briar. A Cow Named Sue Land Could Talk: Homesteading on the Northern is available at bookstores around the state and Plains ($28.95, 240 p., hardcover; $18.95, was also available at the Pride of Dakota Holiday softcover; $6, e-book) is available from local Showcase events as a product of Sweetbriar Crafts booksellers, from www.Amazon.com, and from and Publications. www.iUniverse.com. The author now lives near Los Angeles and was at the Great Stories Book The late Pastor Ray Siegle and Shoppe in Jamestown in November to sign copies his daughter, Ann Siegle Drege, of her book. collaborated on The Hard Work of Hope: Reflections of Ray Siegle Fans of Garrison Keillor and his Prairie Home ($14.95, 200 p., pbk.), a book that Companion radio show will want to read Liberty chronicles Pastor Siegle's journey ($25.95, 272 p., hardcover). Keillor’s latest book during a two-year bout with is about Lake Wobegon and Clint Bunsen’s sixth pancreatic cancer. Pastor Siegle Fourth of July celebration. served several parishes in North Dakota during his career. Daughter Ann taught Life Is Good ($10, CD) is the third CD release English at MSU-Bottineau for 13 years. For more by North Dakota native Randi Perkins. Perkins information about the book, go to the LangMarc grew up on a farm near Scranton and now lives

The Good Stuff - Page 16 - December 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1989, the North newest novel, On a Someday, deals with the Dakota Centennial Commission selected his song, years leading up to retirement and beyond... “Dakota, I've Not Forgotten,” to represent the in other words, the unknown." The book is centennial celebration. To find out more about being published by Harvest House. For more Perkins and his music, visit www.randiperkins. information, visit www.roxannehenke.com/. com/. Lauraine Snelling fans can enjoy two new books Living at Grafton ($15, DVD, 25 min.), released by the author. One Perfect Day ($13.99, 320 by the North Dakota Center for Persons with p., pbk.), tells the story of “two mothers … Disabilities, presents the reflections and stories two children … one tragedy … one miracle.” of six former institutional residents of the Rebecca's Reward ($13.99, 320 p., pbk) is #4 in Grafton State School. The DVD describes life the Daughters of Blessing series. In its review, in the institution from those who experienced Publishers Weekly (August 18, 2008) said, “Fans it and includes discussion of the circumstances of Christian women’s fiction will enjoy this leading up to their institutionalization. The DVD winning novel.” Snelling has roots in North continues Dr. Brent Askvig’s research on the Dakota. Several members of her mother's family, school at Grafton. In 2004, Dr. Askvig published whose surname is Moe, settled in the Park River, a book entitled One Hundred Years: The History N.D., area in 1910, and some still remain in the and Chronology of North Dakota Developmental area. Snelling now lives in California and was Center. For more information about the DVD mostly raised in Washington State. and an order form, visit the NDCPD home page at http://165.234.216.166/home.shtml on Minot More good news for Snelling State University's website (http://www.misu. fans is that the first five of her nodak.edu/). 22 novels that are based in North Dakota are back in print GypsyFoot, a funk/rock group in two volumes – Dakota Stories based in Bismarck, released I features Dakota Dawn and its second CD on November Dakota Dream and Dakota 1, 2008, at the Belle Mehus Stories II features Dakota Dusk, Auditorium in Bismarck. Dakota December, and Dakota Multiformity ($14.95, CD) can Destiny. All five novels are be purchased online from iTunes or the band's centered around the fictional Web site, www.gypsyfoot.com/. It can also town of Soldahl, North Dakota, be purchased locally in Bismarck at Nightlife and were first published in the Music, Stringbean Music, Cafe Aroma, and Urban mid-1990s. The new versions Girl, or at Orange Records in Fargo. GypsyFoot were published by Bismarck- has been around since 2003. By "combining based Smoky Water Press. elements of Jazz, Funk, Latin, Blues, Rock and Snelling’s other North Dakota- Reggae with their penchant for spontaneous based books include the Red improvisation, GypsyFoot continues to defy River of the North series, the 'marketability' in today's heavily genre-based Return to Red River series, and four Dakotah music industry." Treasures stories based in Medora. She also has written several contemporary novels and a series Roxanne Henke's newest novel, On a Someday, of stories about horses for young adults. Dakota is set to be released on January 1, 2009. In the Stories I and Dakota Stories II are available author's words, "What's On a Someday about, in regional bookstores and online at www. you ask? As a kid, I remember asking my mom, dakotabooknet.com/. "How come God doesn't let us see into the future?" I still remember her response: "Because In 1988, Carolyn (Arneson) Held journeyed from we couldn't understand it all at once." My Seattle to Boston on her bicycle. For two-thirds

The Good Stuff - Page 17 - December 2008 of the way, she road alone and without a support Kaylene (Cramtill) Johnson, who grew up in vehicle. Her self-published book, Pedal Pushing Dickinson, is the author of Sarah: How a Hockey Passion, chronicles that 3,564-mile trip. Held Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment graduated from Finley High School and taught on Its Ear, which was published in April 2008. home economics in Little Falls, Minnesota for 31 The biography of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin years. sold modestly until she became the Republican nominee for Vice President. After that, the book Will Bergstrom became a hot commodity and Johnson’s phone of Devils Lake started ringing off the hook with requests for has published interviews and more. Johnson has lived in Alaska his second book, since 1986 and has written two other books, People of the Portrait of the Alaska Railroad and Trails Across Prairie ($12.95) , in Time: History of an Alaska Mountain Corridor. collaboration with She wrote the biography of Palin after being his grandmother, approached by Epicenter Press to do so. Mumsel (Anne-Marie Bergstrom). Will, a senior at Devils Lake High School, wrote the text and The residents of Senior Suites of Sakakawea have his grandmother did the illustrations. The book published a cookbook entitled Treasured Recipes is "a celebration of the lifestyle of the people of of Senior Suites at Sakakawea ($10, spiralbound). the prairie" and is available at The Liquid Bean Described as "a good, old-fashioned cookbook," in Devils Lake. For more information, visit the proceeds from sales will support the Sakakawea authors' websites at www.willbergstrom.com/ and Suites' activity fund. The cookbook is available www.dakotadrawings.com/home.htm. at several Hazen businesses, the Hazen Public Library, and at Senior Suites of Sakakawea. The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 ($27.95, 512 p., hardcover) is a Thinking of You (CD) has been released by Judd collection of stories by North Dakota native McKinnon, a retired Grand Forks businessman. Louise Erdrich. This collection brings together The CD features standards and guitar solos that 36 stories and lays them out chronologically. All McKinnon recorded with friends and colleagues. but six have been previously published and many It is available from several local businesses, were the basis for Erdrich's novels. According including Hugo's, Budget Music, Hanky Panky, to the review by Joanne Wilkinson in Booklist TNT, and Home of Economy, and at Barnes & (November 15, 2008), "What makes Erdrich Noble in Fargo and Hugo's in Thief River Falls, such a mesmerizing storyteller, though, is the Crookston, and Jamestown. way she so fearlessly explores and expresses human emotion. A must-have for serious fiction When the Landscape is Quiet Again: the Legacy collections." of Art Link ($14.95, DVD) was first shown at the Belle Mehus Auditorium in Bismarck and the North Dakota author Susan Thompson Underdahl Fargo Theatre in September. The documentary has penned Remember This ($9.95, 288 p., then made its television debut on Prairie Public pbk.), a story about Lucy Kellogg, her best friend on October 9, 2008. The film about former Sukie, and her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's North Dakota Governor Arthur Link focuses on disease. Underdahl is also the author of The his "agrarian and conservation idealism as coal Other Sister ($8.95, pbk. 264 p.), which was development began in North Dakota in the early published in 2007. When she isn't writing, the 1970s." Filmgoers described the often-humorous author is a neuropsychologist specializing in the film as “a love story” and were pleased at how it evaluation and treatment of dementia and brain captured and portrayed Link’s sense of humor and injury. love for his wife Grace. Clay Jenkinson and Dave Swenson, both of Bismarck and working through the Dakota Institute, created the film. The Dakota

The Good Stuff - Page 18 - December 2008 Institute is a new initiative of the Lewis & Clark Celebrating Our Heritage, the 125th anniversary Fort Mandan Foundation of Washburn, ND. It book for Napoleon is on sale now, although is intended to foster a statewide "conversation," the anniversary celebration won't be held until using a humanities-based approach to addressing June 2009. The 356-page hardcover book current events and what the future holds. To sells for $40 and is available at several local purchase a copy of the DVD, have your credit businesses, including Ken's Shopping Center, card ready and call 1-877-462-8535. First Community Credit Union, Napoleon Drug, and the Napoleon Homestead. Regent's 100th Several community history books are available or anniversary celebration is slated for June 2010 are in the works. New Salem's125th Anniversary and a third community history book is being history book (344 p., spiralbound) sells for $32 planned. The committee is looking for stories (contact Glenda Kaelberer at 701-843-7608, or and histories from anybody who has ever lived in Bonnie Maier at 701-843-7163; bmaier@westriv. or around Regent -- no matter when or for how com). Volume 2 of Glen Ullin Yesteryears covers long. The tentative deadline for submitting stories the years from 1983 to 2008 and sells for $30. If is April 1, 2009. For more information, contact you want a copy, contact the Glen Ullin Public Marlene Kouba at 701-563-4560. Library (701-348-3951) for more information. 2008 NDLA Conference Exhibitors By Beth Postema, Exhibits Chair Past President Beth Postema served as the exhibits chair and invited an outstanding group of exhibitors to the 2008 conference. As you make purchases for your library during the coming year, please consider doing business with these NDLA supporters.

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Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member Taking it to a Vote www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6598095. On November 4, 2008, voters html?q=awards. of the City of Jamestown and Stutsman County decided to The Bowman Regional Public Library now has establish joint city-county library a Theodore Roosevelt Center kiosk, which was services. The measures needed to dedicated on October 29, 2008. The kiosk is a be approved individually by city computer portal to the Theodore Roosevelt Center and county voters. In August, the Web site, which is being developed by Dickinson city and county commissions passed resolutions State University as part of DSU's Theodore for a ballot measure that would effectively Roosevelt Initiative. Clay Jenkinson, DSU's dissolve the two libraries and create a single Theodore Roosevelt Humanities Scholar, was on entity, a change that has been debated and hand for the celebration. discussed for several years. Voters in both city and county passed the measure to create a joint North Dakota Heritage library board by a substantial margin. The City Librarians will want to bookmark this Web site: Council and County Commission will appoint www.ndsu.nodak.edu/heritage. The mission members to the joint library board in equal of the Center for Heritage Renewal at NDSU numbers. The new board has a lot of work to do, in Fargo is to identify, preserve, and capitalize including making a decision on a new facility. on the heritage resources of North Dakota and the northern plains. Tom Isern, Distinguished You've Got to Have Friends University Professor, Department of History, is the The Friends of the Bismarck Public Library hosted director and developer of the center. its semi-annual used book sale, October 2-4, 2008. With more than 70,000 items for sale, the Replace Social Security Cards ... at the Library event may be the biggest book sale in the region. The Dickinson Area Public Library is part of a Proceeds from the sale are used to fund special pilot program to help North Dakotans quickly purchases and programs at the Bismarck Public replace Social Security cards. The idea is to cut Library, including the upcoming renovation of the down on the need to travel long distances and to children's library. Across the river, the Friends shorten the wait to get a replacement card. The of the Morton Mandan Public Library also held program began on October 1, 2008, and uses a used book sale, September 5-6, at the Morton video technology. Here's how it works ... the County Shop building in northwest Mandan. individual goes to the library and holds up his/her Proceeds were used to help purchase new driver's license to a teleconference camera. The shelving for the children's collection. information is read at an office in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, which faxes a form to the individual Big Dreams to complete. The signed form is faxed back to The Bowman Regional Public Library has big the Fergus Falls office, which issues a receipt dreams. At the urging of the library board and and faxes that to the client, who can take it to the Bowman City and County commissioners, an employer to prove that a replacement Social library director Sarah Snavely is preparing a grant Security card is on its way. The replacement card application that could lead to the "Best Small usually arrives in about two weeks. So far the Library in America" award. The award is given program is working well. If the pilot project is annually to one library in the United States and deemed successful after its six-month review, it includes a $15,000 cash prize. Library Journal's could become permanent. annual award is co-sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is now in its fifth Dakota Discussions year. The award honors the public library that To create opportunities for libraries and other demonstrates outstanding service to populations nonprofit groups across the state to offer free of 25,000 or less. For more information, go to book discussion programs to underserved rural

The Good Stuff - Page 20 - December 2008 communities, the North Dakota Humanities complete information, visit the web site at www. Council requested funding from the National ndsu.edu/grhc. To place an order or request a Endowment for the Humanities for a new program free catalog, call 701-231-6596 or email acacia. initiative called Dakota Discussions. The NEH [email protected]. We the People grant program awarded the NDHC $34,010, with an additional $15,000 available Libri and Lions Donate in matching funds for Dakota Discussions. The Through the generosity of the Harvey Lions Club NDHC has purchased sets of books, as well as and the Libri Foundation, the Harvey Public audiotapes and large-print copies, and provides Library placed an order for about 70 children's scholars to facilitate each theme or title selected. books through a Books for Children grant. The Want to be part of the discussion? For complete local sponsor, the Harvey Lions Club, raised information, go to www.nd-humanities.org/ $350, which the Foundation will match at a ProgramDetail.aspx?ProgramID=9. two-to-one ratio. For more information about the Libri Foundation, visit the Web site at www. Guitar Hero! librifoundation.org/. Librarian Marlene Ripplinger The Grand Forks plans to ask Lions members to volunteer to read Public Library Teen some of the donated books to the children who Advisory Board, attend reading programs at the library. with support from the Friends of the Marlene Ripplinger of the Harvey Public Library Library, hosted also wrote a successful grant application for a Guitar Hero "Picturing America," a project of the We the Tournament in People program of the National Endowment for August. Forty teens, grades 7-12, participated in the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the contest, enjoyed pizza and pop, and voted ALA's Public Programs Office. The project helps for the best-dressed “Rock Star.” Chris Glenn was teach American history and culture by providing declared the winner and treated everyone to a recipients with a set of high-quality reproductions guitar solo. Gift cards to local businesses were of 40 pieces of great American art and a resource also given as door prizes. book that includes information about the artists and their works. For more information about Barbara McClintock in Cooperstown We the People and its projects, visit www. Barbara McClintock, an award-winning children's wethepeople.gov/. author and illustrator, visited the Griggs County Public Library in October to sign copies of her BUS-eum Visit latest book, Adele & Simon in America. In the For the third year in a row, the Heart of America book, two young Parisian siblings are on a train Library in Rugby hosted the TRACES Bus-eum trip through the United States with their Aunt traveling exhibit on POWs on September 6, 2008. Cecile. One of the places they visit is a farm near Traces is a non-profit educational organization Cooperstown! McClintock's visit was sponsored created to gather, preserve and present stories of by the Griggs County Courier with all proceeds people from the Midwest and Germany or Austria from book sales benefitting the library. who encountered each other during World War II. For more information, visit the web site at http:// Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase traces.org/index.htm. The staff of the GRHC (Germans from Russia Heritage Collection) at NDSU Library had a Reading Machine Purchased booth at the Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase Through a joint fundraising project of the Heart events in Fargo and Bismarck. They showcased of America Library and the Rugby Lions Club, a many new items, including more than 45 Merlin LCD magnifier has been purchased for the cookbooks. In addition, GRHC is offering a library. The reading machine enables individuals 10% discount on all purchases of $50 or more with low vision to read, write, view photographs, from November 1 to December 31, 2008. For enjoy crafts, hobbies, and more. The project was The Good Stuff - Page 21 - December 2008 also supported by individual gifts and grants from community’s public library, will use the grant to the Northern Plains Operation Round-Up and purchase furnishings for its new library building, Pamida. extend hours and service by adding a full-time staff person, pull together a vast number of Dick and Jane Quilt Standing Rock historical documents, and gather The Valley of Quilts Club made a special quilt and display 45 unique photographs of Sitting depicting scenes from the early Dick and Jane Bull. The various elements of the project are in reading primers of the 1950s for a raffle to benefit response to priorities identified by the community. the Lisbon Public Library. The drawing was held Community members, students, and researchers at the group's quilt show on September 13. studying the history of the Standing Rock Sioux will be able to access primary documents, Libraries and Jobs including census and agency records, military The New Rockford Public Library and Eddy and church records, newspapers, and personal County Job Development Center opened on papers without having to travel to distant archives. September 29, 2008, at its new location. The display of Sitting Bull photographs in the new Librarian Susie Sharp, Director of Economic library will also enable community members to Development Amy Wobbema, and New Rockford reconnect with their revered leader and ancestor. Mayor Jim Belquist participated in the ribbon Mark Holman, Library Director, is the contact cutting ceremony, which was followed by an person for the grant. Mark also chairs the NDLA open house celebration for the public. The library Professional Development Grant Committee. For now offers two computers for public use and complete information, go to: www.imls.gov/ wireless Internet access, and the job development news/2008/091608b_list.shtm#ND. center will be offering a variety of classes on business, grant writing, marketing, and finance. Book Sale of the Century The Ward County Public Library in Minot hosted IMLS Grants Awarded the "(Book) Sale of the Century" on October 6-7, Raugust Library at Jamestown College has 2008. Most of the sale items were from a large received the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf collection of like-new books donated by a private from the Institute of Museum and Library estate. For more information about the library, Services. IMLS Director Dr. Anne-Imelda visit the web site at www.co.ward.nd.us/library/ Radice said, “The Connecting to Collections index.shtml. Bookshelf provides museums, libraries, and archives essential instructions on how to rescue Time Ran Out treasures of yesteryear that they hold in trust. Heavy, wet snow came a little too soon for the These Bookshelves, once they are all distributed, Williston Community Library. Construction to will touch institutions around the nation.” The replace the original roof, which had developed contents of the bookshelf include an essential some significant leaks since it was built in set of books, DVDs, online resources, and a the early ‘80s, began on October 9, 2008. user’s guide designed to help small libraries and Unfortunately, a lot of heavy, wet snow fell museums care for their collections. For more over the October 11-12 weekend, which made information about the bookshelf program, visit for many more leaks in the roof and extensive IMLS at www.imls.gov. damage to ceiling tiles, walls, and carpeting. The library was closed for several days for repairs The Institute of Museum and Library Services and clean-up. The library now has a brand new (IMLS) awarded a grant of $132,604 to the roof and workers are in the process of replacing Standing Rock Sioux tribe in Fort Yates for the ceiling tiles and wallpaper. Library Director “Sitting Bull College Library Revitalization and Deb Slais said, “We only lost about 100 books, Archives Project." On behalf of the tribe, Sitting and no computers, but it was a major mess and Bull College Library, which also serves as the heartache!”

The Good Stuff - Page 22 - December 2008 TechTips & More

Compiled by Karen Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

In this issue, Theresa Norton shares information about some nifty add-ons to Firefox (Thanks, Theresa!), and I tell about Vista’s Speech Recognition Program.

Firefox Add-ons you browse the web. This utility is Theresa Norton, especially useful for anyone dealing UND Computer Services Librarian with a slow internet connection. Forecastbar Harley E. French Library of the Health Enhanced, formerly ForcastFox, displays both Sciences, Grand Forks current weather conditions and future forecasts for a zip code or city of your choice. Helpful If you ‘march to a different drummer’ or ‘take the features include pop-up weather alerts and the road less traveled,’ then you may also be using inclusion of weather maps from AccuWeather. Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer as com. Fire.fm is the musical version of the book your web browser. If you are not familiar with recommendation services available from many Firefox but are interested in trying it out, you can public libraries. It lets you “Start a Station” by download it for free from the Mozilla web site at: typing in the name of a favorite artist or group. www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/firefox/. Once you’ve done that, a playlist of music from similar artists is pulled from the last.fm web site. If you already use Firefox but haven’t installed I’ve found it to be a great way to discover new any of the available add-ons, you are missing musicians from around the world and from many some useful utilities or gadgets. I mention different eras. One caveat about this particular gadgets because Firefox add-ons are similar to add-on -- if you have bandwidth concerns or the gadgets used with the Windows Vista Sidebar. limitations, Fire.fm may not be for you as it does For instance, the Windows Vista Sidebar has involve streaming audio. weather gadgets and Firefox has weather add- ons. Windows Vista Sidebar has calendar gadgets Installing Firefox add-ons is remarkably easy. while Firefox has a variety of calendar add-ons. Once you’ve selected an add-on that you want Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets are available for to install, click the green “Add to Firefox” button. download at: A box will open up with a warning to only http://gallery.microsoft.com/vista/sidebar.aspx. install add-ons from authors you trust. This box Firefox add-ons can be downloaded from: includes an “Install Now” button. If you choose https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/. to go ahead with the installation, you will need Installation works best if you use Firefox to access to restart Firefox to complete the process. [Note: the add-ons web page. I’ve installed numerous add-ons without any ill effects, but you may want to limit yourself to add- From the Firefox add-ons web page, you can ons that have been downloaded and reviewed by browse by category or by popularity based on a significant number of users.] Uninstalling add- the number of downloads. You might also ons is slightly more complicated, but instructions be interested in the recommended add-ons are available on the Mozilla web site at: http:// highlighted on the web page. You can also search support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Uninstalling+add- for add-ons by name or by term, e.g., calendars ons. or news. A few of the add-ons that I’ve used include AdBlock Plus, Forecastbar Enhanced, and I encourage you to install some Firefox add-ons, Fire.fm. As the name indicates, AdBlock Plus keep the ones you like or find useful, uninstall blocks ads and banners from downloading while any that you don’t use, and then try some more!

The Good Stuff - Page 23 - December 2008 Windows Speech Recognition in Vista Karen Anderson, Director Trinity Health Angus L. Cameron Medical Library, Minot To use the speech recognition program, click START SPEECH RECOGNITION and follow the One of the things I really like about the Vista prompts. It will walk you through the steps to operating system is the speech recognition set up your microphone. After you have done program. It allows you to give voice commands this, you’ll want to click the Take Speech Tutorial to your computer. It isn’t the world’s greatest and TRAIN YOUR COMPUTER TO BETTER program, but it is pretty good and it comes free UNDERSTAND YOU. with your computer if it has Vista. I find it very useful for opening and closing windows. You can You’ll probably want to print the OPEN THE also tell your computer to scroll up and down SPEECH REFERENCE CARD. You can access it and to click on specific links on the Internet. All by right-clicking on the microphone icon that you need to do is read what the link says and, if appears on your screen when you have speech speech recognition hears you properly and is in recognition activated. It tells you what to say one of its good moods, it will click on the link. if you want your computer to do things. If you Yes, I did say if it is in one of its good moods, it want to minimize, say “minimize.” If you want to will work. The program acts like a human when scroll, say “scroll up” or “scroll down.” I use it. Sometimes it does what I say, other times it doesn’t. But it is really neat and very helpful There are other useful items that appear when when it works. you do a right-click on the microphone. One is the “Off: do not listen to anything I say” option. You can use the program when you’re on the This is what you would use if you are talking Internet or when you are writing a document. You on the phone and don’t want to record your can start menus or open windows. Be careful if conversation. you are giving voice commands when the phone rings. Be sure to disable it or you will find your To see a demonstration and tutorials for Window’s conversation being typed as you speak. Speech Recognition, go to www.microsoft.com/ enable/demos/windowsvista/speech.aspx. If you would like to try Windows Speech Recognition in Vista, go to START and If you haven’t used Vista’s voice recognition, try it. CONTROL PANEL on your computer that has I highly recommend it. the Vista operating system. Choose SPEECH RECOGNITION. You’ll see a screen similar to Visit my Q & A TechDrop & Useful Links blog the following. at http://qatechdrop.blogspot.com/ if you want to view, ask, or answer questions about software programs, computers, etc. You can also see useful web links there or you can add your own by posting a comment.

TechTips & More is a column that gives tips about technology (TechTips) and other things that our readers do in their libraries to make their lives a little easier or more efficient (More). Please submit your tips to Karen Anderson at Karen_anderson@und. nodak.edu.

The Good Stuff - Page 24 - December 2008 By Al Peterson, MPLA Representative positions on state association boards and MPLA If you didn’t get a chance to visit the Mountain board positions. Rumors have been circulating Plains Library Association booth at NDLA, let me that the Institute has ended, but rest assured, introduce myself and this wonderful organization. THOSE RUMORS ARE UNFOUNDED! Here My name is Al Peterson and I am the state is the announcement from MPLA President Rob representative for North Dakota. The Mountain Banks: Plains Library Association (MPLA) is a twelve-state Great news! The Executive Board of MPLA association of libraries, librarians, and friends of voted unanimously at their October 11, 2009, libraries in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, meeting to continue the MPLA Leadership Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Institute. The Institute is tentatively scheduled for Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Spring of 2010. Exact dates and location will be Its primary purpose is to improve present and announced as soon as a contract is signed. future library services in the Mountain Plains The MPLA Leadership Institute is an region through development of librarians, trustees, important part of the association. It has and library employees. MPLA bases its success “been very clear that the membership cares on an active, enthusiastic, sharing membership. about keeping the program going. Because We all share a common geographic challenge of expense, it was voted to hold the institute where our people are so few and distances are every other year. The board will be working so great making each librarian, staff member, and over the next few months to organize the library a vital resource. effort. “ One way to share resources throughout our vast We are very excited to announce this region is through MPLA conferences, which are decision and will keep you posted as paired with member state associations. The next additional information becomes available. MPLA conference partnering is with the Kansas Rob Banks Library Association, April 1-3, 2009, in Wichita. MPLA President The conference theme is Libraries: Dynamic People, Places & Ideas, and libraries in MPLA As your MPLA state representative, I invite you regions have no shortage of dynamic people or to make an investment in your future by joining ideas. One thing that has always impressed me us and laying the foundation for your career is the quality of workshops and the quality of development. Please check out the MPLA programs at these conferences. It is fascinating web site, www.mpla.us/index.html. If you are to find out how libraries from other states are new to MPLA and would like to join, you can addressing the same types of issues facing get your first year half-off as a new member. libraries in North Dakota and learning about Membership information is available on the their solutions. For information about the KLA/ website. Ten free memberships were also given MPLA conference, check out the web site: www. at the MPLA booth during the NDLA conference. kansaslibraryassociation.org/displayconvention. This year's lucky winners were Mari Ferguson, cfm. Gail Hasz, Eric Stroshane, Gayla Schill, Mary Lovell, Donna Metzger, Chandra Hirning, Kathy MPLA is also known for sponsoring a Leadership Hill, Cheryl Zimprich, and Karen Joan Kohoutek. Institute. In the past, this Institute has been Congratulations to all! hosted at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, and focused on emerging leaders in the library field. If you have questions about MPLA, please Many graduates (including myself) have taken contact me at [email protected]. The Good Stuff - Page 25 - December 2008 Dakota BookNet Promotes Regional Books A new website was launched in September to Through Smoky Water Press, the Collins’ newest promote books and authors that have ties to project has been republishing five novellas written North Dakota and the region. in the early 1990s by best-selling author Lauraine Snelling that are centered in the fictional town DakotaBookNet.com was developed by Rick of Soldahl, North Dakota. The stories, Dakota and Andrea Winkjer Collin of Bismarck. They Dawn, Dakota Dream, Dakota Dusk, Dakota have had an interest in publishing and marketing December and Dakota Destiny are compiled in regional books for the past 13 years through their two books, Dakota Stories I and Dakota Stories II. business, Smoky Water Press. For more information, visit www.dakotabooknet. “We decided we needed a website to sell our com or call Collin at 701-222-0947. books,” says Andrea Collin, “but we thought we would also put on the site other books from the region. We especially want to work with Great regional books available from other regional authors or small publishers who DakotaBookNet.com do not have their own websites or online sales Dakota Stories I and Dakota Stories II - five inspirational capabilities.” stories by best-selling author Lauraine Snelling North Dakota Counties, Towns and People - the latest The authors who join the website will have their book by Minot native Joseph Gavett photos and biographies published, along with the titles of their books, which can be purchased Curse of Al Capone's Gold - a great North Dakota mystery by Bismarck native Mike Thompson online. “Down the road we want to include interviews with each author and maybe even If This Land Could Talk - Homesteading on the Northern Plains - by Kidder County native Judy R. Cook podcasts, where they visit about their current projects,” Rick Collin said. North Dakota Wildlife Photos - stunning photos of wildlife in their natural habitat by Kenmare native Chet Nelson NDLA is one of the groups working with Great Stories of the Geat Plains - more regional stories DakotaBookNet.com. Dakota Gold, the NDLA by Jamestown's Keith Norman centennial history and cookbook, is available on The Big Book of Mother Goose - a classic reproduction the site. [Editor's note: Check it out and buy a of a 1953 collection of 70 nursery rhymes from the State copy ... or two! Dakota Gold makes a great gift Historical Society of North Dakota anytime of the year.] Cookbook for Germans from Russia - a popular guide to the best recipes from the Germans from Russia Dakota BookNet has also partnered with others Order online at www.dakotabooknet.com in the state who sell books. Their first partners include the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at NDSU, Books on Broadway bookstore in Williston, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota Museum Store. 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The Good Stuff - Page 26 - December 2008 By Leah Calbreath, Public Services Librarian, $9,760 on October 29, 1908. W. S. Russell drew up Dickinson Area Public Library the plans and specifications. On September 10, 1909,

Josephine Hargrave was elected as the first librarian The staff of Dickinson Area Public Library welcomed at a salary of $60 per month. The library has been hundreds of well wishers to the 100th Anniversary located at the corner of 2nd Avenue West and 3rd Celebration of the Library on October 16, 2008. Street West since its beginning. Attendees were treated to cake and other refreshments during an afternoon open house and reception in the In April 1938, work began on the west wing addition, Community Room. Members of the Friends of the a WPA building project which was completed in Library were given their choice of commemorative 1939. An addition on the east side of the library was souvenirs -- either a wine glass or a glass ornament. constructed in 1975 for $224,541 and added 5,500 Both feature the Library's logo and include the 1908 square feet of space. date of its creation. These items are now being sold to In 2003, after years of planning and revising plans the general public. for expansion and renovation, the Library Board In the evening, a gallery opening and reception for determined that it would seek its own funding former Dickinson resident Peggy Martin was held. An sources through private donations to supplement the exhibit of nearly forty of Ms. Martin's photographs of funds already accumulated in the Dickinson Area Dickinson and the surrounding area were on display Public Library Foundation, which was established to until the middle of November. Martin currently handle bequests and private donations in 1992. The resides in Cambridge, England, so it was a special Foundation opened bids for the various contracts and treat to have her in attendance. ground was broken in 2004 for the 14,272 square foot

addition to the south side of the library. No tax dollars The original planning of the Dickinson Public Library were used for the building and renovation project. was begun in 1908 by the first library board. This original board, known as the Dickinson Library The latest addition faced the challenge of replicating Association, wrote to Andrew Carnegie proposing the style of the 1908 building and unifying the the building of the library. Carnegie answered with a previous additions into a 24,000 square foot building. letter advising the City that he would found the library The original woodwork details and tin ceiling with a gift of $12,500. A library tax was submitted were restored to retain the integrity and beauty of to the people of the original building. The historic north entrance Dickinson on April 6, is located at 139 3rd Street West and above this 1908, and passed by entrance, the original cast stone lettering lists the a vote of 576 to 140. date of construction "1908" along with the words Butler & Soules "PUBLIC LIBRARY." The original leaded glass transom was awarded the window is above the doors at this entrance. Inside the building contract for library, the 1908 fireplace remains intact and is now usable with the conversion to gas logs. Stained glass windows and a birdcage style elevator give additional historic appeal to the library. The dedication of the completed library was held in September 2007. The library staff looks forward to September 2009 when the NDLA Conference will be held in Dickinson. We encourage all of you to visit and see our very special library for yourselves. If you come to Dickinson before that time, be sure and stop and see us. We would be happy to give you a tour!

The Good Stuff - Page 27 - December 2008 NDLA 2008 Co n f e r e nc e Re s o l u t i o n s Editor’s note: These resolutions were passed at the Third General Session on Friday, September 26, 2008.

EXECUTIVE BOARD Whereas, the availability of reliable and authoritative Whereas, the meetings and events of the 2008 NDLA health information is a critical part of library services Annual Conference were organized by Phyllis Bratton, and enables the safety and well-being of the residents conference chair; the local issues committee; and other of North Dakota, Mandan/Bismarck area librarians and friends, and Now, therefore, be it resolved: that NDLA recognize Whereas, the facility and staff of the Best Western a new health information resource, Go Local North Seven Seas Hotel and the staff of the Morton Mandan Dakota www.medlineplus/golocalnd, which is Public Library contributed to the success of the designed specifically for North Dakota residents, and conference, Now, therefore, be it further resolved: that NDLA members acknowledge the efforts of the staff of the Now, therefore, be it resolved: that the North Dakota Harley E. French Library, University of North Dakota, Library Association expresses its appreciation and (www.undmedlibrary.org/) with the support of the extends its thanks to the conference chair, members National Library of Medicine (www.nlm.nih.gov/) of the local issues committee, conference facility staff, for creating this resource, and join the members of speakers, program presenters and exhibitors for the the Health Science Information Section in endorsing 2008 NDLA Annual Conference “Librarians Under and promoting to all library users “Go Local North Construction: A Life of Continuous Education.” Dakota: Discover Health Services Near You!” (www. medlineplus/golocalnd). PUBLIC LIBRARY SECTION Whereas, the State Library is requesting an additional NEW MEMBERS ROUNDTABLE $300,000 in its 2009-2011 budget for state aid to Whereas, during the 2008 NDLA annual conference, public libraries, and continuing education credits were offered to Whereas, local public libraries, especially in rural participants, communities, find meeting costs of collection Now, therefore, be it resolved: that we thank Donna development, of maintenance, of staff, and of computer James, Phyllis Bratton, Kirsten Baesler, and Kathy Berg access difficult, and for their hard work in arranging and executing this Whereas, per capita spending in public libraries when new continuing education track. We encourage the compared to surrounding states and the nation shows continuance of this practice at future conferences. North Dakota lagging significantly behind, Now, therefore, be it resolved: that the NDLA Whereas, statewide educational resources are vital to membership actively support the State Library’s efforts the continuation of preparing North Dakotans for an during the 2009 legislative session to secure the information literate world, additional $300,000 for state aid to public libraries to ensure that all North Dakota citizens have access to Now, therefore, be it resolved: that the North Dakota needed information. legislature continue and increase its level of funding for statewide electronic resources. The North Dakota Library Association stands firmly resolved in its support Whereas, the State Library is requesting an additional of the additional $200,000 funding initiative. $200,000 in its 2009-2011 budget for online databases for North Dakota citizens, and Whereas, the Executive Board promoted environmental Whereas, local public libraries cannot afford on their stewardship by posting minutes, agendas and other own the cost of these databases, notices to the NDLA web site rather than printing Now, therefore, be it resolved: that the NDLA copies for distribution, membership actively support the State Library’s efforts Now, therefore, be it resolved: that this practice of during the 2009 legislative session to secure the “going green” be continued for future conferences and additional $200,000 for online databases to ensure other NDLA communication and business. that all North Dakota citizens have access to needed information.

HEALTH SCIENCE INFORMATION SECTION Whereas, NDLA’s purpose is to “provide leadership and to promote library services” to the residents of North Dakota, and The Good Stuff - Page 28 - December 2008 SCHOOL LIBRARY AND YOUTH SERVICES Now, therefore, be it resolved: that NDLA requests SECTION the Governor’s Commission strongly consider the Whereas, the SKILLS (Strengthening Kids Interest in recommendations made by the Lawrence Picus and Learning and Libraries) Act was introduced to Congress Associates consulting firm as it establishes its standards in 2007, and for adequacy in the ND public education system. Whereas, the SKILLS Act guarantees students across America will be served by state-certified school library Whereas, a nationwide poll reveals that Americans media specialists, and are deeply concerned that the United States is not Whereas, the SKILLS Act ensures that students will have equipping young people with skills they need to the library resources they need to succeed, and compete in the global economy, and Whereas, the SKILLS Act requires school districts, to Whereas, there is universal agreement that teaching the extent feasible, to ensure that every school within 21st century skills is important to our country’s future the district employs at least one state-certified school economic success, and library media specialist in each school library, and Whereas, we are living in a different era that requires Whereas, the SKILLS Act establishes as a state goal that new thinking in our approach to educating youth and there be at least one highly qualified school library the things students need to learn today are different media specialist in every public school, and than 20 years ago, and Whereas, the SKILLS Act broadens the focus of training, Whereas, skills such as problem solving, innovation, professional development, and recruitment activities to and creativity have become critical in the 21st century, include school library media specialists, and and Whereas, the SKILLS Act ensures that funds will serve Whereas, accelerating technological advances, a elementary, middle and high school students, and rapidly changing knowledge base, an interconnected workforce, and an increasingly global society have all Whereas, the SKILLS Act requires books and materials combined to make 21st century skills – global literacy, to be appropriate for and engage the interest of problem solving, innovation and creativity – essential students in all grade levels and students with special for every student’s success, and learning needs, including English language learners, Whereas, we can and should be doing more to prepare Now, therefore, be it resolved: that NDLA request that our young people to succeed in the 21st century, and Senator Conrad and Senator Dorgan support the SKILLS Act in S.B. 1699 and Representative Pomeroy support Whereas, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills the SKILLS Act in H.R. 2864 with their votes. serves as a catalyst to position 21st century skills at the center of education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, community Whereas, the Governor’s Commission for Education and government leaders, and Improvement was established to study the adequacy of Whereas, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills brings North Dakota’s public education system, and together the business community, education leaders Whereas, the Commission hired the outside consulting and policymakers to define a powerful vision for 21st firm of Lawrence Picus and Associates to define century education to ensure every child’s success as adequacy, and citizens and workers in the 21st century, Whereas, Lawrence Picus and Associates consult Now, therefore, be it resolved: that NDLA work with regularly with groups to determine what it takes to other organizations such as the Educational Technology provide an adequate education, and Council and the ND Association of Technology Leaders Whereas, their recommendations regarding Media to inform our state leaders and educators of the Specialists concluded that in order for an adequate importance of using 21st Century Learning Standards education to occur there must be a minimum of 1.0 and becoming part of The Partnership for 21st Century library media specialist in every elementary and middle Skills. school, and a minimum of 1.0 library media specialist with 1.0 aide at every high school, and Whereas, the Picus recommendation supports the research that has consistently proven a library media program with a full-time library media specialist increases students’ achievement,

The Good Stuff - Page 29 - December 2008 Greetings from MPLA President

Dear Friends in North Dakota, at the beginning of Custer’s fateful trip.

I heard a report on NPR that the people in North Theodore Roosevelt National Park was a great Dakota are the friendliest in the U.S. That was experience. A good thing about traveling this time of certainly proven out during my visit to your year is the small number of tourists. I was the only conference. It was fun renewing old acquaintances person at his Maltese Cross cabin, so I got to have and making new friends. a long conversation with the ranger. I then drove to the site of TR's Elkhorn ranch, again all alone. I saw I am very impressed with the innovative things you are buffalo and deer and enjoyed some very peaceful doing in NDLA. I want to investigate your CE concept time contemplating nature along the Little Missouri. and see if there are ways that MPLA can be involved The wind was gently blowing the leaves and the birds in similar concepts in other member states. were singing. It was exactly what I needed.

Besides the great conference, I had a lot of fun Thank you for all of your kindness and hospitality. sightseeing in North Dakota. After leaving Mandan, I I had a great time and will think of North Dakota went to Fort Abraham Lincoln and toured On-a-Slant fondly. Village, the Custer House , and went up into the block houses. Since I was planning to visit the Little Bighorn Rob Banks Battlefield when I went to Montana to see Eileen MPLA President Wright, MPLA Vice President, it was interesting to start

By Marilyn Johnson, • Set of the daily journals of the House and the Senate Legislative Council Library $90 if picked up; $230 if mailed • Copy of the House and Senate Journal Index On January 6, 2009, at 12 Noon, the Sixty-first North (available after final adjournment) Dakota Legislative Assembly convenes. Using the $30 whether picked up or mailed legislative branch website at www.legis.nd.gov/, you • Set of weekly committee hearing schedules of the can find all versions of 2009 bills and resolutions, bill House and Senate status, legislative leadership, legislator listings, and Free if picked up; $40 if mailed. fiscal reports on the status of appropriations as well as • Set of daily calendars of the House and Senate free other information on the legislative process, including if picked up; $70 if mailed. 2007-08 interim study work. • Daily bill status report $350 if picked up; $490 if mailed Subscriptions to paper copies of documents for the 2009 legislative assembly are available upon payment To subscribe to any of these documents, you must of the appropriate subscription fee. Prices vary complete a legislative document subscription depending on whether the documents are picked up service (2009) form available at www.legis.nd.gov/ from the bill and journal room or are sent by first-class information/services/subscript02.html. You may mail as soon as they become available for distribution. also request a form by telephone (701-328-2916), fax (701-328-3615), or mail (Legislative Council, • Set of bills and resolutions as introduced and printed State Capitol, 600 East Boulevard, Bismarck, ND or reprinted 58505-0360). A completed form must be sent to the $150 if picked up; $290 if mailed address indicated on the form along with a check • Set of bills and resolutions as introduced and in the appropriate amount payable to the North printed or reprinted, including a set of all engrossed Dakota Legislative Council. Subscription fees are and reengrossed bills and resolutions nonrefundable. $260 if picked up; $485 if mailed. The Good Stuff - Page 30 - December 2008 Greetings from MPLA President TREASURER'S REPORT As of September 30, 2008T reasurer's(End of 3rd Repor Quarter)t By Michael Safratowich, As of September NDLA 30, 2008 Treasurer (End of 3rd Quarter) Editor’s note: Approved by electronic By Michael vote of the Safratowich,NDLA Executive Board NDLA on October Treasure 15, 2008.r

Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance CHECK BOOK 1/1/2008 $18,019.23

Pass-Through Funds Book Sales $3,979.29 $2,211.00 $1,386.64 $4,803.65

Pass-Through Funds Subtotal $3,979.29 $2,211.00 $1,386.64 $4,803.65

NDLA Funds $14,039.94 Annual Conference 2008 $18,820.00 $7,061.13 Dues 2008 $2,795.00 $10,425.00 $70.00 Professional Dev / Canoe Kudos Investment Account Transfers $97.00 HSIS Partner Account $4,481.64 $4,481.64 Centennial Cookbook -$5,546.93 $916.75 $94.59 -$4,724.77 Other receipts/disbursements $340.13 $9,116.69

NDLA Funds Subtotal $30,501.88 $16,439.41 $28,102.41

Check Book Balance 9/30/08 $32,906.06 ******************************************************************************************************************** INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA CD $10,000.00

$10,000.00 NDLACD ReadyCash $2,393 .54 Interest $585.04

$2,978.58 NDLA Money Market $15,751.19 Interest $282.83

$16,034.02 Rudser CD $10,000.00

$10,000.00 Rudser Money Market Ready Cash $5,851.83 Interest $429.83 Deposits $16.00 $6,297.66 Hubbard Money Market $1,795.30 Interest $32.24 Deposits $16.00 $1,843.54 Jaugstetter Leadership Fund CD $2,500.00

$2,500.00 Jaugstetter Leadership Fund Savings $9,315.96 Interest $68.35 Deposits $65.00 $9,449.31

TOTAL investment accounts $57,607.82 $59,103.11

TOTAL EQUITY 9/30/08 $92,009.17

The Good Stuff - Page 31 - December 2008 North Dakota Library Association Membership for January 1 - December 31, 2009 Name______City State Zip+4______Institution______Position______Work Phone______Home Phone______FAX______E-mail______

Choose Sections/Roundtables—membership entitles you to join as many as you wish! ___ Academic and Special Libraries Section ___ Government Documents Roundtable ___ Health Science Information Section ___ New Members Roundtable ___ Public Library Section ___ Technical Services Roundtable ___ School Library & Youth Services Section

$______Membership dues ____ Individual $35.00 ____ Student $20.00 (for persons enrolled in a library school program (3-year limit)) ____ Trustee $20.00 (for library board members) ____ Associate $20.00 (non-voting membership category available only to persons not employed in a North Dakota Library (friends, retirees, etc.)) ____ Institution calculate using formula: $35.00 for the first $5000 of operating budget or portion thereof, PLUS $1 per $1000 of budget thereafter, to a maximum of $200

$______Donation to the Professional Development Grant Fund* $______Donation to the Flicker Tale Children's Book Award Fund* $______Total enclosed *A receipt will be mailed to you indicating the amount of any donations. Thank you!

Send this form and a check payable to North Dakota Library Association to: Kathy Thomas Thank you for joining NDLA! NDSU Library, Dept 2080 PO Box 6050 Fargo ND 58108-6050 www.ndla.info

The Good Stuff - Page 32 - December 2008 2008-2009 North Dakota Library Association Executive Board All phone numbers are Area Code 701 President Academic & Special Technical Services Professional Phyllis Ann K. Bratton Libraries Section Roundtable Development Committee Jamestown College Raugust Victor Lieberman Elizabeth Jacobs Mark Holman Library Chester Fritz Library North Dakota State Library Sitting Bull College Library 6070 College Lane University of North Dakota 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 1341 92nd St Jamestown ND 58405-0002 3051 University Ave Stop 9000 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Fort Yates ND 58538-9721 Work Phone 701.252.3467 x Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Work Phone 701.328.1860 Work Phone 701.854.8024 2433 Work Phone 701.777.4639 Fax 701.328.2040 Fax 701.854.3403 Fax 701.253.4318 Fax 701.777.3319 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]. edu Constitution, Bylaws & Public Relations President-Elect Policies Committee Committee Laurie L. McHenry Government Documents Kirsten Baesler Cathy A. Langemo UND Chester Fritz Library Roundtable Pioneer School WritePlus Inc. 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 Rachel White 1400 E. Bramen Ave 205 E Arbor Ave Apt 108-G Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 State Historical Society of Bismarck ND 58501 Bismarck ND 58504-5717 Work Phone 701.777.2919 North Dakota Work Phone 701.221.3445 Work Phone 701.223.7972 Fax 701.777.3319 Archives & Historical Research Kirsten_Baesler@ [email protected] [email protected]. Library bismarckschools.org nodak.edu 612 E Boulevard Ave The Good Stuff Editorial Bismarck ND 58505-0830 Finance Committee Committee Past President Work Phone 701.328.3571 Bonnie Krenz Marlene Anderson Donna James Fax 701.328.2650 Griggs County Library Bismarck State College Library Allen Memorial Library [email protected] PO Box 546 PO Box 5587 Valley City State University Cooperstown ND 58425-0546 Bismarck ND 58506-5587 101 College St SW Health Science Work Phone 701.797.2214 Work Phone 701.224.5578 Valley City ND 58072-4098 Information Section [email protected] Fax 701.224.5551 Work Phone 701.845.7275 Karen Anderson [email protected]. Fax 701.845.7437 Trinity Health Angus L. edu [email protected] Cameron Medical Library Intellectual Freedom 20 Burdick Expressway W Suite Committee Executive Secretary Secretary 103 Christine Kujawa Cathy A. Langemo Zach Packineau Minot ND 58701 Bismarck Public Library WritePlus Inc. Bismarck Public Library Work Phone 701.857.5435 515 N 5th St 205 E Arbor Ave Apt 108-G 515 N 5th St Fax 701.857.5638 Bismarck ND 58501-4081 Bismarck ND 58504-5717 Bismarck ND 58501-4057 [email protected]. Work Phone 701.355.1496 Work Phone 701.223.7972 Work Phone 701.355.1490 edu Fax 701.355.1500 [email protected] Fax 701.221.3729 [email protected] [email protected] New Members Archivist/Historian Roundtable Legislative Committee Rachel White Treasurer Travis Schulz Kelly M. Steckler State Historical Society of North Michael Safratowich Medcenter One Health Morton Mandan Public Library Dakota UND Library of the Health Sciences Library 609 W Main St Archives & Historical Research Sciences 300 N 7th St. Mandan ND 58554-3149 Library Medical School Room 1300 Bismarck ND 58501 Work Phone 701.667.5365 612 E Boulevard Ave 501 N Columbia Rd Stop 9002 Work Phone 701.232.5391 Fax 701.667.5368 Bismarck ND 58505-0830 Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 Fax 701.323.6967 [email protected] Work Phone 701.328.3571 Work Phone 701.777.2602 [email protected] Fax 701.328.2650 Fax 701.777.4790 Nominations & Elections [email protected] [email protected] Public Library Section Committee Bonnie Krenz Johanna Bjork State Librarian ALA Councilor Griggs County Library Bismarck State College Library Doris A. Ott Shelby E. Harken PO Box 546 PO Box 5587 North Dakota State Library UND Chester Fritz Library Cooperstown ND 58425-0546 Bismarck ND 58506-5587 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 Work Phone 701.797.2214 Work Phone 701.224.5738 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 [email protected] Fax 701.224-5551 Work Phone 701.328.2492 Work Phone 701.777.4634 [email protected] Fax 701.328.2040 Fax 701.777.3319 School Library & Youth [email protected] [email protected]. Services Section Membership Committee edu Kathy Berg Kathryn Thomas Web Editor Century High School Library NDSU Library Theresa Norton MPLA Representative 1000 W Century Ave Dept. 2080 UND Library of the Health Alfred L. Peterson Bismarck ND 58503 PO Box 6050 Sciences North Dakota State Library Work 701.250.4040 Fargo ND 58108-6050 Medical School Room 1300 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Fax 701.250.4099 Work Phone 701.231.8863 501 N Columbia Rd Stop 9002 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Kathy_Berg@bismarckschools. Fax 701.231.7138 Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 Work Phone 701.328.3495 org [email protected] Work Phone 701.777.2946 Fax 701.328.2040 Fax 701.777.4790 [email protected] [email protected] The Good Stuff - Page 33 - December 2008