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THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION June 2013 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 43 • Issue 2 SDLA/NDLA/MPLA Tri-conference September 25-27, 2013 Sioux Falls, South Dakota Conference website: www.sdlibraryassociation.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=31 Christine Kujawa Selected for PLA Gordon M. Conable Award Blind Dating at the Bismarck Public Library Engaging University Students at a Wellness Expo Tri-conference update t Tri-conference Pre-conferences t t Flicker Tale Winners MPLA Awards: Seeking Nominations t INSIDE Table of Contents President’s Message ................................... 3 Christine Kujawa Selected for PLA Gordon M. Conable Award ................... 4 MPLA Awards............................................ 6 2013 Flicker Tale Book Award Winners ........... 7 Canoe Kudos Awards ................................. 7 Blind Dating at the Bismarck Public Library .... 8 Engaging University Students at a Wellness Expo ..................................... 9 SDLA/NDLA/MPLA Tri-conference ...............10 Pre-conferences at Tri-conference ...............11 A Look at NDLA’s Executive Board: Published quarterly by the Continuing Education Committee ...............14 North Dakota Library Association Nerd Up ..................................................15 Editorial Committee On the DOCket ........................................16 Marlene Anderson, Chair Kalan Davis Joan Erickson Chandra Hirning Eric Stroshane Browsing in the Cyberstacks .......................17 Production Artist People Stuff .............................................18 Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley North Dakota in Print ................................20 Subscription Rate Good Stuff from Around the State ...............24 $25/year MPLA: Thinking Beyond Advertising Rates Individual Benefits ....................................26 (per issue) Upcoming Library Events and Conferences ...27 $100 – full-page ad $50 – half-page ad Membership Report ..................................27 $25 – quarter-page ad Treasurer’s Report ....................................28 For information contact: NDLA Membership Form ...........................29 Marlene Anderson, Chair NDLA Executive Board ...............................30 The Good Stuff Editorial Committee Editorial Policy Letters should be sent to Marlene Anderson, Chair, The Deadlines for Articles/News Submission Good Stuff Editorial Committee, Bismarck State College, PO Box 5587, Bismarck, ND 58506-5587, or e-mail: Issue Deadline [email protected] August 2013 Friday, June 21 Submission Guidelines & Deadlines December 2013 Friday, October 18 Submit news and articles via e-mail to any of these addresses: March 2014 Friday, January 10 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Minutes and Reports are linked to [email protected] www.ndla.info/exbdmin.htm The Good Stuff - Page 2 - June 2013 President’s Message By Al Peterson, NDLA President “Take a vacation, fall out for a insights on Library Vision 2014 and future Library while, Summer’s comin’ in, and Vision versions to come. it’s goin’ outa style” While you are plowing through your summer --”The Golden Road (To reading lists, I want to remind you of the upcoming Unlimited Devotion)” tri-conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I was Words and music by The privileged to be a part of the selection committee Grateful Dead, Copyright Ice to review program proposals. There will be some Nine Publishing excellent conference sessions. In addition, the South Dakota Library Association has lined up some By the time you read my message, summer should fabulous speakers. Rick Steves, host of PBS’s Rick be here, the trees and bushes should be lush with Steves’ Europe, ALA President Maureen Sullivan, green, and the summer reading programs should YA Author Neal Shusterman, and Dr. Dale Hoiberg, be in full swing. I hope everyone is enjoying their editor in chief of the Encylopaedia Britannica, are summer. Being president of NDLA has presented scheduled to be keynote speakers. Some of you many opportunities that I may not have had a may be thinking, “I don’t know if I can afford to go chance to experience without taking this position. the tri-conference.” Perhaps your library’s travel One was being involved with the legislative session. budget is limited. If you need funds to attend I had the opportunity to sit in on the Department the tri-conference, or some other conference or of Public Instruction’s budget hearings, which workshop, don’t forget that NDLA offers professional also included the North Dakota State Library’s development grants that can be used to help pay funding requests. I was involved with helping your way! Check the NDLA website for all the NDLA Legislative Chair Kelly Steckler in getting our information you need to apply for a professional membership to reach out to their representatives development grant: http://ndla.info/profdev.htm. You and speak up on behalf of supporting the State may also be thinking, “I don’t want to drive all that Library’s funding requests. We had a good response way by myself.” Well, then, let’s share a ride. At from our membership. I want to thank everyone the December Executive Board meeting, we talked who contacted their legislators and spoke up in about setting up a rideshare site on the NDLA support of libraries in North Dakota. After being website. Keep an eye out on the NDLA listserv for involved in the legislative process, I came away with information on sharing rides or splitting the cost of this observation: as members of the North Dakota hotel rooms. Library Association, we need to be proactive when it comes to library-related legislative issues. As I’ll be enjoying my sunshine daydreams. I hope you librarians, we need to contact our representatives, all enjoy your summer, too. and also need to get our patrons, friends groups, and board members involved in the legislative process. Collectively, we need to let our voices be heard as New NDLA Executive Secretary we stand up for libraries. On April 11, NDLA President Al Peterson announced that Laurie Robertsdahl has agreed Another opportunity I have as NDLA President is to provide services as Executive Secretary the privilege of serving on the North Dakota Library for the North Dakota Library Association. Coordinating Council. The Council assists in Laurie has extensive experience in office planning, coordinating, and evaluating the services management, marketing, and accounting. She and programs of North Dakota libraries. I’ve had possesses the necessary computer skills in the responsibility to review grant applications desktop publishing and Microsoft Office that submitted by libraries as well as assist on the we were looking for in a candidate. She has review process for the Standards for Public Library also has experience in events planning. document. Being on this council gave me new The Good Stuff - Page 3 - June 2013 BY SANDI BATES, HEAD OF REFERENCE AND support, or defend intellectual freedom, USER EDUCATION, HARLEY E. FRENCH the Library Bill of Rights, or the First LIBRARY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES, Amendment; guaranteed open UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA access to library materials and services for children and young North Dakota’s 2012 Librarian adults; guaranteed open access of the Year, Christine A. to electronic information; or Kujawa, has been chosen defended library materials, for the Public Library programs, or services when Association’s Gordon M. confronted with a censorship Conable Award. The award challenge. honors a public library staff member, a library trustee, Kujawa was selected because or a public library that has of her unstinting work in demonstrated a commitment leading intellectual freedom to intellectual freedom and education and advocacy the Library Bill of Rights. The on local, state, and national award consists of $1,500 and levels. Her work has included a plaque that will be presented assisting libraries and librarians at the ALA Annual Conference during banned book challenges, on June 30 in Chicago. Kujawa, disseminating information on who chairs NDLA’s Intellectual intellectual freedom, and chairing Freedom Committee, is the Central the NDLA Intellectual Freedom Dakota Library Network system librarian Committee. She has secured national and assistant director at Bismarck Veterans speakers, including Midnight in the Garden Memorial Public Library. The members of her of Good and Evil author John Berendt, who spoke NDLA committee nominated Christine for the at the 2009 NDLA conference after his book was award. challenged in the Beulah, North Dakota, school system earlier in the year. The recipient of the Gordon M. Conable Award must have demonstrated a commitment to Kujawa names Lester Asheim for his influential intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights article, “Not Censorship but Selection” as a in various ways, including, but not limited, mentor for her work in this area. to the following: developed and promoted collections that include diverse points of view; “When I read his article in graduate school, it provided programs that promote community opened my eyes to an entirely different type of dialog on controversial issues; created and censorship that I wasn’t aware of,” Kujawa said. nurtured an organizational climate that fosters “Asheim was included in the list of ALA’s 100 an understanding of the Library Bill of Rights most important leaders of the 20th century. Even amongst

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