THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION March-June 2015 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 45 • Issue 1-2

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t NDLA Legislative Day t Grad School Experience t Five Ways to Fully Engage t NDLA Conference Update INSIDE t Did you know …? Historical Nugget Table of Contents President’s Message...... 3 Comstock Reading Aloud Initiative...... 4 Digital Public Library of America: Get Involved!...... 5 Did You Know...? NDLA Historical Nugget...... 5 Five Ways to Fully Engage in NDLA...... 6 Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award...... 7 NDLA Membership Dues and Conference Fees...... 8 2015 NDLA Spring Workshop...... 8 Published quarterly by the North Dakota Library Association MPLA Seeks Award Nominations...... 9 NDLA Legislative Day at the Capitol...... 10 Editorial Committee Marlene Anderson, Chair Grants Available through Joan Erickson Eric Stroshane Mountain Plains Library Association...... 12 Production Artist Canoe Kudos Awards...... 13 Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley Browsing in the Cyberstacks...... 14 Subscription Rate Grad School Experience: $25/year Go to Library School...... 16 Advertising Rates 2015 NDLA Conference...... 17 (per issue) People Stuff...... 18 $100 – full-page ad $50 – half-page ad NDLA Membership Report...... 19 $25 – quarter-page ad Library Events and Conferences...... 19 For information contact: North Dakota in Print...... 20 Marlene Anderson, Chair Good Stuff from Around the State...... 26 The Good Stuff Editorial Committee Treasurer’s Report...... 30 NDLA Membership Form...... 31 Editorial Policy NDLA Executive Board...... 32 Letters should be sent to Marlene Anderson, Chair, The Good Stuff Editorial Committee, Bismarck State College, PO Box 5587, Bismarck, ND 58506-5587, or e-mail: [email protected] Editor’s Note Deadlines for Articles/News Submission Submission Guidelines & Deadlines Issue Deadline This issue is a departure from our usual pattern Issue Deadline August 2015 Friday, July 3, 2015 of publication. That is, the March and June 2015 August 2015 Friday, July 3, 2015 (pre-conference issue) issues are combined rather than being published (pre-conference issue) as two separate issues. Our regular publishing schedule will with resume with the August Submit news and articles via e-mail to any of these (pre-conference) 2015 issue. Good reading! addresses: [email protected] Minutes and Reports are linked to [email protected] www.ndla.info/exbdmin.htm [email protected]

The Good Stuff - Page 2 - March-June 2015 President’s Message By Greta Guck, NDLA President

Greetings! It has been a I think we have an interesting dynamic in our busy few months. There organization right now. We have a strong contingent are so many great things of veteran librarians who have been involved in going on right now – ILEAD NDLA activities and leadership for years. They have USA, L3ND (The Bremer invaluable experience, wisdom, and knowledge about Rural Libraries and Literacy our organization and have ensured that NDLA has Leadership Institute), the thrived through the years. Library Advocacy & Funding Workgroup, #ndlibchat, the There is also a group of new and emerging librarians – Mentorship pilot program – it new to the profession, new to the organization. Many is certainly an exciting time in of you are just finding your footing in your careers and North Dakota Library Land. may be finding yourselves ready to get more involved in NDLA, but perhaps are unsure of how to do so. I While attending graduate school, I remember my know that was certainly the position I was in. professors stressing the importance of getting involved in professional organizations, and so, diligent Involvement in NDLA creates the bridge between student that I was, I took advantage of the student our seasoned veterans and new recruits. It provides combo rate for ALA/Wisconsin Library Association a forum and space where ideas can be shared membership, attended my first conference, poked and encouragement can be given. I gave my first around the ALA website a bit – all the while feeling conference presentation this past fall upon the urging a bit overwhelmed. At that first WLA conference in of a longtime NDLAer. Milwaukee, I remember marveling at how everyone seemed to know each other. Sure, I was a recent NDLA allows opportunities for mentorship, both graduate attending my first conference, but I couldn’t formal and informal. NDLA has a mentorship pilot help but wonder if I would ever move through the program underway, which will grow in the years to conference halls as confidently as those around me come, but mentorship can also occur more informally, seemed to be doing. e.g., from long time NDLAers who encourage new members to get involved, run for office, present at the Shortly after that conference, I left Wisconsin for annual conference, etc. I encourage you to reach out Minot and promptly joined NDLA. When I first to one another – whether it is within your workplace, joined, I had similar feelings as I did in Wisconsin NDLA section or roundtable, the NDLA listserv, at -- scanning NDLA emails but feeling like I showed up the NDLA Conference, or via Twitter chats and our mid-conversation, not quite knowing how I could get Facebook page. involved, or even when I would feel confident enough to do so. Over the course of a few years, however, it The future of our organization lies in the strength of has been the wonderful people of NDLA who drew its membership. As we go forward, let us reach out me in and encouraged me to become more active in to one another so that we may continue to do great the organization. That has made all the difference. things for librarianship in North Dakota!

The Good Stuff - Page 3 - March-June 2015 Comstock Reading Aloud Initative

For the eleventh year, regional children have chosen the best books read out loud to them as part of MSUM’s (Minnesota State University Moorhead) Comstock Reading Aloud Initiative. Through the program, 18 regional teachers and librarians and 240 MSUM students read 286 picture books aloud to 21,988 children during the year.

2015 Wanda Gág Book Award Winner (preschool to 8-year old category) Sam & Dave Dig a Hole written by Mac Barnett; illustrated by Jon Klassen

Honor Book • A Perfectly Messed-up Story written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell

2015 Comstock Book Award Winner (9 to 12-year old category) What to Do When You’re Sent to Your Room written by Ann Stott; illustrated by Stephen Gilpin

Honor Books • The Bambino and Me written by Zachary Hyman and illustrated by Zachary Pullen • Gifts from the Enemy written by Trudy Ludwig and illustrated by Craig Orback • Rags: Hero Dog of WWI: A True Story written by Margot Theis Raven and illustrated by Petra Brown

The program is administered by staff of the Livingston Lord Library Curriculum Materials Center at MSUM. For all the details, visit http://www.mnstate.edu/cmc/.

Digital Public Library of America: Get Involved! Submitted by Stephanie Kom, North Dakota State Library Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) “brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world … It aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used… “ (Source: DPLA website - About page)

If you’re interested in DPLA and want to help it grow and thrive, if you’re enthused about open access access, digital collections, and the potential of a national digital library, take the next step and volun- teer to be a Community Rep. North Dakota currently has one rep, Stephanie Kom, the Digital Initiatives Librarian at our State Library. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have more North Dakotans involved?

For all the details, visit the Community Reps section of the Get Involved page.

The Good Stuff - Page 4 - March-June 2015 Did you know…? NDLA Historical Nugget The Good Stuff, NDLA’s official publication, began in 1971. How it got its name is an interesting story. Early issues were typed, mimeographed, stapled, and mailed first class. With the March 2005 issue, The Good Stuff became a web-based publication.

The Good Stuff - Page 5 - March-June 2015 Five Ways to Fully Engage in NDLA

By Greta Guck, NDLA President

Are you looking for more ways to get involved in 4. Submit a program proposal for the NDLA and make the most of your membership? 2015 Conference The strength of our conference lies in Here are five things you can do: the variety of the sessions offered. The only way to make that happen is for you 1. Like NDLA on Facebook to present your ideas to the rest of the The NDLA Facebook page has been taken NDLA community. Past President Victor over by new administrators, and they are Lieberman is seeking submissions for ready to fill your newsfeed with upcoming program proposals. Start brainstorming NDLA events, interesting library-related tidbits, now and submit your proposal via the and more. Join us in creating an active and Conference page on our website: http:// engaging online space for all of our NDLA ndla.info/conference/2015/. members! 5. Attend the 2015 NDLA Conference 2. Attend an upcoming Webinar This year’s conference will be held in The NDLA Executive Board recently purchased Jamestown, September 16-19. Attending a subscription to Zoom video conferencing the annual conference gives you many and webinar software. We will be using it to opportunities to meet and share ideas with host webinars and other online events for our those connected to the library community members. Stay tuned for more information! across the region. We hope to see you there! For the latest information on 3. Run for a position on the conference plans, visit http://ndla.info/ NDLA Executive Board conference/2015/. Serving on the Executive Board is a great way to learn more about NDLA, network If you haven’t yet renewed your membership with your colleagues across the state, and for 2015, I encourage you to do so today! Visit build your professional skills. It is also a the NDLA Membership page: http://ndla.info/ wonderful way to give back and serve the membership.php. Association! Candidates are currently being sought for President-elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and officers for the various sections and roundtables. Contact Kerri Tyler, Chair of the Nominations, Election, and Voting committee: [email protected] The Good Stuff - Page 6 - March-June 2015 Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award

Submitted by Linda Austin, Flicker Tale Chair Non-fiction The Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award is sponsored To Dare Mighty Things by Doreen Rappaport by NDLA and administered by the SLAYS (School The Finest Hours: the True Story of the U.S. Libraries and Youth Services) Section. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue by Mike Tougias 2015 Flicker Tale Winners Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Picture Book Mud, and Blood by Nathan Hale The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt Spic-and-Span! Lillian Gilbreth’s Wonder Kitchen by Monica Kulling Intermediate Stick Dog by Tom Watson For more information about the award and the award process, visit the Flicker Tale page on the NDLA Juvenile website. Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein ​ Non-fiction The Beatles Were Fab (and They Were Funny) by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer Professional Development The winning authors are being invited to attend Grant Report the NDLA Conference in September to accept their By Carrie Scarr, West Fargo Public Library awards.

2016 Flicker Tale Nominees Editor’s note: The NDLA Professional Development grant may be used for college or university classroom The 2016 Flicker Tale nominees have been selected work, independent study, workshops, conferences, or by the nominating committee and are posted on the participation in any activity that will benefit the library NDLA website. They include: community in North Dakota. As part of the grant requirements, recipients submit an evaluative report to Picture Book the Executive Board for publication in The Good Stuff. I’m My Own Dog by David Ezra Stein For complete information about NDLA grants, visit Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty http://ndla.info/professional-development.php. This Little Piggy by Tim Harrington Giant Dance Party by Betsy Bird During the fall semester, I attended Microcomputer Intermediate Maintenance at Minnesota Community and Technical The Miniature World of Marvin and James by Elise College. This was a 3-credit course that focused on Broach hardware compatibility, system architecture, memory, Dory Fantasmagory by Abby Hanlon input devices, video displays, disk drives, modems, The Chicken Squad by Doreen Cronin and printers. Through my employment at West Fargo Charlie Bumpers vs the Teacher of the Year by Bill Public Library, I have replaced a few memory sticks, Harley installed dual monitors, and resolved printer issues, but this course gave me the opportunity get more Juvenile hands-on experience with hardware and software. Rump: the True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl The final project – building a computer and installing Shurtliff an operating system – was particularly challenging Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. and a good learning experience. Lamana The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm Thank you to NDLA for awarding me a professional The Greenglass House by Kate Milford development grant!

The Good Stuff - Page 7 - March-June 2015 NDLA Membership Dues and Conference Fees By Greta Guck, NDLA President

At its November 2014 meeting, the NDLA Executive Board had a lengthy discussion about increasing the current membership dues. There has not been an increase in membership dues since 2000. The Finance Committee will be evaluating our current fee structure as well as taking into consideration other models, such as membership dues based on salary ranges.

An increase in membership dues and conference fees would allow NDLA to expand the services and programs currently available to members. It would enable us to bring in more nationally-recognized speakers and trainers and would elevate the quality and content of programs and pre-conference offerings at our annual conference. Any increase in fees would not occur until the next membership year (2016).

We encourage your feedback as we move through this process.

2015 North Dakota State Library Spring Workshop

The State Library hosted its annual Spring Open Record & Meeting Law Workshop, April 6-7, 2015, at the Comfort Presenter: Sandra L. DePountis Inn in Bismarck. Not Just Old Dusty Stuff Keynote speaker Pat Wagner presented two Presenter: Erik Holland workshops on April 6: Let’s Make a Marketing Plan • Herding Kittens: How to Have Presenter: Kristin Byram Influence When You Don’t Have Power or Authority Google (What’s New) • The Message is in the Details: Presenter: Mike DeFoe Nonverbal Communications Conquering ND’s Digital Divide Wagner is a manager and producer at Pattern Presenter: Beth Twomey Research, Inc., and has been a trainer, educator, and consultant for 40 years. K-12 Databases Presenter: Steve Axtman On April 7, a two-track format provided several options for public or school New GED Literacy Opportunities librarians: Presenter: Valerie Fisch

Tutor ND By arrangement with VCSU, attendees could Presenter: Susan Del Rosario also register for one CE/graduate credit.

The Good Stuff - Page 8 - March-June 2015 MPLA Seeks Award Nominations

By Paulette Nelson, MPLA Representative successfully furthered an understanding and appreciation of the Mountain Plains region. Looking for a unique gift for a colleague? Why The author need not reside in the region, and not nominate someone you know for one of the the selection may be based on either a single many awards given by the Mountain Plains Library work or a body of works. Published works will Association? be evaluated on the basis of literary worth, readability, and evidence of responsible research. Nominations can be made online and are due by July 15, 2015. The awards will be presented at the WLA/ MPLA Beginning Professional Award: To MPLA Conference in Cheyenne, Wyoming, September recognize an MPLA member who, as a librarian/ 23-25, 2015. media specialist within the first five years after receiving a library/media master’s degree, has The MPLA Awards Committee is seeking nominations made a positive impact on the quality and role for the following awards: of library service. Factors such as innovative programming and planning, use of resources, and Carl Gaumer Library Champion Award: To be special projects will be considered. given to the individual, organization or company whose positive support of the Mountain Plains MPLA Innovator Award: To recognize an up-and- Library Association is demonstrated by repeated coming individual(s) or group(s) in the MPLA conscientious endeavors towards libraries, library region for a creative, inventive, trail-blazing staff, trustees, and professional activities. project that has significance to the library community. MPLA Distinguished Service Award: To be given to an MPLA member who has made notable MPLA Unsung Hero Award: To be given to any contributions to the library profession or has library individual(s) or group(s) in the MPLA furthered significant development of libraries in region who have worked on a special project the Mountain Plains region, or has performed that has some significance to a community but exemplary service for an extended period of time. which has not been eligible for a library award, In the case of retired individuals, the nominee or which has for other reasons specified by the may be a past member of MPLA. nominator not been recognized to the degree that it merits, by any library organization. MPLA Literary Contribution Award: To be given to an author whose published writings have

The Good Stuff - Page 9 - March-June 2015 NDLA Legislative Day at the Capitol

By Christine Kujawa and creative programs like Books in Bars and BARK Legislative Committee Member (Bismarck Animals Reading with Kids).

On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, the Legislative Committee We also answered the question, “Do people still organized and attended NDLA’s Legislative Day at the use libraries? Everyone has a computer…” We Capitol. We connected with many legislators about shared personal stories from our libraries as well as the importance of libraries in our state and why they statistics illustrating that libraries are well supported should support them. We heard stories from them by residents of North Dakota. For instance, did you about their favorite “library moments” from when know that in 2013 there were 2.2 million visits to they were kids. We also heard from legislators who North Dakota’s public libraries and 4.2 million items confessed that they haven’t visited their local library were checked out? For those residents who still fall in lately. This provided us with an opportunity to educate the digital divide and don’t have the luxury of owning them about what libraries across the state are doing: a computer, they visited their public library, which non-traditional collections like Freegal and Zinio, resulted in close to 600,000 computer uses. Legislators were in awe of these facts and stated that they had no idea we were offering such wonderful services and meeting so many needs in our communities.

Rep. Ben Hanson

Keli McDonald and Lora Rose

Sandi Bates (standing), Christine Kujawa, Marcia Francis

The Good Stuff - Page 10 - March-June 2015 Thank you to following individuals for volunteering at this important outreach event: Sandi L. Bates, Bismarck State College Library; Marcia Francis, UND Southwest Clinical Campus Library in Bismarck; Greta Guck, Leach Public Library and NDLA President; Keli McDonald, Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library; Lora Rose, Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library; and Maggie Townsend, Legacy High School Library in Bismarck.

Why are libraries important to you? What Some Legislators Said

Rep. Alisa Mitskog and Greta Guck

“Public support needs to increase for North Dakota libraries as they are an essential part of our communities. They promote lifelong learning as well as sponsoring programs that enhance the culture of our communities.” Representative Alisa Mitskog, Wahpeton - District 25

Christine Kujawa and Rep. Erin Oban “One of my fondest memories growing up in a small, rural North Dakota town was the arrival of the Bookmobile, which traveled to provide service to our school’s students from a neighboring city’s public library. I feel that same commitment to education and betterment of our community when I walk into the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library or see kiddos stretching on their tiptoes to reach a book from one of the Little Free Libraries that surprise our streets. I will always appreciate the equal access we all have - whether we’re young or old, rich or poor, rural or urban - to a bigger, broader world housed on the bookshelves of our public libraries.” Senator Erin Oban, Bismarck - District 35 Greta Guck and Rep. Joshua A. Boschee

“Public libraries are integral to the successes of each of our communities throughout the state. Their promotion of literacy, partnership with community organizations, and outreach to rural and underrepresented populations allows North Dakotans the opportunity to enjoy all that a good book, movie or song can provide.” Representative Joshua A. Boschee, Fargo - District 44

The Good Stuff - Page 11 - March-June 2015 Grants Available through Mountain Plains Library Association

By Paulette Nelson, MPLA Representative Individual grant funding includes:

One of the biggest benefits of joining MPLA (Mountain • Reimbursement of actual expenses incurred Plains Library Association) is the opportunity to during a project apply for grant funds. MPLA sponsors a professional • Transportation reimbursement for the lowest development grants program to improve library possible fare or for personal vehicles, mileage for services in the Mountain Plains region by supporting the shortest route at the amount per mile allowed continuing education and research experiences for deduction for federal income tax deductions for individuals employed in the library or related • Funding for course work limited to tuition, fees, professions and grants to states. and books

State Association grants of up to $500 are available Funding that is approved but not needed to reimburse to all state associations for funding pre-or post- expenses is returned to the MPLA general fund. conference sessions. Deadlines for state association grant applications are February 1 (spring conferences) Funding priorities and June 1 (fall conferences). • First-time MPLA grant applicants to encourage Individual grants are awarded to support: active participation in the Association, stimulate the growth of individuals new to the library • Formal course work leading to an advanced profession, and extend the benefits of MPLA degree in library science or a related discipline membership to as many individuals as possible • Formal course work not leading to an advanced • Research projects and continuing education degree but directly related to an individual’s experiences that promise the greatest benefit to library position the applicant and library service in the MPLA • Attendance as a participant or presenter at region a library or scholarly workshop, seminar, • Research projects and continuing education or conference, including the MPLA annual experiences that are directly related to the conference applicant’s library assignment • Visits to another library to receive or provide • Applicants are generally not awarded more significant advanced training in library services than one grant to pursue the same continuing or procedures education experience or research project. For • Library-related research projects example, more than one grant to support course work toward a degree or to attend a workshop, Individual grant categories: seminar, or conference attended in the past with grant support. • Mini-grant - Funding for projects requiring • Research projects are funded only if the project minimal financial support. (Maximum amount: has been well planned, will utilize sound $150) research methodology, and promises to produce • Regular grant - Funding for projects requiring meaningful results that will benefit the library or substantial financial support and occasional associated professions. funding of professional development • When more worthy grant applications are opportunities requiring travel outside the received than can be funded, the committee gives United States (Maximum amount: $600). An priority to applicants with continuing records of example of a regular grant is one awarded MPLA membership. to Kathy Jacobs of South Dakota to attend • No limit is placed on the number of applications the Public Library Association Conference in that may be received from one library during the March. calendar year.

The Good Stuff - Page 12 - March-June 2015 Eligibility Requirements previously employed in a library or related position in the MPLA region and intends to • Residence - Mini-grant or regular grant pursue his or her library career in the MPLA applicants must be a resident of a state in the region. MPLA region. If an applicant moved from the MPLA region after being approved for a grant • MPLA Officers, Committee Chairs, and but before the grant is actually awarded, the Members, and Grant Committee Members - All applicant is not entitled to receive funding, MPLA members are eligible for professional even if the project was completed. development grants. Members of the Professional Development Grants Committee • Association Membership – A mini-grant may not vote on their own applications. applicant must be current member of MPLA and must have been a member for the previous • Past Grant Recipients - A past recipient of a year (total of two consecutive years). professional development grant may not apply Regular grant applicant must be a current for another grant until three years have elapsed member of MPLA and must have been a following the end of the calendar year in which member for the past two years (total of 3 the previous grant was approved. consecutive years, one must be as a full paid member) MPLA members should take advantage of these wonderful grant opportunities. The deadlines for the • Employment - Applicant must be currently remaining rounds of individual grant applications for employed in a library, be a student accepted in 2015 are July 29, September 30, and November 25. an advanced degree program in library science or a related discipline, or hold a position For more information on grants and for grant or office associated with a library such as a application forms, visit the grant section of the trustee. Grant funding will generally not be MPLA website: http://mpla.us/about/professional- awarded to a student unless that student was development-grants.html.

NDLA has a vehicle for recognizing individuals who do a wonderful job in their libraries or who have shown support or done something special Canoe Kudos for libraries. Any member of NDLA can honor a deserving individual by submitting this nomination form along with a $10 donation to the Professional Development Grant Fund. NDLA will present the honoree Nomination Form with a Canoe Kudos pin and, if appropriate, submit a press release to the local newspaper. Canoe Kudos honorees will also be listed in The Good Stuff. You may buy or receive more than one pin.

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Home Address Longer kudos? Work Address You may print this form Position and use the Sponsor’s name back!

Reason for Nomination Send nomination form and $10 donation (checks payable to NDLA) to: Lori K. West, Professional Development Committee Chair, Fargo Public Library, 102 3rd St. North, Fargo, ND 58102-2138.

The Good Stuff - Page 13 - March-June 2015 Browsing in the Cyberstacks

By Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

A message from Wendy Katz of the Center for Great a small independent bookstore in St. Paul. She blogs at Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://birchbarkbooks.com/blog. was the inspiration for sharing information about some contemporary writers of the Plains region. Katz is Kent Haruf working on a “Lost Writers of the Plains” project with https://www.facebook.com/kentharuf NET Radio, Nebraska’s statewide public radio network, Kent Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1943 to promote Plains authors. and earned a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he would later teach, and an MFA from the Fortunately, the nine plains authors featured here are not Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. The lost to us. If you haven’t already read their work, do. first book I read by Haruf was The Tie that Binds and it prompted me to do something I too seldom do – Elizabeth Cook-Lynn write a letter to the author to express my appreciation http://nativeamerican-authors.com/cook-lynn.html for his work. I’m sorry to say that Kent Haruf passed Elizabeth Cook-Lynn was born Elizabeth Irving in away on November 30, 2014, but I’m glad he left a 1930 and is a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. body of work that we can continue to enjoy, including She was raised on the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation Plainsong, Eventide, Where You Once Belonged, in South Dakota. She earned a doctorate from the Benediction, and West of Last Chance. We can also University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and is a retired look forward to reading his last book, Our Souls at professor from Eastern Washington University. Among Night, which he finished shortly before he passed away. her books are Then Badger Said This, Seek the House of Relatives, The Power of Horses and Other Stories, From Linda Hasselstrom the River’s Edge, and Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner http://www.windbreakhouse.com/ and Other Essays. Cook-Lynn received the MPLA Born in Houston, Texas, in 1943, Linda Hasselstrom Literary Contribution Award in 2002. grew up on a ranch in the grasslands of western South Dakota. Her books are filled with descriptions of Louise Erdrich prairie life and she is an advocate for preservation of https://www.facebook.com/louiseerdrichauthor the prairie, its wildlife, and its people. Hasselstrom’s Louise Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band non-fiction works include Windbreak, Going Over East, of Chippewa and was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, in Land Circle, Feels Like Far, Between Grass and Sky, and 1954. She grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where No Place Like Home; her poetry collections include her parents worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Dakota Bones, Bitter Creek Junction, Dirt Songs, and School. Erdrich graduated from Dartmouth College When a Poet Dies; and her anthologies include Leaning and earned a master of fine arts degree from Johns into the Wind, Woven on the Wind, and Crazy Woman Hopkins University. She is internationally-acclaimed Creek. and has received numerous awards for her work, which currently includes novels, as well as volumes of poetry, Joseph M. Marshall III children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. http://www.josephmarshall.com/ Her novel Love Medicine (1984) won the National Joseph Marshall III (1945- ) was born and raised on the Book Critics Circle Award; The Last Report on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. He is an enrolled Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) was a finalist for the member of the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) tribe National Book Award; The Plague of Doves (2008) won and his first language is Lakota. Marshall has published the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the numerous nonfiction works and novels and a collection Pulitzer Prize; and The Round House won the National of short stories and essays. Among his books are Book Award in 2012. Erdrich was the 2013 recipient of Soldiers Falling into Camp: the Battles at the Rosebud North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award and the Little Big Horn (1992; co-author); Winter and will be honored with the Library of Congress Prize of the Holy Iron (1994), The Dance House: Stories for American Fiction in September 2015. Erdrich now from Rosebud (1998), The Lakota Way: Stories and lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, Lessons for Living (2001), The Journey of Crazy Horse:

The Good Stuff - Page 14 - March-June 2015 a Lakota History (2004), Walking with Grandfather: Dan O’Brien the Wisdom of Lakota Elders (2005), The Day the http://wildideabuffalo.com/about-us/dan/ World Ended at Little Big Horn: a Lakota History Dan O’Brien is an owner of the Cheyenne River Ranch (2006), Hundred in the Hand (2007), Keep Going: just west of the Badlands National Park and north of the the Art of Perseverance (2007, reprinted 2009), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He is The Long Knives are Crying (2008), The Power of considered “one of the most powerful literary voices Four: Leadership Lessons of Crazy Horse (2009), on the Plains” and is a two-time winner of the National To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet Endowment for the Arts individual artist’s grant, a two- from the Lakota (2010), The Lakota Way of Strength time winner of the Western Heritage Award, and a 2001 and Courage: Lessons in Resilience from the Bow recipient of a Bush Creative Arts Fellowship. His novels and Arrow (2012), and Returning to the Lakota include The Spirit of the Hills, In the Center of the Nation, Way: Old Values to Save a Modern World (2014). Brendan Prairie, The Contract Surgeon, The Indian Agent, A new novel, In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse, will and Stolen Horses. His non-fiction works include The Rites be released in November 2015. Marshall has also of Autumn, Equinox, Buffalo for the Broken Heart (selected done audio versions of his books, written several for One Book South Dakota in 2009), and Wild Idea: screenplays, served as a technical advisor for movies, Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land. and appeared in television documentaries and the Into the West mini-series, which he also narrated. Larry Watson Marshall was a finalist for the PEN Center USA West http://www.larry-watson.com/ Award in 2002 for the The Lakota Way, won the Larry Watson was born in 1947 in Rugby, North Dakota, 2008 Pen Open Book Award for The Day the World and grew up in Bismarck. He earned an Associate’s degree Ended at Little Big Horn, and was a finalist in the at Bismarck State College (then Bismarck Junior College), Western Writers of American 2009 Spur Awards in BA and MA degrees from the University of North Dakota, a the Western Long Novel category for The Long Knives Ph.D. from the creative writing program at the University of Are Crying. He is also a recipient of the Wyoming Utah, and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Ripon Humanities Award. College. Watson is the author of several books, including Montana 1948, Justice, White Crosses, In a Dark Time, Let Kathleen Norris Him Go, Orchard, American Boy, Laura, and Sundown, http://barclayagency.com/norris.html Yellow Moon, and has won numerous awards, including Kathleen Norris is the author of the award-winning the 1993 Milkweed National Fiction Prize for Montana Dakota: a Spiritual Geography, which was chosen 1948 and the MPLA Literary Contribution Award in 2013. for a special One Book collaboration in 2014 by the states of North Dakota and South Dakota to Larry Woiwode commemorate the 125th anniversary of the entry of http://larrywoiwode.com/ both into statehood. Norris was born in Washington, Larry Woiwode was born in 1941 in Carrington, North D.C., in 1947 and raised in Hawaii. Her first book Dakota, near his hometown of Sykeston. His family of poems was entitled Falling Off and won the Big moved to Illinois in 1950. He attended the University of Table Younger Poets Award in 1971. In 1974, Norris Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a Guggenheim inherited her grandparents’ home in Lemmon, South Fellow. Woiwode’s career began in New York City and Dakota, and she and her husband, poet David he has published numerous stories and poetry in notable Dwyer, decided to move to Lemmon, where they magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, lived for more than 25 years. Norris was interested Harper’s, and The Paris Review. Among his novels are in the spiritual side of life and the prairie was the What I’m Going to Do, I Think (1969 – William Faulkner perfect place for that kind of exploration. The move Foundation Award and ALA Notable Book Award), Beyond to South Dakota inspired Dakota (1993), which was the Bedroom Wall (1975 – National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and National Book Critic’s Circle Award nominee; winner was selected as one of the best books of the year by of Award in Fiction from Friends of American Writers in Library Journal. Norris has several other books and 1976), and Born Brothers (1988). He is also the author collections of poetry to her credit, including The of numerous essays, reviews, and a memoir, A Step from Middle of the World (1981), The Year of Common Death (2008). Woiwode is a John Dos Passos Prize winner Things (1988), The Cloister Walk (1997), Amazing and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal of Grace: a Vocabulary of Faith (1998), The Virgin of Merit recipient. He returned to North Dakota in 1978 and Bennington (2001), The Quotidian Mysteries (1998), was named poet laureate of North Dakota in 1995. and several others.

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By Kalan Davis, Grad Student Go to library school. Editor’s note: Former NDLA member Kalan Davis now lives and works in Minnesota. Kalan is currently pursuing her MLIS degree online through the San Jose State Go. Now. Go. University School of Information and working at the University of Minnesota Libraries. When Kalan lived in North Dakota, she worked at UND’s Chester Fritz Library It doesn’t matter if you have worked off-and-on in and also served as NDLA Membership Chair and as a academic, public, medical, or special libraries your member of The Good Stuff Editorial Committee. whole life, a few months, a few years, or somewhere in between. You may have started a program and I’d worked for thirteen years in academic and research then decided it wasn’t for you, or never had the libraries, but never once had I heard of Llewellyn means, time, or the encouraging environmental Caradoc Puppybreath III. Now that I was a mere two support structure (i.e. family/friends/boss) to get weeks into my first semester of an online library school started, but I beg you, please go. and an honest-to-goodness Master’s program, through which hard work and determination would blessedly Yes. It is hard. Yes. You will spend entire semesters grant me that most coveted piece of precious paper, the relearning things you’ve known for decades. Yes. mere mention of Llewellyn’s name, this decorated man There will be many tedious group projects, sleepless of letters, mentor to Melvil, that Casanova of catalogers, nights, angry (and very hungry) spouses (and crabby that dubious progenitor and founder of the National kids), and family members who think you are Committee on Library and Information Selective Breeding, probably dead because you haven’t called for a the legendary Llewellyn Caradoc Puppybreath III seemed month. But oh! It is so worth it. to me more than a fictitious (or is he?) scholar. To me, he represented a solemn and secret librarian handshake. Journalists, researchers, and others constantly “Here,” I thought to myself quite seriously, “is the reason consumed by fact-finding are often very focused one attends library school. I am now becoming part of on the Five Ws. So profound in their power and the sacred and inner society of librarians.” simplicity that they are capitalized with reverence -- the Five Ws. If you have been in the fact-finding In the first few weeks, I experienced numerous (and some library business for a while, the importance of these quite unanticipated) reasons to go to library school. One Five Ws becomes exceedingly clear. was learning about antelopes – not just any ordinary antelopes, but antelopes as documents – and why We are there for our patrons and community (the antelopes are documents when they are in a zoo, but Who). We meet individual information needs (the not when they are in their natural habitat. Professional What) every day (the When). We meet these needs librarianship, or so it seemed to me, was even more not just at our individual libraries, but via phone, wildly wonderful, strange, and incredibly fantastic that I through digital resources, institutional ILL requests, ever could have imagined or hoped for. and a variety of other environments (the Where). Be it an insatiable personal need to search for and If you are reading this, you are undoubtedly active in provide answers to many of life’s most unfathomable or concerned about the comings and goings of the mysteries, stern parental guidance in our youth, North Dakota Library Association. If you have your the profound life-changing influence of a beloved degree and are already part of the library profession, librarian in our tender years, the love of literature you probably giggled a bit and even felt a bit nostalgic and devout respect for the written word, or a most about my recollections and your own graduate program happy accident (the Why), the Five Ws are clear. experiences. If you are reading this while working as a paraprofessional sans your professional degree, read Beyond the Five Ws is a sixth question: the How. closely. This article is intended for you.

The Good Stuff - Page 16 - March-June 2015 Going to library school is learning about the How of it • How do I maintain and administer a budget (or all. On the job, we learn: how can I keep us going with that much less for a little while longer)? • How it has always been done this way • How do I write grant proposals (or how do I • How the Library of Congress Subject Manual find cha-ching, cha-ching)? says it is so • How do I manage records and information life • How the department head says so cycles (or how can I file through this stack of • How I don’t want to get in trouble or make paper to get it off my desk)? waves • And so on. • How it needs to be this way • How we don’t have the staff to do it a different There’s also the power of the How. How can I do way more, achieve more, learn more, and become an • etc. active part of my library’s growth, the larger library community, and help effectively steer the future of the In library school, we learn: profession?

• How do these databases work (or more Go to library school. You won’t regret it (well, except importantly, why don’t they work)? at two in the morning on work nights, but only a little). • How does my ILS work (or how is it failing me It is awesome. It is worth it. miserably today)? • How does Dewey Decimal Classification And there is this weird fixation with antelopes. Bonus! work (or how can I make it work better for my collection)? • How can I create and successfully enact new library policy (or how can I scrub decade- old policies that are strangling our finite staff resources and hurting our services)?

2015 NDLA Conference September 16-19 – Jamestown An Invitation from Victor provide, see provided, or otherwise per night. You may contact the Lieberman, Past President and have ideas about. Submit your Gladstone Inn by calling 701-252- Conference Chair proposal via the conference page 0700. Be sure to ask for a room on the NDLA website. in the NDLA block. This block I hope everyone is looking forward will expire on September 1, 2015. to and planning to attend the Lodging In the event that rooms at the 2015 NDLA Annual Conference The conference hotel is the Gladstone fill up, the Holiday Inn in Jamestown this September. Our Gladstone Inn, adjacent to the Express is also located nearby. theme is The Idea of the Library: Jamestown Civic Center where Service ~ Collections ~ Solutions. most meetings and conference Stay Tuned activities will be held. NDLA has Stay tuned for more information Programs reserved a block of 60 rooms at and updates, which will be posted NDLA members are invited to the Gladstone from September on the conference page as they propose programs that you wish to 16-18 at the state rate of $74.70 become available.

The Good Stuff - Page 17 - March-June 2015 people Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member Stuff Dr. Julie Anderson has served as acting Library interested in marine biology since college and have Director of UND’s Chester Fritz Library since the always wanted to work in a marine science lab. When fall of 2014. She took on the role while Wilbur Stolt this job came open, it seemed like fate.” Mary was was on developmental leave to look at libraries of with UND for nearly 15 years. During that time, she the future. Dr. Anderson’s appointment and Wilbur was very active in NDLA, particularly the Health Stolt’s leave were reported in the September 4, 2014, Science Information Section, which she chaired minutes of the University Senate. A search for a twice. She also served on several committees in the new Dean of Libraries and Information Resources is Medical Library Association and was president of the underway. Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association and co-chair of two of the chapter’s annual meetings Carol Cooper was hired as librarian of the Mohall -- 2005 (Fargo) and 2015 (Bismarck). Lila Pedersen, Public Library to replace Sarah Jensen, who retired at director of UND’s Library of the Health Sciences, the end of March 2015. A retirement open house was said: “Mary is already missed by the medical school held at the library on March 30th to give community faculty, residents and students in Fargo. She was very members a chance to say farewell to Sarah and to involved in the curriculum of both the residents and meet Carol. the medical students, coaching them in groups and individually in library and information research skills. After 43 years of service at Central Cass School, Recruitment is underway to fill her position.” Good Janice Dobervitch retired from her position as school luck in your new adventure, Mary! librarian at the end of the school year. Best wishes for your retirement, Janice! Liz Patterson began her position as head librarian of the Washburn Public Library on January 7, 2015. North Dakota has a voice on the committee that will She was hired to replace Julie Petersen, who retired choose the 2016 winner of the John Newbery Award, last November. Patterson is a Bismarck native and which is awarded annually by ALA’s Association for graduated from Augustana College in Sioux Falls. Library Service to Children (ALSC) to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature Neil Price, a long time active member of NDLA, for children. Amber Emery, children’s services passed away on March 24, 2015, in Provo, Utah. Neil coordinator at the Fargo Public Library, put her name served as NDLA president in 1986-87 and also served in as a candidate for the awards committee and was many terms as NDLA treasurer. After leaving North chosen. Over the course of the year, Amber and 14 Dakota several years ago to care for his parents in other volunteer members will be busy reading the Utah, Neil maintained his NDLA membership. His 200-300 contenders for the medal. To find out more obituary is posted on the Olpin-Hoopes Funeral Home about how you can get involved with the work of website. ALSC, go to http://www.ala.org/alsc/getinvolved. A retirement reception was held on May 21, 2015, in Nadine Kotowicz of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, honor of Mary Reinertson-Sand, information specialist passed away on March 23, 2015. Nadine was for the Rural Assistance Center at the Center for involved with ODIN (Online Dakota Information Rural health, located within the School of Medicine Network) operations from its beginnings in 1989 until and Health Sciences. During her 30 years at UND, her retirement in 2008. For the full obituary, go to Mary also worked at the College of Nursing and http://www.stennesfuneralhome.com/memsol.cgi?user_ the Department of Geology. She received the UND id=1547986. Meritorious Service Award in May of 1989. Best wishes for your retirement, Mary! In May, Mary Markland left her position as UND’s Southeast Clinical Campus Librarian (based in Sabrina Serfling is the new librarian at the Hebron Fargo) to take a new position with the Guin Library Public Library. She began her duties on February at the Hatfield Marine Science Center at Oregon 13, 2015, and replaces Amber Miller, who resigned State University in Newport, Oregon. Mary has an because she was moving from the community. undergraduate degree in biology and said, “I’ve been

The Good Stuff - Page 18 - March-June 2015 Membership Report In January, Wilbur Stolt announced his retirement (as of March 12, 2015) from the University of North Dakota effective June Compiled by Mary Sheahan, 1, 2015. A Grand Forks native, Stolt graduated from Membership Chair UND in 1974 with a BS in Education and a BA in History. He earned a Master of Arts in History in 1978 Academic & Special Libraries Section 18 and a Master of Science in Library Science in 1979 Health Sciences Information Section 3 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Public Library Section 17 On July 1, 2000, Stolt began his position as Director School Library & Youth Services Section 10 of Libraries at the University of North Dakota. Under Archives/Records Management Roundtable 4 his leadership, the Chester Fritz Library expanded Government Documents Roundtable 5 access to informational resources by adding databases New Members Roundtable 5 and thousands of electronic journals to support student learning and faculty research; converted the Technical Services Roundtable 4 majority of its print journals to electronic format; Associate members 1 established a program to make Special Collections Institutional members 2 resources available via the Internet; worked with UND Student members Student Government to establish a “Popular Reading Trustees Collection” to provide a selection of print and audio New members 2015 8 books for recreational reading; and established two Total 2015 members 66 endowments to support the Library’s Norwegian Heritage program, which includes the Arne G. Brekke Bygdebok Collection. Stolt was a continuing member of NDLA and served several terms as chair of the ODIN Advisory Council. He also served on the North Dakota Library Coordinating Council for six years, chairing the Council during 2012-2013. Stolt was Library Events and also active in the Association of College and Research Libraries and its North Dakota-Manitoba Chapter, and Conferences was elected to multiple terms on OCLC’s Members Council and Global Council. Stolt was also elected • June 2015 – GLBT Book Month to serve as Chair of the OCLC Americas Regional • June 25-30, 2015 – 2015 ALA Annual Council, representing member libraries from North, Conference, San Francisco, CA South, and Central America and the Caribbean. On April 29, 2015, Stolt was honored at a retirement • July 18-21, 2015 – American Association of Law reception at UND. He plans to move to Oklahoma Libraries, Annual Meeting & Conference, to be closer to his family. Thanks for your service Philadelphia and leadership, Wilbur, and best wishes for your • September 2015 – Library Card Sign-up Month retirement. • September 16-19, 2015 – North Dakota Library Association Conference, Jamestown Sarah Warneke began her position as the new assistant director of the Morton Mandan Public • September 23-25, 2015 – South Dakota Library Library in January 2015. Born and raised in Norfolk, Association Conference, Rapid City, SD Nebraska, Sarah majored in library science with a • September 23-25, 2015 – Wyoming Library minor in English at the University of Nebraska-Omaha Association/Mountain Plains Library Association before earning a Master’s in Library and Information Conference, Cheyenne, Wyoming Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia in • September 27 – October 3, 2015 – Banned 2012. Sarah served as the director of the Northeast Books Week Library System, located in Columbus, Nebraska, to provide consulting services and continuing education • September 30, 2015 – Banned Websites and training opportunities for the 200+ member Awareness Day libraries of the system before joining the Morton • October 8-9, 2015 – Minnesota Library Mandan Public Library. Association Annual Conference, St. Paul

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Angel of the Prairie: the Heroic Story by Mike Jacobs, the former editor and publisher of of Hazel Miner during the North the Grand Forks Herald. Jenkinson says, “Jacobs has Dakota Blizzard of 1920 ($9, 117 p., provided all of us with a superb vehicle to think about pbk.; $4.99, ebook) is the latest book who we are, where we have come from, where we by Kevin Kremer, a native of Mandan are headed, and why this revolutionary moment in our who taught elementary school in history is both a blessing and a serious challenge to Mandan and Bismarck for 28 years. the North Dakota character.” From a library point of The book is based on the true story of view, it is unfortunate that this book is only available Hazel Miner, a 15-year-old girl who lost her own life for download by individual users. while saving her brother and sister in a spring blizzard on March 15, 1920. Kremer, who now lives in Florida, Blessed (20 min.) is a short action film by Stacey visited North Dakota in early May and made several Parshall Jensen, who traces her family roots back to presentations at local schools. To find out more Fort Berthold and describes herself as “mixed blood” about the book, visit the Hazel Miner Book website, saying, “I am Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Black, and a Amazon, or Barnes and Noble. wee bit German.” Blessed features a female Native American as the lead detective. At this point, it is April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. On April 30, unclear when/if the film will be available for viewing survivors of child abuse from the Bismarck-Mandan or purchase. area gave away copies of their newest book, Authentic Voices: How We Survive and previewed their Mott native Rick Watson published Blue Jesus: Poems upcoming short film at the North Dakota Heritage ($11.99, 192 p., pbk.) in November 2014. He also Center. The book and film will be used as teaching released another poetry collection, The Spot ($11.99, tools across North Dakota. For more information, visit 210 p., pbk.) in August 2014. Watson teaches Pop Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota. Culture, Communication Arts, and Music History at Minot State University. Both books are available from In Ava’s Gentle Touch: a Grandma Amazon. Jane Book ($21.99, 26 p., softcover), Grandma Jane (Jane Singer Bobby Vee rose to fame after filling in for Schaaf of Hebron) recounts Buddy Holly at a 1959 show in Moorhead, Minnesota, something funny that happened when Holly died in a plane crash. Vee, originally when she and her then 1-½-year- from Fargo, was 15 years old at the time. Now, his old granddaughter Ava took Fuzz sons are working to digitally archive his musical the cat to the vet. Grandma Jane legacy. The Bobby Vee Music Archive Project recently decided to turn the story includes converting hundreds of hours of analog into a book as a gift to Ava, who is now 5 years old. recordings to a digital format. To learn more about To order a copy, visit Xlibris.com, Amazon, or Barnes Bobby Vee and the project, visit the website at http:// and Noble. The book is also available in Bismarck at www.bobbyvee.net/home.html. the Barnes and Noble store. The fictional community of Catherine Olson of Minot is the author of The Battle Cottonwood Creek in North Dakota Cry of a Christian Woman ($19.99, 264 p., pbk.; is the setting for By the Banks of $12.99, ebook), a book that “gives guidelines on Cottonwood Creek ($12.99, 194 p., living a Christian life and how things are changing pbk.; $4.99, ebook), a first book from in the world.” Olson also tells about two near-death Gayle Larson Schuck of Bismarck. In experiences and her belief that “God leads you to the story, a young pastor seeking to where he wants you to go.” The book is available from escape his own problems by leaving Amazon and Barnes and Noble. California, envisions a peaceful life on the prairie but soon discovers that life presents In his Bismarck Tribune column (January 4, 2015, p. challenges no matter where you live. Readers will 1C), Clay Jenkinson said every North Dakotan should recognize many elements that say North Dakota – read A Birthday Inquiry: North Dakota at 125: a the landscape and the warmth and humor of the Collection of Essays ($5.99, Amazon Kindle ebook) local people. By the Banks of Cottonwood Creek is

The Good Stuff - Page 20 - March-June 2015 available online from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. refuses to marry because she is in love with someone Author Gayle Schuck recently retired as director of the else. Author Charity Balyeat gave a reading and Library Foundation for Bismarck Veterans Memorial signed copies of her book at the Underwood Public Public Library. Library on March 10, 2015. The book is available from Amazon and etechnano.com. Merrie Rolland of Grand Forks has penned Carter and the Deep Blue Sea ($9.99, 30 p., pbk.), a children’s In late 2014, Fargo native Rodney Nelson released two book about Carter and his adventures in the “deep new collections of poetry, Felton Prairie ($17, 105 blue sea” AKA Lake Bemidji in northern Minnesota. p., pbk.) and Words for the Deed ($10, 90 p., pbk.). The book’s namesake, Carter, is the author’s grandson Both books are available from Barnes and Noble and and the story began as a song they made up while Amazon. Felton Prairie and some of Nelsons’ other floating on the lake on a summer day when Carter was chapbooks, are also available from the publisher, about four years old. Becca Hudson, a former graphic Middle Island Press. artist for the Grand Forks Herald, illustrated the book. Carter and the Deep Blue Sea is available at local Fireclaws: Search for the Golden ($3.99, 306 p., bookstores and online through Amazon and Barnes Kindle) is Book 4 in the Enchanters of Xarparion series and Noble. by Fargo native T. Michael Ford. Fireclaws and the other books in the series are available from Amazon. A former resident of Minot has penned Ford now lives in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Comics and Conflict: Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII through A Fireproof Home for the Bride ($26.99, hardcover, Operation Iraqi Freedom ($49.95, 384 p.; $12.99, ebook) is a novel from “Moorhead- 224 p., hardcover). Cord A. Scott’s born and LaMoure-raised” author Amy Scheibe. The book started as his doctoral thesis for fictional story of 18-year-old Emmy, a feminist and free Loyola University Chicago and was thinker coming of age in the post-war ‘50s in Fargo- ultimately published by the Naval Moorhead, incorporates slices of local history such as Institute Press. It is available from the the Fargo tornado of 1957 and local landmarks such publisher as well as from Amazon and Barnes and as the Bison Hotel. The story was inspired by an essay Noble. Author Cord A. Scott graduated from Minot in Real Simple magazine by a mother apologizing High in 1987 and Minot State University in 1991. He to her daughter for not doing a better job of raising currently teaches at Harold Washington College in her. A Fireproof Home for the Bride was a People Chicago. magazine Pick of the Week, “Set at the dawn of the civil rights movement, Scheibe’s tale captures both Tim and Becky Hattenburg of Spokane spent nearly the heartache and the liberation of finding one’s own two years doing research for Death Ride: a Little Boy’s path.” (March 30, 2015, p. 50). Night of Terror ($19.95), a story about the 1937 real- life murders of Mike and Frieda Kuntz near Wheat Carolyn Rebholz was born and raised Basin, Montana. The couple moved from Richardton, near Litchville, North Dakota, where North Dakota to Wheat Basin, where Mike had taken her father’s farmed. In Fractured a job managing a grain elevator. When a local farmer Memories: a Story of Tolerance, who was deep in debt murdered them, their five-year- Integrity, and Talents ($9.99, 192 old son, Larry, was also in the car. The crime was p., pbk.) she tells the biographical quickly solved and Larry was sent back to Richardton story about her dad, Albert A. Berge, where he was raised by his grandmother. Death Ride who rose above his own childhood is available at Springfield Market in Richardton or mistreatment and neglect to “become a online at http://deathridemurder.com/. beloved family man and valued community member.” The book is available from Amazon and Barnes and An Underwood teen, Charity Balyeat, has self- Noble. published Eleanor: the Daring Princess ($14.99, 52 p., pbk.), the first volume in the “Legacy of the House Emmons County native William D. Bosch has penned of Chevolta” series. Set in medieval times, the story The German-Russians in Words and Pictures ($22, is about a princess who is kidnapped by a prince she 146 p., softcover), which traces the history of Germans

The Good Stuff - Page 21 - March-June 2015 from Russia. In the preface, the author writes: “The David R. Slone describes Lord’s Kingdom as a German-Russians left Germany and traveled to Russia, “political thriller that challenges the way Americans where they created an agricultural and industrial think about Cuba.” Slone is a former resident of Valley empire. Then many of them left it all behind and City and UND alum. Lord’s Kingdom was accepted started anew somewhere in the Americas. Their story into a selective writing competition sponsored by is a colorful and fascinating tale filled with triumph Amazon/Kindle in February. Although it didn’t win and tragedy.” The book can be purchased from The a publishing contract, the book may still become Napoleon Homestead or The Germans from Russia available one day and join Slone’s books, Rose Beach Heritage Collection. (2013) and A Man Left Behind (2013), which are both available on Amazon. Fact: Only 17 women have been elected to statewide office in North Dr. Tanya Fyfe, a veterinarian and Dakota’s 125 years. In her new book, former Watford City resident, has Important Voices: North Dakota’s penned Lost and Found in Missing Women Elected State Officials Share Lake ($13.95, 228 p., pbk.), a first Their Stories, 1893-2013 ($24.95, novel written for a middle grade or 358 p., pbk.), Susan Wefald brings teen audience. The story is set in rural the stories of these women together western Montana where 15-year-old and “shares their triumphs and Luke has moved with his father and losses, their hopes and challenges … what they stepmother to train Alaskan husky sled have accomplished and the challenges still facing dogs. It is “a contemporary journey into adolescence women who want to be elected to statewide office that explores the combination of fantasy with reality, today.” Important Voices was published by the North all the while dealing with teenage concerns and Dakota Institute for Regional Studies Press and is issues.” The book is available from Amazon and available from the Press, from the Museum Store at Barnes and Noble. Dr. Fyfe is currently working on a the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck, from sequel. To learn more about Dr. Fyfe, visit her blog at local Barnes and Noble stores, and also online from www.tanyafyfe.wordpress.com. Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Susan Wefald retired from the North Dakota Public Service Commission Minot, North Dakota and Area War Years and and is also the author of Spectacular North Dakota War Heroes by Bruce Anderson ($42.95, 480 p., Hikes: Bring the Dog (2011). hardcover) features more than 900 photographs and a written narrative to tell the story of Minot area Jelly Beans the Cheetah and Hope ($24.95, 32 p., heroes from World War I to the present day. The book hardcover) is a new children’s book from UND is available from Home Sweet Home in Minot and alumna Wendy Muhlhauser. Set in Africa, the book Amazon. Anderson has also released two DVDs, The was inspired by the author’s 2007 trip to Tanzania Story of Minot, 1880-1900: the Birth of the Magic City to work on a clean water project where she met (2005) and Welcome to Flood City (2012). members of the Barabaig tribe. The book was self- published through Beaver’s Pond Press and is endorsed A Most Glorious Ride: the Diaries by the Cheetah Conservation Fund. The book is of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1866 available from local bookstores and online from the ($29.95, 322 p., hardcover; $16.99, publisher, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. ebook) gives readers an insight into the life of TR from his days at The smallest bunny in the pet store also happens to be Harvard through his ranching days the Easter Bunny! The Littlest Bunny in North Dakota: near Medora, North Dakota, up to his an Easter Adventure ($9.99, 32 p., hardcover) tells the marriage to his second wife. Editor story of Flop’s travels around the state delivering Easter Edward P. Kohn prefaces each year eggs in words by Lily Jacobs and pictures by Robert of diary entries with a brief summary and provides a Dunn. The book is available from Amazon and Barnes summary of Roosevelt’s life after the diary entries end and Noble. in 1886. Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, said this about the book: “Edward P.

The Good Stuff - Page 22 - March-June 2015 Kohn has done scholars a great public service by Minnesota State University Moorhead after a career editing the diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877– teaching history and humanities and supervising the 1886. This volume is essential reading for anybody University Archives, also wrote Roots of Success: interested in the rise of the great Rough Rider. Highly History of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers recommended.” The book is widely available at (1997), “You Have Been Kind Enough to Assist Me” : bookstores and online from Barnes and Noble and Herman Stern and the Jewish Refugee Crisis (2008), Amazon. and They Were Ready: the 164th Infantry in the Pacific War, 1942-1945 (2010). Shoptaugh’s latest book is Bismarck native and activist Shannon Galpin has available at the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead, at written a memoir about her work to empower Zandbroz Variety in Fargo, and online from Arcadia women and girls in Afghanistan through her Publishing, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. Mountain2Mountain nonprofit organization. Mountain to Mountain: a Journey of Adventure and Activism Fargo Forum columnist Roxane B. Salonen and for the Women of Afghanistan ($26.99, 320 p., Ramona Treviño are the co-authors of Redeemed hardcover) is available at bookstores and online from by Grace: a Catholic Woman’s Journey to Planned Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Galpin now lives Parenthood and Back ($17.95, 157 p., pbk. or ebook), in Colorado and traveled to Grand Forks, Fargo, and a memoir of Treviño’s journey from working as a Bismarck to talk about her work and promote her manager for Planned Parenthood in Sherman, Texas, to book in December 2014. becoming an international public speaker and pro-life advocate. The book is available from Ignatius Press, North Dakota Is Everywhere: an Anthology of Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Contemporary North Dakota Poets ($12.50, 180 p., pbk.) is available from the Institute for Regional Ray, North Dakota, native George Studies Press via the NDSU Marketplace. Heidi Morgan has penned the story of his Czerwiec, Associate Professor of English at UND, mother in both a play (Rocket Girl, edited the book, which features works from 17 poets 2008) and a book, Rocket Girl: the who met her parameters: still living and writing, Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, have been writing for more than 10 years, and have America’s First Female Rocket published a book of poetry of at least 25 pages. North Scientist ($18, 310 p., pbk.; $11.99, Dakota Is Everywhere is also available from the UND ebook). Mary Sherman Morgan was Bookstore, Ferguson Books and More in Grand Forks, born and raised near Ray and is and from Zandbroz in Fargo. credited with inventing the rocket fuel that boosted America’s first satellite into orbit. She valued her The Pastor’s Kids ($14.95, 278 p., privacy and forbade her son from writing anything pbk.) by Connie Kronlokken is the first about her life and achievements while she was alive. book in a narrative fiction series, “So After she passed away in 2004, her son decided it was Are You to My Thoughts.” The Pastor’s time to share his mother’s story. Booklist called it “An Kids is set in a small eastern North intriguing biography...The personal story and family Dakota town during the fifties and detective work are truly gripping, and Mary, in all tells its story through the perspectives her contradictions, emerges as a fascinating subject.” of the three Mikkelson children. The Rocket Girl is available from Amazon and Barnes and author grew up in a Norwegian/Danish Lutheran Noble. family in small towns across Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa. For more information, visit the author’s The current oil boom isn’t the only one this state website at http://www.lightlyheldbooks.com/. The has seen. The boom of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s is book is also available from Amazon. the backdrop for Roughnecks ($25, 450 p., pbk.) by Quinn O’Connell, Jr. of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Red River Floods: Fargo and Moorhead ($21.99, 128 James J. Patterson of Bethesda, Maryland. The novel is p., softcover) by Terry Shoptaugh uses images and based on O’Connell’s year working in the oilfields of historical details to chronicle the floods that the two eastern Montana and western North Dakota in 1979- communities often face when the snow melts and the 80. O’Connell kept a diary – sporadically – during spring rains fall. Shoptaugh, who recently retired from that year and used it to craft a story that Patterson

The Good Stuff - Page 23 - March-June 2015 calls a “coming-of-age, find yourself story – a quest.” professional life working in Washington, D.C. for the Roughnecks is available from bookstores and online World Bank and the USDA before moving to Fargo from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. to manage a grant program at North Dakota State University. For more information, visit Sherbanoo’s Lakota, North Dakota, native Jerry L. Indian Cuisine Facebook page. Schmidt served in the Army National Guard for 31 years. Schmidty Move North Dakota native Jill Kandel has penned an award- Them Out! a Book of Memories winning memoir of life in Kalabo, a remote village with Contributions from the Family on the northern rim of the Kalahari Desert in Zambia. ($11.95, 60 p., pbk.) is a memoir So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village of those years by Schmidt and his ($17.95, 191 p., pbk.; $9.99, Kindle). Kandel and mother, Gunny. Schmidt now lives in her husband, a Dutch agronomist, moved to Zambia Rothsay, Minnesota, and Gunny still in 1982 shortly after they were married. While her lives in Lakota. The book is available from Robertson husband was away working with local farmers for Publishing, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. days at a time, Kandel struggled to establish a home and a life in a new place where she didn’t know the Keith Norman grew up in Monango, North Dakota, language or customs. For more information, including and is a features reporter for The Jamestown Sun. a book trailer and purchase options, visit the author’s Norman is particularly interested in regional history website at www.jillkandel.com. So Many Africas won and is the author of several non-fiction and fiction the 2014 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize. books. His latest book is Secrets and Protection ($9.99, 100 p., pbk.) the second book in his “How had the parent-child Whitestone Hill Farm Mystery series. It is set in relationship gotten so messed up? western Dickey County in the area near Whitestone Indefinitely estranged?” These lines Hill Battlefield Park and continues a story begun in open the latest book from Judy Chasing the Dream (2014). Both books, as well as Buchholz Frueh, To Be a Hannah others by Keith Norman, are available from Amazon. ($19.99, 388 p., pbk.; $13.99, ebook). To Be a Hannah is set in a small There is a North Dakota connection to North Dakota community and is a the book, Sgt. Reckless: America’s War sequel to Laughing and Dancing Solo Horse ($27.99, 368 p., hardcover; (2012). Both books are available from Tate Publishing, $9.80, Kindle ebook) by Robin Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. Frueh is a native of Hutton. Art Sickler of Dickinson was Martin, North Dakota, and was at the Casselton City assigned as Reckless’ handler when Library in March for a presentation and book signing. he was stationed at Camp Pendleton in California from the fall of 1956 to In a seven-part in-depth reporting series, 1958. Sickler’s memories of Reckless TrackedReport.com, the Forum News Service are documented in the book. Reckless died in May examined the issue of human trafficking and female 1968 at the age of 20. Sgt. Reckless is available from exploitation in the oil patch of western North Amazon and Barnes and Noble. A paperback edition Dakota as well as in Minnesota and South Dakota. will be published in August 2015. Kevin Wallevand’s TV special report Trafficked: the Exploitation of Women and Girls in the Bakken and A third edition of Sherbanoo’s Indian Cuisine: Beyond (29 min.) can be freely viewed online. Tantalizing Tastes of the Indian Subcontinent ($17) by Sherbanoo Aziz with Patty Kratky is now available North Dakota photographer Ken Smith and Minnesota in Fargo at Zandbroz, Creative Kitchen, and Tochi’s, poet Sharon Chmielarz collaborated on Visibility: Ten and in Moorhead at the Heritage Center Book Store. Miles: a Prairie Memoir in Photography and Poetry First published in 2001, the book features simplified ($16.95, 96 p., pbk.). Both Smith and Chmielarz are recipes and information about Indian culture and familiar with prairie landscapes and ways, which is the Indian concept of hospitality. Author Sherbanoo reflected in photos and poems that “include not only Aziz was born in Mumbai and spent most of her grasslands but also the unusual only insiders have

The Good Stuff - Page 24 - March-June 2015 seen.” Chmielarz was born and raised in Mobridge, South Dakota, and Smith is a Colorado native who The 87th Academy Awards aired has lived and worked in North Dakota for many years. on February 22, 2015. Among the Their book was published in November 2014 and is films nominated for an Oscar in the available from North Star Press, Amazon, and Barnes documentary short subject category and Noble. was White Earth (film, 19 min.), a documentary about the North Warrior Words 2014 ($19.99, 114 p., pbk.) is the Dakota oil boom by filmmaker J. creation of North Dakota veterans who participated in Christian Jensen. It explores themes writing workshops around the state in 2013-14. The of innocence, home, and the American dream by Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre wrote a grant telling the story of the oil boom through the eyes of to recruit a cross-generation of veterans to participate three children and an immigrant mother. For complete in 6-8 week writing workshops in Dickinson, Minot, information, visit the White Earth Movie website. Bismarck, and Grand Forks. The project was funded The film was released in January 2014 and can be by the North Dakota Humanities Council and the streamed for online viewing for $3.99 or downloaded Wal-Mart Foundation. The Greater Grand Forks for $7.99 at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/28755. Community Theatre intends to craft the stories into stage monologues, which can be performed for William H. Schmaltz of Las Vegas has penned a novel audiences around the state. The book is available about life in Williston during the fracking boom. The online from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Williston Experience: a Story of Boomtown Greed ($12, 108 p., softcover; $4.99, ebook) was published Water and What We Know: Following by River’s Bend Press in Stillwater, Minnesota, and is the Roots of a Northern Life ($17.95, available from Amazon. 240 p., pbk.; $10.49, Kindle) explores the meaning of place and how the Watch for Boom on ABC-TV north lands and the waters that flow ABC has ordered a pilot of Boom, a drama that through it shape our lives. Karen centered “on the biggest oil discovery in American Babine, an assistant professor of history, which has triggered a geopolitical shift and an English at Concordia College, penned economic boom in North Dakota — the greatest since this collection of essays. One of the essays, “The River the American Gold Rush in 1849. Set in a modern- - 1997,” is about the devastating Red River flood in day “Wild West,” the drama, written by Josh Pate and 1997. Water and What We Know is available from the Rodes Fishburne, tracks the pilgrimage of a young, University of Minnesota Press, Amazon and Barnes ambitious couple, seeking a better life, to the oil fields and Noble. of the Bakken, where they come across roughnecks, grifters, oil barons, criminals and fellow prospectors.” Coming to a theater near you? Perhaps. Coming to Actor Don Johnson will play the lead role and television? Yes. New York filmmakers Michael Beach executive produce the drama. Nichols and Christopher K. Walker have signed a deal with Public Broadcasting for release of their documentary film, Welcome to Leith, Know Your Neighbors (85 min.), in 2016. They are also working on getting theatrical distribution deals. Welcome to Leith chronicles what happened in Leith, North Dakota, when Craig Cobb, a white supremacist, moved into town in 2012 and started buying up property with plans to take over the city government. The film has been well received and has been an official selection at several film festivals, including Sundance, Florida Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, IFFBoston, and more. Visit the website to learn more.

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Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member Bingo and Blind Dates creative interpretation of Tuesdays with Morrie by The Bismarck Veterans Memorial Mitch Albom. Fifth-graders Hannah Lanchbury and Public Library kicked off Winter Peyton Peterson took the award for Best Youth Entry Reading Bingo on January 15, 2015. with their “dirt” covered garden representing A Year in Participants were invited to pick up the Garden. Best Artistic Design went to Edna Paulson bingo cards and make a bingo by for her depiction of her favorite children’s book, Don’t completing the reading tasks on the Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, and the top honor, Best card – examples include reading in Show, went to Callie King for a fondant-covered a book set in a different country, listening to an design based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. audiobook, reading a book that became a movie, and Check out photos of all the entries on the Library’s more. Completed cards were due on March 15 for a Facebook page. chance at prizes, including Dakota Stage tickets and gift certificates from a variety of local businesses. The Grants Help Libraries library also invited readers to take a blind date with $2,000 in grants from Wal-Mart and the North a book during the month of February. Readers were Dakota State Library were used to purchase three new invited to browse the “personal ads” to choose a book computers and a laser printer with fax and scanning for a blind date, then complete the “rate your date” capabilities for the Carrington City Library. Librarian card inside the book for a chance to win a special Lenore Franchuk called on the expertise of her son, Valentine gift. who has a degree in computer technology, to help choose the right models and find the best deals. Gift to Local and State History Collection Lisbon Public Library also purchased five new public When Frank Vyzralek passed away on February 7, access computers with funds raised locally and a 2014, the state of North Dakota lost a man with a vast $1,000 grant from the North Dakota State Library. knowledge of local and state history. Over a career spanning more than 40 years, including several years Librarian Invites Anti-bullying Author with the State Historical Society of North Dakota, to Speak at Circle of Nations Vyzralek amassed a huge collection of books and On January 22, 2015, Jay other historic materials. Delores Vyzralek, his widow Asher, author of Thirteen and a retired librarian and former NDLA president, Reasons Why (2007), visited gave the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public the Circle of Nations School Library an opportunity to go through her husband’s in Wahpeton as part of his “50 collections. As a result, more than 60 titles are being States against Bullying” tour. added to the library’s local and state history collection. Circle of Nations Librarian and Gifted and Talented Coordinator Jeanne Swartz wrote the proposal to Digital Scan Day invite the author. Asher visited one school in each In partnership with the North Dakota State Library, state as part of the tour. the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library held a Digital Scan Day on March 19, 2015. Participants Chess Club Launches could each bring as many as 15 items to be digitally The Dickinson Area Public Library launched a Chess scanned and received a flash drive containing the Club for children last fall. Children are invited to the scanned copies of the items to take home. library to play chess when the club meets every other Thursday. Players are matched on games according to You Are What You Eat … and What You Read their age or difficulty level. The Bowman Regional Public Library hosted its first ever Edible Book Contest on April 14, 2015. Jennifer Michigan Author Visits Dickinson Wild, president of the library’s board of directors, From March 10-12, 2015, Michigan author Susan brought the idea to the board and Sarah Snavely, Froetschel was in Dickinson to present author readings library director, was excited to make it a reality. Nine and a writing workshop titled “How to Get Started on entries – four by children and five by adults – were Your Novel.” Froetschel is the author of five suspense judged by three local celebrity judges. In the funniest novels, including Alaska Gray, Interruptions, Royal (or punniest) category, Ellen Lanchbury won with her Escape, Fear of Beauty, and Allure of Deceit. Her

The Good Stuff - Page 26 - March-June 2015 visit was funded by the Dickinson Area Public Library, circulation desk. When the display was taken down, Heart River Writers’ Circle, and the North Dakota all the hearts were put into a basket and three were Council on the Arts. drawn. The winners each received a $25 gift card to Olive Garden. Library Book Club & Skype Authors are joining in the discussion of the Eddy- New Rockford Library Book Club via Skype! On February 10, 2015, author Susan Randall joined the discussion of Whistling Past the Graveyard; on April 14, Kathryn Craft was part of the discussion of The Far End of Happy, and on May 12, John Searles joined the discussion of Help for the Haunted. The library supplies the books to book club members and new members are welcome to join at any time.

Keep It Local, Keep It Fresh Through the “Keep It Local, Keep It Fresh” local foods project in New Rockford, the Eddy-New Rockford Public Library and the New Rockford-Sheyenne Public School Library received funding to create resource collections related to food, farming, and nutrition. The project is part of a Leadership for Local Foods training program funded through the North Dakota SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Civil War Reenactors Education) grant. Oh May 2, 2015, the Fifth MN Company D Civil War reenactors visited the Grand Forks Public Library Renovations Complete to present “Civil War Conversations,” including An open house celebration on March 27, 2015, was featured programs on “Medics in the Civil War” and a showcase for recent renovations to the Golden “The Camp of Instruction for the Union Soldier.” Valley County Library in Beach. The project included With drums drumming, several spectators marched converting part of a garage area into library space, in formation under the command of uniformed lighting improvements, new carpet, and paint. The soldiers. Uniforms and equipment from the Civil War Joanie Smith Children’s Area was also dedicated as were also on display. part of the celebration. Joanie Smith conducted story hour at the library from 1980 to 2012. The renovation 50 Years of Service project was funded with monies remaining from a Happy Birthday Hazen Public Library! On April 23, bequest from the Adin and Irene Miller estate, which 2015, the Hazen Public Library celebrated its 50th made the purchase of the current building possible birthday with on open house. The library is located on some 20 years ago; memorial gifts made in Joanie east Main Street in Hazen in the former train depot Smith’s name; and other donations. building. It is part of the Mercer-McLean Regional Library system as well as the Central Dakota Library New Library in Grand Forks? Network. The Library Board Building Committee and members of the Grand Forks Public Library Board have been New Bookmobile working for months to make a new library a reality. The board of directors of the James River Valley For more details, visit Future of the Library Project. Library System approved the purchase of a new bookmobile in February. The new bookmobile will Feeling the Love be 6 feet shorter than the current 36-foot bookmobile National Library Week was a heart-filled event at the and will include portable book racks that can be Grand Forks Public Library. Patrons were encouraged wheeled on or off to easily change books for different to leave a heart stating a reason why they loved their destinations. The estimated delivery date is February library. Each heart was tacked to the front of the 2016.

The Good Stuff - Page 27 - March-June 2015 Wanted: Legos MLA Webcast The James River Valley Library System seeks donations On April 22, 2015, Sanford Health Sciences Library of Legos or funds to purchase Legos so it can develop in Bismarck hosted an MLA webcast, “The Diversity a Lego ® Club at the library. The hope is to get enough of Data Management: Practical Approaches for Health donations to support a club of 10 to 15 children that Sciences Librarianship,” at the UND Center for Family would meet twice a week at the library. Medicine.

A New Look for the Leach Public Library UND Chester Fritz Library Renovation Leach Public Library in Wahpeton Announced has a new logo and launched a During his State of the University address on February redesigned website in January 4, 2015, UND President Robert Kelley announced 2015. The new logo was designed plans to renovate the Chester Fritz Library. The by A. J. McGraw and was chosen details of the plan have yet to be developed, but Kelly from 25 entries submitted as part of said he plans to put $7.8 million into the library for a contest. In addition to the updated logo and website, renovations. For information related to the master plan the building itself got a makeover that included for the Chester Fritz Library, visit http://library.und.edu/ maintenance updates, repainting, new roofing, and about/master-planning.php. new front doors. Teen Tech Week Library2Go Valley City Barnes The McKenzie County County Public Public Library in Library celebrated Watford City has Teen Tech Week, joined Library2Go, a March 8-14, 2015, consortium of North by offering special activities for teenagers throughout Dakota public libraries the week. This year’s theme was “Libraries Are for to provide digital Making …” Activities at the Valley City Barnes County lending of ebooks, audiobooks, music, and video to Public Library included making sun jars, a Freegal library users through the OverDrive platform. demonstration, an after-school study day, making infinity scarves, and watching the latest Hunger Maker Faire & Makerspace Games movie, Mockingjay, Part 1. The library also Minot Public Library hosted its first Maker Faire on celebrated National Library Week with an interesting March 12, 2015. The event was designed for children interpretation of the theme, Libraries Can Transform in grades 1-5, tweens, and teens and offered a variety You. Cases of cocoons were at the library in hopes of arts, crafts, reading, and other activities, including they would become butterflies during the week, and a demo of the library’s new 3D doodler and other two movies, Wings of the Butterflies and Journey technology. On April 15, the library opened its new of the Butterflies, were shown. The library also Makerspace. The space is open to all and provides celebrated Star Wars Day on May 4 with a variety of equipment that “can take a digital consumer to a themed events. digital producer. Individuals will be able to make their own video games, write and film their own A New Old Paint Job commercials, add special effects to photos and videos, When the exterior of the Valley City Barnes County and animate their own drawings!” A grant from Otto Public Library building needed to be painted, Director Bremer Foundation helped make the project possible. Steve Hammel worked closely with the Barnes County Historical Society to choose a color scheme that NDLA Hosts Webinar would match the original colors as closely as possible. NDLA hosted a webinar on May 5, 2015, for anyone Integrity Painting of Valley City began work on the interested in serving on the NDLA Executive Board. project on April 15, 2015. The Library is located at Presenters were Aubrey Madler, a former NDLA 410 North Central Avenue in Valley City and is one of president; Kerri Tyler, Chair of the Nominations, three remaining original Carnegie Libraries in the state Elections, & Voting committee; and Greta Guck, of North Dakota. The building was dedicated in 1903 current NDLA president. and a 1997 addition doubled the square footage.

The Good Stuff - Page 28 - March-June 2015 Interlibrary Loan Manual The Statewide Interlibrary Loan Manual was recently updated. Its purpose is “to assist library staff who loan material to other libraries to comply with provisions from the North Dakota Interlibrary Loan Code.” A Summer Reading Gets Underway copy of the manual is available on the Interlibrary The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) is Loan page of the State Library website. a consortium of all 50 states working to provide high- quality summer reading materials at the lowest cost possible for public libraries. It features programming for early literacy, for children, for teens, and for adults. This year’s theme for the early literacy and children’s programs is “Every Hero Has a Story.” On Friday, June 12, a Summer Reading Celebration was held at the Heritage Center on the Capitol grounds in Bismarck. Kids of all ages were invited to this free, action-packed event and to wear their favorite hero costumes. The 2015 teen program theme is “Unmask” and the theme of the adult program is “Escape the Ordinary.” Libraries throughout the state have planned all Library of Congress Prize for kinds of summer reading program activities in their Native American Fiction communities. Check it out! Louise Erdrich will be honored with the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in September North Dakota Librarians’ Twitter Chat 2015 during the National Book Festival in Washington, Allison Radermacher, library media specialist for D.C. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, Ellendale Public School, and Maggie Townsend, and now lives in Minneapolis. Her work often focuses library media specialist for Legacy High School on Native American history and culture and she is the in Bismarck, invite all librarians to participate in author of acclaimed novels such as Love Medicine, #ndlibchat. #ndlibchat is a Twitter chat held the The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, first and third Sunday of each month at 9 pm CST. and The Round House. Erdrich has won several Although hosted by school librarians, the topics awards, including the National Book Award for The have something for every librarian as well as for Round House, the National Book Critics Circle Award lovers of libraries and reading. To participate in the for Love Medicine, a Lifetime Achievement Award conversation, tweet using #ndlibchat or search for from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, that hashtag. Radermacher and Townsend are VCSU and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in graduates of the M.Ed. with concentration in library American Fiction. She was also the recipient of the and information technologies program. North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award in 2013. North Dakota Snapshot Day The NDLA Advocacy and Funding Work Group encouraged libraries across the state to participate in Snapshot Day 2015 by taking photos of what was happening in their libraries during National Library Week, April 12-18. Check out NDLA’s Facebook page for a glimpse of the fantastic things North Dakota libraries do!

The Good Stuff - Page 29 - March-June 2015 TREASURER'S REPORT As of March Treasurer's 31, 2015 (End Report of 1st Quarter) By Michael As of March Safratowich, 31, 2015 (End of NDLA 1st Quarter) Treasurer Editor’s note: Approved By Michael by electronic Safratowich, vote of the NDLA Executive Treasurer Board on April 10, 2015

Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance CHECK BOOK 1/1/2015 $31,926.74

NDLA Funds $31,926.74 Annual Conference 2014 $10,522.20 $500.00 $11,022.20 Annual Conference 2015 $0.00 Book Sales $921.27 $10.00 $0.22 $931.05 Otto Bremer Grant $17,460.00 $5,069.92 $12,390.08 Centennial Cookbook -$2,854.34 -$2,854.34 Dues $3,365.00 $63.55 $3,301.45 HSIS Partner Account $0.00 $0.00 Investment Account Transfers $500.00 $40.00 Other receipts/disbursements $65.00 $7,831.30

NDLA Funds Subtotal $4,440.00 $13,004.99 $23,361.75

Check Book Balance 03/31/2015 $23,361.75 ******************************************************************************************************************** MONEY MARKET AND CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA Bank Money Market Ready Cash $9,440.65 Interest $0.22 Deposits Transfers $9,440.87 Professional Development Bank Money Market RC $5,144.03 Interest $0.10 Deposits Transfers $40.00 $500.00 $4,684.13 NDLA CD $20,553.11 Interest Transfers $20,553.11 Professional Development CD $20,258.02 Interest Transfers $20,258.02 TOTAL investment accounts $55,395.81 $54,936.13

TOTAL EQUITY 03/31/2015 $78,297.88

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Work Phone 701.200.1334 609 W Main St Mary Soucie und.edu Fax 701.433.5479 (fax) Mandan ND 58554-3149 North Dakota State Library Email [email protected] Work Phone 701.667.5365 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 ALA Councilor Fax 701.667.5368 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Laurie McHenry Public Library Section Email [email protected] Work Phone 701.328.4652 Thormodsgard Law Library Janet Anderson Fax 701.328.2040 University of North Dakota School Minot Public Library Nominations, Voting & Email [email protected] of Law 516 2nd Ave SW Elections Committee 2968 2nd Ave N Stop 9004 Minot ND 58701-3792 Kerri (Kerri Ann) Tyler Web Editor Grand Forks ND 58202-9004 Work Phone 701.852.1045 Ward County Public Library Will Martin Work Phone 701.777.3475 Fax 701.852.2595 405 3rd Ave SE UND Chester Fritz Library Fax 701.777.4956 Email [email protected] Minot ND 58701-4020 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 Email [email protected]. Work Phone 701.852.5388 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 edu School Library & Youth Fax 701.837.4960 Work Phone 701.777.4638 Services Section E-Mail kerrianne.tyler@wardnd. Fax 701.777.3319 MPLA Representative Melissa Lloyd com Email [email protected] Paulette Nelson Valley City Barnes County Public Minot Public Library Library 516 2nd Ave SW 410 N Central Ave. Minot ND 58701-3792 Valley City ND 58072 Work Phone 701.838.0606 Work Phone 701.845.3821 Fax 701.852.2595 Email [email protected] Email [email protected]

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