THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION December 2012 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 42 • Issue 4 2012 NDLA Conference September 19-22 • Fargo, ND

Al Peterson, incoming NDLA Kirsten Baesler, Librarian and now President, and State Superintendent of Public Aubrey Madler, Schools outgoing NDLA President

Closing Keynote Speakers: The Unshelved Guys Finding Your Voice

2012 NDLA Awards t Election Results t Resolutions t Read North Dakota t INSIDE Summer Reading Program t Opening Keynote Speaker: Judy Drescher Table of Contents President’s Message...... 3 NDLA Awards...... 4 Flicker Tale Children’s Book Awards...... 6 Canoe Kudos Awards...... 7 2012 Conference Exhibits...... 8 Conference Highlights...... 10 Collection Development: Selection or Censored...... 12 Upcoming Library Events and Conferences.....13, 17 MPLA Conference Report...... 14 Maximizing Your Return on Membership in MPLA (or any Professional Organization)...... 15 Professional Development Grant Evaluation Reports...... 16 A Look at NDLA’s Executive Board: Nominations, Published quarterly by the Elections, & Voting Committee...... 18 North Dakota Library Association A Look at NDLA’s Executive Board: Web Editor.....19 Editorial Committee 2012 Conference Resolutions...... 20 Marlene Anderson, Chair Kalan Davis On the DOCket...... 22 Joan Erickson Chandra Hirning Eric Stroshane Read North Dakota...... 23 2012 Election Results...... 24 Production Artist Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley STEM Kids...... 25 2013 Summer Reading Program...... 26 Subscription Rate Browsing in the Cyberstacks...... 27 $25/year People Stuff...... 28 Advertising Rates Membership Report...... 29 (per issue) Banned Books Week...... 30 $100 – full-page ad North Dakota in Print...... 32 $50 – half-page ad Good Stuff from Around the State...... 36 $25 – quarter-page ad Nerd Up...... 38 For information contact: Treasurer’s Report...... 40 Marlene Anderson, Chair NDLA Membership Form...... 41 The Good Stuff Editorial Committee NDLA Executive Board...... 42

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The Good Stuff - Page 2 - December 2012 President’s Message By Al Peterson, NDLA President

Editor’s note: In addition to his moment was announcing the Librarian of the new role as NDLA President, Year. The fact that I was able to surprise Christine Al is learning the ropes of Kujawa made it all the more special. The look being a dad to his son, Owen, on her face when she finally figured out that the who was born on August 17. award was going to her was priceless. I would Congratulations, Al! also like to offer my congratulations to our Major Benefactor Award winners, Dr. Wayne Sanstead As the 107th president of and the Clio Club of Enderlin. I enjoyed the the North Dakota Library opening keynote address from Judy Drescher and Association, I am truly honored to serve this the closing address by the Unshelved guys, Gene wonderful organization. I first joined NDLA in Ambaum and Bill Barnes. I also enjoyed the 2001 and took my first board position in 2005 as presentations from our Flicker Tale winners. Chair of the New Members Roundtable. I served as MPLA State Representative from 2007-2010 This year the legislature will meet in Bismarck and have been involved with ad hoc committees and decide the state’s budget for the next two and special projects while serving on the board. years. Please contact your local legislators and I was also selected to represent the state as an ask them to support the State Library’s budget. attendee of the MPLA Leadership Institute. When Let them know how important their support of the call came to consider running for NDLA libraries is to your community. Also, remember to president, I thought it over, talked it over with thank them for the past support. my wife and with my boss, State Librarian Hulen Bivins, and decided to say “yes.” I was pleased Next year’s conference will be part of a tri- to see three candidates step up and run for conference with the South Dakota Library President-elect this year and I encourage anyone Association and the Mountain Plains Library who is considering a position on the NDLA board Association in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. to say “yes.” I’m sure you’ll find the experience as Wouldn’t it be great if we could have a large rewarding as I have. bunch of North Dakota librarians represented there? If there is enough interest, maybe we This year’s conference was a whirlwind of can charter a bus or two and ride down in style. activities for me, but I thought it was a success. Other plans for the year include continuing My hat goes off to Rita Ennen and Aubrey Madler the work that Aubrey started with an online for planning a great conference. I hope you mentorship database. all enjoyed the vendor hall poker run. I had lots of full houses turned in; however, the royal I look forward to the coming year and the tri- flushes beat them. In between taking care of conference in Sioux Falls, and I want to say thank our vendors, I was able to squeeze in a couple you for the opportunity to serve you as your of conference program sessions. My favorite president.

The Good Stuff - Page 3 - December 2012 NDLA Awards President’s Award: Laurie McHenry By Au b r e y Ma d l e r , Imm e d ia t e NDLA Pa s t Pr e s i d e n t Each year the NDLA President has the option to give an award to a phenomenal person of his or her choosing. The award is intended to recognize someone the president has witnessed making major contributions to the Association and to librarians in the state, or who has significantly assisted the President. I am pleased to announce that Laurie McHenry is the 2012 recipient of this award. Laurie dedicated several years to the Board, during which time she fulfilled many roles and excelled in all of them. Laurie is a Catalog Librarian at the Thormodsgard Law Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. Laurie also served as a valuable mentor for me as I began the preparatory year as President-elect, continuing throughout my presidential year. Laurie is generous. She is selfless. She is the perfect example of what NDLA is about—a forum for growth and networking and a chance for new and seasoned librarians to meet, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. Congratulations, Laurie, and thank you for your mentorship and dedication to NDLA!

Librarian of the Year: Christine Kujawa By Al Pe t e r s o n , NDLA Pr e s i d e n t The North Dakota Library Association honored Christine Kujawa as the 2012 Librarian of the Year at the annual conference in Fargo. The Librarian of the Year Award is given to librarians who have made notable contributions to the North Dakota library profession, have furthered significant development of libraries in North Dakota, or have performed exemplary statewide service for an extended period of time. Christine is the Head of Circulation Services at the Bismarck Public Library where she has worked since 2003. In addition to the daily management of full and part-time employees, she is the Assistant Systems Administrator for the Central Dakota Library Network. Christine is involved in programming at the Bismarck Public Library; heads up the Reader’s Voice Book Discussion; schedules movies for public viewing; participates in BARK (Bismarck Animals Reading with Kids) with her dog, Daphne; works regular reference shifts; is very involved in collection development, including the selection of OverDrive materials; and actively promotes the library in her community. Christine also teaches management classes online for the Library and Information Sciences program at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. As chair of NDLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee, Christine has been a voice in our state for the cause of intellectual freedom. She offered her support and guidance to the Beulah High School librarian when the school and library went through a book challenge in 2009. This year, Christine coordinated a project for Banned Books Week to submit a video to ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee project, “50 State Salute to Banned Books,” (view it at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxMWYe5S8YI). For her continuous support of the Bismarck community through her library and community service, her dedication to intellectual freedom, and her numerous contributions to the library profession, the North Dakota Library Association is proud to present the Librarian of the Year Award to Christine Kujawa.

The Good Stuff - Page 4 - December 2012 Major Benefactor Awards: Dr. Wayne G. Sanstead and the CLIO Club of Enderlin By Al Pe t e r s o n , NDLA Pr e s i d e n t NDLA’s Major Benefactor Award is awarded to a person or persons who have made significant contributions to a library or libraries in North Dakota. This year, two Major Benefactor Awards were presented at the annual conference.

Dr. Wayne G. Sanstead brings an extensive background of legislative, executive and educational leadership to the office of North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction. He has served North Dakota in elective offices for forty-six years; eight years as State Representative, two as State Senator, and eight as Lieutenant Governor. Presently in his 28th year as State Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Sanstead is the nation’s senior State Chief and has served as an elected member of the Board of Directors for the national organization of the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Since 1989, the work of the North Dakota State Library has been accomplished with the aid and support of Dr. Sanstead. Some of the accomplishments include the development of book grants and library material cataloging grants; development of an ILL network in North Dakota; establishment of an organized state and federal document program; strong support for the development of electronic databases in ODIN for the use of all ND citizens; approval of using federal funds to create the TutorND program; and ongoing support to increase state aid funding for the public libraries of North Dakota. Dr. Wayne G. Sanstead was nominated for the award by North Dakota State Librarian Hulen Bivins. NDLA congratulates and thanks Dr. Wayne Sanstead for his years of support to North Dakota libraries.

In 1911, three members of the Enderlin Women’s Club, CLIO, decided to start a library. They held silver teas and dances to raise the funds to buy books. Each member was assessed a twenty-five cent fee to help buy books. Through the years, club members bought books, stacked the shelves, and volunteered as librarians until late 1963 when the city took over the daily functions and finances of the library.

Since then, the CLIO Club has continued supporting the library through fundraising efforts, hosting a yearly book fair, volunteering at the library, and taking care of the flower beds. The CLIO Club was nominated by Myrene Peterson, the librarian of the Enderlin Municipal Library. NDLA congratulates and thanks the CLIO Club of Enderlin for its work to promote and support the community’s library.

Friendly Booth Award This year’s Friendly Booth Award was presented to Prairie Public Broadcasting. Sarah Tron of Prairie Public’s Education Services section staffed the booth. The Friendly Booth Award is coordinated by NMRT (New Members Roundtable). NMRT members anonymously visit the conference exhibits and evaluate exhibitors and their booths on these criteria: friendliness, helpfulness, knowledge of the product or service offered, and attractiveness of the display.

The Good Stuff - Page 5 - December 2012 Chris Rylander, winner of the Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award, Juvenile Books category.

Kathryn Otoshi, winner of the Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award, Picture Book category. Flicker Tale Children’s Book Awards

By Li n d a Au s t i n , Fl i c k e r Ta l e Ch a i r Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon The Un-Forgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce Flicker Tale winning authors Kathryn Otoshi The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate and Chris Rylander attended the 2012 NDLA Conference in Fargo to accept their awards during Juvenile Books the Friday luncheon. As keynote speaker, Ms. The Cheshire Cheese Cat: a Dickens of a Tale by Otoshi shared the very moving personal story Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright behind her book, One, and received a standing The Apothecary by Maile Meloy ovation. During the post-conference on Saturday, Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper she involved participants in activities to engage The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline children in her books and empower them to stand Kelly up and let their voices be heard. Non-fiction Books Chris Rylander, author of The Fourth Stall, Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman presented a Friday breakout session about the Do You Have a Dog? By Eileen Spinelli co-existence of video gaming and books. While CelebriTrees: Historic and Famous Trees of the in Fargo, he also visited a number of schools and World by Margi Preus carried his message to students. Henry’s Heart: a Boy, His Heart, and a New Best Friend by Charise Mericle Harper The 2012-13 Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award nominees have been selected and are posted on You can also find ballots and voting instructions the NDLA website. They include: on the website. This year’s deadline for voting has been moved up to April 1, 2013. Winning titles Picture Books will be announced during the first week of April The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson and awards will be presented at the SDLA/NDLA/ The Best Pet Ever by Victoria Roberts MPLA Tri-conference in Sioux Falls in September. Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker The search is already on for 2014 nominations. It I’m a Shark by Bob Shea isn’t too early to submit title suggestions for the committee to consider. Send your suggestions Intermediate Books for any of the four categories -- Picture Book, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Intermediate, Juvenile, and Non-fiction -- to Linda Angleberger Austin, Flicker Tale Chair ([email protected]).

The Good Stuff - Page 6 - December 2012 Canoe Kudos Awards

Su b m i t t e d b y Lo r i We s t , Pr o f e ss i o n a l De v e l o p m e n t ballots. She Co m m i t t e e Ch a i r also kept the Editor’s note: First presented in 2001, the Canoe committee Kudos Award recognizes individuals who do a organized and moving forward. wonderful job in their libraries, show support for libraries, or do something special for libraries. Chandra Hirning NDLA members can nominate deserving Nominated by Kalan Davis & Lisa Martin individuals by donating $10 to the Professional Chandra is the most patient, fantastic and Development Grant fund and submitting a written hardworking NDLA member that we know. nomination. Honorees are presented with a Cheerful, willing to help, a born leader and Canoe Kudos pin and listed in The Good Stuff. knowledgeable. If you ever, ever, ever, sign up Multiple nominations are allowed and individuals for an NDLA committee, make sure Chandra is may receive more than one pin. on your team! We appreciate her hard work this election season. These Canoe Kudos Awards were presented at the 2012 NDLA Conference. Congratulations to the Laura Trude honorees! Nominated by Kalan Davis & Lisa Martin Laura is cheerful, helpful and most probably Kalan Davis the sweetest person you will meet. She has Nominated by Chandra Hirning been instrumental in acclimatizing [sic] Jenilee Kalan served an essential role on the Nominating, Kanenwisher in taking over the responsibilities of Elections, & Voting Committee. Nearly all of the New Members Roundtable after the chair of the nominees were people Kalan contacted. that round table resigned. Laura has also helped She seemed to have a special touch—hardly the NDLA Constitution and Bylaws Chair as a anyone turned her down. She also served as the member of that committee. Our thanks to you, electronic voting administrator and set up all the Laura!!

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.

Name

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 7 - December 2012 2012Conference Exhibits

By Al Pe t e r s o n , Co n f e r e n c e Ex h i b i t s Ch a i r from Prairie Knights Casino as well as Recorded Books, Capstone, and ABDO Publishing for We had thirty exhibitors at our conference this providing prizes for the four winning hands (all year. Some were first-time vendors who heard Royal Flushes). about North Dakota’s good fortunes and wanted to visit with our librarians. The vendor hall I hope you had a chance to visit with our poker run was successful in getting conference conference vendors. Our patronage at their attendees to visit the exhibits and people seemed booths is what brings them to NDLA. For more to enjoy it. I would like to thank Mark Holman information about the vendors and their products, from Sitting Bull College for getting decks of cards visit their websites.

SLAYS/Flicker Tale Committee http://ndla.info/ ALA/ALA Councilor www.ala.org MPLA http://mpla.us GODORT http://ndla.info/ AAA http://northdakota.aaa.com/ State Historical Society of ND http://history.nd.gov/ North Dakota State Library http://library.nd.gov/ Hertzberg New Method, Inc http://www.perma-bound.com/library/ Prairie Public Broadcasting http://www.prairiepublic.org/ Barnes & Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ EBSCO Information Services http://www.ebscohost.com/ Minitex http://www.minitex.umn.edu/ Follett Library Resources http://www.titlewave.com/ Learning Opportunities/Book Systems http://learning-opp.com/ Gumdrop Books http://www.gumdropbooks.com/ Baker & Taylor http://www.baker-taylor.com/ Recorded Books http://www.recordedbooks.com Magazine Subscription Service Agency http://magazinesubservagy.com/ Quality Books Inc. http://www.quality-books.com/ DaTrue Process Automation http://www.datrue.com/index.html Capstone http://www.capstonepub.com/default.aspx Rough Rider Industries https://www.roughriderindustries.com/ Mid-America Business Systems http://www.mid-america.com/ Findaway World http://www.findawayworld.com/ AWE http://www.awelearning.com/ World Book, Inc. http://www.worldbook.com/ Energy & Environmental Research Center http://www.eerc.und.nodak.edu/ Cover One http://www.coverone.net/ ODIN http://www.odin.nodak.edu/ Abdo Publishing Company http://www.abdopub.com/shop/pc/home.asp

The Good Stuff - Page 8 - December 2012 Minitex

Visiting Exhibits

Rough Rider Industries

Linda Allbee & Ellen Kotrba, ODIN exhibit.

Visiting Exhibits The Good Stuff - Page 9 - December 2012 Conference Highlights

Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker welcomes NDLA

Hulen Bivins, State Librarian

Party!

Bard program - Susan Hammer-Schneider

Connected!

The Good Stuff - Page 10 - December 2012 Executive Board 2011-12

Margaret Barnhart

Lori West, Professional Development Committee Chair

Networking

Wendy Wendt Sitting Room Only!

The Good Stuff - Page 11 - December 2012 Collection Development: Selection or By Ch r i s t i n e Ku j a w a NDLA In t e ll e c t u a l Fr e e d o m Ch a i r

When I was in graduate school, we were assigned to read the article, “Not Censorship But reader; the censor has faith only in his own.” It is Selection” by Lester Asheim. Even though it was the right of every individual to seek and to receive first published in 1953, it is still very relevant information regardless of what it is and why it is now. While we don’t hear about censorship requested. You may feel that you are making the through the postal service like Asheim did during appropriate decision by not ordering a title or the 1950s, we still have cases of challenges by not allowing a patron access to material. Please pressure groups and individuals. Unfortunately, remember that it is not our duty to choose what self-censorship by librarians still exists, too. is acceptable for our patrons. Adults decide for themselves; parents decide for the minors. Selector vs. Censor The selector acquires items on a wide range of Anyone who takes part in collection development subjects that represent all points of view in an should be trained to know the difference between effort to meet the needs of the community. The selection and censorship. Censorship should play selector’s own point of view and background are no role in the collection development process. A not present when acquiring items because the good collection development policy stating clear items are not being purchased for the selector goals that promote the freedom to read will aid but rather for the patrons the library serves. staff in making selections without self-censoring. The selector is positive and seeks reasons for If you need assistance in creating or updating obtaining books. The selector’s goal is to protect your collection development policy, contact the rights of the readers. The selector has faith in your North Dakota State Library Field Services the readers, as intelligent and capable beings, to Agent. If you need help with anything relating to choose what is acceptable according to their own intellectual freedom, please contact a member of wants and needs. the NDLA Intellectual Freedom Committee.

On the other hand, the censor looks for reasons Access to the full text of “Not Censorship But not to purchase or keep a book. Personal Selection” is available at: www.ala.org/offices/oif/ opinions and one’s own background and views basics/notcensorship play a role in the decision-making process. The censor erroneously takes on the responsibility of Are you a selector or censor? becoming the moral authority on what patrons Circle True or False should have access to. The censor also fears repercussions from anyone who might challenge a 1. A high school student wants to check out book. While the selector seeks a reason to keep a a book on suicide. You think the student is book, the censor searches for something defective suicidal and choose not to check it out to in a book. Asheim writes, “And since there is the student. seldom a flawless work in any form, the censor’s TRUE FALSE approach can destroy much that is worth saving.” 2. You deny meeting room access to an Asheim summarizes the difference between organization because you don’t agree with selection and censorship quite simply by saying, their views. “The selector has faith in the intelligence of the TRUE FALSE

The Good Stuff - Page 12 - December 2012 Upcoming 3. You will not purchase books on paganism because you assume pagans are sinful. TRUE FALSE Library Events

4. A patron asks you to purchase books by and Conferences award-winning author Kurt Vonnegut. You check to find out if any of the author’s Mark Your Calendar! books have been challenged or banned. • January 2 - North Dakota State Library/ TRUE FALSE Library Coordinating Council Library Vision 2014 grant applications due 5. You keep all potentially controversial titles in a cabinet. Patrons must get permission • January 25-29 – ALA Midwinter Meeting, to access them. Seattle TRUE FALSE • February 6 – Digital Learning Day, Alliance 6. A patron asks you to purchase the Fifty for Excellent Education (AASL and YALSA Shades of Gray series and you suggest are core partners) books by Jeanette Oke. • February 11 – ND State Library Summer TRUE FALSE Reading Workshop, Bismarck

7. A well-known figure in the community • February 13 – ND State Library Summer challenges a book and you immediately Reading Workshop, Dickinson pull it from the collection instead of going through the reconsideration process. • February 14 – ND State Library Summer TRUE FALSE Reading Workshop, Minot

8. You purchase a graphic novel and • February 19 – ND State Library Summer discover that it has illustrations you feel Reading Workshop, Grand Forks are inappropriate. To be fair you keep the • February 20 – ND State Library Summer book, but put a few stickers over certain Reading Workshop, Wahpeton areas. TRUE FALSE • February 21 – ND State Library Summer Reading Workshop, Jamestown 9. You choose not to purchase a book because the author’s political views are • March 5-8 – PLA Leadership Academy, different from your own. Chicago TRUE FALSE • March 10-16 – Teen Tech Week 10. You purchase a bestselling teen book, but • March 16 – Freedom of Information Day put it in the adult collection because you don’t think it’s appropriate for teens. • March 17-20 – Electronic Resources and TRUE FALSE Libraries Conference, Austin, Texas

March 20 - PLA Virtual Spring Symposium If you answered TRUE to any of these questions, • it’s time to review intellectual freedom in your • April 1-30 – Library Snapshot Day library! • April 1-30 – School Library Month • April 8-9 - North Dakota State Library Spring Workshops, Bismarck

The Good Stuff - Page 13 - December 2012 Mountain Plains Library Association Conference Report Er i c St r o s h an e , MPLA Re p r e s e n t a t i v e Clark are taking revolutionary approaches to collection management, cataloging, I just got back from the Mountain Plains Library and processing and are delivering efficient Association’s joint conference with the Nebraska customer-centric service in their libraries. Library Association and the Nebraska School Librarians Association. The conference had a Best new-to-me tools I learned of during the great slate of programs for all library types and conference: a diverse contingent of vendors and exhibitors. Unofficial attendance numbers: ~900 conference • ZMaps – a set of free online tools for attendees; by my count at least 13 of whom manipulating, coloring, and analyzing traveled there from North Dakota (Bismarck, maps (www.zonums.com/zmaps/zmaps. Fargo, Grand Forks, and Minot). html). • Zoho Chat – a provider of robust free You can judge the quality of a conference’s online chat tools, facilitating easy personal programming by how long you agonize over customer support through their website which sessions to attend (and how quickly you (https://chat.zoho.com/). search for the online handouts from those you • Skype an Author Network – a website couldn’t). By that standard, MPLA/NLA/NSLA built to guide school and public librarians 2012 was a great success. The following are some through arranging and hosting virtual brief highlights from my conference experience: author visits (http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint. com/). • Discussing local digital curation projects • KitKeeper is a hosted book club kit request, with MPLA Beginning Professional inventory, and management system, with Award recipient Jason Walker (http:// elegant design and reasonable prices blackhillsknowledgenetwork.org/) (www.eventkeeper.com/kitkeeper.cfm). • Hearing about the La Vista Public Library’s • VMware’s Socialcast – a social networking teen board game club, which won a platform for businesses. Accounts are grant and built a life-sized version of their free for up to 50 users, placing mid-sized favorite game, Arkham Horror, replete with libraries in a sweet spot for adoption. I Lovecraftian monsters and a real straight visited with a few folks from libraries and jacket. small library systems that were using it and • Listening to Joe Starita (author of I Am a they raved (http://socialcast.com/). Man) speak about Chief Standing Bear and his 1879 courtroom battle for Native MPLA is archiving conference handouts: www. Americans to be recognized as persons mpla.us/documents/handouts/2012/index.html. within the meaning of habeas corpus. Please check them out and ask me if you’d like • Learning how Amy Greenland and Robin further details.

The Good Stuff - Page 14 - December 2012 The 2012 MPLA Executive Board, gathering before the conference commenced.

Maximizing Your Return on Membership in MPLA (or any Professional Organization)

By Er i c St r o s h an e , MPLA Re p r e s e n t a t i v e Read the newsletter when it comes out (www. mpla.us/documents/newsletter/issues.html), to A colleague recently asked me how he could learn more about what’s going on throughout make the most of his new MPLA membership. I the region. Many of the libraries in the twelve sent him the following advice, virtually verbatim, state region have the same issues and challenges, and then realized that there are probably quite a but they all have different perspectives on how few others out there with similar questions: to approach them. Subsequently, there’s a fair amount of universally applicable library lore First, the annual conference is well worth and praxis you can tap into. MPLA also has a attending, and next year’s will be held jointly with presence on Facebook and Twitter and they have NDLA and SDLA in Sioux Falls. So the easiest an active LinkedIn group. If you engage in any of thing I can recommend to you is to attend next those social media forums, you can connect with year’s conference! other MPLA members through them.

Another way you can get more out of MPLA is by I’d also encourage you to check out their CE page: being actively involved with the organization— www.mpla.us/ce/index.html. It has calendars of joining a committee is a great opportunity upcoming events, as well as free and low cost for professional networking and a path to webinars, so it’s a good place to discover library accomplishing some meaningful work in the field learning opportunities. (while improving your resume). A final gentle reminder to all: membership MPLA also makes individual professional renewal time is just around the corner (if you won development grants available to its members, a free membership at the 2012 NDLA conference, which can help with your ability to attend you’re already covered for 2013). You can’t take conferences, workshops, etc. Find out more about advantage of what you don’t have! these here: www.mpla.us/committees/profdev/ grants.html Feel free to ask if you have any questions or if there’s anything I can do to help you out.

The Good Stuff - Page 15 - December 2012 Professional Development Grant Evaluation Reports

Editor’s note: Interested in getting a Professional Development Grant? Visit the NDLA website at www.ndla.info/profdev.htm to find out how. 2012 ALA Annual Conference 2012 MPLA Conference Su b m i t t e d b y Ch r i s t i n e Ku j a w a , Gr a n t Re c i p i e n t Su b m i t t e d b y Au b r e y Ma d l e r Thank you to NDLA’s Professional Development Thanks to an NDLA professional development Committee for awarding me a grant so I could grant, I was able to attend the 2012 Mountain attend the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Plains Library Association annual conference Anaheim, California. I attended so many great at the La Vista Conference Center in Omaha. I sessions and author events. It was invigorating hoped to learn about trends and issues affecting to be among thousands of librarians who are libraries and librarians in the region, network with passionate about our profession and motivated my peers, and work on some 2013 conference to change and improve their library buildings, planning. I was not disappointed. services, and collections. I started my road trip early so I could partake in I was fortunate to get to listen to a handful of the pre-conference tour of the Ford Conservation authors, including John Irving and George R.R. Center. This was a treat—three staff members Martin, talk about what libraries mean to them opened their work areas/labs and explained what and their relationships with books and reading. they do to restore and repair realia including I heard stories of growing up in a low-income artwork, china, and photographs. Anyone can family, feeling like an outcast, and the sense of use their services — the general public, museums, not fitting in with their peers. The authors found libraries, etc. If you ever get a chance to visit this comfort in libraries, and books took them to facility (or another like it), I highly recommend it. different places on exciting adventures. It was Be sure to schedule a tour in advance and allow so uplifting to listen to them talk about how yourself time to explore the exterior and foyer libraries affected them personally. It reaffirmed exhibits dedicated to President Gerald R. Ford. why I joined this profession: to insure equal This small corner of Omaha marks the birthplace access to information for all people regardless of of President Ford, a little taste of history that was background, age, or views. an additional delight.

Highlights of my experiences at the conference I’ll highlight a few presentations that stuck with include: me. The first was a session called Intellectual Freedom in the World of Social Media and • Learning directly from, and getting to Google. The presenter from Utah described the meet, well-known marketing guru Nancy basic principles of intellectual freedom, then Dowd went on to address new challenges due to the • Attending LLAMA’s PR Xchange award Internet and eBooks. Digital content is easy to ceremony where I saw both Traci Juhala filter, remove, or censor without regard for the (Bismarck Public Library) and Hulen freedom to read. Take, for example, the fact Bivins (North Dakota State Library) receive that a censored version of Huckleberry Finn awards was released in digital format and that Amazon • Networking with ALA’s OIF staff and other removed individuals’ copies of 1984 from their state intellectual freedom chairs Kindles without notice. Simply put, we lose • Listening to John Irving read a passage control when we agree to use digital formats. from his newest book, In One Person • Watching the last performance of the This same presentation also addressed privacy on Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band of the web and data mining. Mat Honan, a Wired authors including Amy Tan, Stephen King, journalist, wrote an article about his true and Dave Barry, Mitch Albom, and others. scary personal experience as a victim of identity

The Good Stuff - Page 16 - December 2012 theft. It involved an address, social media accounts, and the last four digits of his credit card Upcoming number. I encourage you to read this personal account and encourage your students, patrons, Library Events and family members to do the same. and Conferences I also loved the Yoga at Work session, which turned out to be simple stretches and breathing Mark Your Calendar! exercises that you can do at your desk or in your break room. Many of us sit all day — often • April 8-10 – Computers in Libraries working at a computer, which is hard on the body Conference, Washington, D.C. and mind. These movements can be done in bits and pieces throughout the day. The presenter’s • April 10-13 – ACRL (Association of key point was to get in the habit of stopping every College & Research Libraries) Conference, hour to evaluate how you are feeling, then take Indianapolis, Indiana a moment to counteract. Perhaps it is as simple • April 12 – National D.E.A.R. (Drop as standing up to reach your hands above your Everything and Read) Day head, or if your muscles are fatigued from using the mouse, taking a moment to stretch out your • April 14-20 – National Library Week fingers, hand, forearm, and shoulder in an effort to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome or relieve • April 16 – National Library Workers Day those pesky knots that always seem to form. You can find videos, diagrams, and descriptions of • April 17 – National Bookmobile Day simple exercises all over the Internet or maybe • April 17-20 – Montana Library Association your library even has a book about it. Try search Conference, Missoula terms such as “desk workout” or “yoga at work” and see what works for you. • April 18 – Celebrate Teen Literature Day

Overall, it was a rewarding and educational • April 20-27 – Money Smart Week conference with time set aside for conference • April 21-27 – Preservation Week planning and networking. Thank you again to Lori West and her Professional Development • April 24 – Tenth Annual Copyright Committee and to those that contribute to our Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, professional development fund. Indiana

• April 30 – Children’s Day/Book Day (AKA El día de los niños/El día de los libros )

• April 30-May 3 – Association of Research Libraries Membership Meeting, Chapel Hill/Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina

• May 1-7 – Choose Privacy Week • May 3-8 – Medical Library Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Boston

• May 7-8 – National Library Legislative Day • June 27-July 2 – ALA Annual Conference, Chicago

The Good Stuff - Page 17 - December 2012 A Look at NDLA’s Executive Board: NEVC sends the slate of candidates to the Nominations, Executive Board for approval. Once the slate is approved, the names of and information about Elections, & the candidates are sent to the editor of The Good Stuff for inclusion in the August issue. NDLA Voting Committee members have the opportunity to read through information about each candidate’s educational experience, professional involvement, personal vision statement, and other biographical information before getting out the vote.

The NDLA Bylaws stipulate that four NDLA By Ka l a n Da v i s , 2011-12 Co m m i t t e e Me m b e r members serve on the Nominations, Elections, & Voting Committee. Traditionally, the current It’s December of a presidential election year, NDLA president serves as a member. One of which means we are savoring the sweet reprieve the committee members serves as the electronic from campaign-sponsored television commercials. ballot administrator and is responsible for creating We are no longer being bombarded with and delivering the ballots to the membership. gratuitous amounts of snide snail-mailings. My The Committee tallies the election results and mom even stopped forwarding me those awkward the Committee Chair sends the results to the chain emails. Whether or not you are happy Executive Board for validation. That pretty with the results of the national 2012 presidential much sums up the many responsibilities of the election, take a moment to imagine and Committee; let’s take a look at some of the perks appreciate all the time, money, tears, and sweat of the job! that went into making the election possible. First, imagine looking through 360 individual Chandra Hirning and I served as co-chairs of the NDLA membership profiles looking for the next North Dakota Library Association’s Nominations, President-elect or Secretary of this professional Elections, & Voting Committee (NEVC) during organization, but also imagine utilizing the 2011-12. With this “A look at the Executive knowledge that you’ve gained from that Board” article, I wanted to take the opportunity experience the next time your library needs to inform the general membership about the an outside expert on collection development responsibilities of this Committee, as well as policy or HR know-how. Joining the NDLA summarize three of the positive benefits and Nominations, Elections, & Voting Committee personal gains that I experienced. means that you will gain an intimate knowledge of who is in the larger North Dakota library Did you know that EVERY year is a presidential community and what their respective strengths election year for the North Dakota Library are. Knowing those strengths means you can Association? Every September, the members utilize them in the future. of the NDLA Nominations, Elections, & Voting Committee take up the responsibility of finding Second, you will be the direct connection at least two candidates for the organization’s between a leadership candidate and their career’s positions of Secretary, Treasurer, and President- next big break. Are you looking for a more elect. In years when an ALA Councilor and effective way to network or gain recognition MPLA Representative are needed, the Committee in the larger library community? Volunteering is also responsible for finding candidates for those for the NDLA Nominations, Elections, & Voting positions. Committee means that you will have ample opportunity to network with the leaders of After two candidates have been secured for tomorrow as well as personally serving with the each of the NDLA leadership positions, the current NDLA president.

The Good Stuff - Page 18 - December 2012 Third, you will be responsible for shaping the Nominations, Elections, & Voting Committee future of this professional organization. When make the future leadership of the North Dakota elected, the candidates included on the ballots Library Association possible. You are an active will be in a position to talk with legislators, and vital part of the future of libraries. shape policy, and help make improvements for all libraries in North Dakota. Members of the See you on the Executive Board!

A Look at the NDLA Executive Board: Web Editor By Th e r e s a No r t o n , NDLA We b Ed i t o r ndla.htm which later became http://ndsl.lib.state. nd.us/ndla. The purchase of a domain name When I was tasked with writing an article for provided NDLA with a much simplified URL: The Good Stuff about serving as Web Editor for http://ndla.info. The switch to the commercial NDLA, I thought about how well-timed it was. I web service was also significant for another had already decided that this would be my final reason. It allowed for direct maintenance year as Web Editor and perhaps reading more of the site instead of working through an about the position would prompt someone else to intermediary, thereby offering the opportunity for express an interest in serving in that role. When I experimentation and expansion. began writing the article, I realized that a simple recitation of duties and responsibilities wouldn’t Other milestones include a new logo and site convey the interest or the challenge that I’ve redesign in 2002, the addition of blogs in 2008, felt during my twelve plus years as NDLA’s Web the creation of a wiki for use by the conference Editor. Instead, I’d like to start by giving some planning committee in 2009, and the design historical background on the NDLA web site of the current logo in 2011. The most recent itself. enhancements have been establishing an Executive Board archive and an area for section, The web site was created by Ellen Kotrba in roundtable, and committee documents. 1997. It was originally housed on a web server maintained by the ODIN office and was moved Historically, as a member of the web committee, to a North Dakota State Library server in 1998. the Web Editor has had primary responsibility Sally Dockter, NDLA’s President at the time, for maintaining NDLA’s web site. The committee appointed me to be Web Editor in 2000 when mainly relies on official documents and Ellen decided not to continue in the position. information from Executive Board members for Maintaining the web site wasn’t easy during those content, which is converted into a web-ready early days. Because write access to the web format and posted to the web. Most web site server was restricted, any additions, deletions, activity takes place shortly before and after each or changes to the site had to be sent to the State Executive Board meeting, with the month of the Library to be uploaded to the server. Everyone annual conference being especially busy. I dealt with at the State Library was wonderfully responsive to my update requests, but indirect I have found that the time and effort necessary to maintenance of the site was cumbersome. maintain the site are offset by the many positive experiences and creative opportunities I’ve Much has changed since the site was originally enjoyed. However, I feel that NDLA’s web site created. NDLA purchased a domain name for the would benefit from a fresh perspective and new site in 2006. The web site was moved from the ideas. I encourage anyone reading this to think North Dakota State Library server to LunarPages, a about the commitment required, balance that commercial web services provider, in 2007. The against the opportunity to make a contribution first change was significant because it gave the to NDLA while gaining experience maintaining web site a primary URL for the first time. The first a web site, and then say yes if you are asked to URL for the site was http://www.odin.nodak.edu/ become the third NDLA Web Editor.

The Good Stuff - Page 19 - December 2012 2012 Conference Resolutions

These six resolutions were passed at the 2012 NDLA Conference.

Executive Board Chair: Aubrey Madler, NDLA President

WHEREAS, the meetings and events of the 2012 NDLA Annual Conference were organized by Rita Ennen, conference committee and program chair, Beth Postema, local arrangements committee chair and other committee members, librarians, and friends, and

WHEREAS, the facilities and staff of the Best Western Doublewood Inn, the Fargo Convention & Visitors Bureau, and other Fargo area businesses contributed to the success of the conference,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: that the North Dakota Library Association expresses its appreciation and extends its thanks to the members of the conference committee, members of the local arrangements committee, conference facilities staff, speakers, program presenters, and exhibitors for the 2012 Annual Conference: “Finding Your Voice.”

Academic and Special Libraries Section (ASL) Chair: Donna James

WHEREAS, the Academic and Special Libraries Section (ASL) and the School Libraries and Youth Services Section (SLAYS) of the North Dakota Library Association (NDLA) believe in the value of school libraries and librarians to promote lifelong information literacy skills, and

WHEREAS, lifelong information literacy skills are essential to facilitate students’ transition to higher education,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: that these sections jointly support legislation which would guarantee that every K-12 school in North Dakota will have a certified librarian working in it.

Legislative Committee Chair: Kelly Steckler

WHEREAS, the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act is proposed legislation for the forthcoming legislative session,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: that the North Dakota Library Association Legislative Committee shall track said legislation and shall give support to this legislation as such shall provide for an official designation of format and publishers of important legal and state government document publications in North Dakota.

The Good Stuff - Page 20 - December 2012 Public Library Section Chair: Wendy Wendt

WHEREAS, the North Dakota State Library provides excellent leadership, assistance, and resources to North Dakota’s public libraries, and

WHEREAS, all residents of North Dakota benefit from the efforts of the North Dakota State Library,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: the Public Library Section of the North Dakota Library Association supports the North Dakota State Library’s budget request for the next biennium.

Public Library Section Chair: Wendy Wendt

WHEREAS, the success of any conference begins with the dedicated work of the local community entities that are part of the Local Arrangements Committee, and

WHEREAS, the Fargo Public Library was a major role player in many host activities, including a wonderful opening reception for the 2012 North Dakota Library Association conference, and

WHEREAS, the City of Fargo by and through Mayor Walaker of the City of Fargo extended to the library workers of the state a wonderful message of welcome,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: that the efforts and hospitality of the Fargo Public Library and the cordial welcome of the City of Fargo is recognized and appreciated and thanks for such is enthusiastically expressed.

School Libraries and Youth Services Section (SLAYS) Chair: Lesley Gunderson

WHEREAS, the School Libraries and Youth Services Section (SLAYS) of the North Dakota Library Association (NDLA) believe in the value of school libraries and librarians to promote lifelong information literacy skills, and

WHEREAS, information literacy skills are necessary for student academic and intellectual development, and

WHEREAS, school librarians are an essential component to curriculum instruction and common core implementation, which includes college and career readiness,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: that this section supports legislation which would guarantee that every K-12 school in North Dakota will have a certified librarian working in it.

The Good Stuff - Page 21 - December 2012 On the DOCket By Lisa Martin, GODORT Chair Fargo was a hopping place during the 2012 NDLA Lawn Problems and Solutions for Conference and the GODORT Booth was hopping, North Dakota. This document, too! Nine documents were nominated for the 2012 compiled by Alan Zuk, Janet Knodel, Notable Documents Award, ranging from titles and Ron Smith, was published by the NDSU evaluating water issues across the state to looking Extension Service. Home Lawn Problems is divided at healthy cooking. Conference attendees cast their into three sections looking at weeds, diseases, and votes (thank you!) at the GODORT booth and by insects which typically strike North Dakota lawns. the end of conference, a winner was announced. Exploration of the great outdoors, whether roaming The GODORT Notable Documents Award seeks to far afield for hikes or tending the garden closer to highlight worthy North Dakota state documents (“to home, was a noted theme among all the winners recognize excellence in government publications, this year. identify documents of distinction, and commend individual works of superlative nature”) as well Nominations for the 2013 Notable Documents as provide ALA with nominees that may receive Award are open! If you are interested in inclusion on the national list. In the past, many nominating a notable North Dakota document, North Dakota notable documents have gone on to please contact Lisa Martin at lisa.martin@library. do very well at the national level; hopefully, this und.edu. You can also check the NDLA Awards year’s winners will, too. website (http://ndlaonline.org/awards.htm) for nominee requirements and further information. The 2012 Notable Documents Award first place winner was Spectacular North Dakota Hikes: Bring the Dog, written by Susan Wefald and published See what’s new! by the North Dakota Institute for Regional at DakotaBookNet.com Studies. Though librarians are noted cat-lovers, Journal of a Mountaineer – By Medora historian Doug Ellison, this book this nominee carried the vote handily. The book offers an authentic view of the life of a mountain man in the 1800s. is divided into roughly geographic chapters and The Brothers Krimm, The Bank Robber and the Hero – Crosby journalist includes a number of hikes in each region. Lovely Cecile Wehrman tracks the life of a modern-day bank robber. color illustrations of the hikes decorate many Life Album: The Frank and Doris Kubik Story – The story of a classic pages and Wefald’s dog, Sandy, often provides Western North Dakota ranching operation. supplemental ‘dog’s-eye views’ of the hikes. In Guardians of the Frontier – Joseph Gavett follows a man’s journey addition, there are Wefald’s notes on what was westward in the 1850s, with stops at Forts Pierre, Union, Randall and Abercrombie. enjoyable as well as practical information such as Sundogs and Sunflowers: Folklore and Folk Art of the Northern Great maps and directions. Plains – A collection of folk heritage representing all of North Dakota as well as the region.

The second place winner was Flowers Between Memoirs of An Unknown Sportswriter (Except in North Dakota) – the Frosts: How to Grow Great Gardens in Legendary sportswriter Abe Winter relives many sports memories, from high Short Seasons, written by Dorothy Collins and school tournaments to college hockey. also published by the North Dakota Institute Mr. Wheat: U.S. Senator Milton R. Young – The first-ever biography of North Dakota’s longest-serving U.S. Senator by Andrea Winkjer Collin and for Regional Studies. Clearly the North Dakota Richard E. Collin. Institute for Regional Studies knows how to win Also available! Dakota Stories I and Dakota Stories II by Lauraine librarians’ hearts. The gardening information in Snelling; Perseverance in Faith, a Centennial History of the Catholic Flowers between the Frosts comes from articles Church in North Dakota; From the Sideline by Mike Schatz; Small Town Soldiers documentary by Watford City native Cody Shimek; On Divine published by Collins in the Moorhead (MN) Daily Assignment by Virginia Dohms and a large selection of Germans from News and Fargo (ND) Forum between 1956 and Russia books. 2008. Order online at www.dakotabooknet.com Finally, the 2012 third place winner was Home Take a Look at our Books! * 701-222-0947

The Good Stuff - Page 22 - December 2012 poetry collections, one of his last and best is titled Easy: Poems. Learn more about these other poets and their works, selected by the Read North Dakota partners, too:

• Heid Ellen Erdrich, National Monuments • Louise Erdrich, Original Fire • Clell Gannon, Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land • Madeline Gleason, Collected Poems: Su b m i t t e d b y Ja n Da l e y Ju r y , Re a d ND Co o r d i n a t o r 1944-1979 • Robert King, Old Man Laughing Read North Dakota is dedicated to celebrating • Debra Marquart, Everything’s a Verb and promoting literature created in and about • Jay Meek, Good Lives North Dakota. Created by a consortium of five • Murphy, Timothy, Mortal Stakes and Faint nonprofit and state organizations in 2007, Read Thunder North Dakota encourages readers, writers, and • Jamie Parsley, Paper Doves, Falling and educators to enjoy good literature rooted in our Other Poems own place by identifying relevant book titles and • Aaron Poochigan, The Cosmic Purr authors on a web site, in printed materials, and • Mark Vinz, Long Distance through public events and discussion groups. • Marnie Walsh, A Taste of the Knife The group maintains a website, www.readnd. org, to offer a comprehensive resource for North Librarians are encouraged to suggest authors who Dakota writers and statewide literary events. may have been overlooked to complete the lists in several genres: fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, Readnd.org will be launching a new look this biographies, children’s books, and self-published fall and adding more video and audio links. titles by contacting Read North Dakota at info@ Currently featured on the site are one-hour readnd.org. To enhance the effort to make the videos of authors whose appearances were Read North Dakota website a clearinghouse sponsored by Read North Dakota: Leif Enger for all literary events statewide, please send (fiction, 2007), James McPherson (history, 2008), information about local book clubs and reading Raymond Schroth (biography, 2009), S. D. groups, author appearances, writing workshops, Nelson (children’s author, 2010), Larry Woiwode and other events, to the same email address. No (memoir, 2011), Chuck Klosterman (journalist/ other single group knows about regional books novelist, 2012), and a recent interview at the and authors more intimately than the librarians Prairie Public studio with Louise Erdrich whose who work across this state. Read North Dakota latest book, The Round House, won the 2012 could use your help. National Book Award for Fiction. Partners in Read North Dakota include the North The website continues its inventory of authors and Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota books with this fall’s addition of a page dedicated Council on the Arts, State Historical Society of to North Dakota poets. In addition to four state North Dakota, Prairie Public, and the North laureates – Larry Woiwode, Lydia Jackson, Henry Dakota Library Association. Together, we hope Martinson, and Corbin Waldron – many of our to broaden access to and information about state’s poets have attained a national reputation of North Dakota’s rich literary history and the excellence. One of these is Tom McGrath, who is many opportunities citizens and visitors have to best known for his Letter to an Imaginary Friend, read and discuss books by authors who share a sprawling semi-autobiographical epic that is a connection to the state and our rich storied among America’s greatest long poems. Another, traditions. Roland Flint of Park River, North Dakota, was a long-time professor of English at Georgetown Contact Janet Daley Jury, ReadND Coordinator, at University and served as the poet laureate of [email protected] for more information or to offer Maryland from 1995 to 2000. Author of many suggestions and corrections.

The Good Stuff - Page 23 - December 2012 2012 Election RESULTS By Ch an d r a Hi r ning , No mina t i o n s , El e c t i o n s , & Vo t ing Co mmi t t e e Ch ai r , 2011-12

Voting and elections are an important way for NDLA members to shape the organization through giving their input and selecting leaders. For our most recent voting and elections, ballots were distributed in early August to voting members. In addition to ballots for the election of officers, there was a ballot to approve two changes to the NDLA bylaws. Here are the results:

Proposed Changes to Bylaws These new officers began their terms at the One proposed change to the bylaws concerned conclusion of the 2012 conference in Fargo. memberships for new members. This change to [Note: The term for treasurer runs on the calendar the bylaws was approved, 100 votes in favor and year.] 3 against. Prior to the approval of this bylaws change, non-NDLA members paid an extra $35 President-elect for 2012-13, to serve fee for conference registration and then were as President in 2013-14 considered members through December of that • Victor Lieberman same year. The change to the bylaws states that if • 275 ballots sent; 159 returned a conference registrant has never been an NDLA member but wants to become one when they are Secretary registering for conference, they pay the $35 fee • Beth Sorenson and are granted membership for the remainder of • 275 ballots sent; 159 returned the current calendar year, plus the following year. Treasurer Also added to the bylaws is a change that was • Mike Safratowich approved by the Board in 2000 but never brought • 275 ballots sent; 159 returned to the membership for approval. The motion states that “the President welcome new directors of Academic and Special Libraries Section North Dakota libraries to NDLA by giving them • Chair-elect for 2012-13: William a one-year free membership in the Association, Martin starting with the 2000-2001 NDLA year.” This • 91 ballots sent; 71 returned change was approved by a 98 to 3 margin. • Deb Syvertson, Chair-elect 2011-12, is unable to serve the 2012-13 term Results of Elections as chair, so Will Martin moved into The members of the Nominations, Elections, & the chair position at the conclusion Voting Committee were pleased that so many of the 2012 conference. During NDLA members were willing to have their names the annual meeting of the section, included on the ballots as candidates this year. Heather Maneiro was selected as the Thank you to those of you who ran for office. chair-elect for 2012-13.

The Good Stuff - Page 24 - December 2012 Archives/Records Management Roundtable STEM Kids • Chair Elect: Michael Robinson • 24 ballots sent; 15 returned By Aa r o n St e f a n i c h , Ch i l d r e n ’s Li b r a r i a n , Gr a n d Fo r k s Pu b l i c Li b r a r y Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) The Grand Forks Public Library received a • Chair-elect: BreAnne Meier grant from the North • 27 ballots sent; 19 returned Dakota State Library for an innovative partnership Health Science Information Section (HSIS) with a non-library • Chair-elect: Sandi Bates entity. The Children’s • Secretary: Travis Schulz Department began a • 30 ballots sent; 24 ballots returned partnership with the Dakota Science Center New Members Roundtable (NMRT) (DSC). DSC is a liaison • Chair-elect: Erienne Graten between the community and the University • 35 ballots sent; 23 returned of North Dakota faculty, university student service learning, and university student Public Library Section organizations. Dr. Laura Munski, Executive • Chair Elect Director of DSC, and Wendy Wendt, Director of the Grand Forks Public Library, agreed to • Denyse Sturges was on the ballot as a candidate for chair-elect, but a partnership that involved both grant writing is unable to serve her term. During and programming. the annual section meeting, Carrie Scarr was selected as Chair-elect for Thanks to the grant, STEM (Science, 2012-13. Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) • Secretary: Mary Jo Lorenz Kids was launched at the library this summer. • 105 ballots sent; 61 returned In June, STEM Kids K-2 (for children in grades K-2) met for three successive Tuesday sessions. School Libraries and Youth Services Section In July, STEM Kids 3-6 (for children in grades (SLAYS) 3-6) met for four successive Tuesday sessions. • Chair-elect: Amber Emery The topic-based sessions were each one • Secretary: Aaron Stefanich hour long, and children enjoyed hands-on • 82 ballots sent; 42 returned learning experiences while they were taught engineering concepts. Topics included simple Technical Services Roundtable (TECHSERT) machines, electronics, and straw rocket • Chair-elect: Jennifer Fairall launchers. • Secretary: Danae Snavely • 42 ballots sent; 35 returned DSC provided the teacher’s expertise and developed lesson plans for the STEM teaching To our new officers, congratulations, and kits. The lesson plans for each kit were thank you for supporting NDLA through your referenced to the state curriculum standards, leadership. and included grade level, instruction time, material list, objectives, teacher’s introduction As a final reminder, NDLA memberships run to the materials, student instruction, skills, through December 31. Please renew your and vocabulary. The lesson plans facilitate membership for 2013 early in the year. Having a the recruitment of UND student and parent current active membership or student membership volunteers to teach the sessions in the future. to NDLA entitles you to vote and to hold office. Starting this fall, the library plans on hosting STEM Kids as an after-school program.

The Good Stuff - Page 25 - December 2012 2013 Summer Reading Program

There’s something for everyone in the summer reading program! The program’s goals are to prepare children for success by developing early language skills, to motivate teens to read and discuss literature, and to encourage adults to experience the joy of reading.

2013 Themes • Dig into Reading (Children) • Beneath the Surface (Teens) • Groundbreaking Reads (Adults)

Manuals The 2013 summer reading manual is designed to help librarians plan for, promote, and host a successful summer reading program, and is available, free of charge, from the North Dakota State Library. To request one, complete and submit this form: www.library.nd.gov/summerreadingmanual.html.

Summer Reading Workshops Summer reading workshops are scheduled in several locations throughout the state during February 2013. Both newbies and experienced summer reading program coordinators will benefit from the opportunity to learn, discuss, and share ideas with others. To register for a workshop, visit: http://bit.ly/ Umh6lj. The workshops begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.

• February 11 - Bismarck Public Library • February 13 - Dickinson Public Library • February 14 - Minot Public Library • February 19 - Grand Forks Public Library • February 20 - Leach Public Library (Wahpeton) • February 21 - James River Valley Library (Jamestown)

Need more information?

Contact Adam Emter at the North Dakota State Library ([email protected]; 701-328-4656) with your summer reading program questions.

The Good Stuff - Page 26 - December 2012 Browsing in the Cyberstacks

Compiled by Kalan Knudson Davis, Editorial Committee Member ¡Hola! Guten Tag! Here are some resources to help you in your quest: Hei! Boozhoo! Bonjour! www.rocketlanguages.com/ The core component of Rocket Languages is Hoyekiyapi! the downloadable and iPod/MP3- compatible In other words, hello! My name Interactive Audio Lessons, which break is Kalan Knudson Davis and I am conversations down into easily learned parts. It joining The Good Stuff Editorial also features interactive games, quizzes, and audio Committee as the contributing writer for the tracks. Browsing in the Cyberstacks column. https://filemaker.cla.umn.edu/dakota/ The Department of American Indian Studies at the The American Community Survey for the 2008- University of Minnesota hosts Dakota Dictionary 2010 period tells us that of the total population Online, a community dictionary database that is of North Dakota (622,822 people), 590,595 open for comments, corrections, additions, and speak only English at home, which means 5% of discussions about the Dakota language. the population (32,227 people) speak a different www.transparent.com/word-of-the-day/ language in their domicile. In addition to English, Don’t have time to learn an entire language? Why Spanish, French, German, Norwegian, Dakota, not learn a word a day? Transparent Language and Hidatsa are among the many other languages will email you a word from the language of your spoken throughout households in the state. [1] choice every morning. Read it, hear it, see it in a sample sentence, and grow your vocabulary — I recently had the opportunity to attend the one word at a time. Minnesota Library Association’s 2012 annual conference in St. Paul. The final keynote speaker http://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/ was Dr. Anton Treuer, a Professor of Ojibwe at The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary is a searchable, Bemidji State University. He is the author of nine talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features books, including Everything You Wanted to Know the voices of Ojibwe speakers. The Ojibwe about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, which People’s Dictionary has thousands of entries and was also the title of his Friday luncheon keynote audio, with more coming online each week. It presentation. is a continually expanding resource for Ojibwe language and culture. In his keynote address, Dr. Treuer told a story www.neiu.edu/~linguist/dictionary.html about how his auto mechanic concluded a The Hidatsa language program webpage seeks business transaction by saying, “Miigwech. Giga- to support the Hidatsa Language Program waabamin miinawaa,” which in Objiwe means, in Mandaree, North Dakota. Hidatsa is an “Thank you! I’ll see you again.” The mechanic’s endangered tribal language. The webpage also use of Dr. Treuer’s native Ojibwe language led to focuses on the culture and history of the Hidatsa the expansion of the safe place in which mutual people. understanding, respect, and awareness could begin Until we meet again for another edition of to grow between two people. Browsing in the Cyberstacks, “Take care. Miigwech. Giga-waabamin miinawaa. Au revoir. Here is my charge to the librarians of North Lebewohl. Avskjed. Tokßa. Aaríokaac. Adios.” Dakota until the next issue of The Good Stuff (Oh no! She’s giving homework, too?). If you [1] U.S. Census Bureau. (2010). 2008-2010 hear diversity of language in your library stacks American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates, or during the work day, take the time to learn North Dakota. “Table B16001: Language Spoken a common phrase or two from your patron’s at Home by Ability to Speak English for the language … maybe “Hello!” “Goodbye” or Population 5 Years and Over.” Retrieved from “Thank you!” [http://factfinder2.census.gov].

The Good Stuff - Page 27 - December 2012 people Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member Stuff Hattie Albertson is the new library director at 1994-99, and humanities librarian since 1999. Dakota College at Bottineau. Hattie is a former All the best for your retirement, Fran. high school English teacher, having taught grades 9-12 at St. John Public School, grades 10 and 12 and grade 12 Advanced Placement at Bottineau Daniel Gaghan was recently hired as the Access High School. Hattie earned an M.A. in American Services Librarian at the Mildred Johnson Studies/American Literature from Pennsylvania Library, North Dakota State College of Science in State University. She is excited about her new Wahpeton. Before coming to NDSCS, he worked position and looking forward to the years ahead for Stanford University in both the Technical at DCB. Welcome, Hattie! Services and Access Services departments. Daniel earned his Master’s in Library and Information Sciences from San Jose State University in 2010. Monica Crane is the new Manager of Learning Being from California, this will be his first time Commons (AKA library) at Williston State College. living in a state with all four seasons. Welcome She grew up in Mott, did her undergraduate work to North Dakota, Daniel! at UND, received her MLS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this spring, and started at WSC in August. Monica is overseeing some Rachel Kercher, originally from West Fargo, sweeping changes to library operations at WSC. recently became the children’s librarian at the Welcome back to North Dakota, Monica! Leach Public Library in Wahpeton. Kercher, a 2001 graduate of Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, previously worked at Mary Fischer, director of the Valley City Barnes the West Fargo Public Library. County Public Library, passed away on September 20, 2012. Mary was born on February 14, 1935 at Buffalo, North Dakota, the daughter of Patrick and The North Dakota State Library offered two Sarah Killoran. She started school at the Buffalo scholarships to attend the Association of Rural country school, then attended St. Catherine’s and Small Libraries (ARSL) Conference in Raleigh, boarding school in Valley City, graduating in 1952 North Carolina. Beth Reitan, director of the as class valedictorian. In 1952, she married Clair Bottineau County Public Library, and Bonnie A. Fischer and settled in Valley City, where they Krenz, director of the Griggs County Public raised a large family. After Clair passed away in Library, were selected to attend. 1967, Mary went back to college at Valley City State College and earned a degree in education We welcome Joe Rector, the new director of the with a double major in biology and English and James River Valley Library System. He replaced a minor in library science. She was employed at Daphne Drewello, who retired in June after 33 the Valley City Barnes County Public Library from years on the job. Rector grew up in Michigan, 1979 until present and worked as the director for graduating from Andrews University in Michigan several years. Liz Hoskisson is currently serving as in 1992 and Union College in Nebraska in 1992. the acting library director. He taught English and history in high school for 11 years before deciding to change careers. Fran Fisher retired from NDSU Libraries on Rector has completed coursework through the August 3, 2012. Fran joined NDSU in 1976, University of Oklahoma for his degree and is served as the serials librarian from 1977-94, working on his thesis, which will focus on church program director for Technical Services from libraries and how they meet people’s needs for

The Good Stuff - Page 28 - December 2012 Welcome to NDLA! Welcome to NDLA! New members since the last issue of The Good Stuff are Elizabeth Lengenfelder and Crystal Molzahn (Bismarck); information. He and his wife, Jennifer, have a six- Hattie Albertson (Bottineau); Claudia Park year-old son. and Michele Seil (Carrington); LaVae Haaland (Devils Lake); Korella Selzler and Carol H. Sibley (Dilworth MN); Charlotte D. Helgeson Sam Stover was recently hired at Valley City (East Grand Forks MN); Lollie Adair (Enderlin); State University as the new Reference Librarian. Anna Baird, Andrea M. Cook, Katrina He is a native of Akron, Ohio, and was formerly Gunderson, Benjamin Harvey, Kate Hoverson, employed at Davis Memorial Library at the Lauren Johnson, and Trista Raezer (Fargo); University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Cynthia Spencer (Fessenden); LaRee Misek Welcome to North Dakota, Sam! (Finley); Debra McGinley (Fort Yates); Randy Pederson and Melissa Strand, Grand Forks); Acacia Jonas Stuckle, NDSU Libraries’ Germans Metta Pfliger and Michelle Schmitz-Bohrer from Russia Heritage Collection (GRHC) Special (Hazen); Joseph Rector (Jamestown); Jennifer Collections Associate, took a new position with Romfo (Langdon); Jessica Hager (Larimore); the NDSU Extension Service in October. She will Sharon I. Nelson (Larimore); Deirdre Schwartz be working in both Emmons and Kidder Counties. (Lavina MT); Joleen Risovi (Maddock); Angela Acacia began working at the GRHC as a student Kitzman (Rolette ); Deborah Roberts (Solen); employee in August 2002. She continued to work Jody Sand (Steele); Sam Stover (Valley City); there throughout her college career and was hired Daniel Gaghan and Vickie Medenwaldt as the Special Collections Associate in February (Wahpeton); and Diane Fink (West Fargo). 2007. Membership Report Deb Syvertson retired from her position at (as of October 19, 2012) Dakota College at Bottineau in August. She will Compiled by Kathy Thomas, be working part-time at Metigoshe Ministries, a Membership Chair Christian youth camp and retreat center, located in the Turtle Mountains. Deb will also be writing Academic & Special Libraries Section 105 grants for three area regional education centers. Health Sciences Information Section 30 She and her husband will escape the North Public Library Section 136 Dakota winter for a month or two in Florida, watching the Minnesota Twins’ spring training. School Library & Youth Services Section 103 Best wishes for your retirement, Deb. Archives/Records Management Roundtable 26 Government Documents Roundtable 30 Wendy Wendt will be serving as the Mountain New Members Roundtable 42 Plains Library Association’s new Vice President/ Technical Services Roundtable 48 President-Elect. Wendy is the Director of the Grand Forks Public Library and was one of Associate members 18 North Dakota’s representatives at MPLA’s 2010 Institutional members 12 Leadership Institute. Congratulations, Wendy! Student members 5 Trustee members 26 New members 59 Total 2012 members 368

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Banned Books Week is an annual event The intent of Banned Books Week is three-fold: celebrating the freedom to read and the • To draw attention to the importance of the importance of the First Amendment. Held during freedom to read the last week of September, Banned Books Week • To publicize threats to that freedom highlights the benefits of free and open access to • To provide information to combat information while drawing attention to the harms ignorance and lack of awareness of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted book banning across the United States. Here’s a look at how a few North Dakota libraries celebrated Banned Books Week this year.

“Banned Books” at library’s staff designed a poster and prepared a Dickinson State University display of banned books to promote the readout. By Ji m McWi l l i a m s , Pr o f e s s o r o f En g l i s h “We enjoyed participation of faculty and Stoxen Library, on the campus of Dickinson State students from a number of different academic University, marked the 30th anniversary of the departments. It was gratifying to see intellectual American Library Association’s “Banned Books” freedom so widely supported,” Ms. Ennen said week with public readings on October 2 of more after the event. Ms. Ennen added she especially than 20 books that have been challenged by appreciated the student readers. “To hear them censors. explain why they oppose censorship and the things they have learned from the banned books Some of the books read were Brave New World, they had chosen was inspiring,” she said. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lolita, And Tango Makes Three, and A Light in Karen Foster, associate professor of English and the Attic. The readers included faculty, staff, and reader of Bless Me, Ultima, agreed that the students at DSU, and the last 30 minutes of each experience was inspiring, saying, “The historical session were reserved for anyone in the audience context of each reading reminded the audience of who wished to read from a banned book. the importance of freedom of speech. The diversity of the presentations enhanced the event and Rita Ennen, director of Stoxen Library and reader provided great ideas for reading. A Clockwork of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Orange will be my next read.” Jim McWilliams, professor of English and reader of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, set up three The books, selected from the list of challenged two-hour reading sessions throughout the day. The texts at the ALA website, had a variety of themes

The Good Stuff - Page 30 - December 2012 Banned Books Read Out! Bismarck State College On October 6, the BSC Library hosted its 4th annual Banned Books “Read Out!” with five student and two faculty guest readers sharing excerpts from some of their favorite banned or challenged books. They included:

• Mercer Sage reading from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie • Breann Harm reading from Lord of the Flies by William Golding • Amanda Humann reading from Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes • Julie Perkins reading from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Dan Rogers, Associate Professor of • Kalyn Retterath reading from To Kill a Mockingbird by Theatre & Speech, guest reader. Harper Lee • Associate Professor of Theatre/Speech Dan Rogers reading Marlene Anderson, Director of from The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, and Library Services, served as the • Dr. AnnMarie Kajencki, Professor of English, sharing tidbits emcee for the event and gave from these children’s books: Charlotte’s Web by E. B. some background information on White, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, and Are when, where, and why each of the You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume books has been challenged.

and proved to be very popular with the audience, who sat attentively as the readers described when and where the books had been challenged and then read for approximately 10 minutes. After the readings, some audience members said they intended to read the books because they were curious about how the stories would turn out.

The event’s success has inspired Ms. Ennen and Dr. McWilliams to begin thinking about making a read out an annual event at DSU. They also hope to expand the festivities to include a panel A Week of Events discussion and a poster contest for DSU students Paul Hoghaug Library, to spotlight the issue of censorship. Lake Region State College Taylor Hort, junior political science major and A series of events were held at Lake Region State reader of A Wrinkle in Time, summed up the College during Banned Books Week. Overdue read out by saying, “Having the opportunity charges at the library were waived throughout the to participate in an event that brings awareness week and students, faculty, and staff were also and promotes the idea of thinking for one’s invited to come to the library to sign a Freedom to self and allowing others to do the same was a Read Statement. Library cards were laminated for wonderful experience, and I feel that the event free on Monday and Tuesday and hot apple cider was successful and I would absolutely love and cookies were served on Wednesday at the to participate again.” library. The library also held a book sale during Banned Books Week.

The Good Stuff - Page 31 - December 2012 North Dakota in Print Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

You will find a lifetime of cooking born and live there.” For more information and experience in the latest cookbook to order a copy, visit the Germans from Russia from the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU Libraries or Prairie Heritage Collection, NDSU Public. Libraries. Alma’s Favorite Recipes: Cooking & Memories from a A paperback reprint copy of Culture and Customs German-Russian Farm Kitchen ($25, of the Sioux Indians ($19.95, 216 p., pbk.) by 266 p., softcover) features recipes Gregory O. Gagnon was published in November from Alma (Janke) Schott, who by the University of Nebraska Press. The original passed away on October 7, 2012. hardcover version ($49.95, 182 p.) was published Alma grew up on a German- by ABC-CLIO in May 2011. Choice called it, “[A] Russian farm between Fredonia well-balanced history and overview of Dakota and and Gackle, North Dakota, and Lakota Siouans.” The book “shows how the Sioux learned to bake and cook at a of today merge traditional customs and beliefs young age. The cookbook, edited that have survived their tumultuous history with and compiled by Acacia (Jonas) contemporary America.” The author is an enrolled Stuckle and Leah (Johnson) member of the Red River Band of the Lake Aakre, made its debut on what Superior Chippewa in northern Wisconsin and would have been Schott’s 90th birthday. For more served as the academic vice president at Oglala information or to order a copy, visit the GHRC Lakota College for almost 17 years before joining website. UND’s Indian Studies faculty in 1997. He also wrote Fiduciary for Seven Generations: The Tribal The latest children’s book from Kevin Kremer, who College Trustee and co-authored Native Peoples of grew up in Mandan, was published in September. the Northern Plains. Gagnon retired from UND in Are You Smarter Than A Flying Teddy? Teddy December 2011. Roosevelt Returns to North Dakota! ($8.99, 350 p., pbk.) is available in local bookstores as well as Annetta Sanow Sutton of online booksellers Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Bismarck can add author to her In the book, a group of teens builds a huge Flying list of accomplishments. She Teddy airship in Florida that they plan to fly from is the CEO and founder of Five Florida to North Dakota. During the flight, Flying Point Consulting, is part of the Teddy will quiz people about Teddy Roosevelt’s Spiritual Care Department at life. Of course, there’s a twist, but readers will Hazelden Foundation, and spent learn a lot about Teddy Roosevelt along the way. nearly 20 years as a Catholic Diocesan director for the Diocese At Home in Russia, at Home on the Prairie of Bismarck. Sutton’s first book, ($30, 1 hour, DVD) premiered on October 17, a memoir, is titled Catholic Alcoholic: a Witness 2012, on Prairie Public Broadcasting. This to Addiction and Redemption ($18, 220 p., documentary, one in a series produced by Prairie softcover). For more information, visit www. Public in conjunction with the Germans from fivepointconsulting.org. Russia Heritage Collection, takes viewers to an area typical of German settlements on the Dad’s Best Present Ever ($9.95, 24 p., pbk.) Russian steppe. Many of the descendants of those is the first in a children’s book series by Kathy Germans from Russia settled in similar landscapes Kinnischtzke, who grew up in Bismarck-Mandan. on the prairies of North Dakota, the Northern Tom Marple of Mandan illustrated the book. The Plains, and western Canadian Prairie Provinces. “What Next” series is about six puppies that work The documentary examines “what causes a region, their way into the hearts of a family and take over. a place, to imprint itself upon the people who are Pet owners understand how that works!

The Good Stuff - Page 32 - December 2012 Bismarck native Shelley GoodStein has enjoyed From 1970-72, Arlene Elle Gray a successful career as both a model and a of Bismarck served as a Peace pharmaceutical representative. Now she has Corps volunteer in Iran. During penned a “guide book for the ordinary girl” that time, she wrote many letters called Face This: Real Advice from Real Models, about her experiences to friends Photographers and Makeup Artists on How to and family back home. Now she Become Picture Perfect ($27.99, 190 p., pbk.; has compiled them into a book, $7.99, ebook). It offers advice on clothing, beauty, Letters from Iran: Memoirs of modeling, social media, and how to use a camera. a Peace Corps Volunteer, 1970- The book is available from Amazon, Barnes and 1972 ($19.99, 282 p., pbk.). The Noble, or iTunes. book is available locally at the Bismarck Barnes and Noble store as well as from online sellers J. Leigh Nolan, who lives in Ellendale, has penned XLibris, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. her first book via Blurb. From the Storm to the Rainbow: 31 Devotionals for Your Storm ($8.95, Michael Delaney: U.S. Marshal Dakota Territory 80 p., softcover) is divided into three sections: the ($14.95, 224 p., pbk.) blends fact and fiction to Storm, the Shelter, and the Rainbow to help you tell the story of Michael Delaney and his life as get through the tough times. For more information, a U.S. Marshal in Dakota Territory in the 1800s. visit the author’s website at http://jleighnolan. Author Joseph Gavett has roots in North Dakota awardspace.com/index.htm and has written several other books about this part of the world. The book is available at local David A. Hecker, a Devils Lake native who earned bookstores and from online booksellers. For more a Ph.D. in American Studies, began searching information, visit www.juddsworkshoppublications. his family roots in 1987. His journey into the com/. past revealed many things he had not known about his family history and culminated in a visit Murder Unscripted ($8, 122 to the village of Munchen, located in present- p., pbk.) is the well-received day Ukraine, from which his great-grandfather debut novel of retired actor Clive emigrated in 1891. Hecker has now published a Rosengren, who earned his MA memoir about his Germans from Russia relatives from NDSU and got his start at who emigrated to the United States and those NDSU’s Little Country Theater and who remained in Russia. Full Circle: a Journey the Fargo-Moorhead Community in Search of Roots ($14, 253 p., softcover.; $9.99, Theater. In Murder Unscripted, ebook) is available from GRHC at NDSU Libraries Eddie Collins is a part-time actor and other booksellers, including Amazon and and part-time sleuth whose ex-wife ends up dead Barnes and Noble. The author currently lives on … and it looks a lot like murder. Booklist said this Bainbridge Island, Washington. of the book, ‘’Blasting out of a time warp, straight from the 1940s. It’s set in modern Hollywood, Pastor Terry Moore of Sovereign Grace Church but it’s old-time California noir, right down to its in Mandan has penned Guarding Your Mind: the Bakelite heart . . . Luscious.’’ Christian’s Most Valuable Commodity ($9.95, 96 p., pbk.) and is donating all royalties from the Mary Reinertson-Sand, Information Specialist at book to the church building fund. Published by the Rural Assistance Center, University of North CrossLink Publishing, the book is also available Dakota, Center for Rural Health, has illustrated from Amazon and BarnesandNoble. The author a children’s book written by her father, Bob signed copies of his book at Barnes and Noble in Reinertson. The Mysterious Visitor ($21.99, 26 p., Bismarck on November 25. pbk.) is available from XLibris. This is Mary’s first illustrated book, but her third book project. She served as a consultant on North Dakota by Robin

The Good Stuff - Page 33 - December 2012 Silverman, and wrote the North Dakota section radically revised version” of on National Geographic’s Quilt of States: Piecing her novel, The Antelope Wife Together America by Adrienne Yorinks. ($14.99, 320 p., pbk.). The New York Times called The Antelope No Lumps, Thank You: a Bra Anthologie ($24.99, Wife, originally published in 72 p., hardcover; $29.99, special edition with 1998, “a fiercely imagined tale stories of breast cancer survival) features an of love and loss, a story that uplifting and entertaining photographic collection manages to transform tragedy of playful brassieres created from a wide and wild into comic redemption, sorrow variety of common objects. Artist Meg Spielman into heroic survival.” Peldo of Fargo created the bras, photographed them, and put the images into a book to help Erdrich’s latest novel, The Round House, won the raise money for breast cancer charities. For more 2012 National Book Award for Fiction and is set in information about the project or to order a copy, an Ojibwe community in North Dakota. A starred visit http://nolumpsthankyou.com. The book is also review in Publishers Weekly (July 16, 2012, p. available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and 140) said: “…the story pulses with urgency as she local booksellers. [Erdrich] probes the moral and legal ramifications of a terrible act of violence” … the “ordeal is made A book signing event was held at the Hunter Café even more devastating by the legal ambiguities on September 26. Karen Bane, who grew up on surrounding the location and perpetrator of the a farm near Hunter, Erie, and Galesburg, was on assault – did the attack occur on tribal, federal, hand to sign copies of her children’s book, Raising or state land? Is the aggressor white or Indian?” Tippy ($7.99, 52 p., pbk.). It is a tale of life on a When the wheels of justice seem to grind to a halt, farm and raising a lamb named Tippy. Bane taught the victim’s teenage son, Joe, and his friends, “take elementary school for more than 40 years and now matters into their own hands. But revenge exacts a lives in northern California. For more information, tragic price … Erdrich perceptively chronicles the visit http://karenbane.tateauthor.com/. attack’s disastrous effect on the family’s domestic life, their community, and Joe’s own premature The latest novels from Lauraine Snelling are introduction to a violent world.” Reunion ($14.99, 336 p., pbk.), which was published in July, and Whispers in the Wind Erdrich has also penned the ($19.99, 352 p., hardcover), which was published children’s book, Chickadee, in August. Reunion tells the story of Keira Johnston the latest addition to the and her dream of visiting Norway. In order to Birchbark House series. apply for a passport, Keira must find her birth Chickadee continues the story certificate – a document that turns out to reveal of one Ojibwe family’s journey more than expected. Whispers in the Wind is the through one hundred years in second book in the Wild West Wind series. For America. The other titles in the more information about the author and her books, Birchbark House series include many of which have been set in North Dakota, The Birchbark House, The visit the website: www.laurainesnelling.com/. Game of Silence, and The Porcupine Year. Snelling’s books are widely available in bookstores and from online sellers. Louise Erdrich is the author of several books, short stories, and poetry. Her novel Love Medicine won Louise Erdrich, who grew up in Wahpeton, has the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The published two new books, The Round House Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was ($25.99, 336 p., hardcover) and Chickadee a finalist for the National Book Award. The Plague ($16.99, 208 p., hardcover), as well as “a new and of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Erdrich now

The Good Stuff - Page 34 - December 2012 lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark actual events in Abilene, Kansas in 1871. Told Books, an independent bookstore. Her books are from the perspective of a fifteen-year-old boy, it is a widely available in bookstores and from online coming-of-age novel about family, early romance, sellers. and the struggle of a young person to do the right thing. Louis Sachar, author of Newbery Medal A Scientist Celebrates Creation ($29.95, 132 p., winner Holes, said: “From the raucous saloons hardcover; $15.95, pbk.; $9.99, ebook) is a new kept in check by Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, to book by George Javor, Ph.D., a retired biochemist the farmers living in sod houses as they struggle who lives in New Leipzig, North Dakota. In his to scrape by, Larry Bjornson brings the West introduction, Dr. Javor writes, “… I have written alive with such detail and clarity, if I didn’t know this book for all interested readers, with or without better, I would think he’d lived through it.” For a scientific background, willing to be immersed in more information, visit the website at: www. both religion and science.” The book is available wideopennovel.com/. The book is available from from a variety of booksellers, including Amazon bookstores and online sellers, including Amazon and Barnes and Noble. and Barnes and Noble.

Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers From Prairie Public on the Upper Missouri, 1854-1868 ($39.95, 400 I often check the Prairie Public website to see p., hardcover) was published in September by what’s new. These DVDs are all recent releases: the Arthur H. Clark Company. Former Williston Faces of the Oil Patch ($29.95); Fish, Mercury, Herald editor Doreen Chaky penned the book and Nutrition: the Net Effects ($24.95); Mother about the native Sioux tribes of North Dakota. Nature in Charge: Devils Lake Life Stories Much of her research was done through the state ($24.95); Water: the Lifeblood of Energy ($24.95); archives in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Wetlands: the Drain Game ($24.95). and South Dakota. Watch for these documentary films … New Salem native Elizabeth The Dakota Institute has three documentary film Slavick Schatz has released projects in the works -- one about the Harold Three Dead Leaves ($21.99, Schafer family; one about Eric Sevareid, North 288 p., pbk.; $15.99, ebook Dakota native and broadcast journalism pioneer; download), the first novel in and one about Sister Thomas Welder and the a four-book series. The story Benedictines. focuses on Jacob Morgan, a young man who has fallen into a life of addiction and irresponsible choices. Will he step up to the plate and find his way? Three Dead Leaves is available from Tate Publishing. For more information about the author, visit her blog at http://elizabeth-booksthoughts.blogspot.com/.

A new historical novel of the Great Plains, Wide Open ($15, 384 p., pbk.; $9.99, ebook), was released by Penguin/Berkley Books in June. Author Larry Bjornson has ties to North Dakota. His father and grandfather were born in Devils Lake and Mountain respectively, and his family continues to operate a farm near Webster, which is north of Devils Lake. Wide Open is based on

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Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

The Library Foundation Inc. New name, same great service! The New received $12,000 from Verizon’s Rockford Public Library is now the Eddy- “Check into Literacy” program to New Rockford Public Library. Check out help provide enhanced services the blog at http://nrpl.blogspot.com/ and for children and teens at Bismarck the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ Public Library. The “Check into NewRockfordPublicLibrary. Literacy” initiative allows Verizon customers to indicate on their Ellendale Public Library, along with the Dacotah monthly phone bills that they wish to make a $1 Club, hosted a book talk presentation of Prairie tax-deductible donation to promote education Churches by author Lauren Donovan on throughout the United States. Verizon then November 1, 2012. The book includes essays distributes the funds to local organizations. The on 26 historic North Dakota churches and mission of the Library Foundation Inc. is to assist was a project of Preservation North Dakota, a the Bismarck Public Library by raising private nonprofit organization dedicated to “preserving funds to enhance collections, resources, and and celebrating the architecture, historic places, facilities. and communities in the varied landscapes of our prairie state.” BookTalk at BSC 2013 will begin on Sunday, January 6, with a discussion of Mountains North Dakota is now home to six “Little Free Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. The theme Library” locations – one in Fargo, two in Grand of BookTalk 2013 is “Proving the Power of One.” Forks, and three in Lisbon! Little Free Library, The three books in the series are about ordinary Ltd. began in 2009 as a program of the non- people who really are extraordinary because of profit, tax-exempt organization Wisconsin the way they live their lives. The other books Partners for SustainAbility. Its mission is three- being discussed are An Ordinary Man by Paul fold: to promote literacy and the love of reading Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner (February 10) by building free book exchanges worldwide; to and Unbowed: a Memoir by Wangari Maathai build a sense of community as we share skills, (March 10). BookTalk discussions are held at the creativity, and wisdom across generations; and to Bismarck State College Library from 1-3 p.m. and build more than 2,510 libraries around the world are free and open to all. For more information, – more than Andrew Carnegie – and then more. visit www.bismarckstate.edu/library. The Grand Forks Public Library, in conjunction What’s better than with St. Joseph’s Church, sponsored an “Empty getting a book under Bowls” project on September 26th. St. Joseph’s the tree? How about provided bowls and paint, and the library a tree made of books? provided imagination and bodies in the way of Check out the book library patrons and staff who stopped by to paint tree at Bismarck State bowls to help the hungry. It was a huge success College Library! with up to 50 bowls painted and donated to St. Johanna Bjork, Joseph’s “Empty Bowl” Project, which hosted an Carolyn Twingley, and auction and dinner in November. The library also Laura Kalvoda did held a “Nancy Gardner Memorial Food Drive” the engineering and that week. Patrons were encouraged to bring decorating. For more in non-perishable food items to get $2 off their creative tree ideas, overdue fees. The library collected over 500 food check out this site: items that were then donated to St. Joseph’s Food www.brit.co/creative- Bank. christmas-trees/. Cookies are a good thing! The Harvey Girl Scouts

The Good Stuff - Page 36 - December 2012 recently donated $100 to the Harvey Public Public Library to help it launch an eBook Library – money earned from selling Girl Scout program on Library2Go. cookies this year. The North Dakota Library Association Intellectual The Linton Lions Club recently donated $300 Freedom Committee created a video in celebration to the Harry L. Petrie Public Library for the of Banned Books Week. Watch it on YouTube at purchase of large print books. http://youtu.be/SxMWYe5S8YI.

Robert Wright lived in Hebron as a boy and North Dakota librarians and library board left the community when he was in 8th grade. members are invited to attend the 2013 State He never forgot his hometown and his love of Library Spring Workshops in Bismarck, April 8-9. Hebron. On October 1, 2012, Mr. Wright, who Workshop topics include bullying prevention, lived in Walnut Creek, California, passed away. storytelling, crafting, cyber-security, and more. It’s a Per his wishes, his family sent a check for $5,000 great opportunity to learn, discuss, and network. A to the Hebron Public Library. The money will be block of rooms has been reserved at the Bismarck used for a few repairs and window shades, but Comfort Inn (1030 East Interstate Avenue; 701- the bulk will go towards the purchase of large 223-1911). Request the “State Library Conference print books for the collection. Rate” ($69/single; $79/double) when making your reservation. Stay tuned for more details. September 25, 2012 was a very good day for the Lake Region Public Library in Devils Lake. On The North Dakota State Library and the North that day, the Devils Lake Kiwanis Club and Devils Dakota Library Coordinating Council encourage Lake Rotary Club each presented checks for public schools and public libraries to apply for $1,000 to the library. The donations were made grants in the following categories: Innovative in support of the library joining the Library2Go Partnership with a Non-Library Entity; Technology Consortium. The Carrington City Library also to Provide Access to Information; and Participation recently joined Library2Go. in the Statewide Online Catalog through WorldCat. Complete guidelines are available online at The Mayville Public Library has partnered http://1.usa.gov/XCeaI7. The application is with the North Dakota Humanities Council to available at http://1.usa.gov/UF2A8T. Applications present “Dakota Discussions” for the Mayville must be postmarked no later than January 2, 2013. community. The group will discuss Westhope by For more information, contact the State Library at Dean Hulse. Hulse is also the facilitator of the 701-328-2492. discussion group. All it takes is drive and five-year-old Jewel Maxwell The Morton Mandan Public Library recognized has it. During Underwood’s Harvest Fest in its Friends of the Library group during the week August, she sold lemonade and pickles-on-a-stick of October 21-27 as part of the 6th annual to raise money for the Underwood Public Library. celebration of National Friends of Libraries With the help of her mother and grandmother, Week. The Morton Mandan Friends group Jewell raised $143. Jewel hopes the library might was re-established in 2004 and helps support use some of the money to buy more Pinkalicious the library in a variety of ways, including books. fundraising and sponsoring special events for the library. In June, the Friends donated $2,000 Chocolate Day, the Valley City Barnes County toward a subscription to Library2Go to provide Library’s annual fundraiser, was held on November downloadable eBooks to library patrons. 10, 2012. In addition to the chocolate sale, the library also had books for sale. Proceeds from The New Rockford Community Foundation Chocolate Day are earmarked to buy children’s awarded a $500 grant to the New Rockford materials.

The Good Stuff - Page 37 - December 2012 By Eric Stroshane

Diffen (website) Diffen is a crowdsourced comparison engine designed to help you make informed decisions between two similar things. You can use it to compare all manner of stuff, including politicians, processors, cameras, colleges, grammatical stumpers (e.g. effect vs. affect), and terminology (e.g. CT scan vs. MRI).

It’s incredibly easy to use, though, as with all crowdsourced endeavors, not all topics are covered with comparable depth. It’s relatively new, so you may even be able to help enrich topical areas you have knowledge of. Diffen’s home page has some great examples of recent and popular comparisons to give you an idea of productive searches.

Give it a spin here: www.diffen.com/

Ninite (web app, app, and Windows automation fun) Ninite is the easiest and fastest way to install and update more than 90 of the most popular free programs. The process is simple: go to their website, select all of the apps you’re interested in, and then click the big green Get Installer button. A file will be created for you to download. When executed, this file will install every application you selected, completely free from additional clicks, unwanted toolbars or bloatware, or any sort of signup process. If you already have any of the programs installed, it will check to make sure they’re up-to-date, and will automatically update them if they aren’t.

The Good Stuff - Page 38 - December 2012 This last part should tickle your inner nerd, because it means you can do a lot more with Ninite than just install programs more quickly and easily than you could before. It means that you now also have an easy non-commercial way of keeping them updated on any number of different computers, such as the ones in your computer lab. Larger libraries probably already have a solution for this, but I know not all of you do, so here are two ways you can use Ninite to easily keep your software updated:

Option 1) Install and update deliberately. This is generally less practical, but it may be easier for you, especially if you have Deep Freeze or a similar program to prevent alterations to your public computers. All you need to do is keep your Ninite installer file on each of your PACs or on a USB drive and run it periodically on all pertinent computers while you have them unlocked and available for alteration.

Option 2) Install and automate updates using the Windows Task Scheduler. I’ll walk you through each of the steps involved, as it will seem pretty foreign if you’ve never used Task Scheduler before:

1. Open your Start menu by clicking on the Windows orb. 2. Type task scheduler into the “Search programs and files” search box. 3. Either select Task Scheduler from the results list or simply hit Enter to open Task Scheduler. 4. You should now see the Task Scheduler window: 5. Click Create Basic Task… under Actions (right hand column). 6. You will now be prompted to name and describe your task. You can enter whatever you like, but I’d recommend naming it something informative like “Ninite Updater.” Once you’ve named it (the description is optional) click Next. 7. Next you’ll be prompted to set a trigger. Daily is probably too often, so I’d encourage you to either schedule it weekly or monthly. (Note that if you are using Deep Freeze, you could set the trigger to be whenever you log in with your administrative account). 8. Click on Next, and you will be prompted to set the day of the week/month and the time at which to run updates, such as the Second Tuesday at 8:01 AM. Click Next. 9. Now comes the exciting part: selecting the action to be triggered! Choose Start a program from the list and click Next. 10. The program you want to run is the Ninite installer you downloaded earlier. If you don’t recall where you saved the file, you can Browse for it (just use Ninite as your search term). You can ignore the two optional items. Click Next. 11. Click Finish. You’re done! You’ve now saved yourself a bunch of time, automated your software updates, and learned how to use Task Scheduler. Kudos to you!

You can build your custom installer/updater here: https://ninite.com/.

The Good Stuff - Page 39 - December 2012 TREASURER'S REPORT As of September 30, 2012 (End of 3rd Quarter) By Michael Safratowich, Treasurer's Report NDLA Treasurer Editor’s note: As Approved of September by electronic 30, vote 2012 of the (End Executive of 3rd Board Quarter) on October 15, 2012 By Michael Safratowich, NDLA Treasurer

Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance CHECK BOOK 1/1/2012 $6,815.50

NDLA Funds $6,815.50 Annual Conference 2012 $15,397.88 $10,808.83 $4,589.05 Book Sales $1,768.44 $50.00 $310.38 $1,508.06 Centennial Cookbook $3,576.34 $3,576.34 Dues $208.93 $11,710.00 $157.59 $11,761.34 HSIS Partner Account $2,231.64 $2,231.64 Investment Account Transfers Other receipts/disbursements $1,106.00 $14,267.00

NDLA Funds Subtotal $28,263.88 $25,543.80 $9,535.58

Check Book Balance 09/30/2012 $9,535.58 ******************************************************************************************************************** MONEY MARKET AND CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA Bank Money Market Ready Cash $9,434.86 Interest $3.54 Deposits Transfers $9,438.40 Professional Development Bank Money Market RC $13,723.96 Interest $5.15 Deposits Transfers $13,729.11 NDLA CD $20,279.93 Interest $30.53 Transfers $20,310.46 Professional Development CD $20,025.05 Interest $10.04 Transfers $20,035.09 TOTAL investment accounts $63,463.80 $63,513.06

TOTAL EQUITY 9/30/2012 $73,048.64

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NorthNorth Dakota Dakota Library Association Library Membership Associationfor January 1 - December 31, 2013 Membership for January 1 - December 31, 2013

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The Good Stuff - Page 41 - December 2012 2012-2013 North Dakota Library Association Executive Board All phone numbers are Area Code 701 President Academic & Special Libraries Technical Services Membership Committee Alfred “Al” L. Peterson Section Roundtable Kathryn Thomas North Dakota State Library Will Martin Elizabeth Madson NDSU Library 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 UND Chester Fritz Library Fargo Public Library Dept 2080 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 102 3rd St. N PO Box 6050 Work Phone 701.328.3495 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Fargo, ND 58102-4808 Fargo ND 58108‐6050 Fax 701.328.2040 Work Phone 701.777.4638 Work Phone 701.241.1498 Work Phone 701.231.8863 Email:: [email protected] Fax 701.777.3319 Fax 701.241.8581 Fax 701.231.7138 Email: [email protected] E-Mail [email protected] Email: [email protected] President-Elect Victor Lieberman Archives/Record Management Constitution, Bylaws & Professional Development UND Chester Fritz Library Roundtable Policies Committee Committee 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 Rosemary Pleva Flynn Virginia Bjorness Lori K. West Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 University of North Dakota, EERC State Historical Society of North Dr. James Carlson Library Work Phone 701.777.4639 Library Dakota State Archives 2801 32 Ave S Fax 701.777.3319 15 North 23rd Street, Stop 9018 North Dakota Heritage Center Fargo ND 58103 Email: Grand Forks, ND 58202-9018 612 E Boulevard Ave Work Phone 701.476.5977 [email protected] Work Phone 701.777.5134 Bismarck ND 58505-0830 Fax 701.476.5981 Fax 701.777.5181 Work Phone 701.328.3571 Email: [email protected] Past President Email: [email protected] Fax 701.328.2650 Aubrey Madler E-Mail [email protected] The Good Stuff Editorial Rural Assistance Center Government Documents Committee UND Center for Rural Health Roundtable Continuing Education Marlene Anderson School of Medicine and Health Lisa Martin Committee Bismarck State College Library Sciences Room 4520 UND Chester Fritz Library, Room 240 Bree Schmidt PO Box 5587 501 North Columbia Road Stop 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 Fargo Public Library Bismarck ND 58506-5587 9037 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 102 3rd St. N Work Phone 701.224.5578 Grand Forks ND 58202-9037 Work Phone (701) 777-4491 Fargo, ND 58102-4808 Fax 701.224.5551 Work Phone 701.777.6025 Fax (701) 777-3319 Work Phone 701.476.5978 Email: marlene.anderson@ Fax 800.270.1913 Email: [email protected] Fax 701.241.8581 bismarckstate.edu Email: [email protected] E-Mail [email protected] Health Science Information Public Relations Committee Secretary Section Finance Committee & Executive Secretary Beth K. Sorenson Holly Gabriel Bonnie Krenz Cathy A. Langemo UND Chester Fritz Library Rural Assistance Center Griggs County Library WritePlus Inc. 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 UND Center for Rural Health PO Box 546 205 E Arbor Ave Apt 112-G Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 School of Medicine and Health Cooperstown ND 58425-0546 Bismarck ND 58504-5717 Work Phone 701.277.2919 Sciences Room 4520 Work Phone 701.797.2214 Work Phone 701.527.7948 Fax 701.777.3319 501 North Columbia Road Stop 9037 Email: [email protected] Fax 701.250.1835 E-Mail Grand Forks ND 58202-9037 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Work Phone 701.777.0772 Intellectual Freedom Fax 800.270.1913 Committee Archivist/Historian Treasurer E-Mail [email protected] Christine Kujawa Carrie Scarr Michael Safratowich Bismarck Public Library West Fargo Public Library UND Harley E. French Library of New Members Roundtable 515 N 5th St 109 3rd Street East the Health Sciences Jenilee Kanenwisher Bismarck ND 58501-4081 West Fargo, ND 58078-1817 Medical School Room 1300 Fargo Public Library – Northport Library Work Phone 701.355.1496 Work Phone 701.433.5460 501 N Columbia Rd Stop 9002 2714 Broadway Fax 701.221.3729 Fax 701.433.5479 Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 Fargo, ND 58102-1408 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Work Phone 701.777.2602 Work Phone 701.241.8123 Fax 701.777.4790 Fax 701.476.4028 Legislative Committee State Librarian Email: michael.safratowich@med. E-Mail [email protected] Kelly M. Steckler Hulen E. Bivins und.edu Morton Mandan Public Library North Dakota State Library Public Library Section 609 W Main St 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 ALA Councilor Tim Dirks Mandan ND 58554-3149 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Shelby E. Harken Fargo Public Library Work Phone 701.667.5365 Work Phone 701.328.2492 UND Chester Fritz Library 102 3rd St. N, Fargo, ND 58102-4808 Fax 701.667.5368 Fax 701.328.2040 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 Work Phone 701.241.1493 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Fax 701.241.8581 Work Phone 701.777.4634 E-Mail [email protected] Nominations, Voting & Web Editor Fax 701.777.3319 Elections Committee Theresa Norton Email: School Library & Youth Susie Sharp UND Library of the Health Sciences [email protected] Services Section Eddy-New Rockford Public Library Medical School Room 1300 Lesley Gunderson 1101 1st Ave N 501 N Columbia Rd Stop 9002 MPLA Representative Bismarck Public Schools - Sunrise New Rockford ND 58356-1451 Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 Eric Stroshane Elementary Work Phone 701.947.5540 Work Phone 701.777.2946 North Dakota State Library 3800 Nickerson Avenue Fax 701.947.5540 Fax 701.777.4790 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Bismarck ND 58503 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Phone: 701-323-4300 Work Phone 701.328.4021 Fax: 701-323-4305 Fax 701.328.2040 Email: lesley_gunderson@ Email: [email protected] bismarckschools.org

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