The Good Stuff The official magazine of the North Dakota Library Association March 2004 NDLA Web Site – http://ndsl.lib.state.nd.us/ndla Volume 34 • Issue 1

A Children’s Room with a View - Edgeley Public Library

Inside.... Grant Monies Available The Coffee Closet Marketing Your Library Ghost Ranch Leadership Institute ontents President’s MessageC ...... 3 The ALA Midwinter ...... 4 Grant Monies Available ...... 6 The Coffee Closet ...... 8 Good Edgeley Public Library Trainee Program ...... 10 2004 Conference: Making a Case for Libraries ...... 11 Browsing in the Cyberstacks ...... 12 Stuff Marketing Your Library ...... 13 Ghost Ranch Leadership Institute ...... 14 TechTips & More ...... 16 Published quarterly by the Good Stuff from Around the State ...... 19 North Dakota Library Association Transitions ...... 21 Membership Report ...... 21 Law Library Renovation Project ...... 22 Editorial Committee North Dakota in Print ...... 23 Marlene Anderson, Chair Karen Anderson Summer Courses at MaSU & VCSU ...... 27 Joan Erickson 100 years ...... 28 Jeanne Narum Teen Reading ...... 29 Call for Candidates ...... 29 Production Artist Clearwater Communications Minutes ...... 29 Treasurer’s Report ...... 30 Subscription Rate NDLA Membership Application ...... 31 $25/year

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The Good Stuff - Page 2 - March 2004 President’s Message By Pamela Drayson, NDLA President Recently, I attend- As part of the dedication ceremony, and be able to tell the library’s story. ed the dedication the Library Board and staff proudly The first step in being able to tell of the new public acknowledged the private financial that story is to visit with people library building at contributions that made the con- about what they like about the Devils Lake. The struction of the new building a reali- library and what they’d like to see event was a cele- ty. What they didn’t say (but you different. Ask them to share their bration with many and I both know), is that money for favorite library story. Invite them to members of the community, young a new building or furniture or books participate in an upcoming library and not-so-young, participating. The doesn’t just happen one magical day event. Invite them to think about new facility is an inviting space when a check comes in the mail. how the library might be improved filled with natural light, comfort- When someone writes a check for and ask them to help create that able furniture, as well as the eclec- $20 or includes the library in their future. Use every opportunity you tic mix of books, videos, audio will, the financial gifts that make a can to educate, inform, and entertain books, and other materials so difference for libraries happen people about what’s happening at the important in a busy public library. because the library has found ways library. Talk about how your library to be successfully involved in a makes a difference. Explain how On the drive home, I thought about long-term relationship with the com- donated funds are used to expand how much fun I’d had at the recep- munity. It happens because the the collections and services. Speak tion, visiting with people I’d never library is an active part in the life of to groups and individuals, formally met before and finding out more many segments of the community. It and informally. about their community. Everyone I happens because the library has talked with answered questions for made a difference to the individuals, Whether you work in an academic, me about the Devils Lake area or businesses, and organizations of the public, school or special library, if told me more about their library. community. you build a relationship with the They all had something special to members of the community your say about the importance of the If we want the libraries we work in library serves, you will be working library’s collections, services and to be more successful, it is vital that together to create the future of your programs. we be involved in our communities library.

Continuing Education Courses Available

Are you interested in current library science are two credit courses, they meet for two week- program courses, but don’t need college credit? ends. The cost for taking courses as continuing If so, Emporia State University, School of Library education is $60 per credit. A cataloging course, and Information Management invites you to con- Organizing Information (LI814), will be offered sider taking their elective courses as Continuing this spring on April 2-4. Other courses will be Education. Most courses are held at the Fargo announced through the NDLA list as they Public Library on weekends. The weekend time become scheduled. For more information, contact frame is Friday, 6-9pm; Saturday, 8-5; and Char Myhre at [email protected], or call toll Sunday, 8-12 noon. Since the majority of courses free evenings and weekends 1-800-234-4005.

The Good Stuff - Page 3 - March 2004 ALA Midwinter, San Diego, January 8-14, 2004 By Phyllis Bratton, ALA Councilor

The ALA Midwinter conference in San category, that of Library Support Staff, combat them. Diego provided many things: a welcome with annual dues of $35. The break from winter, great food, and Association recognizes that many of the The current public printer is vigorously above all, lots of learning experiences. support staff in libraries have chosen moving government documents, which Many of the efforts of the Association their positions as their profession, and had been free, into a pay-for-access are bearing fruit and we were given a would like to involve them more at a environment. ALA accepted a report, number of extremely interesting reports. national level. Key Principles on Government Information, which pulled together ALA The work of the Task Force on Rural On the subject of the ballot, ALA will policies on access to government infor- School, Tribal, and Public Libraries is use electronic balloting for the first time mation; this should soon be available on almost through its preliminary stage. in this spring’s election. Paper ballots the website. This report will give the The task force sent a questionnaire to will still be available for the asking to Washington Office additional support in rural libraries and expected to get a few those who do not wish to vote electroni- discussions with the printer. hundred responses. Instead, they cally. Paper ballots will also be sent received nearly 1,200 replies with an automatically to anyone whose email The decision by Jenner & Block, which additional compiled list of comments bounces so this is a good time to check represents ALA in legal matters, to running to 21 pages! This unexpected that ALA has your correct email accept divine, Inc. as a client was seen response caught the attention of ALA address. as a conflict of interest by many coun- leadership and has shown them that cilors and generated much passionate there are a large number of libraries Council adopted the International discussion over the course of three days. whose problems are different from Relations Committee and Intellectual Despite the clarification that ALA is those in urban centers. The task force is Freedom Committee’s joint Report on represented by the firm in civil matters preparing a full report for the annual Cuba, which brings together ALA’s poli- and that the divine, Inc. case is being conference in Orlando and the March cies on human rights and freedom of handled by Jenner & Block’s criminal issue of American Libraries will be expression and supports IFLA’s actions branch, many councilors were outraged devoted to rural libraries. relating to Cuba. The full report may be by the decision. ALA is now reexamin- found at: ing the criteria for retaining counsel. The initiative to provide health insur- ance to ALA members had a setback www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=Ne The Core Values Task Force II held sev- when the first selected provider was ws&template=/ContentManagement/Co eral meetings with lively discussions of sold, but another company, Marsh & ntentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=53695 the ten principles which they identified McLennan, has been found. An as possible core values. The members announcement about the availability of The previous paragraph illustrates have taken the results back to commit- the insurance will be made this spring. another effort of ALA – to reduce the tee for additional work. very long URLs on the website to some- Nann Blaine Hilyard, who was once thing more manageable. The “tiny” The ALA Allied Professional director of Fargo Public Library, was URL initiative should shrink many of Association (APA) is about six months elected to ALA’s Executive Board, along these long addresses. old and has its first director, Jennifer with long-time councilor Janet Swan Grady. Certification programs are being Hill. Council endorsed a resolution opposing developed, along with other means of the closing of Clark-Atlanta’s School of improving the lot of librarians. There will be two initiatives on the bal- Library and Information Studies. In lot this spring. The first is a constitu- light of the closing of other programs Finally, work in opposition to some of tional change involving replacing the around the country in recent years, the provisions of the PATRIOT Act and ALA treasurer in the event of a mid- Council also established a task force to its successors continued. There will be a term vacancy. The second is a bylaws develop ways to find out about threat- great deal of information about this in change, establishing a new membership ened closings early in the process and the near future. The Good Stuff - Page 4 - March 2004 NDLA Professional Development Grant By Sheri Sandwick Editor’s note: As part of the Professional Development an opportunity to acquire and enhance leadership skills. Grant, recipients are required to submit a In Introduction to Information and Access Retrieval, we report for publication in The Good Stuff. learned the basic principles and techniques of informa- This is Sheri Sandwick’s report. tion retrieval and access services. We also examined sys- tems of access, search and retrieval skills, and collection I decided to go back to school and management. Evaluation methods for all formats of obtain my Master’s degree in resources, services, and user satisfaction were also exam- Information Science. After examining the ined. A few of the specific topics covered included: programs, I decided on the University of North Texas Philosophy and Ethics, Serving Diverse Users, because of the strength of their distance education pro- Administering and Evaluating Reference Collections, and gram. The program I am taking is the third Minnesota Digital Libraries. program from UNT. Onsite instruction started with a four-day course in Minneapolis with 40 other students I found that going to school and continuing to work was from ND, SD, MN, ME, NY, OH, NV, NE and TX. The challenging; however, I still enjoyed the experience. Dr. remainder of the class is online using the WEBCT soft- Turner, who was an instructor for one of our classes, was ware program. UNT uses a cohort approach; it allows the Dean of the Library Science Department. He com- cohort students to stay together as a class by taking mented in one of our chats that the biggest mistake peo- classes limited to participants. ple make in taking this program is not leaving enough time for their family and themselves. It is a delicate bal- The first two classes offered to the cohort were ance that requires motivation and dedication not only to Introduction to Information and Access Retrieval and the program but also to the participant as well. This pro- Introduction to the Information Profession. The latter gram is great for anyone; however, to someone who can- class offered an overview of the foundations and major not travel to obtain a master’s degree, the program at issues of the information professions. Students also had UNT can be a fabulous option.

NDLA has a vehicle for recognizing individuals who have shown support or done something special for libraries, or for those who do a Canoe Kudos wonderful job of making your day at the library. Any member of NDLA can honor a deserving individual by submit- ting 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 Work Address kudos? You may Position photocopy Sponsor’s name this form and use the back! Reason for Nomination

Send nomination form and $10 donation (checks payable to NDLA) to: Jeanne Narum, Professional Development Committee Chair, Minot Public Library, 516 2nd Ave. SE., Minot, ND 58701

The Good Stuff - Page 5 - March 2004 Grant Monies Available By Jeanne Narum, Chair, Professional Development Grants Committee

NDLA Professional Development Grant Application Requirements NDLA believes that furthering an individual’s skills is ben- eficial to the North Dakota library environment. NDLA Professional Development & Rudser Grants sets aside general fund dollars for this purpose each year. The Professional Development Grant may be used for col- 1. Applicants must: • Be North Dakota residents or employed in North Dakota lege or university classroom work, independent study, • Be current members of NDLA and must have been mem- workshops, conferences, or participation in any activity bers for the past two years that will benefit the North Dakota library community. • Submit a detailed budget of expected expenses • Submit a narrative describing personal growth/career Rod Rudser Memorial Continuing development expectations from the proposed program • Submit printed materials which describe the program Education Grant 2. Applicants need not be currently employed in a library Ron Rudser was a librarian and library science instructor at 3. Applicants must submit an evaluative report to NDLA upon Minot State University at the time of his death in 1986. His program completion for publication in The Good Stuff wife, Kay, initiated this memorial grant fund. The Rudser 4. Grant money will be awarded after the NDLA president has grant may be used for credit courses, workshops, seminars, received the evaluative report 5. No applicant may receive more than one grant per 18 or pre-conference programs that enhance the education of a months practicing librarian in any type of library. Regular confer- 6. A copy of CEU certificate or letter of recognition should ence programs or conventions do not qualify. accompany the report, if applicable

M. Vivian Hubbard Memorial Grant M. Vivian Hubbard Memorial Grant M. Vivian Hubbard was State President of the Federated Women’s Clubs in the early 1950s. The rural bookmobile 1. Applicant must be a current member of NDLA 2. Applicant must agree to submit an evaluative report of how program began in North Dakota with much influence the grant was used to the NDLA Executive Board and said from the Federated Women’s Clubs. Hubbard believed in report will be published in The Good Stuff this program and requested that memorial funds at her death be donated to NDLA to further interest in bookmo- biles. The Hubbard grant may be used for formal college Mike Jaugstetter Leadership Memorial Grant or university classroom work, independent study, work- shops, conferences, or participation in any other activity Applicants must be current individual members of NDLA and that will further the work of the bookmobile, including must have been members for the past two years the purchase of books or other materials. Applicants must submit a detailed budget of expected expenses

Applicants must submit a narrative statement describing per- sonal growth and career development expectations from the Mike Jaugstetter Leadership Memorial Grant program they plan to attend Editor’s note: The Jaugstetter grant is being offered for the first time in 2004. Applications should be accompanied with printed materials that describe the program The Mike Jaugstetter Leadership Memorial Grant honors the superb leadership skills in librarianship which Mike Jaugstetter demonstrated while he was employed as the State Librarian of North Dakota. The grant money may be used for library leadership institutes or programs.

The Good Stuff - Page 6 - March 2004 Conditions (Jaugstetter grant) North Dakota Libraries

• Applicants must be currently employed in a North Dakota Receive Grants library Submitted by Terri Wilhelm, North Dakota State • Applicants must agree to submit an evaluative report to the Library NDLA Executive Board upon completion of the program for publication in The Good Stuff The North Dakota State Library and the North Dakota • Applicants must agree to participate in the leadership of the Library Coordinating Council (NDLCC) awarded 14 North NDLA Executive Board for one year. Participation may Dakota libraries grants totaling $74,734. The funding include, but not be limited to section chair, officer, committee comes from Library Vision 2010 (LV2010) and Library chair or committee work appointed by the President of NDLA Services and Technology Act (LSTA) sources. Projects • Applicants must present a leadership program at the NDLA include video conferencing for the Hazen Public Library; a conference following participation in the leadership program mobile computer lab for the Minot Public Library; and technology equipment grants for the Beulah, Dunseith, or institute Hettinger, Killdeer, Larimore, Leeds, Milnor, and Walhalla • Applicants must participate in the committee selection of the school libraries and the Casselton, Bowman, Divide following year’s recipient County, and Wishek public libraries. • No applicant may receive more than one grant per 24 months Professional scholarship grant money was designated for librarians who are pursuing Masters of Library Science • Completed application forms must be submitted by July degrees, and will work for a minimum of two years in a 15 of each year. North Dakota library. Federal LSTA money was designated • A portion of expenses (dependent upon the NDLA to cover the cost of public library filtering for two years. budget) will be reimbursed upon completion of travel For detailed information on each grant, go to the State • A written contract between NDLA and the grant Library Web page at http://ndsl.lib.state.nd.us and click on recipient will be entered into regarding completion of “Grants.” conditions.

Mike Jaugstetter Leadership Memorial Grant Contractual Agreement

The North Dakota Library Association and ______I agree to these conditions. (hereafter named as grant recipient) agree to the following condi- tions: ______North Dakota Library Association President Grant recipient will submit an evaluative report to the NDLA Executive Board upon completion of the leadership program for publication in The ______Good Stuff Grant Recipient

Grant recipient will participate in the leadership of the North Dakota Library Association Executive Board for one year. Participation may ______include, but not be limited to section chair, officer, committee chair, or Date committee work appointed by the President

Grant recipient will present a leadership program at the NDLA conference following participation in the leadership program Application forms are available from: Jeanne Grant recipient will participate in the committee selection of the following Narum, Minot Public Library, 516 Second year’s recipient Ave. SE, Minot, ND 58701 (701-852-1045; 701-852-2595 (fax); [email protected]) Failure to complete any and/or all of these requirements on the part of the grant recipient will result in forfeiture of granted funds.

Completed application forms may be submitted at any time. Deadline for the 2004 grants is July 15, 2004. Selections for available grants will be made by the majority approval of the Professional Development Grants Committee, whose members are ineligible to apply.

The Good Stuff - Page 7 - March 2004 The Coffee Closet By Phyllis Kuno, Graham Library Director, Trinity Bible College

It started as a is our biggest fan! If you don’t have the support from the challenge from top, quit while you are ahead. one of my gradu- ate school profes- Talk to your Business Office. What about taxes? What sors. “Stop penal- kinds of accounts do you need to set up? We quit collect- izing your patrons ing fines for late material and converted that fund for the for using your shop. material! Think of other ways to raise Ask LOTS of questions! Investigate other coffee shops money for your and talk with their managers. Ask about their Staff member Christina Fissori library. Get cre- coffee...where did they get it…sample it…find the best ative!” From this seed grew the dream for an espresso coffee your money can buy and make sure their service is shop in our library on the campus of Trinity Bible College good. If you can find someone who has owned, managed in Ellendale, North Dakota. or worked in a successful shop, they are your next best friend! After nearly four years and a lot of question-asking, read- ing, researching, and experimenting, we opened “The ✔Keep your prices ‘student friendly’! Coffee Closet”. After some serious second thoughts about our unfortunate timing, we finally decided to stay with ✔If your budget can handle it, hire a manager who will the original plan and opened our little shop on September take care of the day-to-day needs of the shop. 12, 2001. That first night we served 60 drinks in three hours. We created lattes, mochas, and cappuccinos in fla- ✔Location! Location! Location! vors with names like Revival from Belfast, Psycho Professor, North Dakota Beach, and Librarian’s Love! ✔Make sure your product is GOOD! The success we experienced that first night has continued and The Coffee Closet has become a popular meeting ✔Buy an uncomplicated machine. place where students, faculty, staff, and administrators meet to enjoy one another’s company and their coffee. ✔Keep your shop immaculately clean!

From our humble beginnings in that 6’ x 6’ closet, we ✔Listen to your patrons—without satisfied customers quickly migrated to another transformed closet on the you won’t have a business. lower level of the library to our present main location, which has both a nice-sized kitchen and seating area with ✔Pick your staff carefully! People with caffeine in five bistro sets. Although we are only open about 30 their system (or about to put caffeine in their system) hours a week, we have managed to purchase all of our love to chat—make sure your staff persons are the own equipment and supplies and still have money left for friendliest people on campus! some furnishings and equipment for the library. ✔Be teachable and willing to change as needed. How did we do it? A better question might be, “How are we doing it?” If you work in a smaller school and are ✔Think long term! As long as the shop can support thinking about starting up a shop, here are a few things itself, keep those doors open. Building a good reputa- you might want to consider: tion for your shop takes time.

Is your administration supportive? The college President ✔Follow the rules! There is a lot of good information

The Good Stuff - Page 8 - March 2004 out there and laws governing how things should be ✔This is not a venture for the faint of heart, but your done…keep the law on your side! rewards will far outweigh any difficulties you may encounter. Rally your support, get people on your ✔Have fun! Create an atmosphere that your campus side that have some knowledge about this type of community will love to be in. They’ll buy your coffee business, and go for it! Your campus will be glad just for the experience! you did (especially if you drop those late fees)!

Ron Rudser Memorial Continuing Education Grant By Marvia Boettcher, Youth Services Librarian, Bismarck Public Library

Editor’s note: As part of the Ron Rudser grant, recipients Fifty-one authors and illustrators were featured speakers are required to submit a report for publication in The in addition to being available at the exhibit booths. It was Good Stuff. This is Marvia Boettcher’s report. impossible to see everyone, but I chose some of our North Dakota favorites: Tedd Arnold (Flicker Tale winner 1991 It is always an exciting experience to be able to attend a for No Jumping on the Bed; James Howe (Flicker Tale national convention and the 48th Annual Convention of winner 1992 for Scared Silly: a Halloween Tale); and the International Reading Association in Orlando, Florida Mary Jane and Herm Auch (current nominees for was no exception. Eighteen thousand educators (pre- Souperchicken). An evening storytelling program included school through college), librarians, parents, and students Gary Dulabaum and Joy Steiner, who have both visited of education attended from the United States, Canada, our North Dakota libraries over the years. and other countries. It was reported to be the highest number in IRA’s history of conventions. Could it have Being able to attend a conference of this magnitude been the place? Certainly the 98-degree temperature and always improves my perspective of the “world-out-there,” 95% humidity were not a factor! plus I am able to bring back new ideas and renewed enthusiasm to the organization and community. There were over 350 booths exhibiting state of the art technology, the latest publications in children’s literature, Thank you to the Ron Rudser Memorial Continuing new gimmicks for teaching (and story times), and even a Education Grant for its financial support, which gave me massage booth to take a break before going around again. the opportunity to attend this conference.

NDLA Banner Submitted by Kaaren Pupino, Past President

If you attended the NDLA 2003 conference in Bismarck you were treated to a glimpse of the new Association banner. The Executive Board decided that it would be good to have a banner that identifies our organization to use at conferences or for display tables and booths. If you didn’t get to see the banner, COME TO THE CONFERENCE IN MINOT IN 2004!!!

The Good Stuff - Page 9 - March 2004 Edgeley Public Library Trainee Program By Lynda Dunn, Director, Edgeley Public Library

The Edgeley Public Library and Edgeley High School started a library program for high school students in 1952. At that time the library and school boards decided to give each student library trainee a one-fourth credit each year for every 72 hours the trainee worked under supervi- sion in the public library and the school library. If a student worked 288 hours during high school, he or she work painting them, and paint them they did, beautifully. would receive a full library science credit. This program We have Clifford, the Berenstain Bears, Arthur, Winnie has been very beneficial to both the public library and the Pooh, Dr. Seuss, the Magic School Bus, Curious students, and has helped many students find jobs in their George, Franklin, the Three Pigs, Big Bird, Grover, and college libraries. our own little library. These characters are not small and cannot be missed. The trainees had fun and the children The students plan and supervise summer story hour for love them! children, learn to use the catalog, check books in and out, shelve books, and help with many other aspects of After school began this fall, three of the trainees, Allison library work. We have had as few as three trainees and as Tewksbury, Heather Ketterling, and Megan Klundt, want- many as 12 trainees each year. ed to use the library project for their STAR event in FCCLA. FCCLA is a non-profit national vocational stu- This past summer we decided to ask the trainees to do dent organization for young men and women in family something besides dusting, cleaning, and shelving books. and consumer sciences education in public and private Our walls in the children’s area needed some decoration schools through grade 12. Family Career and Community and some life. Zale, a library employee, and I searched Leaders of America is the only national career and techni- through books, found some favorite characters, and using cal student organization with the family as its central the overhead projector (as neither of us can draw free- focus. Since 1945, FCCLA members have been making a hand), drew them on the walls. The trainees then went to difference in their families, careers, and communities by addressing important personal, work, and societal issues through family and consumer sciences educa- tion.

Allison, Heather, and Megan must prepare a display with pictures of their project and proof through advertisement and publicity. They will compete at the District 7 STAR Focus on Children Project and will be judged on their oration, their display, and the project itself. If the project is chosen as the dis- trict winner, it will then be judged at the state level along with top projects from other districts.

We are very proud of the job the library trainees did on our wall paintings and we have no doubt they will win the STAR award. They are already winners with us!

The Good Stuff - Page 10 - March 2004 Inhouse Information System Submitted by Mary Jane Schmaltz and Vern Mastel, Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library

Could you tell me when the Two Every morning the daily meeting room schedule, list of Cylinder Tractor Club meeting is on special events, a sampling of new books, videos and Wednesday? When are you having DVDs, and other informational items of interest to library Internet classes again? What is the patrons are assembled into PowerPoint slide shows and topic for next week’s Pre-School loaded into three display computers. The output of the Story Time? computers is converted and delivered to three TV screens in the Library, one each in Youth Services, the Commons These are just a few of the questions area, and at the main Circulation desk. The slide shows that you can ask and have answered are about 3-4 minutes long and run continuously. Each in the Bismarck Library without ever slide show is tailored for the area of the library where it is speaking a word! The Bismarck Library IIS will tell you displayed. these things and more. IIS is the Inhouse Information System. Using conventional TV technology, the IIS deliv- The system has been well received by staff and patrons ers information in slide show format to patrons in the alike. The next time you are in the library, look up and Library. see what’s happening!

State Library Goes to Making a Case Washington Submitted by Terri Wilhelm, North Dakota State for Libraries Library

What do you get when you add 80 award-winning 2004 NDLA Conference and nationally known authors, illustrators, poets, and storytellers along with 75,000 visitors? You get the WHO: YOU! National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. WHAT: 2004 NDLA Conference State Library Representative, Dave Anderson, and WHEN: Wednesday, September 22 – Friday, David Borlaug, President of the North Dakota Lewis September 24, 2004 and Clark Foundation, represented North Dakota at WHERE: International Inn, Minot this year’s National Book Festival Pavilion of States WHY: Lots of reasons … to learn, share, event. North Dakota featured the book Sheheke, writ- ten by North Dakota author, Tracy Potter. Bookmarks network, inspire, be inspired, conduct depicting Sakakawea and a suggested Lewis and Association business … and much, much Clark reading list were distributed to those who visit- more ed the North Dakota State Library booth. Visitors HOW: Watch the NDLA website and future issues were also able to get their U.S. map stamped to of The Good Stuff for more details! commemorate each visit they made to a state booth.

First Lady Laura Bush hosted this year’s festival, The 2004 NDLA Conference will build upon the which was sponsored by the National Library of theme of the 2003 conference, “Successful Libraries: Congress. The annual event promotes libraries, Successful Communities,” by focusing on how librar- authors, and the literary heritage of each state ians can market and advocate for their libraries with across the country. local citizens, groups, and officials; build and sustain Funding for the 2003 National Book Festival was pro- grassroots support; and influence legislative issues at vided by the North Dakota State Library, the North the local, state, and national levels. Dakota Center for the Book, and the North Dakota Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Washburn.

The Good Stuff - Page 11 - March 2004 Browsing in the Cyberstacks Compiled by Jeanne Narum, Editorial Committee Member www.ford.com/go/rosie mittees located in each state, the spective times to help children grieve As part of an effort District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto and begin mending their hearts. to preserve our Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Europe. national heritage, www.independentliving.org the Ford Motor www.whomentoredyou.org Can-Do Vision Products for Company is seeking Some of America’s most prominent Independent Living website is a store stories, memories, people discuss important mentors in filled with fantastic vision aids, tools or anecdotes about the wartime home their lives—family members, teach- and technology for the blind, magni- front embodied by “Rosie.” If you or ers, coaches, friends, neighbors—who fiers and lamps for the visually someone you know participated in the provided support, showed them the impaired, talking watches, talking home front or has a Rosie the Riveter ropes, and helped them become who clocks, talking cooking gadgets, and experience, memento, anecdote, or they are today. Log on and listen, more. Check it out if you serve this memory, Ford would like you to share watch, or read celebrity interviews. special population group at your it. Your stories, artifacts, and informa- library. tion could become a feature or exhibit www.comfortzonecamp.org at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Comfort Zone Camp, a fun and safe www.rxconnectnd.org Front National Historical Park in place for grieving children, is the Connection is a program of the North Richmond, California dedicated to nation’s largest bereavement camp for Dakota Insurance Department that this effort. The park is the former children who have experienced the connects qualified, low-income peo- Kaiser Shipyard and Ford Assembly loss of a parent, sibling, or primary ple with discount prescription drugs Building. caregiver. Camps are held in direct from the pharmaceutical manu- Richmond, Virginia with the help of facturer. If you currently take pre- www.esgr.com volunteer support and are open to all scription drugs and do not qualify for The mission of the National other prescription medication Committee for Employer benefits, you may be eligible for Support of the Guard and this program, which could con- Reserve is to gain and maintain nect you with low-cost or free active support from all public prescriptions. If you have ques- and private employers for the tions about the program, need men and women of the National assistance filling out forms, or Guard and Reserve as defined need help with this website, con- by demonstrated employer com- tact the Department at 1-888-575- mitment to employee military 6611. service. Established in 1972 to promote cooperation and under- www.compassionatefriends.org standing between Reserve com- The mission of the ponent members and their civil- Compassionate Friends is to assist ian employers, the ESGR assists families toward the positive reso- in the resolution of conflicts lution of grief following the death arising from an employee’s military grieving children from across the of a child of any age and to provide commitment. Today the ESGR oper- country. The program was developed information to help others to be sup- ates through a network of more than by grief therapists and strategically portive. This national nonprofit, self- 4,500 volunteers throughout 55 com- combines fun activities with intro- help support organization offers

The Good Stuff - Page 12 - March 2004 friendship and understanding to website includes vehicle and equip- Compatibility. These teams were bereaved parents, grandparents, and ment information, traffic safety and chartered to support the agency’s siblings. There is no religious affilia- occupation issues, and state and strategic planning work by using tion and there are no membership national crash data. In September comprehensive, science and evi- dues or fees. 2002, NHTSA formed Integrated dence-based analyses to identify Project Teams to conduct an in-depth innovative solutions and recommend www.nhtsa.gov review of four priority areas: Safety effective strategies in their respective Sponsored by the National Highway Belt Use; Impaired Driving; Rollover issue areas. Check out the DOT Auto Traffic Safety Administration, this Mitigation; and Vehicle Safety Hotline 1-888-DASH-2-DOT. Marketing Your Library By Lillian Crook, Director, Stoxen Library, Dickinson State University Stoxen Library began a concentrated space to provide additional areas for took it one step further and also pur- focus on marketing two years ago in collaborative learning (very popular chased customized bookmarks. order to meet several strategic goals. with our users!) and the addition of Fortunately, in the “Campaign for dozens of new online databases. As finals and end-of-semester American Libraries,” ALA has made This message appears on all of our fatigue approached, we put the huge a number of helpful tools available informational flyers, on the web poster of the Stoxen librarians at the for this purpose – these are especial- page, on library instruction hand- entrance, and sent all faculty and ly useful for smaller libraries. outs, and on the public use computer staff a bookmark. We also give a screens. bookmark to every student who We began with the “Toolkit for attends library instruction sessions, Academic and Research Libraries: When we saw the new products in and will give out the bookmarks Messages, Ideas, and Strategies for the ALA catalog last spring, specifi- when we answer reference questions Promoting the Value of Our cally the customizable “Ultimate and in other interactions. Libraries and Librarians in the 21st Search Engine” poster, we knew we Century” (ALA & ACRL, c2003) had to have it. This was the person- To our surprise and delight, ALA and “Strategic Marketing for alized touch that we wanted to liked our staff picture and asked for Academic and Research Libraries: emphasize, especially on a small permission to use it in the catalog. To Participant Manual” (ACRL/3M, campus such as ours. ALA was ter- see it, check out the ALA Graphics 2003). Using these tools, the staff rific to work with on this and very Spring 2004 catalog, page 16. began brainstorming and identifying flexible, especially given that we our message choices for the @your library cam- paign.

In the fall, we kicked off the campaign with “Learning Spaces and Online Databases @Your Library.” The message was chosen to highlight two major enhancements that had been made in the library in the previous year: the rearranging of Left to right: Rita Ennen, Lillian Crook, Marian Ford, Eileen Kopren

The Good Stuff - Page 13 - March 2004 Ghost Ranch Leadership Institute By Jeanne Narum and Al Peterson

Editor’s note: NDLA helped two mem- while waiting for a van to take us to Managing Differences. We also cov- bers attend the MPLA (Mountain Plains Ghost Ranch. After a two and one- ered Risk Taking, Using Power and Library Association) Leadership Institute half hour drive in a van, we arrived Influence, Creating a Culture of at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, November at Ghost Ranch just in time for din- Commitment, Working in Teams and 9-14, 2003 by providing financial assis- ner. After dinner, I grabbed my flash- Groups, Group Problem Solving and tance. Jeanne Narum of Minot Public light (a necessity at Ghost Ranch) Decision Making, Achieving Your Library and Al Peterson of the North and headed off to the first session at Potential: Personal Planning, Dakota State Library applied and were the Arts Center. There we had an ori- Guidelines for Continuing your selected to attend. Here are their stories. entation session where we were Leadership Development, and introduced to the facilitators and Implementing your Plan. Maureen Al Peterson mentors. Sullivan was extremely effective as a When the e-mail advertising the first facilitator and an instructor and, like MPLA Ghost Ranch Leadership The facilitator for the Ghost Ranch a good librarian, had a citation for Institute hit the list last year, I really Leadership Institute was Maureen nearly every point of discussion. She did not give the Institute much Sullivan. Ms. Sullivan is a well- had thoroughly researched her pre- thought. I had just accepted the known library consultant and trainer. sentations. Her training materials duties as training coordinator at the Mary Bushing, a library consultant packet provided detailed information North Dakota State Library and was and educator, served as the Institute corresponding with each lecture. busy planning summer 2002 training Coordinator. She kept us informed Lively discussions broke out among sessions. After reading Karen Chobot about the details of the Institute us with nearly every topic presented. and Suzanne Morrison’s article in before we arrived and provided Participants were able to present sit- The Good Stuff, my interest in the snacks, bottled water, Kleenex, uations or problems in an atmos- Ghost Ranch Leadership Institute Advil, and anything else we needed phere of trust and mutual respect. was piqued. This year I decided to during our stay. After the Everyone who wanted to speak apply. One of the welcome and de-briefing, about a particular issue had an influencing factors we were treated to a slide opportunity to participate. We also in my decision was presentation and lecture on paired up with other participants in being promoted to the history of Abiquiu area either twos or small groups. I tried Head of Public and Ghost Ranch by local to meet someone new each time we Services. I saw the author and historian Lesley did an activity. One of the activities I Ghost Ranch Poling-Kempes. found interesting was the Disc Leadership Institute Personal Profile System. I have as an excellent oppor- The next day, we hit the never done a self-evaluation with Al Peterson, Maureen tunity to develop the Sullivan, Mary Bushing, ground running and kept respect to my management style. I types of leadership and Jeanne Narum running the rest of the week! found it both enlightening and truth- skills I would need in All of our sessions were held ful. my new position. I sent my applica- in the Arts Center whose large glass tion in and was accepted as a partici- windows looked out on the New We had opportunities to meet with pant for the second MPLA Ghost Mexico mountain ranges. Our ses- the mentors both formally and infor- Ranch Leadership Institute. sions included Leadership in mally. Monday night, we had a After about a three-hour flight on Libraries: Challenges and group meeting with mentors to dis- Sunday, November 9, I arrived in Opportunities, Principles and cuss leadership opportunities. Albuquerque, New Mexico and met Practices of Effective Leadership, Dorothy Liegl and Amy Owen led a up with some other participants Interpersonal Communication, and discussion on political and state

The Good Stuff - Page 14 - March 2004 activities, Lola Todd and Jane Hatch Chimney Rock. The scenery was ry and art of the Native Americans discussed professional organizations, breathtakingly beautiful. In addition who live there. and Peter Kraus and Debbie Iverson to numerous hiking trails, Ghost discussed getting involved within Ranch has two museums, a gift Nationally-known presenter Maureen local libraries. After an hour, every- shop, and a library that is open Sullivan instructed us in managing one switched mentor groups to dis- twenty-four hours. differences, interpersonal communi- cuss finding a mentor and being a cation, leading change, group and mentor. Mentors were available for The MPLA Ghost Ranch Leadership team leadership, and my most chal- one-to-one meetings over a cup of Institute was a memorable experi- lenging sessions, risk-taking and coffee or a walk around the ranch. ence. I truly gained from participat- power and influence. We answered The mentors also led a panel discus- ing in it. I encourage any librarians questions on the DISC Personal sion on their personal toughest in North Dakota who meet the quali- Profile System and analyzed our leadership challenges in their fications to apply next year. styles of leadership. This examina- careers. Firsthand accounts about tion helped me understand and reaf- leadership challenges allowed me to Jeanne Narum firm what I knew my leadership learn from others’ experiences. For six days in November 2003 I style to be. participated in the Ghost Ranch The Leadership Institute provided Leadership Institute near Abiquiu, Along with Al Peterson from the me with an opportunity to network New Mexico. I experienced unex- State Library, who was the other with other librarians. I met two peo- pected learning philoso- North Dakota participant, we all ple, one from the Montana State phies and tenets. But enjoyed the high Library and one from the New then, those learning mountain country by Mexico State Library, who were experiences which are hiking a lot and library consultants and also were the most unexpected exploring Ghost Ranch. involved in technology training. We are the most worth- All of the arrangements compared training programs and while. for the Institute were talked about meeting the need for effectively coordinated technology training in rural areas. I Sponsored by by Mary Bushing. I look also found an informal discussion Mountain Plains Al Peterson and Jeanne forward to sharing lead- with some other librarians on prob- Library Association Narum. ership lessons I learned at lem patrons quite interesting. The and underwritten by the Institute with fellow isolation at the ranch, no TVs in EBSCO Information Services, the North Dakota librarians. rooms, or nearby towns for shopping Institute is designed to foster leader- excursions or bar hopping, made ship skills in librarians who have Editor’s note: The MPLA Leadership networking easy. I found opportuni- received their master’s degree within Institute at Ghost Ranch will be offered ties for discussion with other librari- the last ten years. The majority of again in 2004. Applications for the third ans came more naturally at Ghost the 40 participants were twenty or MPLA Leadership Institute will be Ranch than at conferences. People more years younger than I. accepted from February 2 through April were meeting and talking in the 30, 2004. The online form is available on the MPLA website at study lounge or the library or the That first night at the Ranch, we http://www.usd.edu/mpla/leadership/lead cafeteria. were treated to a history and cultural ershipform.html lesson of the high desert country of One of the suggestions made by last New Mexico and Ghost Ranch by NDLA encourages eligible members to year’s participants was to allow some author Lesley Poling-Kempes. I was apply! For more information, contact time off for recreation. I took full fortunate to have a roommate who Mary Bushing, Institute Coordinator advantage of the afternoon by going was a native of New Mexico and ([email protected]) or Patti Butcher, hiking in Box Canyon. I also partici- worked for the State Library there. Leadership Committee Chair (pbutch- pated in an early morning hike to She helped me understand the histo- [email protected]).

The Good Stuff - Page 15 - March 2004 TechTips & More Compiled by Karen Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

This month Lorna option Opening attachments Olsen writes about 6. Click the Apply to All Folders In Tip of the Week #200 in ITS file extensions and button at the top of the dialog Technology Training News, Lorna has given us per- box, then click Ye s gives tips on opening attachments. mission to use her 7. Click OK to close the Folder archives from ITS Options dialog box Windows - All Versions Technology These days it’s not unusual to Training News. The next time you open a folder, receive a lot of important (and some Maren Niemeier tells about some you should see your file extensions not so important) email messages software resources to identify and displayed. with files attached that you really remove spyware such as SpyBot and need (or just want) to open, but Ad-Aware. Thank you, Lorna and How File Extensions Work when you attempt to open the attach- Maren! If you’ve ever been confused about ment, a message tells you the file file associations, Lorna addressed can’t be opened. Well, don't believe File extensions this topic in ITS Technology the message! You may still be able to I asked Lorna Olsen, Technology Training News: open the attached file, but you’ll Trainer for Information Technology need to take some additional steps to Services at NDSU in Fargo, how to File Associations do it. show file extensions on my comput- When you save a file using almost Usually, the problem occurs er using Windows XP. PDAs will any application in the Windows because the attached file was created allow certain extensions to be placed operating environment, the software using an application (program) that on the memory cards so I wanted to automatically adds a specific three- saves files in a format your copy of know which extensions were on the character file extension after the Windows doesn't currently recognize programs on my computer. Lorna period at the end of the file name. as an “associated” file type. This said: Windows is designed to recognize does NOT necessarily mean you I’d LOVE to show you how to do most of these file extensions so it can’t open the attachment at all – it this since one of my “pet peeves” automatically opens the file using just means you need to locate an about Windows is that the default the correct application when you application installed on your com- settings hide these extensions and it double-click the file. puter that CAN open that particular drives me nuts every time I see them For example, if you open My file format, then use the Open With hidden on someone’s computer. I Computer and double-click a file command to open the attachment can’t work very well without dis- named letter1.txt, Windows usually using that application. If you find playing them! Here you go – “associates” the .txt file extension yourself consistently receiving file with the Notepad application. attachments with that same format, 1. Open My Computer or Windows automatically launches you can also use the Open With Windows Explorer the Notepad application, then opens command to create and/or change 2. From the Menu bar at the top of the letter1.txt file. the association to an application. the window, select Tools File associations can be changed First, to make it easier to deter- 3. Click on Folder Options and/or added later to recognize mine a particular file’s format, you 4. In the Folder Options dialog applications other than the default need to be able to see the file exten- box, click in the View tab after the initial installation of the sions (the three characters located 5. Under Advanced Settings: Windows operating system. after the period in the file name) dis- UNCHECK the “Hide exten- played for all files on your system. sions for known file types” Refer to Tip of the Week #197

The Good Stuff - Page 16 - March 2004 (http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/its 9. Click OK the Open With dialog box, I general- -training.html) if you don't currently 10. The application you selected in ly start with Notepad. Notepad is a see the extensions displayed at the the Open With dialog box simple text editor that comes with end of file names. (You only need to should launch and then the file Windows that can usually open most take these steps once on your sys- should open text files. If Notepad doesn't suc- tem). cessfully open the file, I go back to To use the Open With command If you chose an application that can’t the Open With dialog box and try to open a file attachment that isn't properly read the file’s format, you other applications. recognized by your copy of may receive an error message, or the If the file ends with the extension Windows: file may open but you see nothing .DOC, it’s generally a document cre- but what appears to be garbage ated in some version of Microsoft 1. If your email software doesn’t (strange symbols and characters or Word. If you don't have Word automatically do so, save the empty square boxes). If this hap- installed on your computer, try attachment to a folder on your pens, don't panic – you may have selecting the WordPad application in hard disk just chosen the wrong application the Open With dialog box, as 2. Open either My Computer or for this particular file type. WordPad can usually recognize files Windows Explorer and navi- If you weren’t able to open the file with the .DOC extension. If the file gate to the folder where the using the first application you tried, ends in .WPD, it’s generally a attached file was saved repeat steps 2-8 again, each time try- WordPerfect file. If you don’t have 3. If you’re using Windows 95 or ing a different application. WordPerfect installed on your 98, hold down the SHIFT key, Sometimes it’s a process of trial and machine, try opening it with the then RIGHT-CLICK the file error until you find an application Notepad, Word, or WordPad applica- you wish to open that can open the file properly. If tions. 4. If you’re using Windows 2000 you’ve tried every application listed If the file ends with the extension or Windows XP, RIGHT- in the Open With dialog box and still .JPG (or JPEG), .GIF, .PNG, .PSD, CLICK on the file you wish to can't open the file, it’s possible you .BMP, or .TIF, you’ll need to open open don’t have an application installed the file using an application that can 5. Left-click on Open With in the that can open that file type. You may recognize graphic file types, not shortcut menu that appears need to ask the sender to resend the text. If you have an image manipula- 6. If you’re using Windows XP, file attachment as plain text if possi- tion application installed (such as click the “Select the program ble, or saved in some other format Photoshop, Microsoft Draw, from a list” radio button, then that your computer can recognize. Microsoft Image Editor, etc.), try click OK One way to get a head start on the opening these types of files using 7. Scroll through the list of application guessing game: take a that application in the Open With installed applications in the look at the file extension. If you Dialog box. If all else fails, try Open With dialog box until don't know what application the opening graphic files using the MS you see an application that can extension is normally associated Paint application. (.JPG and .GIF recognize your file’s format, with, check: graphic files can also be opened then click that application to http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileF using Netscape or Internet select it ormat.html for a list of just about Explorer). 8. If you want to permanently every file format that exists. You associate this file extension may see your file type listed and with the selected application, from there be able to guess correctly check “Always use this program which application(s) installed on Note: To view other technology tips to open this file” (If you’re your computer to use with the Open by Lorna, go to Archives of ITS unsure whether you want to With command to open the file Training @LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU change the file association, properly. at REMOVE the checkmark from Here’s one trick I use – if I don’t http://listserv.nodak.edu/scripts/wa.e this box before you continue) know which application to select in xe?A0=its-training

The Good Stuff - Page 17 - March 2004 TechTips & More Compiled by Karen Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

Spyware: What It Is and What To Do about It By Maren Niemeier, Lead Information Specialist, Rural Assistance Center University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, Grand Forks

Spyware is technology that secretly tracks and reports your activities over the Internet. The invasiveness of spy- ware varies and can include everything from tracking cookies and registry keys to full-fledged programs. Users don't intentionally install spyware on their machines. It may be installed just by visiting a web site or as an unwanted, undisclosed "feature" of a free download.

Spyware is a problem because it compromises your priva- cy, sending out information without your knowledge Ad-Aware about the sites you visit online. Some types of spyware, http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ called key loggers, can even record the words you type on your machine, including passwords, credit card numbers, For more spyware removal options, go to Google and and other sensitive information. Spyware may impact type in “spyware.” your system’s performance by generating Internet traffic back to its source on an ongoing basis. This secret trans- For more information about spyware: fer of data can slow your own legitimate use of the Internet. Ferrer, D.F. & Mead, M. (2003, May). Uncovering the ‘spy’ network: is spyware watching your library comput- How can you protect yourself from programs that want to ers? Computers in Libraries, 23(5),16-21. track you? There are many software programs available to http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may03/ferrer_mead.sht counter spyware. The free versions typically require you ml to initiate a scan periodically to identify new spyware that you’ve acquired. More advanced versions offer real-time Metz, C. (2003, April 22). Spyware-It's lurking on your warnings about spyware that is attempting to install itself machine. PC Magazine, 22(7), 84-89. on your machine. Similar to virus software, spyware http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,978170,00.asp removal programs require updates to keep current about new types of spyware.

With apologies to Mac users, here are two free Windows TechTips & More is a column that lists tips about tech- programs that search for and remove spyware: nology (TechTips) or other things that our readers do in the library that makes their lives a little easier or more Spybot Search & Destroy efficient (More). Please submit your tips to Karen http://www.safer-networking.org/ Anderson at: *[email protected]

The Good Stuff - Page 18 - March 2004 Good Stuff from Around the State Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee

The focus of BookTalk at BSC 2004, to provide a list of books of interest Foundation also set aside 1.5 million Bismarck State College Library’s and encourage people to read at least dollars toward the expansion. annual book discussion series, was one book a month about Lewis and Preliminary plans include enhancing the expedition of Lewis & Clark and Clark. The first book was Sheheke: a the original 1908 historical entrance the Corps of Discovery. The series Mandan Diplomat by Tracy Potter, to the library, eliminating the 1975 began on January 11 with a discus- executive director of the Fort addition entrance, and adding a sion of the journals of Lewis and Abraham Lincoln Foundation. west-facing garden plaza entrance on Clark. For the February 8 session, ground level leading to a new participants were invited to read one More than 10 years of persistence 13,000 sq. ft. addition to the south of (or more) of the following: Eclipse and hard work have paid off! The the existing library. Plans are to by Richard Wheeler; I Should Be new Lake Region Public Library in begin a capital campaign for addi- Extremely Happy in Your Company Devils Lake is now a reality. The tional funding for the project. by Brian Hall; Stone Heart by Diane library opened to the public on Glancy; and Undaunted Courage by December 22, 2003 and the grand The annual Sandwich Inn series at Stephen Ambrose. For the final ses- opening was held on January 12, the Dickinson Area Public Library sion on March 7, participants dis- 2004. The 9,000-square-foot library opened on January 21 with a presen- cussed The Prairie by James was designed by Anderson, Wade, tation about England, Ireland, and Fenimore Cooper. Discussion leaders Whitty, and Larson, a Minot archi- Scotland. Participants are invited to helped guide each session. tectural firm, and includes a heritage bring their lunches and enjoy pro- room, a magazine room, five differ- grams presented by local people MDU Resources Group recently ent reading areas, and a community who have traveled to interesting invested in the future of the room that can be used outside of reg- places. Tickets for the series are Bismarck Veterans Memorial ular library hours. The old Carnegie available from the Friends of the Public Library by providing a Library building, which is on the Library Pacesetter Gift to the Library National Register of Historic Places, Foundation’s Building a Foundation will be sold by the City of Devils The Latte & Literature series at for Life Endowment Campaign. Lake. Stoxen Library, Dickinson State University continued in January A Lewis and Clark Book Club has The Dickinson Area Public Library with discussions of Oak Song and been organized in the Bismarck- Board, Foundation Board, and Solar Margins by Michael Kincaid. Mandan area by a committee of the Friends of the Library Board have On March 11, Tim O’Brien, author Circle of Cultures, the signature formed a Library Steering of The Things They Carried, visited event program scheduled for Committee to work on plans for an the campus as part of the Heart Bismarck-Mandan. Sponsors include expansion project for the public River Writers’ Circle series. Jay and local media, bookstores, and library. The group has three subcom- Martha Meek are scheduled to visit libraries. Beginning in January until mittees working on design plans, on April 22. the signature event in October, a finance, and marketing and educa- book of the month will be chosen tion, and has entered into a prelimi- On February 4, 1944, a group of and unveiled on KFYR-TV’s nary agreement for a schematic concerned women invited other local Country Morning Today show. Local design with Hulsing and Associates citizens to a meeting to establish a newspapers will profile and review Architects of Dickinson. In library board for Griggs County. As the book, and it will be discussed on December the Library Foundation a result, the Griggs County Public KFYR 500-AM Radio’s Jim Walsh purchased a 50’ lot north of the Library was established and will Show. The goal of the book club is existing library for parking. The celebrate its 60th anniversary

The Good Stuff - Page 19 - March 2004 throughout 2004. Bonnie Krenz, stories with children. Musicians The Peaceful Valley Quilters Guild Griggs County Librarian, has dressed in period costumes played recently donated eleven books on planned coffee and cookie days, music of the 1870s. quilting to the Tioga Community overdue amnesty days, contests, and Library. The Guild wants to make other special events to commemorate The Prairie Rose Quilters presented information on quilting available to this milestone. ‘America in Bloom,’ a quilt featuring quilters and potential quilters in the the state flowers of all 50 states, to area. Heart of America Library in the McKenzie County Public Rugby purchased an empty lot next Library in Watford City. The quilt The Social Science Department at to the present library building three hangs on the west wall of the library NDSCS along with Mildred years ago with an eye toward where another quilt, also donated by Johnson Library sponsored a panel expanding and improving the present the quilting group, had been dis- discussion on “The USA PATRIOT facility. In 2002, an effort to get played for many years. The group Act and You” as part of the “Coffee, county funds for the project was nar- thought the older quilt looked ‘tired’ Cookies, and Conversation” discus- rowly defeated while a measure to and decided to make a new one. sion. Braving a cold evening on get city funds was narrowly passed. Once the retired quilt has regained December 2, about 40 students and However, a 60% majority was need- its shape, it will again be displayed staff joined Karen Chobot, Director, ed in both votes. Librarian Amy in the library beside ‘America in in learning about the Act and con- Bryn and the Library Board haven’t Bloom.’ sidering its implications. It was given up and are actively working on enlightening for all. fundraising efforts. The expansion The Minot Public Library hosted would provide additional space for about 25 children at the Imagination The city of West Fargo is exploring materials, computers for public use, Station on December 22 for an after- the possibility of moving the West and handicapped-accessibility to noon of making Christmas orna- Fargo Public Library to a 22,000- both levels of the building. ments. Seven tables filled with sup- square-foot portion of the city’s plies were set up in the children’s middle school. Members of the “A Prairie Christmas” at the library. Library Board unanimously support Mandan Public Library on the idea of moving into the new December 9 was the kickoff story- Mueller’s Main Street Saloon recent- school building, which will open in telling event for the Custer ly collaborated with the Munich the fall. Christmas weekend at Fort Abraham Development Coop to donate $800 Lincoln. City officials and Library of pull-tab proceeds to the Rolla Board members shared Christmas Public Library.

Librarians Attend Gates Workshop Submitted by Terri Wilhelm, North Dakota State Library

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invited three Krenz, Griggs County Public Library, were selected to North Dakota librarians to a workshop in Seattle in attend the conference. Librarians from rural communities February. The workshop, “Sustaining Public Access throughout the country had an opportunity to discuss the Computing in Rural Libraries,” provided practical assis- challenges they face providing public access for their tance to small, rural librarians looking for examples and patrons. The goal was for participants to leave the work- best practices for sustaining public access technologies shop with a plan to increase public access computing for for their patrons. libraries.

Librarians Stacey Goldade, North Dakota State Library; The Gates Foundation provided attendees with airfare and Marlene Ripplinger, Harvey Public Library; and Bonnie motel accommodations for the workshop.

The Good Stuff - Page 20 - March 2004 Transitions Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Chair, Editorial Committee Member

Pauline Nielsen, Kenmare Branch Librarian, was recog- schools in the Bismarck Diocese. Dolores earned a bach- nized by the Kenmare Association of Commerce for her elor of arts degree in music, theology, philosophy, educa- service to the community. Congratulations, Pauline! tion, and library science from Mary College, and a mas- ter of arts degree in library Dolores Vyzralek, who had served as chief librarian at science from the University the State Historical Society since March 1979, retired on of Wisconsin, Madison. December 31, 2003. Before joining the staff of the State Dolores has been an active Historical Society, Dolores worked at the Bismarck member of NDLA for many Veterans Memorial Public Library and Welder Library at years. Best wishes for your the University of Mary (then the Mary College Library). retirement, Dolores! Prior to her library work, she taught music in parochial

Membership Report (as of January 15, 2004) Compiled by Kathy Thomas, Membership Chair

Welcome to NDLA! New members since the last issue of The Good Stuff are Chad Hopman and Karl Martin (both Academic & Special Libraries Section 92 of Grand Forks). Health Sciences Information Section 31 Public Library Section 124 Are your dues up to date? Is this your last issue of The Good Stuff? Check the mailing address on this issue of School Library & Youth Services Section 93 The Good Stuff. After your name is the latest membership Government Documents Roundtable 31 year paid when the mailing list was run. If you sent your 2004 dues in the meantime, thank you! If not, please New Members Roundtable 52 renew soon so you'll continue to receive The Good Stuff. Technical Services Roundtable 43 Associate Members 18 Help us increase our membership in 2004! If you know of library staff who aren’t members, please tell them about Institutional Members 17 NDLA. Trustees 74

A membership form can be found in this issue or on our New Members for 2004 6 web page at ndsl.lib.state.nd.us/ndla/ The NDLA mem- Total Members 364 bership year is January to December.

The Good Stuff - Page 21 - March 2004 Law Library Renovation Project By Kaaren Pupino, Thormodsgard Law Library ooks are moved, shelves and books are dusted, whole collection of books on that floor were flipped compact shelving is in place, stacks are like a pancake – well, almost. If this move had been Brearranged, item records have been updated, left up to only the library staff, we probably would brakes are set on the compact shelving. This means have had to close for a year! The moving company that the renovation project is finally winding down. was great and quickly completed what needed to be Yes, there are a few things that still need doing, but, done. for the most part, it is done. When the library was built, the floors were numbered Just when we were about to heave a huge sigh of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th level. Since we are attached to relief, we remembered we still needed to measure the the four floors of the law school, it was confusing to collection to determine occupied and unoccupied everyone since their floors were numbered basement, shelves for the library section of the annual report to 1st, 2nd and 3rd. During this project, it was decided the American Bar Association. The ABA is our accred- that the library floors should be renumbered to match iting agency and we wanted to make sure that the the law school (after all, they were here first.) Ellen numbers we reported accurately reflected all the Kotrba in the ODIN office was a great help because changes that were made. We had already measured the she ran reports and performed global changes on our occupied shelves at least twice for the move. Sigh. I item records so they accurately displayed the correct remarked to other library staff members (tongue-in- and new locations. This saved us a lot of work and cheek, of course) that I felt like I was in the movie headaches. Groundhog Day. Actor Bill Murray found himself trapped in some kind of time warp where every day he Several law students have made comments and seem woke up to the same music and the same events sur- to like the changes. The compact shelving and the new rounding the behavior of the groundhog in relation to carpet look nice and neat. Students tell us that they seeing his shadow (or not). Instead of going to inter- find the second floor, which is the main research floor, view Punxsutawney Phil, I wake up and come to work is arranged more logically. and measure books! Naw, I can’t complain since we used the measuring method we were taught by Hallett Some compact shelving units are electrical, but ours is Movers. It only took four of us about eight hours to mechanical and moves by the same means as a bicycle complete the physical measuring, although calculating chain! All we need to do is turn the crank on the end the occupied and available shelving was another mat- of the range. The ranges are easy to move even though ter… Thank goodness for Excel spreadsheets! some of them are 12 tiers long. The carriage for the microfiche cabinets holds 43 cabinets that are mostly The actual move began May 17 and the books were full of fiche. Cabinets are in two rows and sit back to back in the building and on shelves by July 11. After back. Even this carriage with several tons of weight the movers emptied the basement, they were able to do rolls like a dream. There is also an electrical safety the other three floors on their first trip. This meant that brake system to prevent injuries. we could allow people to use three of the four floors beginning in June so the collection wasn’t unavailable Pictures of the renovation are on our website at: for the whole summer. In the end, the entire collection www.law.und.nodak.edu/library/update.html was moved and much of it rearranged. Some parts of the collection were moved around on the same floor, The library’s next big project will be migration to but a large number of books changed floors. Nothing Aleph. My only question now is…do we have to was added or taken away from third floor, but the measure the collection AGAIN?

The Good Stuff - Page 22 - March 2004 North Dakota in Print Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

A Cartoonist’s General.” Blickensderfer has pub- Huber Stangl. The book includes View of Life in lished a collection of stories in recipes and stories from the German the Red River Owen’s Pretty Good Book, which is Russian diaspora. For more informa- Valley ($15, available directly from the author. tion, visit the Germans from Russia pbk.) is a compi- For complete information, visit the Heritage Collection website at lation of car- web site at http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/ toons from www.blickensderfer.faithweb.com/ Grand Forks Echoing Trails II is the second book Herald Yesteryears cartoonist, Steve A Ludden, North Dakota native, on the families and history of Edwards. Even though Edwards has Jack Botts, has penned Whitestone Billings County. Published by the only lived in the Grand Forks area ($14.95, 208 p., pbk.). After the Billings County Historical Society, for the last three years, his cartoons Santee Sioux killed hundreds of set- the 896-page book includes 1,300+ depicting rural life in North Dakota tlers in the fall of 1862, General photographs, essays on local history, make it seem like he is a native son. Alfred Sully led a military campaign and 1,000+ family histories. The The book is available at Grand Forks in the summer of 1863 that ended in book sells for $69.95 (plus tax and area stores or directly from the the Battle at Whitestone Hill, which mailing) and is available from the author: Box 216, Gilby, ND 58235; is located east of present-day Billings County Museum. Contact [email protected] Ashley, North Dakota. The book is the museum at 701-623-4829 or e- available at bookstores or online mail: [email protected] for com- Clutch: Bootlegging, Love, and from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, plete information. Tragedy in the 1920s ($13.95, 184 Borders, Books a Million, and p., pbk.) is a novel set mostly in iUniverse. Other books by Botts, Art of the Lewis and Clark Trail Valley City and other small North who is a professor emeritus at the ($42.95, 189 p., hardcover) by Dakota towns. The author, John W. University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Jeffrey W. Evenson is hot off the Anderson, is a retired physician include: Home Place; The Language press! The book includes excerpts from Blue Earth, Minnesota. For of News; Play Action; A Pocketful of from the journals of Lewis and more information, visit the website Plums: Jim River Days; and Straight Clark and Joseph Whitehouse and at www.infinitypublishing.com and Level: Growing Up in the ‘40s. features full-color Western artwork by notable artists of the West. This is Colder than Fargo is the title of Both food the third book published by Eric Bailly’s debut CD. The CD was and culture Whisper’n Waters Inc. of Bismarck self-released by the acoustic singer- are part of and joins The Lewis & Clark songwriter, who is a graduate of Cookbook Cookbook and The Sacagawea Fargo South High now living in for Cookbook. For more information, Denver. To listen to sample tracks, Germans call 1-888-282-7693. find out more about the artist, and from get ordering information, visit the Russia Sister Ruth Fox of the Sacred Heart web site at www.ericbaillymusic.net/ ($20, 170 Monastery in Richardton has pub- p., softcov- lished Wisdom Leadership: Owen P. Blickensderfer grew up in er), which Reflections on the Ministry of Mott, North Dakota and now writes was writ- Monastic Leaders. Fox was com- a weekly newspaper column, ten by Nelly Daes, translated by missioned to write the book by the “Specific Observations on Life in Alex Herzog, and edited by Janice Benedictine Federation of Saint

The Good Stuff - Page 23 - March 2004 Gertrude. For more information, Bismarck recently released a new Mandan winter camp and Lewis’s contact: Sacred Heart Monastery, Annie Humphrey CD, Edge of report to President Jefferson on the Box 364, Richardton, ND 58652 or America ($13.99). Humphrey was land and its visit the website at: born and raised on an Ojibwe Indian people, “Fort www.sacredheartmonastery.com reservation in northern Minnesota Mandan and attended school at UND. Her Miscellany.” Guten Essen from the Boehm other releases include The Heron The book is Family ($19.95, softcover, spiral- Smiled and The Whispering Tree. available at bound) is an effort by Minnie For more information, visit the web- bookstores Boehm Geiger to preserve her site at www.makoche.com and online. German food traditions. The cook- book includes about 90 recipes as All the Horses that He’d Rode: March on the Dakotas: the Sibley well as some notations about memo- Preserving and Sharing Life in the Expedition of 1863 ($14.95, 127 p., ries and traditions. Copies of the West ($49.95, 90 p., hardcover) won pbk.) has been published by cookbook are available directly from the Fred Olds Poetry Award from McCleery & Sons Publishing. the author: Minnie Boehm Geiger, Westerners International. It features Author Susan Mary Kudelka grew 3160 Highway 25, Mandan, ND original paintings by Daryl Poulin up in Forman, North Dakota. March 58554. For mail orders, include $3 of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with poetic on the Dakotas is available from postage. interpretations by Charles E. local booksellers or online from “Charlie” Hunt, who grew up in www.mccleerypublishing.com Great Plains Institute for Sustainable “the cowboy way” in Jamestown, Development and Northern Great Buchanan, and Fargo. For more Long Time Coming ($12.95, CD, Plains, Inc. are the publishers of information, visit the website at A&M Records) is the latest release Renewing the Countryside: North www.dageforde.com by Fargo native Jonny Lang. Lang Dakota ($29.95, 160 p., pbk.). The wrote or co-wrote all of the tracks book is a collection of success sto- Tim Jalbert, who was raised on a and also served as co-producer. His ries of entrepreneurs who are work- farm near New England, North other releases include Kid Jonny ing to improve the quality of life in Dakota, has written Kings of Lang & the Big Bang Smokin’; Lie to their rural communities. It is avail- Bethlehem ($14.95 + $3 postage, Me; Smokin’; and Wander This World. able in local bookstores or online at 250 p., pbk.). The novel was www.renewingthecountryside.org inspired by a child’s question about Maddock: a 100-Year History, King Herod and his slaughter of 1901-2001 ($65, 860 p., hardcover) Becoming Olivia ($11.99, 450 p., infant boys, and is available at is now available. To order, call 701- pbk.) is the third book in the regional bookstores or from 438-2609 or write: History Book, Coming Home to Brewster series by Redhead Publishing in Ashley, ND PO Box 308, Maddock, ND 58348. Wishek author Roxanne Henke. (701-288-3531; If shipping is required, there is an The other books in the series are www.ashleynd.com). additional $5 charge. After Anne and Finding Ruth. Becoming Olivia is available at local North Dakota native Clay S. North Dakota’s Missouri River (82 bookstores or from amazon.com Jenkinson has edited and annotated p., pbk.) by Andy Mork has been A Vast and Open Plain: the released by Crain Grosinger Last fall Deborah Hoskin of Writings of the Lewis and Clark Publishing of Mandan. Mork is an Maxbass released her first CD, Expedition in North Dakota, 1804- engineer and a farmer and has lived Christmas from My Heart ($15), 1806 ($34.95 softcover; $49.95 near the river most of his life. He is and is now working on a second. hardcover; 600 p.). The book fea- passionately interested in river Her CD is available in area stores or tures all of the journal entries writ- issues and presents his viewpoints directly from Hoskin by calling ten within North Dakota’s border by on “the way it was, the way it is, the 701-268-3223. members of the Expedition as well way it can be.” The book is avail- Makoche Recording Company in as letters written from the Fort able from Maxwell’s Books in

The Good Stuff - Page 24 - March 2004 Bismarck and other local book- No Two Horns: a Gallery of Art After the success of last year’s pub- sellers. and Exploits ($14.95 +$4 mailing, lication of a reproduction of The CD-ROM) has been published by Night Before Christmas, the State S. D. Nelson, who grew up in Fargo the State Historical Society of Historical Society decided to pub- and is a member of the Standing North Dakota. The CD-ROM com- lish a reproduction of Red Riding Rock Sioux tribe, is an award-win- bines “the warrior art of No Two Hood ($9.95, 16 p., pbk). The ning writer and illustrator of chil- Horns with oral traditions to illus- Society’s original book (ca. 1888) dren’s books with an American trate the experiences of a Dakota was donated by Verna May Stumpf Indian point of view. Among his warrior during an era of dramatic Paterson. Only 1,000 copies of the works are Spider Spins a Story: change, from before the Battle of reproduction are being printed. Fourteen Legends from Native the Little Bighorn to the eve of Copies are available at the Heritage America (1997); Gift Horse: a World War II.” To order, contact Center and local bookstores. Lakota Story (1999), and The Star the North Dakota Heritage Center People: a Lakota Story (2003). Museum A Legacy to Share: Evangel Nelson also collaborated with Store at Temple, 75th Anniversary, Joseph Bruchac on Crazy Horse’s 701-328- November 14-16, 2003, Bismarck, Vision (2000) and Jim Thorpe’s 2822 or North Dakota is a 28-page church Bright Path, which will be released e-mail history compiled by Darrin in April. Rodgers. For contact information, visit the website at www.et.com My Horse Got a Flat: Stories, Tales, and Lies from a Modern Ernest Francis Schanilec, who Cowboy ($9.95, 116 p., pbk.) by [email protected] was born in the Red River Valley Cory G. Neumiller is a collection and attended UND, has written the of short, humorous stories about The North Dakota Council on the third in his series of Tom Hastings cowboy life in North Dakota. The Arts recently produced a CD featur- tales. Danger in the Keys ($16.95, author grew up in the Washburn ing five traditional Dakotah stories 210 p., pbk.) is a mystery story area, teaches English at Fessenden- told by Mary Louise Defender published by McCleery and Sons. Bowdon Public School, and still Wilson. Un de’ che cha pi: the Way The other books by Schanilec are spends time working cattle and We Are ($18.95, CD) is available Blue Darkness and The Towers. For ranching. The book was published from the Council at 1600 E. more information, visit by iUniverse. Neumiller has also Century Ave., Suite 6, Bismarck, amazon.com or published The Substance of a ND 58503; 701-328-7590; www.mccleerypublishing.com Shadow (out of print) and Alaskan [email protected] Stories by a Little School up North The Streeter Centennial History (available online from Amazon and As part of a fundraising project for Committee is compiling a history Barnes & Noble). Harvey’s Assembly of God Church, book. If you have family informa- Pastor Mark Phillips has penned tion, photos, or other local histori- Raylene Frankhauser Nickel is the The Word: a Mark Phillips cal information to include in the author of A Prayer for the Prairie: Anthology, which is a collection of book, the submission deadline is Learning Faith on a Small Farm his original poems. The book was May 15, 2004. For complete details ($16.50, 176 p., softcover). The published through Chapter & Verse about submission requirements, book is a collection of essays and Ministries, Inc. and is available write to the committee at: PO Box short stories that celebrate faith, directly from the author with a $10 205, Streeter, ND 58483; or call farming, and rural life. Nickel and (or more) contribution to the church 701-424-3451 or 701-424-3449. her husband farm near Kief. For project. For more information, visit Advance orders for the book, which more information, visit the website the web site at: www.chapterand should be available by Christmas at www.fivepennypress.com verse.org or contact Pastor Phillips 2004, are being taken. The price is at 701-324-4985. $40 plus $7 mailing.

The Good Stuff - Page 25 - March 2004 Winifred Stump-DeLong, a former Heritage Collection. The book is a Wilkins. It describes the author’s Dickinson State faculty member, collection of Vossler’s essays, plays, experiences as both a student and as department chair, and dean, has poems, and other writings of the a teacher in Barnes County, in authored The Story of Dickinson past twenty years and is a “must Montana, and in Minnesota. Wilkins State: the College on the Hill (213 read for anyone interested in evoca- first book, And Some Went Hungry: p., $40). The book updates an effort tive writing about ethnicity, memo- a Town Kid’s Memoirs of the 1930s, of the same title by Osbourne ry, and a small-town prairie past.” was published in 2002. Both books Thomas Belsheim, which covered For more information, visit the web- can be ordered directly from the the years 1918-1968. Copies are site at www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc author at 11534 Yucca St. NW, Coon available from local booksellers. Rapids, MN 55433. Jamestown author Loretta Welk- Dakota Kraut: Collected Notes on Jung has penned a sequel to her Robert Woutat has penned Dakota How I Learned to Love My Accent first children’s book. For more Boy: a Childhood in Memory and Ancestry, information about Crystalene, the ($14.95, 154 p., pbk.). Woutat grew 1983-2003 Rainbow Snow Girl Returns ($12, up in Grand Forks in the 1940s and ($30, 270 p., pbk.), visit the website at: ‘50s and now lives in Bremerton, softcover) by www.crystalene.net Washington. He works for The Sun, Ronald J. a daily newspaper, and is an award- Vossler was The Blackboards Whisper, the Walls winning columnist. To preview recently pub- Shout! Inside School Houses (Big and/or order his book, which was lished by the and Small) ($10 + $2 mailing, 227 published by iUniverse, visit the Germans p., softcover) is a book of remem- website at www.iuniverse.com from Russia brances by Valley City native Ward

State Library Spring Workshops Submitted by Terri Wilhelm, North Dakota State Library

The North Dakota State Library recognizes the need (NDCRN) presented a session on “Career Development for ongoing educational opportunities for librarians Resources” to use with students, librarians, parents, across the state. Keeping this in mind, they offered teachers, and counselors. Many of these resources are their annual Spring Workshops in Bismarck, March 4- currently available in our libraries. He also discussed 5, 2004. The workshops were also offered in Fargo, various strategies to foster greater use of these resources March 8-9. by parents and children. Dan says every effort must be made to assist youth and adults with decisions about Pat Wagner of Pattern Research presented an in-depth their career paths by providing citizens with career plan- workshop on “Creating a Strategic Plan” for your ning information. Bank robber Willie Sutton was asked, library. Participants were asked to bring a list of five “Why do you rob banks?” His reply was “that’s where future trends affecting their communities as well as a the money is.” So why work with librarians? That's list of what they think are the ten biggest challenges where the information is! presently facing their communities. Participants created a simple draft of a strategic plan to use to create a Other workshops included: Filtering in North Dakota working short-term plan for their own library. Libraries, ODIN Software Migration Update, Gale Group Resources, ProQuest, Electric Library, and Dan Maars of North Dakota Career Resource Network Document Delivery Services Manual Update.

The Good Stuff - Page 26 - March 2004 Summer 2004 Library Media and Information Science Courses Mayville State University and Valley City State University

A variety of courses in Library Media and Information Science are being offered for the Summer 2004 session at Mayville State University (MaSU) and Valley City State University (VCSU).

INSTITUTION COURSE NO. COURSE NAME CREDITS DATES

MaSU LMIS 250 Introduction to Libraries and Information Science 2 June 21-July 2

MaSU, VCSU LMIS 360 Media Collection Development 3 June 7-18

MaSU LMIS 365 Cataloging and Classification of Media Collections 4 June 21-July 2

MaSU, VCSU LMIS 430 Administration of the School Library Media Center 3 June 7-18

MaSU, VCSU LMIS 460 Practicum 2 June 1-4 (MaSU); June 1-30 (hours arranged) (VCSU)

MaSU LMIS 492 Video Editing 1 June 1-4

MaSU LMIS 499 Special Projects 1-4 By arrangement

VCSU LMIS 499/ Primary Sources in Digital Collections 1 (Graduate June 1-2 EDUC 600 credit through NDSU applied for)

VCSU LMIS 499/ Transition: Using the New Patron Interface 1 (Graduate June 3-4 EDUC 600 to the ODIN OPAC credit through NDSU applied for)

For complete information, including course descriptions, prerequisites, instructors, and times, visit the websites: www.masu.nodak.edu or www.vcsu.nodak.edu; or contact Sarah Batesel at Mayville State: 701-788-4814; [email protected]; or Darryl Podoll at VCSU: 701-845-7275 or 1-800-532-8641, ext. 37275; [email protected]

The Good Stuff - Page 27 - March 2004 100 Years: Valley City Barnes County Public Library Compiled by Mary E. Fischer, Library Director

On October 5, 2003, we celebrated 100 years of Our master of ceremonies, Bradley Cruff, said it wonder- public service for our original Carnegie Library in fully at our 100th birthday celebration on October 5, Valley City. 2003.

We were able to celebrate because a group of ladies 100 Years of Service belonging to a local women’s club, the Tuesday Club, had by Mr. Bradley Cruff the desire and the ambition to pursue a library for our community as early as the late 1800s. With a local com- Today we celebrate a milestone, an accomplishment of mitment of one mill, a donation from Andrew Carnegie of great magnitude: the 100th anniversary of the founding $25,000, plus all of the gifts and fundraisers we still count of the Valley City Barnes County Public Library. But let on today, their dream became a reality. us not only celebrate 100 years of history, but also the birth, the beginning of many future years of service to In 1997, handicapped-accessibility and twice as much this community. space was added to our original Carnegie library. This also came about “because of a dream,” a little shove from She’s blond, she’s beautiful and she is 100. But when she ADA, community block grant money, a generous bequest was born, who would have imagined she would not only from the Rosemond Cook estate, and fundraisers. Actions, be alive today but thriving and drop-dead gorgeous. The gifts, and community support make these kinds of things beautiful blond oak finish of the pillar-like bones that happen. support her, a recent facelift to accentuate the look she adorned in her youthfulness, are equally alluring today. We are listed in the National Historic Register, but also We are truly fortunate to be able to gaze upon a body of have automated checkout, our library catalog on the Web, this grandeur, a physique to house the eternal and truly Books on Wheels for the elderly and home-bound, weekly attractive qualities of this institution, the books and mag- story time, and a summer reading program that keeps azines that constitute the lifeblood, coursing not only children of all ages interested and reading during the through the library, but arteries, branching into the com- school vacation. Visitors are welcome to use our Internet munity to nourish us with the essential element of life, stations free of charge, and we serve students from Valley knowledge. City State University by providing a training place for their library students. We also host events to show com- Tens of thousands have darkened the orifices of this body munity support for local promotions like Crazy Days and of enlightenment in these first 100 years. And tens of Community Days. thousands will darken the orifices of this body of enlight- enment well beyond the next 100 years, as the Library We do much more than check out books. We house infor- continues to dutifully fulfill its mission, the mission of mation! From tax forms to books and videos, newspapers slaking the thirst for knowledge in this community. and magazines, and a comfortable reading area, we serve our patrons daily with cheerful confidence. They, in turn, But beyond brains and beauty, she possesses fortitude. give us their support and patronage. She has withstood 100 years of the ongoing battle of ignorance, bearing nary a scar in her efforts. But the war We are proud of what we do to continue the tradition of wages... her mission not complete... a destination not her those forebears who stepped out, built, and established a goal. For one so rich in literature and all she has to offer, library that still holds such an important spot in our com- let us recognize not only her 100 years of accomplish- munity, our county, our state, and our nation. ment, 100 pages of history chronicled, but let us also and with great anticipation, celebrate the continuation of a lengthy biography, and those passages yet unwritten.

The Good Stuff - Page 28 - March 2004 Bismarck’s First Summer Teen Reading Program By Kathy Vander Vorst, Bismarck Public Library

The Youth Services Department of Bismarck Public The Friends of the Library sponsored the August 21 Library launched its first Young Adult Reading pro- Grand Finale Pizza Party and provided prizes. Sixteen gram this past May, hoping to encourage older ele- students played games and enjoyed pizza donated by mentary and middle school patrons to visit the library the Friends, chips donated by Frito Lay, and pop during the summer. Thirty-seven students ages 9-15, donated by Pepsi Cola. Kathy Vander Vorst, Reference including 8 young men and 31 young women, partici- Librarian, and Marvia Boettcher, Head of Youth pated in Laugh It Up @ Your Library. A total of 393 Services, received many positive comments regarding books were read, including 66 books by a 14-year-old this new program. Thanks to the Friends of the participant. Another 30 students completed a Young Library, all of the sponsors, and to Foundation Adult reading interest survey. This will be used to Development Director Phil Shook for contacting them! determine future programming for this age group.

Call for Candidates Where are the minutes? NDLA needs you – your vision and your leadership skills. Please consider running for one of the following posi- tions: The NDLA Executive Board was scheduled to meet in Carrington on December 4, but Vice-President/President-Elect the meeting was cancelled due to poor Secretary weather conditions. Treasurer ? The Board did take action on some items via the To ease your anxiety about commitment, there are NDLA NDLA-EXEC list, including: policy manuals providing clues to the responsibilities involved in each position. Find them on the NDLA web • Approval of the Treasurer’s report page at: http://ndsl.lib.state.nd.us/ndla/policydoc.htm • Approval of the 2004 budget • Approval of the 2004 Conference If you are not comfortable on the executive level, how theme and budget ? about training in your section or roundtable? When the call comes asking you to place your name on the ballot The next Board meeting is scheduled for Monday, for a section or roundtable office, stun the caller – say March 29 in Jamestown. yes! The policy manuals for each section and roundtable are also available on NDLA’s web page. Your 2004 Nominations and Elections Committee, ? Toni Vonasek, Chair Grand Forks Public Library ? 701-772-8116 [email protected]

The Good Stuff - Page 29 - March 2004 Treasurer's Report As of December 31, 2003 By Michael Safratowich, NDLA Treasurer Editor’s note: Approved by electronic vote of the Executive Board on January 28, 2004

Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance CHECK BOOK 1/1/03 $2,616.24

Pass-Through Funds Humanities Grant 2002-2003 $0.00 $6,250.00 $6,250.00 $0.00 Humanities Grant 2003-2004 $110.00 -$110.00 Book Sales $2,601.91 $5,436.54 $4,698.28 $3,340.17

Pass-Through Funds Subotal $2,601.91 $11,686.54 $11,058.28 $3,230.17

NDLA Funds $14.33 Tri Conference 2002 $8,188.09 Annual Conference 2003 $26,471.74 $14,442.60 Dues 2003 $12,407.00 $95.00 Dues 2004 $1,410.00 Professional Dev / Canoe Kudos $40.00 Investment Account Transfers $3,726.38 HSIS Partner Account $1,770.00 $1,716.60 Other receipts/disbursements $2,200.56 $26,757.22

NDLA Funds Subtotal $56,213.77 $43,011.42 $13,216.68

Check Book Balance 12/31/03 $16,446.85

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INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA CD $10,000.00 $10,000.00 NDLA CD Ready Cash $1,723.43 Interest $455.70 $1,000.00 $1,179.13 NDLA Money Market $14,946.51 Interest $68.66 $1,050.00 $13,965.17 Rudser CD $10,000.00 $10,000.00 Rudser Money Market Ready Cash $4,702.61 Interest $469.46 Deposits $360.00 $1,500.00 $4,032.07 Hubbard Money Market $1,594.99 Interest $8.11 Deposits $150.00 $276.38 $1,476.72 Jaugstetter Leadership Fund CD $2,500.00 $2,500.00 Jaugstetter Leadership Fund Savings Interest $0.64 Deposits $3,442.80 $3,443.44

TOTAL investment accounts $42,967.54 $46,596.53

TOTAL EQUITY 12/31/03 $63,043.38

The Good Stuff - Page 30 - March 2004 North Dakota Library Association Membership Application for the Year Ending December 31, 2004

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