THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION August 2012 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 42 • Issue 3 2012 NDLA Conference September 19-22 • Fargo, ND Finding Your Voice

INSIDE Conference Programs & Presenters t Elections & Officer Candidates t Turning the Page 2.0 Pre-conference t Surviving the Public: t Customer Service the Unshelved Way

Used with permission Table of Contents President’s Message...... 3 NDLA Conference Preliminary Schedule...... 4 NDLA Conference Registration Form...... 7 Conference Programs and Presenters...... 8 2012-13 Library Events and Conferences..... 21 Intellectual Freedom Committee Plans Conference Events...... 22 Flicker Tale Winners at Conference...... 23 Conference Highlights...... 24 Elections and Officer Candidates...... 26 MPLA Conference...... 29 Published quarterly by the North Dakota Library Association Membership Report...... 29 Editorial Committee People Stuff...... 30 Marlene Anderson, Chair Browsing in the Cyberstacks...... 31 Joan Erickson Carrie Scarr Eric Stroshane PLA’s Turning the Page 2.0 Pre-conference.. 32 Production Artist Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley Conference Lodging at Doublewood Inn.... 33 Subscription Rate North Dakota in Print...... 34 $25/year Good Stuff from Around the State...... 38 Advertising Rates (per issue) Professional Development Grant Report.... 40 $100 – full-page ad Canoe Kudos Nomination Form...... 40 $50 – half-page ad $25 – quarter-page ad Nerd Up...... 41 For information contact: Treasurer’s Report...... 42 Marlene Anderson, Chair NDLA Membership Form...... 43 The Good Stuff Editorial Committee NDLA Executive Board...... 44

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The Good Stuff - Page 2 - August 2012 President’s Message By Aubrey Madler, NDLA President

As you will discover in the following pages of this issue, your colleagues and library supporters have come together in planning efforts to offer an interactive learning experience at our upcoming conference. I am very excited about how it has all come together and hope that its content will help you to improve your communication skills, advocate, share ideas, and build your programs.

You will also be introduced to the slate of candidates for open positions on the NDLA Executive Board, including those within the Sections and Roundtables. The Nominations, Elections, and Voting committee worked very • Spot contacts of the same height, age, and hard to fill the ballot with those of you willing gender – this can be less intimidating for to say “yes” to a chance at these personal and some. professional growth opportunities. Thank you! • Observe body language; watch for people already involved in a conversation that Finding your voice is a key factor in the art of may look private and closed off to others, networking, which I hope you can do much of or find an opening in another group while in Fargo. In preparation for this invaluable (closed circle vs. open). aspect of conference participation, I will share • Listen, ask, and introduce yourself to enter some tips and strategies that I hope you will try a conversation - don’t pry or interrogate; out: rather offer compliments, be positive, pleasant, and curious. • Prepare your elevator speech – sum • Move on – be mindful of monopolizing up yourself/your job, etc. in less than a your time and that of another and feel free minute. to disengage after a brief conversation. • Make the first move – introduce yourself, • Bring business cards – exchange when smile and offer your hand to shake. appropriate and follow through with • Ease in with someone you know – warm promises to reconnect. up your conversation skills, yet be willing to let others in. It has been a fun, challenging, whirlwind of a • Sit at a table where you do not know year and I am very grateful to a countless number anyone – forces you outside of your of new friends, mentors, and collaborators. network, and possibly, your comfort zone – allowing you to meet new people. See you in Fargo! • Look for lone people – perfect places to start (they may be shy and unsure, too!)

The Good Stuff - Page 3 - August 2012 Preliminary Schedule Track 1 Conference Theme - Birch Track 2 School Librarians - Walnut 2012 NDLA Track 3 Programming – Woodland East Track 4 Section-sponsored - Elm Conference Track 5 Technologies - Cedar Track 6 Books, Authors and More - Chestnut

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:00 am – 12 noon NDLA Executive Board Meeting - Walnut Conference Room 12 Noon – 8 pm Registration / Hospitality Open / Exhibitor Set-Up 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Turning the Page 2.0 Vendor Demonstrations Pre-conferences Unleash the Power of EBSCOhost Resources (1:00 – 2:30) Making the Most of Your Gale Resources (2:45 – 4:30) 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Bike Tour 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm Supper on Your Own 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Opening Night Reception, Fargo Public Library’s New Main Thursday, September 20, 2012 6:00 am – 10:00 am Exhibitor Set-Up / Woodland North 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration / Hospitality Open 7:00 am – 8:30 am Breakfast – Your NDLA hosted by members of the Executive Board - Woodland South 8:30 am – 10:00 am Welcome / Announcements and Housekeeping – Woodland South Keynote Address: Judy Drescher, former Director of Libraries for Memphis, Tennessee 10:00 am - 10:45 am Opening of Exhibits – Woodland North Break in the Exhibit Hall 10:45 am – 11:45 am Finding Your So Many Not Just U.S. Census BARD – What is Read Concurrent Sessions Leadership Books, So for Kids: Data and the What Is It? North Dakota Voice Little Time: Programming New American Susan and Why Does Amber Emery, Time for Adults FactFinder Hammer- It Need Your Tina Grenier Management Janice Sayers, System Schneider Help? and Carrie Tips and Tonya Palmer N.D. Dept. of Mark Holman Scarr Tricks and Jenilee Commerce Wendy Wendt Kanenwisher staff (sponsored by GODORT) 12 Noon – 1:30 pm Luncheon / Conference Book Club – Woodland South Under the Twisted Cross, Margaret Barnhart 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Ignite NDLA Library Systematic The First Prezify Your “Writhing” Ex hibits O pen Concurrent Sessions Elizabeth Standards, Reviews: a Amendment Projects! Under the Madson Common Toolkit for and How It Kathy Berg Twisted Cross Core and Librarians Relates to Margaret Collaboration: Sandi Bates Media and Barnhart Where do (sponsored by Journalists School HSIS) Jack Libraries Fit In? MacDonald Lesley (sponsored by Gunderson Intellectual Freedom Roundtable)

The Good Stuff - Page 4 - August 2012 Preliminary Schedule Track 3 Programming – Woodland East 2012 NDLA Conference Track 4 Section-sponsored - Elm Track 1 Conference Theme - Birch Track 5 Technologies - Cedar Track 2 School Librarians - Walnut Track 6 Books, Authors and More - Chestnut

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Break in the Exhibits – Woodland North 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Academic Public Health GODORT Business Meetings & Special Libraries Science Meeting Libraries Section Information Section Meeting Section Meeting Meeting 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Archives SLAYS Section New Members Technical Business Meetings and Records Meeting Roundtable Services Management Meeting Roundtable Ex hibits O pen Section Meeting Meeting

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Auction Set-up 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Vendor Social – Cash Bar, Auction Preview and Silent Auction in the Vendor Hall – Woodland North 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Awards Banquet – Woodland South LineBenders 8:45 pm – 10:30 pm Live Auction – Woodland South Trivia Contest Friday, September 21, 2012 8:00 am – 12 Noon Registration 7:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast – Hosted by OCLC Council Members Ann Pederson & Wilbur Stolt – Woodland South 8:30 am – 9:30 am From Transitions: One Book Collaborative In Search Using Your Concurrent Sessions Carnegie to Year 2 Projects: Conversation: of the Killer Voice for Carnegie: Collaboration a Panel North Dakota Ap: Practical Reading Aloud How to Win Discussion and the Ways to Carol H. Sibley Friends and Konnie Karen Chobot, Uniform Publish, and Korella Influence Wightman Jason Electronic Harvest and Selzler People DeShaw, Legal Use Linked Bonnie Materials Act Data Wendy Wendt MacIver and Rhonda Sara Ring and Elizabeth Schwartz, Sarah Weeks Madson Hulen Bivins and Ted Smith 9:30 am – 10:00 am Exhibits / Break in the Exhibit Hall – Woodland North Ex hibits O pen 10:00 am - 11:00 am Use Your Digital Graphic Federal Downloading From Caillou Concurrent Sessions Voice: Intro- Literacy and Novels from Cybersecurity Symplified to the Wimpy duction to the 21st the Inside Responses: Elizabeth Kid: Readers’ NDLA’s New Century Gene Ambaum DISPA, PIPA, Jacobs Advisory for Mentoring Learner SOPA and Children Program Lesley More Amber Emery Lori West Gunderson Dan Crothers (sponsored & Arlene by Intellectual Gunderson Freedom Roundtable)

The Good Stuff - Page 5 - August 2012 Track 1 Conference Theme - Birch 2012 NDLA Track 2 School Librarians - Walnut Track 3 Programming – Woodland East Track 4 Section-sponsored - Elm Conference Track 5 Technologies - Cedar Preliminary Schedule Track 6 Books, Authors and More - Chestnut

11:15 am Exhibits Closing / Final Drawings 11:30 am – 12:30 pm General Membership Meeting – Woodland South 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Flicker Tale Awards Luncheon – Woodland South 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Communicate Confessions CRN Tools for Archives? Take Your RDA Update Concurrent Sessions with of a Video You, Students, What Is That? Computers and Q&A Confidence Game Junkie Educators and Curt Hanson, Out of Your Mark K. Ehlert Aubrey Chris Rylander Parents Ann Jenks Pockets Madler, Jody Breker and Michael Kate Scheeler Marlene Robinson and John Anderson and (sponsored Scheeler Wendy Wendt by Archives and Records Management Section)

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Closing Keynote – Woodland South Surviving the Public with the Unshelved Guys: Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Unshelved Book Signing – Woodland South 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Post-Conference Executive Board Meeting (includes outgoing and incoming board members) – Walnut Conference Room

Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:00 am – 12 noon Raising Awareness through Character-building Children’s Books Post-conference Kathryn Otoshi

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The Good Stuff - Page 6 - August 2012 NDLA 2012 Annual Conference “Finding Your Voice” September 19 - 22, 2012 - Fargo, ND Deadline for early registration is September 7, 2012

Name Badge Information Name ______Institution ______City ______Mailing Address ______Daytime phone ______Email ______[ ] I will serve as a conference host & introduce a speaker. I understand that I will be contacted at or prior to the conference with more information about the session I will host. Conference Registration & Fees Tour – Bike Jaunt $8.00 ______Opening Reception – New Main, Fargo Public Library no charge ______Pre-conference: ______Turning the Page 2.0 $50.00 / $40.00 if MPLA member ______(Sponsored by the Public Library Association & MPLA) ______EBSCOhost & Gale Resources (Sponsored by the ND State Library) $50.00 ______Conference: Full Conference $110.00 ______Thursday only $60.00 ______Friday only $60.00 ______Additional Banquet ticket(s) [ ] x ______$25.00 ______Post-conference: Raising Awareness through Character-building Children’s Books Kathryn Otoshi $50.00 ______If non-member, add $35.00 ______If postmarked after September 7, add $15.00 ______Total ______Full conference registration includes Thursday and Friday breakfast and lunch and Thursday Awards Banquet. One-day registration includes breakfast and lunch for that day only. All meals will be buffet to allow for vegetarian and other dietary needs. Non-member fee includes NDLA dues through Dec. 31, 2012, or Dec. 31, 2013 if you are a first-time member. CONTINUING EDUCATION FEES (Payable separately to Valley City State University) 1 continuing education credit: conference fees plus $50.00 2 continuing education credits: conference fees plus $100.00 For information about CE credit, contact Donna James at [email protected] or (701) 845-7252. Mail to: Kathy Thomas If you have registration questions, please contact NDSU Library Kathy Thomas: Dept 2080 (701) 231-8863 Phone PO Box 6050 (701) 231-7138 Fax Fargo ND 58108-6050 [email protected]

Full refund of registration fees will be made if canceled more than two weeks before the conference. A $25 processing fee will be assessed if canceled less than two weeks before the conference. No refund will be made once the conference is underway. The Good Stuff - Page 7 - August 2012 Conference Programs and Presenters Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Facilitator Judy Drescher is the former Director 1 – 4:30 p.m. of Libraries for Memphis, Tennessee. Under Pre-conferences her leadership, the Memphis Public Library & Information Center won a 2007 IMLS National Medal. Since her retirement, Judy has been Turning the Page 2.0 involved in a wide variety of civic projects, arts Kick-off Event – Public Library Association groups, and grant-making consultancies. She Sponsored in part by a Mountain Plains Library served as the emcee at previous Turning the Page Association conference grant events and is back as a facilitator for the Turning We are hosting a kick-off event for the last the Page 2.0 kick-off events. Turning the Page 2.0 training to be offered. Turning the Page 2.0 is a FREE library advocacy Facilitator Steve Yacovelli, owner and principal training course developed and presented by of TopDog Learning Group, Orlando, Florida, is the Public Library Association (PLA) with the final returning member of the original Turning generous support from The Bill & Melinda Gates the Page team. Steve has twenty years’ experience Foundation. in learning and development, including eleven years’ experience in e-learning management. He In this six-week, facilitated online course, library has worked with major corporations, national staff and supporters will learn how to create nonprofits, and academic institutions. and tell their library’s story, deliver effective presentations, develop a compelling case for Database Vendor presentations – Sponsored by support, and build and sustain partnerships along the North Dakota State Library the way. Unleash the Power of EBSCOhost Resources Participants are encouraged to come with a (1 -2:30 p.m.) specific, self-determined advocacy goal for their EBSCO databases support learning and research! library. At the end of six weeks, you’ll have a Become an expert using these valuable resources complete Advocacy Work Plan to guide your and learn ways to make your searches successful efforts. using the intuitive EBSCOhost interface. We’ll discuss the advantages of folders and how to Turning the Page 2.0 consists of the following create search and journal alerts. You’ll be able components: to show your users how to read their favorite periodical from home or search our vast Image • In-person kick-off (optional) Collection. Finally, we’ll tour the EBSCO Support • Facilitator-led virtual classroom sessions (1 hour each week for 6 weeks) site that includes training and marketing tools to help you promote and evangelize these amazing • Independent work on Turning the Page online modules (about 1 hour each week) resources. Bring your own laptop, tablet or iPad and follow along during this informative session! • Online community for discussion (optional) Presenter Lisa Dennis is an Implementation • Completion of an Advocacy Work Plan (about 1 hour each week) Specialist for EBSCO Publishing, covering the western and north central United States as well • One-on-one feedback via email from professional facilitators (free consultancy) as western Canada. Employed since 2006, she was a sales representative before joining the For more information, see the full article in this Customer Satisfaction team. Her primary goal issue of The Good Stuff. as Implementation Specialist is to evangelize the EBSCO interfaces and databases through training.

The Good Stuff - Page 8 - August 2012 Prior to joining EBSCO, Lisa worked for Microsoft Thursday, September 20, 2012 for 8 years in the usability, product development 7– 8:30 a.m. and marketing divisions. In her spare time she enjoys gardening, scuba diving, her golden Breakfast Discussion: Your NDLA - retriever and exploring America’s national parks Hosted by President Aubrey Madler and with her family. Executive Board members Take the opportunity during a come-and-go Making the Most of Your Gale Resources breakfast hour to visit with members of the NDLA (2:45-4:30 p.m.) Executive Board about our Association and Are you making good use of Gale resources in opportunities for participation. your library? Join Dinah Ramirez, a Customer Education Specialist from Gale Cengage Learning, to get an overview of the Gale Resources Thursday, September 20, 2012 accessible through the State Library and learn 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. more about the free promotional tools available to you. Participants will be encouraged to share Opening Keynote Address the ways they use Gale Resources with their users Walking the Talk: Everyday Advocacy – and what’s been successful in their libraries. The Judy Drescher, former Director of Libraries following items will be discussed along with tips for Memphis, Tennessee from your peers: Judy Drescher is the former Director of Libraries for • Using bookmarks to direct users to Memphis, Tennessee and past reading lists or selected content from Gale president of the Public Library resources Association. She served as • Creating free electronic subscriptions to president in 1994-95. Under magazines, journals, or newspapers for her leadership, the Memphis patrons, teachers, or professors Public Library & Information • Creating RSS feeds to pull articles from Center won a 2007 IMLS National Medal. Since dozens of sources in order to read them her retirement, Judy has been involved in a wide in one place using a service like Google variety of civic projects, arts groups, and grant- Reader making consultancies. She served as the emcee at • Downloading the free Access My Library previous Turning the Page events and is back as App for the iPad, iPhone, or Android a facilitator for the Turning the Page 2.0 kick-off devices events. • Gale Promo – Ordering Free Bookmarks & Posters that are customizable! Thursday, September 20, 2012 • Creating Widgets that generate HTML code 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. to be placed directly on a webpage Finding Your Leadership Voice – Amber Emery, Presenter Dinah Ramirez joined Gale Cengage Tina Grenier, and Carrie Scarr Learning as an account manager where she Amber, Tina, and Carrie represented North closely serviced academic and special libraries. Dakota at this year’s MPLA Leadership Institute in She is now a member of Gale’s training team, Colorado. More than 60 applicants in 12 states providing customer education workshops on applied to attend the Institute (30 were chosen); products and services for all library markets, it was an honor to be selected. Amber, Tina, including K-12, public, academic, and special and Carrie will talk about their experiences at libraries. She holds a BA from the University the Leadership Institute and show lots of pictures of Michigan and an MBA from Wayne State from beautiful YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, University. Colorado.

The Good Stuff - Page 9 - August 2012 Amber Emery has been the Children’s Services So Many Books, So Little Time: Time Coordinator at the Fargo Public Library since Management Tips and Tricks – Wendy Wendt 2009. Before that, she worked in the Children’s How often do you find yourself running out Services Department at the Monroe County of time? Finishing your day without really Public Library in Bloomington, Indiana. In her accomplishing what you set out to do? There just previous life, she taught art classes to children doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to do from toddlers to teens in Holland, Michigan, everything we want. The books keep piling up! where she grew up running wild on the shores Attend this session to discover where your time of Lake Michigan. Amber has a Bachelor’s in goes and ways to manage your time instead of History with a minor in Art History and a Master letting it get away from you. of Library Science degree. Wendy Wendt has a BS in business administration with a minor in accounting. She attended St. Cloud State University and earned a Master’s degree in Information Media, which is primarily a library technology degree. Shortly after, she enrolled in a distance program with the University of North Texas and received her Master’s in Library Science while working full time in Minnesota. She has worked in libraries for over ten years and feels Tina Grenier is the Librarian, Head of Collection blessed to have a job that she loves and that Management, at the North Dakota State College changes lives one person at a time. of Science Mildred Johnson Library; she has proudly been employed at NDSCS Mildred Not Just for Kids: Programming for Adults Johnson Library for 15 plus years. She resides in – Janice Sayers, Tonya Palmer and Jenilee Breckenridge with her daughter, Victoria. Tina Kanenwisher has a Master of Education from Valley City State How do you develop adult programming? How University (VCSU), an undergraduate degree of do you judge if an event was successful? Where Career and Technical Education from VCSU, an do the ideas come from? How do you document Associate of Science in Occupational Therapy your programming and what records do you Assistant from NDSCS, an Associate of Arts keep? in Liberal Arts from NDSCS, and a pre-school credential to teach. She has received the NDSCS In this session, you will learn about the fun and Meritorious Service Award and Quality Service successful programs we’ve done at the Fargo Award. Public Library and the Grand Forks Public Library, including some very low cost programming Carrie Scarr is the Assistant Director at West options. You will learn why we do adult Fargo Public Library where her duties include programming, where to start, and pick up tips on technology, training, and collection development. how to reach out to adults in your community. Her education includes: Master of Library We’ll cover: Science (University of North Texas), Master of Business Administration (University of Mary), • Hits and misses and Bachelor’s in English Literature (Boise State • Where to find new ideas University). Carrie has written for Public Libraries • Marketing magazine, Library Journal, and The Good Stuff. In • Evaluation her spare time, she enjoys photography, learning computer programming, and reading.

The Good Stuff - Page 10 - August 2012 Janice Sayers is married and a wealth of local economic and demographic has two grown children and information for use by small businesses, one new granddaughter. She government agencies, and other community is originally from Pittsburgh, organizations. PA, and landed in Grand Forks with her husband for the Air Bard: What Is It? – Susan Hammer-Schneider Force in 1986. She has worked Digital books are the talk of the town everywhere. at the Grand Forks Public Since 2010, the Talking Books Library since 1989. Janice was department at the North Dakota a member of the first Emporia cohort in North State Library has been Dakota and received her MLS in December 1996. switching from cassette tapes She is in charge of serials and adult book ordering to digital cartridges. If at GFPL, and also orders adult non-fiction for the you have patrons who North Dakota Digital Consortium. Janice enjoys use the Talking Books reading science fiction and biographies. program, you can assist them with finding and Tonya Palmer has worked at downloading digital books the Grand Forks Public Library using a program called BARD. for almost eight years. She has BARD, the Braille and Audio Reading Download been a part of the programming website of the National Library Service, provides committee since it was formed Talking Book patrons with access to thousands almost two years ago and puts of digital books. This workshop includes an together the library’s monthly introduction to digital talking books machines newsletter. Tonya also works and a demonstration of downloading books from part-time for the Grand Forks BARD. Herald. She and her husband have a 2-1/2-year- old son. Susan Hammer-Schneider is Head of the Talking Book Service located at the State Library. She Jenilee Kanenwisher graduated began her library career while in high school with an MLIS from University of working for longtime librarian and NDLA member Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2011. Iris Swedlund in Velva. She has worked at the Fargo Public Library for five years. In What Is Read North Dakota and Why Does It that time, she’s implemented Need Your Help? – Mark Holman many programs, including The history of Read North computer classes, craft Dakota will be discussed programs, and book clubs. along with current activities and upcoming events. NDLA U.S. Census Data and the New American members will be asked to FactFinder System - North Dakota Dept. of provide input about how Read Commerce Staff (Sponsored by GODORT) North Dakota can better work In 2011, the federal government released with and serve the needs of American FactFinder, a new online interface North Dakota libraries. Please for accessing Census Bureau data. This session come to share your input and help Read North will provide an introduction to using FactFinder Dakota become a better and more efficacious to locate (and to help patrons locate) Census organization. Bureau information. Although the decennial Census, beloved of genealogists, is the most Mark Holman is Library Director at Sitting Bull famous resource, it is only one of many surveys College. the Bureau regularly conducts and releases information on, often annually. The Census offers

The Good Stuff - Page 11 - August 2012 Thursday, September 20, 2012 Thursday, September 20, 2012 12 Noon – 1:30 p.m. 1:45 – 2:45 p.m.

Conference Book Club Luncheon Ignite NDLA – Elizabeth Madson Under the Twisted Cross by Margaret M. If you could share one idea with an audience, Barnhart what would that be? What is your passion? Author Margaret Barnhart What motivates you personally or professionally? will speak briefly and read Join librarians from around the state to “Ignite excerpts from her novel, Under NDLA” by engaging in five minute presentations the Twisted Cross, which is limited to 20 slides, 15 seconds per automatically based on her father’s real life advancing slide. You are NDLA, and NDLA is experiences as a POW in eager about Finding Your Voice! Germany in World War II. Elizabeth Madson is the Collection Manager at A lecturer of English at the Fargo Public Library, leading the Technical Dickinson State University since 1992, Margaret Services department through change. Elizabeth Barnhart is also a writer and actor. Under the earned her MLS at Simmons College, Boston, Twisted Cross is her first novel, though she has and has served in school and public libraries as written many short stories, poems, and essays. cataloger and collection development librarian, as Several pieces have been published in local well as provided customer service and cataloging and regional publications in North Dakota, training through MLNC, Missouri’s OCLC Wyoming, and California. A cutting from a Regional Service Provider. personal essay, “Ghosts,” was included in a nationally-released anthology, Leaning into the Library Standards, Common Core, and Wind (Houghton-Mifflin, 1997). Margaret’s Collaboration: Where Do School Libraries Fit In? work typically reflects the voice and experience - Lesley Gunderson of small-town and rural life in the upper Great With the new ND State Library and Technology Plains. In addition to teaching at DSU, within the standards ready to be released and Common Core past two decades Margaret has taught writing or standards being discussed in districts around the presented workshops in various programs: DSU’s state, where do Library Media Specialists fit in? CommUniversity, North Dakota Council on the We will look at some lessons and technology that Arts’ writer-in-residency program, International fit both AND create an opportunity to collaborate Music Camp’s writing session, and Killdeer with classroom teachers. Hilltop Home of Comfort senior writing project. Current SLAYS Chair, Lesley Gunderson has been Writing Under the Twisted Cross was a labor of a teacher-librarian for eight years, the past five love for Margaret, and she has spent the past year with Bismarck Public Schools, and is currently and a half since its publication sharing her father’s working on her Master’s degree from VCSU. She story and the writing experience through readings is a peace-loving, Steampunk-dressing, nose-in-a- and discussions for a variety of groups. Margaret book, Potterhead, music-blasting, Tardis-traveling, has been a guest presenter for high school classes technology geek whose favorite library moment in Beach and Dickinson, and her novel has been is when a child comes up to her, returns a book, selected for study in English classes at Richardton and asks ‘What’s next?’ High School. Systematic Reviews: a Toolkit for Librarians – Sandi Bates A systematic review (SR) is a literature review focused on a well-developed question that tries to identify and synthesize all high quality relevant research. SRs have become one of the most important tools for medical professionals to

The Good Stuff - Page 12 - August 2012 use when making decisions about patient care. taught journalism at Southern Illinois University Following this workshop, attendees will be able as a graduate assistant and at the University of to define the essential components of a systematic North Dakota, and worked for a number of North review, identify best databases for subject topics, Dakota newspapers and radio and television gain knowledge about possible problems with stations, as well as the Associated Press (AP) in reviews, and learn what is considered grey Sioux Falls, SD, and United Press International literature. (UPI) in Fargo, before receiving his law degree. For more information, see the article submitted Sandi L. Bates, MLIS, is head of by the Intellectual Freedom Committee on pages reference and user education 22-23. for the University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine Prezify Your Projects! – Kathy Berg and Health Sciences. She We will watch examples of Prezis created by teaches medical and allied librarians, teachers, and students at Horizon health students how to conduct Middle School, then learn how to access an intensive medical information upgraded, educational version (applicable to research using databases such students and teachers with educational email as PubMed, CINAHL, SCOPUS, and point-of- address, only). During the workshop, participants care tools. In April 2010, she received a $1,000 will create their own Prezi presentations. Come Professional Development Grant from NDLA prepared to Prezify! to attend the University of Pittsburgh’s three- day Systematic Review Workshop: “The Nuts Kathy Berg has been a Library and Bolts for Librarians.” She is also a 2011 Media Specialist, Horizon BioMedical Informatics MBL/NLM Course Fellow. Middle School Teacher/ Librarian for 20 years. She The First Amendment and How It Relates to has a Master’s in Information Media and Journalists - Jack MacDonald [Library] Media from Saint (Sponsored by Intellectual Freedom Roundtable) Cloud State University and a BA The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in English/Spanish/Elementary says, “Congress shall make no law respecting Education/Secondary Education an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the from University of Mary. free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the “Writhing” Under the Twisted Cross - Margaret people peaceably to assemble, and to petition Barnhart the government for a redress of grievances.” This Margaret Barnhart, author of Under the Twisted presentation will focus on that amendment and Cross, will talk about the inspiration for the story, how it applies to the work of broadcasters and explain her writing process, read brief sections, journalists. and open a question/answer discussion.

Jack McDonald is a senior partner in the Margaret Barnhart – See author information with Wheeler Wolf Law Firm in Bismarck. His law “Conference Book Club Luncheon,” page 12. practice is split between First Amendment and communications law work, lobbying, and corporation/bankruptcy law. A Bismarck native, he graduated from St. Mary’s Central High School, and from the University of North Dakota with a BA in journalism. He received a Certificate from The Washington (D.C.) Journalism Center; an MA Degree in Journalism from The American University, Washington, D.C.; and a JD Degree from the UND School of Law. He

The Good Stuff - Page 13 - August 2012 Thursday, September 20, 2012 Friday, September 21, 2012 3 – 4 p.m. 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. • Archives and Records Management Section Meeting From Carnegie to Carnegie: How to Win Friends • SLAYS Section Meeting and Influence People – Wendy Wendt • Health Science Information Section Meeting Dale Carnegie was a master at interpersonal • Technical Services Roundtable Meeting relationships, while Andrew Carnegie was master businessman and library supporter. Combine the Thursday, September 20, 2012 two and you get us -- librarians! Librarians work 4 – 5 p.m. with people every day. Attend this session for a • Academic and Special Libraries Section fresh look at the classic ideas that will help you Meeting remember names and ideas, start conversations • Public Library Section Meeting with others, and have more peace and happiness. • New Members Roundtable Meeting All in an hour! • GODORT Meeting Wendy Wendt - See presenter information with Thursday, September 20, 2012 “So Many Books, So Little Time,” page 10. 5 – 5:30 P.M. Transitions: Year 2 Collaboration – Konnie • Auction Set-up Wightman The session will be a one-hour sharing between Thursday, September 20, 2012 K-12 and academic librarians who have been 5:30 – 6:30 P.M. working together to support college and career • Vendor Social readiness for recent high school graduates and anyone else who is interested in seeing increased Thursday, September 20, 2012 research skills for college and career library 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. usage. Several teams of school and academic • NDLA Annual Aw ards Banquet librarians who got together at NDLA 2011 • Entertainment by the LineBenders Improv will have the opportunity to share what they group worked on and what more needs to be done for continued collaboration between the levels. Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:45 – 10:30 P.M. Konnie Wightman is a semi-retired school librarian now working for the North Dakota • Live Auction & Trivia Contest Department of Corrections as the librarian for four facilities. Konnie has 30+ years of experience Friday, September 21, 2012 in K-12 education and also currently works with 7 – 8:30 a.m. school librarians who are working toward Master • Breakfast Discussion: Hosted by OCLC of Education degrees with a concentration in Global Council members Ann Pederson and Library and Information Technologies through Wilbur Stolt Valley City State University.

Discuss issues relating to OCLC services and One Book Projects: a Panel Discussion – Karen programs with our Global Council members. Chobot, Jason DeShaw, Bonnie MacIver, and Hear about the recent changes in the OCLC Elizabeth Madson organization and how members can be involved. Ever thought about organizing a One Book Wilbur Stolt is the Director of Libraries, project for your library? University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks. Ann One Book projects are Pederson is the Medical Librarian/Director of not only a great way Altru Medical Library in Grand Forks. to promote literacy

The Good Stuff - Page 14 - August 2012 throughout the community, but are also beneficial North Dakota’s official electronic legal materials in building relationships with other organizations. (as well as legal materials that remain in print This panel discussion will examine past and format). Let’s begin that conversation with the present One Book projects in the region and help State Librarian, the North Dakota Supreme Court guide you in crafting your own program. Discover Law Librarian, and the UND School of Law helpful information about organizing, planning, Library Director. marketing, and everything else to get your One Book project off the ground. Hulen Bivins is the North Dakota State Librarian. Dr. Rhonda Schwartz is Library Director & Karen Chobot is the Director of Mildred Johnson Associate Professor of Law, UND School of Law. Library at North Dakota State College of Science. Ted Smith is the North Dakota Supreme Court She has been a member of NDLA since moving Law Librarian. to the state in 1994 and has served in several positions over the years. The One City One In Search of the Killer Ap: Practical Ways to Book concept was a way for the college library Publish, Harvest and Use Linked Data - Sara Ring to work with the public libraries in Wahpeton/ and Sarah Weeks Breckenridge, serving all who like to read. As the web rapidly expands into trillions of pages, not even Google can make sense of Jason DeShaw is a recent MLIS graduate from such vast quantities of information as long as the University of Washington. He now serves as everything remains a keyword. The Worldwide the Acquisitions Associate for the Fargo Public Web Consortium (W3C), all of the major search Library. He is actively involved in the planning engines, many scientific communities, and other of the One Book One Community project online content providers have begun to look that includes the Fargo and West Fargo Public seriously at using structured linked data for online Libraries and Lake Agassiz Regional Library and publishing and information retrieval. Libraries will launch on October 1. are no different as LC’s Bibliographic Framework Initiative, OCLC’s VIAF (Virtual International Bonnie MacIver is the Director of the Leach Authority File), and other initiatives are set to Public Library in Wahpeton. She has been in this move us away from MARC and into a linked position for the last 24 years. data environment for publishing and discovering library holdings, bibliographic information, Elizabeth Madson - See presenter information and unique digital collections. This session will with “Ignite NDLA,” page 12. After stumbling present the current state of affairs surrounding upon a One Book One Community newspaper linked data and the Semantic Web, and will also article taped to a store front in Concord, address the question of what libraries can do Massachusetts, Elizabeth has wanted to be a part now to connect their data and collections to the of such a project in her own community. broader information universe.

A Collaborative Conversation: North Dakota Sara Ring is the Digitization & and the Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act – Metadata Training Coordinator Rhonda Schwartz, Hulen Bivins, and Ted Smith at Minitex, a publicly supported A new uniform law for state legislatures to network of academic, public, consider, the Uniform Electronic Legal Material state government, and special Act (UELMA), sets out certain requirements for libraries working cooperatively the authentication, preservation, and accessibility to improve library service for of official electronic legal material. As our state their users in Minnesota, North primary legal materials transition from print to Dakota and South Dakota. electronic form, we North Dakota librarians She provides training and consultation related may want to find our collective voice and enter to metadata, digitization, and the use of OCLC into collaborative conversations about the cataloging and digital collection management authentication, preservation, and accessibility of products and services, and manages many of the

The Good Stuff - Page 15 - August 2012 communications and social media in her program in various areas of teacher education. She also area at Minitex. In addition, Sara has been teaches children’s literature. Ms. Sibley is the teaching a semester long course, Metadata for chairman of the award committee that selects Internet Resources, at St. Catherine University’s the Comstock & Wanda Gág awards. She has MLIS Program since 2011. She has an M.A. served on various national literature committees in Library and Information Studies from the and is currently a member of the 2013 Caldecott University of Wisconsin, Madison. Committee.

Sarah Weeks is Head of Library Technician Korella Selzler has worked Technical Services for the St. in the Curriculum Materials Center and the Olaf College Libraries. She University Archives at Livingston Lord Library received her MLS from Clarion for 25 years. She has been the coordinator of University of Pennsylvania and the Comstock Reading Aloud Initiative since worked as a systems librarian its implementation. Ms. Selzler, along with Ms. until 2011. Next year she will Sibley, has done presentations about the award co-chair the MARC Formats program at local, regional, state and national Transition Interest Group for conferences. ALA. In addition, she currently serves as a LITA representative to ALA’s MARBI Committee and Friday, September 21, 2012 is a member of the ALCTS Policy and Planning 10 – 11 a.m. Committee. As someone who is involved in both cataloging and systems work, Sarah is very Use Your Voice: Introduction to NDLA’s New interested in how new technologies and software Mentoring Program – Lori West are changing the way traditional bibliographic Come one, come all! Mentors and mentees information is used and how we can connect wanted! new types of resources to the universe of library information. Whether you are new to librarianship, in mid- career, or struggling with an aspect of your job, Using Your Voice for Reading Aloud – Carol H. NDLA’s new mentoring program can help you Sibley and Korella Selzler in your professional career. You can mentor your Beginning in 2005, the Comstock Reading Aloud colleagues OR find a mentor to help you advance Initiative, sponsored by the library at Minnesota your goals. This session will present an overview State University Moorhead, has supported two of NDLA’s mentoring program and provide the read aloud picture book awards. These awards, details necessary to enroll as either a mentor or the Wanda Gág Book Award (toddlers to age 8) a mentee. Mentoring is a great opportunity to and the Comstock Book Award (for ages 9-12) are give back to the profession and help strengthen given annually. This session will discuss the award the future of librarianship in North Dakota. Your process, which includes reading aloud to children involvement and your voice are needed to make in local communities, and will highlight recent it a success! award books. Lori West is currently the Branch Services Carol Hanson Sibley is the Curriculum Librarian Manager at the Fargo Public Library, where she at Livingston Lord has worked for the past 24 years. She received Library, Minnesota her Master of Library Science degree from State University Emporia State University in 2005. Lori has served Moorhead, where as Chair of NDLA’s New Members Roundtable she maintains the and now serves as chair of the NDLA Professional Curriculum Materials Development Committee. Center and provides specialized instruction Digital Literacy and the 21st Century Learner – and reference service Lesley Gunderson and Arlene Gunderson

The Good Stuff - Page 16 - August 2012 A basic definition of literacy means to be able Downloading Symplified – Elizabeth Jacobs, Eric to read and write. However, the definition of Stroshane, and Sarah Matusz literacy has evolved in the 21st century. Join Nook, Kindle, Sony, iPad, iPod, iPhone - How Lesley and Arlene as they present websites, do you download books from OverDrive to your articles, and lesson plans that will help you feel e-reader? This hands-on demonstration will more like a digital native than a digital immigrant. allow participants to see how to download to each device and have the opportunity to practice Lesley Gunderson has been a library teacher in on the various devices. Our expert presenters the Bismarck Public School District for the past are all Field Services Librarians with the North five years. Dakota State Library. The Field Services Division is available to work directly with North Dakota Arlene Gunderson has been a library teacher in libraries on a number of issues including, but the Grand Forks Public School District for the past not limited to, library policies, bylaws, funding five years. Together, they share books on Nooks considerations, programming, and long range and other professional digital resources. planning for services and building needs.

Graphic Novels from the Inside – Gene Ambaum Elizabeth Jacobs has been Gene loves comics. In this program, he shows employed with the State Library some of the reasons why by showing moments since 2003. Before joining that demonstrate the unique power of this the Field Services Division, amazing medium. she was the Head of Technical Services. Elizabeth enjoys Gene Ambaum - See presenter information with reading e-books on her Kindle “Closing Keynote,” page 20. Touch and doesn’t remember how she possibly passed the Federal Cybersecurity Responses: DISPA, PIPA, time in lines and waiting rooms before she had SOPA and More – Dan Crothers an iPhone. Elizabeth has her BA in English and This session will review national concerns History-Political Science from Jamestown College over the security of computer records and and an MS in Library Science from the University communications, the proposed responsive federal of North Texas. legislation, and some of the concerns expressed over those responses. Eric Stroshane is NDLA’s MPLA Representative and was variously educated at Pennsylvania State Hon. Daniel J. Crothers is a Justice on the North University, SUNY-Buffalo, and Indiana University Dakota Supreme Court. He was born in North in Bloomington. He also writes the “Nerd Up” Dakota and grew up in Fargo, American Samoa, column for The Good Stuff. and Albuquerque. He has undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Dakota. Sarah Matusz has been employed at the State After law school he clerked for the New Mexico Library since 2008. In addition to working with Court of Appeals and practiced law in Santa Fe the Field Services Division, she also works until returning to North Dakota. Crothers has with the Statewide Catalog Development taught at the college level and has trained lawyers Department cataloging the collections of various and judges across the United States and in the state agencies. She received her MLS from the Virgin Islands and Guam for more than 20 years. University of North Carolina. For more information, see the article submitted by the Intellectual Freedom Committee, pages 22-23.

The Good Stuff - Page 17 - August 2012 From Caillou to the W impy Kid: Readers’ informal, impromptu exchanges while others are Advisory for Children – Amber Emery formal, even prepared or rehearsed interactions. Do you feel like a deer caught Some of us deliver speeches at conferences, host in headlights when asked an event at the library, introduce the mayor, or to help a child find a book give an award. Nearly all of us experience a to read? This program will case of the butterflies, a moment of panic, or provide information on books draw a blank when faced with a question. This for children from birth through presentation will offer you tips and tools for sixth grade, including picture dealing with all kinds of speaking interactions, books, readers, transitional facing your fears, and gaining the confidence to fiction, chapter books, graphic communicate flawlessly. novels, and nonfiction. We will also discuss questions and techniques you can use to start a Aubrey Madler, a Montana conversation that will help children find books native, earned her BS in they will love. We will discover approaches Education with a minor in for suggesting or “selling” as well as marketing Library Science at Mayville books, and will also tackle some of those difficult State University and her MLS questions about reading levels, reluctant readers, at Texas Woman’s University. and homework assignments. She has been an Information Specialist with the Rural Amber Emery - See presenter information with Assistance Center (RAC), a “Finding Your Leadership Voice,” page 10. national project of the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, since 2008. Aubrey is a Friday, September 21, 2012 member of the Medical Park Toastmasters Club in 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Grand Forks and recently earned her CC and CL awards. She keeps busy playing in the City Band, General Membership Meeting supporting the Friends of the Grand Forks Public Please come prepared to participate in our annual Library, serving on the NDLA board (currently membership meeting. This is your chance to as NDLA President), and is also working toward learn about the business of our association. Make her certificate in Nonprofit Leadership. Aubrey your voice heard! has lived in the Grand Forks area for twelve years with her husband, Justin, and dog, Mako. Friday, September 21, 2012 Marlene Anderson grew 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. up on a farm near Dagmar, Montana, and earned a BA in Flicker Tale Awards Luncheon Spanish, with minors in Russian Enjoy hearing about the winners of the Flicker and Library Science, at the Tale Children’s Book Awards, which are voted on University of Montana, and an by children from around North Dakota. Meet MA in Library and Information Flicker Tale authors Michele Otoshi and Chris Science at the University of Rylander. Missouri-Columbia. Marlene is the Director of Library Services at Bismarck Friday, September 21, 2012 State College and has been a Toastmaster since 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. 1997. She has earned the ACS and CL awards in Toastmasters and is currently the VP of Education Communicate with Confidence – Aubrey Madler, for the Highnooners Toastmasters Club, which Marlene Anderson, and Wendy Wendt meets on the BSC campus. She is an active We communicate every day with our families, member of NDLA, the Cinema 100 Film Society, co-workers, bosses, patrons and community Bismarck-Mandan Bird Club, AAUW, and Friends members. Many of these interactions are of the Morton Mandan Public Library. Marlene is

The Good Stuff - Page 18 - August 2012 married to Dan Rogers, who teaches theatre and Archives? What Is That? – Curt Hanson, Ann speech at BSC. They have two grown children and Jenks, and Michael Robinson two granddaughters. She currently serves as the This session will focus on the three largest chair of The Good Stuff Editorial Committee. archives in North Dakota: the Institute for Regional Studies Archives and University Wendy Wendt - See presenter information with Archives at NDSU, the State Historical Society, “So Many Books, So Little Time,” page 10. and the Department of Special Collections at UND. Representatives from each archive will Confessions of a Video Game Junkie – Chris outline their institutional history, their mission, Rylander and their collecting scope. The ways in which Author Chris Rylander will all three institutions work together to further talk about the reality of video the preservation of the state’s history will be games and books in today’s highlighted. The session will also allow for world. Rather than the two discussion about future activities, collecting areas, competing against each other, and cross-institutional support. Rylander will focus on how books and video games can Curt Hanson has worked in the UND Department co-exist for kids today. His talk of Special Collections since 1999. He was will approach the topic from promoted to Department Head in 2007. the perspective of a person who, while growing up, loved both video games and books, and still Ann Jenks: State Archivist, State Historical Society does today. of ND, Jan. 2008 to present; Head and University Archivist, Bowling Green State University, Chris Rylander is the author of the acclaimed Bowling Green, OH, Jan. 2005-Dec 2007; and bestselling Fourth Stall trilogy. He is a fan Local Government Records Archivist, Assistant of wizards, small trees, and talking hats. He was Archivist/Records Manager, University Archivist born and raised in North Dakota, and currently BGSU, 1996-2005; State Historian, South Dakota lives in Chicago with his wife and dog. State Historical Society, Pierre, SD, 1987-1993; Archivist/Records Manager, Asbury Theological CRN (Career Resource Network) Tools for You, Seminary Wilmore, KY, 1985-1987; B.A. History Students, Educators, and Parents – Jody Breker BGSU; M.A. History/Archives Administration Are you called upon to have all the answers BGSU IMMEDIATELY? When students, educators, and parents want career information fast, you will Michael Robinson: Director, Institute for Regional know just where to find it -- ND Career Resource Studies Archives and University Archives, Network. You can easily access RUReadyND. NDSU(11/11 - present); Coordinator of University com, North Dakota’s career information delivery Archives, NDSU (8/96-11/11); Interim Records system, to find college information, financial aid, Management Coordinator, NDSU (11/08- lesson plans, and career information specific to 5/09); Project Archivist, Town of Hempstead, North Dakota. Hempstead, NY (8/94-6/96); Career Services industry, academic offices, and private practice Jody Breker is the SE Career Resource (1978-1993). Education: Long Island University, Coordinator for the ND Career Resource Brookville, New York, M.S.L.S. - Archival Network. The network develops and provides Concentration, C.A.S. - Archival Management; career resources to North Dakota educators, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, M.S. Ed students, and parents. They also provide - College Student Personnel Administration; Ripon professional development training to educators College, Ripon, Wisconsin B.A. - History, 1973. that use career information and RUReadyND. com.

The Good Stuff - Page 19 - August 2012 Take Your Computers Out of Your Pockets – Kate to the new standard. This session will update Scheeler and John Scheeler participants on where RDA is at and where it is Utilizing today’s readily accessible technology going. Time will be set aside to discuss RDA, means allowing students to use their personal assess its impact on local libraries, and describe handheld devices in school. In this presentation, training efforts. we will provide evidence of the prevalence of smart devices among students and society. Mark K. Ehlert began his association with Because of this prevalence, we believe that to libraries at Alcuin Library (St. John’s University, make education relevant to today’s students, Collegeville, Minnesota). There he was chiefly we must allow them to use the technology with responsible for cataloging music and heading the which they are most familiar. Uses of smart quality control unit. Ten years later he moved on devices in the library, with an emphasis on to the University of Minnesota’s Wilson Library, QR codes, will be discussed as will broader where he cataloged special collections materials educational uses. Finally, we will provide a plan and gift books. Soon after receiving his MLIS of advocacy to implement smart devices in your degree from Dominican University (through St. school library. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota), he worked as a professional cataloger under Edward Seven years ago, after 29 Swanson in the Minitex Contract Cataloging years of teaching secondary Program before moving on to his present position English, Kate Scheeler became as a coordinator with Minitex. the library media specialist at Minot Central Campus. She Friday, September 21, 2012 started her English teaching 3 – 4 p.m. career with ditto machines and the newest technology, a self- Closing Keynote correcting electric typewriter. In Surviving the Public: Customer Service the 1979 she took library classes without a computer Unshelved Way – Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes in sight and in 2010 completed her library Tough customers got you down? Let us teach you master’s degree from VCSU online. Now she how to stop worrying and learn to enjoy difficult teaches information literacy on the library’s new people! In this keynote address, we will focus on 60” LCD TV and posts QR codes throughout her the Unshelved approach to customer service: the library. customer is seldom right. Most customer service interactions can be enjoyable if you have the right John Scheeler’s thirty-five years as a language frame of mind. Or, failing that, at least you can arts teacher in Minot, helping students develop have the last laugh. reading and research skills, made for a smooth transition into the role of library media specialist Gene Ambaum by Bill Barnes at Magic City Campus. This past year, John Gene Ambaum uses a pen name introduced ereaders and ebooks to the library’s because he’s scared of his own collection. In close collaboration with his mentor shadow. He is so good at making and colleague, who is also his wife, John is fun of strange, difficult customers working to ensure that the library media center is in Unshelved because he is the a dynamic, relevant, and integral part of students’ strangest, most difficult customer educational experience of all. He taught English overseas because no one there was in a RDA Update and Q&A – Mark Ehlert position to criticize his spelling. March 31, 2013, marks the date on which the If he ever starts another comic strip it will be Library of Congress will adopt RDA (Resource about poop, because that’s what he spends most Description & Access) as its primary cataloging of his time thinking about. Follow him @ambaum. code. Other libraries will follow suit as the cataloging and metadata communities move

The Good Stuff - Page 20 - August 2012 Bill Barnes by Gene Ambaum Her book One, winner of 16 awards, including Bill Barnes loves librarians, the E.B. White Read Aloud Honor Book and show tunes, and meat. He the Teacher’s Choice Award, is an anti-bullying can count his toes without book introducing colors, numbers, and counting taking off his shoes. Over the while playing on larger themes of acceptance, past eight years, he has tried tolerance, and the power of one voice. Her to convince Gene that the newest book, Zero, is about finding value in meaning of “partnership” is ourselves and in others. doing what he says 99% of the time. He can often be seen wandering the floor Otoshi’s other books include What Emily Saw, at trade shows playing “The Final Countdown” Simon & the Sock Monster, Marcello the Movie on his ukulele Death Adder. In his spare time he Mouse, The Saddest Little Robot, and Maneki draws Unshelved and writes a comic about the Neko: the Tale of the Beckoning Cat. For more software industry, Not Invented Here. Follow him information, visit KO Kids Books. @billba.

Saturday, September 22, 2012 9 a.m. - 12 Noon 2012 -13 Library Events Post-conference and Conferences Raising Awareness through Character-building • September 1-30 – Library Card Sign-Up Month Children’s Books – Kathryn Otoshi September 19-22 – North Dakota Library How can we engage kids to • Association Conference, Fargo take on an active role in raising a positive social climate? Sure, • September 30–October 6 - Banned Books we ask kids to ‘stand up and Week count,’ but what does that • October 3-5 – Minnesota Library Association mean to them? Understanding Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota fears, addressing big issues such • October 3-5 – South Dakota Library as bullying, acceptance and Association Conference, Huron, South Dakota tolerance, building a healthy self-esteem, and helping them find value in • October 12-13 – AASL Fall Forum: Transliteracy themselves will all be addressed in this session. and the School Library Program, Greenville, South Carolina Author and illustrator Kathryn Otoshi will talk • October 14–20 - Teen Read Week about her writing process for her picture books, • October 17-19 – NLA/MPLA/NEMA One and Zero; she’ll present creative activities to TriConference, LaVista (Omaha area), Nebraska engage your students to talk about these issues; provide valuable resources and handouts for • October 21–27 - National Friends of Libraries reference; and help you create a customized plan Week to start your own initiative to build a positive • November 2–4 - YALSA’s 2012 Young Adult atmosphere both inside and outside of the Literature Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri classroom. • January 25-29 – American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Seattle, Washington Kathryn Otoshi is a children’s book author and illustrator living in the San Francisco Bay • April 4-7 – ACRL (Association of College and area. She previously worked at George Lucas’s Research Libraries) Conference, Indianapolis, Industrial Light & Magic (Star Wars) as the Indiana Graphic Design Multimedia Art Director. • May 6-7 – National Library Legislative Day, Washington, D.C.

The Good Stuff - Page 21 - August 2012 Intellectual Freedom Committee Plans Conference Events By Charlotte R. Hill, Library Media Specialist, Bismarck High and Member of NDLA IFC

The Intellectual Freedom Committee for NDLA will sponsor two speakers for the conference in Fargo in September. We hope to see all of you at the conference and hope you will enjoy our speakers and the messages they will have to share.

The Honorable Daniel J. Crothers, Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota, will speak on “Federal Cybersecurity Responses: CISPA, PIPA, SOPA and More.” This is starting to gel as an overview of the underlying computer records security problem, judicial ethics and professional conduct. He the proposed responsive federal legislation and currently serves on North Dakota’s Committee on some of the concerns expressed over those Judiciary Standards, is chair of the Court Services responses. Administration Committee, and is a member Justice Daniel J. Crothers was born in January of the American Bar Association Center for 1957 in Fargo, North Dakota. He grew up in Professional Responsibility Policy Implementation West Fargo, American Samoa, and Albuquerque, Committee and past-chair of the ABA Standing New Mexico. He received his undergraduate Committee on Client Protection. Crothers was degree from the University of North Dakota in elected in November 2008 to fill an unexpired 1979 and his law degree from the University of four-year term. He and his wife, Holly, have two North Dakota School of Law in 1982. After law children. school, he clerked for the New Mexico Court Jack McDonald, Attorney at Law, will speak on of Appeals and then worked in a Santa Fe law “The First Amendment and How It Relates to firm. He returned to North Dakota, practicing Media and Journalists.” law in several law firms until being appointed to the North Dakota Supreme Court by Governor McDonald is a senior partner in the Wheeler Wolf John Hoeven in June 2005. Justice Crothers was Law firm in Bismarck. His law practice is split president of the State Bar Association of North between First Amendment and communications Dakota from 2001-2002 and has served as a law work, lobbying, and corporation/bankruptcy member and chair of several Bar Association law. A Bismarck native, he graduated from St. and Court committees relating to lawyer and Mary’s Central High School in 1958, and from

The Good Stuff - Page 22 - August 2012 the University of North Dakota with a BA in journalism in 1962. He received Flicker Tale Winners a Certificate from The Washington (D.C.) Journalism Center in 1966; an MA at Conference Degree in Journalism from The American University, Washington, D.C., in 1967; and a JD Degree from the UND School of Law By Linda Austin Flicker Tale Children’s Award Committee in 1970. He taught journalism at Southern Chair Illinois University as a graduate assistant and at the University of North Dakota, Two 2012 Flicker Tale winning authors have and worked for a number of North Dakota accepted our invitation to attend the fall NDLA newspapers and radio and television Conference in Fargo. stations, as well as the Associated Press (AP) in Sioux Falls, and United Press Picture book category winner International (UPI) in Fargo, before Kathryn Otoshi, author of receiving his law degree. One, has agreed to be our Friday luncheon keynote McDonald worked for the legislature’s speaker and will also present legal staff, the Legislative Council, prior at the post-conference to starting private practice in 1977. For session on Saturday. Her the past 35 years he has been a lobbyist presentations will address the before the North Dakota Legislature for power of literacy and its impact on children of all many organizations, including the ND ages, as well as how to engage kids in taking an Newspaper, Broadcasters, and Cable active role in creating a positive social climate. Television Associations; Prairie Public Broadcasting; the ND Physical Therapy One has won 16 awards, including the E.B. White Association and the ND Physical Therapy Read Aloud Honor Book and the Teacher’s Choice Board; ND Judges’ Association; ND Funeral Award. As an author and illustrator, Kathryn Directors Association; The Independent Otoshi has worked at George Lucas’s Industrial Community Banks of North Dakota, Light and Magic (Star Wars) as the Graphic America’s Health Insurance Plans, and the Design and Multimedia Art Director. She lives in State Association of Nonpublic Schools. He the San Francisco Bay Area. represents many of the state’s newspapers and broadcasters in litigation involving Juvenile category winner corporate issues, defamation, and access to Chris Rylander, author of meetings, records, and court proceedings. The Fourth Stall, has agreed to present a Friday break out McDonald is a member of Missouri session as well as visit area Valley Family YMCA Board of Trustees, schools. His presentation, the Board of Directors of Bismarck’s “Confessions of a Video Volunteer Caregivers Exchange; the Board Junkie,” will discuss the of Governors of the State Bar Association reality of video games and of North Dakota, the board of Bridging the books in today’s world, and how the two can co-exist. Dental Gap, and is President of the Board of Directors of Bismarck’s Dakota Media Chris Rylnder is a fan of wizards, small trees, and Access television station. Jack and his talking hats. He was born and raised in North wife, Connie, have six children and seven Dakota and currently lives in Chicago with his grandchildren. wife and dog.

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Co n f e r e n c e Hi g h l i g h t s Wednesday Bike Jaunt Conference Exhibits 4:30-6:00 pm, Wednesday, September 19 President-elect Al Peterson is coordinating Are you looking the 2012 conference exhibits and reports that for a way to stretch registrations are coming in. Al also says to watch your legs after a long for a new twist on the exhibitor hall bingo game. drive across the state He isn’t divulging the details at this point, but his to Fargo? Would you advice is to “brush up on your poker faces.” like an opportunity to get some exercise before Trivia, Tricks & Treats: Ticket Auction two days of conference The ticket auction is back by popular presentations? Does a demand! By purchasing pleasant bike ride along a tickets for a leafy green path sound like a lovely respite before modest sum, checking into the hotel? Then the group bike ride you can support along the Red River would be just the outing for the scholarship you. NDLA will coordinate the rental of bike- funds of NDLA. surreys from the Fargo Park District for a one-hour The auction will collegial bike jaunt from Lindenwood Park to be held this year following the Awards Banquet Downtown Fargo and back. on Thursday, September 20.

When: Wednesday, September 19, 4:30 pm All donations, lovely or not quite so lovely, are Where: Meet at the Conference registration desk welcome. We encourage every library to donate for carpooling to Lindenwood Park a themed basket or box of items for the auction. Cost: $8 per person Small libraries can get in the act by partnering with other small libraries. In larger libraries, Interested? Check off the Wednesday bike jaunt perhaps staff in individual departments could option on the registration form to reserve your prepare baskets and see which group comes spot today! up with the most interesting one. For added suspense, we suggest hiding a surprise item Kick Off Your Conference with in your basket or box. White elephant items, Tunes, Talk, Great Tastes, & a Tour “treasures” from garage sales, or something found The opening reception for the NDLA Conference at a bargain price are all possibilities. will take place on Wednesday, September 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Main Fargo Public The auction bidding wars among NDLA members Library. We’ll enjoy tasty hors d’oeuvres and can be great fun, both for the participants and the desserts and live music by the Amy Evans Trio in observers. the Community Room. We invite you to enjoy • If you really want an item, the more tickets visiting with your colleagues and catch up on you place in the box for that item, the the news, and to also take some time to tour the better your chances. New Main of the Fargo Public Library. FPL Library • If you really want a colleague to get a staff will be available to conduct tours of the New “white elephant” item, stuff the box with Main, including the back staff areas. tickets in that person’s name.

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For additional entertainment, between the it a point to support the work of non-profit drawings for winning tickets, we will play rounds organizations in the community. For a sampling of trivia hosted by JJ Gordon of the Linebenders. of what you can look forward to, take a look at Gather your teammates, and we’ll see which http://www.facebook.com/LineBenders/videos. group of librarians truly has all the answers! Friday is Denim Day at the The Fargo Public Library will accept auction donations in advance, or you can bring them 2012 Conference! We librarians are with you to the conference and drop them off giving, nurturing, at the registration desk. Please include a brief helpful people. description, special features or details, and Since there is not the name of the donating library or group (or much time in the individual) with your basket or box. conference schedule this year for a If you have any questions about the auction, community service project, the NDLA Board please Contact Diane Briggs (dbriggs@cityoffargo. approved a fundraising event in its place. We will com) or Jenilee Kanenwisher (jkanenwisher@ hold a formal Denim Day on Friday, September cityoffargo.com). 21. Wear your jeans and offer a (suggested) $1 donation to a non-profit organization in our Finding Your Voice through host city, Fargo. The Executive Board granted Improv Comedy Aubrey Madler, NDLA President, the privilege of Be prepared to have your selecting this year’s recipient. Aubrey chose The sides ache from laughing Arts Partnership because she feels “that access to as the LineBenders Improv the arts in our communities is so important. This Comedy Troupe takes the particular organization also partners with Fargo’s stage at the Awards Banquet. libraries and Friends groups for joint events.” This Fargo-based troupe has been performing together Dayna Del Val, Executive Director, shared this for over 10 years in venues information about The Arts Partnership: and cities across the country. Places like Texas, New York, The Arts Partnership’s mission is to cultivate the North Dakota, Minnesota, arts in our community. This is done in a variety Utah, and many others have of ways, including publishing the arts and culture experienced the truly unique newspaper ARTSpulse, creating exciting social LineBenders Improv Comedy media conversations about the arts through Troupe -- an act that is hard our blog and other outlets, re-granting to area to top and sure to please. non-profit arts organizations and individual artists, advocating for and about artists and The LineBenders will arts organizations, and creating collaborations customize their performance between artists and the greater community. Our specifically for our audience. Throughout the vision is to be the primary resource and the years, J.J. Gordon and his colleagues have made leading champion for the arts in our community.

The Good Stuff - Page 25 - August 2012 Name: Mark Holman Current Position: Library Director, Sitting Bull College, NDLA Officer Fort Yates Education: MLS, Emporia State University, 2005; Candidates BS, Education, Mayville Submitted by Chandra Hirning and Kalan State University, 1999; Davis, Nominations, Voting & Elections BA, Mayville State Committee Co-chairs University,1993 Professional Involvement: Memberships: North PRESIDENT-ELECT CANDIDATES Dakota Library Association, American Library Association, Tribal College and University Name: Stephen Banister Librarians Association, American Indian Library Current Position: Library Association, Read North Dakota; Positions: Past Director, Gordon B. Professional Development Chair NDLA, Past Olson Library, Minot State Vice-Chair Census Information Center Program University Steering committee Education: M.L.I.S. (1995), Vision Statement: We are transitioning to a L.S.U. Baton Rouge, LA; B.A. new type of library, the form of which remains in History (1986), Nicholls undefined. Like travelers driving toward a far State University, Thibodaux, off mountain range, we can see the broad, LA gray outlines of an amazing information and Professional Involvement: NDLA member knowledge future, but the details are still hazy. (2010-present); Board Member, IOUG (Illinois Society often looks to libraries to be the mediators OCLC User Group) 2008-2010; ACRL First Year and the pathfinders for this future. As leaders in a Director’s Workshop, January 20-24, 2009, republic dependent on an informed citizenry, we Denver, CO; President/President-Elect SCUUG need to become proactive in defining this future (South Central Unicorn User Group), 2005-2006; or it will be defined for us. Past member of Louisiana Library Association and Texas Library Association. To define the future of the library we must Vision Statement: I am honored to be asked move inexorably forward. This overused and to run for President-Elect of the North Dakota often innocuous phrase can lack meaning and Library Association. I have the goal of continuing substance. It can also be imbued with powerful the successful program of additional professional meaning when common purpose is the goal. As development opportunities for members and to Russian writer Anton Chekhov wrote: “If you cry continue to make NDLA an organization useful ‘Forward’ you must be sure to make clear the for all members in all types of libraries. In the direction in which to go. Don’t you see that if short time I have been in North Dakota, I have you fail to do that and simply call out the word been impressed with the professionalism and to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in openness of librarians and library staff that I precisely opposite directions?” have met, as evidenced by their involvement in NDLA. I want to be able to communicate with all The obvious lesson of this quote is that we North Dakota constituencies through marketing need to have an ongoing dialogue about what opportunities for NDLA so that citizens of this the future of libraries will become as we drive state can understand the valuable services that further down the road. We must engage the libraries offer. If I am fortunate enough to be disparate visions and diverse voices in a spirited elected to this position, I would look forward conversation that will lead to a new and more to working with the officers and members of effective type of future. Since information and this great organization. Thank you for your knowledge often serve as the fountains from consideration. which so much of human endeavor flows, this

The Good Stuff - Page 26 - August 2012 is not just the future of library, but the future of SECRETARY CANDIDATES civilization. Name: Heather Maneiro As NDLA President, I would seek to lead the Current Position: Instruction membership in a dialogue resulting in a stronger & Information Literacy organization and better libraries. To achieve this, Librarian, Minnesota State we need to engage the collective intelligence University, Moorhead of North Dakota libraries and librarians in an Education: BS, Elementary ongoing dialogue that will prove useful in helping Education, Concordia to find our common purpose in moving toward College, Moorhead; Master the future. I would be happy to lead this dialogue. of Science in Library and Information Science, Syracuse University; Name: Victor Lieberman (Photo Unavailable) currently pursuing Master of Science in Current Position: Social Sciences Librarian, Curriculum and Instruction at Minnesota State Chester Fritz Library, UND, Grand Forks University, Moorhead Education: MSLIS, University of Illinois; BA Professional Involvement: Current research (Anthropology), University of Chicago interests are the impact of school librarians (K-12) Professional Involvement: Past Chair of Academic on incoming college students and their success; & Special Library Section (ASL) and New worked as a classroom teacher, a school librarian, Members Roundtable (NMRT). Reference librarian and a corporate trainer. and social sciences bibliographer at University of Vision Statement: As President Aubrey pointed North Dakota’s Chester Fritz Library. Not currently out in her President’s Message, one of the on NDLA board. underlying principles in the role of secretary is Vision Statement: I would be honored to serve to provide record of all of the Board’s activities as President of NDLA if elected. I have been in order to maintain transparency for the a member of the Association since I moved to membership of NDLA. In seeking the role of North Dakota in 1999, and care deeply about secretary, I see this as my goal. the work it does, as well as about issues in librarianship generally. It would be a cliché to Name: Beth K. Sorenson (Photo Unavailable) talk about how much our profession is changing, Current Position: Catalog Librarian and and what we all need to do to keep up, since Acquisitions Manager, Chester Fritz Library, UND, our profession has always been changing, and Grand Forks challenging us to stay abreast of innovation Education: MLIS, Emporia State University, Kansas while also maintaining skills and expertise in our Professional Involvement: Current core activities and services. I would welcome member of NDLA the opportunity to become more active in the Vision Statement: NDLA’s leadership of NDLA, and lend a voice for the purpose is to exercise advocacy of libraries and librarians in our state. professional leadership I have enjoyed working previously with others and to promote library on the NDLA board to make our organization a services and librarianship. vital part of our professional lives, and a place The ability to serve would where we can learn and improve our knowledge provide opportunities to and career skills. In our work lives, the only establish contacts with other constant is change. Professional associations librarians throughout the such as NDLA help us to navigate the fast pace state and contribute to the of developments and advances we confront with profession. the expertise and enthusiasm of many. We were doing “crowd sourcing” before they even had a term for it! It would be a great pleasure to rejoin the board and more directly participate in this effort. Thank you for considering my candidacy.

The Good Stuff - Page 27 - August 2012 TREASURER CANDIDATES SECTION AND ROUNDTABLE OFFICER CANDIDATES Name: Carrie Scarr Current Position: Assistant Academic and Special Libraries Section (A&SL) Director at West Fargo Public • Chair-elect: William Martin, Web Services Library Librarian, Chester Fritz Library, UND, Grand Education: Business Forks Administration, MS (University • Secretary: Appointed at annual conference of Mary, 2010); Library Science, Archives/Records Management Roundtable MS (University of North Chair-elect: Michael Robinson, Director, Texas, 2007); English Literature, BA (Boise State • University Archives and Institute for Regional University, 2002) Studies, NDSU Libraries, Fargo Professional Involvement: Current member of Secretary: No candidate presented NDLA, MPLA, and ALA; NDLA Archivist/ Historian • (2011-present); book reviewer for Public Libraries Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) magazine and Library Journal. I also write the • Chair-elect: BreAnne Meier, State Document “Browsing the Cyberstacks” column for The Good Assistant, State Library, Bismarck Stuff. • Secretary: Appointed at annual conference Vision Statement: The purpose of the NDLA is to Health Science Information Section (HSIS) “exercise professional leadership and to promote Chair-elect: Sandi Bates, Head of Reference library services and librarianship.” As Treasurer, I • and User Education, Harley E. French Library will provide leadership and accurate financials to of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine support NDLA and its members. and Health Sciences, UND, Grand Forks Secretary: Travis Schulz, Director, Medcenter Name: Mike Safratowich • One Health Sciences Library, Bismarck Current Position: Bibliographic Control Librarian, Harley E. New Members Roundtable (NMRT) French Library of the Health • Chair-elect: Erienne Graten, Library Sciences, School of Medicine Assistant, West Fargo Public Library and Health Sciences, UND, • Secretary: Appointed at annual Grand Forks conference Education: MLS, University Public Library Section of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; BA, Music, Concordia Chair-elect: Denyse Sturges, Engineering College, Moorhead, Minnesota • and Aerospace Librarian, Chester Fritz Professional Involvement: Current member of Library, UND, Grand Forks NDLA, Treasurer (2001-present); Membership Secretary: Mary Jo Lorenz, Reference Committee Chair (1997-1999); Professional • Librarian, Grand Forks Public Library Development Committee Chair (1992-1993); HSIS Chair (1990); Conference Exhibits Chair (1989); School Libraries & Youth Services Section (SLAYS) Baker & Taylor Grass Roots Grant Committee Chair • Chair-elect: Amber Emery, Children’s (1986-1988); Midwest Chapter/MLA Conference Services Coordinator, Fargo Public Library Finance Chair (2005); Current member North • Secretary: Aaron Stefanich, Children’s Dakota/Manitoba ACRL Chapter. Librarian, Grand Forks Public Library Vision Statement: NDLA’s primary purpose is to Technical Services Roundtable (TECHSERT) promote library services in North Dakota. Assisting Chair-elect: Jennifer Fairall, Digital NDLA in this role has been a priority for me • Initiatives & Metadata Librarian/Interim while serving as Treasurer. My belief is that sound Serials Librarian, NDSU Libraries, Fargo financial practices enhance the organization’s Secretary: Danae Snavely, Government overall effectiveness in providing leadership and • Documents Associate and Copy Cataloger, learning opportunities to its members. I have Chester Fritz Library, UND, Grand Forks enjoyed working as Treasurer and would be happy to continue serving in this capacity. The Good Stuff - Page 28 - August 2012 Welcome to NDLA! New members since the last issue of The Good Stuff are Laisee Allery and Turtle Mountain Community College (Belcourt); Marcia Francis MPLA Conference and Alyssa Feik (Bismarck); Heather Maneiro (Casselton); Helene Fossum (Cooperstown); By Er i c St r o s h a n e , MPLA Rep r ese n t a t i v e Jennifer Fairall and Cindy Liudahl (Fargo); Erica Sodeyama and Danae Snavely (Grand Forks); This year’s Mountain Plains Library Association Jodi Friese (Harvey); and Enkhtuya Dutton conference will be held in La Vista, Nebraska, (Valley City). from October 17-19. The State Library will once again be driving a van (or two, if needed!). Please get in touch with me if you plan to attend and Membership Report would like to ride with us. (as of June 27, 2012) You can find more details, including the Compiled by Kathy Thomas, programming schedule, by visiting the Membership Chair conference website: http://nebraskalibraries.org/ Academic & Special Libraries Section 94 triconference2012/. Health Sciences Information Section 29 Public Library Section 119 You can register online until September 20. Complete registration information is School Library & Youth Services Section 86 available here: http://nebraskalibraries.org/ Archives/Records Management Roundtable 23 triconference2012/?page_id=31 Government Documents Roundtable 29 There are two conference hotels connected to New Members Roundtable 34 the convention center. Reservations must be Technical Services Roundtable 43 made by September 26 to be eligible for the Associate members 9 conference rate. Hotel information is here: http://nebraskalibraries.org/ Institutional members 12 triconference2012/?page_id=94 Student members 2 Trustee members 21 As always, if you’d like to know more about the Mountain Plains Library Association or the New members 24 conference, don’t hesitate to contact me at: Total 2012 members 297 [email protected].

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Stuff Joseph C. Linnertz passed away on June 24, 2012. After 33 years of service to Jamestown, Daphne He was a graduate of Minot State University Drewello, Director of the James River Valley and earned a Master’s in Educational Leadership Library System, retired on June 30, 2012. She from UND. Joe held a variety of jobs during his began her tenure as the director of the Alfred lifetime, including teaching English in Tioga and Dickey Library in 1979 upon graduating from Bismarck Public Schools; serving as Assistant library school. After a public vote to combine Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity the Alfred Dickey Library and the Stutsman under Governor William Guy; and as a County Library in 2008, she became director of newspaperman/owner of the Velva Journal, Drake the merged systems. An open house celebration Register, and Ambrose Progress Weekly. In1985, to honor Daphne was held at the Alfred Dickey he began his career with the Department of Public Library on June 23. Congratulations and best Instruction (DPI) and served in several capacities, wishes for your retirement, Daphne! including deputy and acting State Librarian for the North Dakota State Library in 1991, 1995-1996, Jennifer Fairall, Digital Initiatives & Metadata and 2000-2001. Librarian with North Dakota State University Libraries, has been selected as a representative from the State of North Dakota to take part in the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (Library of Congress) Train-the-Trainer Workshop, Midwest Region. After completing the training, See what’s new! Jennifer will deliver digital preservation training at DakotaBookNet.com events for working professionals tasked with digital Journal of a Mountaineer – By Medora historian Doug Ellison, this book preservation duties. Visit www.digitalpreservation. offers an authentic view of the life of a mountain man in the 1800s. gov/education/ for more information. The Brothers Krimm, The Bank Robber and the Hero – Crosby journalist Cecile Wehrman tracks the life of a modern-day bank robber.

Alyssa Feik was recently hired at the Bismarck Life Album: The Frank and Doris Kubik Story – The story of a classic Public Library as Circulation Manager. She was Western North Dakota ranching operation. formerly employed at the Fine Arts Library at Guardians of the Frontier – Joseph Gavett follows a man’s journey westward in the 1850s, with stops at Forts Pierre, Union, Randall and Indiana University in Bloomington. Welcome, Abercrombie. Alyssa! Sundogs and Sunflowers: Folklore and Folk Art of the Northern Great Plains – A collection of folk heritage representing all of North Dakota as well LaVae Haaland is the new Children’s Librarian for as the region. Lake Region Public Library in Devils Lake. LaVae Memoirs of An Unknown Sportswriter (Except in North Dakota) – Legendary sportswriter Abe Winter relives many sports memories, from high recently retired from 30+ years as an elementary school tournaments to college hockey. school teacher. Prior to becoming the children’s Mr. Wheat: U.S. Senator Milton R. Young – The first-ever biography of librarian, she had assisted with the summer North Dakota’s longest-serving U.S. Senator by Andrea Winkjer Collin and reading program at the library for the past five Richard E. Collin. years. LaVae took over for Sue Armstrong, whose Also available! Dakota Stories I and Dakota Stories II by Lauraine last day on the job was May 25, 2012. Snelling; Perseverance in Faith, a Centennial History of the Catholic Church in North Dakota; From the Sideline by Mike Schatz; Small Town Soldiers documentary by Watford City native Cody Shimek; On Divine Assignment by Virginia Dohms and a large selection of Germans from Dorothy Jacobson was honored for her many Russia books. years of service to the Finley Library at an open Order online at house celebration in June. Dorothy has served www.dakotabooknet.com as a volunteer librarian and board member since 1999. Take a Look at our Books! * 701-222-0947

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No matter what topic or situation prompts you to Finding Your Voice advocate for your library, you’ll find plenty on this The theme for NDLA’s 2012 website. Conference is “Finding Your Voice.” Have you found your voice yet? There North Dakota Library Association (NDLA) are some staff members at my library www.ndla.info who are extroverted and brassy about Our own NDLA website isn’t only for checking the telling everyone they meet about annual conference schedule, it’s also a valuable library programs, but what if you aren’t resource for finding your voice. Sure you have a one of those people? Take a look at the resources voice, but what are you going to say? The NDLA below! You’ll find talking points, templates, and website contains valuable resources from your North graphics to help you find your voice in whatever form Dakota colleagues. Legislative information provides it may take – talking, writing, or using technology. links for contacting your elected officials, contacting “Finding Your Voice” isn’t reserved for library directors the NDLA Legislative Committee, and tips for working and managers; it’s for every library employee and with legislators. Whether “finding your voice” supporter who wants libraries to continue to thrive! means getting involved in legislation or intellectual freedom, you’ll find blogs to keep you up-to-date on American Library Association (ALA) these issues. If you’re looking for an outlet for your www.ala.org/advocacy/ voice, don’t be limited to your patrons or legislators; If you haven’t explored the ALA website, you’re in for the NDLA needs your voice for committees and a treat! It has a wealth of information for libraries. In conference presentations. particular, the advocacy page includes the following. ilovelibraries.org If you’re in a tough economy, advocacy doesn’t come www.ilovelibraries.org/ to a halt. In “Advocating in a Tough Economy Toolkit,” ilovelibraries.org is a fun website for news and you’ll find out how to reach out to patrons and the advocacy of libraries. You will find whatever you have public, how to talk to the media, how to work with a passion for on this website -- copyright, economic government officials and legislators, or stage a rally. downturn, gaming, intellectual freedom, privacy, technology, and more. You’ll find resources for library Is this a tough budget year? Are you new to making a friends, trustees, and library advocates. budget presentation? ALA has your back with “Budget in the Crosshairs? Navigating a Challenging Budget One of the best resources is the library value Year.” You’ll find tips for communicating with staff, calculator, which calculates how much value a board, trustees, friends, and community; what data particular user is getting from the library. Even as to compile; and how to tell your story (persuading a librarian, I forget how much value I get out of decision makers). You’ll find out how to get citizen the library. Using the calculator (2 adult books, 2 support – rallying stakeholders, dos and don’ts, and YA books, 1 audiobook, 2 interlibrary loans, and budgeting best practices. 1 eBook), I’m getting $166.95 of library value per month. Can you image the value a family is getting Library Snapshot Day is a way to visually show what from books, DVDs, computer use, and programs? It happens in a single day at your library. Sounds like can really add up! The calculator can be a tangible a great idea, right? How do you plan and make it a way to illustrate to patrons how much they value the success? Library Snapshot Day Primer is your blueprint library when the library is facing cutbacks or when the for establishing a committee, getting buy-in, creating library is trying to pass a bond. the wiki, choosing the dates, and creating your own Snapshot Day website. Advocacy doesn’t have to be boring; be sure to check out the videos on ilovelibraries.org: The Dewey Do you have a fundraising plan? The “Frontline Fund- Decimal Rap, The Librarian Song, Choose Privacy raising Toolkit” includes information, templates, and Week, Old Spice Guy on Libraries, and UNC Chapel images on developing a fundraising plan, memorials Hill Library Rave. and tributes, online donations, and acknowledging gifts.

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Advocacy (n.): The steps needed to reach process of acting on a defined advocacy behalf of the public goal. Along with the library to increase plan, participants public funds and ensure leave with more that it has the resources needed to be up to date. confidence and greater skills to be their library’s What does advocacy look like to you? Does your best advocate. library have an advocacy goal? Maybe you’d like to raise your library’s budget by 10% within The program is a virtual, six-week course that the next three years. Or by next year! Or build explores many different topics including: strategic relationships in your community within the next six months. Public perceptions of public libraries and what this means for your advocacy efforts Whatever it is, Turning the Page 2.0 (TtP 2.0), a Telling your library’s story free advocacy training program from the Public Developing your own leadership skills Library Association (PLA), will help you plan and achieve that goal. Building community networks and Part of the lesson in TtP 2.0 is that advocacy goals relationships to leverage resources can vary, but to make them achievable, it’s best Making effective funding requests to follow the SMART framework. That means your goal should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, TtP 2.0 seeks to mimic a school experience using Relevant, and Timely. self-paced homework, virtual classroom lecture/ discussion time, and the development of the final Previous TtP 2.0 participants have identified all project—a completed advocacy work plan. kinds of advocacy goals. For example: The virtual classroom sessions are interactive, with facilitators who are not shy about Install a butterfly garden on the library encouraging participation! Additionally, as grounds to raise the visibility of the library participants develop their advocacy work Plan and implement a fundraising campaign plans, facilitators offer individualized feedback that will raise $100,000 for library furnishings throughout the six weeks. It’s like having a personal advocacy consultant…for free! Find and increase job resources to aid So far the training has met with very positive unemployed community members feedback. Previous participants have said they Raise funds to build free book exchanges value: along bike trails to reach community members who otherwise don’t have access to the library The professionalism, feedback and personal Seek funding for digital messaging equipment outreach of the facilitators and software to improve communication to The online convenience the public about library programs, services, Being able to use a real advocacy project and materials The Advocacy Work Plan template and being The end goal of Turning the Page 2.0 training is a forced to plan ahead completed Advocacy Work Plan that outlines the Live interaction with librarians around the country and the world

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Turning the Page 2.0 has made a difference for many participants. Four different attendees used their Advocacy Work Plans and TtP 2.0 learnings to land jobs. Another participant recently cultivated relationships with two people in the community who have a great capacity to donate toward her library’s fundraising campaign. And remember that advocacy Join Us at the goal about raising funds for digital messaging equipment and software? That library raised Doublewood Inn nearly $400K after taking the Turning the Page 2.0 course. for the NDLA Annual Conference Now before you say to yourself, “This is all great, but advocacy is not my job—I’m a The site for this year’s NDLA reference/children’s/technology librarian!” Think Conference is Fargo’s Doublewood again. In Turning the Page 2.0, we show you Inn (http://www.doublewoodinn.com/ how advocacy is everyone’s job at the library. If fdw_amenities.html). Doublewood you, as a librarian, can communicate the value staff members have been helpful and of your library to your patrons and encourage gracious hosts to previous conferences them to speak up about it in the community, and we look forward to another you’ll be on your way to achieving your successful event this year. All meetings advocacy goal, whatever it may be. and meals will take place within the Doublewood; no need to worry about So, ready to take the plunge into advocacy rain or crossing parking lots. training? You’re in luck! The North Dakota The conference room rate is $69.30 Library Association has graciously invited PLA (current state rate) per night. When to kick off the last Turning the Page 2.0 training calling (800) 433-3235 to make your during a September 19 pre-conference at the room reservation, be sure to ask for a NDLA 2012 Conference. The optional kick-off room in the NDLA block of reserved introduces participants to Turning the Page 2.0, rooms. Fully handicapped accessible which then transitions into the six-week online rooms are available as part of the training during the weeks of Sept. 24 – Oct. 29. reserved block.

Registration for the six-week training opens on The Doublewood Inn is conveniently August 15. For more information about Turning located on 13th Avenue South, just the Page 2.0, visit: http://www.ala.org/pla/ east of I-29. If you are coming in for education/turningthepage. To put your name a pre-conference or staying after the on a list of people to contact when registration conference, numerous eating and opens for the six-week training, or to ask any shopping options, including West questions, please contact Lynn Slawsky at Acres Mall, are within one mile of the [email protected] or (312) 280-5025. hotel. In the meantime, register for the NDLA Annual Conference. PLA hopes to see you at our September 19 pre-conference!

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Tommy Zurhellen has written a After Ruth Ganes of Kenmare created a personal sequel to Nazareth, North Dakota. photo book to record her memories of the 2011 His new book, Apostle Islands ($12, Mouse River flood, family and friends requested 240 p., pbk.) is “fresh, irreverent, their own copies. That led to the publication of and just slightly off-kilter” and will Breaking News! The Mouse River Flood of 2011 be available in September 2012 ($40, 37 p.). Breaking News! features photos from Atticus Books. taken mostly around Kenmare and the Des Lacs River valley, Mouse River Park, Lake Darling, and When she was 13, Kiersten Sauber, a 2012 the Mouse River valley. The book is available Mandan High graduate, had an idea that turned from the Quilt Inn in Kenmare or Kenmare Drug into a story that turned into a full length book (109 1st Ave NW, Kenmare, ND, 58746-7165; that she completed when she was 14. The book 701-385-4257). A portion of the book sales will sat for a few years and has now been published be donated to the Mouse River Flood Recovery through AuthorHouse under the pseudonym, Fund. For more information, call the author at Kiersten Annette. Behind Closed Doors ($19.99, 701-385-3229. 108 p., hardcover; $12.95, pbk.; $5.99, ebook) is available from AuthorHouse, Amazon and Barnes Under the pen name Hadassah, and Noble. Makala Kopp of Beulah has written Called and Chosen: Many Are Ceil Anne Clement of Hettinger recently won a Called, Few Are Chosen ($14.99, storytelling award from the National Storytelling pbk.; $9.99; ebook). The novel Network for her first CD, Blizzard ($18, 55 min., “tells the story of Eden Vanette who CD). The compilation includes five stories of is living out her life as a young Dakota prairie blizzards that were collected, musician, artist, and businesswoman adapted, and told by Clement. Clement was in New York City when she discovers adoption inspired to become a storyteller after attending papers validating her Jewish heritage. With this the North Dakota State Storyteller’s Convention discovery comes a letter from her birth mother 25 years ago. For more information or to order telling Eden she’s been “chosen,” but for what?” the CD, go to www.susanklein.net/booksandtapes. The book is available online from WinePress html. Publishing and Christianbook.com.

Boom! Behind the Bakken ($19.95, 55 min., DVD) Daddy Was an Artist by Yvonne McGuire ($10) is a documentary film created by 13 students tells the story of “North Dakota’s pioneer artist, from the University of Montana’s Department of Henry Lorentzen, and his wife, Grace.” Henry Radio-Television. The students visited Williston, Lorentzen was born in 1900 to Norwegian settlers North Dakota, and Sidney, Montana, and “spoke and lived near Washburn throughout his life. He with oil workers and landowners, bartenders and worked as a farmer and rancher and had a passion cops, school teachers and children to learn how for art and the North Dakota landscape. Although the boom has impacted their lives. They met long- he had no formal training as an artist, he produced time locals who call the boom a double-edged numerous works in oil, watercolor, pen and ink, sword, bringing both jobs and money along with and pencil. Lorentzen began showing his work drugs and crime. They met newcomers to the area, at the Bismarck Art Show in 1948 and continued anxious for jobs but finding no place to live in the painting until his death in January 1997. Daddy struggling towns.” The documentary premiered at Was an Artist is available via the website www. the University Center Theater in Missoula on May henrylorentzen.com or locally from the McLean 11, 2012, and aired on Montana PBS on May 17, County Historical Museum in Washburn and in 2012. For more information, visit the Behind the Medora at Western Edge Books and at the North Boom website. Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame. McGuire is also

The Good Stuff - Page 34 - August 2012 working on a second book, Homestead Memories Historical Society, articles published in the Bad on the Buffalo Paunch Creek. Lands Cow Boy pioneer newspaper, and from other books, articles, and letters. Sletten dedicated God Is Always There: Psalms for Every Moment the book to Sheila Schafer and his daughter, ($12.99, 128 p., pbk.) by Sister Kathleen Atkinson, Medora, and donated the book to the Theodore OSB “pairs the ancient prayers of Old Testament Roosevelt Medora Foundation (TRMF). The book psalmists with stories of struggle and hope in is available from TRMF gift stores, Western Edge everyday life.” Sister Kathleen is a Benedictine Books in Medora, the Medora Online Store (http:// Sister from the Annunciation Monastery on the store.medora.com), and Barnes and Noble in University of Mary campus in Bismarck. Her book Bismarck. is available at the Rainbow Shop in Bismarck, where a book signing is scheduled from 5 to 7 Medicine in the Back of Beyond ($19.95, 184 p.m. on August 3, as well as through Amazon, p., pbk.) by Dr. Robert Eelkema tells the story Barnes and Noble, and www.liguori.org. of establishing a program at UND to train physician assistants to provide health care services Patrick Cleveland, who grew up on the Cross in underserved areas. The author is a retired Ranch before it became a state park and chairman and professor of community medicine graduated from Center High School, has penned a at the UND School of Medicine and Health crime mystery novel. In the Lies of the Beholder Sciences, where he helped develop the Doctor of ($14.99, 286 p., pbk.; $7.99, Kindle edition) is Medicine degree-granting program, Indians into set in a small southern town about the size of Medicine program, Physician Assistant program, Bismarck. The novel “details the murder trial of and the Center for Rural Health. He also a young man who is caught in a feud between co-authored Good Medicine: How Wit and Guile an obsessed prosecutor and a whisky-drinking Saved the School of Medicine at the University of public defender.” A Kirkus Indie review called North Dakota. it, “A solid legal thriller that tramples tedium and melodrama.” Cleveland is well-qualified to “Why is this happening to me again? write this kind of book. He served as a criminal Is God testing me to see how I defense attorney for the Virginia Public Defender handle it, and I keep flunking the Commission for several years before moving to test? I thought God knew what I New Jersey. He now teaches undergraduate law needed.” If these kinds of thoughts classes at Penn State University and writes novels run through your head, you may in his spare time. In the Lies of the Beholder is find comfort in reading Kristy available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Knudson’s inspirational memoir, A Mile in My Footsteps: Finding Hope ($12.99, 196 Mandan native Andra Suchy gave a CD release p., pbk.; $10.99, ebook download). Knudson, concert at the Belle Mehus in Bismarck on who lives in Tioga, shares what has helped her May 23. Her new CD, Little Heart ($15, CD), cope with hardships in her own life. The book is was released on March 27 through her label, available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Red House Records. Her first CD, Patchwork Tate Publishing. Story, was released in 2006. Suchy is a regular performer on the national radio show, “A Prairie Mousey ($10.99, CD; $6, digital download) is the Home Companion.” For more information, visit first CD by Irish-born singer Margaret “Mousey” www.andrasuchy.com. McGlynn, who now lives in Dickinson and works as a technician for an oil company in North Rolf Sletten has documented Medora’s colorful Dakota’s oil patch. Mousey’s second CD, Peep, history in Medora: Boom, Bust, and Resurrection was released in February 2012 and is available ($29.99, 200 p., hardcover). Much of the research as a “name your price” download from http:// was done using the collections at the State mouseymcglynn.bandcamp.com/.

The Good Stuff - Page 35 - August 2012 Clint Hill grew up in a Washburn home and Ox Cart Angel ($10, 172 p., pbk.; $3, ebook went on to become a Secret Service agent and download) by Minnesota author J. A. Arnold won bodyguard for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy the 2011 Midwest Book Award for Best Young during her White House years. He was in the Adult Novel from the Midwest Independent presidential motorcade when President John F. Publishers Association. Set in 1862, the story is Kennedy was assassinated and remained assigned about a Metis girl and her father on the ox cart to Mrs. Kennedy and her children until after trail from Pembina, North Dakota, to St. Paul. the 1964 presidential election. Hill served in The book is available from Amazon, Barnes and numerous Secret Service roles during his career Noble, and Studio City Media Endeavors. and retired as Assistant Director of the Secret Service, responsible for all protective forces, in A new documentary film, The People of the 1975. In Mrs. Kennedy and Me: an Intimate Upper Missouri: the Mandans, premiered on Memoir ($26, 352 p., hardcover) (written with Lisa July 12, 2012, at the National Energy Center of McCubbin), Hill shares his memories of serving as Excellence at Bismarck State College. The film the First Lady’s bodyguard. The book has received focuses on the history, traditions, and material critical acclaim. In a starred review, Kirkus said, culture of the Mandan people and includes “With clear and honest prose free of salaciousness historical images and contemporary interviews and gossip, Hill (ably assisted by McCubbin) with residents of Fort Berthold, historians, and evokes not only a personality both beautiful and research specialists. It was produced by the State brilliant, but also a time when the White House Historical Society of North Dakota and made was filled with youth and promise. Of the many possible through funding from the North Dakota words written about Jacqueline Kennedy, these are Humanities Council. A preview of In the Words among the best.” The book is widely available at of Our Ancestors: the Mandan Language and Oral bookstores and from online sellers. Traditions Preservation Project was also shown. For more information, visit the State Historical After visiting more than 50 small towns in North Society website. Dakota, Grand Forks playwright Kathy Coudle- King has written Off the Map, a play and Kari Bitz of Bismarck has written documentary film “about small towns, what it People-Centered Prayer: a Daily means to be part of a community and how the oil Devotional for Ourselves, Our boom is affecting the western part of the state.” Friends, and Our Leaders ($17.99, The one-act play features 22 characters portrayed 324 p., pbk.). “People-Centered by eight actors. The documentary follows and Prayer is a daily devotional intended runs 48 minutes. For more information, visit for quick but powerful prayer and www.ggfct.com/. The author is the director of encouragement with God’s Word Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre and a for ourselves, our communities, lecturer in the UND English Department. and our nation.” The book was published through Tate Publishing and comes with a free audio The Old Church on Walnut Street: a Story of download. It is also available from Amazon. Immigrants and Evangelicals ($4, 88 p., pbk.) is volume one in the Grand Forks Community Land A long-time Drayton High School teacher, Trust Neighborhood History Series. Christopher Kenneth C. Gardner, Jr., has penned The Song Is Price, a UND graduate student, penned the book Ended ($30.95, 652 p., pbk.; $9.99, Kindle), a documenting the church and its congregational book about a small town boy in the late 1950s. A communities. The church building was razed on book signing was held at the Latte Lobby in New May 15, 2012, so all that remains are memories Rockford on July 2. Gardner’s second novel, The and the information captured in the book. For Dark between the Stars ($19.95, 344 p., pbk.; more information and to order a copy, visit Lulu $3.99, ebook), was originally written in the 1980s Marketplace. and has since been revised and also recently

The Good Stuff - Page 36 - August 2012 published. It is about “young men finding out that biography of the man, Custer ($40, 256 p., there is more to living than the small-town way hardcover) by Larry McMurtry, will be released of life.” Both novels are available from Amazon, by Simon & Schuster in October 2012. McMurtry Barnes and Noble, and iUniverse. Gardner is also is the author of several well-known fiction and the author of a two-volume history of the Drayton non-fiction books, including Crazy Horse: a Life, Public School, Echoes of Distant School Bells, and The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, The writes a weekly column for the New Rockford Streets of Laredo, Terms of Endearment, and more. Transcript. Edgeley, North Dakota celebrated its 125th Alan Axelrod examines the leadership style of anniversary, June 14-17. A 400-page 125th Theodore Roosevelt in Theodore Roosevelt, CEO: History Book ($60, hardcover) will be available 7 Principles to Guide and Inspire Modern Leaders later this summer. A 125th Anniversary Cookbook ($22.95, 272 p., hardcover). Axelrod has penned ($15) was also published and is now available. several other books in his CEO story, including Napoleon, CEO, Winston Churchill, CEO, Gandhi, We can look forward to a new CEO, and more. Roosevelt lived in the Badlands book from North Dakota’s Louise of Dakota Territory in what is now North Dakota Erdrich! The Round House ($26.99; from 1884 to 1886. 336 p., hardcover), is due to be released by HarperCollins in Bruce Anderson of Minot was working on an October. The prepub alert by in-depth history of Minot when the Souris (Mouse) Barbara Hoffert in Library Journal River began rising in the spring of 2011. He (May 15, 2012, p. 54) said, “Erdrich set the book aside and turned his attention to continues the trilogy begun with documenting the flood and flood fight instead. The Plague of Doves with the story of an Ojibwe The end result is a two-DVD set ($29.99, 3:24 woman named Geraldine Coutts who is ruthlessly total run time; DVD) about the Mouse River and attacked one summer morning in 1988. Because its history from 1904 to 2011. Welcome to Flood she refuses to speak about the event, her husband, City is available from the Home Sweet Home Bazil, and their 13-year-old son, Joe, try to answer Gift Shop (http://www.ndgifts.com/index.cfm) and the most basic questions, e.g., was the attacker Wild Things Gallery, both in Minot. A portion of Indian or white? Frustrated, Joe rounds up three the proceeds from the sale of the DVD will go to friends and hunts for the truth himself. Erdrich is flood relief. such a natural that one almost forgets how good she is …” Coming soon! Gary Skogen grew up in Hettinger and served The Ashley Quasquicentennial Book will in Vietnam in 1971. His first eight months were be available for the town’s 125th anniversary with the Military Police Company before being celebration, June 20-23, 2013. The early-bird assigned to work with the Criminal Investigative price for the hardcover book is $35 plus $12 Department. Skogen’s memoir, Not All for mailing costs. Checks can be made payable Heroes, will be published in early September to the 125th Committee and submitted to editor by the Dakota Institute Press. “Not All Heroes Robyn Schock at Blumhardt Equipment, PO Box was written to shine a different light on the 138, Ashley, ND 58413 (email: schockwave_art@ Vietnam War. Skogen said he wants his readers hotmail.com). to recognize that not everyone had a terrible experience in Vietnam and 80 percent of those General George Armstrong Custer was stationed who served were not in combat.” Skogen lives in at Fort Abraham Lincoln near Mandan, North southern California and recently retired from the Dakota, before leaving the fort and leading the Los Angeles Police Department, where he worked 7th Cavalry to their eventual demise at the Little narcotics. Bighorn in Montana Territory in 1876. A new

The Good Stuff - Page 37 - August 2012 Good Stuff from Around the State

Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member Mini Golf at Bismarck Public Library As part of its 2012 Teen Summer Reading Program, the Bismarck Public Library hosted “Mini Golf at Your Library” after hours on July 13. The library set up nine holes, each featuring themes and titles from popular books, with the help of dedicated library staff and volunteers. Local businesses provided prizes and Scott Wild of Wild Inspire provided music and trivia. Teens also had the chance to build ice cream sundaes.

Reader’s Voice Book Discussion awarded “Honorable Mention for Social Media The selections for the 2012-13 Reader’s Voice Integration under 2 M” by ALA LLAMA’s 2012 Book Discussion series hosted by the Bismarck PR Xchange Best of Show Competition at the Public Library have been announced. They 2012 ALA Conference for their Monday Night include: Not So Wild a Dream by Eric Sevareid video (http://tinyurl.com/6nrev4d). Traci Juhala, (September 4); The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Children’s Librarian, accepted the award. (October 2); Postcards from Tomorrow Square by James Fallows (November 6); Brothers Karamazov State Librarian Hulen Bivins accepted the by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (December 4); Your Inner award for Best in Show for Annual Reports 2-6 Fish by Neil Shubin (February 5); Citizens of Million for the North Dakota State Library’s London by Lynne Olson (March 5); The Good 2009-2011Biennial Report. (For more informa- Earth by Pearl S. Buck (April 2); and Still Alice tion, see the June 2012 issue of The Good Stuff, by Lisa Genova (May 7). Discussions are held page 27). the first Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. in the Missouri River Room. Registration is not required Kids Rule at Grand Forks Public Library and everyone is welcome to attend. Copies of Kids can find plenty to do at the Grand Forks the books are also available at the library. Public Library this summer. Among the notable programs are STEM Kids for grades K-2 and North Dakota Folklore Exhibit grades 3-6 to encourage children to learn about The Dickinson Area Public Library hosted a and explore science and math, and a Children’s traveling exhibit based on the book, Sundogs and Garden Club open to those in grades K-6. The Sunflowers: Folklore and Folk Art of the Northern group has planted vegetables in a raised bed Great Plains during June. The exhibit included outside the library and will tend it through 28 photographic panels representing the book’s harvest. 10 chapters. The book was the top vote-getter for NDLA’s 2011 Notable Document Award and Open House at Hebron was also recognized on as a notable document The Hebron Public Library celebrated its new of the year on the national level. The exhibit will location in the former Hebron Medical Clinic on also be on display at Beulah’s City Hall, July 21 – Main Street with an open house on June 1. North August 5, and will then move to Hazen. Dakota author Tawnya Bulger, author of Katrina Growing Wings (see The Good Stuff, August 2010, Honorable Mention p. 29), was on hand for a book signing. Library Congratulations are in order! The Children’s staff gave tours of the new facility and did a Department at the Bismarck Public Library was kickoff of the summer reading program. Two trees,

The Good Stuff - Page 38 - August 2012 a Crabapple tree and a Black Hills Spruce, were landscaping, new seating areas around the lawn, also planted outside the library. replacement of three-quarters of the lower-level walls, and remodeling of the library’s west end First Lady Visits entrance. Work is slated to begin in July. The On July 12, North Dakota’s First Lady Betsy library is on the National Register of Historic Dalrymple visited the Lake Region Public Library Buildings. in Devils Lake to help celebrate the end of the summer reading program and to promote Library Fairy Video Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. As a former Tessia Samuelson, a student at Erik Ramstad elementary school teacher, the first lady has Middle School, created a video to promote made early childhood education a focus and the libraries as part of the “Teen Video Challenge” Imagination Library one of her initiatives. contest sponsored by the North Dakota State Library and the Collaborative Library Program. Libraries Join Library2Go Tessia won a $275 prize and her home library, Griggs County Public Library in Cooperstown the Minot Public Library, won a $150 prize. You and the Morton Mandan Public Library have can see the video and her “library fairy” creation joined North Dakota Library2Go, a consortium at www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1uIbmi0wdA. of North Dakota libraries providing online access to downloadable resources, including ebooks, New Bookmobile Officially Welcomed audiobooks, and movies. For a complete list After 23 years of service and over 240,000 of participating libraries, visit the Library2Go miles, the old Morton Mandan Public Library website. bookmobile has been retired. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new bookmobile was held at Lisbon and Enderlin Libraries Benefit the Morton Mandan Library on May 31. Ribbon- When the Ransom County Homemakers cutting ceremonies were also held at bookmobile disbanded, they decided to give money left over stops throughout the month of June. The new from club and county dues to the public libraries bookmobile includes a handicap-accessible lift. in Lisbon and Enderlin. The Lisbon Public Library The library has provided bookmobile services plans to purchase audio books with their portion since 1960. of the gift. Summer Breeze Colloquium The Lisbon Public Library also received $362 The North Dakota State Library is hosting its from free will donations made at an Easter second annual Summer Breeze Colloquium, breakfast served by the Trinity Lutheran youth August 7-8. This year’s programming will address group. Among the library’s recent technology several core topics of library management. For purchases are an iPad, a laptop computer, a color more details, see the article in the July 2012 issue printer/fax/email unit, and five public access of Flickertale. computers. The library is currently raising money for an outdoor sign to advertise library events and Vandalism in Williston hours. Police are searching for those who defaced the Williston Community Library with graffiti. Leach Public Library Receives Grant Library director Debbie Slais discovered the Funds graffiti when she arrived at work the morning of The Otto Bremer Foundation awarded $109,925 June 20. to Wahpeton’s Leach Public Library to help fund renovations and upgrades to the building and grounds. The $200,000 project includes tuck pointing around the exterior of the building, new

The Good Stuff - Page 39 - August 2012 Professional Development Grant Report

By Ph y ll i s Br a t t o n One of the most interesting aspects of the course Ra u g u s t Li b r a r y , Ja mes t o w n Co lle g e was an examination of various records management policies from different kinds of organizations. These Editor’s note: NDLA Professional Development Grant typically involve descriptions of record series, who recipients must also submit an evaluative report to created and is responsible for them, where and how NDLA upon program completion for publication they are housed, when they were created and how in The Good Stuff. For complete information about long they must be retained before disposition, and NDLA’s Professional Development Grants, visit www. similar questions. They may include a data map, ndla.info/profdev.htm. detailing what records are in which computers, network drives, or filing cabinets as well, making the Three years ago, I realized that if I were ever to whole enterprise into something of a treasure hunt. get our college archives into shape, I needed more education. Fortunately, the University of Wisconsin As a result, my term project took the form of an – Milwaukee offers an online Certificate of Advanced examination of the records management activities Studies in Archives and Records Management, making of one academic department on campus. I am still it possible to return to school without leaving home developing recommendations for the department, and work. So far, I have completed three classes in but one positive outcome is a request from the the program – halfway through! college administration to work with other campus administrators to develop a records management The latest class was Information and Records policy for the whole campus. One is in place Management, and it was quite an eye-opener. I already, but needs serious development. Yet another had been so focused on dealing with the 150 years’ committee! But it will be well worth the effort. worth of “stuff” in our archives room that I had not really considered how records were continuing to be I truly appreciate the Professional Development Grant created and housed in the digital age. The curation of that the North Dakota Library Association gave me digital/electronic documents and records series is very in order to help finance my studies. It has been an different from paper or physical ones, and this course enormous help, and I am very grateful. addressed issues relating to both.

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The Good Stuff - Page 40 - August 2012 By Eric Stroshane simple! There are a number of programs out Flip PDF to Word (app) there offering similar utility, but FlipPDF to Word If you’ve ever tried to edit a PDF, then you know is both the easiest to use and provides the most that it’s not a simple matter of opening your free faithful conversions of all the programs I’ve tried version of Adobe Reader and starting to type. (most just returned plain text, which is seldom PDFs generally are locked down from editing especially useful). and Adobe would prefer you to buy or subscribe before allowing you to do so. Fortunately, PDF is an open standard and solutions to this conundrum abound. My favorite of these is called FlipPDF to Word.

This application allows you to quickly convert any PDF to an easily editable Word DOC file, with the original formatting preserved. It also allows you to do batch conversions or automate the process, if you’re so inclined. If you just want to convert one or more files, select Batch Convert Mode. Next, either drag and drop the PDFs you want to convert into FlipPDF’s window, or browse for them. Finally, click the Convert Freeware download link: button and select a destination folder. It’s that www.flippdf.com/flip-pdf-to-word/index.html.

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The Good Stuff - Page 41 - August 2012 TREASURER'S REPORT As of June 30, 2012 (End of 2nd Quarter) By Michael Safratowich, Treasurer's NDLA Treasurer Report Editor’s note: Approved by electronic As vote of Juneof the Executive30, 2012 Board (End on ofJuly 2nd 11, 2012.Quarter) By Michael Safratowich, NDLA Treasurer

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

NDLA Funds $6,815.50 Annual Conference 2012 $1,500.00 $1,958.00 -$458.00 Book Sales $1,768.44 $50.00 $128.26 $1,690.18 Centennial Cookbook $3,576.34 $3,576.34 Dues $208.93 $10,170.00 $92.20 $10,286.73 HSIS Partner Account $2,231.64 $2,231.64 Investment Account Transfers Other receipts/disbursements $35.00 $8,710.85

NDLA Funds Subtotal $11,755.00 $10,889.31 $7,681.19

Check Book Balance 06/30/2012 $7,681.19 ******************************************************************************************************************** MONEY MARKET AND CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA Bank Money Market Ready Cash $9,434.86 Interest $2.35 Deposits Transfers $9,437.21 Professional Development Bank Money Market RC $13,723.96 Interest $3.42 Deposits Transfers $13,727.38 NDLA CD $20,279.93 Interest Transfers $20,279.93 Professional Development CD $20,025.05 Interest $4.99 Transfers $20,030.04 TOTAL investment accounts $63,463.80 $63,474.56

TOTAL EQUITY 06/30/2012 $71,155.75

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School LibrarIES & Youth edu Services Section Membership Committee Lesley Gunderson Kathryn Thomas MPLA Representative Bismarck Public Schools - Sunrise NDSU Library Eric Stroshane Elementary Dept 2080 North Dakota State Library 3800 Nickerson Avenue PO Box 6050 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Bismarck ND 58503 Fargo ND 58108‐6050 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Phone: 701.323.4300 Work Phone 701.231.8863 Work Phone 701.328.4021 Fax: 701.323.4305 Fax 701.231.7138 Fax 701.328.2040 Email: lesley_gunderson@ Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] bismarckschools.org

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