August 2006 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 36 • Issue 3

North Dakota Library Association Centennial Conference Celebrating our Past, Embracing our Future September 20 - 22, 2006 Fargo, North Dakota Doublewood Inn Editorial Policy The Good Stuff welcomes your comments and suggestions. We reserve the right to edit letters/ articles for publication. Please include your name and address when writing. Letters should be sent to Marlene Anderson, P.O. Box 5587, Bismarck, ND 58506-5587, The Good Stuff Editorial Committee, or e-mail: Marlene.Anderson@bsc. nodak.edu

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The Good Stuff - Page 2 - August 2006 President’s Message By Jeanne Narum, NDLA President

This past year has certainly laws relating to privacy and how you can develop gone fast. It seems like a library privacy policy. At the request of the such a short time ago I was Executive Board, Secretary Laurie McHenry busy planning for the NDLA has taken the lead and compiled a separate file conference in Grand Forks. of all the motions made at its meetings. This And now we are preparing will help the Board conduct more organized a celebration of 100 years business meetings. These are just a few of the of North Dakota Library ways members of NDLA lead with vision and Association history as an integral part of library dedication. service to the citizens of North Dakota. As an association, we still have many challenges It has been an honor to serve as president and I ahead in the next year. Among them is the am thankful for all of the time, effort, and talents introduction of a bill in the next legislative session of the Executive Board members. Their capable to change the wording of the North Dakota work has made my job a lot easier. Century Code for reinstatement of state aid to public libraries as it has been in the past. It will There were five Ghost Ranch Leadership take all of us to stay in the lead and contact our Institute applicants this summer. This is a great local legislators when we are asked to do so. advancement over the previous year when we had one lone applicant. I think it shows that Incoming president Beth Postema will lead us into librarians in our state are committed to using the next 100 years of NDLA with a celebratory their leadership gifts and talents in positive ways conference in Fargo on September 20-22 at the for our profession and service to North Dakota Doublewood Inn. Because of her organized citizens. For the past four years, NDLA has leadership, we will be privileged to hear both profited from the education our leaders have the President and President-elect of ALA speak received at this institute. We thank the Mountain in addition to two pre-conferences and one post- Plains Library Association and Sirsi/Dynix for their conference. The theme is “Celebrating our Past, dedication to this project. Embracing our Future” and there will be a full slate of programs! You will find lots of conference As a result of Marlene Anderson’s capable information in this issue -- a preliminary leadership, she and her committee will have a schedule, registration form, lodging information, Centennial Cookbook available for sale at this description of conference highlights, and more. I fall’s conference. Included are your own recipes am looking forward to seeing you at conference plus many historical tidbits about the Association. in September. Christine Kujawa has agreed to lead in her role as archivist this year. She will use her artistic When I evaluated my leadership strengths and abilities to create a pictorial representation of challenges three years ago at the Ghost Ranch the first 100 years of NDLA in DVD and poster Leadership Institute, I promised I would take more format. As Intellectual Freedom Chair, Paulette professional risks. Because I took those risks and Nelson spent a week in Chicago at the Law for ran for NDLA president, I have been granted the Librarians workshop learning about all aspects of opportunity to share my vision of information intellectual freedom in the library environment. access in North Dakota. And for that, I give you She is using her leadership talents to put together my heartfelt thanks. a pre-conference on first amendment and state

The Good Stuff - Page 3 - August 2006 NDLA Election 2006 Submitted by Donna Maston, Nominations and Elections Committee Chair

The following NDLA members have consented to run for office and the slate of candidates has been approved by the Executive Board. Every NDLA member votes for the President-elect, Secretary, and Treasurer. Members also receive ballots for the specific sections and roundtables to which they belong. As required by the North Dakota Library Association Bylaws, the ballots, which will provide for write- in votes, will be mailed to the voting membership at least thirty days prior to the annual conference. Thanks to all those who consented to run for office.

President-Elect Georgia Library Association and the Arizona Library Association. I believe that state library Mary Hegle associations are the foundation from which Drewes libraries and librarians can promote their services and information access while continuing to Current Position advocate for improved and expanded outreach Head of Collection to their communities. I am honored to be Development and Information considered as a candidate for the position of Vice- Access Services, Chester Fritz President/President-Elect. Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks Donna V. James Education MLS - University of Arizona; MS - English Current Position Education, Minnesota State University, Moorhead; Director, Allen Memorial BS - English, Minnesota State University, Library, Valley City State Moorhead; Ph.D. candidate - Dept. of Teaching & University Learning, University of North Dakota Education Professional Development MLS, Emporia State University; NDLA member since 1998; Chair, New Members BS in Education, Valley City Roundtable; Secretary, Academic & Special State University Libraries Section; Chair, Academic & Special Libraries Section; ACRL - ND/MB Chapter Professional Involvement member since 1999; ACRL-ND/MB, Treasurer, NDLA - Chair-elect, A&SL; MPLA - Nominating 2000-06; ALA - member since 1984 committee; ALA, School Library Standards Writing Team; NDEA-LMA; ND Aleph Implementation Vision Statement Team Member; VCSU Library Education Program I have been a member of NDLA since returning Director to North Dakota in 1998. Prior to 1998, while employed as an academic librarian in both Vision Statement Georgia and Arizona, I was a member of the A positive public perception of the librarian as

The Good Stuff - Page 4 - August 2006 information specialist is essential to the growth of Education our profession. Librarians who serve all library MLS, Southern Connecticut State University, types – public, school, academic, and special 2003; Minor in Library Science, Valley City State – must work tirelessly to develop relationships University, 1995; BA, Elementary Education, which support funding for libraries and library Oregon State University, 1974 personnel, encourage others to become librarians, and advocate for libraries as essential services in Professional Involvement a community. Member ALA, MPLA; Secretary of NDLA, 2005-2006; Chair, Technical Services Roundtable, I would like to lead this state’s librarians in 1) 2005-06; Past Chair, New Members Roundtable, developing programs for recruiting new members 2003-04; Organizer: ODIN Acquisitions Work to the library profession; and 2) seeking ways Group to provide accessible, affordable professional development and training opportunities for all. Vision Statement The management of an organization’s official records and documents is a fundamental Secretary component to preserving the history of an organization as well as a useful tool in future Deborah Igoe planning. I would continue to make every effort to provide the same quality of accurate records Current Position and documents as previous secretaries of NDLA Civil Rights Program Manager, and as I hope I have this past year. North Dakota Department of Transportation, Bismarck Treasurer Education BS, Criminal Justice, Minot Mary Jo Lorenz State University; Masters, School of Library and Current position Information Science, University of North Reference Associate and Texas, Denton, Texas Children’s Aide, Grand Forks Public Library Professional Involvement NDLA, MPLA, ALA; Minority Business Advocate Education of the Year, State Sector, Minority Contractors MLS – Emporia State Association; Small Business Advocate of the Year, University; BS – Elementary Small Business Administration Education with Kindergarten Endorsement – University of North Dakota Vision Statement Creating and maintaining historical documents Professional involvement of events or meetings is a critical element of NDLA; MPLA; International Reading Association; managing information. I have prior experience North Dakota Reading Association; Lake Aggasiz in this area and would be happy to fulfill this Reading Council; NDLA - Constitution, Bylaws responsibility for NDLA. and Policies Committee

Vision Statement Laurie McHenry I worked at a bank for many years prior to entering the library field so I know the importance Current Position of keeping good financial records. Mike Catalog Librarian & Safratowich has served NDLA well in the position Acquisitions Manager, Chester of treasurer; I urge you to vote for him to continue Fritz Library, UND, Grand the sound financial accountability that he has Forks maintained while in this position.

The Good Stuff - Page 5 - August 2006 Michael Health Science Information Safratowich Section (HSIS)

Current Position Bibliographic Control Chair-elect Librarian, Harley E. French Eileen Chamberlain, MeritCare Health System Library of the Health Sciences, Library, Fargo School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Secretary North Dakota, Grand Forks Karen Chobot, Mildred Johnson Library, NDSCS, Education Wahpeton MLS, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 1980; BA, Music Major, Library Science Minor, New Members Roundtable (NMRT) Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1976. Chair-elect Professional Involvement NDLA Member, 1980-present; NDLA Treasurer, Lori West, Fargo Public Library January 2001-present, Membership Committee Secretary Chair, 1997-99; Health Science Information Section Chair, 1990, Midwest Chapter / MLA Jenny Grasto, NDSU Libraries Conference Finance Chair, 2005. Public Library Section Vision Statement As treasurer for the past several years, I have Chair-elect gained an appreciation for the role sound Bonnie MacIver, Leach Public Library financial practices play in an organization’s ability to achieve its goals. Furthering the goals of the Loreta Gilbert, Underwood Public Library Association through my work as NDLA Treasurer Secretary has been my primary focus during this time. I Kathy Vander Vorst, Bismarck Public Library have also enjoyed working and interacting with other NDLA members on many projects. With Lori West, Fargo Public Library your support, I would be happy to continue serving as treasurer in 2007. School Library And Youth Services Section (SLAYS)

Academic & Special Libraries Chair-elect (A&SL) Section Erin Smith, Fargo Public Library Chair-elect Secretary Victor Lieberman, Chester Fritz Library, UND Paulette Nelson, Minot Public Library

Secretary Technical Services Roundtable Phyllis Bratton, Raugust Library, Jamestown College (TECHSERT)

Government Documents Chair-elect Roundtable (GODORT) Naomi Frantes, North Dakota State Library Michele Azar, NDSU Libraries Chair-elect Kathy Thomas, NDSU Libraries Secretary Secretary Stacey Goldade, North Dakota State Library No Candidate Kelly Hell, Williston State College Library

The Good Stuff - Page 6 - August 2006 Index Now Available Submitted by Terri Wilhelm PR SWAP & SHOP North Dakota State Library

The State Library distributed a three-volume handbook for librarians and board members to use as a ready reference guide. The publication is NDLA’s Third Annual titled Handbook for North Dakota Public Library Board Members; Volume I - General, Volume II - Conduct of a Board Meeting, and Volume III - The Library Exchange Library as an Employer. Did you put together a great poster/flyer to advertise a new event at your library? Did An index was not included in the original your library staff create a funky summer handbook that was mailed out. An updated index reading program booklog for kids, teens is now available for printing on the North Dakota or adults? If so, we’d like you to share it State Library home page by going to http://ndsl. at the third annual NDLA “Swap & Shop.” lib.state.nd.us/TrusteeManuals.html and click We’ll put together a display so conference on Index to Handbook for North Dakota Public attendees can “swap and shop” the best PR Library Board Members. samples from around the state. This index can be printed and inserted in the back Categories for submissions: of Volume III of the handbook. If you do not have a copy of this handbook and would like one, Adult & Family Reading Materials please contact Terri Wilhelm at (701) 328-4656 or Annual Reports e-mail [email protected] to request one. You can Bibliographies and Booklists also print your own copy of the handbook and Calendar of Events/Newsletters index by going to the State Library home page at Children’s Reading Club Materials http://ndsl.lib.state.nd.us/TrusteeManuals.html. Fundraising Materials Printed Materials Promoting Websites Services Available/Policy Materials Special Programs and Events Membership Report Young Adult/Teen Reading Club (as of June 6, 2006) Materials Library Web Pages/ Home Pages Compiled by Kathy Thomas (this can be a print of the page Membership Chair screen)

Academic & Special Libraries Section 90 Please send 30 to 50 copies of your best PR materials by September 15, 2006 to make Health Science Information Section 31 sure they arrive in time to be included in the Public Library Section 103 display. Send your materials to: School Library & Youth Services Section 80 Government Documents Roundtable 28 Fargo Public Library New Members Roundtable 34 ATTN: Melisa Duncan 102 3rd St. N. Technical Services Roundtable 44 Fargo, ND 58102 Associate members 12 Institutional members 14 Trustees 39 New members 33 Total 293 2005 members who haven’t yet renewed 99

The Good Stuff - Page 7 - August 2006 North Dakota Library Association Centennial Conference Celebrating our Past, Embracing our Future September 20 - 22, 2006 • Fargo, North Dakota Doublewood Inn

Preliminary Conference Schedule

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Academic and Special Library Section Birch Room 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Exhibitor Set-up, Woodland North Health Science Information Section 9:00 AM – 12 Noon NDLA Executive Board Meeting Cedar Room Cedar Room 10:30 – 11:00 AM Break 12 Noon – 8:00 PM Registration/Hospitality Open Woodland North/Redwood Court Redwood Court 11 AM – 12:15 PM Concurrent Sessions 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Intellectual Freedom Preconference “Get A Clue @ Your Library” 2007 Birch Room Summer Reading Program --Your Patron Privacy Toolkit with Woodland East, Terri Wilhelm Deborah Caldwell-Stone, ALA Office Building through Collaboration: of Intellectual Freedom Deputy Librarians, Consultants, & Architects Director Walnut Room 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Fundraising Preconference Charles Pace, Robert Rohlf, Jeffrey Elm Room Scherer --Conducting a Capital Campaign “Work Makes Life Sweet, or Does It:” Russ Hodge, Hodge Cramer and The Changing Nature and Views Of Associates Work, Birch Room 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Opening Night Reception Dr. H. Elaine Lindgren West Fargo Public Library Responding to Intellectual Freedom Challenges, Elm Room Thursday, September 21, 2006 Deborah Caldwell-Stone 6:30 AM – 8:00 AM Exhibitor Set-up, Woodland North Good Wholesome Laws: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration/Hospitality Open ND Pre-Statehood Legal Materials Redwood Court Cedar Room, Rhonda Schwartz 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast 12:30 PM- 1:30 PM Luncheon – Leif Enger Woodland South Woodland South 8:00 AM Official Exhibit Opening 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM Concurrent Sessions Woodland North “Living without Limits” Wheelchair 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM First General Session Woodland East Woodland East Olympian Judy Siegle with Welcome from Mayor of Fargo Library Marketing 101 and Governor(?) Walnut Room, Melisa Duncan 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Exhibits, Woodland North Tribal College Libraries, Birch Room 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Section Meetings Mark Holman Public Library Section Overcoming the Fear of Weeding Walnut Room Elm Room, Jake Fejedelem

The Good Stuff - Page 8 - August 2006 Geeks Bearing Gifts: Technology Chester Fritz Digital Library Trends, Part I (HSIS Sponsored) Cedar Room Cedar Room Children’s Author Lenore Look Bryan Vogh, National Library of Woodland East Medicine Aleph Triggers, Executive II GODORT Business Meeting Shelby Harken Executive II 10:15 – 10:45 AM Break, Woodland North 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Break, Woodland North 10:45 AM – Noon Concurrent Sessions 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM Concurrent Sessions Fraud Prevention in Libraries and Planned Giving and Endowments Not-for-Profits, Birch Room Birch Room Herb Snyder David Baker of Hodge Cramer & The Information Poor and the Associates Information Don’t Care: Digital Legal Reference on the Web Divide and Rural Libraries Walnut Room Walnut Room, Jessamyn West Suzanne Morrison, US Court of Census Program, Elm Room Appeals Jerry O’Donnell, Denver Regional GODORT Business Meeting Office, US Census Bureau Executive II Children’s Author Joan Harlow Storytelling Tips and Tricks Woodland East Elm Room, Cynthia Wray Intro to Cataloging Internet Geeks Bearing Gifts, Part II Resources, Cedar Room Cedar Room MINITEX Staff Bryan Vogh, National Library of MP3 Players and Downloadable Medicine Audiobooks at the Public Library P Is for Peace Garden Executive II Woodland East Kathy Headrick Roxane Salonen 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM Luncheon 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Auction Set up, Woodland East Woodland South 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Social with Exhibitors - Cash Bar Dr. Loriene Roy, ALA President-Elect and Auction Preview, Woodland East 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Second General Session; Reading of 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Awards Banquet Resolutions Woodland South Woodland East ALA President Michael Gorman 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM Concurrent Sessions 8:45 PM – 10:00 PM Live Scholarship Auction Children’s Authors Publishing Panel Woodland East Woodland East Evaluating New Technologies for Friday, September 22, 2006 Libraries, Walnut Room 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM Breakfast, Woodland South Jessamyn West 7:45 AM – 8:45 AM SLAYS Business Meeting Excellence in Youth Services Woodland East Programming, Birch Room NMRT Business Meeting Dr. Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Birch Room PL Youth Serv. Dir. Technical Services RT Business State Aid to Public Libraries Update Meeting Elm Room Walnut Room ND State Library Staff 8:00 AM – 12 Noon Registration/Hospitality Open What is Manga Anyway? Redwood Court Cedar Room 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Exhibits Open, Woodland North Jake Fejedelem, Karen Joan Kohoutek 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions Disaster Preparedness, Executive II Tracing Your Dakota Roots Rachel White Walnut Room 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Break, Redwood Court Cathy Langemo and JoAnn Winistorfer 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Third General Session; Voting on Census Program, Birch Room Resolutions Jerry O’Donnell, Denver Regional Woodland East Office, US Census 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Post-Conference Executive Board Bureau Meeting (includes outgoing and Early Literacy, Elm Room incoming Board members) Erin Smith Cedar Room

The Good Stuff - Page 9 - August 2006 Browsing in the Cyberstacks Compiled by Erin Smith, Editorial Committee Member

A collection of sites designed to Open Directory: Library History complement and promote our http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_ upcoming centennial conference Information_Science/Library_History/ with a few additional sites thrown If knowledge of the upcoming centennial in for fun. conference, with its theme of “Celebrating Our Past, Embracing Our Future,” has whetted your appetite for learning more about library history, Roxane Salonen check out this great bibliography of links. The www.roxanesalonen.com/ bibliography, created by the Open Directory Local author Roxane Salonen’s nonfiction picture Project, includes a wide variety of links covering book, P Is for Peace Garden, was nominated nearly every aspect of library history both in for and won the 2005-2006 Flicker Tale award the United States and abroad. Read up on how for best upper level nonfiction. Roxane will library service to children has changed and be presenting a session at this year’s centennial evolved during the past century, explore the conference. P Is for Peace Garden is an alphabet legendary Carnegie libraries, or check out the book that explores all of the wonderful places in timeline of key historical events in U.S. libraries and things about our great state. Roxane’s web during the past century. site includes an author’s biography, information on her two books, and a contact page. I hope The Library of Congress: Primary Documents in you will get a chance to see Roxane at the American History conference! www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/ PrimDocsHome.html Joan Hiatt Harlow Want to learn more about the past one hundred www.joanhiattharlow.com/ years in American history? Go straight to the Joan Harlow is a children’s author and New source with The Library of Congress digitized England native with over ten juvenile fiction titles collection of primary documents. Read up on under her belt. Joan was nominated for a 2005- and view some of the landmark documents 2006 Flicker Tale award for her book, Star in the in our country’s history such as the Missouri Storm, about a young girl and her quest to save Compromise (1820), Indian Removal Act (1830), her beloved Newfoundland, Sirius. Joan will Homestead Act (1862), and the Gettysburg present a session at the conference. Check out her Address (1863). web site to learn more about Joan and the variety of award-winning titles she’s written. NDSU: Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection North Dakota Public www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ercc/exhibitions/histcloset. Radio: Reading html Rainbow Contest What a cool site created by our very own North Winners Dakota State University’s College of Human www.prairiepublic.org/events/readingrainbow/ Development and Education! Browse an A-Z winners.jsp collection of apparel from the past, everything Speaking of writers, the Reading Rainbow writing from aprons to zippers. Each page exploring an contest is such a great program for encouraging individual article of clothing includes digitized young authors! Take a look at this year’s winning photos of the piece and an overview of the entries via this site. I judged some of the purpose behind the apparel. If you enjoy this site, submissions and, boy, was it difficult to choose you might want to also take a look at NDSU’s the winners! What a great crop of aspiring young digitized photography collection, which highlights writers we have in North Dakota. a variety of regional interest photos taken from

The Good Stuff - Page 10 - August 2006 the Institute for Regional Studies’ extensive photography collection. The collection includes a photo (taken in the 1950s) of the old Fargo Carnegie Library. The address for accessing the photo site is: www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/ collections/photography/index.html

How Stuff Works: MySpace American Philatelic Society—Just for Kids! www.computer.howstuffworks.com/myspace.htm www.stamps.org/kids/kid_stampfun.htm And taking a look forward, social sites appear to I remember collecting stamps as a child (oh, it be the future of Web 2.0. Familiarize yourself wasn’t that long ago), and when I came across with the hot new site, MySpace, and the social this web site, I thought, “Do kids even collect networking phenomenon with this informational stamps anymore?” Well, this site might help and easy-to-follow article from “How Stuff children, or adults new to the hobby, re-develop Works.” This article not only explains how an interest in this time-honored tradition. I MySpace works, it also explores why this site is so especially enjoyed the link to the Lewis and Clark successful. This article is a must-read for anyone commemorative stamps, which includes a neat working with and/or living with youth. Heck, activity sheet and a postage rate chart illustrating after reading this how-to, you might even want what it would cost to send a letter in the 1800s. to create a MySpace account of your own, if you haven’t already jumped on that bandwagon! Frontline: Can You Afford to Retire? www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement/ It seems you are never too young to worry about whether or not you’re socking enough away in your retirement kitty. This handy web site, a companion to the Frontline program of the same name (which you can also view online via this site), might not do much to allay your fears, but it will leave you well-informed about the realities of saving for retirement. The site includes links to frequently asked questions, articles exploring the future of retirement, interviews with the experts, 2006 Paws, Claws, Scales and stories from real-life people featured in the and Tales program. PAWEDCASTS www.summerreading.cla-net.org/ Discovering Sherlock Holmes srpgpodcast.html http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/ Curious about podcasts and how you can use I don’t know about you, but I love a good them in your library? Check-out the examples mystery. I have had a fascination with Sherlock for advertising and promoting the 2006 Summer Holmes since I was, oh, about twelve or so and Reading Program theme provided on this site. The began branching out from Nancy Drew. This site, podcasts include storytelling and music segments created by the venerable Stanford University, is and are a lot of fun to listen to; what a great part of a project designed to rediscover the 19th idea! If you would like to learn even more about century through the Stanford Library’s special podcasting, check out the article “Podcasting collections. As part of the project, this year 101 for K-12 Librarians,” which is really a great Stanford digitized a few original Holmes stories, resource for any type of librarian, at www. which are available for download via the site. infotoday.com/cilmag/apr06/Eash.shtml The site also includes an overview of the time

The Good Stuff - Page 11 - August 2006 period during which Arthur Conan Doyle lived and wrote and a biography of the author, replete Going with great digitized images of primary sources. What a fun site to explore! Once, Science of Cooking: Pickles www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/pickles/ You must access this site, if only to try the Going Twice... interactive Pickle Lab, which will teach you At this year’s Centennial Conference, NDLA how to make top-notch pickles with the click will once again be holding a LIVE AUCTION! of a mouse. This comprehensive site will not Daryl Lund, a trained auctioneer, has only teach you how to make a great pickle, it graciously agreed to donate his services for also explains the science behind fermentation, NDLA; it was hard for him to say no when his explores the philosophy (yes, the philosophy) own daughter, SLAYS Chair Erin Smith, was behind pickle-making, and dazzles with some doing the asking. fascinating pickle facts. The proceeds of the auction will go to the Good Stuff? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Ron Rudser Continuing Education Memorial Scholarship Fund as well as other NDLA Things We Buy professional development funds. Contributing www.worldwatch.org/taxonomy/term/44 to this auction is a wonderful way to support Global warming is fast becoming a serious your peers across the state. concern for mainstream America. Concerned about the impact those everyday things you buy Have you packed away items that you no and use are having on the environment? Did you longer need, but you thought might be good know that your cell phone is toxic? Or that each for something at some time? Well, now is the year Americans toss out over 100 billion plastic time to bring them to the auction! Do you bags (think of all those grocery sacks you bring have an avid knitter or crafter on your library staff who has made more scarves or mittens home and discard!) Check-out this site and learn than one person needs? Send them all in. what you can do to lessen the impact you are Have you a special gift for cooking or baking? having on our increasingly overtaxed planet. Auction off a gift certificate for a meal or goodies to be delivered at some later date. Renegade Gardener Do you know of supportive local businesses www.renegadegardener.com/ who are giving away promotional items? Let Joan Erickson from UND turned me on to this them know that their generosity will support regional gardening web site, which helps those the work of librarians across North Dakota. living in the “USDA Hardiness Zones” (I love the The highlight of the evening will be the concept of living in a “hardiness zone!") grow auctioning of NDLA’s Centennial Quilt. plants to rival the gardens of those living in more The quilt will be on display throughout the temperate regions. This is a truly grand site, very conference and is the result of many hours of informative. Read up on what not to do when work donated by your colleagues. landscaping or planting, check out the Renegade Gardener’s top picks for a great garden, and make For those of you who are unable to make sure you familiarize yourself with the “10 Tenets it to the conference, items (if they are of a of Renegade Gardening." size that can be mailed) may be sent ahead of time to Auction Chair Diane Briggs at the Please feel free to email me links to some of your Fargo Public Library. For more information contact Diane at [email protected] or favorite web sites at [email protected]. 701-241-1492. Your choices could be included in a future edition of Cyberstacks. The Good Stuff - Page 12 - August 2006 NDLA Centennial Conference Program Highlights

Submitted by Beth Postema conferences. She describes herself as a user- President-elect & Conference Chair oriented librarian when she’s working at a library and a library activist when she is not. Her passion As always, the annual conference of NDLA presently is mucking about in the intersection of presents a wonderful array of programs that libraries, technology and politics and describing will educate, re-energize and inspire librarians what she finds there. as they face the daily challenges of our profession. Here are some of the highlights of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New this year’s conference. Technology Trends This class is intended to provide a fun, fast- Change: Empowering paced, and informative introduction to and You for Dynamic Living update on today’s hottest technology trends. Judy Siegle shares her Program participants will be able to identify powerful journey through technology trends and they will understand how the tremendous changes these trends will impact or can be integrated associated with a spinal into traditional library services. Content will cord injury. Her ability be presented with a “can-do” focus intended to to view change as an encourage participants to investigate at least one opportunity for a new technology for implementation in their institution. beginning allowed her to Course structure will include brief vignettes and let go of the past, hold demonstrations of a wide variety of technologies. steady with hope, and Some of the topics to be covered include instant move beyond loss to embrace a truly dynamic messaging, podcasting, open source software, life. Every listener will be inspired to view spyware and other malware, developments change from a new perspective. in mobile computing, blogs and wikis, radio- frequency identification, and more. It happened so fast. In a split second, Judy Siegle’s dream of playing college basketball was Presenter Bryan Vogh is the technology shattered when a drunk driver sped through a coordinator for the National Network of Libraries stop sign near her hometown of Pelican Rapids, of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region. Minn. The car crash left her with a broken neck. At 18, she faced life in a wheelchair. Work Makes Life Sweet, or Does It? Months of intense rehabilitation and years of This presentation is based hard work followed. In 1984, she found a way on Dr. Lindgren’s recent to walk across the stage to receive her college e-book published by the diploma. She learned to downhill ski, kayak, and Institute for Regional ride a tandem bike. She became a social worker, Studies. Based on helping others lead full lives despite challenges. photographs of people doing “work” between The Information Poor and the Information Don’t the years 1900-2002, it is Care: Small Libraries and the Digital Divide designed to encourage all Jessamyn West is, among other things, a rural of us in the 21st century librarian from Vermont. One of the original to rethink how, why, and library bloggers, she has been posting about for whom we do work. developments in libraries since 1999 at www. librarian.net. Jessamyn is also a member of Dr. H. Elaine Lindgren has been a member of ALA Council and a frequent presenter at library the North Dakota State University faculty since The Good Stuff - Page 13 - August 2006 1970. Her primary teaching responsibilities are social change, sociology of work, sociology of sex roles, and social inequality. In fall 2005, after an illustrious career, Dr. Lindgren retired.

Past and Future ALA Presidents Will Be Part of NDLA Centennial Fitting in with our theme of celebrating our past and embracing our future, we welcome the immediate past president of ALA, Michael Gorman, and ALA President-elect Dr. Loriene Conference Lodging Roy. Gorman will be the keynote speaker at the annual awards banquet on Thursday evening. Best Western Doublewood Inn Dr. Roy will share her vision for ALA with us 3333 13th Avenue South as the luncheon speaker on Friday, September Fargo, North Dakota 58103 22. She will also be participating on the panel (701) 235-3333 FAX (701) 280-9482 presentation on tribal libraries and the services they provide to their communities. The Best Western Doublewood Inn is the Conference Hotel for the 2006 conference. When calling for your hotel reservation, please make the reservation under the “ND Library Association Block” in order to get the conference rate. Room Rate: $69 per night, single to quad occupancy Reservation Deadline: September 8, 2006 Reservation Phone number: 1-800-433-3235 Handicapped accessible rooms are included in the NDLA block of reserved rooms.

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

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The Good Stuff - Page 15 - August 2006 North Dakota in Print Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

The Carson Centennial Committee and encouragement to her former student, then is planning ahead for its June needing that same kind of support from her 2010 centennial celebration. former student after her husband’s death. An The committee is working on a Education through Letters: a Memoir of My 1st centennial history book about Grade Teacher, Mrs. Jacobson ($19.49, 208 p., Carson, Leith, Thain, Brisbane, pbk.) tells the story. The book is available at Raleigh, Shields, St. Gertrude, and Westhope Floral & Gifts or online from www. the surrounding areas. If you have Authorhouse.com, www.Amazon.com, and www. family history, photos, or historical information BarnesandNoble.com. about businesses and organizations, both past and current, for the book, send them to Grant County Prairie Public Broadcasting in Fargo has produced State Bank, PO Box 317, Carson, ND 58529. Energy: Powering North Dakota’s Economy ($29.95, DVD, ca. 57 min.). Producer Matt Olien Patti Armstrong of Bismarck investigates the boom and bust of our energy past, has published her fourth and explores the state’s current energy industry, book, Catholic Truths for its renewable fuels potential, and its existing coal Our Children ($9.95, 191 and oil resources. The film was honored with p., pbk.). The book will help a Bronze award at the 27th annual (2006) Telly parents become informed Awards. For more information, visit the website about their own Catholic at www.prairiepublic.org faith so they can explain it and pass it along to their Arnie Kuhn of Jamestown has penned Freckles children. Armstrong is the the Frog and the Magic Leaf ($10.95, 37 p., co-author of three books in pbk.), a children’s book. Kuhn’s sister, RoseMarie the “Amazing Grace” series and has published Ehresman of Dickinson, did the illustrations. numerous articles. Her latest book is available in The book is available locally at the Children’s Bismarck at Divine Intimacy bookstore or online Museum at Yunker Farm in Fargo, or by calling from www.aquinasandmore.com/ McCleery & Sons Publishing at 888-568-6329.

The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, You’re never too old for NDSU Libraries has published The Centennial of ... anything! Mary Ellen St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Zeeland, North (Christmann) Erickson Dakota and the Spiritual Heritage of St. John’s has penned her fifth book, Catholic Church, Rural McIntosh County, North Geezettes ($14.95, 212 Dakota ($35, 156 p., softcover). Father Andrew p., pbk.), a story about Jasinski’s book tells the history of the two rural seven retired women who churches and the immigrants from Black Sea meet weekly at an Arizona German Catholic villages who settled south retirement community central North Dakota. For complete information, and discover that life is visit the website at www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc still exciting. The book is available online from www.iuniverse.com, www. When Michael S. Deschamp was in second grade Amazon.com, www.drmarysbooks.com, or from in 1970 in Westhope, North Dakota, he came local booksellers. Other books by Erickson home to find a birthday card from his first grade include First Day of School (2004), Common teacher, Mrs. Hilda Jacobson. It was the first of Sense Caregiving (2004), Otis (2005), and many letters that passed between the two over the Snowstorm (2005). years with Mrs. Jacobson first providing support

The Good Stuff - Page 16 - August 2006 In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Florida. Makoché’s awards included Best Bygdebøker Collections, the UND Chester Fritz Traditional Recording for Way of Life by Lakota Library published a guide (dated September Thunder and Flutist of the Year for Red Beads by 2005) to its holdings of Norwegian local history Joseph Fire Crow. Makoché’s other nominations books, or bygdebøker. The bygdebøker collection included: Home of the Champions, a compilation is housed in the Family History Room in the of on-location recordings assembled from various Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special recordings from the past 35 years of the United Collections and totals more than 1,000 volumes. Tribes Technical College International Powwow Guide to Norwegian Bygdebøker (88 p., paper) (Best Compilation Recording); The Makoché was compiled by Sandra J. Slater, Head of the Masters, a composite of the first 10 years of department at the Chester Fritz Library. For more Makoché as a record label (Best Compilation information, visit the website at www.library.und. Recording); Togo by Andrew Vasquez (Flutist of edu/Collections/spk.html the Year); Red Beads by Joseph Fire Crow (Best Male Artist); and David Swenson (Best Producer). Hebron area native Gwen Sebastian now lives in Nashville, Tennessee and recently cut her first A reprint of Mantani: a History of Mandan- CD. Invitation ($15, CD) includes 12 songs, Morton County, including Fort McKeen and Fort several of which were written by Sebastian. For Abraham Lincoln, 1738 to 1964 is in the works. more information, check out the website at www. The original 1964 edition was compiled and gwensebastian.com. edited by Sarah Tostevin. The Mandan Historical Society with the help of the Mandan Chamber Living Landscapes in North Dakota: a Guide of Commerce is sponsoring the project. 1,000 to Native Plantscaping has been published by copies will be printed and the price is expected a coalition of resource and soil conservation to be $6.95 to $9.95. For more information or to agencies. The 40-page, full-color, glossy booklet reserve a copy, call the Mandan Historical Society includes graphics, photos, and practical how- at 701-667-1260. to information on making the transition from a green, well-watered lawn to one that features A road trip in North Dakota native grasses and wildflowers and is more in means seeing things like tune with our prairie home. Funding for the Salem Sue, the world’s largest book came from the USDA Natural Resources Holstein cow, and the larger- Conservation Service in North Dakota and the than-life sculptures on the North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Enchanted Highway. Now Districts. The book is available free of charge at these kinds of attractions local NRCS field offices. have been chronicled in a book that’s sure to have an Makoché Recording, a audience in our part of the world. Midwest recording label dedicated Marvels: Roadside Attractions Across Iowa, to Native American heritage Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin ($17.95, and tradition and located 368 p., pbk.) by Eric Dregni was published by in Bismarck, received seven the University of Minnesota and is available at nominations for the bookstores and from online booksellers. Eighth Annual Native American Music Monica Hatch, a Carrington seventh-grader, has Awards and won two been battling cancer for the past two years. To NAMMYs. The winners help Monica heal and the family with medical were announced on expenses, Monica’s classmates and KDAK DJ June 8 at Hard Rock Scott Lanenga recorded an original song called Live in Hollywood, Monica’s Angels ($10, CD). The CD was

The Good Stuff - Page 17 - August 2006 produced by Aesoph Shed Studios in Carrington The documentary about the Red River of the and mastered and mixed by Scott Lanenga and North, which originates in Wahpeton, North Floyd Schulz. All money raised, less production Dakota and Breckenridge, Minnesota and empties and duplication fees, will be given to the family into Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, investigates of Monica Hatch to help with expenses. Anything the history of the Red River Valley’s geology, above that will be given to Relay for Life. For hydrology, landscape, and rich soil; tells about the more information, visit the website at www. devastating floods of the Red; and looks at tools monicasangels.com for flood forecasting, preparations for drought relief, and steps that have been taken to protect Linda Scanlan of Mohall river communities from floods. Visit the website at has penned a book for www.prairiepublic.org for complete information. children ages 3 to 6. One ($10, softcover) is The latest offering from Janet the first in a series of Spaeth of Grand Forks is Rose Kelly four books and teaches ($2.97, 176 p., pbk.). Published children the lesson of by Heartsong Presents, the book is working together. Barbara a historical romance set in Dakota Benson of Utah illustrated the book. For more Territory, and the title character, information, visit the website at www.lskeilbart. Rose Kelly, believes a woman com/ L.S. Keilbart is Scanlan’s pseudonym for this can do any job just as well as a series of books. man. The book is available from several online booksellers, including www.amazon.com and Peculiarly Yours ($20.95, 250 p., softcover) by www.barbourbooks.com. Ella Beth Clark Schoenig is an “adventurous, humorous” personal history set in Valley City Dennis Ziniel of Mandan has in the 1930s and 1940s. The author’s son, penned his second book. Sea Steven Schoenig, co-authored the book. It is Devil Seven Seven: a Vietnam available in area bookstores or online from www. Adventure ($14.95, 208 p., pbk.) barnesandnoble.com, www.amazon.com, and is loosely based on true events www.iuniverse.com. from Ziniel’s service in the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit TDR Publishing of Bismarck has released the website at www.iuniverse. Poetry of Mark Grothier (86 p., pbk.), which com Ziniel’s first novel was includes poems about “legends of North Dakota, titled Deception in Dakota. humorous pieces, nostalgic glimpses of fond memories, and a few ‘no-holds-barred’ poems Spook-n the Wolf is the latest book from cowboy from his [Grothier’s] 20 year military career in poet Bill Lowman. Every poem and story in the Air Force.” Governor Allen Olsen presented the book is illustrated with a drawing or photo. Grothier with the North Dakota Heritage Award The short stories are based on true stories, with for his musical promotion of the state. His North “license to stretch the truth for a little humor.” Dakota Centennial Album was released in 1989. Lowman’s other published books include Riders For more information, contact tdrpublishing@bis. of the Leafy Spurge, The Blueberry Roan, Walk Ah midco.net; 701-223-7433. Mile in My Bones, and Tuff Luck Jones and Tucker Smith. Spook-n the Wolf is available at RBooks Bob Dambach of Prairie Public Broadcasting in Dickinson and the Western Edge in Medora. is the executive producer of Red River Divide For more information, visit the website at www. ($29.95, DVD), which won a silver award at the lowmanslodge.com/ 27th annual (2006) Telly Awards competition.

The Good Stuff - Page 18 - August 2006 Of regional interest is Spirit Car: Journey to a trollmeetstrickster.com or from www.amazon. Dakota Past ($22.95, 224 p., hardcover) by Diane com, or directly from Feather Nest Books (PO Wilson. Part memoir, part historical account, and Box 556, East Grand Forks, MN 56721-0556). part fiction, the book is Wilson’s attempt to trace Chris Wold Dyrud illustrated the book. The her Dakota heritage after learning that her mother author teaches Norwegian at the University of had been left for two years at a mission boarding North Dakota. Her first book, Jenna’s Big Jump school on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The book (Atheneum) received the 1997 Jeanette Fair is available from www.amazon.com Memorial Award in Minnesota and was also a 1996 NDLA Flicker Tale nominee. Dickinson State University is taking its place as a serious Toenails, Teeth and Tarantulas (book, CD) is center of Theodore Roosevelt the title of a book and CD for kids recently scholarship as it launches its first released by Karen Van Fossan. Van Fossan is publication, Theodore Roosevelt also a founding member of Dragon Jane, a dance in the Dakota Badlands: an and theatrical group based in Bismarck. For Historical Guide ($12.95, 112 more information, contact the author directly at p., softcover), in collaboration [email protected] with the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation (TRMF). It The National Buffalo is available at the University Museum in Jamestown has Store or online at http://www-secure.dsu.nodak. produced a documentary edu/store/default.asp (click on the “Visiting Author titled White Cloud: the Books” link). This informative and beautifully Mystery of the Albino illustrated guidebook about Roosevelt’s time in Buffalo ($10, DVD, 22 min.). White Cloud is the Dakota Territory (1883-87) was written by DSU extremely rare female albino bison that was born Theodore Roosevelt Scholar in Residence Clay on July 10, 1996, at the Shirek Buffalo Farm near S. Jenkinson. The book is organized around Michigan, North Dakota. White Cloud is now frequently asked questions about Roosevelt in part of the herd at the National Buffalo Museum. North Dakota. It includes a fold-out map of The documentary explores her bloodline, the Roosevelt’s Dakota Territory, highlighting places mystery and intrigue of White Cloud, and the he traveled, lived, and hunted. The map was spiritual message she represents in some cultures. produced using the GIS capability available For ordering information, visit the website at at the DSU Dept. of Agriculture and Technical www.buffalomuseum.com/index.htm Studies. “The goal in writing the guidebook was to be historically accurate, but at the same time In The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in entertaining and useful to tourists, citizens of the Middle of Nowhere ($24, 270 p., hardcover), North Dakota, and Roosevelt scholars,” Jenkinson Debra Marquart reflects on growing up on a farm said. in North Dakota. In part, the Booklist review by Pamela Crossland (July 2006) says, “Marquart writes sweetly and wistfully of her ties to the past, Faythe Dyrud Thureen which both tangle her up and serve as a safety describes her new book net. She isn’t hit with any blinding revelations as “a picture book for all while contemplating herself in the mirror or her age groups.” Troll Meets life but rather acquires a deeper appreciation Trickster on the Dakota for where she’s been and where she’s landed.” Prairie ($15.95, 32 p., Other books by Marquart include The Hunger hardcover) is available Bone: Rock & Roll Stories (2001), From Sweetness at bookstores in Grand (poetry; 2002), and Everything’s a Verb (poetry; 1995). Forks, online at www.

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Brian Baier has joined associations. In the UND Chester recognition of her service, Fritz Library Special NDLA named Betty its Collections Department 2002 Librarian of the Year. as the Archival The American Library Specialist. Brian’s duties Association (ALA) has include handling state also benefited greatly publications and assisting from Betty’s participation with departmental public on many division and services. Brian fills the section committees, position formerly held including appointments by Steve Axtman. Steve to chair positions. Betty moved to a position at also served as NDLA’s the North Dakota State ALA Councilor and plans Library. to stay active in ALA during the coming years. After 26 years with the Those who know Betty Mandan Public Library, Alice Brilz was feted will attest to her many talents. She has been a at a retirement party on Monday, May 15. frequent star of dramatic and musical productions Congratulations, Alice, and best wishes! in Grand Forks Community Theater. Her credits Talso include roles in independent films. Betty Fargo Public Library Director Charles Pace has moved to Seattle, Washington to be closer to was profiled in the March 15, 2006 “Movers & her children. Congratulations and best wishes for Shakers” issue of Library Journal. This special your retirement, Betty! Thank you for all of your issue of Library Journal identified individuals work on behalf of NDLA and libraries. across the United States and Canada who are innovative, creative, and making a difference in Traci Juhala left her position as Assistant Director their libraries. The magazine cites Pace’s major of the Mandan Public Library in July to take a accomplishments in his first five years as Fargo new position at the New Ulm Public Library in Public Library’s director: “Pace and his staff New Ulm, Minnesota. Traci will coordinate teen opened Fargo’s first branch library, conducted and adult programming at her new job. Mary a card campaign that netted over 3,000 new Henderson, formerly a member of the Bismarck borrowers, and increased circulation by 60 Veterans Memorial Public Library staff, began her percent.” Pace is the first library professional new duties as Assistant Director of the Mandan in North Dakota to receive this recognition. Public Library on July 10. Congratulations, Charles! Congratulations to Eileen Kopren, Public After serving UND’s Chester Fritz Library for Services Librarian at DSU’s Stoxen Library, on three and one half decades, Betty Gard, Head being recognized with a Dickinson Chamber of of Reference and Research Services, retired on Commerce Educator of the Year award! Eileen July 15, 2006. While at UND, she served as was recognized for her years of service to documents librarian, bibliographer, reference Dickinson State University. To see the cool pilot librarian, and library administrator. Betty oversaw project Eileen developed for faculty/librarian the activities of the Reference Department, research collaboration at DSU, check out the which is recognized for its commitment to Stoxen Library Common Grounds Blog at www. quality service. Betty was and continues to be dickinsonstate.com/library.asp very active in state and national professional

The Good Stuff - Page 20 - August 2006 informed staff member who is up-to-date on new A Guide to Dues trends around the library world and understands how the latest technology, legislative issues, and Reimbursement new media affect your patrons. Plus, you get the personal bonus of an employer who understands for Your Employer and acknowledges this in a special way. Submitted by John Chrastka, ALA You know how important your membership is. Manager for Membership Development Here are a few facts about NDLA membership If you’re not the only one benefiting from your benefits to share with your employer: association membership, then why are you the only one paying for it? Your NDLA membership will help you stay up to date with the latest news focused on the work Your library association membership isn’t just you do every day through publications, e-lists, valuable to you; it’s valuable to your library, too. and special interest sections. As a member, you know you receive top-quality professional publications, gain opportunities for Members-only discounts on conference essential continuing education, and have access attendance. These discounts help the library to a unique set of resources to improve your own stretch its budget for purchasing and continuing work life. But is your employer aware of how education. these benefits can advance your entire library’s mission and work? NDLA offers grants, scholarships, and awards that can directly subsidize the library budget for By demonstrating how your association conferences, continuing education, and special membership improves your work, and therefore programs. your workplace, you can encourage your employer to pay your association dues. Here are You are eligible to serve on committees and four simple steps to help you build a compelling work groups that set the course for the future of case with your boss or board to pay for your libraries. Boards and community leadership are professional memberships: proud of, and find added value in, staff members who are recognized by their peers for outstanding • Make a list of all member benefits that service. directly and indirectly benefit your library. Some ideas are included at the end of this Your own staff development goals can be article to help get you started. enhanced through the continuing education, skills training, and mentoring programs offered by • Review your library’s mission and strategic NDLA. Plus, you bring back new ideas to your goals. Match up specific organizational or coworkers from every outside training. departmental objectives with association resources that help you meet those goals. Members have unique opportunities to contribute articles, propose new ideas, and bring your own • Talk with your supervisor about why library’s best-practices to a new audience. This membership has been valuable to you, and brings recognition to your library in the wider go through the list of ways that association community of professionals. benefits ‘match’ your library’s goals. For more information about NDLA and the • Ask your supervisor to cover all or part of benefits of membership, visit www.ndla.info. your dues as an investment in your own We are glad that you are a member and support professional development, and as a benefit to your efforts to gain the the entire library. recognition from your employer Don’t be shy. Remember, for pennies a day in that you deserve. Join dues, your library gets a well-connected and The Good Stuff - Page 21 - August 2006 Today! Thousands Attend Summer Reading Kick Off Submitted by Terri Wilhelm North Dakota State Library Doing the limbo, learning about the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, seeing a live alligator, and making animal crafts were just part of what made the third annual Summer Reading Kick Off at the State Library Staff at Summer Reading Kick Off North Dakota State Library and the North Dakota Heritage Center a huge success.

Nearly 3,800 people attended this year’s Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales Summer Reading Kick Off on June 1. State Library Public Awareness Coordinator Terri Wilhelm says this year’s event surpassed everyone’s expectations. “It has really taken on a life of its own, and it was exciting to see so many people come out to take part in the day’s activities.”

About thirty organizations played a role in the Summer Reading Kick Off. This year’s theme WebcastsWebcasts forfor Librarians seemed to be a popular one with children and and Archivists from librarians across the state. Marilyn Snyder, Curator of Education at the North Dakota Historical Library of Congress Society, says this event offered something for people of all ages. “What an unbelievable day; Check out this link to find webcasts on the the kids had fun; the animals had fun; the adults Library of Congress website: www.loc.gov/ had fun; the kick off was a huge success.” Marvia today/cyberlc/index.php Boettcher, Head of Youth Services at Bismarck Public Library says, “The Summer Reading Kick Off has become an annual event that Bismarck Webcasts are available in a variety of and Mandan Public Libraries look forward to.” subjects, including Biography, History, Boettcher says over 700 children registered Culture, Performing Arts, Education, with their local libraries and will continue to be Government, Poetry, Literature, Religion, involved with summer activities. and Science and Technology.

The event featured a full slate of activities, You can also narrow your search by typing including musical entertainment, A-mazing search words in the search box. For Adventure at the State Library, summer reading sign-up, live medieval display, Dakota Zoo example, using “librarians archivists” in the animals, celebrity readers, Great Plains Assistance search box, several webcasts of particular Dogs, ice cream from Cass Clay Creamery Inc., interest to those in the library profession and much more. come up. A sampling includes: It’s All about Access: Defining MARC / AACR Plans are already in the works for next year’s kick Access Level Records, Why Does Digital off, which will be centered around the theme Get Reference Matter?, and Universal Access to a Clue @ Your Library. All North Dakota librarians Knowledge. are invited to attend the event. The Good Stuff - Page 22 - August 2006 Good Stuff from Around the State Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

Summer Reading County Library? gentleman from Chicago. He Kick Off The City of Bowman and sent a box containing 14 Governor Bowman County Commission recently published books and a John Hoeven are taking steps to turn the Clara letter saying that “he had been proclaimed June Lincoln Phelan Memorial Library driving through our part of the 1, 2006, Summer into a county library. To get the world and liked what he saw.” Reading Kick process started, a minimum of He has purchased property near Off in support of 717 signatures are needed on Noonan and plans to move there summer reading a petition. Changing the city after his retirement. Since that programs across North Dakota. library to a county library will first box arrived, he has sent The proclamation is an effort to provide access to all residents of several other books and some encourage children to visit their Scranton, Gascoyne, Rhame, and of his co-workers have also public library and to take part in Bowman without membership contacted the library wishing to the programs offered by public fees. It would replace the city donate books! libraries. The theme for the library mill levy with a county 2006 statewide Summer Reading library mill levy and also allow How to Get a Microfiche program is “Paws, Claws, Scales for more money from the state Reader/Printer and Tales,” and many libraries and state grants. Lyn James, The Divide County Public have planned special events and mayor of Bowman, said, “As a Library is selling surplus items incentives to encourage children city we’re very excited about and a claw foot bathtub (via to read for pleasure during the the cooperative effort between silent auction) to raise funds summer months. the city commission and county toward purchasing a microfiche commission on this library.” reader/printer. Tea and Quilts Virgil Hendrickson, mayor of The Bottineau Woman’s Club Scranton, stated, “There will be North Dakota Reads recently hosted a tea to benefit no membership fees and it will The North Dakota Humanities the Bottineau Public Library. promote use of the library for Council sponsored a community $400 and a large print novel everyone. Everybody I’ve talked reading program through the were donated to the library as to is in favor of it.” Beulah Public Library during a result. The Northern Lights summer 2006. In keeping with Quilting Guild also donated 11 Bookmark Design Contest the “Life on the Plains” theme, books on quilting to the library. The Dickinson Area Public participants discussed Wolf Library Foundation Board Willow by Wallace Stegner, My Moving Day sponsored a bookmark design Antonia by Willa Cather, and On May 15, 2006, the Clara contest to celebrate the Giants in the Earth by Ole E. Lincoln Phelan Memorial Library renovation of the library. The Rolvaag. A scholar/facilitator in Bowman officially moved contest theme was “The Library: guided each of the discussions into its new digs, a former Read the Possibilities” and on June 7, July 12, and August 9. grocery and auto parts store, kindergarten through high school at 18 Divide Street East. The students were eligible to enter. Donation Bowman Elementary School 14 winning designs were chosen The Ellendale American Legion student council sponsored a and printed. The bookmarks are Herman-Schlinker Post #137 book drive for the new library being sold at the Dickinson Area recently donated $1,000 to the in April and collected 3,222 Public Library. Ellendale City Library. The books. Other local residents monies came from gaming have also contributed books Unexpected Benefactors proceeds from the American and subscriptions to the new In her April 26 Library Notes Legion Club in Ellendale. library. To find out more, visit column in the Crosby Journal, the library’s website at www. Divide County Library Director Northport Branch Opens bowmanlibrary.org/. Leslie Deering told about The Fargo Public Library’s an unexpected gift from a Northport Branch opened on

The Good Stuff - Page 23 - August 2006 July 13. Library Director Charles Library Week on April 4, the Central District Court Judge Pace, Fargo City Commissioner library hosted a poetry session Steven McCullough, U.S. District Linda Coates, members of the entitled “The Art of Words.” Court Judge Ralph Erickson, and Fargo Public Library Board, and Twenty people attended this attorney Michael J. Williams. ambassadors from the Chamber program featuring poet Thom Attorney Jack Marcil served as of Commerce were on hand for Tammaro, as well as original the moderator. the ribbon-cutting ceremony. works from several other local For more information regarding poets. On April 10, the Library Libri Foundation Grant Fargo’s future library building welcomed regional author A donation from the More for projects, visit www.cityoffargo. Annelee Woodstrom, who wrote Less youth funding program com/newlibraries War Child: Growing Up in Adolf helped the Griggs County Public Hitler’s Germany. Twenty-five Library in Cooperstown raise the Library Career Fair people attended this afternoon $350 they needed to obtain a On April 23, the Fargo Public program. On April 19, 26 two-for-one match from the Libri Library together with the people attended a program Foundation. With its funding of libraries of North Dakota State by award-winning children’s $1,050, the library purchased University, Minnesota State author and illustrator Diane 68 hardbound books for the University Moorhead, and Stanley. Among her books are collection. The majority are for Concordia College sponsored a Goldie and The Last Princess. pleasure reading for children and “Library Career Fair” to let area On April 20, children’s author youth. Some materials for adults residents and college students John R. Erickson, writer of the were also purchased. know about job opportunities in popular “Hank the Cow Dog” the library field. The thirty-five books, gave a presentation to Mill Levy Increase Defeated people who attended the library 84 people, most of whom were Through a petition drive, a career fair learned how library adults. Bestselling author Lorna measure to increase the Griggs careers offer opportunities in Landvik visited on April 25. 78 County Public Library mill levy technology, research, customer people came to hear about her from 4 to 6 mills was placed service, and communication. most recent work, Oh My Stars. on the ballot for the June 13 election. Unfortunately, the mill Fargo Public Library Receives 1,000 Paper Cranes levy increase failed. A 60% “Best of Show” Award Carol Sawicki, longtime majority was needed to pass the Congratulations to librarians volunteer at the Fargo Public measure and the vote was 183 Cindy Wray and Erin Smith Library, folded an impressive for and 184 against. of the Fargo Public Library 1,000 paper cranes as a personal Children’s Services Department! wish for world peace. She was Centennial @ Harvey Public They received a “Best of Show” inspired by Eleanor Coerr’s Library award for children’s reading book, Sadako and the Thousand The Harvey Public Library was a materials in the annual “Swap & Paper Cranes. The folded cranes big part of the Harvey centennial Shop Best of Show” competition are on display in the Children’s celebration, June 29 through July sponsored by the Library Department of the downtown 2, 2006. Library hours were Administration and Management Fargo Public Library. They extended so everyone could see Association. Their entry, the range in size from 2 to 6 inches artwork by Harvey native Larry 2005 Summer Reading Program and are made from a variety of Fisher, photography by local Booklog, took top honors among colored papers. photographer Steve Lucas, and libraries of similar size. an NDSU Libraries’ Germans National Law Day from Russia Heritage Collection April Authors Series at Fargo The Cass County Bar Association exhibit. NDSU Germans from Public Library and Fargo Public Library hosted Russia Bibliographer Michael During April, the Fargo Public an open discussion on May 1 M. Miller was on hand, and Library offered an “April to celebrate National Law Day. Dr. LaVern Freeh, formerly of Authors & Poets @ your library” The open panel discussion was Harvey, hosted a book signing of series that featured five author titled “Keeping Our Courts his memoirs, Child of the Prairie, programs. As part of National Fair.” Panelists included East Man of the World, at the library.

The Good Stuff - Page 24 - August 2006 Summer reading program a timeline for addressing participants also rode on (or specific issues – May, staffing; walked along side) a float in the June, budget; July, circulation centennial parade. Finally, a management and conversion, drawing for a handmade quilt August, develop a memorandum was held at the library on July 2. of understanding; September and October, community information UND Medical Demolition Probable presentations throughout the Library Receives The old Mandan Federal county; and November, vote. Building, home of the Mandan National Award Public Library for nearly 40 Dakota Memories Oral History The Harley E. French Library years, may have a date with Project of the Health Sciences at the the wrecking ball. The city Work is proceeding on the University of North Dakota received a letter in early June Dakota Memories Oral History School of Medicine and Health from the North Dakota State Project, a project of the Germans Sciences, Grand Forks, has Historical Preservation Office from Russia Heritage Collection, received the 2006 National outlining appropriate mitigation NDSU Libraries to collect oral Health Information Award for for the property. The letter also history interviews. Jessica Clark, North Dakota. expressed regret that the building a doctoral student in history at at 108 1st St. NW must be torn NDSU, is the coordinator of the The National Commission down. Although there is interest project. For more information, on Libraries and Information in saving the building, the cost go to www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ Science gives the award of renovating it and bringing it grhc/ annually to a library in up to code would be close to $1 each state that reaches out million. As part of the mitigation Stoxen Library Remodeling to a particular population process, several documents need Starting July 3, Stoxen Library and encourages lifestyle to be prepared before the city at Dickinson State University improvement. “In our case, we can move forward with plans to will be open limited hours for were assisting Native Americans demolish the building. the remainder of the summer to learn about health problems in order for DSU staff to and treatments by raising their Music in the Library proceed with remodeling and health information literacy Local musician Jill Blain gave other projects, including but skills,” said Judy Rieke, Assistant a special presentation on the not limited to: the addition of Director of the library. accordion and its history on June computers on the lower level, The UND library’s program 23 at the Mandan Public Library. the ODIN Aleph software is called “Linking Native transition, the completion of Americans to Health Merging Services? the transition of the Academic Information.” Through this The Morton County Library Success Center to the lower program, UND works with and Mandan Public Library level, re-location of a number librarians at the five tribal are meeting to consider the of collections, as well as other college libraries. “The tribal feasibility of combining the two ongoing projects too numerous college library serves as the libraries. A subcommittee of to list. Director Lillian Crook public library on the reservation members from the boards of also reports that “the biggest and is the natural point of entry both libraries has been talking (and best) news is that the Stoxen to reach the Native American about the details of a merger Library Renovation/Addition is people and build their with the intent of placing the Priority #1 on the Dickinson awareness of the free health issue on both the county and State University campus master information resources available city ballots for the November 7 plan." To follow progress on through the National Library of election. Meetings are open to the remodeling project, visit the Medicine,” Rieke said. the public and are held on the library’s Common Grounds Blog fourth Tuesday of each month at at www.dickinsonstate.com/ This is the first time a North various county locations The library.asp Dakota library has received the subcommittee has developed award.

The Good Stuff - Page 25 - August 2006 By Cheryl Bailey, Welder Library, University of Mary dollars. At the 1957 Valley City meeting, $200 was given to the State Library for promoting work In 1948 NDLA did meet in Mayville. Conference with the trustees, $100 for promoting the new minutes note that each person there received Citizens for Libraries group, and $50 to purchase a “Bag of Tricks,” favors from the Mayville books for the State Prison Library and North Library Board and merchants. In 1949 in Minot, Dakota Indian reservations. The increased interest Brynhild Haugland, North Dakota’s “only woman in activities of library trustees was carried further legislator,” made her first NDLA appearance. In in 1958 in Fargo when the trustees were invited 1950 in Fargo the first mention is made regarding to organize as an NDLA section. The suggestion conference exhibitors. Their fee was $10. It was was also made that school librarians be given the also in 1950 that a North Dakota author’s event same opportunity. was sponsored. Minutes do not indicate who attended, bur there are letters of rejection in the The Library Services Act, passed by Congress NDLA files from Ivan Dmitri, Eric Sevareid, and in 1956, was to have considerable impact on Edna LaMoore Waldo. North Dakota’s libraries. Helen Luce, a Federal Extension Specialist, spoke in Minot in 1959 One of the most interesting features of the 1940’s reporting a 78% increase in State Funds and is that many familiar names started appearing on a 61% increase in local funds in response to the library scene in North Dakota. In the early the act’s passage. Three regional libraries were to mid-1940’s it was Ella Mae Hargrave and established and four bookmobiles were now Hazel Webster Byrnes. In the late 1940’s it was operating in the state. While libraries were Clenora Quanbeck (Mayville), Mathilda Stoxen benefiting, the Association was also experiencing (Dickinson), H. Dean Stallings (NDAC), and growth. 65 librarians and 5 trustees were Arlene Stocker (State Library). registered for the 1959 conference with 20 additional visitors and guests. Another indication (Note: There are no Association minutes or of association growth is evident from the records for the years 1951-1954). convention program in 1960 in Grand Forks. For the first time, the three existing sections of NDLA After meeting in Jamestown in 1955, NDLA (Public Library, College, Trustee) had separate came west to Dickinson. A highlight at the 1956 meetings. banquet was the presentation of the ALA Trustees Citation of Merit to Judge Eugene Burdick of National recognition was achieved for North Williston. He had been unable to attend ALA in Dakota at the joint ALA-CLA meeting in Montreal Miami Beach to receive the award. The banquet in 1960 and was called to the membership’s address was given by Dr. Elwyn Robinson of attention in Grand Forks that year. Mrs. E. G. UND. Bloedow was awarded one of two ALA Citations for outstanding Trustees and the Edgeley Public The financial situation of NDLA had greatly Library received the John Cotton Dana Award improved by the mid-1950’s. The Association’s for publicity (in a section of towns up to 25,000 annual budget was generally over one thousand population).

The Good Stuff - Page 26 - August 2006 After a 1961 meeting in Williston, NDLA and successful in most of its legislative endeavors. SDLA met jointly in Bismarck in 1962. Minutes of the Executive Board meetings during these years In the mid-1960’s, the NDLA constitution and show increasing concern about the smooth func- bylaws underwent many changes in regard to tioning and organization of NDLA: orderly pro- Association officers, terms of office, composition gression of officers, constitutional revision, organi- of the executive board, and the dues structure. zation of sections, legislative committee activities. Rather than a single slate of candidates chosen By 1963 membership was up to 130 individual by a nominating committee and presented for a (68 librarians, 62 trustees) and 44 institutional unanimous ballot at the annual conference, a bal- members. This brought in $360.50 in dues. lot was prepared and candidates voted upon. All terms of office became two years instead of one The Legislative Committee under the direction of (in the late 1980’s this was changed back to one Don Pearce became particularly active in the early year). The dues were low, but tied to a salary 60’s with proposals relating to the publication of structure. NDLA was beginning to look and func- state documents, mill levy increases, library board tion like the organization most of us are familiar appointments and terms, etc. The Association was with today. Two Great Pre-Conferences Kick-Off Centennial Conference Get your NDLA conference experience off to a in achieving the philanthropic goals for a variety great start by taking advantage of the opportunity of organizations. Hodge Cramer & Associates has to participate in a great pre-conference workshop. raised more the $300 million for organizations. This year we are offering two choices during the afternoon of Wednesday, September 20. The First Amendment, Privacy, and Your Library Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Deputy Director of the Books & Bucks! Fundraising 101 for Libraries Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American This half-day, hands-on seminar is designed to: Library Association, will present a half-day workshop on an intellectual freedom issue of • Impart basics about the philanthropic great import to libraries. This workshop will marketplace introduce basic legal principles within the first • Apply these rules to library environments amendment, and will also cover state laws that • Allow the participants to work through some relate to privacy. With those legal frameworks case study problems in small groups as foundation, she will then offer instruction to librarians on guidelines for developing a privacy Through this education-specific format, policy for their own institutions. participants will come away with a meaningful understanding of how philanthropy can impact As deputy director of ALA’s Office of Intellectual their libraries, regardless of size. Designed to be Freedom, Deborah Caldwell-Stone works on interactive and informative, it is an opportunity projects dealing with censorship and privacy in to learn from real life experience of libraries from libraries. An attorney by training, she practiced Utah to Ohio to Arkansas. appellate law before the state and federal courts in Chicago before joining ALA in 2000. She now Russell Hodge currently works closely with librarians to address various serves as chief executive intellectual freedom issues affecting libraries, officer of Hodge, Cramer & including the removal of books and materials Associates, one of the fastest from library shelves, the use of Internet filtering, growing fundraising consulting and the impact of new technologies and the USA firms in the nation. His PATRIOT Act on user privacy. This pre-conference hands-on management style is sponsored in part by the MPLA Continuing and innovative fundraising Education Fund. techniques have been the blueprint for his success The Good Stuff - Page 27 - August 2006 TechTips & More Compiled by Karen Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

Barb Knight, Harley E. French Library of the Here is a sample report, in which new or changed Health Sciences at UND, forwarded information information is highlighted yellow: about a neat search engine, Rollyo, which she found posted on Medlib-L. It was written by Jeanette Harlow and is being reprinted with her permission. Maren Niemeier and Mary Reinertson-Sand also share information about the cool WebSite Watcher. Thank you, Barb, Jeanette, Maren, and Mary! Saving Time with WebSite Watcher By Maren Niemeier and Mary Reinertson-Sand, Rural Assistance Center, UND Center for Rural You can import the bookmarks from your web Health browser to get started. WebSite Watcher lets you set how frequently pages are checked using the A librarian could spend all day, every day “Auto Check” settings, by the minute, day or revisiting great web sites to look for new week. It is also possible to exclude certain types resources and publications. No one has time for of changes, such as numerical changes. WebSite that, of course, but there is a product that can Watcher quietly works in the background, help you monitor hundreds of web sites in just checking for updates while you do other things. a few minutes each day. We have been using WebSite Watcher for over three years to identify Website Watcher offers free, easy to use and resources for the Rural Assistance Center web site easy to understand videos and flash-demos. (www.raconline.org). These demos are available at www.aignes.com/ screenshots.htm. Topics include: Each staff member has sites bookmarked that focus on specific work and subject specialties. • Add and check a bookmark Some of the uses we have found for WebSite • Watch an RSS feed Watcher include: • Ignore date/time in a page • Tracking sites that list new and updated • Ignore specific parts of a page resources, such as ResourceShelf and • Watch a site for specific words DocuTicker • Watch whole website • Checking for new publications from • Check a password protected page organizations and agencies, for example the • Monitor a search result National Rural Health Association • Keeping current on professional issues by Website Watcher provides users with technical tracking web and LIS publications, blogs and support as well as an online support forum. The web sites forum is available at www.aignes.com/forum/. Another added feature is an online/printable The main alert window shows sites that have manual. The manual can be downloaded at changed in red bold at the top of the list: www.aignes.com/wswhelp/index.htm. A free 30-day trial of WebSite Watcher is available for download at www.aignes.com/. The program can be purchased for approximately $64 (US) for the personal edition and $127 (US) for the business edition.

The Good Stuff - Page 28 - August 2006 Health policy organizations’ web sites www.rollyo.com/jmarieharlow/health_care_ policy_orgs/>

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Health Care Consultants Web Sites www.rollyo.com/jmarieharlow/health_care_ Rollyo: Cool Search Tool consultants/ Posted by Jeanette Harlow, AHA Resource Center, to MedLib-L Health Care--Government Information www.rollyo.com/jmarieharlow/health-- I discovered this site through the SLA e-news government_info/ publication and wrote this article for our internal newsletter. Health Professionals’ Organizations I www.rollyo.com/jmarieharlow/health_ From the AHA Resource Center: Roll Your Own professionals_i/

Did you ever wish that you could limit your Health Professionals’ Organizations II Internet searches to your most frequently used www.rollyo.com/jmarieharlow/health_ sites, instead of wading through thousands of professionals_i/ irrelevant search results to get to the information you want? The answer to our wish may be If you like the results, feel free to use these Rollyo, a specialized search engine aggregator searchrolls at any time. If you don’t -- then roll powered by Yahoo! your own!

With Rollyo, you can “roll your own” search Karen’s notes: Jeanette told me she sends people engine, creating a “searchroll” that targets up to to these sites when they need information and 25 web sites of your choice. Each searchroll then she tells them what to put in the search box. is given a title, so that you can create multiple What a great idea! I think this would be great to searchrolls and easily identify the one that is most set up for searching our own websites, too! To appropriate for an individual search. find out how you can create your own search engine and other information about Rollyo, go to You can also explore and save searchrolls created www.rollyo.com/ by other Rollyo users by searching on keywords or browsing 19 different topical categories. TechTips & More is a column that gives tips Interested in seeing how it works? Use one of the about technology (TechTips) or other things that links below to access searchrolls created by AHA our readers do in their libraries to make their Resource Center staff. Just enter your search lives easier or more efficient (More). Please terms in the “Search for” box that appears. submit your tips to: Karen Anderson at Karen_ [email protected] Hospital and other health provider organizations’ web sites www.rollyo.com/jmarieharlow/health_provider_ orgs/>

The Good Stuff - Page 29 - August 2006 What’s Happening with Intellectual Freedom? By Paulette Nelson Intellectual Freedom Committee Chair

Sometimes as Intellectual Freedom Chair, I feel like the Maytag repairman. There has been relatively no activity; which in a sense is good, but I am sure that there have been some challenges and that librarians do not realize that they should report these incidents to the Intellectual Freedom Chair. Since April, law enforcement personnel have visited the Minot Public Library on five different occasions requesting records. Each time they have arrived without a search warrant or subpoena. Each time they were denied the information they requested.

In April I had the good fortune to attend “Law for Librarians.” This seminar was held in Chicago and was sponsored by ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and made possible by a grant from the Ford Motor Foundation. There were representatives from all fifty states in attendance. The two and one-half day workshop dealt with all aspects of intellectual freedom.

The first day Teresa Chmara from Washington, D.C., and Daniel Mach spoke on the legal aspects of intellectual freedom. Teresa addressed Each day was packed full of informative sessions, all aspects of the First Amendment and but in the evenings we were free to do as we libraries, including Internet issues, while Daniel pleased. I met many people from all over the concentrated on religious issues and libraries. country who were passionate about intellectual Candace Morgan addressed labeling and June freedom. Many of them have had to deal with Pinnell-Stevens talked about meeting room and many more serious issues than we deal with display policies. Each of these women cited in North Dakota. Several state representatives interesting cases that could easily happen in any have to deal with organized groups who actually library. present challenges on a regular basis. One state is threatening libraries with legislation to withhold On the second day we were divided according state funds if they do not place children’s books to region. I was, of course, with colleagues dealing with sensitive issues in a separate section from Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and South of the library. Dakota. We heard speakers talk about youth access and privacy and confidentiality. Because In the near future you will be receiving a short I found the privacy and confidentiality session survey about intellectual freedom via your e- so informative, I invited speaker Deborah mail. Please take the time to respond. It will Caldwell-Stone to do a pre-conference at NDLA be interesting to see if our freedoms are being in September. She will also do a session on challenged in North Dakota. I will try to have responding to challenges and handling law results available at the conference. Hope to see enforcement requests for information. you there!

The Good Stuff - Page 30 - August 2006 North Dakota/Manitoba Chapter of ACRL Meets By Phyllis Bratton, Raugust Library After all the hard work of reigniting the chapter, Jamestown College Jeremy Brown spoke to the assembly on “Web 2.0 and the Academic Library.” The North Dakota/Manitoba Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries The chapter is now in position to offer many (ACRL) met for the first time in three years at the bonuses to its members: the chance for Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences international cooperation, travel, and learning; on June 9, 2006. Sixteen members from North nationally known conference speakers; Dakota and Manitoba attended. information on trends in academic libraries; and a forum in which to share problems and find Judy Rieke gave a history of the chapter from its solutions. Membership in the chapter is open origins in North Dakota during the 1980’s to the to any academic librarian in North Dakota or present. Phyllis Bratton described the history of Manitoba, whether or not you belong to ACRL at the ACRL and its present organizational structure the national level. and goals. Following a business meeting, Betty Braaksma, the incoming chair, led the group Check out our website at www.lib.ndsu.nodak. in a strategic planning exercise. Goals were edu/acrl and the national website at www.ala. established for the chapter and various groups of org/acrl to see what the Association is all about, members took responsibility for carrying them and watch for our next meeting in June 2007 in forward. Winnipeg!

Talking Points for State Aid to Public Libraries Submitted by Terri Wilhelm directors and board members, a unanimous North Dakota State Library consent among the attendees was to introduce legislation to clarify the law so that libraries that State Aid to Public Libraries changed dramatically maintain either the dollar amount or the mill levy this year due to a new interpretation of the State will be eligible for State Aid. The State Library is Aid maintenance of local effort law, NDCC 54- assisting the public library directors in rewording 24.2-04, by the North Dakota State Auditor’s NDCC 54-24.2-04 to clarify its meaning so it can office and the Attorney General’s office. be addressed in the upcoming legislative session.

Since 1980, libraries were eligible for State Aid if they maintained dollars generated from the mill levy or mills levied. Dakota Gold: NDLA The new interpretation of the State Aid to Public Libraries Law requires libraries to maintain both Celebrates 100 Years the number of dollars and the mill levy instead of number of dollars or the mill levy. This change in Cookbook and History interpretation changed how money is distributed to North Dakota’s public libraries. The new interpretation of the State Aid to Public Libraries will be available at Law resulted in 47 out of 103 library entities becoming ineligible to receive State Aid for fiscal NDLA year 2006. Centennial Conference During the May 5, 2006 meeting of public library The Good Stuff - Page 31 - August 2006 2006 Outstanding Library Support Staff Award Winners 2006 Outstanding Library Support Staff Award Winners Submitted by Wilbur Stolt, Director Chester Fritz Library The second recipient was Lois Quamme, Account Technician for the Chester Fritz Library. Ms. Quamme Linda Olson and Lois Quamme were named the assists in maintaining and disbursing library funds, University of North Dakota Chester Fritz Library keeps all the budget records, prepares financial Outstanding Support Staff for 2006. The award was reports, and manages audits and cash counts. She presented by UND President Charles Kupchella at learned to use the new ConnectND computer system the Library Support Staff Reception on April 4, 2006 while also learning the new library system. The system during the celebration of National Library Week. changes have brought new policies, procedures, and forms to her job. Since the transition, she has worked Linda Olson is the Serials Specialist in the Chester to resolve questions about the new systems and to see Fritz Library. She insures journals, magazines and the records are accurate. During the entire process, other serials are received and made available to the Ms. Quamme has maintained a positive attitude and public. During the past year, Ms. Olson learned has done whatever was necessary to get the job done. and tested procedures and workflows associated with the new library automated system, including The Chester Fritz Library Outstanding Support Staff learning a new way to input information. She Award is given annually. A selection committee, also tested the system for problems and developed composed of Library and campus staff and faculty, procedures to insure the information was correct and reviews nominations submitted from the UND the publications were made available as quickly as community. The award is based upon superior possible. Ms. Olson prepared documentation for performance in the job, completion of special library specific procedures and compiled title lists for which projects, and/or outstanding service to the library, prediction patterns have been completed. Her work library profession or the campus community. The was particularly important during the transition to the recipient receives $275 and a framed certificate. new system and she worked hard to make journals The names of award winners are engraved on a and magazines available to UND students, faculty and wall plaque, which is located outside the Library’s staff. Administrative Office in the Chester Fritz Library. The Good Stuff - Page 32 - August 2006 FLICKER TALE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2005-2006 NOMINEES & WINNERS Juvenile Fiction Picture Book (E Is for Everyone!) Dog Sense by Sneed B. Collard III Too Many Frogs! by Sandy Asher Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix Moo Who? by Margie Palatini A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin Wild about Books by Judy Sierra Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins Bear Snores On by Kama Wilson Early-Primary Grades Non-Fiction Intermediate Books (for students transitioning Workshop by Andrew Clements from picture to chapter books) An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Aston The Legend of Spud Murphy Eion Colfer Let’s Try It Out with Towers and Bridges Star in the Storm by Joan Hiatt Harlow by Seymour Simon and Nicole Fauteux Ruby Lu, Brave and True by Lenore Look Bugs Are Insects by Anne F. Rockwell The End of the Beginning by Avi Upper Grade Level Non-Fiction Juvenile Fiction (for more advanced readers) Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: the Sammy Lee Inkheart by Cornelia Caroline Funke Story by Paula Yoo Ida B by Katherine Hannigan Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau by Susan Campbell Bartoletti The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer Owen & Mzee: the True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Early Primary Grades Non-fiction Hatkoff, and Paula Kahumbu Shanghai Messenger by Andrea Cheng Actual Size by Steve Jenkins The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter You’re On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt! MPLA Leadership Institute by Judith St. George How Are You Peeling? Foods with Moods Attendees Selected by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers Submitted by Sally Dockter MPLA Representative Upper Grade Level Non-fiction Congratulations to Laurie McHenry, Chester Fritz P Is for Peace Garden: a North Dakota Alphabet Library, UND, and Donna James, Allen Memorial by Roxane B. Salonen Library, Valley City State University! Laurie and The Voice that Challenged a Nation Donna have been selected by the MPLA Committee by Russell Freedman and the NDLA Committee to attend the 2006 MPLA The Pig in the Spigot by Richard Wilbur Leadership Institute, October 29-November 3, at The Revenge of the Whale by Nathaniel Philbrick Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Other good news for NDLA members is that the MPLA 2007 FLICKER TALE NOMINEES Committee also chose Celeste Ertelt, Lake Region State College, and Johanna McClay, Bismarck State College, Picture Book (E is for Everyone!) as alternates. That means they are invited to attend The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens and because there are a few extra slots available and some Susan Stevens Crummel states may not be sending two people. Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal Of the 32 people who have been invited to attend Henry & the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi the Institute, North Dakota has 4 candidates. For a Mrs. McBloom, Clean Up Your Classroom! twelve-state regional organization, that is great! We by Kelly DiPucchio had quite a few applicants this year. If you weren’t selected or didn’t get around to applying, do it next Intermediate year. At the selection meeting, there were some very moving testimonials from some of the past attendees, Roxie and the Hooligans e.g., “It changes your whole perspective on being a by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor leader” and “It was a very spiritual experience.” The Journey Home (Unicorn’s Secret series) For more information about the MPLA Leadership by Kathleen Duey Institute, visit the website at www.mpla.us/. For more Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride by Kate DiCamillo information about Ghost Ranch, visit the website at Miss Daisy Is Crazy! (My Weird School series) www.ghostranch.org/ by Dan Gutman The Good Stuff - Page 33 - August 2006 TREASURER'S REPORT As of June 30, 2006 (end of second quarter) By Michael Safratowich, NDLA Treasurer Editor’s note: Approved by electronic vote of the Executive Board on July 24, 2006 Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance CHECK BOOK 1/1/2006 $22,346.12

Pass-Through Funds

Humanities Grant 2004-2005 $268.28 $268.28 $0.00 Humanities Grant 2005-2006 -$619.45 $50.00 -$669.45 Book Sales $5,101.18 $840.48 $4,260.70

Pass-Through Funds Subotal $4,750.01 $0.00 $1,158.76 $3,591.25

NDLA Funds $17,596.11 Annual Conference 2005 $13.72 Annual Conference 2006 $2,025.00 Dues 2006 $9,926.00 Professional Dev / Canoe Kudos Investment Account Transfers $210.00 HSIS Partner Account $6,670.14 Other receipts/disbursements $278.42 $6,749.96 NDLA Funds Subtotal $12,229.42 $6,973.68 $22,851.85

Check Book Balance 6/30/06 $26,443.10 **************************************************************************************************************** INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA CD $10,000.00 $10,000.00 NDLA CD Ready Cash $1,600.41 Interest $230.25 $1,830.66 NDLA Money Market $14,416.74 Interest $287.69 $14,704.43

Rudser CD $10,000.00 $10,000.00 Rudser Money Market Ready Cash $4,327.25 Interest $86.36 Deposits $60.00 $4,473.61 Hubbard Money Market $1,567.43 Interest $31.28 Deposits $45.00 $1,643.71 Jaugstetter Leadership Fund CD $2,500.00 $2,500.00

Jaugstetter Leadership Fund Savings $7,183.33 Interest $7.13 Deposits $105.00 $7,295.46 TOTAL investment accounts $51,595.16 $52,447.87

TOTAL EQUITY 6/30/06 $78,890.97 The Good Stuff - Page 34 - August 2006 North Dakota Library Association Membership Application for the Year Ending December 31, 2006

Membership entitles you to join as many Sections and Roundtables as you wish! Check ALL that apply Name______Institution______Position______Address______City______State____Zip______Telephone (W)______(H)______FAX ______E-mail ______($35 individual membership entitles you to vote in the sections and roundtables you indicate below): ____Academic and Special Libraries ____Government Documents ____Health Science Information ____New Members ____Public Library ____Technical Services ____School Library & Youth Services

Membership fees (includes subscription to NDLA's magazine The Good Stuff): Individual Membership ...... $35 Trustee Membership ...... $20 Associate Membership ...... $20 (Non-voting membership category) Associate Membership is available only to persons not employed in any North Dakota Library. Includes students, friends, exhibitors/vendors. Institutional Membership ...... $______(please calculate using formula below) $35 for the first $5000 of operating budget or portion thereof, AND $1 per $1000 of budget thereafter, to a maximum of $200 My calculation for membership dues = $______

I would like to make a donation to the Ron Rudser Continuing Education Memorial Scholarship Fund in the amount of: $______A receipt will be mailed to you indicating the amount of any donations. Thank You!

I would like to make a donation to the M. V. Hubbard Bookmobile Fund in the amount of: $______A receipt will be mailed to you indicating the amount of any donations. Thank You!

I would like to make a donation to the Mike Jaugsetter Leadership Memorial Grant Fund in the amount of: $______A receipt will be mailed to you indicating the amount of any donations. Thank You!

Enclosed is my check (include both membership fees and/or donations) for: $______

Make check payable to NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. RENEW or JOIN as early as Send check and this signed application to: possible so you are included in the NDLA Membership Committee NDLA MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Attn. Kathy Thomas A membership card will be NDSU, PO Box 5599 mailed to you shortly! Fargo, ND 58105-5599

The Good Stuff - Page 35 - August 2006 2005-2006 North Dakota Library Association Executive Board All phone numbers are Area Code 701 PRESIDENT PROFESSIONAL Jeanne Narum ACADEMIC & SPECIAL TECHNICAL SERVICES DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Minot Public Library LIBRARIES SECTION ROUNDTABLE Karen Chobot 516 2nd Ave SW Celeste Ertelt Laurie L. McHenry NDSCS Mildred Johnson Minot ND 58701-3792 Paul Hoghaug Library Chester Fritz Library Library, 800 N 6th St Work Phone 701.852.1045 Lake Region State College University of North Dakota Wahpeton ND 58076-0001 Fax 701.852.2595 1801 College Dr N 3051 University Ave Stop 9000 Work Phone 701.671.2385 E-Mail [email protected] Devils Lake ND 58301-1598 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Fax 701.671.2674 Work Phone 701.662.1533 Work Phone 701.777.2919 E-Mail Karen.Chobot@ndscs. PRESIDENT ELECT Fax 701.662.1570 E-Mail LaurieMcHenry@mail. nodak.edu Beth Postema E-Mail Celeste.M.Ertelt@lrsc. und.nodak.edu Fargo Public Library nodak.edu PUBLIC RELATIONS 102 N 3rd St COMMITTEE Fargo ND 58102-4899 CONSTITUTION, BYLAWS & Erin L. Smith GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS Work Phone 701.241.8198 POLICIES COMMITTEE Fargo Public Library ROUNDTABLE Fax 701.241.8581 Appointment Pending 102 3rd St N E-Mail BPostema@cityoffargo. Naomi Frantes Fargo ND 58102-4808 com North Dakota State Library Work Phone 701.241.1495 604 E Boulevard Ave, Dept 250 FINANCE COMMITTEE Fax 701.241.8581 PAST PRESIDENT Bismarck, ND 58505-0800 Bonnie Krenz E-Mail [email protected] Marlene Anderson Work Phone 701.328.4610 Griggs County Public Library Fax 701.328.2040 Bismarck State College Library PO Box 546 THE GOOD STUFF E-Mail [email protected] PO Box 5587 Cooperstown ND 58425-0546 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Bismarck ND 58506-5587 Work Phone 701.797.2214 Marlene Anderson Work Phone 701.224.5578 HEALTH SCIENCE E-Mail [email protected] Bismarck State College Library Fax 701.224.5551 INFORMATION SECTION PO Box 5587 E-Mail Marlene.Anderson@bsc. Ann Pederson Bismarck ND 58506-5587 nodak.edu Altru Medical Library INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM Work Phone 701.224.5578 1200 S. Columbia Road COMMITTEE Fax 701.224.5551 SECRETARY PO Box 6002 Paulette Nelson E-Mail Marlene.Anderson@bsc. Laurie L. McHenry Grand Forks ND 58206-6002 Minot Public Library nodak.edu Chester Fritz Library Work Phone 701.780.5187 516 2nd Ave SW University of North Dakota Fax 701.780.5772 Minot ND 58701-3792 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 3051 University Ave Stop 9000 E-Mail [email protected] Work Phone 701.838.0606 Cathy A. Langemo Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Fax 701.852.2595 WritePlus Inc. Work Phone 701.777.2919 E-Mail [email protected] 205 E Arbor Ave Apt 108-G E-Mail LaurieMcHenry@mail. NEW MEMBERS Bismarck ND 58504-5717 und.nodak.edu ROUNDTABLE Work Phone 701.223.7972 Beverly Clouse LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE E-Mail [email protected] TREASURER NDSU Libraries Charles Pace Michael Safratowich PO Box 5599 Fargo Public Library ARCHIVIST/HISTORIAN Harley French Library of the Fargo ND 58105-5599 102 3rd St N Christine Kujawa Health Sciences Work Phone 701.231.8915 Fargo ND 58102-4808 Bismarck Public Library University of North Dakota Fax 701.231.7138 Work Phone 701.241.1493 515 N. 5th Street 501 N Columbia Rd Stop 9002 E-Mail Beverly.Clouse@ndsu. Fax 701.241.8581 Bismarck, ND 58501-4081 Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 edu E-Mail [email protected] Work Phone 701.221.6854 Work Phone 701.777.2602 E-Mail [email protected]. Fax 701.777.4790 PUBLIC LIBRARY SECTION org E-Mail msafrat@medicine. NOMINATIONS & ELECTIONS Kelly M. Steckler nodak.edu COMMITTEE STATE LIBRARIAN Mandan Public Library Donna Maston 609 W Main St Doris A. Ott ALA COUNCILOR Bismarck Public Library North Dakota State Library Mandan ND 58554-3149 515 N 5th St Charles Pace Work Phone 701.667.5365 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Fargo Public Library Bismarck ND 58501-4081 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Fax 701.667.5368 Work Phone 701.222.6414 102 3rd St N E-Mail k.steckler@mail. Work Phone 701.328.2492 Fargo ND 58102-4808 Fax 701.221.6854 Fax 701.328.2040 infolynx.org Work Phone 701.241.1493 E-Mail [email protected]. E-Mail [email protected] Fax 701.241.8581 org E-Mail [email protected] SCHOOL LIBRARY & YOUTH WEB EDITOR SERVICES SECTION Theresa Norton MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE MPLA REPRESENTATIVE Glenda Westman Harley French Library of the Kathryn Thomas Sally C. Dockter White Shield School Health Sciences NDSU Libraries Chester Fritz Library 2 Second Ave West University of North Dakota PO Box 5599 University of North Dakota Roseglen ND 58775-6009 501 N Columbia Rd Stop 9002 Fargo ND 58105-5599 3051 University Ave Stop 9000 Work Phone 701.743.4350 Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 Work Phone 701.231.8863 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Fax 701.743.4501 Work Phone 701.777.2946 Fax 701.231.7138 Work Phone 701.777.4640 E-Mail Glenda. Fax 701.777.4790 E-Mail Kathryn.Thomas@ndsu. Fax 701.777.3319 [email protected] E-Mail tnorton@medicine. E-Mail [email protected]. edu nodak.edu nodak.edu The Good Stuff - Page 36 - August 2006