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Save the Date! 2017 NDLA Conference, October 4-6, Grand Forks

t Day at the Capitol t Conference Update t Star Libraries t 2017 Flicker Tale Winners INSIDE and 2018 Nominees Table of Contents President’s Message...... 3 2017 NDLA Conference...... 4 2017 Flicker Tale Winners & 2018 Nominees Announced...... 5 Summer Summit...... 6 2017 Research Methods...... 6 Canoe Kudos Nomination Form...... 6 National Network of Libraries of Published quarterly by the Medicine - Not Just for Medical Libraries...7 North Dakota Library Association Day at the Capitol...... 8 Editorial Committee Congratulations to Our 2017 Marlene Anderson, Chair Joan Erickson Tina Nygard North Dakota Stars...... 9 Eric Stroshane Take Pride in Learning about LGBT Production Artist Information Sources...... 10 Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley Calling New & Future Librarians...... 11 Subscription Rate $25/year 2017 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Advertising Rates (per issue) Books Awards...... 12 $100 – full-page ad It’s Time to Renew (or Join) MPLA...... 13 $50 – half-page ad $25 – quarter-page ad Browsing in the Cyberstacks...... 14 For information contact: On the DOCket...... 15 Marlene Anderson, Chair People Stuff...... 16 The Good Stuff Editorial Committee Membership Report...... 17 Editorial Policy Letters should be sent to Marlene Anderson, Chair, North Dakota in Print...... 18 The Good Stuff Editorial Committee, Bismarck State Nerd-Up...... 23 College, PO Box 5587, Bismarck, ND 58506-5587, or e-mail: [email protected] Good Stuff from Around the State...... 24 MPLA Seeking Awards Nominations...... 27 Submission Guidelines & Deadlines Issue Deadline 2017 ASRL Conference...... 27 March 2017 Friday, January 13, 2017 June 2017 Friday, April 7, 2017 Library Events and Conferences...... 28 August 2017 Friday, June 30, 2017 Treasurer’s Report...... 29 (pre-conference issue) December 2017 Friday, October 6, 2017 NDLA Membership Form...... 31 Submit news and articles via e-mail to any of these NDLA Executive Board...... 32 addresses: [email protected] [email protected] Minutes and Reports are linked to [email protected] www.ndla.info/ [email protected]

The Good Stuff - Page 2 - March-June 2017 President’s Message By Lesley Allan, NDLA President

Are you getting excited? I am!

As this year’s conference begins to take shape, I am excited about the plans coming together, the adventures being planned, and the opportunities opening up for everyone.

Our theme – “Libraries Transform” – reflects the ALA initiative designed to increase public awareness. ALA’s campaign was created to showcase the transformative nature of libraries today and the critical role we play throughout our nation. If you haven’t done so already, I urge you to look at the Libraries Transform website via ilovelibraries.org. Under the Trends section, there are some excellent ideas for you to try in your own library. If you’re already doing one of these trends, that will be available for members on our new consider sharing your experiences at the NDLA website. conference. Help transform our libraries across the state with your ideas! Speaking of the new website, have you visited it yet? It is growing all the time! NDLA updates, membership Out of all the ideas buzzing around for the information, benefits, and advocacy are all in one conference, one thing I am especially excited spot. Once new conference details become available for (it really is the simple things in life) is our – that will be the place to find it first. Need to know Libraries Transform wall. The ALA campaign has about legislative issues? Head to the website. If you some wonderful statements about why libraries are have not visited yet, please stop by and see how easy transforming: “because the best search engine in it is to navigate and find what you are looking for at the library is the librarian”, “because access equals www.ndla.info. equality”, and, one of my current favorites, “because fake news can have real-world consequences.” There are so many reasons to get excited about our libraries across the state. Be sure to mark your On NDLA’s Libraries Transform wall, we want YOU calendar and come to the NDLA Conference in Grand to come up with our own ‘because’ statements. Make Forks. Changes are made by those who show up! them local, make them personal, and get creative. Your ‘because’ statement may become a bookmark Thank you for ALL you do.

The Good Stuff - Page 3 - March-June 2017 Save the Date! 2017 NDLA Conference, October 4-6, Grand Forks

The North Dakota Library Association annual conference will be held at the beautiful Alerus Conference Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota, October 4-6, 2017. What can you do to help? Our theme is Libraries Transform, which we know • Donate a hand-made product – everything from food is true in so many ways. Regardless of the types of to knitting to sewing to bookmaking to building a little libraries in which we work, we transform the lives free library. Let your creativity shine! of our patrons, transform frowns into smiles, and • Donate a tastefully re-purposed item – something old transform ourselves and our services to meet the given new life to bring it into this century’s decorating changing needs of our communities. Even NDLA trends and the NDLA conference continue to transform. • Buy! Buy! Buy!

It is NDLA’s goal to make this our best conference Facebook Auction so far. The 2017 conference will kick off on The Facebook auction will be “new school” for us and Wednesday, October 4, with a morning NDLA allows everyone to participate regardless of whether or Executive Board meeting, two afternoon not they can attend the conference. pre-conferences, and an opening reception Wednesday evening. The Basics • Like or follow the NDLA Facebook page. On Thursday and Friday, the conference will • Find the Facebook photo album of donated auction feature inspiring keynote speakers, educational items. Look through it … often. sessions, and exhibits that are sure to transform • Place your bids by “commenting” your bid on the attendees and their libraries. photo of the item. • Bidding opens September 17 and ends Help us spread the word. Share this information September 30. with people you know. We would love to • Payments must be made by October 6. see librarians from Minnesota, South Dakota, • Delivery Montana, Manitoba, and beyond at our ~ If you attend the conference, pick up and pay for conference. the item at the conference. ~ If you submit the winning bid, but cannot attend Visit the NDLA Conference website for information the conference, we will try to arrange to have about registration, lodging, and other updates. the item(s) delivered to you by someone who attended the conference. Otherwise, we will We look forward to seeing you in Grand Forks! ship it to you. • Note to donors: Items in the Facebook auction will be Conference Auctions things that are easy to ship. If your item is selected for We’re going “old school” and “new school” to add the Facebook auction, we ask that you also cover the to the excitement of NDLA’s annual fundraising shipping costs as part of your donation. auction. Auction Committee Members Silent, live, AND Facebook auctions will give you Mary Soucie, North Dakota State Library three different ways to spend and raise money Paulette Nelson, Minot Public Library for NDLA’s professional development funds. The Brenda Fischer, Raugust Library, University of Jamestown money we raise helps NDLA support you (and Sandi L. Bates, Bismarck State College, along with your fellow librarians) as you pursue professional Diane Lindseth, Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, development opportunities. Grand Forks Public Library

The Good Stuff - Page 4 - March-June 2017 2017 Flicker Tale Winners & 2018 Nominees Announced Submitted by Amber Emery, Flicker Tale Committee Chair

Thanks to all the children across North Dakota who read the 2017 Flicker Tale Children’s Award nominees and voted for their favorites and to the librarians who submitted the votes, it’s time to announce the winners:

Picture Book Goodnight Already by Jory John

NonFiction Book Hot Dog! Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic by Leslie Kimmelman

Intermediate Book The Story of Diva and Flea by Mo Willems

Juvenile Book The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

The winning authors will be notified and invited to attend this fall’s NDLA conference in Grand Forks.

2018 Flicker Tale Nominees

Picture Books Intermediate Books Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins Clover’s Luck (Magical Animal Adoption Agency) The Black and White Factory by Eric Telchin by Kallie George Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie Adventures with Waffles by Maria Parr Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina The Infamous Ratsos by Kara LaReau Journey to the Center of Town (Class Pet Squad) NonFiction Books by Dan Yaccarino Pass the Pandowdy, Please: Chewing on History with Famous Folks and their Fabulous Foods Juvenile Books by Abigail Ewing Zelz The Evil Wizard Smallbone by Delia Sherman Ada’s Violin: the Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Makoons by Louise Erdrich Paraguay by Susan Hood Ghost by Jason Reynolds Tooth By Tooth: Comparing Fangs, Tusks, and Chompers It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas by Sara Levine When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano

Questions? Contact Amber Emery at [email protected]; 701.241.1495 For more information about the Flicker Tale Award, visit http://ndla.info/Flicker_Tale_Award.

The Good Stuff - Page 5 - March-June 2017 Save the Date! SAVE Summer Summit THE The North Dakota State Library Summer Summit is an annual library management symposium DATE conducted by State Library Development staff. Library directors, board members, and staff are encouraged to attend. 2017 Research The focus of this year’s Summer Summit is on the “Hour of Code” and running coding clubs Methods in libraries. Mark your calendars and watch for more details in future issues of the Flickertale The North Dakota State Library is offering and the State Library’s website. a summer course on Research Methods for one (1) professional development credit Summits will be held during the week of August for teachers and school media specialists 14th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (with lunch catered throughout the state. The class is 15 hours long in at a modest fee for those who want it) as and lasts two days. The objectives of this course follows: are to strengthen research skills and database knowledge. Credit for this course is offered through Monday, August 14...... Minot Valley City State University, The University of Minot Public Library North Dakota, North Dakota State University, and Minot State University. Tuesday, August 15...... West Fargo West Fargo Public Library Where: North Dakota State Library Wednesday, August 16...... Bismarck When: July 6-7, 2017; 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. North Dakota State Library Thursday, August 17...... Grand Forks Check the NDSL website Grand Forks Public Library. (http://library.nd.gov/traininglibraries.html) for updates.

NDLA has a vehicle for recognizing individuals who do a wonderful job in their Canoe Kudos 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 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 Form listed in The Good Stuff. You may buy or receive more than one pin.

Name______

Home Address______Longer kudos? Work Address______You may print this form Position______and use the Sponsor’s name______back! Reason for Nomination______Send nomination form and $10 donation (checks payable to NDLA) to: Lori K. West, Professional Development Committee Chair, Fargo Public Library, 102 3rd St. North, Fargo, ND 58102-2138.

The Good Stuff - Page 6 - March-June 2017 National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Not Just for Medical Libraries!

By Bobbi Newman, Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region, and Marcia Francis, Southwest Clinical Campus Librarian, Health Sciences Library, UND

According to a recent survey from Pew Research Center, health information is the second most popular search topic for Americans. As providers of reference service, and often the only free Internet access in their communities, public libraries are on the frontlines of health information needs in their communities. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) is a provider of research-based online resources, training, and educational materials at no cost to public and other libraries. The NNLM works with libraries to ensure they are able to meet the health information needs of their communities and has an office dedicated to serving the Midwest, including professionals. UND outreach librarians work with the North Dakota. NNLM to create customized classes for North Dakota library staff and/or patrons upon request. The NNLM provides funding opportunities to public and other libraries for programs and initiatives Need some help with a challenging medical/health focused on health information and outreach in their reference question or advice on searching medical/ communities. You can find funding opportunities by health resources? UND outreach librarians are visiting the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) funding available to help and may be able to recommend page at https://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding. The award cycle free U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) online runs from May 1 through April 30,, and most awards resources they find useful. MedlinePlus (https:// are open until all funds are dispersed. This means medlineplus.gov), a popular consumer health there may be some awards available now! resource, is just one of NLM’s resources for answering questions posed by health consumers and students. The NNLM also provides a variety of training opportunities designed to help librarians meet the The Health Sciences Library has created various health information needs of their communities at online guides to recommend information resources, no cost, including webinars, online courses, and including the Finding Good Health Information guide in-person sessions. Upcoming classes are available on (http://libguides.und.edu/findinggoodhealthinfo) the Professional Development page at https://nnlm. created specifically for health consumers. The Health gov/professional-development. NNLM short videos & Science Education guide (http://libguides.und. posted on YouTube provide more information about edu/health-science-education) was created for Pre-K creating a free personal account and registering for through college educators looking for high-quality classes. biology, health, medicine, chemistry, environmental science, etc. lesson plans and other training materials. The NNLM and the GMR partner with libraries such Resources listed in both guides are freely available. as the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Questions? Want more information? Feel free to Sciences. Health Sciences Library staff promote contact Bobbi at the GMR Office (319-335-4987; awareness and effective searching of quality health [email protected]) or Marcia at UND information resources for both consumers and Bismarck (701-751-6767; [email protected]. edu). The Good Stuff - Page 7 - March-June 2017 NORTH DAKOTA PUBLIC LIBRARIES 272,208 Day @ the Capitol 1 IN 3 ND CITIZENS BY THE NUMBERS HAS A LIBRARY CARD Christine Kujawa and Janet Anderson, NDLA Legislative Committee co-chairs, took the lead Visits to ND Libraries (2015) on planning NDLA’s participation 2,099,474 in the Day @ the Capitol event on April 4, 2017. Day @ the Capitol Attendance At All Vikings Games (2015) was a good way to connect with 1,281,112 legislators and talk with them Visits to ND State Fair (2015) about the importance of libraries to 305,093 our state and the kinds of services we provide. Attendance at NDSU Football Games (2015) 256,469

NDLA’s table featured an infograph 2,099,474 Visits to Norsk Hostfest (2015) VISITS TO ND LIBRARIES (created by Kristin Byram of the 55,000 State Library) and a prize wheel (borrowed from the Burleigh County Bookmobile) to put a “spin” on giveway items. 201,519 $13.21 3,940,883 LIBRARY PROGRAM ATTENDEES Library staff members from MEDIAN COST TO TOTAL NUMBER OF CIRCULATIONS Bismarck State College, Bismarck TAXPAYERS Veterans Memorial Public Library, Dickinson Area Public Library, THAT IS 6 CIRCULATIONS PER RESIDENT SERVED. Minot Public Library, and the $0.65 North Dakota State Library helped MATERIALS EXPENDITURES PER CIRCULATION staff the NDLA table. Visit NDLA’s Facebook page to see 252,778 583,463 EBOOK CIRCULATIONS some of the photos: http://tinyurl. USES OF PUBLIC com/mkf2k8o. COMPUTERS

STATISTICS WERE PULLED FROM THE NORTH DAKOTA PUBLIC LIBRARY 2015 ANNUAL REPORT

NDLA Launches New StarChapter Website NDLA has a new look! Our StarChapter website went live in January.

The work to refine and enhance the site is an on-going project. As you can imagine, migrating to a new site is both challenging and time-consuming.

Help us make the site better! Use it and when/if you find things that need to be added or changed, contact NDLA’s Web Editor.

The Good Stuff - Page 8 - March-June 2017 Congratulations to Our 2017 North Dakota Stars

Two new awards from the State Library are designed to recognize public libraries that go “above and beyond” in providing service to their communities. The Star Award recognizes outstanding library service and the Wheelie Award recognizes outstanding bookmobile service. The awards were presented to the winning libraries in April.

Star Library Award For this award, libraries were first divided into peer groups based on their total operating expenditures. Within each group, selectors then looked at a variety of service measures: circulation, service hours, program attendance, computer and WiFi usage, and percentage of North Dakota Library Coordinating Council Standards for Public Libraries that were being met. When it made sense to do so, libraries were also scaled per capita. Finally, libraries were assessed against the average performance within their peer group, with each measure receiving equal weight.

Fifteen public libraries received the Star Library Award.

Total Operating Expenditures < $10,000 • Killdeer Public Library • Kindred Public Library • Stanton Public Library

Total Operating Expenditures $10,000 - $24,999 • Maddock Community Library • Max Community Library • Velva School & Public Library

Total Operating Expenditures $25,000 - $99,999 • Beulah Public Library • Bowman Regional Public Library • Lisbon Public Library

Total Operating Expenditures $100,000 - $499,999 • Divide County Public Library • Hazen Public Library • Leach Public Library

Total Operating Expenditures $500,000 + • Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library • Dickinson Area Public Library • Minot Public Library

Wheelie Award The Wheelie Award recognized the bookmobile that was the best overall performer based on circulation per capita, stops made, and mileage traveled. One library was given this award. • Edgeley Public Library

The Good Stuff - Page 9 - March-June 2017 Take PRIDE in Learning about LGBT Information Sources By Erika Johnson, Southeast Clinical Campus Librarian, The LGBT Aging Project (http://fenwayhealth.org/ Health Sciences Library, UND the-fenway-institute/lgbt-aging-project/) Sponsored by Fenway The month of June is National LGBT Pride month. While Health in Boston, this these minority populations have much to celebrate, they site focuses on providing still face unique challenges when it comes to healthcare. for the unique needs For many, gender and sexual expression have led to of aging members of social issues such as family rejection, abuse and violence, the LGBT community. Locate information about lack of health insurance, and a shortage of culturally programs, services, and support groups across the competent health providers. In addition to these issues, country. they face increased risk for illnesses such as depression and anxiety, eating disorders, sexually transmitted Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality diseases, and cancer, often due to lack of screening. (www.glma.org) This organization of health How can librarians help? professionals is committed As always, librarians can start with information. This to advancing cultural article highlights several key resources that provide health competency in care for information specifically targeting the LGBT communities. LGBT individuals. The site provides useful information Healthy People 2020 (www.healthypeople.gov/) for both health professionals This site provides an overview of and patients. current research in LGBT health issues. Learn more about health LGBT Healthlink (www.lgbthealthlink.org/) disparities facing these populations This network of experts and and about current Healthy People objectives for studying professionals is committed to and improving health, safety, and well-being. decreasing health disparities for LGBT persons. They MedlinePlus (https://medlineplus.gov/ focus their work on reducing gaylesbianbisexualandtransgenderhealth.html) tobacco use and reducing Use the MedlinePlus health cancer, among other important issues. topic on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender About Us Health as a starting point to link to current issues, the The University of North Dakota Health Sciences latest research including current clinical trials, and Library (www.undmedlibrary.org) is part of the statistics. School of Medicine & Health Sciences and North Dakota’s only resource Library in the National Centers for Disease Control Network of Libraries of Medicine. Health Sciences (www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/) Library staff promote awareness and effective The CDC provides information searching of quality health information resources for about specific groups, including both consumers and professionals. gay men, lesbian women, LGBT youth, and more. These pages provide information for friends and family members, as well as links to additional resources such as hotlines and regional clinics.

The Good Stuff - Page 10 - March-June 2017 Calling New & Future Librarians! NMRT Grassroots Grant Deadline: August 11, 2017

Purpose The Grassroots Grant gives new and future librarians a chance to attend the annual NDLA conference. This grant will finance attendance of up to two members to the annual conference. The full registration (including meals) for each recipient will be waived. The 2017 conference will be held in Grand Forks, October 4-6, at the Alerus Center.

Application Procedure 1. Complete the NMRT Grassroots Grant Application at http://ndla.info/Forms 2. Submit the application to the New Members Round Table Chair, Andrea Placher Mitchell at [email protected]

Further Info • The grant does not cover the cost of travel, lodging, or any other expenses. • There are two awards. ~ One award will be given to a student currently enrolled in an ALA-accredited MLS program. ~ The second award will be given to a librarian with less than six years of experience who is attending an NDLA conference for the first time. ~ Both recipients must be current members of NDLA. • Recipients of the Grassroots Grant agree to: ~ Confirm in writing with the NMRT Grassroots Grant Committee that he or she will accept the grant and will attend the NDLA Annual Conference. ~ Provide confirmation in writing from his or her employing institution that he or she has approval to accept this grant and to meet the requirements of conference attendance. ~ Attend all three days of the NDLA Annual Conference (this agreement does not cover the pre-conference). ~ Attend the Executive Board Meeting (as a guest) on the third day. ~ Submit an article for publication in the NDLA newsletter, The Good Stuff, about the conference experience.

Questions regarding application for the NMRT Grassroots Grant? Contact New Members Round Table Chair, Andrea Placher Mitchell, at [email protected]

The Good Stuff - Page 11 - March-June 2017 2017 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Books Awards

By Pam Werre, CMC Librarian/Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards Committee Chair

For the thirteenth year, children have picked the best read aloud picture books in the Minnesota State University Moorhead’s (MSUM) Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards program. The purpose of the awards program is to increase literacy, to promote reading aloud to children, and to recognize outstanding authors and illustrators.

2017 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award (toddlers to age 8) • Winner ~ It Came in the Mail written and illustrated by Ben Clanton. This humorous book reminds us that imagination is a powerful thing, especially when a child’s desire for some mail encourages him to think outside the “mail” box. • Honor Books ~ The Darkest Dark written by Chris Hadfield and Kate Fillion; illustrated by Terry and Eric Fan ~ The Night Gardener written and illustrated by Terry and Eric Fan ~ What to Do with a Box written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Chris Sheban Note: This is the first time an illustrator team (brothers Terry and Eric Fan) has won two Wanda Gág Read Aloud Honor awards in the same year.

2017 Comstock Read Aloud Book Award (ages 9 to 12) • Winner ~ Follow the Moon Home: a Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles by Philippe Cousteau and Deborah Hopkinson; illustrated by Meilo So. This book describes how a group of South Carolina children works together on a “Lights Out for Loggerheads” project, inspiring the whole town to shut off the lights along the beach so hatching baby turtles will head for the moonlit sea rather than the manmade lights on shore. • Honor Books ~ Rules of the House written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Matt Myers ~ Seven and a Half Tons of Steel written by Janet Nolan and illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez Note: This is the second Comstock award for Deborah Hopkinson, who also won in 2009 for Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek.

About the Awards Program • Twenty-two regional teachers and librarians, along with 195 MSUM students, read more than 200 picture books aloud to almost 23,000 children during the year. The winners and honor books are determined after the Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards Committee examines feedback from readers, which includes responses to each book from children. • The program is administered by the staff of the MSUM Livingston Lord Library’s CMC, which holds a large collection of children’s books and resource materials for in-service teachers. The project is partially funded by the Solomon G. Comstock Memorial Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation and the Wanda Gág Book Award Fund of the MSUM Alumni Foundation. • Since its inception, 262,484 children have participated. Each year, after the winners are selected, the Livingston Lord Library’s Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) donates a large portion of the books to area libraries, schools, and nonprofits. To date, more than 8,600 picture books have been donated.

For more information, contact: Pam Werre, CMC Librarian/Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards Committee Chair; Livingston Lord Library, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1104 Seventh Avenue South, Moorhead, MN 56563. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 218.477.5818; Fax: 218.477.5924

The Good Stuff - Page 12 - March-June 2017 Resolution: It’s Time, It’s Time to Renew (or Join!) MPLA October 16-18, 2017

MPLA encourages members to apply for the many grants that are available to individuals or for state associations. Two types of grants are awarded several times a year.

• The mini-grant is designed for those looking to fund a project needing minimal support. The maximum amount for a mini-grant is $150.

• The regular grant is for endeavors requiring By Paulette Nelson, MPLA Representative substantial financial support, and for occasional funding of professional development It’s never too late to pick up a pen or go to the Mountain opportunities requiring travel outside the United Plains Library Association (MPLA) website to fill out the States. The maximum amount for a regular renewal form for MPLA. This progressive organization grant is $600. State associations can also apply has something for all librarians whether you are public, for grants to fund pre-or post-conferences up school, special, or academic. Each year the annual to $500. If a grant is awarded to a state, MPLA conference has engaging programs and keynote speakers members can also attend the pre- or post- for everyone in attendance. Librarians can network with conference at a reduced rate. professionals from throughout the twelve-state region and come away with new ideas or solutions to problems MPLA provides leadership training to librarians in that might be present in their work place. Face-to-face the region through the MPLA Leadership Institute, meetings with colleagues allow librarians to gain new which is held every other year. This week-long perspectives for their libraries. Institute helps develop leaders for our profession. Those who attend generally become the movers Joining this organization does not break the bank. Dues and shakers within their state associations. Many are based on earned income so beginning professionals people who assume leadership positions on the can join at a very reasonable rate. Plus, each state has regional or state-wide level have attended one of the opportunity to give away ten memberships per year to the Institutes that have been offered in the last 10 those who have never been members of the Association. years. In addition, those who have never been members before can take advantage of the half-price offer for first-time Don’t delay! Get your wallet out today and join members. MPLA!

The Good Stuff - Page 13 - March-June 2017 Browsing in the Cyberstacks

By Tina Nygard, Editorial Committee Member

Whenever I think of a library, the main association to be a bit older. If, however, you are looking to listen I connect with is books, as in the physically bound to some classics rather than try to hold one (Dickens, volumes stored on a shelf. Why is that, when there anyone???), this is a phenomenal resource. It’s also a are so many different types of media and resources great way to volunteer. You don’t need professional that we provide? It is a problem, indeed, to open equipment to be a reader -- just your computer and a peoples’ minds to the many other things libraries free, downloadable program. They even provide the offer so, in honor of the recently concluded National text! Easy peasy. Library Week, I am not going to write about physical books at all. Here goes. What if your patron is less than enthused about books Not everyone enjoys reading. While a painful in general? What if your statement to make, it is true. Some haven’t found patron is looking for media their genre; some find it mind-numbingly dull; some files instead? Obviously, are physically unable. How can we help in these Google can take the situations? When I was working towards my English reins in that situation, education degree, I found it nearly impossible to keep but sometimes a reliable up with the readings (especially Shakespeare, which source is more important most know makes sense phonetically, not necessarily than ease of access. For visually). To cope with this, I found other forms of those types of situations, I would like to bend your text, such as audio books, a godsend. One site I love gaze to Internet Archive. is LibriVox… Why did I choose this source? To be completely honest, it was on the first page of my Google search and, therefore, an easy choice. Don’t let that put you off, though. Also a non-profit organization, as most libraries are, Internet Archive is chock-a-block full of digital resources -- TV shows, movies, photos (NASA has some pretty stellar material on this site…just sayin’), even TV commercials from the 50s. Purely the LibriVox is an entirely free resource, providing both essentials for any human. Is the site incredibly easy to physical copies and audio files for whoever is in need. navigate? I would give it an 8/10 average -- mainly Since the site is run entirely by volunteers, not all because the “easy” search option doesn’t live up to its readers sound like Morgan Freeman and some of the name, although the “advanced” option is top-notch. recordings are a bit sketchy. Still, there are generally It could potentially take some time for the average several versions read by different people, so you just user to find things, but the possibilities are relatively have to find one you like. Another bonus? You can endless. download the audio files to your computer or phone, or whatever, and carry them with you. Quick recap, free audiobooks = great. Free digital media = also great. Now, let’s enjoy One thing to note: there probably won’t be audio files broadening minds! for all your faves. Why? The recordings are primarily public domain (open to the public because the Until next time… copyright is no longer applicable), so the books tend

The Good Stuff - Page 14 - March-June 2017 On the DOCket

Center for Plain Language

By Jessica Robinson, GODORT Chair

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” -- George Bernard Shaw

Everyone is familiar with this scenario. A conversation occurs and thoughtful dialogue is exchanged. Ideas are exhaustively outlined and both parties nod knowingly to each other, then go forth misunderstanding everything that was said.

Communication can be difficult. Communication in the government sometimes doubly so. Government agencies have their own special language, cocooned in the jargon that comes naturally and makes their own day-to-day work run more efficiently. This is not a problem so long as the agencies never attempt to talk to someone outside of their safe, warm nests. But, since the government exists to serve the public, it must talk to that public.

This is generally where government documents come in. Pamphlets, brochures, annual reports, maps, and a plethora of other documents delivered in a variety of ways make up this line of communication to the public. At this point, it is tempting to assume that the public has what they need in order to understand what government agencies are doing for them and will applaud their efforts.

The reality is sometimes less rosy. Many government workers are not trained writers, technical or otherwise. Government employees are charged with creating informational documents for the public and often fall back on the concepts and jargon that are clear to them, but manifestly, less so for the people they want to read their publications.

This is where the Center for Plain Language (http://centerforplainlanguage.org/) comes in. The Center is a non-profit that focuses on federal documents, assessing the output of different agencies and assigning grades for their general readability. The Center also connects agencies with writing consultants and provides a number of free resources designed to help government writers create clear and accessible documents. Their goal and drive is entirely in tune with that of the government agencies that they help -- to spread information to the public.

Information is the most valuable resource in the world and is often presented in abundance and without a monetary cost. However, information is worthless if it doesn’t get to people in a way that makes it useable. Government at all levels has a duty to give people the information they need. It would be helpful if the public could also understand the information given to them.

The Good Stuff - Page 15 - March-June 2017 people Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member Stuff Johanna Bjork left her Reference and Instructional department for seven years, she went on to form the Librarian position at Bismarck State College on April Digital Initiatives Department in 2012. In that role, 7, 2017. Johanna started her new job as Director she scanned Digital Initiatives content and organized of Library Services at Lewis-Clark State College in Scan Days throughout the state to collect local content Lewiston, Idaho, on April 24. to add to the Digital Horizons collection. Stephanie was one of 18 participants nationwide selected for Kristin Byram left her Public Awareness position at the the 2016 IMLS/OCLC Collection Wisdom: Libraries State Library in May. Archives, and Museums Conference Exchange. Stephanie is also NDLA’s President-elect. Based upon the recommendation of the library board, Laurie Dakken was hired as the city librarian at the LaNae Kristy began her duties as Librarian at the Hebron City Council meeting on February 13, 2017. Adams County Public Library in Hettinger on January 17, 2017. She also holds the librarian position at Arnetta Frueh is the new director of the Margaret Hettinger Public Schools. Kristy wants to make Fraase Public Library, located in the Rectory at 204 the library more relevant to the citizens of Adams Wilcox Avenue in Buffalo, North Dakota. The building County and reinvigorate what the library offers to belongs to the Buffalo Historical Society/Heritage the community. She took over the reins from Patty Center, Inc. Anderson, who resigned effective December 31, 2016.

Jackie Hawes is the new director of the Morton Mandan Julie LeFever, longtime director of the North Dakota Public Library and was welcomed with an open house Geological Society’s Wilson M. Laird Core and Sample celebration on May 11, 2017. Hawes is a native of Library at UND, a non-book kind of library, passed Kentucky and previously worked as a library director away on December 5, 2016, at the age of 63. Before in Washington, Missouri. She earned a bachelor’s her death, she had been selected to receive the 2017 degree from Murray State University and a master’s in Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award from the library science from the University of Kentucky in 2011. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Click Hawes hopes to bring more inclusive library programs here to read the obituary and here to find out more to the community and increase the offerings in teen and about LeFever’s work. adult programming. Welcome to North Dakota, Jackie! Wendy Lehar (1983-2016) passed away on December We welcome Angela Houser to North Dakota! 26, 2016, from a malignant brain tumor. Wendy was Angie started at the North Dakota State Library on a Research and Education Librarian at the Harley January 30, 2017, as the new Continuing Education E. French Library of the Health Sciences at the Coordinator. She graduated in May 2016 with her University of North Dakota from October 2014 to June MLIS from the University of Alabama with a focus 2016. During her tenure at UND, she served as the in Archival Management and also has a BA from Allied Health Liaison. Previously, Wendy served as a Wittenberg University (Ohio) in International Studies librarian at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, and Spanish Language, with minors in Japanese British Columbia, Canada. She loved mountain biking Language and East Asian Studies. Before joining the and hiking and spent her final months with her family State Library staff, Angie worked at The University of in Kamloops doing as much of that as she could. Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society as their digital archivist. Michael “Drew” Lewis began his job as the Metadata and Cataloging Librarian at UND’s Chester Fritz Library After 12 years at the North Dakota State Library, on January 10, 2017. Drew will be cataloging print Stephanie Baltzer Kom moved next door to a new job and non-print formats, state documents, and digital as Head of Technical Services at the State Archives. collections and will be responsible for metadata in Stephanie began her career at the State Library in the the forthcoming institutional repository. He hails from Statewide Catalog Department. After working in that upstate New York and was formerly a project archivist

The Good Stuff - Page 16 - March-June 2017 for Syracuse University’s Special Collections Research Jessica Sanden, librarian for Valley City’s Jefferson Center. Drew earned his MLS from Syracuse University Elementary and Washington Elementary Schools, was in May of 2016. Welcome to North Dakota, Drew! given the January “Above and Beyond Award” from the School Culture Committee. Sanden is in her first year Vivian Overby now serves as the director of the in education and was lauded for seeking out donations Carrington City Library, a place where she sometimes from local clubs to support purchasing, her willingness volunteered and often took her kids for summer to go the extra mile, dressing up as book characters to reading programs. Overby started her new position help foster a love of books and reading, and her fun on October 17, 2016. Jamie Heinley is the Assistant and creative spirit. Director and other library assistants include Cathy Paulson, Sharon Paintner, and Lenore Franchuk. Lynette Scheuring is the new director of the Hankinson Lenore retired from the director’s position the end of Public Library. She started her new duties in December April 2016. The library is open 10:30-5:30, Monday- 2016 when Sara Gregor left. Thursday, and 10:30-1:30 on Saturday.

Ann Pederson of Altru Health System in Grand Forks was re-elected to the OCLC Americas Regional The most important Council (ARC). Ann’s new three-year term begins on asset of any library July 1, 2017. As a member of ARC, she has chaired the Communication Committee and served on the Task goes home at night Force on Libraries/Archives/Museums. – the library staff. – Timothy Healy Membership Report Librarians are (as of June 9, 2017) tour-guides for Submitted by Laurie McHenry, Membership Chair all of knowledge. Pro Tem – Patrick Ness Academic & Special Libraries Section 48 Health Sciences Information Section 10 Public Library Section 88 School Library & Youth Services Section 68 New Members Roundtable 25 Technical Services & Government Documents Roundtable 14 Librarians have Associate members 10 Institutional members 4 always been among the Student members 9 Trustees 15 most thoughtful and Total 2017 members 274 **The above numbers represent individuals who have helpful people. renewed or joined since January 2017**

Help us increase our membership in 2017 — They are teachers tell your co-workers about NDLA and consider an institutional membership for your library! without a classroom. Discounts for FIRST TIME members! If you’re at a public library, please consider memberships for your trustees or board of directors. Membership information and forms can be found on our website — click on “Membership.” Dues can be – Willard Scott paid by check or PayPal.

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After April: the Healing Journey of Did You Know That? is a weekly email newsletter Staff Sergeant Scott Lilley and His about fascinating people, places, and events Family ($35, 198 p., hardcover; $17 involving North Dakota. Curt Eriksmoen, author of pbk.) by Eva McCollaum tells the story several books on North Dakota and a column that of Sgt. Lilley’s recovery from a serious appears in several North Dakota newspapers, creates brain injury after his Humvee was hit by the email newsletter and is making it available a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007. Sgt. to North Dakota libraries. For more details or to Lilley was stationed with the 5th Security subscribe, contact Curt Eriksmoen at cjeriksmoen@ Forces Squadron at the Minot AFB when he was sent to cableone.net. Iraq. The book is available from Lulu. Cats and Christmas trees don’t always mix, Photographer Chuck Haney something Annie Jarrett-Keffeler wrote about serves up dozens of color in her first children’s book, Duncan’s Christmas photographs that capture the Cat’astrophe ($10.99, 44 p., pbk.). The author’s cat, badlands of Kansas, Montana, Duncan, who cannot resist the Christmas tree, its Nebraska, North Dakota, and lights, ornaments, and even the tree skirt, inspired South Dakota in his latest book, the story of a cat who plots his annual battle Badlands Impressions ($12.95, against the Christmas tree. The book is available 80 p., pbk.). Haney has several from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Find out other books to his credit, among them Badlands of the more about the author, who lives on a farm near High Plains (2001), North Dakota Impressions (2003), Buchanan, at http://anniemarie.net/. North Dakota: Simply Beautiful (2001), North Dakota Unforgettable (2013), and Theodore Roosevelt National Keith Norman, a reporter for Park Impressions (2003). Badlands Impressions was the Jamestown Sun, has written published by Farcountry Press in April 2017 and is several fiction and nonfiction available from Farcountry Press, Barnes and Noble, books. One of his latest is Amazon, and local bookstores. the nonfiction Frontier Valor: the Medal of Honor on the Jessie Veeder, a Watford City-based singer/songwriter, Northern Plains (vol. 1) ($19.95, regional columnist, and Nashville recording artist, has 160 p., pbk.), which is about the penned Coming Home ($24.99, 82 p., hardcover). After battles of the Indian War period leaving the state to pursue her music career, she and and the men who received the her husband came home again to the family ranch. Her Medal of Honor for their actions. Two other recent new book includes stories, poetry, color photography, books by Norman are works of fiction inspired recipes, and memories that tell the story of why the by Jamestown’s past with a few real life incidents prairie pulls us home. Veeder signed copies of her worked in. Fast Horses and Cheap Booze ($15, 146 new book and presented a “Coming Home” concert at p., pbk.) and Dog Acts and Fancy Women ($14.95, the Heritage Center in Bismarck on April 30. Coming 138 p., pbk.) are set in 1920s Jamestown. The Home can be purchased from DakotaBookNet.com. For main character in both books is a reporter for the more information, visit http://jessieveedermusic.com/. Jamestown Alert. Norman’s books are available from Amazon. To learn more about the author and his Devotions ($24.95, 158 p., hardcover), the latest work, click here. collection from Fargo poet Timothy Murphy, is now available from North Dakota State University Press Kari L. Barchenger, a Fargo photographer and author and Amazon. Murphy writes formal, metrical poetry. of The International Peace Garden: Promise of Peace In Devotions, “he explores the vicissitudes of modern (2016), has a new book on the cacti and succulent spiritual life, including his passions for hunting, collection at the gardens. Hens and Chicks: the Scouting, and people” in 200+ short poems. Murphy Vitko Collection ($19.95, softcover) tells the story has several books to his credit, among them Set the of Don Vitko of Minot and how he came to have Ploughshares Deep, Very Far North, Hunter’s Log, and one of the largest collections of cacti and succulents Mortal Stakes / Faint Thunder. in the world. Vitko donated his collection to the

The Good Stuff - Page 18 - March-June 2017 International Peace Gardens for public display in ways to journey – north, south, east, west, inner, and 2009. The book includes 220+ full-color photographs outer – through 54 poems, reminiscences, and essays as well as information about plants and the gardens. by 12 writers from five towns in Dunn and Stark Both books are available via the author’s Memories counties. A limited number of booklets are available Forever website. for sale at the High Plains Cultural Center in Killdeer. DCW’s other booklets are A Pen for All Seasons If you grew up during the sixties on a farm or a (2016) and Winter Whispers: Holidays Past, Present, small rural town, this book will remind you of home. Future (2014). The group meets the first Monday of Home for Supper: Memories and Recipes ($15, 145 every month from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Dunn County p., pbk.) includes “Twelve stories, more than thirty Museum in Dunn Center. For more information, recipes, and 145 pages of enjoyment.” Margaret M. contact Executive Director Jennifer Strange at Barnhart penned this memoir about her childhood [email protected]. in the 1960s in Richardton, North Dakota. Barnhart also wrote Under the Twisted Cross (2010), the story The National Book Critics Circle recently announced of her father’s experience as a POW in World War II. the recipients of its book awards for publishing year Barnhart teaches writing and literature at Dickinson 2016. Among the winners was Louise Erdrich’s State University. Home for Supper is available from LaRose, a haunting novel about an accidental shooting Buffalo Commons Press. and its aftermath for two Native American families. Erdrich, who grew up in Wahpeton and now lives in Greg Gardner, a native of Minneapolis, is the author of several acclaimed books. Fairview, Montana, and former For more information about Louise Erdrich, see her Williston resident, is the author Rough Rider Award biography or visit her Birchbark of In Plain Sight ($15.95, 262 Books website and Facebook page. p., pbk.), a high-tech thriller set in the Twin Cities. You will also Making Noise ($15, CD) is the latest see Gardner’s main character, FBI recording from Mitch Malloy, who Special Agent Jon Wells, in his grew up in Dickinson. In addition second book, Firestorm, which to creating and producing his own should be out in late 2017. In music, he writes and produces Plain Site is available from Amazon and Barnes and projects for clients in his Nashville Noble and in local bookstores in Minnesota, North studio, Malloy Master Tracks. To Dakota, and Montana. For more information, visit the purchase a copy of his latest release, visit www. author’s website: http://www.greggardnerbooks.com/ mitchmalloy.com.

A Tioga family’s experience with Alzheimer’s is at Newspaper Pioneers: the Story of the North Dakota the heart of a new book by Niki Kapsambelis, The Press, a documentary film featuring eight notable Inheritance: a Family on the Front Lines of the Battle North Dakota print journalists, premiered at the against Alzheimer’s Disease ($26, hardcover, 368 Fargo Theater on June 2, 2017. Media historian and p.). The book tells the story of the DeMoe family, former journalist Teri Finneman conducted the oral which has lost generations of family members to history interviews and spearheaded the documentary Alzheimer’s, typically before age 60. Family members planning. The eight featured journalists include participating in research at the Alzheimer’s Research John Andrist, Robert Bailey, Jane Brandt, Marilyn Center at the University of Pittsburgh met Kapsambelis Hagerty, Mike Jacobs, Bob Lind, Bill Marcil, Sr., and when she conducted interviews with them in 2009. Richard Peterson. Students from the Missouri School She was “astonished” by the story they told and of Journalism put the documentary together from later approached them about a book project. The footage created by Finneman and Ryan Babb of Forum Inheritance, published in March 2017, is the result. Communications. Watch a Vimeo trailer here: https:// It is widely available in bookstores and online from vimeo.com/214317430. Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Renita Brannan and Monica Hannan of Bismarck Dunn County Writers (DCW) have published their teamed up to write Nice and F.A.T. ($14.95, 124 p., third booklet of original work, Journeys: North pbk.), a book that will help you focus on what you Dakota’s Badlands & Beyond, an exploration of six really want, throw out the yo-yo dieting, eat well,

The Good Stuff - Page 19 - March-June 2017 lose weight, and feel great. Renita is a health and provides maps, tables, new photographs, and fitness expert and Monica is a television anchor who commentary. It is a collaborative effort of NDSU Press turned to Renita for help. Their book is available at and the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection local bookstores, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. (GRHC). Other recent books from the GRHC that Hannan is also the author of The Dream Maker may also be of interest are Russian Agriculture in the (2006), Gift of Death (2016) and co-authored Dakota 1880s by William C. Bosch ($38, 159 p., softcover) Day Trips (1999) and More Dakota Day Trips (2001) and Sunflowers and Thistles: Bessarabian Germans with her husband Cliff Naylor. Learn more about Speak Out ($35, 324 p., hardcover) by Elvire Bisle- the authors at http://renitabrannan.com/ and www. Fandrich. For more information and to order copies, monicahannan.com/. visit the GHRC website at https://library.ndsu.edu/ grhc/index.html. The 7th edition of North Dakota Big Game Records Book ($15, 56 p., pbk.) by Patricia Stockdill is Booklist gave the latest children’s available from Scheels stores in Fargo and Bismarck. book from S. D. Nelson a starred It can also be ordered directly from Stockdill by review in its April 15, 2017, issue. emailing [email protected]. Red Cloud: a Lakota Story of War and Surrender ($19.95, 64 The American Legion Auxiliary p., hardcover) uses the imagined Department of North Dakota voice of Red Cloud, a 19th-century is selling North Dakota Nurses Lakota warrior and chief, to tell the Over There, 1917-1919 ($25) by history of his people. Sepia photographs and Nelson’s Grace E. F. Holmes, M.D. The ink, watercolor, and colored-pencil illustrations, done book “tells the personal stories in 19th century Lakota ledger-book style, illustrate of nurses from North Dakota the book. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock who served during World War Sioux Tribe and the author of several children’s books, I.” All proceeds will go toward including Black Elk’s Vision, Buffalo Bird Girl, Coyote the Auxiliary’s “Dr. Grace E. F. Holmes Nursing Christmas, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, Gift Horse, Greet Scholarship.” The book is available for $25, if you the Dawn, Sitting Bull, and The Star People. pick it up in Fargo, or $32.50, if mailed to you. Checks should be made payable to American Legion Red Eye Ruby ($10, CD) is the debut album from Red Auxiliary, Dept of ND with “Nurses Book” in the Eye Ruby, a three-piece band based in Minneapolis memo line and sent to: American Legion Auxiliary, with roots in North Dakota. Liz Collin hails from Dept of ND, 1801 23rd Ave. N, Rm 113, Fargo, ND Bismarck, Caitlin Pieper is from Fargo, and Caley 58102. For details about a PayPal option, email the Pieper is from Minnesota. The album features original office at [email protected]. If you pick up the compositions on cello, guitar, piano, and voice, and book, the office is located at Fargo’s Old Hector is available from DakotaBookNet.com or online from Airport Terminal (1801 23rd Ave. N., Rm 113). www.redeyeruby.com.

North Dakota’s Geologic Legacy: Our Land and Edna Uecker, who lived in How It Formed by John Bluemle was named a Hettinger most of her adult life, finalist in the Nature category of the annual Midwest shares the story of her family’s Book Awards. The winners were announced at perseverance after their five-year- the Gala in St. Paul on May 12, 2017. Although old daughter, Sherida, suffered Bluemle’s book did not win, being selected as a a traumatic head injury when a finalist (from 192 titles across 30 categories) is a drunk driver hit the family car stellar achievement. For more information about the on a Sunday morning in 1958. book, see the March 2016 issue of The Good Stuff (p. Even though there was little social 14) on the NDLA website. services support at the time, the family chose to care for Sherida A new edition of an important ethnic study first at home rather than send her to published in 1938 is now available. The 2017 edition an institution. See You in the Morning: Life with My of Prairie Mosaics: An Ethnic Atlas of North Dakota Disabled Child ($15.95, 162 p., pbk.; $3.99, ebook) ($40, hardcover, 150 p.) by William C. Sherman takes its title from a prayer Uecker and Sherida shared

The Good Stuff - Page 20 - March-June 2017 each evening. Uecker’s purpose in writing this book is educational leadership at NDSU. “…Thunderbird is a “to show that having a disabled child does not define poetic discourse on the historical, cultural, medicinal you or your family … a normal life can be had.” The and spiritual properties of the birch tree, which book is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Lajimodiere uses in her birch bark biting art.” The and at KJ Jewelers in Hettinger. books were assembled and printed at the Braddock Letterpress Print Museum by publishing interns and 6 Brothers: a Story of Hope, each of the numbered, signed, limited edition copies Loss, and Perseverance on the includes an original piece of birch bark biting art. To Northern Plains ($29.95, DVD, order a copy, visit NDSU Marketplace. Click here for 60 min.) is a documentary film more information about the author. available from Prairie Public. Through interviews, archival Thomas Seibold, who grew up footage, and letters sent during on a farm near Cleveland, North World War II, the film explores life Dakota, and his wife, designer on the plains for the six Stenberg Sheri McCulley, are the authors brothers, sons of western North of The 12 Joys of Christmas ($20, Dakota homesteaders and part of hardcover; $12, pbk.; 30 p.), a the “greatest generation.” To find out more about the children’s book. Like the familiar brothers and access the 1,000+ letters they sent during “12 Days of Christmas” carol, the World War II, visit www.6brothersfilm.com. book features a list, but this list focuses on of the moments and memories of Christmas After retiring from teaching at Trinity Bible College, (from twelve Christmas cookies down to one freshly Daniel Pelletier wrote his first book, a workbook cut tree). Each item in the list is accompanied by called Starting Points: 100 “Triggers” for Writing, delightful illustrations created by McCulley. The book Journal-keeping, and Personal Reflection ($35, 280 is available from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and from p., hardcover; $18.99, pbk.). The book includes McCulley’s website: www.shopsherimcculley.com/ Pelletier’s own pieces of writing with blank space after holidaychristmas. each piece so readers can write their own responses. Starting Points is available online from Amazon and Vanish ($19.95, 280 p., pbk.) by Brian Petersen has Barnes and Noble. been published by Pronghorn Press. The story is set in the fictional town of Vanish, a place much like Tributaries ($20) by Tim Ralston is New Town where the author grew up, and serves a collection of poems written by as background for a story of interracial love and the the late poet between 1974 and exploits of an oilman during the Bakken oil boom. 2010. Ralston grew up on a farm Vanish is available at local bookstores and online from near Petersburg, North Dakota, Pronghorn Press, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon. served as an English language instructor in South Vietnam while The Tri-County Tourism Alliance has published its third he was in the Air Force, and did book, Women behind the Plow: Life on the Farm as a variety of others jobs during his Told by German-Russia Women in Emmons County, lifetime. Through it all, he wrote poetry. After his death Logan County and McIntosh County, North Dakota in December 2010, his widow, Mary Kay Ralston, and ($75, 146 p., hardcover). Written and edited by Sue B. daughter, Mariah Ralston Deragon, began seriously (Kaseman) Balcom, this beautiful book shares stories looking through his writings and typing up the work. about women’s lives on the farm through interviews The finished product is now available at several stores and 400+ photos. Women behind the Plow is available in North Dakota and Minnesota as well as via the from DakotaBookNet.com and NDSU’s Germans website. from Russia Heritage Collection. The Alliance’s other books, also written and edited by Balcom, include NDSU Press has published Thunderbird ($25, 36 Ewiger Saatz = Everlasting Yeast : the Food Culture of p.), a new collection of poetry by North Dakota the Germans from Russia in Emmons County, Logan Associate Poet Laureate Denise K. Lajimodiere, County, and McIntosh County, North Dakota (sold out) an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of and Ready for School: Memories of Country Schools Chippewa (Belcourt, ND) and an associate professor of in North Dakota German-Russian Country, Emmons,

The Good Stuff - Page 21 - March-June 2017 County, Logan County, McIntosh County ($20, 36 p., Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation. It is being softcover). distributed to Foundation members in June and will then be available at Medora gift shops. The book The latest book from Chuck Klosterman is hot off the sells for $10. press! X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century ($27, 464 p., The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and hardcover) features Klosterman’s best pieces from the Life in a North Dakota Boomtown by Blaire Briody last ten years. Klosterman, who grew up near Fargo, will be released by St. Martin’s Press on September has written several books and articles for newspapers, 26, 2017. The book is focused on Williston and magazines, and online publications. Library Journal what happens to a community during an oil rush. gave X a starred review in its June 1, 2017, issue Seamus McGraw, author of The End of Country: with this verdict from reviewer Paul Stenis: “A funny, Dispatches from the Frack Zone, said this about thoughtful Greatest Hits album from a master of The New Wild West: “The same furious forces that nonfiction, with standout tracks that will stand the shattered the Bakken Shale and unleashed one of the test of time.” X is available in bookstores and from most explosive oil booms in history also fractured the Amazon and Barnes and Noble. lives of many who were drawn to it. Insightful, deeply reported, and at times heartbreakingly personal, Blaire Things to watch for … Briody’s The New Wild West brings us face to face with the walking wounded of America’s domestic Awake, a Dream from Standing energy boom—the preacher fallen from grace, the Rock (84 min.) is a documentary young couple struggling to hold their family together, film about the #NODAPL the roughnecks and drivers who all came looking movement at the Standing Rock for that most elusive of natural resources, a second Sioux Reservation in North Dakota chance. It’s a must-read.” that began in 2016. It “captures the story of Native-led defiance North Dakota Beer: a Heady that forever changed the fight History by Alicia Underlee Nelson is against [sic] for clean water, our about North Dakota’s journey from a environment and the future of our dry state to a craft beer hub. Published planet, our environment and the by The History Press, the book is future of our planet.” The film is a collaboration scheduled for release in July 2017. between indigenous filmmakers: Director Myron Dewey, Executive Producer Dough Good Feather, A documentary film about UND’s and environmental Oscar-nominated filmmakers, former Fighting Sioux logo and Josh Fox and James Spione.” Watch the trailer nickname will soon be complete. Filmmaker here and visit the website for details: http:// Matt Fern of Bismarck held private screenings of awakethefilm.org/. Unauthorized: the Story of the Fighting Sioux this spring to determine if any additional editing needs to NDSU Press plans to publish The Bakken: an be done before submitting the documentary to film Archaeology of an Industrial Landscape by Drs. festivals. Fern began conducting interviews for the film William Caraher and Bret Weber this fall. Watch for in 2013 and finished filming in July 2016 when the it at bookstores. To learn more, visit the NDSU Press new Fighting Hawks logo was unveiled. Facebook page. Kevin Kremer, a longtime Mandan resident and Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Bismarck teacher now living in Florida, has invited is scheduled for release on November 14, 2017. students and teachers to help him edit and illustrate The book is being published by HarperCollins and his new book, Valentine Shmellentine. The story is will be widely available in bookstores and from set at the fictitious Ron Erhardt Elementary School in online sellers. Mandan. Find out more (and download the third draft) at www.kevinkremerbooks.com. The final book and Hello Medora! written by Bethany Orn Andrist ebook are due to be published by September 1, 2017. of Bismarck and illustrated by McCal Joy of Fargo is a14-page board book, published by the

The Good Stuff - Page 22 - March-June 2017 3. You will now see the Rules Wizard pop- up window. Don’t select any conditions in Step 1, simply click the Next button. A warning will appear stating “This rule will be applied to every message you By Eric Stroshane send. Is this correct?” Click Yes, as this is precisely the risk and excitement you seek! Curtailing Email Mishaps 4. Now click the checkbox next to “defer delivery by a number of minutes.” Then in Microsoft Outlook click the hyperlinked text “a number of.” Set a delay correlated to how much Cube monkeys, rejoice! There is a genuine means of undoing slower your brain is than your fingers. the Send email function in Outlook. Now, I know you’re Realistically, you want enough time to thinking: wait, isn’t that what triggering the Recall This Message reflect and recant, but not so long that action does? Well, sort of. Recall can work when done before folks think you’re ignoring them. One anyone reads it or sees the popup notice announcing it, and minute is the default, but trust your gut so long as all recipients use Outlook or another platform that on this one. allows remote deletion. None of this guaranteed. Moreover, it can also send out another notice indicating that your original message was recalled, which is decidedly erring on the spamtastic side of email etiquette.

A proper email undo works like this: a delay is built into delivery so the message is not transmitted immediately when you hit the Send button. If you realize you forgot a sentence or attachment, addressed it to the wrong parties, or recognized your wording may be too strong or easily misconstrued, you now have a window of opportunity for your brain to catch up to your fingers and rectify matters. 5. Click the Finish button. You will see another warning—click OK. Here’s how to configure your Outlook client so this is possible: You’ve successfully setup your mail client 1. Click on File (top left) and then Manage Rules & Alerts. to work in a fashion that’s more human- friendly. How spectacular! Now, if and when the time comes that you click the Send button in error, here’s what to do to make things right: Find your Outbox (in the folder pane on the left) and click into it.

2. This summons the Rules and Alerts pop-up window. Click on New Rule, then under Start from a blank rule, click on “Apply rule on messages I send.” Finally, click the Next button.

From here, you can either open the message to edit its contents, alter recipients, and add or remove attachments, or you can delete it outright. That’s it—Email undone!

The Good Stuff - Page 23 - March-June 2017 Good Stuff from Around the State

Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

After more than a year in the sponsored by the Bismarck Library Foundation, works, the Beulah Public Library Inc. and Friends of the Bismarck Public Library, Foundation created Beulah-Opoly, included displays and video of the library’s history, a “100 percent Beulah” game based music, face painting, balloons, cupcakes, and lots on Monopoly, as a fundraiser. Local of fun. As a part of the anniversary celebration, businesses purchased squares to cover Dr. Marilyn Snyder also gave a presentation on “ manufacturing costs. The game sells Bismarck 1917” on May 10th. The program was for $35 and is available at locations co-sponsored by the Bismarck Historical Society. throughout Beulah. The library offers a number of classes and special News from Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public programs. Computer and Internet Basics, geared Library to beginners, teaches basic computer components, A grand opening celebration of the Teen mouse skills, and searching skills, and also Headquarters was held on December 9, 2016. The examines websites. Basic Genealogy covers the space includes booths for studying or working on basics of Ancestry Library Edition and the World projects, a TV and lounge area for movies or video Vital Records database. B.A.R.K. (Bismarck game tournaments, charging stations, a portable Animals Reading with Kids) is a program designed technology car, a white board, a counter and sink, for kids who want to practice their reading. Local floor-to-ceiling cupboards, and comfy furniture. therapy dogs provide the listening ears.

The Library hosted a reading of selected poems Larimore’s Edna Ralston Public Library held a pajama from Tributaries by the late Tim Ralston on January party story hour on January 4, 2017. Games, a 7, 2017. Many of the poems focus on life in rural pancake relay race, cereal, and pajama-clad kids were North Dakota as well as Tim’s service during the all part of the fun. Vietnam War. Ralston passed away in 2010, and his daughter and wife published this collection of Staff from PBS-Fargo and a special guest, Dr. Seuss’s poetry. Cat in the Hat, visited the Elgin Public Library on April 13, 2017, to celebrate National Library Week. On April 27, 2017, the library offered a free Tammy Swift, PBS Education Services Associate, read workshop to those interested in writing their The Cat in the Hat to children at the library. PBS-staff own stories. Debra Marquart, who grew up in and the Cat also made stops in Mott, Minot, Mohall, North Dakota and is the author of five books and and Valley City. director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University, led the Grand Forks Public Library workshop.

Bismarck’s first-ever Comic Con, a collaboration of the library with Juke Joint Comics, was hosted by the library the afternoon of May 6, 2017. Hundreds showed up (with many dressed as their favorite character whether or not they participated in the costume contest) to enjoy the themed rooms, photo booth, and to show off their “geeky knowledge with trivia.” With a growing interest in comics and graphic novels, Comic-Con was a chance to promote the Library’s collections and GFPL hosted Free Comic Book Day on May 6, the newly renovated Teen Center. 2017. The stacks of free comic books weren’t the only thing that brought droves of young people to The library celebrated its 100th anniversary with the library that day. They also came for the comic an open house on May 13, 2017. The event, crafts, comic buttons, and all around good time.

The Good Stuff - Page 24 - March-June 2017 GFPL’s STEM (Science Technology Engineering the Danish concept of coziness and a feeling Mathematics) program got a huge boost from of contentment. On February 10, 2017, the their Friends group, which donated $1,500 for the McKenzie County Public Library and the Long X program. Museum in Watford City collaborated to provide an evening of Hygge at the museum. The upstairs space was inviting and comfortable with low lighting, candles and flowers, and soft music playing in the background. Guests were warmly greeted, offered a drink, and invited to walk around, sit and chat with friends, and enjoy a variety of delicious things. Several businesses in town provided soup, meat and cheese trays, and all kinds of sweet treats. All in all, it was a hygge Northern Valley Youth Orchestra visited the library kind of evening – relaxing and cozy. for a special musical story time on March 6, 2017. STEAM Forward Story Time featured a reading of The McKenzie County Public Library’s bookmobile Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss, demos of will retire later this year after almost 20 years of stringed instruments and the sounds they make, service and putting on some 113,000 miles. A new and music with connections to science and math. bookmobile has been ordered and will hopefully arrive sometime in December. James River Valley Library System’s new bookmobile arrived from Canton, Ohio, on January 30, 2017. News from Minot Public Library The library started hosting a Mommy Meet-up to Polly’s Place opened at Wahpeton’s Leach Public give moms and kids a time to get together and Library on April 10, 2017. The formal name for the make friends. newly renovated space is the Polly Benn Groneman Children’s Library. $50,000 was donated for the The Books ‘n Brews book club continues to meet project by the estate of Pauline “Polly” Groneman in at 7 p.m. at the Tap Room the first Thursday of June 2016. The opening kicked off National Library every other month. The group kicked off their Week activities at the library. 2017 reading year with a graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman. Click here for the full 2017 An open house was held at the Margaret Fraase reading schedule and more details. Public Library on February 11, 2017, to celebrate its new look. The library is located in the historic 1916 Build Minot, a community engagement campaign Buffalo High School in Buffalo, North Dakota, which started by the Minot Public Library, encouraged is owned by the Buffalo Historical Society/Heritage people to propose community improvements Center Inc. Its four rooms are newly painted, books through notes written on large plastic building cases have been rearranged, and the books have blocks located in a variety of places around town. been reviewed and reclassified. The library also has The campaign ended in May and a wrap-up event a puzzle table, a homework and study room, and a was held on June 3, 2017. children’s reading and activity room. The Mott Public Library is a happening place. From North Dakota’s Library2Go Digital Media (powered S.T.E.A.M. Power (Science, Technology, Engineering, by OverDrive) collection and the number of members Arts, Math) programming to creative story times, keeps on growing! To see all of the member libraries, presentations by local authors, book clubs, and scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Member U.F.O.s (unpredictably fun occurrences), there is Libraries. plenty to do. Check out the website and the Facebook page for details. News from McKenzie County Public Library “Hygge” (pronounced hue-guh) is a word for Kevin Carvell, a former editor with the Fargo Forum

The Good Stuff - Page 25 - March-June 2017 and longtime director of former Sen. Byron Dorgan’s wrapped items on display. Once unwrapped, the eastern North Dakota offices, has quietly amassed a identity of the blind date was revealed. Those who collection of more than 13,000 books related to North returned the “Rate Your Date” card inside the book Dakota. He began collecting seriously in the 1980s were entered into a prize drawing. The Friends group and any publication that relates to North Dakota sells “eco-friendly” book bags and playing cards to qualifies to go on his shelves. About six years ago, raise funds for the library, and is offering Senior Book Carvell purchased and moved back to his family home Delivery to senior citizens in the community. Library in Mott. He remodeled a section of his home into a books are delivered once a month to those who sign library and hosted an open house for the community up. this past spring. When asked what will happen to the collection in the future, Carvell said it will probably The State Library, in conjunction with the North be up to his daughter to decide, although he told her Dakota Library Coordinating Council and donating it to an institution may be the best thing. NDLA, sponsored its second annual Library Legislative Day at the State Library on February 13, 2017. The NDLA’s Health Science Information (HSIS) and event was an opportunity for members of the library Academic & Special Libraries (A&SL) sections community to interact with members of the Legislative organized and hosted an Unconference the afternoon community and to also provide firsthand information of May 16, 2017. This attendee-driven event focused on the value of libraries and the issues that libraries on conversation and networking. Participants face. Governor Burgum was among the attendees. connected online to share ideas, provide updates Gift bags for legislators and other dignitaries included about their individual libraries, share information healthy treats, information about North Dakota about special projects, and dialogue about issues libraries, and an invitation to NDLA’s “Day on the important to individuals and their libraries. Hill” at the capitol on April 4, 2017. These libraries Unconference planners included: Kristen Borysewicz, helped make the gift bags possible: Bismarck Veterans A&SL Chair; Merete Christianson, HSIS Chair; Memorial Public Library, Bottineau County Public Laura Trude, A&SL Chair-elect; Dawn Hackman, Library, Mildred Johnson (NDSCS) Library, Minot HSIS Chair-elect; Jessica Gilbert-Redman, Technology Public Library, North Dakota State Library, and Ward Support; and Erika Fischer, HSIS Secretary and Website County Public Library. Support. The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Through its “Beefin’ It Up: Fuel for the Finish Walk/ project will break ground this fall with a legislative Run”, North Dakota CattleWomen raised funds to mandate to have substantial construction completed purchase some 2,500 books about the beef cattle by December 2018. The library will be located in industry and ranch life to give to elementary schools Dickinson. The North Dakota Legislature approved and libraries across the state. $12 million in funding with a match of $3 million from the City of Dickinson. The library will feature a In honor of the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights museum, conference center, reading rooms, café, and on December 16, 2016, the North Dakota Humanities teaching and community rooms. Council partnered with the National Archives and Records Administration to make a free traveling Valley City-Barnes County Public Library has a display available to libraries, schools, museums, and fresh look with newly repainted interior spaces and other community organizations. Among the libraries refurbished front doors. The exterior was repainted who applied for and hosted the exhibit were Bismarck over the past two summers. Integrity Painting did both Public Library, Leach Public Library (Wahpeton), and projects and the color scheme is in keeping with the Allen Memorial Library (Valley City State University). library’s Victorian style.

The Friends of the Stanley Public Library sponsored The director and board of the Valley City-Barnes a “Blind Date with a Book” for Valentine’s Day in County Public Library will start a strategic planning February. To participate, library users (ages 16+) could process in the fall. Because public input is an choose a book to check out from the beautifully important part of the process, short surveys will be

The Good Stuff - Page 26 - March-June 2017 MPLA Seeking posted at the library and on the library’s website Awards Nominations during the summer months. Members of the public are asked to participate and give honest, constructive Do you know an individual, group, or input. To help the group get started on the strategic organization in your state or library deserving of planning process, members of the community are also recognition? Please submit a nomination for an invited to challenge Library Director Steve Hammel MPLA award! to a game of Cribbage and be prepared to talk about what they would like to see for the library in the next MPLA Awards honor both individuals and groups, three to five years. Game on! from those who have just embarked on a library career to those who have spent many years in The Valley City Optimist Club donated $3,000 to the service. The Literary Contribution award is given librarians at Jefferson and Washington Elementary to an author, and the Carl Gaumer award can Schools in Valley City to help with the purchase of be awarded to a group or organization that has new non-fiction books. Optimist International is a consistently offered support to libraries and library worldwide volunteer organization whose members staff. The newly revised Unsung Hero award has work to make the future brighter by bringing out become the MPLA Dan Chaney Unsung Hero the best in children, in their communities, and in Award. Descriptions of all six MPLA awards are themselves. on the website at: www.mpla.us/services/awards/. The link to the Awards Nomination form, which Two Little Free Libraries were installed in Velva can be completed online, appears in a sidebar in January through a project initiated by the Velva to the right. Articles, photographs, or letters of Women’s Club. One is located across from Saint support can also be attached to nominations. Cecilia’s Catholic Church and the other is by Velva Drug on Main Street. Check them out! Click here for • Award nominations will be accepted through more about the Little Free Library movement. August 1, 2017.

The University of Mary’s Welder Library has a new • Awards will be presented at the 2017 MPLA webpage: http://www.umary.edu/academics/library/ Joint Conference with the Nevada Library index.php.The new site provides ready access to the Association, in Stateline, Nevada (South Lake online catalog, eResources, and Interlibrary Loan Tahoe), October 16-18, 2017. (ILL) services; a photo gallery; tutorials, library guides and citation guides; and information on the library’s • You must be an MPLA member to nominate, mission, vision and values; history; policies; hours; although only some of the awards require the and staff and contact information. Comments and honoree to be a member of MPLA. suggestions are welcome and may be sent to David Gray, Director of Library Services, at dpgray@umary. Make someone’s day! Submit an award edu. nomination today.

Williston Community Library hosted a series of “Traditions around the World” events at the library during the winter months. People from different ARSL to Zion! countries shared their cultures and traditions through brief presentations and food. Norwegian and Dutch 2017 ASRL Conference cultures were in the spotlight in December and Columbia, Mexico, and Pakistan took center stage in The 2017 Association for Rural and Small Libraries February. Annual Conference will be held in St. George, Utah, September 6–9.

Find all the details here: http://arsl.info/2017-conference/

The Good Stuff - Page 27 - March-June 2017 Upcoming Library Events, Conferences, & Important Dates

June • June 2017 – GLBT Book Month • June 22-27, 2017 – 2017 ALA Annual Conference, Chicago July • July 15-18, 2017 – American Association of Law Libraries, Annual Meeting & Conference, Austin, Texas • July 23-29, 2017 – SAA (Society of American Archivists) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon August • August 2-3, 2017 – Minnesota eLearning Summit, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, Minnesota • August 11, 2017 – Deadline for NDLA Grassroots Grant applications • August 14, 2017 – Summer Summit, Minot Public Library • August 15, 2017 – Summer Summit, West Fargo Public Library • August 16, 2017 – Summer Summit, North Dakota State Library (Bismarck) • August 17, 2017 – Summer Summit, Grand Forks Public Library • August 21-23, 2017 – Digital Directions – Seattle • August 31, 2017 – Deadline for NDLA Professional Grant applications September • September 2017 – Library Card Sign-up Month • September 6-9, 2017 – Association for Rural and Small Libraries Conference, St. George, Utah • September 27-29, 2017 – South Dakota Library Association Conference, Chamberlain, Cedar Shore • September 24-30, 2017 – Banned Books Week • September 27, 2017 – Banned Websites Awareness Day October • October 4-6, 2017 – North Dakota Library Association Conference, Grand Forks • October 5-6, 2017 – Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference, Rochester • October 8-14, 2017 – Teen Read Week • October 13-16, 2017 – Joint Meeting of the Midwest Chapter and the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Ypsilanti, Michigan • October 15-21, 2017 – National Friends of Libraries Week • October 16-18, 2017 – MPLA/NLA (Mountain Plains Library Association/ Nevada Library Association Joint Conference), Lake Tahoe, Nevada • October 25-26, 2017 – Digital Preservation 2017, Pittsburgh • October 29 – November 4, 2017 – International Games Week November • November 2017 – Picture Book Month • November 6-8, 2017 – Best Practices Exchange, Boston

The Good Stuff - Page 28 - March-June 2017 TREASURER'S REPORT As of December 31, Treasurer's 2016 (End of Report 4th Quarter) By Aaron Stefanich, As of December NDLA Treasurer 31, 2016 By Aaron Stefanich, NDLA Treasurer Editor’s note: Approved by electronic vote of the Executive Board on January 11, 2017 Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance CHECK BOOK 12/31/2016 $18,295.46

NDLA Funds $18,295.46 Annual Conference 2016 $23,460.00 $23,262.14 $197.86 Annual Conference 2017 -$1,500.00 -$1,500.00 Annual Conference 2018 $913.80 Book Sales $965.72 $145.00 $101.08 $1,009.64 Centennial Cookbook -$2,739.86 $6.40 -$2,746.26 Donation - GODART $100.00 Dues $9,770.00 $9,770.00 HSIS Partner Account $8,817.91 $745.76 $8,072.15 SLAYS Partner Account $4,904.33 $4,904.33 Investment Account Transfers $2,915.40 $1,659.00 Other receipts/disbursements $1,659.00 $20,417.58

NDLA Funds Subtotal $42,953.73 $47,105.76 $14,143.43

Check Book Balance 12/31/2016 $14,143.43 ******************************************************************************************************************** MONEY MARKET AND CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA Bank Money Market Ready Cash $9,441.53 Interest Deposits $0.89 Transfers $9,442.42 Professional Development Bank Money Market RC $5,679.14 Interest $0.39 Deposits Transfers $1,659.00 $2,915.40 $4,423.13 NDLA CD $20,713.48 Interest Transfers $20,713.48 Professional Development CD $20,419.34 Interest Transfers $20,419.34 TOTAL investment accounts $56,253.49 $54,998.37

TOTAL EQUITY 12/31/2016 $69,141.80

The Good Stuff - Page 29 - March-June 2017 TREASURER'S Treasurer's Report REPORT As of March 31, 2017 (End of 1st Quarter) As of March 31, 2017 (End of 1st Quarter) By ByAaron Aaron Stefanich, Stefanich, NDLA NDLA Treasurer Treasurer Editor’s note: Approved by electronic vote of the Executive Board on April 13, 2017 Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance CHECK BOOK 3/31/2017 $14,143.43

NDLA Funds $14,143.43 Annual Conference 2017 -$1,500.00 -$1,500.00 Annual Conference 2018 -$913.80 -$913.80 Book Sales $965.72 $52.00 $1,017.72 Centennial Cookbook -$2,739.86 -$2,739.86 Donation - GODART Dues $5,020.00 $5,020.00 HSIS Partner Account $8,817.91 $0.00 SLAYS Partner Account $4,904.33 Investment Account Transfers $178.00 Other receipts/disbursements $178.00 $2,536.44

NDLA Funds Subtotal $5,250.00 $2,714.44 $2,535.56

Check Book Balance 03/31/2017 $16,678.99 ************************************************************************************************** MONEY MARKET & CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA Bank Money Market Ready Cash $9,442.42 Interest $0.21 Deposits $0.00 $0.00 Transfers $9,442.63 Professional Development Bank Money Market RC $4,423.13 Interest $0.10 Deposits $0.00 Transfers $178.00 $0.00 $4,601.23 NDLA CD $20,713.48 Interest $103.89 Transfers $0.00 $0.00 $20,817.37 Professional Development CD $20,419.34 Interest $102.38 Transfers $0.00 $0.00 $20,521.72 TOTAL investment accounts $54,998.37 $55,382.95

TOTAL EQUITY 3/31/2017 $72,061.94

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PRESIDENT ACADEMIC & SPECIAL LIBRARIES CONSTITUTION, BYLAWS & MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Lesley Allan SECTION POLICIES COMMITTEE Laurie McHenry West Fargo Public Schools Kristen Borysewicz Kristen Borysewicz Thormodsgard Law Library Osgood Kindergarten Center UND Chester Fritz Library UND Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota School 5550 44th Ave S 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 of Law Fargo, ND 58104 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 2968 2nd Ave N Stop 9004 Work Phone 701.356.2190 Work Phone 701.777.4647 Work Phone 701.777.4647 Grand Forks ND 58202-9004 Fax 701.356.2199 Fax 701.777.3319 Fax 701.777.3319 Work Phone 701.777.3475 Email: [email protected] Email: kristen.borysewicz@library. Email: kristen.borysewicz@library. Fax 701.777.4956 und.edu und.edu Email: [email protected]. PRESIDENT-ELECT edu Stephanie Baltzer-Kom GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS Laurie McHenry North Dakota State Library / TECHNICAL SERVICES Thormodsgard Law Library PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 604 E Boulevard Ave. ROUNDTABLE University of North Dakota School COMMITTEE Bismarck ND 58505 Jessica Robinson, Co-chair of Law Lori K West Work Phone 701.328.4629 North Dakota State Library 2968 2nd Ave N Stop 9004 Dr. James Carlson Library Fax 701.328.2040 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Grand Forks ND 58202-9004 2801 32 Ave S Email: [email protected] Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Work Phone 701.777.3475 Fargo ND 58103 Work Phone 701.328.4610 Fax 701.777.4956 Work Phone 701.476.5977 PAST PRESIDENT Fax 701.328.2040 Email: laurie.mchenry@Email:.und. Fax 701.476.5981 Wendy Wendt Email: [email protected] edu Email: [email protected] Grand Forks Public Library 2110 Library Circle Mary Wheeler, Co-chair CONTINUING EDUCATION THE GOOD STUFF EDITORIAL Grand Forks ND 58201-6324 Minot Public Library COMMITTEE COMMITTEE Work Phone 701.772.8116 516 2nd Ave SW Vacant Marlene Anderson Fax 701.772.1379 Minot ND 58701-3792 Bismarck State College Library Email: [email protected] Work Phone 701.852.1045 FINANCE COMMITTEE PO Box 5587 Fax 701.852.2595 Michael Safratowich Bismarck ND 58506-5587 SECRETARY Email: [email protected] UND Harley E. French Library of Work Phone 701.224.5578 Lane Talkington the Health Sciences Fax 701.224.5551 South Middle School HEALTH SCIENCE INFORMATION Medical School Room 1300 Email: marlene.anderson@ 1999 47th Ave South SECTION 501 N Columbia Rd Stop 9002 bismarckstate.edu Grand Forks ND 58201 Merete Christianson Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 Work Phone 701.746.2345 NDSU Libraries Work Phone 701.777.2602 PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE Fax 701.746.2355 NDSU Dept #2080 PO Box 6050 Fax 701.777.4790 & EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Email: [email protected] Fargo, ND 58108-6050 Email: michael.safratowich@med. Laurie Robertsdahl Work Phone 701.231.7965 und.edu Work Phone 701.361.7471 TREASURER Fax 701.231.6128 Email: laurierobertsdahl@gmail. Aaron Stefanich Email: merete.christianson@ndsu. INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM com Grand Forks Public Library edu COMMITTEE 2110 Library Circle Vacant ARCHIVIST/HISTORIAN Grand Forks ND 58201-6324 NEW MEMBERS ROUNDTABLE Trevor Martinson Work Phone 701.772.8116 Andrea Placher LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE North Dakota State Library Fax 701.772.1379 Williston Community Library Janet Anderson, co-chair 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Email: [email protected] 1302 Davidson Drive Minot Public Library Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Williston, ND 58801 516 2nd Ave SW Work Phone 701.328.4663 ALA COUNCILOR Work Phone 701.774.8805 Minot ND 58701 Fax 701.328.2040 Laurie McHenry Toll Free 800.932.8934 Work Phone 701.852.1045 Email: [email protected] Thormodsgard Law Library Fax 701.572.1186 Fax 701.852.2595 University of North Dakota School Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] STATE LIBRARIAN of Law Mary Soucie 2968 2nd Ave N Stop 9004 PUBLIC LIBRARY SECTION Christine Kujawa, co-chair North Dakota State Library Grand Forks ND 58202-9004 Beth Postema Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Work Phone 701.777.3475 Fargo Public Library Library Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Fax 701.777.4956 102 3rd St N 515 N 5th St Work Phone 701.328.4652 Email: [email protected] Fargo ND 58102-4808 Bismarck ND 58501-4057 Fax 701.328.2040 Work Phone 701.241.8198 Work Phone 701.355.1482 Email: [email protected] MPLA REPRESENTATIVE Fax 701.241.8581 Fax 701.221.3729 Paulette Nelson Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] WEB EDITOR Minot Public Library Bryan Donarski 516 2nd Ave SW SCHOOL LIBRARY & YOUTH NOMINATIONS, VOTING & Grand Forks Public Library Minot ND 58701-3792 SERVICES SECTION ELECTIONS COMMITTEE 2110 Library Circle Work Phone 701.838.0606 Amy Soma Mary Lorenz Grand Forks, ND 58201 Fax 701.852.2595 Fargo Public Schools Grand Forks Public Library Work Phone: 701.772.8116 Email: [email protected] 415 4th St N 2110 Library Circle Fax: 701.772.1379 Fargo ND 58102 Grand Forks ND 58201 Email: bryan.donarski@gflibrary. 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