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THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION March 2006 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 36 • Issue 1 It’s Time to Celebrate Libraries and Librarians! National Mark your calendar! Library Week On April 4, 2006, the April 2-8, 2006 nation will celebrate National Library Workers Day! Editorial Policy The Good Stuff welcomes your comments and suggestions. We reserve the right to edit letters/ articles for publication. Please include your name and address when writing. Letters should be sent to Marlene Anderson, P.O. Box 5587, Bismarck, ND 58506-5587, The Good Stuff Editorial Committee, or e-mail: Marlene.Anderson@bsc. nodak.edu Submission Guidelines & Deadlines Consider submitting news and articles via e-mail! Send your articles /news to any of the following e-mail addresses: [email protected] Published quarterly by the [email protected] North Dakota Library Association [email protected] [email protected] Editorial Committee Marlene Anderson, Chair Karen Anderson Joan Erickson Erin Smith Production Artist Deadlines for Articles/News Submission Clearwater Communications Issue Deadline Robin Pursley March . .January 13, 2006 June. .March 17, 2006 Subscription Rate August (Pre-Conference) . June 23, 2006 $25/year Advertising Rates (per issue) $100 – full-page ad Minutes and Reports are linked to $50 – half-page ad www.ndla.info/exbdmin.htm $25 – quarter-page ad For information contact: Marlene Anderson, Chair The Good Stuff Editorial Committee The Good Stuff - Page 2 - March 2006 President’s Message By Jeanne Narum, NDLA President Part of the job description your voice be heard. for president of NDLA includes The last question about marketing library being a member of the North services to your community is a vital concern to Dakota Library Coordinating me. I attended a session presented by Past MPLA Council. Last November I President Beth Avery at MPLA’s annual conference worked with the Council to in October. She spoke on ALA’s marketing evaluate applications for LSTA program “@your library” and how you can obtain grant money. There was another grant round materials to use it in your library. I urge you to in February. If your library is eligible for one of visit www.ala.org to check out the many ways these grants, I urge you to explore the guidelines to let your constituents know about the services and send in an application. There are a lot of $$ available @ their library. Service brochures, available that are not being awarded because of exhibits at local shows, and newsletters to local lack of applications. schools are just a few of the ways. Iris Swedlund Another goal of the Coordinating Council is to from Velva Public and School Library relayed her gather information about library service in North marketing tool to the Coordinating Council group. Dakota. In February, the Council sponsored three She advertises that wireless Internet service is day-long “Think Tank” sessions – February 17, available to anyone in the library parking lot! Fargo; February 24, Dickinson; and February 27, This is used by sports hunters in the area in the Minot. The sessions were open to any librarian, early morning hours before they go out on their library board member, or citizen of North Dakota. hunt. This is truly a library without walls! Questions that participants pondered and During the Executive Board session in answered were: December, I put into motion “NDLA Centennial • How do you see the Statewide Online Moments” by reading an article about the first Library Catalog looking in 2015? What is library service in North Dakota. In the fall of working? What should be changed? 1868, James P. Kimball, post surgeon at Ft. Buford • How can libraries use their services to military post near present day Williston, noted leverage economic development in the in his journal that “the Post library, which was community? received on the 25th of last month [presumably • What world trends may affect North Dakota by steamboat], was today opened.” It contained library services? How? 394 volumes including encyclopedias, books on • What should the Library Vision 2010 and botany, mineralogy, and geology, plus fictional LSTA grant priorities be for the next two works of Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, years? (LSTA guidelines do not allow funding Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others." Watch for of the following: building projects, purchase more “Centennial Moments.” of library materials, operating expenses, or ongoing costs). Happy • How can we get information and library services out to where the people are rather North than waiting for them to come to us? Dakota If you have ideas and comments on these questions and did not participate in the sessions, spring! I encourage you to call the State Library and let The Good Stuff - Page 3 - March 2006 PBS Programs for School and Public Libraries from Prairie Public Television Prairie Public Television provides two program services, PBS Programming and Prairie School Television Education Services PBS Programming of all North Dakota and some Minnesota The PBS programming schedule is available schools. This organization pays for the rights to in the printed program guide, Waves, or by programs specifically designed for classroom going online (www.prairiepublic.org/programs/ use and works in partnership with Prairie Public index.html) and clicking on “What’s on TV to broadcast these programs from 5:30 to 6:30 Tonight.” The schedule for PBS Kids programs a.m. and 10 to 11 a.m. weekdays during the can be viewed at www.prairiepublic.org/ school year. Schools can use the programs off education/index.html. For the Reading Rainbow the air or tape them from the 5:30-6:30 block schedule, go to the Prairie School Television feed. Schools have on-going rights until PSTV Web site at www.prairiepublic.org/education/ drops a particular series (or Prairie Public loses pstv/titles/rainbow.html. [Note: Reading Rainbow funding for the service). Information on Prairie is not on the regular Prairie Public schedule School Television and a list of the video series until the summer months]. is available at www.prairiepublic.org/education/ pstv/. For the PSTV schedule, go to www. PBS has negotiated with producers to establish prairiepublic.org/education/pstv/schedule/index. at least one-year educational taping rights html for all PBS programs. Be assured that using any of the PBS programs is within copyright Most PSTV programs are for school use only, protection for one year. The second part of the although special rights have been negotiated PBS educational taping rights stipulates that for some of the programs to include public educational rights are available for one-year libraries. For example, public libraries may tape from the date of the broadcast, e.g., Masterpiece and use all Scholastic programs, e.g., Scholastic Theatre can be taped and used for one year. Caldecott/Newbery Literature Series. A list of However, several PBS programs, particularly programs that public libraries are free to tape PBS Kids programs, are aired on Prairie Public and use is posted on the PSTV website. at least once each year so the rights re-up with each broadcast. Reading Rainbow, Postcards from Buster, and Between the Lions all air during each Studies year so they are safe to tape and use from year to year. A list of programs that fit the on-going Show that the use of criteria for programs broadcast on Prairie Public is available on the website. video resources Prairie School Television Educational improves student's Services Prairie School Television Educational Services learning (PSTV) is a partnership with the North Central Council for School Television, an organization retention The Good Stuff - Page 4 - March 2006 Ready to Learn (RTL) highlights PBS Kids programs that will air on Prairie Public each month and includes tips, lesson plans, and Reading Rainbow is aired once a week during the more for early childhood educators, storytellers, PSTV Daily Schedule. There are lesson plans programs and and parents. Prairie Public encourages you to to go with most Reading Rainbow encourage your patrons to sign up for the RTL you can find this information on the website. also airs more often from June e-Newsletter! www.prairiepublic.org/education/ Reading Rainbow l readytolearn.htm through August on the regular Prairie Public schedule to ensure that all of the programs www. For information on Parenting Counts ( ) or are re-aired to maintain educational copyright prairiepublic.org/education/parents.html privileges. Ready to Learn, including workshops in your community, contact Siobhan Kleinwolterink at Each month Prairie Public sends a PSTV e- g; 701-239- [email protected] Newsletter to schools with the schedule of 7531. programs. The web version of the newsletter is available at www.prairiepublic.org/education/ For information about programming, copyright, pstv/index.html. If you have questions about or comments on the value of these programs which programs you may tape, please email and programming notes for your library, contact Prairie Public or call 701-239-7574. You may Beverly Pearson; 701-239-7575; 800-359-6900 also sign up to have the e-Newsletter sent to g (ext. 575); [email protected] your email address. NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION GRANT APPLICATION FORM AvailableThis Application is for: __Professional Development Grant Grant Monies __Ron Rudser Memorial Grant " Name: ____________________________________________________________ (Last) (First) (Middle) By Karen Chobot, Chair " Address:_______________________________ Telephone:_______________(home) _________________________________ _______________(work) Professional Development Grants Committee _________________________________ " Are you a current member of NDLA? ___yes ___no When did you first become an NDLA member? 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