THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION June 2007 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 37 • Issue 2

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✔ Keeping You in Stitches! ✔ 2007 NDLA Conference ✔ Sneak Preview ✔ September 26-28 ✔ Jamestown, North Dakota Look Inside Table of Contents President's Message ...... 3 Flooding at Bismarck Public Library ...... 4 Membership Report ...... 4 Grant Money for You and Your Library ...... 6 Notice: Finance Committee Audit ...... 7 Benefit Fund Established ...... 7 Browsing in the Cyberstacks ...... 8 Nominations Sought for NDLA Awards ...... 11 Dakota Gold: NDLA Celebrates 100 Years ...... 12 NMRT Grassroots Grant ...... 13 Midwest & Midcontinental Chapters of the Medical Library Association ...... 13 Heart of America Library Expansion ...... 14 People Stuff ...... 15 On the DOCket ...... 16 North Dakota in Print ...... 17 North Dakota State Library Hosts Published quarterly by the Award-Winning Author Lauraine Snelling ...... 20 North Dakota Library Association Library Coffee Car Opens at DSU ...... 21 Editorial Committee Good Stuff from Around the State ...... 22 Marlene Anderson, Chair Legislative Update ...... 26 Karen Anderson Rachel White Joan Erickson Keeping You in Stitches ...... 27 MPLA News ...... 28 Production Artist Growing Up German Russian: a Radio Series .... 29 Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley Scattered Village Exhibit at Mandan Subscription Rate Public Library Wins Award ...... 30 $25/year National Library Week, April 15-21, 2007 ...... 31 TechTips & More ...... 32 Advertising Rates Annual Conference Auction ...... 34 (per issue) Laughing with Librarians $100 – full-page ad 2007 NDLA Conference ...... 35 $50 – half-page ad Treasurer's Report ...... 36 $25 – quarter-page ad North Dakota Library Membership Application ... 37 2006-2007 North Dakota Library For information contact: Association Executive Board ...... 38 Marlene Anderson, Chair The Good Stuff Editorial Committee 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. Deadlines for Articles/News Submission Letters should be sent to Marlene Anderson, P.O. Box Issue Deadline 5587, Bismarck, ND 58506-5587, The Good Stuff Editorial Committee, or e-mail: [email protected] August 2007 (Pre-conference issue). . . June 22, 2007 December 2007 ...... October 26, 2007 Submission Guidelines & Deadlines March 2008...... January 11, 2008 Consider submitting news and articles via e-mail! Send June 2008 ...... March 14, 2008 your articles /news to any of the following e-mail addresses:

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The Good Stuff - Page 2 - June 2007 President’s Message By Beth Postema, NDLA President

There has been a lot of discussion lately on Back in my first semester of library blogs about the concept of Library 2.0. library school, I was introduced According to the Wikipedia entry on the concept, to Ranganathan’s Five Laws of “With Library 2.0, library services are frequently Library Science. If you haven’t evaluated and updated to meet the changing encountered them before, here needs of library users. Library 2.0 also calls for they are in their classic form: libraries to encourage user participation and feedback in the development and maintaining of 1. Books are for use. library services.” To me, this new concept still has 2. Every person his or her book. its roots in some of the key concepts of saving 3. Every book its reader. the time of the reader/user and that the library 4. Save the time of the reader. is a growing organism. Librarians are looking 5. The library is a growing organism. around at the fields of technology and business to see what concepts can be of use in furthering the At the time, I thought they were fairly simplistic. mission of libraries. But in typical student mode, I thought, “Okay, they’re easy enough to memorize. What’s next?” While at times it may appear that librarianship What has amazed me in the last few years – as may be completely reinventing itself and that I moved into new roles in my library with more everything that we learned in the past may no leadership responsibilities -- is how many times longer be relevant, think again. There is a lot in I’ve gone back to Ranganathan. When we the current discussions of what libraries should be needed to make a decision about the accessibility and where they should be going that has its roots of an item, it all came back to “Books are for in the core principles of librarianship. Library use.” In responding to patron requests for a 2.0 isn’t that far removed from Ranganathan. new format or new series of titles, the reasoning The tools and the titles we use may change; the behind the decisions could often be summed up mission stays the same. as, “Every person his or her book (or magazine, or audiobook, or computer game, etc.).” When asked why we should do book displays or annotated bibliographies, e-mail lists of new CDs, or any attempt to let the public know what cool stuff we have for them, it often was a matter of making sure that every “book” found its reader/ viewer/listener. When taking the time to make an online catalog that is the most functional it can be or pulling together picture books on a theme and packaging them as a kit for busy daycare providers, the core reason behind the investment of time is really to “Save the time of the reader.” And, when going before countless City Commission meetings, library building committees, public hearings, and media scrutiny, I often come back to the fifth law, “The library is a growing organism.”

The Good Stuff - Page 3 - June 2007 Flooding at Bismarck Public Library Submitted by Christine Kujawa Head of Circulation/Reference Librarian, Bismarck Public Library

On Sunday, February 11, the change in temperatures in Bismarck put a strain on the water pipes causing a water main break outside the Bismarck Public Library. The break forced water into a maintenance room in the lower level of the library that soon spread to the public areas. Reference Librarian Sarah Devereaux, who was opening the library that day, went downstairs to turn on the computers. To her surprise, she found about an inch or so of water soaking into the carpet, spreading quickly and beginning to go up the walls. About four feet of water was already in the elevator, which was directly in the path of the water pouring into the library. Sarah immediately called the Head of Maintenance, who called in the Bismarck Public Works and Fire Departments and be another week before the lower level would be library administrators. Shortly thereafter, a local open for public access. In the meantime, library cleaning and restoration service was engaged and staff members were busy moving books and the cleanup process began. It was surmised that shelves so the cleanup crew could remove the the water had been pouring into the library for carpet squares underneath. The crew then had to only a few hours. The staff considered themselves dry the carpet squares, the walls, and the floors. lucky because the breach had occurred only Once all was dry, the shelves were moved back hours before opening and was caught before and the books replaced. Needless to say, this was major damage was done. As it was, no books all very labor intensive. were damaged. Newest staff member of the BPL Circulation The library was closed for about five days until Department, Debb Lorenz, commented, “Even the water main and the pipes into the library though this was an awful experience, as a new could be reached and replaced. Finally, on person it was amazing to see how the staff pulled Thursday, after the water pipe was in place and together in this type of situation. Work needed to the library had running water again, the doors get done and everyone pulled together to do it, were opened for the public. However, it would no questions asked.”

The Good Stuff - Page 4 - June 2007 Welcome to NDLA!

New members since the last issue of The Good Stuff are Joan Severin (Bismarck), Debbi Aaker (Grand Forks), Chantel Grosulak (Jamestown), Pauline Nielsen (Kenmare), Darlene Watne (Minot), Minot Air Force Base Library, Donna Jirges (New England), and Susan Ellison (West Fargo).

Help us increase our membership in 2007! Tell other library staff about NDLA. Membership forms can be found on our web page at www.ndla.info and in this issue of The Good Stuff. The NDLA membership year is January to December. Other repairs included dry walling the lower Membership Report part of the damaged walls, painting, replacing wallpaper, and cleaning carpet. Director Tom (as of March 19, 2007) Jones has estimated damages in the range of Compiled by Kathy Thomas $50,000. Cleanup and repairs were completed in Membership Chair less than a month and all is back to normal. Academic & Special Libraries Section ...... 67 When asked what lessons could be learned from Health Sciences Information Section ...... 25 the flood experience, Tom said, “Everyone needs Public Library Section ...... 86 an emergency operations plan. All pipes (water School Library & Youth Services Section ...54 and sewer) entering through a basement wall Government Documents Roundtable ...... 21 should be completely sealed. A major pipe at New Members Roundtable ...... 25 BPL was not sealed during original construction of the library (1988). This provided an open Technical Services Roundtable ...... 37 space for entry of backflow from the broken pipe Associate members ...... 10 outside into the building.” He also said, “When Institutional members ...... 4 carpeting in a book stack area, the stacks should Trustees ...... 28 be set directly on flooring (concrete) instead of New members ...... 11 on carpet. After the carpet was soaked, BPL staff 2007 members ...... 211 had to offload all affected ranges of shelves -- 2006 members who thousands of books -- to properly dry the carpet haven’t yet renewed ...... 173 beneath.”

The Good Stuff - Page 5 - June 2007 Get Grant Money for You Some! and Your Library By Mark Holman, Chair Mike Jaugstetter Leadership Memorial Professional Development Grant Grants Committee The Mike Jaugstetter Leadership Memorial Grant honors the superb leadership skills in librarianship NDLA Professional Development Grant which Mike Jaugstetter demonstrated while he NDLA believes that furthering an individual’s was employed as the State Librarian of North skill is beneficial to the North Dakota library Dakota. The grant money may be used for library environment. NDLA sets aside general leadership institutes or programs. fund dollars for this purpose each year. The Professional Development Grant may be used Application Requirements for college or university classroom work, independent study, workshops, conferences, or Professional Development & Rudser Grants participation in any activity that will benefit the North Dakota library community. 1. Applicants must: • Be North Dakota residents or employed in Rod Rudser Memorial Continuing North Dakota. Education Grant • Be current members of NDLA and must Rod Rudser was a librarian and library science have been members in the past two years. instructor at Minot State University at the time • Submit a detailed budget of expected of his death in 1986. His wife, Kay, initiated this expenses. memorial grant fund. The Rudser grant may be • Submit narrative describing personal used for credit courses, workshops, seminars, growth/career development expectations or pre-conference programs that enhance the from the proposed program. education of the practicing librarian in any • Submit printed materials which describe type of library. Regular conference programs or the program. conventions do not qualify. 2. Applicants need not be currently employed in a library. M. Vivian Hubbard Memorial Grant 3. Applicants must submit an evaluative report to NDLA upon program completion for M. Vivian Hubbard was State President of the publication in The Good Stuff. Federated Woman’s Clubs in the early 1950’s. 4. Grant money will be awarded after the The rural bookmobile program began in North NDLA president has received the evaluative Dakota with much influence from the Federated report. Woman’s Clubs. Hubbard believed in this 5. No applicant may receive more than one program and requested that memorial funds at grant per 18 months. her death be donated to NDLA to further interest 6. A copy of CEU certificate or letter of in bookmobiles. The Hubbard grant may be used recognition should accompany the report, if for formal college or university classroom work, applicable. independent study, workshops, conferences, or participation in any other activity that will further the work of the bookmobile, including the purchase of books or other materials.

The Good Stuff - Page 6 - June 2007 M. Vivian Hubbard Memorial Grant • A written contract between NDLA and the grant recipient will be entered into regarding 1. Applicant must be a current member of completion of conditions. NDLA. 2. Applicant must agree to submit an evaluative Application forms are available at www.ndla. report of how the grant was used to the info/profdev.htm, or by contacting: Mark Holman, NDLA Executive Broad and said report will Sitting Bull College Library, 1341 92nd St., Fort be published in The Good Stuff. Yates, ND 58538 (phone: 701-854-8024; fax: 701-854-3403; e-mail: [email protected]) Mike Jaugstetter Leadership Memorial Grant

1. Applicants must be current individual members of NDLA and must have been Notice: Finance members for the past two years. 2. Applicants must submit a detailed budget of Committee Audit expected expenses 3. Applicants must submit a narrative statement Submitted by Bonnie Krenz describing personal growth and career Finance Committee Chair development expectations from the program they plan to attend. The Finance Committee has conducted the 4. Applications should be accompanied with audit of the treasurer’s books for the North printed materials that describe the program. Dakota Library Association for the year 2006. All was found to be in order. Conditions: The Finance Committee and the NDLA • Applicants must be employed in a North Executive Board would like to thank Michael Dakota Library Safratowich, NDLA Treasurer, for a job well • Applicants must agree to submit an done. evaluative report to the NDLA Executive Board upon completion of the program for publication in The Good Stuff. Benefit Fund Established • Applicants must agree to participate in the leadership of the NDLA Executive Broad A cancer benefit fund has been set up for Roberta for one year. Participation may include, Steckler, who recently resigned as Director of the but not be limited to section chair, officer, McLean-Mercer Regional Library in Riverdale. committee chair, or committee work Bert has had surgery as well as chemo and appointed by the President of NDLA. radiation treatments for brain cancer. Donations • Applicants must present a leadership may be sent to: program to the NDLA conference following participation in the leadership program or The Roberta Steckler Benefit Fund institute. Dakota West Credit Union • Applicants must participate in the committee PO Box 564 selection of the following year’s recipient. Riverdale, ND 58565 • No applicant may receive more than one grant per 24 months. Cards and letters can be sent to the McLean- • Completed application forms must be Mercer Regional Library, PO Box 505, Riverdale, submitted by July 15 of each year. ND 58565 and they will be passed on to Bert. • A portion of expenses (dependent upon the You can also read Bert’s story on her CaringBridge NDLA budget) will be reimbursed upon website (www.caringbridge.org/visit/bertsteckler) completion of travel. and post messages there as well.

The Good Stuff - Page 7 - June 2007 Browsing in the CyberstacksCyberstacks Compiled by Rachel White, Editorial Committee Member Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Rachel White as a new member of The Good Stuff Editorial Committee. Rachel will be writing the “Browsing in the Cyberstacks” column and other articles as assigned. Rachel is the Head of Technical Services at the State Archives and Historical Research Library for the State Historical Society of North Dakota in Bismarck. Welcome, Rachel! Whether your summer has you traveling the museum’s hearse collection, as well as print nation’s highways, byways, and flyways, or just out fact sheets on the history of formaldehyde mellowing out in the backyard, here’s a helping of and mourning jewelry. I visited this Springfield, hot links to while away the dog days. Illinois, museum in person last summer so ask to see my casket keychain when next we meet! Take a trip! ExpoMuseum http://www.expomuseum.com/ More than places of entertainment and amusement, World’s Fairs have National Museum of Funeral History displayed the cultures of the Earth’s far flung http://www.nmfh.org/ places to the curious since 1851. This site lists If you didn’t think there’d be more than one all previous world’s fairs, details architectural competitor for the crown of best funerary history achievements (both the Eiffel Tower and Seattle’s museum, you’d be dead wrong. Check out the Space Needle were world’s fair constructions), online exhibit of Ghanaian fantasy coffins as well and maintains links to the collectibles and as the feature on Civil War embalming. Who collectors of exposition memorabilia. See you in knew that one of a battlefield embalmer’s most Zaragoza, Spain for the 2008 Fair! important pieces of equipment was a pistol?

The Twine Tour Family Fun Coloring Pages http://www.twinetour.com/main.html http://familyfun.go.com/printables/coloring-pages/ Ever joked that you wanted to see all of the giant specialfeature/summer-printables-coloring-pages_ roadside items that America has to offer? Why ms/ not start with the World’s Largest Ball of Twine? Understandably, the kids might get a bit restless Setting out from California to see the World’s on a long car trip across America. Why not avert Largest Twine Ball* in Cawker City, Kansas, boredom with some coloring sheets and backseat these two friends passed many other weird and craft projects? If only we’d had these years ago, wonderful bits of Americana on the way. If you I wouldn’t have spent so much time banished like big animals, big vegetables, or big dams, a to the hot glass dungeon in the very back of the map is provided so you can replicate their route. family station wagon. If you print out some of the pre-made scrapbook sheets before you leave, *Before I’m strung up by any “twinenthusiasts” the kids can have a completed scrapbook by trip’s reading, there is a rival giant twine ball in end! Darwin, Minnesota. That ball was made by one man. The Cawker City ball was made by more Cook! than one person. The Food Timeline http://www.foodtimeline.org/ Museum of Funeral Customs Whether you impress your friends at the office http://www.funeralmuseum.org/index.html picnic with your encyclopedic knowledge of If chasing balls of giant twine is too outlandish deviled eggs (popular with the Ancient Romans), for your sober summer sojourns, then give the or are just looking for more creative things to Museum of Funeral Customs a try. You can do do with Jell-O, then this website is for you. a virtual tour of an embalming room and the Compiled by a librarian, it features recipes and The Good Stuff - Page 8 - June 2007 culinary history that runs the gamut from beer Ice Cream in a Bag (10,000 BC) to deep fried Coca Cola (2006). I http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/icecream.html used this website extensively when planning If the little ones are too small for the ice cream my last office Christmas party, which featured maker, or you just don’t have one at home, you milestones of historic cuisine. The special can try this easy “ice cream in a bag” recipe. This sections on historic food prices and menus by would be fun to try at a summer reading or after decade are particularly good teaching tools. I school program. guarantee you will spend hours reading it! Guinness Ice Cream http://www.boston.com/ae/food/ articles/2006/01/18/guinness_ice_cream/ This flavor is for adults only. Something to try at your next barbeque!

Hot Dog Dot Org http://www.hot-dog.org/ A cookout isn’t complete without them. This good-natured site from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council features hot dog recipes, trivia, and even a section on hot dog etiquette. Harry Callahan was right – Nobody should put ketchup on a hot dog! Thankfully, the section titled “How Backyard Fun Hot Dogs are Made” is graphic free. British Lawnmower Museum http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/ I Love Pickles Dot Org If the earlier museum recommendations didn’t http://www.ilovepickles.org/index.html get your motor running, check out these green Maintained by the tongue-tying organization machines from across the pond. Have a look of Pickle Packers International, this site boasts an some of the unusual models in their collection, impressive library of pickle facts and cooking including machines made by Rolls Royce. The tips. You have to admire the nerve of the pickle exhibit on “Lawnmowers of the Rich and Famous” promoter who named an article, “Rediscover alone is probably worth the transatlantic airfare! Versatile Sauerkraut: Tantalizing New Dimensions for Favorite Foods.” Naturally, there are plenty U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association of pickle recipes, including a few tart-sounding http://www.letsmow.com/ pickle desserts. Garden helper or suitable for souping up? Imported from the U.K. and intended as a Ice Cream Maker Recipes promotion for fuel stabilizers, lawn mower racing http://www.ice-cream-recipes.com/ took off after its introduction to the U.S. in 1992. Summer just isn’t complete without a cone -- or Hundreds of Lawn Rangers across the country dishful -- of your favorite sweet treat. This site has participate in weekend races both on stock and everything from easy Vanilla recipes to Crunchy modified machines. The FAQ page answers Honeycomb. While you’re thinking about what questions any mowing enthusiast would have, concoction to try first, you can also read up on and makes sure that safety is priority one: remove ice cream comedy, or learn how to avoid the the blade! Information on the North Dakota pitfall that all ice cream enthusiasts dread -- too chapter, including the 2007 racing schedule, is hard ice cream! available at http://www.ndlmra.com/.

The Good Stuff - Page 9 - June 2007 The History of the Bathing Suit right camera to photographing out the airplane http://www.victoriana. or car window to best techniques for shooting com/library/Beach/ landmarks or museum interiors. The site does FashionableBathingSuits. heavily favor the single-lens reflex camera and htm does not have many tips for digital photography, If relaxing rather than but many of the composition and framing hints racing is your backyard are still handy, regardless of camera type. activity of choice, you might well wonder what to wear poolside. Following this site’s selection of bathing suit fashion from the 1790s to the 1920s, LibraryThing BookSuggester and UnSuggester you can watch hemlines and eyebrows rise. Did http://www.librarything.com/suggest.php you know that original bathing costumes included Summer was made for catching up on reading. hats and shawls, and that weights were sewn into Find a book you’ll love (or hate) in the 11 million the hems of bathing gowns to keep the gowns books cataloged by the users of LibraryThing. from floating up and exposing the female bather’s You can use the BookSuggester to find titles to legs? Real bathing, rather than swimming or complement your favorite genres and authors. floating, was the order of the day. For example, if you like Will Ferguson’s travelogue, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, you’d Reading, Writing, and Documenting probably get a chuckle out of John Stackhouse’s, Cumberland Pencil Museum Timbit Nation : a Hitchhiker’s View of Canada. http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk/history.aspx Even more entertaining is the UnSuggester, which No summer vacation is complete without the turns the art of recommendation on its head. imaginatively titled, “What I Did on My Summer Using Beauty Tips again in the UnSuggester, non- Vacation” report. Enliven this summer’s chronicle recommended titles are Foucault’s Pendulum by with the history of the very pencil with which Umberto Eco and Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. you write it. Learn about the massive Cumbrian The UnSuggester is not a strictly scientific tool graphite (not lead!) deposit that became the since it is based on the prevalence of titles that source of writing implements for accountants appear together in individual users’ collections, and school children the world over. A four-page not true evaluations of style or content. document on proper sharpening technique is included to keep you writing and smudge-free Feel free to send some of your favorite websites well into fall. to me at [email protected]. Maybe you’ll see one of your favorites in a future Browsing in the Cyberstacks column.

Fodors.com Focus on Photography http://www.fodors.com/focus/ If your last vacation photos were a bit ho-hum, then focus on this Fodor’s site dedicated to improving the humble holiday snap. Written by photographer and author Jeff Wignall, nearly 100 photo tips are included -- from choosing the

The Good Stuff - Page 10 - June 2007 Nominations Sought for NDLA Awards

It is time to start thinking about colleagues you The person or persons nominating a candidate know in the library profession in North Dakota should present individual letters of support who have made notable contributions to NDLA (minimum of five), articles, newspaper clippings, and furthered development of libraries in our and any other material which illustrates the state. As ALA describes them, they are movers nominee’s qualifications. A single letter with and shakers. It’s time to nominate them for NDLA multiple signatures is NOT acceptable. Librarian of the Year. Nominees from previous years may be nominated Librarian of the Year Nomination again. The Librarian of the Year award is not Deadline: August 1, 2007 necessarily presented every year.

“To be given to an NDLA member who has made Major Benefactor Award Nomination notable contributions to the North Dakota library Deadline: August 1, 2007 profession, has furthered significant contributions to the North Dakota library profession, or has This citation is awarded by the NDLA Executive performed exemplary statewide service for an Board to a person or persons who have made extended period of time. In the case of retired significant contributions to a library or libraries individuals, the nominee may be a past member in North Dakota. The Major Benefactor Award of NLDA.” winner will be profiled in The Good Stuff and receive a commemorative plaque. Recognition The honoree is profiled in The Good Stuff, of the recipient is made during the NDLA Awards receives a commemorative plaque, and a one- Banquet at the annual NDLA conference. year free NDLA membership. Recognition of the recipient is made during the NDLA Awards To nominate an individual, send a letter of Banquet at the NDLA conference. nomination, which includes specific reasons for your nomination. Criteria Verify that the nominee is a personal member To Submit Your Nomination of NDLA in good standing, or, in the case of retired persons, a former member. Contact NDLA Submit nominations for the Librarian of the Year Membership Chair, Kathy Thomas by e-mail and Major Benefactor awards either electronically ([email protected]) to verify membership or by mail to: status. Jeanne Narum Detail the nominee’s contributions to the library Minot Public Library profession and his/her history of service through 516 2nd Ave. SW articles, newspaper clippings, and any other Minot, ND 58701 material which may illustrate the nominee’s work 701-852-1045; 701-852-2595 (fax) in the profession. Letters should NOT be mere [email protected] endorsements.

Nomination letters should be current (Material dated older than the current year will NOT be accepted by the Committee.)

The Good Stuff - Page 11 - June 2007 Dakota Gold: NDLA Celebrates 100 Years Order Form Dakota Gold makes a great gift for friends and family throughout the year! This book deserves to be on the shelves of every North Dakota library ... and in the personal collections of those who love North Dakota libraries.

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Dakota Gold, $18 each $ Add $3 per book for shipping/handling (Canadian rresidents,esidents, add $5 per book for shipping/handling) $ Subtotal $ North Dakota rresidents,esidents, add $1.05 state sales tax per book $ (Note: TTaxax applies to both book and shipping/handling) BismarBismarck,ck, ND rresidents,esidents, add .21 local tax** per book (Note: TTaxax applies to both book and shipping/handling) $ TotalTotal $

**Note: According to the North Dakota Office of the State Tax Commissioner, for books sent to North Dakota addresses, North Dakota sales tax of 5% needs to be charged. In addition, any applicable city tax for those cities in which NDLA has a physical presence needs to be charged and remitted. NDLA has a physical presence in Bismarck through its official address (PO Box 1595, Bismarck, ND 58502-1595). The City of Bismarck has a 1% local tax rate.

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Send completed order form with payment to: Dakota Gold North Dakota Library Association PO Box 1595 Bismarck, ND 58502-1595 Make checks payable to North Dakota Library Association The Good Stuff - Page 12 - June 2007 NMRT Grassroots Grant $ (Application deadline: July 31, 2007) TheThe New Members Roundtable has an excellent • Provide confirmation in writing from his or opportunity for librarians in North Dakota to her employing institution that he or she has attend the annual conference of the North Dakota approval to accept this grant and to meet the Library Association. requirements of conference attendance.

The Grassroots Grant gives new librarians and • Attend all three days of the NDLA Annual future librarians a chance to go to conference. Conference. This grant will finance attendance of up to two members to the annual conference. One award • Attend the Executive Board Meeting (as a will be given to a student currently enrolled in guest) on the third day. an ALA-accredited MLS program. The second award will be given to a librarian with less than • Submit an article for publication in the six years of experience who is attending an NDLA NDLA newsletter, The Good Stuff, about conference for the first time. Both recipients must their experiences at the Conference. be current members of NDLA. The full registration (including meals) for each recipient will be For an application form, visit the NDLA website waived. The grant does not cover the cost of at www.ndla.info/awards.htm travel, lodging, or any other expenses. Questions regarding application for the NMRT The recipients must agree to attend the full Grassroots Grant may be directed to: conference (agreement does not cover the pre- conference) and submit an article to The Good Eric Stroshane, Chair Stuff about their conference experience. New Members Roundtable North Dakota State Library The recipient of the Grassroots Grant agrees to: 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Bismarck ND 58505-0800 • Confirm in writing with the NMRT Grassroots Phone: 701-328-2492 Grant Committee that he or she will accept Fax: 701-328-2040 the grant and will attend the NDLA Annual [email protected] Conference. Midwest & Midcontinental Chapters of the Medical Library Association “2007--License to Learn/License to Lead” is the theme of the joint meeting of the Midwest & Midcontinental Chapters of the Medical Library Association to be held in Omaha, Nebraska, October 12 -16, 2007. Keynote speakers include Dale Lea from the National Human Genome Research Institute; Dr. Loriene Roy, ALA President Elect 2006-2007; and Fred Lee, nationally recognized expert and consultant in service excellence and the author of the 2005 award winning, “If Disney Ran Your Hospital, 9 1⁄2 Things You Would Do Differently.” For more information on the conference, visit the website at: www. mcmla.org/2007/index.html.

The Good Stuff - Page 13 - June 2007 Heart of America Library Expansion By Amy Bryn, Library Director

The Heart of America Library is completing an Completed expansion project that has been in the planning Heart of and fundraising stages since 1997. America Library An addition of 1,250 square feet was added to the west end of the building, with construction beginning in 2005 and completion to be in 2007. This created more space for the junior collection and added a reading corner for parents and children to relax. Handicap restrooms were constructed and automatic door openers installed in the new one-level entrance. A director’s office and cataloger area were created close to the new Cataloger's circulation/reference desk. An art and reading Station area became possible when the old entrance and restrooms were removed. With the help of an LSTA/LV2010 grant, a computer area for the public was created.

The library collection was automated in 2005 and became a member of the North Central Library Authority when the library received a State Library Children's grant. The library is a public library funded with Reading city and county funds. Bench

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

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Reason for Nomination Send nomination form and $10 donation (checks payable to NDLA) to: Mark Holman, Professional Development Committee Chair, Sitting Bull College Library, 1341 92nd Street, Fort Yates, ND 58538.

The Good Stuff - Page 14 - June 2007 people Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member Stuff Marlene Anderson, director of library services at Eileen Kopren, public services librarian at Stoxen Bismarck State College, was presented with the Library, Dickinson State University, was presented 2007 Staff Award for Excellence at the college’s with the Professional Staff Service Award this annual recognition ceremony on April 18. spring. Eileen was credited for her skills as a Marlene has worked at BSC since 1993. She librarian, her dedication to the university, and started as the technical services librarian and was her warm and caring manner of teaching. She named director in 2002. has worked at DSU for 33 years, meeting with flexibility the advances in technology that have Sheila B. Collins, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, drastically changed the way that libraries operate. has been appointed director of library services Eileen was also recognized by the Dickinson at Minot State University. Collins is the former Chamber of Commerce as Outstanding Educator director of Northwest State Community College of the Year for Higher Education in 2006. Library in Archbold, Ohio. Other library positions she has held during her career include head of Valley City Public School’s librarian, Barbara reference and collection development at Ohio Mitzel, is retiring after 34 years of service. Northern University Law Library and George Mitzel said, “I’ve always been an avid reader so Washington University Law Library; director of becoming a librarian was a natural progression. the law library at Eastman and Smith, Ltd., a law Time flies when you enjoy what you’re doing.” firm of 75 attorneys; head of reference at Lima Mitzel also worked two years at the Valley City Public Library in Lima, Ohio; and director of the Barnes County Public Library before beginning libraries at Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio, her school librarianship career in August 1973. and at Midwest Technical College, in Wisconsin Rapids. In addition to a Master of Library Science Long time staff member Darla Schaeffer degree and a Juris Doctorate degree earned from retired on March 24, 2007, after 25 years as the University at Buffalo, New York, Collins holds an Information Specialist with Information and a Bachelor of Science degree in education and Referral Service at the Minot Public Library. pre-veterinary from the State University of New Among her accomplishments was maintaining York-Brockport. She has taught writing and an online Clubs and Organizations Database of communication courses, has presented numerous over 600 organizations in Minot and providing workshops and seminars at the state and national referrals to those organizations and agencies from levels, and has experience with a wide variety of individuals seeking help. An open house tea was library technology. Prior to becoming a librarian, held for her on March 22 at the library. Collins owned, operated, and managed her own 400-acre dairy farm. She began her duties at Although she hasn’t set a definite end date, Minot State University on May 1. Welcome to Lonnie Wagner, librarian at the Ellendale Public North Dakota, Sheila! Library, has announced her plans to retire from that position after 19 years of service. Lonnie Donna Jirges began her new position as library plans to be around to help her replacement director at the New England City Library on become acquainted with the workings of the February 15, 2007. Because the job is less than library. Lonnie earned a Masters Degree in ten hours per week, Jirges is able to continue Library Science from Denver University and was her other jobs – reading water meters for the an elementary school librarian before making city, cleaning Memorial Hall, and helping on the the move to public librarianship. Best wishes for family farm. The former library director was Mary your retirement, Lonnie! Fitterer.

The Good Stuff - Page 15 - June 2007 On the DOCket By Marilyn Johnson, GODORT Chair

Some recent North Dakota documents of note: includes historical overview and detail in plain English of our tax structure by tax such as oil and Analysis of State Trust Funds Reflecting Legislative gas taxes, property taxes, fuel taxes, income taxes, Action through Crossover. Legislative Council. and sales and use taxes among many others. March 1 2007. http://www.nd.gov/tax/genpubs/2006-redbook.pdf

This report provides history and status on funds 2007 Directory of Government Officials: such as the tobacco settlement trust fund, oil tax Federal-State-County-City-Township-Schools- trust fund, veterans’ postwar trust fund, water Fire Protection-Libraries-Parks-Media and development trust fund, senior citizen services More. University of North Dakota: Bureau of and programs fund, and coal development Governmental Affairs. trust fund. http://www.legis.nd.gov/fiscal/pdf/ analysesreport.pdf A North Dakota bible of government contacts.

State and Local Taxes: an Overview and Comparative Guide 2006. North Dakota Tax Commissioner.

This extremely handy North Dakota tax reference book comes out prior to a legislative session. It What's Up in the Health Sciences? Submitted by Joan Bares, HSIS Chair

In 2006, the NDLA Health Science Information Section (HSIS) sponsored the Midwest Chapter Medical Library Annual conference in Fargo. HSIS made some money from that endeavor and is using the funds to sponsor scholarships to attend future conferences. Last fall, Karen Anderson, Director of the Angus Cameron Medical Library, and Joan Bares, Director of the Medcenter One Health Library, each received a scholarship from HSIS to attend the Midwest hospital in the state that offers this type of access Chapter MLA Annual Conference in Louisville, for its staff. Kentucky. The HSIS Spring Meeting was held April 20, Medcenter One Health Library in Bismarck 2007, in Grand Forks. Holly Ann Burt from the implemented proxy access to materials on its Greater Midwest Region presented a class on library web page last fall. All Medcenter One Toxnet. Attendees gained experience locating employees with computer network accounts toxicology, chemical, and other hazardous can access databases from home as well as on substance information. The databases covered site. Databases include the state databases, drug were Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), databases, and specialty databases for physicians LactMed, Toxline, Toxmap, Household Products and nurses. Currently, Medcenter One is the only Database and ChemIDplus.

The Good Stuff - Page 16 - June 2007 North Dakota in Print Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member The North Dakota Department sellers. For more information about Dr. Perry, of Transportation (NDDOT) has visit www.childtrauma.org/aboutCTA/bio_bruce. received four Telly Awards for its asp. Arching through the Centuries (DVD and teacher’s guide, free) Two of the characters in video production that details Chasing Stanley ($7.99, 368 the construction and history of p., pbk.) by Deirdre Martin are Rainbow Arch Bridge in Valley said to be from Flasher, ND City. The documentary, created by the Multi- – Jason Mitchell, a hockey- Media section of the Communications Division, playing hero, and his twin was aired on Prairie Public Television. The video brother, Eric. Of course, production details settling of the Valley City Flasher High doesn’t have a region, birth of the community, and advancement hockey team, but in the world of transportation across the Sheyenne River in of fiction, such realities are of Barnes County. The Telly Awards honor the little consequence. The author very best local, regional, and cable television has written five romance novels centered on the commercials and programs, as well as the finest hockey players and fans of the mythical New video and film productions. The NDDOT video York Blades. Other titles include Body Check documentary won first place in the history and (2003), Fair Play (2004), Total Rush (2005), and biography category and second place in three The Penalty Box (2006. The books are available categories including public relations, information, at bookstores or from online sellers. For more and documentary. For more details, visit the information, visit the author’s website at www. website at www.dot.nd.gov/. To request a copy, deirdremartin.com/. call NDDOT at 701-328-4332. Gerald Anderson is a native of Moorhead, Across the Red River from Fargo, Steve Grineski, Minnesota, and a professor of British and Minnesota State University Moorhead professor of European History at North Dakota State Education, has penned a new book on the history University in Fargo. He is also the author of of the Moorhead Campus School. The book, Death Before Dinner ($12.95, 253 p., pbk.), a Baby Dragons: The Story of Moorhead’s Campus murder mystery set in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. School, 1888-1972 ($15, 200 p., softcover), For more information, visit the website at www. features more than 250 photographs and original midnightinkbooks.com/ One reviewer on documents and interviews with former students Amazon.com noted that Anderson portrays the and teachers. The book can be purchased at “quirky Scandinavian sub-culture ... with warmth Zandbroz Variety in Fargo or through the web and wit, and, incidentally, an authenticity which site at: www.mnstate.edu/babydragons. The book outstrips “Fargo.” is supported through a grant from the National Association of Laboratory Schools with assistance Guide Dogs and Guns: from MSUM. America’s First Blind Marksman Fires Back Dr. Bruce D. Perry, who grew up in Bismarck, ($12.95, 262 p., pbk.) is an has co-authored The Boy Who Was Raised as a autobiography published by Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s the author, Carey McWilliams. Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can McWilliams first caught the Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing ($26, 288 interest of the public when he p., hardcover). The book was reviewed in the passed written and shooting February 2007 issue of O, the Oprah Magazine exams to become the first and is available at bookstores or from online totally blind person in the United States to be

The Good Stuff - Page 17 - June 2007 licensed to carry a loaded firearm. For more since second grade and making them up his information about the author, visit his website whole life. For more information about the book, at www.careymcwilliams.com. The book is visit the iUniverse, Inc. website at www.iuniverse. available online from www.Amazon.com, www. com/bookstore/. BarnesandNoble.com, or www.Airleaf.com. Something to look forward to ... New Salem will Jamie Parsley is a poet and an Episcopal priest celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2008. As part and lives in Fargo. His latest book of poetry, of the celebration, two books are in the works Just Once ($12.95, pbk.), is available from – a book to update family histories from 1983 to Loonfeather Press (www.loonfeatherpress.com). the present and an anniversary cookbook. The Parsley has penned six other books of poetry, deadline for submission of family histories is including Paper Doves, Falling and Other Poems October 31, 2007. The deadline for recipes for (1992), The Loneliness of Blizzards (1995), the cookbook is May 20, 2007. Cloud: a Poem in Two Acts (1997), The Wounded Table (1999), No Stars, No Moon: New and Chester Ervin Nelson, Jr., renowned North Selected Haiku (2004), and Ikon: Poems (2005). Dakota wildlife photographer, has produced the In 2004, Parsley was named an Associate Poet best of his shots in a new book, North Dakota Laureate of North Dakota by North Dakota Poet Wildlife Photos: Prairie Excitement (80 p., Laureate, Larry Woiwode. For more information $67.50, hardcover; $37.95, softcover). Chet was on the poet and his work, visit the website at at the Legislative Council Library in Bismarck on http://jamieparsley.com/ March 30, 2007, to sign copies of his book. Chet worked for the Legislative Council as the state’s Makoche' Music has first legislative budget analyst and auditor, retiring released a new CD featuring several years ago. He is a multiple award- traditional stories and flute winning North Dakota wildlife photographer. music by Keith Bear. The Marilyn Johnson, Legislative Council Librarian recording, Morning Star and NDLA GODORT Chair, says, “The book is Whispered (CD, $13.99), absolutely amazing.” For more information, visit was produced by the North www.blurb.com/bookstore. Dakota Council on the Arts and features Keith playing music on flutes he Susan (Altenburg) Thompson Underdahl, who carved himself and telling stories involving the was raised in Williston and Morning Star and other astronomical bodies. The graduated from Williston enhanced component provides cultural context High School, has penned a to the stories told and ‘the stars’ [Sun, Moon, young adult novel entitled The Mars, Venus, comets, etc.] referenced in the Other Sister ($8.95, 256 p., audio component through images of traditional pbk.). Underdahl is a clinical art, text involving folk beliefs, an interactive map, neuropsychologist and was audio interviews, and animation from NASA inspired to write this story and the European Space Agency. For complete from her own search for details information, visit the websites at www.makoche. about her birth parents. The com or www.nd.gov/arts. Other Makoche' CDs book is available from bookstores, including featuring Keith Bear include Echoes of the Upper Books on Broadway in Williston, and from online Missouri, Earthlodge, People of the Willows, The booksellers, including www.Amazon.com. Kirkus Makoche' Masters, and Watercolor. Reviews called the book, “Gently touching and ultimately hopeful.” Mystery Man ($12.95, 154 p., pbk.) is the first novel by John R. Lindensmith, a 17-year-old who Dan Kaercher visited more than 130 parks in lives in Mandan. John has been writing stories twelve states last summer as part of an 11,000-

The Good Stuff - Page 18 - June 2007 mile road trip. Wow! One of the outcomes 8969), and Barnes & Noble in Grand Forks of that trip is his third book in a series that (701-777-2746). began with Best of the Midwest: Rediscovering America’s Heartland (2005) and Taste of the Jessie Veeder grew up on a ranch in McKenzie Midwest (2006). Parklands of the Midwest: County in northwestern North Dakota and Celebrating the Natural Wonders of America’s graduated from UND in 2005. The folk singer/ Heartland ($19.95, 192 p., pbk.) features parks songwriter was home in April to perform two live in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, recording sessions in the lower level of Outlaws Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Bar & Grill in Watford City. As part of the live Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. By the CD project, Veeder worked with local recording way, Kaercher says his “favorite park is Theodore studio, Melby Productions, and a group of area Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.” The musicians to record her original music in an book is available in bookstores and from online intimate concert setting. Veeder has released two booksellers. other albums, This Road ($12, CD) and A Place to Belong ($15, CD). For more information, visit A science teacher at Warwick School in Devils the website at www.jessieveeder.com/index.html Lake has penned his first novel. Rendezvous with Jesus ($9.99, 242 p., pbk.) by Duane Vagabond ($4.99, CD) is the latest recording by Peterson sounds like a religious story, but the Sam Makarim and his band, Whisky Sam. Other author says that is not the case. He terms it “... CD releases include Phoenician Nights (2006) more of an adventure kind of thing with religious and On the Roxx (2000). Makarim’s North undertones.” The book is available from Just Eva’s Dakota connection is a BA in music from the and other businesses in Devils Lake or online University of North Dakota, with an emphasis in from www.Trafford.com, www.Amazon.com, and classical guitar, and 16 years working at the State www.Diesel-ebooks.com. Mill in Grand Forks. For more information, visit the website at www.whiskysam.com/ Chris Sand, the Dunn County Historical Museum curator, has an alter-ego – Sandman: the Rappin The working title for a book that will be available Cowboy. Since 1996, he has released 10 CDs. in November is Valley City: Back Roads and The latest is (return to) ... the blackhole (of Byways. Clint Saunders and Daron Krueger of outerspace) ($12, CD). For more information, the Obsessed Photographers Group in Valley City visit the website at www.rappincowboy.com. plan to publish a book of photos to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Valley City’s founding and to The University of Mary Press has published focus on the beauty found on the Scenic Byway. Scattered Steeples, Expanded: a Tribute to the If everything goes as planned, the 110-page book Church in North Dakota through the Years will include 150 full-image photographs of Valley and also a Commemoration of the Fortieth City’s buildings and bridges and landscapes from Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cardinal around the Scenic Byway route. Muench Seminary ($18.95, 304 p.). The author, Rev. William Sherman, calls the work “... a good Bethany Zill grew up on a farm and ranch near survey of Catholicism in North Dakota with a Wildrose in northwestern North Dakota. Today, personal dimension.” This expanded (2006) she lives in Laramie, Wyoming, and is a musician version updates a 1988 work entitled, Scattered and award-winning independent producer of Steeples: the Fargo Diocese, a Written Celebration children’s videos. Zill’s latest CD is Where Roots of Its Centennial, which was edited by Jerome Run Deep ($14.95, CD), in which she sings about D. Lamb, Jerry Ruff, and William C. Sherman. a “back porch point of view” that reflects on her Scattered Steeples can be purchased at the upbringing. Her latest video, All About Airplanes University of Mary Bookstore (701-355-8282), the and Flying Machines for Kids: the Best Aviation Cardinal Muench Seminary in Fargo (701-232- Film Ever!, gives “young people, hobbyists, future

The Good Stuff - Page 19 - June 2007 pilots, and dreamers the chance to enjoy the excitement of flight as described by aviators.” For more information, visit these websites: www. bethanyzill.com/ and www.tmbooks-video.com. North Dakota

For seven years, Fargo native Sally Koslow State Library Hosts was the editor of McCall’s, a major women’s magazine. When that magazine was taken over Award-Winning by Rosie O’Donnell in 2001 and turned into the short-lived, Rosie, Sally Koslow lost her position. Author That experience has been turned into a first novel, Little Pink Slips ($24.95, 384 p., hardcover). Lauraine Snelling Like the author, the main character, Magnolia Goldfarb, is a Fargo native who becomes the The North Dakota State editor of a major women’s magazine. Two Library welcomed award- chapters of the book take place in Fargo. The winning author Lauraine book is available at bookstores and from online Snelling to the Bismarck booksellers. For more information, visit the area, May 18-20, 2007. website at www.sallykoslow.com Lauraine is a member of the more than Two Three area artists have been awarded $50,000 Million Books in Print Bush Fellowships. John Salter of Glyndon, North club and is well known Dakota, plans to complete a follow-up to his for her historical family 2006 first novel, A Trout in the Sea of Cortez sagas set in the Red River ($24, 287 p., hardcover), which is available at Valley and Medora areas. bookstores and from online booksellers. Kyja Visit her Web site at Kristjansson, a film professor at Minnesota State www.laurainesnelling.com/index.html for more University Moorhead, plans to use the funds information. to finance a documentary set in the Cavalier, North Dakota, area, where her ancestors settled. Everyone was invited to attend “Coffee with Liselotte Erdrich of Wahpeton is the third Lauraine” at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore recipient. She is the author of two children’s on Friday, May 18. Lauraine signed books and books, Sacajawea and Bears Make Rock Soup and visited with fellow writers and readers of all ages. Other Stories, and is the sister of another well- known North Dakota writer, Louise Erdrich. On Saturday, May 19, the North Dakota State Library hosted a “Writer’s Workshop Sherie Kleven-Jensen grew up in rural Sharon, with Lauraine” at the Trinity Lutheran Church North Dakota, and calls the farm where she grew Community Center in Bismarck. The cost of the up “... the sanctuary where imagination took its workshop was $42 per person, including lunch. first spin around my head.” She also says that she loves to paint pictures with words. In Beaver A public lecture was also held on Sunday, May Creek Blues: Tangled Dreams and Telemark Keys 20, in the Sidney J. Lee Auditorium at Bismarck ($22.99, 460 p., pbk.), a book of poems and State College. The theme for the lecture was essays, Kleven-Jensen does just that. The book is “Story Behind the Story” and it was sponsored available online from www.amazon.com, www. by the North Dakota Humanities Council in authorhouse.com, or by calling 888-280-7715. conjunction with the North Dakota State Library.

The Good Stuff - Page 20 - June 2007 Library Coffee Bar Opens at DSU Dickinson State University crossroads for the campus,” Crook said. News Release The addition of Common Grounds Coffee Bar Dickinson State University officially opened is part of the library staff’s effort to provide Common Grounds Coffee Bar on Thursday, March patrons with inviting spaces that encourage 1, 2007, at Stoxen Library. The opening featured conversation and fulfill the vision of the library as a ribbon cutting ceremony and free samples of an “information commons.” Part of the library’s coffee, snacks, frequent user cards, and door mission is to be a hub of intellectual inquiry by prizes. providing the resources and place for research, creative dialogue, interdisciplinary pursuits, The coffee bar is located in the main level of the cultural activities and lifelong learning. library and serves freshly brewed Starbucks® coffee and Tazo® teas as well as espresso, cafe' latte, cafe' mocha, cappuccino, macchiato, cold beverages and a variety of snack foods.

“Today is an historic event as this is the first true coffee bar in a library in North Dakota,” said DSU Director of Library Services Lillian Crook.

Crook went on to say that adding a coffee bar to the library is not an effort to compete with popular bookstores.

“Not only do we not have such a store in Dickinson State University students and Dickinson or western North Dakota, but the community members sample freshly brewed beauty of it is that the offerings in this, the Starbucks® coffee at the Common Grounds grand academic library of western North Dakota, are opening in Stoxen Library. free to library patrons, both from the campus community and the community at large,” she said.

Common Grounds Coffee Bar is an idea that has been brewing since 2002, although the initial market research was not conducted until 2004. At that time, Debora Dragseth, associate professor of business, assigned the project to her business policy class. The research indicated student, faculty, and staff support of the project. Dragseth and her current students were present at the grand opening. Dickinson State University, Dickinson, held a ribbon cutting ceremony for Common Grounds “Deb (Dragseth) also suggested the name of Coffee Bar in Stoxen Library on March 1. Director the coffee bar, a name that is not only a clever of Library Services Lillian Crook, center, cut play on words relating to grinding coffee, but the ribbon while DSU President Dr. Lee Vickers, also captures that the 21st century academic left, and Associate Professor of Business Debora library serves as the information and intellectual Dragseth, right, look on.

The Good Stuff - Page 21 - June 2007 Good Stuff from Around the State Compiled by Marlene Anderson, Editorial Committee Member

Spring Tea Main Library Project in Fargo The Bottineau Woman’s Club As reported in various media, construction bids (BWC) held its annual spring tea for Fargo’s new Main Library project came in over to benefit the Bottineau County $3 million higher than anticipated at the February Public Library on April 24, 2007. 28 bid opening. The high cost is attributed to the A total of $530 was raised. $350 complex engineering and construction methods of that amount will be matched by needed to combine an existing structure with new the Libri Foundation to purchase construction. children’s books. The remainder of the funds went to the library’s foundation for future use. The Library Building Committee has since met The BWC also donated a large print book to the and voted to reject all bids. During this meeting, library. the committee voted to establish a Main Library construction budget of $9.6 million. The Library Only the Finishing Touches Left Building Committee’s recommendations were It has taken longer than expected, but the results approved by Fargo’s City Commission on March are worth it. The renovation project at the 12. Dickinson Area Public Library, which began in 2004, is down to the finishing touches. Among Jack Poling and Jeff Mandyck of MS&R, the the things that make the “new” library special are architecture firm hired to design the Main Library windows created by Mary Lovell, a library staff project, have begun to redesign the new Main member, for the circulation desk area, and the Library to meet the $9.6 million budget. Even restoration of a tin ceiling from the 1908 original with the delay in approving bids for this project, library, which workers uncovered in March 2006. construction on Fargo’s new Main Library is only expected to take from 12 to14 months. This puts Heart River Writer’s Circle opening of the Main Library on track for a late Kathleen Norris, author of the award-winning 2008 opening. Dakota: a Spiritual Geography, visited the Dickinson State University campus on March 5 For more information regarding Fargo’s future as part of “Women’s Voices” programming. The library building projects, visit www.cityoffargo. book was honored as a New York Times “Notable com/newlibraries. Book of the Year” and was selected by Library Journal as one of the best books of the year. On eAudiobooks at Fargo Public Library March 23, Dr. Bruce McDuffie, adjunct instructor Fargo Public Library users with home Internet of religion, led a follow-up book discussion in access can now select books from the library the Roosevelt Room at Stoxen Library. Heart without leaving home. The library is offering River Writers’ Circle brings to the west river eAudiobooks for download onto home computers area significant, contemporary writers whose and MP3 players to library card holders. More work interests a range of readers on the northern than 1,500 titles are available. For more plains. The Circle also involves faculty members, information, visit the library’s web site at www. students, and area community members in follow- fargolibrary.org, click on Online Resources, then up discussions of books by contemporary writers. choose the eBooks and eAudiobooks link. The Writers’ Circle supports the use of libraries, and Stoxen Library in particular. Heart River WorldCat Pilot Project Writers’ Circle is sponsored by Stoxen Library The Glen Ullin Public School Library, Hebron and the Dickinson State University Department of School Library, and Hebron Public Library are Language and Literature. part of a pilot project coordinated by the State

The Good Stuff - Page 22 - June 2007 Library to add their holdings to WorldCat, an Alfred Dickey Library Foundation Off to a Good international library database. When the project Start is complete, patrons will be able to look at The Alfred Dickey Library Foundation has been titles online and see if their local library offers a official since September 1, 2006. As of mid- specific title. The State Library is cataloging the February, it boasted 129 members with donations titles and will also instruct patrons on how to use totaling nearly $14,000. The foundation is set WorldCat. up to serve the library’s needs. Requests must come from library staff through its board to the Database of the Month foundation board. For more information, visit the The Grand Forks website at www.adpl.org/index.htm Public Library is featuring a “Database Good to Great of the Month” with a The Mandan Public Library is planning a banner, an article in Community Read with most events likely to the monthly library take place this fall. Community members are newsletter, and special encouraged to read Good to Great: Why Some instructions for use of the database. Patrons who Companies Make the Leap -- and Others Don’t by request the instructions also receive a bookmark. Jim Collins and to participate in book discussions. The database is advertised on UND’s Channel 3 The book details the factors that are at play in Community Calendar through the Friends of the taking a business from “good” to “great.” These Grand Forks Public Library’s membership. In May, findings can be extrapolated to social service patrons who voted for their favorite database were agencies, communities, or even families. Collins eligible for a drawing of several gift certificates to also wrote Built to Last: Successful Habits of local restaurants. Visionary Companies.

Check It Out Grants Received “Check It Out” is the Grand Forks Public Library The Minnewaukan Public Library received two newsletter, which was reinstated in September, grants for its 2007 book lease program -- $400 2006. The monthly newsletter features the from the Maddock Economic Development Database of the Month, a library department Corporation Gaming Trust and $100 from the and an individual from that department, Ask a North Dakota Telephone Company Dollars in Librarian, and upcoming events. It also promotes Motion. special monthly events, Teen Advisory Board activities, selected library materials, and a Entry Discover Your Library treasure hunt. The Gordon B. Olson Library at Minot State University was home to a massive fabric TAB at Grand Forks Public Library installation by Deana Rennick, a member of the The Grand Forks Public Library has a Teen MSU arts faculty. “Entry” was described as “what Advisory Board (TAB) comprised of teenagers appears to be massive flying buttresses from a in grades 7 – 12. TAB meets once a month and Gothic cathedral ... Without being obtrusive, and offers ideas on how the library can better serve on some level seeming to be part of the original teens and suggests teen-related materials for the structure – the four separate pieces nearly join at library collection. Food and fun are part of each the top and drop in a graceful arc to eye level.” meeting. TAB organized “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” program on April 3.

The Good Stuff - Page 23 - June 2007 Gnawed Log Kaup at the Minot Public Library for a copy of the A food cart has been added to the Gordon B. order form. Olson Library at Minot State. Dubbed The Gnawed Log, the cart was installed in the lower Health Materials Grant level of the library. The Minot Public Library received a health information grant of $1,500 from the St. Joseph’s Dr. Seuss’ Birthday Party Community Health Foundation with matching The Minot Public Library, Minot Education funds of $1,250 from the Patrons of the Library. Association, Golden Oaks PTA, Northwest The Library has also dedicated additional funds Reading Association, and the Patrons of the towards the project. The funds will be used Library hosted the annual Dr. Seuss Birthday to build the health information collection and Celebration at the library on Sunday, March 4, to publish a brochure promoting the collection 2007. 180 children attend the grand party along and the Health and Wellness Resources Center with their parents, grandparents, and friends. The Database, which will be distributed to libraries, celebration featured games and crafts, including clinics, and hospitals in the region. face-painting. Forty-five Dr. Seuss books were given away. Moving Day May 15, 2007, was moving day for the Morton Norwegian Landscapes Exhibit County Library. The Mandan Fire Department From October 17 through December 31, 2006, moved the library’s collection to the Mandan the Minot Public Library hosted the “Norwegian Public Library on Main Street as part of the Landscapes in Retrospect” exhibit from the merger of the two libraries, which was approved Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute and the by county and city residents last November. The Ministry of Agriculture and Food in Oslo, Norway. new library will be called the Morton Mandan The exhibit was sponsored in cooperation with Public Library and the merger should be complete the Norsk Hostfest, Minot. by July.

The exhibit illustrated changes in Norway’s 100 Years with Federal Depository Library landscape through photos taken from the same Program viewpoints at different times, from as long ago as NDSU Libraries in Fargo hosted a reception on 1880 up to the present. It included 40 different March 1, 2007, in recognition of 100 years of landscape “then-and-now” scenes, representing participation with the Federal Depository Library each of the 19 counties in Norway. The starting Program. The program was established to ensure point was different landscape motifs, organized the public has access to government information. into four periods: 1880-1890, 1905-1930, 1955- In 1907, federal legislation designated all land- 1970, and 1990-2000. grant institutions as federal depository libraries. NDSU’s collection contains more than 525,000 In conjunction with the exhibit, an excellent items. book, Tilbakeblikk, norske landskap i endring (Norwegian Landscapes in Retrospect), was also NDPCS Lyceum published. This book shows how 100 places in Karen Boyko, elementary principal and K-12 Norway have changed over different periods of librarian, reports that the North Dakota Pottery time. The photos show how changes in society Collectors Society “Road Show” was held in reflect on the landscape in general and on the Turtle Lake-Mercer High School Library on agriculture in particular. The book has Norwegian February 15, 2007. The presentation included text with English summaries. Bilingual captions North Dakota Pottery uses and types, historical are included for all photographs. If you are and visual accounts of the pottery movement in interested in ordering this book, contact Jerry North Dakota, and displays of clay and pottery

The Good Stuff - Page 24 - June 2007 pieces. The potteries represented included The first movie, Flushed Away, drew a crowd of UND, Dickota, WPA, Rosemeade, Messer, Turtle 53. The Lutheran Youth Organization rented the Mountain, Three Tribes, Little Heart, and more. equipment and showed Facing the Giants to their Students in North Dakota studies classes and art group the same evening. students enjoyed this first-ever presentation at the school. The evening was also enjoyed by several The library is planning events with the school, parents and community members. and teen groups are collaborating to hold events that will bring them together and into the library. The accelerated reader program at the school is offering a film showing to winning classes in its extra point program. The library is also planning film/story book programs for the summer.

Head Start Mary E. Fischer, library director at the Valley City Barnes County Public Library, reports that Head Start invited their children’s librarians to lead story time programs with three groups of children on January 18. Mary Ann Anderson and Linda Olauson traveled to the Valley City State University campus for the event. They were Turtle Lake-Mercer 4th grade. invited back for a musical program presented by Head Start students on January 30, and were also treated to banana splits. This is just the beginning of cooperation between the Valley City Barnes County Public Library and the Head Start Program in 2007. This spring three groups of Head Start students will visit the Library for a special story time. Head Start teachers have also promised to be storytellers for a summer story hour. This is an on-going cooperation from year to year and creates a wonderful introduction for young people to library services and the give and take required to be part of a community.

Lyceum presentor Quent Christman. Groundbreaking for Library Expansion The groundbreaking for an addition to the Movies @ Your Library Ellendale City Library was held on April 23, Loreta Gilbert, Library Director, and Betty Kuhn, 2007. The new structure will double the present Librarian, report that the Underwood Public size of the library, and will include an expanded Library, with the help of the Friends of the children’s area, a computer center, a community Underwood Public Library, has shown the first reading room, and more general reading areas. of many movies to come. The library purchased Starion Financial donated the land and a $75,000 projection equipment with a grant from the State gift is being used to fund the expansion of the Library. A movie license was purchased by the building. The City of Ellendale will cover the McLean-Mercer Regional Library for its member remaining cost (about $25,000). libraries, including the Underwood Public Library.

The Good Stuff - Page 25 - June 2007 Legislative Update Submitted by Kelly Steckler, NDLA Legislative Chair Duties of the State Librarian to compile statistics on public libraries, was passed unanimously on The legislative session is over, with success for its second reading in the Senate and was heard public libraries. Please consider sending thank by the House Political Subdivisions Committee. you letters to your local legislators for support for It passed the House on February 27 with a 91- public library legislation and funding because it 0 vote. It was signed by the Governor and will benefits us all. become part of the ND Century Code.

The 2007 Legislative Session completed the HB 1103 - State Aid Maintenance of Effort business of the state and adjourned on April 25, Introduced by Rep. Meyer and Sen. Anderson 2007. These bills were of particular interest to libraries and to NDLA: HB 1309, SB 2061, HB The hearing before the House of Representatives 1103, and SB 2013. Political Subdivisions Committee, Public libraries’ maintenance of local effort in order HB 1309 – Retroactive Funding to receive state aid, was held on January 12, Introduced by Rep. Porter, R. Kelsch, S. Meyer, 2007. The following people provided testimony: Sen. Cook Representative Shirley Meyer, Kelly Steckler, Beth Postema, Bonnie Krenz, Jerry Kaup, Tom Jones, A bill for an Act to provide an appropriation for Kirsten Baesler, and Doris Ott. The Committee libraries that did not receive certain state aid voted Do Pass 12-0. The House passed it, 92-0, payments in 2006, was introduced on January 8, including the emergency clause, and referred it 2007, and heard in the House of Representatives to the Senate Political Subdivisions Committee Political Subdivisions Committee on January 25, on February 23, 2007. The following people 2007. The following people provided testimony: provided testimony: Representative Shirley Meyer, Representative Todd Porter, Kelly Steckler, Jerry Kelly Steckler, Jerry Kaup, Tom Jones, Kirsten Kaup, Cheryl Tollefson, and Doris Ott. The Baesler, and Doris Ott. The committee voted Do- Committee voted Do Pass, 11-0, and referred it Pass. The second reading passed, 46-0, and the to the House Appropriations Committee, where emergency clause carried. The bill was passed by on February 6, Representative Herbel presented both houses and signed by Governor. it. This Committee voted Do Pass, 16-7. It was then voted by the full House, 90-4 (Nays: Bellew, SB 2013 – State Library Budget, including Boe, Ruby, Speaker Delzer), and was heard by the Additional $200,000 in State Aid Senate Appropriations committee on Thursday, Introduced by Appropriations Committee at the March 8, 2007. The bill was amended on March request of the Governor 23, 2007, passed the House and Senate as amended, and signed by Governor Hoeven. The State Library presented its 2007-2009 Budget to the Senate Appropriations Committee on SB 2061 – Duties of the State Librarian Thursday, January 18, 2007. The State Library Introduced by Government and Veterans Affairs funding bill is a part of the Department of Public Committee at the request of the Superintendent of Instruction. The base budget includes funding Public Instruction for the Online Library Resources that received

The Good Stuff - Page 26 - June 2007 Keeping You in Stitches!

Announcing the 2007 NDLA funding last session, Library Vision 2010 grant funds, training, interlibrary loan and reference Conference Auction & Skit services, technical assistance, MINITEX contract, statewide cataloging services, services to Competition persons with disabilities, and State Document Depository Program; the optional budget Whereas the theme for the 2007 NDLA includes an additional $200,000 for state aid Conference is humor, and and an additional FTE to provide training on the Whereas the conference will be held in Online Library Resources. The following people Jamestown, ND in September of 2007, and provided testimony: Kelly Steckler, Tom Jones, Whereas the annual auction needs your Doris Ott and the following people submitted support, and written testimony: two Velva school students, Whereas the auction proceeds support a good Bonnie Krenz, Jerry Kaup, and Marlene Anderson. cause, It was then passed by the Senate, 46-1 (Nay: Andrist), and referred to the House Appropriations Therefore, let the announcement be made that Committee, Education and Environmental NDLA members are encouraged to gather a Division, for a hearing on February 21, 2007. The team, and following people provided testimony: Tom Jones, Forthwith prepare a skit to enter in the Kelly Steckler, Jerry Kaup, Marlene Anderson, two First Annual NDLA Skit Competition. students from Velva School and Public Library, and Doris Ott. The bill was passed by the House If you would like to participate in the Skit and Senate, and will be signed by Governor Competition to be held during the Conference Hoeven. Auction following the Thursday night banquet, please email the Conference Chair donna. For up-to-date information about the North [email protected] with your plans. A limited Dakota Legislative Assembly, go to www.legis. number of teams will be accepted, so get your nd.gov. team together soon and contact Donna ASAP!

The Good Stuff - Page 27 - June 2007 Submitted by Sally Dockter skills and focus on topics relevant to leading MPLA Representative in libraries, government, and professional associations while networking with other library The NMLA/MPLA Conference in Albuquerque leaders. Learn about the characteristics of was fabulous! The best news I can give you at leaders, group dynamics, change management, this time is that EBSCO Information Services communication, conflict resolution, risk-taking, has agreed to provide major funding for the identifying personal strengths, and practical Leadership Institute at Ghost Ranch again this leadership tools. Noted artist Georgia O’Keeffe year. Please express your appreciation to EBSCO lived and painted at Ghost Ranch; you will be for their support and encouragement in this inspired not only by the workshop content, but endeavor. also by the surrounding beauty of northern New Mexico. The MPLA web site also features pictures from the Leadership Institute dinner held at the conference Library management and organizational in Albuquerque. Participants from each of the development consultant and leadership trainer first five years of the Institute were in attendance. Maureen Sullivan will facilitate the Institute, with the assistance of five mentors: Carol For details about the 2007 MPLA Leadership Hammond, Director, International Business Institute and how YOU can apply, read on. We Information Center, Thunderbird School of Global want to recruit the “Best in the West” for this Management, AZ; Jane Hatch, Branch Manager, opportunity. If you meet the qualifications, do Argentine Branch, Kansas City Public Library, apply. The deadline is soon here – June 16, 2007. KS; Stephen Shorb, Dean, University Library, University of Nebraska; Judy Zelenski, Executive MPLA Institute Strengthens Your Leadership Secretary and Newsletter Editor, Mountain Plains Potential Library Association, CO.

Are you an emerging leader? The Mountain Qualifications for this year’s applicants include: Plains Library Association (MPLA) wants you to be primed for a great library career and get the MLS or equivalent master’s degree relevant to the confidence and knowledge you need to succeed. library field Apply to participate in the MPLA Leadership 2 to 12 years post-master’s work in a library Institute to be held October 28 – November 2, related job 2007, at the beautiful Ghost Ranch Educational & Employed in a library organization in MPLA’s 12 Retreat Center, in Abiquiu, New Mexico. state region Current member of your state library association The 2007 Institute is sponsored by EBSCO (MPLA membership is not required) Information Services, a founding partner of the A record of experience that demonstrates Institute. The Institute was established to train and leadership potential grow future library leaders from the association’s A thoughtfully completed application to be twelve state member area. reviewed by a state committee

This year’s unique learning community will The registration fee of $550 is due in October and enable 30 attendees to hone their leadership includes room, meals, training and supporting The Good Stuff - Page 28 - June 2007 materials. MPLA, with the assistance of a grant obtained at the MPLA website: www.mpla. from EBSCO Information Services, is able to us/leadership. Applications are to be emailed keep the registration fee at an exceptionally low no later than midnight, Saturday, June 16, 2007. rate. MPLA members for at least two current Selections will be announced in July. If you consecutive years receive a $100 discount. have questions concerning the institute or your application, contact Mary Bushing, Institute Applications and more information can be Coordinator and mentor, at: [email protected].

Growing Up German Russian: a Radio Series

The radio series is part of a larger project that Submitted by Michael Miller will record numerous narratives for study and Director and Bibliographer archiving. The project is sponsored by Prairie Germans from Russia Heritage Public, the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection (GRHC), NDSU Libraries Collection, and the North Dakota State University Libraries, with partial funding by the North In March and April, Prairie Public broadcast a Dakota Humanities Council. fascinating radio series of local oral histories. “Growing Up German Russian: a Radio Series” For more information about the Germans from is a collection of narratives gleaned from the oral Russia Heritage Collection, visit the website at histories collection of the Dakota Memories Oral www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc History Project.

The 3-6 minute narratives aired in the Dakota Datebook time slot each Monday and Friday at 8:35 a.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 7:50 p.m. The radio narratives are also available on the Web at www.prairiepublic.org/radio

Jessica Clark, project coordinator, explained that these interviews are designed to preserve the precious history and heritage of Germans from Russia on the Northern Plains. “These narrations contain vivid childhood memories of learning to Alice (Miller) Buck Emil Schaffer (Gackle, ND) drive a tractor, witnessing a prairie fire, adopting [Streeter, ND] touring his grandparents’ old demonstrating earth brick house. a little colt, listening to German funeral songs, one of her many and growing up on the prairie during the Dirty musical talents – the Thirties,” Clark said. accordion.

The Good Stuff - Page 29 - June 2007 Scattered Village Exhibit at Mandan Public Library Wins Award The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) has been awarded the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Environmental Excellence Award in the Cultural and Historical Resources category for the “Scattered Village Exhibit and Curriculum Project.” This is the first time any North Dakota organization has received an Environmental Excellence award. instructional component The project is an interpretive and educational of the exhibit is a project resultant from the discovery of a pre- terrific piece in teaching historic village during the 1997 construction of students about events that 1st Street East in Mandan, North Dakota. occurred in their own back yard. The curriculum DVD incorporates local people and footage. By Bob Christensen, Cultural Resources Section studying about this in school, followed by seeing Leader for the NDDOT says receiving this the artifacts displayed at the library, the students award is a great honor. “This award recognizes are able to understand how history affects them. agencies and their partners for their exceptional environmental efforts while exemplifying what it This curriculum includes an instructor’s means to be ecological stewards.” The project was manual and a DVD along with educational a collaborative effort between NDDOT, Mandan materials that tell the story of Scattered Village Public Library, Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, through the eyes of science and the eyes of Mandan Public Schools, State Historical Society the modern descendants of the occupants of of North Dakota, City of Mandan, Color and Scattered Village. This curriculum is available by Design of Vancouver, Washington, and Megan contacting Bob Christenson at 701-328-4539, Cull with Whattadame Productions of Salem, or you can download the online curriculum Oregon. and video at: www.dot.nd.gov/divisions/design/ scatteredvillagelessons/scatteredvillage.html. Christensen adds, “One highlight of this project is the unique educational opportunity available The project was funded by the North Dakota to students across North Dakota.” The interpretive Department of Transportation with Transportation exhibit consists of the display and interpretation Enhancement funds that were provided by of recovered artifacts on permanent display at the Federal Highway Administration. The City the Mandan Public Library. The educational of Mandan provided matching funds. Awards exhibit consists of classroom curriculum for North were presented at the International Conference Dakota history which is taught in the 4th and 8th on Ecology and Transportation in Little Rock, grades. Arkansas, in May.

The Mandan Public Library has played an integral The exhibit was also named a winner of a 2006 role in making this exhibit available to the Telly Award. The Telly Awards honor outstanding citizens of North Dakota. Kelly Steckler, Library television commercials, video productions and Director for the Mandan Public Library, says, “The films. The Good Stuff - Page 30 - June 2007 National Library Week, April 15-21, 2007 Come Together @ Your Library First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of libraries, librarians, and library workers.

How did North Dakota libraries celebrate? From pajamas to high tea, here is a sampling.

Bismarck State College Library hosted an open house on April 17 and invited students, staff, and community members to come together @ the Grand Forks Public Library hosted a Pajama library to enjoy refreshments, register for door Storytime the evening of April 17. Stories, a prizes, and view the annual faculty art show in puppet show, milk and cookies, and kids of all the library’s Gannon Gallery ages in their pajamas made the event memorable.

Psi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma hosted a Griggs County Public Library celebrated National high tea at the Bowman County Library on April Library Week with coffee and cookies each day, 15. Musical entertainment was provided by a “no fine” week, and a silent auction. Auction Matt Woodley and Charm Hibl of funds were used to help defray the Bowman High School, and Professor cost of installing new shelving units Gary Cummick from Dickinson State received from the Fargo Public Library. University did a poetry reading. The event’s purpose was to promote Heart of America Library in Rugby literacy and the funds that were raised showcased an exhibition of recent art will be used to purchase books or projects by students at Rugby High other materials for public places in the School during National Library Week. surrounding communities. Community members were invited to stop by the library and register Carrington City Library hosted an open for prizes and check out new books, house celebration on April 17. movies, and magazines.

Dickinson State University’s Theodore Second and third grade students from Roosevelt Scholar-in-Residence Clay Hebron Public School visited the Jenkinson led the Latte & Literature Hebron Public Library on April 18 for book discussion at Stoxen Library on a presentation featuring the “We the April 17. The focus of the discussion People Bookshelf.” Students were was The World Is Flat by Thomas also invited to take part in the library’s Friedman. summer reading program.

The Good Stuff - Page 31 - June 2007 TechTips & More

Compiled by Karen Anderson, Editorial Committee Member It’s All About Blogs

This month’s column is dedicated to blogs. You other people post comments or whether I want have probably heard of the term and no doubt to moderate the postings. To make a posting on you have been to many blogs. In case you blogger, all I do after signing in is click on the + haven’t, go to Wikipedia (www.en.wikipedia.org/ sign. If I am logged in and go to my blog, I can wiki/Blog) to learn more. click NEW POST at the top of the page, write the title of my posting by TITLE, then write whatever Blogs are all over the Internet. Try a Google I want in the box below the title, and click search for blogs or blogs and recipes, or blogs PUBLISH at the bottom. and traveling, etc. I found a nice listing of blogs on gardening tips at www.blogs.botw.org/Home/ A lot of libraries across the country are using Gardening/. Another neat site for recipes and blogs. I asked for blog sites from our readers and gardening is www.ourkentuckyhomeandgardens. several individuals sent me the links to their blogs blogspot.com/. (see below). Thank you all so much! My readers will get many good ideas from your blogs. You can create or read blogs for work or for recreation. I hope this article will inspire YOU to make a blog! If you do, let me know and I will publish Anyone can create a blog very easily. There are your site in the next issue. free sites like www.blogger.com/start or www. bloglines.com, or you can use other sites where you pay. CHS Book Club Blog www.library.educ8.org/ch/ Before you create a blog, you need to figure out I have a “CHS Book Club Blog” (through what you want to do with it so you can name it novemberlearning.com – free!), which is linked appropriately. Follow the directions for making from our library homepage. Students and staff a blog on the site you’ve chosen and then write can find out what’s being read by their peers, whatever you want to post on the blog for others recommend favorite books, and join an ongoing to see. You may want to create your own blog book discussion. Some CHS English teachers for recipes. For example, you could post a recipe require their students to access the blog as part of on your blog and then ask others to send in their class projects. favorite dessert recipe or other kinds of recipes. Kathy J. Berg, Library Media Specialist I used www.blogger.com/start to start a blog for Century High School the UND Clinical Campus librarians. It only Bismarck, ND took about five minutes to set it up. I clicked on CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW and in three easy steps, I had my site created. I selected the design Library News – MSU Moorhead I wanted from their list. I didn’t have to design www.collaborate.mnstate.edu/public/blogs/ the web page -- I just chose it. My blog is at librarynews/ www.campusinfo.blogspot.com/ Although I work across the river at MSU Moorhead, I live in North Dakota and am a You don’t have to be a technowizard to make member of NDLA. We have a library news a blog. Anyone can do it! When I make my blog on our web site. Our instruction librarian, postings, I can also decide whether I want to let Travis Dolence, set up the blog and most of the

The Good Stuff - Page 32 - June 2007 librarians contribute on a regular basis. We cornflower/ The Cornflower is one of several use it to advertise book awards, new databases, blogs of the National Network of Libraries of database trials, recommended reading lists, news, Medicine. Others are located at this URL: www. and announcements. nnlm.gov/news/

Pam Were, Public Services Librarian Jacqueline Leskovec, MLIS, MA, RN MSU Moorhead Outreach and Evaluation Coordinator www.mnstate.edu/library/ National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region Kennedy Elementary Word Collection 1750 W. Polk St. M/C 763 www.kennedyelementary.blogspot.com/ Chicago, IL 60612-4330 I have been “playing around” with blogs this year. I am working with a 4th grade teacher and the gifted/talented teacher to focus on words. I also MULS Blog post my own thoughts at www.kennedylibrary. www.minitex.umn.edu/publications/blogs/ blogspot.com/. The MINITEX/MULS unit is joining the world of online publishing with the new MULS Blog. Susan Kempel, Library Media Specialist Easier to update then our traditional website Kennedy Elementary pages and intended to be interactive with our Fargo, ND readers, the MULS Blog will help keep you up- www.fargo.k12.nd.us/education/staff/staff. to-date about workshop schedules, technical php?sectionid=301 developments, and current topics relating to OCLC Local Holdings Records. Blogs also allow us to publish answers to common questions or Tiny Pictures Telling Stories to pass on the URLs for websites that may be of www.kaybird01.livejournal.com interest to our community of MULS libraries. This is a personal blog and I consider it fairly family-friendly. I’ve kept it for a year now. My To view the MULS Blog, click on the motto is: “Something rewarding and interesting “Publications” tab on the MINITEX homepage posted every 10 days or so.” I cycle through (www.minitex.umn.edu). You can also link different subjects -- cat photography, antique doll directly via the URL: www.blogs.minitex.umn. restoration, computer repair, found art, my own edu/muls. It is possible to use an RSS feed to visual artwork, and sidewalk chalk art. have blog information delivered to you whenever the blog is updated. Kay Kirscht, Staff Support Services Minitex Library Information Network An important feature of the MULS blog is that University of Minnesota it is accessible for staff members at any library www.minitex.umn.edu to post questions or leave comments. We hope that, in this way, we can share what we know about the current state of Local Holdings Record The Cornflower maintenance work, as well as learn about www.nnlm.gov/gmr/blog issues that impact the work of staff at MULS- The Cornflower is the blog of the National participating libraries who maintain LHRs, share Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater work-saving tips, and help develop best practices Midwest Region. There is a bit of information you for LHR maintenance across our region. (Note might want to look at on the blog pages linked that the blog will be moderated to prevent from the right-hand column, especially: spamming so your entries might not appear right www.nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/welcome-to-the- away.)

The Good Stuff - Page 33 - June 2007 Annual If you have any suggestions or any questions related to the blog, we would be happy to hear Conference them! You can comment directly on the blog, call Auction: aughing us, or send us an email. The MULS blog is only one of several available on the MINITEX website. Keeping You In Stitches By Donna James with Librarians Dave Linton, MULS Unit NDLA President-elect and 2007 MINITEX Library Information Network Conference Chair 15 Andersen Library L The annual conference auction and raffle to University of Minnesota - Twin Cities support the North Dakota Library Association is 222 21st Ave. S. a popular event at the conference. The auction Minneapolis, MN 55455 provides funds for scholarships and other grants to support libraries in North Dakota. This year the PDAs and Health Programs theme for the auction is “Keeping You in Stitches” www.healthpda.blogspot.com/ and conference organizers encourage you to This blog was designed to inform UND School of use your imagination and donate auction items Medicine and College of Nursing students about related to libraries, needlework, and humor. Palm programs. The blog was established by Barb Knight to enable students to share comments Here’s how you can help: about PDA programs they find useful and to 1. DONATE AN ITEM distribute information related to a variety of Do you have an unused, antique or collector’s health-based PDA software. item valued from $20.00 on up? Do you paint, knit, needlepoint or quilt? Show Barb Knight, Head of Public Services off your talent and donate an item! Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences University of North Dakota Do you own a home on the lake? Put that Grand Forks, ND vacation home to good use and donate a week’s stay! Do you own season tickets to a sporting TechTips & More is a column that gives tips about event? Donate tickets to a single game. Do technology (TechTips) or other things that our you know someone who would like to support a readers do in their libraries to make their lives non-profit organization by donating a weekend a little easier or more efficient (More). Please hotel package, a dinner for two, or other service? submit your tips to Karen Anderson at karen_ Contact them! [email protected] 2. BUY (AND SELL) RAFFLE TICKETS Arrangements are underway to host a statewide raffle to supplement the auction’s income. Stay- tuned for more details. 3. GET A TEAM TOGETHER This year’s live auction will feature a skit competition. Get your co-workers together and prepare a skit that will put the bidders in a good mood and make them laugh. Skit competition winners will receive recognition (and prizes) during the conference wrap-up program. 4. PLAN TO LAUGH, SHOP, AND BID Support the NDLA auction by attending the Auction & Skit Competition and purchasing some of the great items up for bid at this year’s auction.

The Good Stuff - Page 34 - June 2007 Annual Conference Auction: aughing Keeping You In Stitches By Donna James with Librarians NDLA President-elect and 2007 2007 NDLA Conference Conference Chair A LetterL from Donna James, Conference Chair and NDLA President-elect The annual conference auction and raffle to support the North Dakota Library Association is Colleagues: a popular event at the conference. The auction It’s starting to come together. The 2007 NDLA Conference in Jamestown (September 26-28, 2007) promises provides funds for scholarships and other grants some “out of the box” fun for all of us! This year’s theme is “Laughing with Librarians.” Check out the to support libraries in North Dakota. This year the preliminary conference page at www.ndla.info/Conference/07conf.htm theme for the auction is “Keeping You in Stitches” We have retained Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum of “Unshelved” fame (www.overduemedia.com/) to speak at and conference organizers encourage you to the Friday luncheon and to be available for book signings after. Since we couldn’t get them for the Thursday use your imagination and donate auction items banquet (as they are in Michigan that day), you just HAVE TO be at the luncheon! related to libraries, needlework, and humor. “Keeping You in Stitches” is the theme for the annual auction and we are hoping that your donated auction Here’s how you can help: items reflect that theme, Be creative and expand on it any way you like. :-) Sewing books, comic books, a 1. DONATE AN ITEM needlepoint masterpiece, a crocheted pillow ... Think Andy Rooney, Erma Bombeck, Lewis Black or ??? Do you have an unused, antique or collector’s NEW THIS YEAR: A skit competition! If you and a couple of co-workers would like to put together a skit item valued from $20.00 on up? to make us laugh, please fill out the Skit Competition Entry Form. Don’t delay (we can only take the first Do you paint, knit, needlepoint or quilt? Show few entries). Even if you don’t know “what” you’ll do for a skit yet, if you’re willing -- fill out the form and off your talent and donate an item! send it on to me. Performances will take place during the live auction and winners will receive autographed Do you own a home on the lake? Put that “Unshelved” prizes during the conference wrap-up program. I might even get Bill or Gene to present the vacation home to good use and donate a week’s awards. :-) For links to the forms in PDF and DOC go to www.ndla.info/Conference/07conf.htm stay! Do you own season tickets to a sporting ALSO NEW THIS YEAR: A raffle! We have permission to conduct the raffle -- just need to get the prizes lined event? Donate tickets to a single game. Do up and the tickets printed. Here’s hoping that each of you can sell ten tickets -- ask your library board, co- you know someone who would like to support a workers, and the director as well as regular patrons to buy a ticket to support the organization. Plans for non-profit organization by donating a weekend distribution of the tickets haven’t been finalized yet, but tickets will be available in mid-July. The drawing will hotel package, a dinner for two, or other service? be at the conference. More details coming later. Contact them! MARY BUSHING will be at the conference. If you know her, then you know why she fits our “laughter theme,” 2. BUY (AND SELL) RAFFLE TICKETS and if you don’t, then you need to meet her! Preliminary plans are for Mary to do a pre-conference workshop Arrangements are underway to host a statewide and a concurrent session or two. And, if I can talk her into it, participation in a skit!! raffle to supplement the auction’s income. Stay- If you have any ideas for a concurrent session topic or speaker, the presentation proposal form is still available tuned for more details. at www.ndla.info/Conference/07conf.htm -- It’s not too late. 3. GET A TEAM TOGETHER Bloggers, YouTubers and YALSA fans, check out these websites for FUN skit or This year’s live auction will feature a skit auction item ideas: competition. Get your co-workers together and prepare a skit that will put the bidders in a good www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenreading.htm mood and make them laugh. Skit competition www.youtube.com/ winners will receive recognition (and prizes) www.library.vcsu.edu/LibBlogs.htm during the conference wrap-up program. And, finally, keep checking the NDLA Conference website for updates. PLEASE 4. PLAN TO LAUGH, SHOP, AND BID contact me with ideas for conference programming, arrangements or anything else. Support the NDLA auction by attending the All suggestions are appreciated. Auction & Skit Competition and purchasing some Donna James of the great items up for bid at this year’s auction. [email protected]

The Good Stuff - Page 35 - June 2007 TREASURER'STreasurer's REPORT Report As of March 31, As of2007 March (end 31, 2007of first (end quarter) of 1st quarter) By Michael By Safratowich, Michael Safratowich, NDLA Treasurer NDLA Treasurer Editor’s note: Approved by electronic vote of the Executive Board on April 16, 2007 Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance CHECK BOOK 1/1/2007 $18,034.31

Pass-Through Funds Book Sales $8,271.67 $25.00 $8,296.67

Pass-Through Funds Subtotal $8,271.67 $25.00 $0.00 $8,296.67

NDLA Funds $9,762.64 Annual Conference 2006 $800.00 Dues 2007 $510.00 $4,772.00 $5,282.00 Professional Dev / Canoe Kudos Investment Account Transfers $105.00 HSIS Partner Account $6,670.14 $6,670.14 Centennial Cookbook -$8,302.33 $1,433.07 $68.49 -$6,937.75 Other receipts/disbursements $255.00 $6,304.52

NDLA Funds Subtotal $7,260.07 $6,478.01 $10,544.70

Check Book Balance 3/31/07 $18,841.37 ******************************************************************************************************************** INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS Beg. Balance Receipts Disbursements End. Balance NDLA CD $10,000.00

$10,000.00 NDLA CD Ready Cash $2,075.35 Interest $237.56

$2,312.91 NDLA Money Market $15,048.44 Interest $172.12

$15,220.56 Rudser CD $10,000.00

$10,000.00 Rudser Money Market Ready Cash $5,000.09 Interest $57.19 Deposits $25.00 $5,082.28 Hubbard Money Market $1,691.26 Interest $19.34 Deposits $25.00 $1,735.60 Jaugstetter Leadership Fund CD $2,500.00

$2,500.00 Jaugstetter Leadership Fund Savings $7,677.73 Interest $3.79 Deposits $55.00 $7,736.52

TOTAL investment accounts $53,992.87 $54,587.87

TOTAL EQUITY 3/31/07 $73,429.24

The Good Stuff - Page 36 - June 2007 North Dakota Library Association Membership Application for the Year Ending December 31, 2007

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

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

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

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

I would like to make a donation to the Flicker Tale Award Fund in the amount of: $______A receipt will be mailed to you indicating the amount of any donations. Thank You!

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

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

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

The Good Stuff - Page 37 - June 2007 2006-2007 North Dakota Library Association Executive Board All phone numbers are Area Code 701 PRESIDENT ACADEMIC & SPECIAL TECHNICAL SERVICES PROFESSIONAL Beth Postema LIBRARIES SECTION ROUNDTABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Fargo Public Library Donna James Rachel White Mark Holman 102 N 3rd St Allen Memorial Library State Historical Society of Sitting Bull College Library Fargo ND 58102-4899 Valley City State University North Dakota 1341 92nd St Work Phone 701.241.8198 101 College St SW 612 E Boulevard Ave Fort Yates ND 58538-9721 Fax 701.241.8581 Valley City ND 58072-4098 Bismarck ND 58505-0830 Work Phone 701.854.3861 E-Mail BPostema@cityoffargo. Work Phone 701.845.7276 Work Phone 701.328.3571 Ext 224 Fax 701.854.3403 com Fax 701.845.7437 Fax 701.328.2650 E-Mail [email protected] E-Mail [email protected] E-Mail [email protected] PRESIDENT ELECT PUBLIC RELATIONS Donna James GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS COMMITTEE Allen Memorial Library ROUNDTABLE CONSTITUTION, BYLAWS & Appointment pending Valley City State University Marilyn Johnson POLICIES COMMITTEE 101 College St SW Legislative Council Library Kirsten Baesler THE GOOD STUFF EDITORIAL Valley City ND 58072-4098 600 E Boulevard Ave Pioneer School COMMITTEE Work Phone 701.845.7276 Bismarck ND 58505-0360 1400 E. Bramen Ave Marlene Anderson Fax 701.845.7437 Work Phone 701.328.4900 Bismarck ND 58501 Bismarck State College Library E-Mail [email protected] Fax 701.328.3615 Work Phone 701.221.3445 PO Box 5587 E-Mail [email protected] E-Mail kirsten_baesler@educ8. Bismarck ND 58506-5587 PAST PRESIDENT org Work Phone 701.224.5578 Jeanne Narum HEALTH SCIENCE Fax 701.224.5551 Minot Public Library INFORMATION SECTION E-Mail Marlene.Anderson@bsc. 5101 14th St SW Joan Bares INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM nodak.edu Minot ND 58701-7607 Medcenter One Library COMMITTEE Work Phone 701.852.1045 300 N 7th St. Paulette Nelson EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Fax 701.852.2595 Bismarck ND 58501 Minot Public Library Cathy A. Langemo E-Mail [email protected] Work Phone 701.323.5390 516 2nd Ave SW WritePlus Inc. Fax 701.323.6967 Minot ND 58701-3792 205 E Arbor Ave Apt 108-G SECRETARY E-Mail [email protected] Work Phone 701.838.0606 Bismarck ND 58504-5717 Laurie L. McHenry Fax 701.852.2595 Work Phone 701.223.7972 UND Chester Fritz Library NEW MEMBERS E-Mail [email protected] E-Mail [email protected] 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 ROUNDTABLE Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Eric Stroshane ARCHIVIST/HISTORIAN Work Phone 701.777.2919 North Dakota State Library LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE Christine Kujawa E-Mail LaurieMcHenry@mail. 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 Kelly M. Steckler Bismarck Public Library und.nodak.edu Bismarck ND 58505-0800 Mandan Public Library 515 N 5th St Work Phone 701.328.4622 609 W Main St Bismarck ND 58501-4081 TREASURER Fax 701.328.2040 Mandan ND 58554-3149 Work Phone 701.250.7600 Michael Safratowich E-Mail [email protected] Work Phone 701.667.5365 Fax 701.221.6854 UND Harley French Library of Fax 701.667.5368 E-Mail [email protected]. the Health Sciences PUBLIC LIBRARY SECTION E-Mail [email protected] org 501 N. Columbia Rd, Stop 9002 Bonnie MacIver ynx.org Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 Leach Public Library STATE LIBRARIAN Work Phone 701.777.2602 417 2nd Ave N Doris A. Ott Fax 701.777.4790 Wahpeton ND 58075-4416 NOMINATIONS AND North Dakota State Library E-Mail msafrat@medicine. Work Phone 701.642.5732 ELECTIONS COMMITTEE 604 E Boulevard Ave Dept 250 nodak.edu Fax 701.642.5732 Christine Kujawa Bismarck ND 58505-0800 E-Mail bonnie. Bismarck Public Library Work Phone 701.328.2492 ALA COUNCILOR [email protected] 515 N 5th St Fax 701.328.2040 Shelby E. Harken Bismarck ND 58501-4081 E-Mail [email protected] UND Chester Fritz Library SCHOOL LIBRARY & YOUTH Work Phone 701.250.7600 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 SERVICES SECTION Fax 701.221.6854 WEB EDITOR Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Kathy Berg E-Mail [email protected]. Theresa Norton Work Phone 701.777.4634 Century High School Library org UND Harley French Library of Fax 701.777.3319 1000 W Century Ave the Health Sciences E-Mail [email protected]. Bismarck ND 58503 501 N. Columbia Rd, Stop 9002 nodak.edu Work 701.250.4040 MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Grand Forks ND 58202-9002 Fax 701.250.4099 Kathryn Thomas Work Phone 701.777.2946 MPLA REPRESENTATIVE E-Mail [email protected] NDSU Libraries Fax 701.777.4790 Sally C. Dockter PO Box 5599 E-Mail [email protected]. UND Chester Fritz Library FINANCE COMMITTEE Fargo ND 58105-5599 edu 3051 University Ave, Stop 9000 Bonnie Krenz Work Phone 701.231.8863 Grand Forks ND 58202-9000 Griggs County Library Fax 701.231.7138 Work Phone 701.777.4640 PO Box 546 E-Mail Kathryn.Thomas@ndsu. Fax 701.777.3319 Cooperstown ND 58425-0546 edu E-Mail [email protected]. Work Phone 701.797.2214 nodak.edu E-Mail [email protected] The Good Stuff - Page 38 - June 2007