THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION June 2010 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 40 • Issue 2 Spring workshop attendees at the North Dakota State Library Student searching the shelves at UND Chester Fritz Library Anyone can use computers at the Grand Forks Public Library BSC Library Student Art Show Game day at the BSC students puzzling Bismarck Public Library t 2010 Conference Update t North Dakota Correctional System Libraries t Privacy, Censorship, and Net Neutrality t People’s Choice Award Winner INSIDE t Lego Building Time Table of Contents President’s Message ..........................................................3 Conference Update ..........................................................4 North Dakota Correctional System Libraries ................5 Privacy, Censorship, Net Neutrality, and Maintaining our First Amendment Rights ......................6 It’s Lego Building Time at the Minot Public Library ......8 People Stuff .....................................................................10 The Dakota Institute Press .............................................11 Canoe Kudos Nomination Form ...................................11 Nominations Are Now Open for NDLA Awards .........12 Books in Print for North Dakota Correctional Libraries .....................................................12 People’s Choice: Krista Tiller .........................................13 SnapShotND! One Day in the Life of ND Libraries ....13 Published quarterly by the Dakota Gold Centennial Cookbook and History .......14 North Dakota Library Association Grant Money Available for Professional Editorial Committee Development ...................................................................15 Marlene Anderson, Chair On the DOCket ..............................................................16 Karen Anderson Joan Erickson Browsing in the Cyberstacks .........................................18 Production Artist North Dakota in Print .....................................................20 Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley North Dakota’s Top Illustrated Children’s Books ........22 Subscription Rate Good Stuff from Around the State ...............................23 $25/year NDLA Membership Report ............................................27 Advertising Rates Consider Joining The Good Stuff Editorial (per issue) Committee .......................................................................27 $100 – full-page ad TechTips & More .............................................................28 $50 – half-page ad Treasurer’s Report ...........................................................30 $25 – quarter-page ad NDLA Membership Form ..............................................31 For information contact: 2009-2010 NDLA Executive Board ................................32 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. Deadlines for Articles/News Submission Please include your name and address when writing. 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 2010 .....................Friday, June 25, 2010 (pre-conference issue) Submission Guidelines & Deadlines December 2010 ...... Friday, October 29, 2010 Consider submitting news and articles via e-mail! Send your articles/news to any of the following e-mail addresses: [email protected] [email protected] Minutes and Reports are linked to [email protected] www.ndla.info/exbdmin.htm The Good Stuff - Page 2 - June 2010 President’s Message By Laurie McHenry, NDLA President What has been happening is a grant that is automatically awarded to all since the last message I who qualify and apply! Seriously, if your library wrote? Annual conference qualifies and you fill out the application, you planning has been kicked into are awarded a grant. The current rounds of full gear and promises much. competitive grants began April 15, 2010, with The theme is “Libraries: A an application deadline of September 24, 2010. Census.” Where? Grand Forks The next grant round will begin September 1, Alerus Center and Canad 2010. The grant categories are: Participate in the Inns. When? September Statewide Online Catalog through WorldCat; 29-October 2, 2010. For the third year in a row, Innovative Partnership with a Non-Library continuing education credit for school librarians Entity; and Public Library Training Lab. For more will be offered. Read more about the conference information, check the North Dakota State Library elsewhere in this publication and keep checking web site, Librarian Resources, Coordinating the web site for the most current information: Council. One of the more creative competitive www.ndla.info/Conference/10conf.htm. grants is the Innovative Partnership with a Non- Library entity. This is your opportunity to think Are you in need of money to attend the outside the box. This grant is totally open-ended NDLA conference, or some other conference and provides a wonderful opportunity to partner or workshop? Don’t forget that NDLA offers with the community to enhance library services. professional development grants! Check NDLA’s web site for all the information you need to apply NDLA members who have ideas for future grant for a professional development grant: www.ndla. offerings should contact the NDLA President. The info/profdev.htm. President of NDLA sits on this council during the year in which he/she presides as a representative At the March North Dakota Library Coordinating of the Association. Council (NDLCC) meeting, Library Vision 2014 was adopted. Preceding the adoption was a As you enjoy your summer, keep in mind that hearing which, in addition to oral testimony, the North Dakota legislature will be meeting included the reading of emailed comments with in 2010-2011. We will need to be in constant regard to the document. The testimony and communication and may be called upon to write readings were important for the Council to hear letters or offer testimony. While you are lounging and provided stimulus for lengthy discussion in the sun, think about the marketing you can do amongst the Council, not only with regard to before the legislature meets; tell everyone you Library Vision 2014, but with regard to future meet how important libraries are. Gather your education concerning the role of the NDLCC and stories; these are powerful tools for informing the North Dakota State Library. policymakers. We must continually look for new ways to let the public and our government After the adoption of Library Vision 2014, officials know that the Internet has not replaced available at the North Dakota State Library’s libraries, what they do, and what they mean to web site, the Council looked at future grant people! opportunities. The mini-grant for resource sharing The Good Stuff - Page 3 - March 2010 Conference Update By Rita Ennen, NDLA President-elect and Conference Chair Planning is in high gear for the 2010 NDLA Conference. The conference is scheduled for September 29 - October 2, 2010, at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. Our theme is “Libraries: a Census.” The New Oxford American Dictionary defines a census as an official count or survey of a population recording various details. In this year of the official national census, we look for- ward to surveying our North Dakota libraries to see what is happening and what we can learn from each other. Our keynote speaker will be Joe Raiola, come- dian and senior editor of Mad Magazine. He will be sharing his nationally acclaimed program, The Joy of Censorship, in which he uses comedy and survivor-type game night in addition to the infor- satire to examine first amendment rights issues mative and educational sessions we look forward like banned books, movie ratings, the Patriot Act, to every year. and Internet filters. We will also be treated to a presentation of some of Mad’s most controversial, For the third consecutive year, continuing edu- thought-provoking, and outrageous covers and cation credit at the conference will be offered articles. For more information about Joe Raiola, through Valley City State University. The credit(s) view his website at http://joeraiola.com/home. will apply toward school Library Media Specialist html. credential renewal in the Current Issues track. We hope many of you will take advantage of this The local arrangements committee is hard at great opportunity to receive credit while network- work planning to highlight some special libraries ing with other librarians. If you have questions in Grand Forks. We invite you to come early on about the continuing education credit, contact Wednesday and tour the North Dakota School for Donna James ([email protected], 701-845- the Blind and learn about their services. During 7279). the opening reception Wednesday evening, we will have a special screening of the movie, The Watch the conference web pages at www.ndla. Hollywood Librarian. Plans are also in the works info/Conference/10conf.htm for updates. We for another book cart decorating contest and a hope to see many of you in Grand Forks! Libraries: A Census The Good Stuff - Page 4 - June 2010 North Dakota Correctional System Libraries By Konnie Wightman, System Librarian, North Dakota Department of - Update & Volunteer Opportunity Corrections and Rehabilitation Last year I wrote