THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION June 2014 NDLA Website - http://www.ndla.info Volume 44 • Issue 2 One Book Collaboration Dakota: a Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris NDLA Conference Update t Bremer Grant t Election Preview t Flicker Tale Winners t NDLA on Wikipedia t INSIDE Table of Contents One Book Dakota .................................................... 3 President’s Message ................................................. 4 2014 NDLA Conference: Save the Date ................ 6 Most Frequently Challenged Books in 2013 ......... 7 MPLA Offers Professional Development Grants to Members............................................... 8 NDLA Awarded Bremer Grant ............................... 8 On the DOCket ....................................................... 9 Canoe Kudos Awards .............................................. 9 NDLA on Wikipedia .............................................. 10 Professional Development Grant Report: 2014 MPLA Leadership Institute ....................... 11 NDLA Professional Development Grant Report: Systematic Workshop ........................................ 12 Published quarterly by the Best. 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Ever ............................ 13 North Dakota Library Association NDLA Election Preview ......................................... 14 Editorial Committee Proposed change to NDLA Bylaws ...................... 15 Marlene Anderson, Chair People Stuff ............................................................ 16 Joan Erickson Eric Stroshane NDLA Membership Report ................................... 17 Production Artist Library Events and Conferences .......................... 17 Clearwater Communications, Robin Pursley Nerd Up .................................................................. 18 Subscription Rate 2014 Winners Flicker Tale Children’s $25/year Book Award ......................................................... 19 Advertising Rates 2015 Nominees Flicker Tale .................................. 19 (per issue) North Dakota in Print ............................................ 20 $100 – full-page ad Summer Summit .................................................... 22 $50 – half-page ad Browsing in the Cyberstacks ................................ 23 $25 – quarter-page ad Good Stuff from Around the State ...................... 24 For information contact: A Look at NDLA’s Executive Board: Marlene Anderson, Chair The Good Stuff Editorial Committee .................. 27 The Good Stuff Editorial Committee Treasurer’s Report .................................................. 28 NDLA Membership Form ..................................... 29 NDLA Executive Board .......................................... 30 Editorial Policy Letters should be sent to Marlene Anderson, Chair, The Good Stuff Editorial Committee, Bismarck State College, PO Box 5587, Bismarck, ND 58506-5587, Deadlines for Articles/News Submission or e-mail: [email protected] Issue Deadline August 2014 Friday, June 27 Submission Guidelines & Deadlines (pre-conference issue) Submit news and articles via e-mail to any of these addresses: [email protected] Minutes and Reports are linked to [email protected] www.ndla.info/exbdmin.htm [email protected] The Good Stuff - Page 2 - June 2014 One Book Dakota President Benjamin Harrison signed the order that admitted North Dakota to the Union on November 2, 1889. South Dakota became a state on the same day, but the exact order in which the two states were admitted into statehood is unknown because Harrison went to great lengths to obscure which proclamation was signed first. Nevertheless, because of alphabetical position (something librarians can appreciate!), North Dakota is generally considered the 39th state. Now, 125 years later, both North and South Dakota are commemorating their entry into statehood with a special One Book collaboration that is being organized through a joint effort of the North Dakota Humanities Council, South Dakota Humanities Council, and the 125th Anniversary Committees from To interact with readers and promote exploration of each state. the book’s themes, Norris is conducting a sixteen-city tour in North and South Dakota. Libraries are getting The book that was into the act by hosting some of the tour events as well chosen for the One Book as other local 125th anniversary events. There will also collaboration is Dakota: be special joint-state events, with concerts featuring a Spiritual Geography by Jessie Veeder Scoffield and Chuck Suchy, and poetry Kathleen Norris. The book by Kathleen Norris woven through the performances. was inspired by a move that Norris made to her In honor of the state’s 125th anniversary, the North grandparents’ home in Dakota State Library is offering a traveling series of Lemmon, South Dakota, in historical displays to libraries on a first come, first 1971, where she lived with serve basis. There are ten different displays, each her husband, poet David featuring a different topic relating to the history Dwyer, for more than of North Dakota. Along with the displays, SEND 25 years. According to (Suitcase Exhibits for North Dakota) trunks are Publishers Weekly, Norris available. The trunks include objects, historical paints “a fine portrait of the High Plains and its photographs, documents, and a guide to the items people as well as a very personal memoir of a spiritual inside. awakening” in her book. Originally published in 1993, Dakota was a New York Times bestseller. It was Want more info about the One Book Project and also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and North Dakota at 125? Here are some useful links: was selected as one of the best books of the year by • About Kathleen Norris - Library Journal. A joint special edition of the book http://barclayagency.com/norris.html was recently printed and copies were distributed to • 125 Ways to Luv ND - http://www.luvnd.com/ libraries across both states. • Facebook -North Dakota’s 125th Anniversary - Kathleen Norris is an award-winning poet and writer, www.facebook.com/NorthDakota125 and has other books to her credit, including The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace: a Vocabulary of Faith, • Kathleen Norris North Dakota Tour Schedule - The Virgin of Bennington, and seven books of poetry. www.ndhumanities.org/dakota.html Her first book of poems was entitled Falling Off and • North Dakota’s 125th Anniversary - was the 1971 winner of the Big Table Younger Poets www.history.nd.gov/northdakota125.html Award. The San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle calls Norris “one of the most eloquent yet • Twitter – North Dakota’s 125th - earthbound spiritual writers of our time.” https://twitter.com/NorthDakota125 The Good Stuff - Page 3 - June 2014 President’s Message By Victor Lieberman, NDLA President As I write this, I am between the North let alone as officers, were we not Dakota Library Coordinating Council’s keenly enthusiastic about libraries, (NDLCC) “Think Tank” meeting weeks. librarianship, and all things reading. I The NDLCC held meetings in Bismarck suppose it becomes an outlet of sorts and Minot (April 23 and 24) and in for the “gentle madness,” as it’s been Fargo and Grand Forks (April 30 and called by some. My dog is perhaps May 1) to get feedback on its proposed looking at me lately with a more distant “Library Vision 2020” (catch the clever and resentful glare, and he’s getting fat pun?), and to also seek input from the with all the guilt doggie treats I give library community and general public him to make one of us feel better about on issues and priorities for our state’s all the time apart. libraries. My significant canine other aside, As President of NDLA, I’ve found the the library landscape in our state experience of serving on the NDLCC is in need of our attention. I hope to be very rewarding and informative. that the situation I most immediately The Council has had some lengthy and passionate experience here in Grand Forks is not being played discussions about the Library Vision document (see out throughout the state, but support and advocacy LV2014 and draft of LV 2020 on the NDLCC webpage for our public, academic, and special libraries has www.library.nd.gov/coordinatingcouncil.htm), but been sadly and dramatically in retreat. Those in our it’s true vital nature as reflective of the North Dakota cities we look to for support, in our state to provide library community shall only be met by discussions at funding, and within our educational institutions public forums. (colleges and universities), seem content to watch as institutions built up over decades or, in some cases, The Vision must guide the planning, coordinating, over a century, are allowed to deteriorate, and, in and evaluating of services and programs of libraries some cases, are discarded by the dumpster load. For in our state. That wording, by the way, comes almost those of us who care deeply about libraries and the verbatim from the Council’s statutory responsibilities communities they serve, this has been a very sad and as outlined in the ND Century Code, §54-24.4-05(1). demoralizing time. What I hope can become part I’ve found that members of this council (11 at present) of our North Dakota “Library Vision” is the support take their responsibilities very seriously, and care and promotion of libraries in our communities, and deeply about libraries and the residents of our state not just libraries sharing their resources or simply who use them and may benefit from them. We need digitizing what we already