University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Nebraska Libraries Nebraska Library Association May 2013 Nebraska Libraries - Volume 1, Number 2 (May 2013) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/neblib Part of the Library and Information Science Commons "Nebraska Libraries - Volume 1, Number 2 (May 2013)" (2013). Nebraska Libraries. 2. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/neblib/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Nebraska Library Association at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nebraska Libraries by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Nebraska Libraries May 2013, Vol. 1, No. 2 "Every visit to the library should be this good!" Nebraska Library Association ISSN: 2326-3237 - 1 - Nebraska Libraries May 2013 – Volume 1, Number 2 Contents Published by the Nebraska Library Association Editor’s Message . 3 Lindsey Tomsu Membership in NLA is open to any individual or institution interested in Nebraska libraries. Nebraska Libraries Using Social Software . 4 Marcia L. Dority Baker To find out more about NLA, write to: Nebraska Library Association Nebraska Libraries Using Social Software: A Survey . 6 c/o Executive Director Michael Straatmann Marcia L. Dority Baker P.O. Box 21756 Technology Fears Abate When AARP Partners with Libraries . Lincoln, NE 68542-1756; . 11 call 402-216-0727; Cynthia Vana or visit our website at nebraskalibraries.org Technically at Your Service! How Two Libraries Approached Opinions expressed in Nebraska Libraries Outsourcing and How It’s Working Now . 12 are those of the authors and are not Lauran England-Biggs & Jake Rundle necessarily endorsed by NLA. B.F. Fairchild Returns to Kearney . 15 Jennifer Harvey Articles in Nebraska Libraries are protected by copyright law and may not be reprinted Advocacy: Influencing Others from the Annual Advocacy Day to without prior written permission. Everyday Advocacy . 16 Francine Canfield Nebraska Libraries Staff The Knee Bone’s Connected to the What?: Finding Free, Editor Lindsey Tomsu Creditable Health Information Online . 18 [email protected] Marty Magee Summer Reading Program Planning: A SCYP Column . 20 Communications Committee Sally Snyder Marcia Dority Baker (Chair) Holli Beckman In this Together: A C&U Column . 21 Marcia Dority Baker Marcia L. Dority Baker Laura England-Biggs Sue Ann Gardner News from the Technical Services Round Table . 22 Martha Grenzeback Angela Kroeger Kay Hershey To Know Us is to Love Us: A Para Column . 24 Matt Kovar Cynthia Vana Emily McIllece Spring Meeting Report: A PLTS Column . 26 Jessica Chamberlian © Nebraska Library Association How I ’Roll . 27 Nebraska Libraries (ISSN 2326-3237), formerly known as Emily McIllece & Rebecca Brooks Nebraska Library Association Quarterly, or NLAQ, is published online quarterly in spring, summer, fall, and Beyond the Stacks: Judy Andrews . 29 winter by the Nebraska Library Association, Lindsey Tomsu P.O. Box 21756, Lincoln, NE 68542-1756. News Briefs . 32 Subscription price: Free for members of NLA, $40 per year to other subscribers. Book Bites: Book Reviews (and More!). 33 Single issues: $10 Editorial Policy . 36 Cover Photo Credit: Photo from the Wayne Public Library’s Treasure in the Stacks Easter Egg Hunt on March 23rd, 2013. Submission Policy . 37 Pictured are Dave and Nolan Bohnert. In the background making selections is a very regular visitor, Liam Spieker. Photo by Melissa Derechailo. - 2 - Editor’s Message Welcome members of the Nebraska library profession to the second issue of Nebraska Libraries, the all-new journal for the Nebraska Library Association. I hope you all enjoyed the inaugural issue in February, which has been downloaded more than 300 times! I received a few emails from happy readers, so I hope you find the second issue just as educating and entertaining. My big goal for the May issue, as your editor, was to establish columns for the sections and round tables of NLA. A lot of the time our membership is really only aware of what is going on in their own individual field of librarianship. A SCYP member might have no idea what a TSRT member is doing while the TSRT member is clueless about what PLTS does, and so on. Therefore, it is my goal to have a column in each issue for the sections and round tables to inform the general membership of what they are doing and what has been happening. You’d be surprised at some of the helpful things you’ll learn from your fellow colleagues! This month we are rolling out columns for the College and University (C&U), Paraprofessional (Para), Public Library and Trustee (PLTS), and School, Children’s and Young People (SCYP) sections, along with the Technical Services (TSRT) round table. In our August issue we will see the columns for our other groups: Special and Institutional (S&I), Intellectual Freedom, New Members Round Table (NMRT), Information Technology and Access Round Table (ITART), and the Young Adult Round Table (YART). Joining our other columns you’ll see each month (“How I ’Roll” and “Beyond the Stacks”) is the first entry in Marty Magee’s “The Knee Bone’s Connected to the What?” column, all about finding free creditable health information online that you can share with your patrons. We also see the beginnings of our “News Brief” section and the start of “Book Bites”, a section for your reviews of books, movies, games, and more! We have some interesting feature articles on social media use in Nebraska libraries, technology classes for seniors that the Omaha Public Library did in conjunction with AARP, how two libraries outsourced some of their work, a poet’s visit to Kearney, and information about Advocacy Day. I want to thank everyone that sent in photos for our May cover image! I received so many to choose from. While I couldn’t use them all you will be seeing some of them in the August issue as many of the photos showcased some awesome programs our librarians are doing in Nebraska and I asked those librarians to contribute articles. The winning photo came from Wayne Public Library’s Treasure in the Stacks Easter Egg Hunt, which was held on March 23rd, 2013. It featured Dave Bohnert and his son, Nolan. Also in the background perusing the stacks for books is very regular visitor, Liam Spieker. The photo was taken by Melissa Derechailo and submitted by Julie Osnes. As I mentioned in the last issue, I can only make Nebraska Libraries great with your help! I’m looking for articles about anything related to libraries and about successful (or not as successful as we can learn from those too) programs your library has done recently. With Summer Reading coming up, I expect to see a bunch of articles in my inbox from all you children’s and teen librarians about the cool programs you offered your patrons this summer! I am also looking for fun content too—book reviews, news items, profiles of libraries and librarians, creative writing, art, and anything you can think of! Please don’t hesitate to contact me your ideas for articles and columns. Let’s make Nebraska Libraries a quality publication that showcases the great things that Nebraskan libraries and librarians do! You can reach me at: [email protected] Lindsey Tomsu Editor, Nebraska Libraries - 3 - Nebraska Libraries Using Social Software By Marcia L. Dority Baker Do you remember what you were doing in 2003 or 2004? The evolution of technology during the past decade is amazing to review. Think about how quickly social software incorporated into our day-to-day lives; it’s become part of our jobs, libraries, and relationships. It’s not only physical technology (hardware) that has morphed; the social software has changed as well. In 2003, the social sites LinkedIn and MySpace were born and Nokia released a cell phone with a camera. For those interested, Facebook launched in 2005 and Apple released the first iPhone in 2007—oh, how time flies. A conversation with a library colleague on using LibGuides sparked the idea to survey Nebraska Library Association (NLA) members to check the pulse on Nebraska libraries using social software. According to the Mashable website, “social software” is defined as any interactive tools used to communicate. My curiosity piqued, I emailed a brief (six question) survey in March 2013, entitled “Nebraska Libraries Using Social Software,” to the NLA membership. The survey asked: (1) What type of library do you work in?, (2) Is your library using social software?, (3) Does your library have a website?, (4) What social software is your library using?, (5) For what reasons does your library use social software?, and (6) How long has your library used social media? The intent was to determine the types of social software used by Nebraska libraries and how long Nebraska libraries have participated in various social software platforms. I want to thank fellow Nebraska librarians and library staff for your quick replies to this survey! The survey was emailed to approximately 950 NLA members. When asked what type of library respondents worked in I received 97 total responses, which included librarians from public libraries (46 responses), academic libraries (31 responses), school libraries (9 responses), other libraries (6 responses), and special/institutional libraries (5 responses). According to Question 2, a majority of respondents (86 responses) affirmed that their library uses social software to communicate. One interesting response was the “not sure” option as two people responded that they were unsure if their library uses social software. This response may demonstrate that libraries should communicate better with library staff, users, and the board of trustees the technology or social software the library uses or subscribes to. It can be assumed that most Nebraska libraries have a website providing access to the library catalog, contact information, library hours, databases, or programming details.