New Digs!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our "virtual garage sale" and for your patience during our move. As most of you know, we had to clean house to move into our new office, which we are now in the process of unearthing, and are very happy with. We are proud to say we are back in full working order (though please note with our new phone system we are not hanging up on you because we don't like your conversation!) While our numbers will remain the same, our address has changed. Please update your records accordingly.

It is:

Southeastern Library Services
2435 Kimberly Rd. Suite 210N
Bettendorf, IA 52722

Thanks again,

SLS

SLS Garage Sale

We're cleaning house and we have great stuff available at reasonable prices! Things for your library or even your home! Everything is listed right on our website, prices are negotiable unless otherwise noted. Call Amanda @ (800) 397-0029 to claim (first come, first served!) or to inquire about other details or measurements.

Go to: http://www.sls.lib.ia.us/garage_sale.htm to check out what we have!

And the Winners Are...

The winners of the ILA scholarship were selected last night at the Southeastern Library Services' board meeting after much deliberation over the many (anonymously read) applications received. We are pleased to announce that Becky Huggins, director of Fairfield Public Library and Terry Moore, director at Mt. Pleasant Correctional Center Library will be attending the ILA conference in Council Bluffs this October on us! Oh behalf of Southeastern Library Services' and our board, we thank everyone for their thoughtful submissions.

Keep an eye out for upcoming 'Library Makeover' opportunities and other scholarships!

Congratulations ladies!

Now Available!

Millions of searchable newspaper pages are now available at no cost to schools and libraries
June 15, 2006 - NewspaperARCHIVE.com is giving public libraries and K-12 schools free access to tens of millions of newspaper pages in its historical newspaper database. This new program, called Access NewspaperARCHIVE, will allow students and library patrons to view, save and print full-page newspapers dating from 1759 to 1977. "We are excited to be providing libraries and schools with such a unique research tool," said Jeff Kiley, General Manager of NewspaperARCHIVE.com. "By opening up our archives to these institutions, we are giving everyone, regardless of education or socio-economic class, the opportunity to read first-hand accounts of historical events. We hope that every public library and K-12 school in the nation will take advantage of this free program." Access NewspaperARCHIVE will allow its users to access content from the US and around the world, including titles from the United Kingdom, Canada, Jamaica and other countries. The free subscription will exclude titles within the institution's local state and those after the year 1977. However, an upgraded subscription level that includes these titles will also be available. In the past, historical newspaper research was typically limited to microfilm reels only available in the library. NewspaperARCHIVE.com is simplifying the research process by providing convenient online access to millions of digitized newspaper pages. Access NewspaperARCHIVE will allow online access to more newspaper titles than any other service. Public libraries and K-12 schools can sign up for this free service by calling NewspaperARCHIVE.com's customer service at 1.888.870.0484 ext. 30 or by downloading a sign-up form online at http://access.newspaperarchive.com and faxing the completed form to 319.390.9442. For more information about NewspaperARCHIVE.com and this free program, go to http://access.newspaperarchive.com. NewspaperARCHIVE.com is the largest newspaper database available online with more than 38 million newspaper pages and one new page added every second. Heritage Microfilm of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, launched NewspaperARCHIVE.com in 1999.

Free Stuff!

Scott County Library System in Eldridge, Iowa has one book drop (similar to the one seen to your right, except blue in color with white lettering) they are giving away for free (this is valued at anywhere from $2000-$4000 when purchased from DEMCO.) Three more may be coming available soon. It is in good condition, though the letters on it are slightly worn and is available for pick up immediately. **Please note** This is a heavy item and will require a couple people to lift. They also have many bookends (used, but in good working order) both small and large in size, mostly black in color available for the cost of shipping.

If you have any questions about these items or would like to claim them call Pam Collins, director, at (563) 285-4794 ext. 222 Leave her a message if she's not in and she'll return your call as soon as she can.

Burlington Public Library has a set of 19th ed. (1996) Big Red. They are available for pick up immediately. Contact Rhonda Frevert, head of reference services, with questions or to claim at 319-753-1649

Remember, first come, first served!

For $ale In Southeast

Sigourney Public Library has a beautiful brand new set of (HON office) 16 (stacking) chairs, as seen to your left, perfect for any library! They are selling them for $125/each or best offer.

The chairs can be sold individually or in smaller sets. Arrangements can be made for immediate pick up in Sigourney or you can inquire about possible to delivery to your area for an additional charge.

Any further questions about the chairs should be referred to Roslin Thompson, director, at (641)622-2890 or by email at sigopl@lisco.com

First come, first served!

Library 101 Information

Library 101 is an orientation for new public library directors, offered over the ICN four times each year. This 3-hour program introduces new directors to library support systems and services in Iowa.

The next session is Wednesday, September 13, 2006 from 9:00 a.m. to Noon. Sessions are offered over the ICN, so let us know where you’d like to schedule the class! There is no cost to attend and CE credits are awarded.

ILA Scholarship Opportunity

We are looking for librarians who would love to attend ILA’s annual conference in Council Bluffs October 12-13! If you’re interested in attending, go to our website at http://www.sls.lib.ia.us/Grants.htm and complete the form by August 4, 2006. Our Board will receive a listing of the answers with no personally identifiable information and will select two lucky librarians to receive a scholarship to cover all the costs of attending, including the registration fee, meals, transportation and lodging. All we ask in return is that you enjoy it and report back to the group after the conference ends.

Coming soon: Library makeover grants! Watch for more information in September.

***Reminder***

If your library submitted a technology plan for this year, please remember to send a copy to our office. (This makes it a lot easier for us to help you should something come up!)

The All Iowa Reads selection for this year (Gilead) will be available after September 15th. We will have 18 small print copies, 2 large print, 2 copies on CD and 1 on audiocassette. To arrange borrowing these for your book club or library's use, please contact Amanda at awright@sls.lib.ia.us

Thanks for reading!

'Parents As Literacy Partners' Workshop


Are you interested in extending your library’s reach into homes throughout your community? Enlist parents to be your literacy partners! Join Mary Cameron and other regional youth services librarians to discover an exciting program to train parents to work with their children for school success by promoting literacy at home. The initial sessions will outline how the program works, what will be necessary to make it successful, and what your library will need to commit to the program, as well as give you a chance to ask questions and share ideas. Actual training sessions for implementing the program will be offered at a later date, in time to get the program in place for next school year.

The sessions are free and a light breakfast will be provided. Ottumwa will host a session on August 23 and Mt. Pleasant will host a session on September 7. Register using the online continuing education catalog at http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/. If you need help using or setting up your account, please contact us!

Goodbye Ruth!

Goodbye to Ruth Peterson, who's been the director of the Wilton Public Library for 10 years now. Ruth has been at the library for a total of 16. While there, she has overseen automation of the Library, the creation of a teen room and development of a teen group, among other things.

Ruth has resigned to focus on her other job full-time -- mothering. She and her husband, Gerry are the parents of 6 children, 3 still at home.

Ruth will be missed and we wish her a lot of luck in the future.

Emily's Retirement

July 8th, we had a great turn out of Southeast librarians and old friends to the Scott County Library System's library in Eldridge, Iowa for Emily Navarre's final send off into retirement. Over pictures, cake and laughter Emily reminisced over her experiences and fond memories at Southeastern Library Services, where she has been the administrator for many years. We wish her luck and fun!

Book Bags For Sale!

As most of you know, one of out services at Southeastern is selling book bags. We purchase at a discounted price and pass the deal on to you!

We have just received in our shipment for the year and have over thousands ready to go!

These bags, as seen to your right, are made of a white, durable plastic with reinforced sides and sturdy oval handles. They measure 15.5" wide and 18" high. The front (as shown) has "Love My Library", the back has the national library symbol in the same color blue medium sized.

Right now we are selling each bag for .17 cents or a box for $85.00 (500 bags are in a box). This price does not include shipping, but we ship library rate to get it as low as we can or, if we're in the area, we'd be happy to hand delivery them to you at no extra cost!

These bags:

- Make great prizes for summer reading and other library events
- Protect patrons' books on inclimate days
- Help children who ride their bikes to the library carry their books home
- Keeps books together both at home and at the library

...the possibilities are endless!

To order, call or email Amanda Wright @ awright@sls.lib.ia.us (800) 397-0029

Library In Progress...

The new Library at Burlington is coming along nicely with progress made every day toward an October move. The 9 million dollar building, which has a lovely view of the Mississippi River and the Highway 34 bridge to Illinois has not only the latest in technology and customer service, but also will continue to be a place for the history and genealogy buffs with a special room dedicated to just their research.

Governor Vilsack was part of a VIP, work-in-progress tour of the new facility, currently under construction. Kay Weiss reported that "he told us that he can't wait to go home to tell Christie that he'd been to a library that she has not". Thank you to the Vilsacks who have been strong library supporters during Governor Vilsack's time in office.

Kay was also nice enough to give us a little "so-far" tour last month...

Can't you just envision it now?!

From the desk of Kim...


This is your friendly weekly reminder to sign up for the free Libraries on the Prairie: Growing Rural Libraries workshop!

The two locations near our region are Davenport on July 24 and 25 (registration deadline is July 9) and Pella on July 27 and 28 (with a deadline of July 11). Deadlines are firm!

What’s in it for you?

-Travel expenses to the closest workshop are reimbursed to you. If you can’t make the session closest to you, you will still be reimbursed for the mileage you would have driven to the closest location. The reimbursement rate makes it certain that choosing a relatively close location will recoup your out of pocket expenses. Your room expense is also reimbursable.

-You will leave the workshop with a Technology Action plan!

-Up to 13 continuing education credits. If you’re done collecting credits for your next certification, you can save them for the next certification period. 11 credits will be awarded to everyone who attends (both days required) and an additional 2 credit for attending the evening session.

-The evening session includes two additional enticements…brownies, and a chance to win an expense paid trip to ALA in Washington D.C.

-Time to talk about where we’re going in our rural libraries…and how we’ll get there. Get the low-down from other libraries experiencing the same concerns, budget crunches and technology changes you are.

-Practical discussion on how, or if, a technology should be used in your library. Sessions on maintaining what you have and integrating what’s coming in a way that makes sense for your library.


For more information on the logistics of travel and reimbursement, and more information on what the workshop will offer you, visit

http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/gatesgrants/rural

(at the State Library web site)

I’m signed up for Davenport…will I see you there?

A New Service For Southeastern Libraries!


A few weeks ago feedback was requested about CD/DVD resurfacers and cleaners. Thanks goes out to all that took the time to contribute their two cents! The consensus, though, was that everyone with their own collections would find this useful to have, but just couldn’t afford their own machines, therefore, did not have machines of their own. In an attempt to cut down our own need to send out for repairs of disc media, we did some research and feel we’ve come up with the perfect solution, for not only us, but you!

Effective July 1st, we will be partnering with Scott County’s Library System to provide a cost-effective alternative to all of the libraries in Southeastern. Send us your tired, your scratched, your dirty disc media and we’ll take it out to Eldridge and clean and/or resurface them for you! The charge for this, for now, is $0.50 for a resurface and $0.25 for a clean/polish. This is a preliminary price for the next few weeks, until we are more familiar with demand and the cost of supplies needed to do all of this. The charge may need to be adjusted. We’ll then send it back to you that same week. We can either invoice you along with the service each time you send media, or we can do a monthly invoicing if this will be a regular need for your library. Long term, depending on demand, we might be able to work out a regular monthly billing for you.

We think this is great for all involved, and hope that you’ll take advantage of this. If someone else in your library is the “go-to” person for collection repair, please forward this information on!


Some things to consider:

-This has been thoroughly tested and does a wonderful job with both CDs (both music and audiobook) and DVDs. Even significantly scratched or scuffed media has been brought back to new life as a result of use.

-It is not recommended (by the manufacturer) to resurface a CD or DVD more than 3 to 4 times. After extensive resurfacing, your data can become unreadable, leaving the disc useless. You will receive a note on the level of resurfacing done to your discs so that you can track how many times a disc requires repair, and at what level. (If you are interested, small labels can be made available for you to stick on the inside of cases that indicate when your media was serviced, and what was done to keep track-just ask us about them!)

-When you get complaints like “this disc didn’t work”, or the ever popular “this disc doesn’t work on my machine”, you can send it to us for rehabilitation and keep your collection intact. Look at what you pay to replace a disc – or worse, the cost of simply not having that title or media in your collection. Every viewer/listener their DVD/CD, every DVD/CD its viewer/listener!

-Good machines for cleaning/resurfacing disc media are costly – it makes more sense for us to use one unit for everyone on an as-needed basis and charge only for what you use. It saves you time, money, and replacement woes!




Call Amanda at (800) 397-0029 or Email awright@sls.lib.ia.us with any questions or to start taking advantage of this!

Best Wishes Emma Lee

Emma Lee Lahmeyer will be retiring from the Keokuk Public Library on June 30th. She's been there for 32 years, serving as director for the last 8. Her latest project at Keokuk has been the addition of an elevator and accompanying space to accommodate the Keokuk Art Center, a unique blending of art and library in one building. A plaque in memory of Shirley Dick, former Keokuk Library Director and a major donor to the project is hung in the Art Center foyer. The dedication of the Center was held June 4th along with the acquisition and hanging of a major piece of art by Stan Weiderspan called "Convergence".
Emma Lee also oversaw complete renovation of the entire library. Good luck Emma Lee!

Congratulations!

...Replacing Emma Lee at Keokuk as director is Emily Rohlfs, formerly director of Fort Madison Public Library. Emily has had an exciting year in Ft. Madison which included, among other things, planning for a new library and automating the collection.

On a more personal note, on May 20th, 2006, Emily welcomed new daughter Hadley Kathryn into the world. Hadley weighed in at 7lbs. and 21 inches. Both mother and baby are doing great!

Congratulations!

Staff Changes...


Resignations:
Ruth Peterson, Director, Wilton Public Library

(Wilton is hoping to have a replacement decision made by July 18th)

Cathy Geiger, Director, Hillsboro Public Library
Heidi Belzer, Director, Agency Public Library
Krista Kloster, Youth Services Librarian, Keokuk Public Library


(As of this posting, the director positions have not been filled)

New Hire:
Amy Peer accepted the Youth Services position at Keokuk Public Library

Other open Youth Services positions in the region include Fairfield, Ft. Madison and Kalona Public Libraries.


Welcome to Amy and good luck to those of you who are leaving!

Posted on behalf of the Library of Congress...

The Library of Congress Cataloging In Publication (CIP) Division is conducting a nationwide survey of libraries to determine the future of the CIP program. Please participate in shaping the future of CIP by completing the survey at

http://cip.loc.gov

(Follow online instructions to survey)

Kim's note: In case CIP is a new term for you, CIP are those spiffy blurbs on the back of the title page, very handy for cataloging.