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March 1 Promoting Rural Libraries/Children's Services Roundtable and Idea Sharing, 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., NWLS

March 6,7 Children's Book Fest, Rhinelander

March 12 Directors Meeting, 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., NWLS

March 13 Greener Pastures Rural Library Sustainability Workshop, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Rice Lake Public Library (also April 18 in Mercer).

March 17 NWLS Board of Trustees Meeting, 12:00 p.m., NWLS

March 29 LSTA Early Literacy Project: Infant Brain Development, 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Iron River

March 30 LSTA Early Literacy Project: Infant Brain Development, 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Mellen

April 18 Greener Pastures Rural Library Sustainability Workshop, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Mercer, (also March 13 in Rice Lake).

2007 UW-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) Conference and Continuing Education Courses:

• February 19-March 18 Topics in Library Management (Online)
• April 23-26 Libraries: Inspiring Spaces ... Functional Places Conference, (on-site), UW-Madison
• June 25-29 Public Library Administration (on-site), UW-Madison
• August 13-17 Cataloging (on-site), UW-Madison
• August 20-24 Puppetry in the Library (on-site course), UW-Madison.

For more information, contact Anna Palmer at 608.263.4452 or ahpalmer@wisc.edu.

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Upcoming NWLS Workshop: Promoting Rural Libraries/
Children's Services Roundtable and Idea Sharing

Join us on March 1 as NWLS librarians lead discussions on how to promote your library and create a successful summer reading program.

In the morning session, Boulder Junction Library Director Cherie Sanderson will share what she learned at Promoting Public Libraries: Using Data and Advocacy to Build Public Support and Funding, a Public Library Association pre-conference sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Cherie will be discussing Needs Assessments, Impact Studies and Effective Advocacy.

In the afternoon session, Ida Nemec of the Plum Lake Library will lead an idea sharing session for the coming Summer Reading Program. Bring photos, flyers, and displays from your own programs and leave with craft ideas, story programs, and prizes for anyone who shares their ideas!!

To register, RSVP to Linda Stobbe at lstobbe@nwls.lib.wi.us.

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Got Questions? AskAway Can Provide the Answers!
From Linda Bailen, NWLS

AskAway, a statewide cooperative service of Wisconsin libraries is available again in 2007 to residents of Northern Waters Library Service. Go ahead and ask a question! AskAway can help you get a reliable answer from a librarian anytime, day or night, right on the Internet. The Internet can sometimes be difficult to navigate, and librarians are more important than ever because of their skill at finding the information you really need. AskAway is an online service that opens the vast resources of libraries all over the country.

Sometimes the information you need is only available in a library resource, but through AskAway, experienced librarians help locate and evaluate the information you are seeking. You can get answers quickly and also learn how to answer your own questions, both within and beyond traditional library hours. With AskAway you get help wherever you are, whenever you need it.

Libraries already provide many services that users can access from outside of the physical library building, including online library catalogs, full-text of magazines, newspapers, books and other online resources. AskAway is just another way of expanding the services that libraries already provide.

You can connect to live chat by using the “Connect to AskAway” button or fill out the email request form. Email questions will be handled during library hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Pick Up Your Email From Anywhere
From Tony Kriskovich, NWLS

This is a quick tip on checking POP3 & SMTP email on a public computer. Let’s start out by explaining the different types of emails. There are basically two kinds of email services: web-based and domain. Hotmail and Yahoo are known as web-based email accounts. These kinds of email accounts can be checked from any computer with an Internet connection.

Domain email accounts are usually set up for organizations to email each other. Setting up a mail server is very common with businesses and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ISPs usually give users a free email address if they have Internet access through them (Example: bob@centurytel.net).

Domain email needs to be set up on a local computer to be checked. In some cases, the provider will also set up web page for users to access their account (Example: NWLS has http://nwls.lib.wi.us/webmail ). Not all places offer this, and that becomes a problem: when patrons try to check their business or home email on a public access computer, they need to know all of their hard-to-remember domain settings.

To solve this problem, http://mail2web.com/ has come up with a free service that enables anyone to check domain email accounts from anywhere in the world. All they need to know is their email address and password with no need to sign up. It also uses a secure standard connection. For more security, it offers a Secure Login connection that enables 128-bit security, which uses a stronger encryption.

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Today in History: February 22
From Librarians' Internet Index

The Library of Congress celebrates George Washington's birthday with a presentation of historic treasures from the American Memory collections. Includes a portrait, a discussion of the date of his birth (which was described as being on the "11th of February Old Style. ... When the Julian Calendar was 'corrected' to the Gregorian Calendar, February 11th became February 22nd."), and details about his life.


George Washington: A National Treasure
From Librarians' Internet Index

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery presents the first U.S. president through an exploration of the Landsdowne portrait of him by Gilbert Stuart. The site provides an interactive, detailed look at the portrait, using symbolic, biographic, and artistic filters. The site also has a chronology of Washington's life, a Town Hall with several discussion forums, a section for children, and more. From the Smithsonian.

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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

- George Washington

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