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November 8 Collecting and Using Library Statistics, Michael Sheehan, 10:00 a.m., Presque Isle
November 9 Collecting and Using Library Statistics, Michael Sheehan, 10:00 a.m., NWLS
November 11 NWLS Board of Trustees Meeting, 12:00 p.m.
December 5 Directors Meeting, 10:00 a.m., LCO
December 8 Directors Meeting, 10:00 a.m., Boulder Junction
2007 UW-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) Continuing Education Courses:
- January 22-March 31 Core Elements of Children’s Services (Online)
- January 22-April 7 Basic Public Library Management (Online)
- January 22-April 13 Basic Reference (Online)
- February 19-March 18 Basic Reference (Online)
- February 19-March 18 Topics in Library Management (Online)
- June 25-29 Public Library Administration (on-site), UW-Madison
- August 13-17 Cataloging (on-site), UW-Madison
For more information, contact Anna Palmer at 608.263.4452 or ahpalmer@wisc.edu.
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Current Events
NWLS Statistics Workshop: Collecting and Using Library Statistics
From Linda Stobbe, lstobbe@nwls.lib.wi.us
Mike Sheehan will address the importance of maintaining accurate records and tips on using your numbers to increase support for your library. It is not a hands-on statistical reports training session, but written procedures for generating Annual Report statistics will be available.
The workshop will be held November 8 in Presque Isle and will be repeated on November 9 at NWLS. Please RSVP to Linda Stobbe, lstobbe@nwls.lib.wi.us or Mike Sheehan, msheehan@nwls.lib.wi.us.
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NWLS Board of Trustees Meeting: November 11, 2006
From Linda Stobbe, lstobbe@nwls.lib.wi.us
The next meeting of the NWLS Board of Trustees will be held at noon on November 11, 2006 at NWLS Headquarters in Ashland. Agenda items include:
- Call to order / Roll Call
- Guest Comments
- Minutes of the September 16, 2006 Board of Trustees Meeting
- Appointment of nominating committee for 2007 Officers
- September and October 2006 NWLS Expenditures
- October 31, 2006 Financial Statement and Budget Report
- November 2006 Budget Amendment
- Financial Procedures Handbook Update
- NWLS Personnel Handbook update
- Worker's Compensation Policy
- Work Hours Policy
- Work at Home Policy
- Director's Report
- Other Business
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Merlin Matters: Popular Holds
From Nikki Bolka, nbolka@nwls.lib.wi.us
The following titles have eight or more Merlin holds:
(Holds/Merlin copies)
70/21 .. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
43/16 .. Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich
39/7 ... Click motion picture/DVD
36/0 ... Cross by James Patterson
35/5 ... The Lake House motion picture/DVD
34/6 ... Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
34/17.. The Collectors by David Baldacci
31/5 ... Over the Hedge motion picture/DVD
30/6 ... The Break-Up motion picture/DVD
28/7 ... A Prairie Home Companion motion picture/DVD
25/23 .. Judge and Jury by James Patterson
24/14 .. Echo Park: A novel by Michael Connelly
21/5 ... Thank You for Smoking motion picture/DVD
21/10 .. State of Denial by Bob Woodward
19/0 ... Cars motion picture/DVD
15/7 ... Hundred-Dollar Baby by Robert B. Parker
15/17 . Ricochet by Sandra Brown
14/6 ... RV motion picture/DVD
13/5 ... H.R.H. by Danielle Steel
12/1 ... Lisey's Story: a novel by Stephen King
12/2 ... Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
12/4 ... Stick It motion picture/DVD
14/2 ... Inside My Heart by Robin McGraw
12/9 ... Copper River: A Cork O'Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger
11/11.. Short Straw by Stuart Woods
10/5 ... Act of Treason by Vince Flynn
13/2 ... Poseidon motion picture/DVD
10/7 .. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
9/0 .... Red Leaves by Belva Plain
9/1 .... The Hills Have Eyes motion picture/DVD
9/3 .... Lucky Number Slevin motion picture/DVD
9/5 .... The Sentinel motion picture/DVD
9/8 .... The Bancroft Strategy by Robert Ludlum
9/17 .. Angel's Fall by Nora Roberts
8/8 .... For One More Day by Mitch Albom
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Useful URLs
Recycling Old VHS Tapes
From AutoCat listserv
Here's a better solution for getting rid of those old VHS tapes! This was taken from a Q&A on the Grist.org website. And I quote..."Send unwanted laser discs and VHS tapes to GreenDisk. GreenDisk is a large company involved in commercial electronic media reuse and recycling; they are also willing to absorb your personal laser discs and VHS tapes into their waste-reprocessing stream. Your tapes will be degaussed and resold to cities and police departments for surveillance tapes; your discs will be shredded and sold for plastics reuse.
But what is this degaussing? It's a fancy word for sticking videotape under a giant magnet. The modern process of electronic media erasure takes its name from Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, a brilliant 19th-century mathematician who calculated the orbits of asteroids, fathered the mathematical theory of electricity, and developed a measurement for magnetic induction. History has bestowed his name on the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic flux density, the gauss. Anyhoo, privacy protection is a large concern in the electronic media recycling field, and degaussing assures the erasure of delicate or personal materials through scrambling of the magnetic registers on audio- and videotape. GreenDisk guarantees degaussing, so any wretched home movies you've made are safe to send along with Krzysztof Kieslowski's masterworks."
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Reflection
My November Guest
By Robert Frost
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
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