In this issue

Calendar • New WISCAT Training • WWII Traveling Exhibits • Merlin Matters: Holds • Useful URLs • Reflection • NWLS Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Calendar

November 20 New WISCAT ILL Training, morning session: 9:30 to 12:00; afternoon session (repeat of morning session): 1:00 to 3:30, NWLS (See article below.)

November 23-24 NWLS Office Closed

December 5 Directors Meeting, 10:00 a.m., LCO

December 8 Directors Meeting, 10:00 a.m., Boulder Junction

January 1 NWLS Office Closed

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

• January 22-March 18 YA (Young Adult) Services and Literature Online Course.
• 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 7-March 21 Creating Public Library Programming for Adults Online Course.
• 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

Reference and Loan Library staff will be conducting two training sessions for the new Auto-Graphics (Agent) software that will replace the current WISCAT ILL. Each library planning to participate in WISCAT ILL for 2007 is encouraged to attend one of the two training sessions. Please include the email addresses for all attendees. If you are unable to attend one of the training sessions at NWLS, see other training options below.

If you are unable to attend the November 20th training session at NWLS, please sign up for a training session in another location.

November 20, 9:30-12:00, or 1:00-3:30

• NWLS

November 21, 9:30-12:00, or 1:00-3:30

• Chippewa Falls
• CESA 10

December 7, 9:30-12:00:

• River Falls

A test web site and login to will be available for practicing the instruction provided at the training session. The new software will be live on November 27. VDX request management software will be running until December 15 to allow us to take care of old requests. WISCAT holdings updating (which most of us have not been using) will be unavailable until the new software is up and running.

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Opportunity to Host WWII Traveling Exhibits in 2007
From a November 13 posting on WISPUBLIB

TRACES Center for History and Culture--a Midwest/WWII history museum in Saint Paul/MN--is pleased to announce that both of its mobile exhibits will be visiting select Midwest states in the spring and fall of 2007.

Our new BUS-eum 2, with the exhibit VANISHED: German-American Civilian Internment, 1941-48, is set to tour eight eastern Midwest states in Spring 2007, in partnership with regional State Historical Societies, State Librarians/Library Associations and Humanities Councils. BUS-eum 1 (containing the exhibit Behind Barbed Wire: Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany) will show in eight western Midwest states in Fall 2007.

The BUS-eum 1 exhibit tells the stories of Midwest soldiers and airmen captured in WWII and kept as Prisoners of War (POWs) in Nazi Germany. (Few people know that, per capita, until the Battle of the Bulge--only six months before the war's end in Europe--the most American POWs in the Third Reich came from the Midwest!). This exhibit explores their experiences topically--looking, for example, at their capture, interrogation, camp life, art/theater in the camps, escape attempts, death marches at the war's end, liberation and return to the U.S. reconciliation, etc.

The BUS-eum 2 exhibit tells the stories of 15,000 German-American civilians imprisoned by the U.S. Government during WWII--not one of whom had legal representation, was charged with or tried for or convicted of a war-related crime. While those interned included Nazi sympathizers, there were also anti-Nazis, socialists, Jewish refugees and kidnapped Latin-American Germans among them. The Midwest was the site of 18 of the U.S. Government's 60 camps and centers.

If your institution would like more information about possibly hosting either exhibit, please contact Eric Brandt at 651.292.8700 or programs@TRACES.org; details about TRACES can be found at www.TRACES.org. Please remember that the number of slots is limited, and given on a first-come/first-served basis. We ask for a Letter of Tentative Interest by 10 December, as we will apply for Humanities grants in your state to help subsidize the cost of the tour; citing your interest helps. Thank you for your time and support.

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Merlin Matters

Popular Holds

The following titles have eight or more Merlin holds:

Holds/Copies
71/25 ...The Innocent Man by John Grisham
43/19 .. Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich
41/15 ...Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
35/8 ... Click motion picture/DVD
32/22 .. The Collectors by David Baldacci
31/2 ... Cars motion picture/DVD
31/8 ... The Break-Up motion picture/DVD
29/17 .. Echo Park: A novel by Michael Connelly
27/5 ... The Lake House motion picture/DVD
25/1 ... The Da Vinci Code motion picture/DVD
25/7 ... Over the Hedge motion picture/DVD
24/7 ... Cross by James Patterson
23/9 ... A Prairie Home Companion motion picture/DVD
19/9 ... Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
17/6 ... Mission: Impossible III motion picture/DVD
17/13 .. State of Denial by Bob Woodward
16/7 ... Thank You for Smoking motion picture/DVD
14/0 ... Pirates of the Caribbean. Dead man's chest motion picture/DVD
14/6 ... RV motion picture/DVD
14/24 ...Judge and Jury by James Patterson
13/13 ...The Bancroft Strategy by Robert Ludlum
12/4 ... Garfield: A tail of two kitties motion picture/DVD
12/11 ...Copper River: A Cork O'Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger
12/12 ...Lisey's Story: A novel by Stephen King
12/12 ...Hundred-Dollar Baby by Robert B. Parker
11/5 ... Inside My Heart: Choosing to live with passion and purpose by Robin McGraw
11/7 ... Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly
11/13 ...Short Straw by Stuart Woods.
10/0 ... Superman Returns motion picture/DVD
10/0 ... An Inconvenient Truth motion picture/DVD
10/0 ... Red Leaves by Belva Plain
10/1 ... Santa Cruise: A holiday mystery at sea by Mary & Carol Higgins Clark
10/7 ... The Omnivore's Dilemma: A natural history of four meals by Michael Pollan
10/15 ...H.R.H. by Danielle Steel
9/2 ..... You, On a Diet: The owner's manual to waist management by Michael F. Roizen
9/3 ..... Stick It motion picture/DVD
9/4 ..... Poseidon motion picture/DVD
9/16 ... Thirteen Moons: A novel by Charles Frazier
8/8 ..... Monster House motion picture/DVD

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2006 WLA Conference Resources

WLA has posted links to a number of 2006 conference workshop handouts. Topics include: Promoting Public Libraries, Tried and True Toddler Ideas, Poof! You're Organized!, Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry, Reaching Out to People Coming Out, Books to Movies, Ready to Read with Books2Go, Awards and Honors Banquet Award Winners, and Taking the Show on the Road. There are also links to information from presentations on marketing, resource sharing, cataloging, preschool programming, intellectual freedom, poverty and library services, and library boards and the law.

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November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.

With night coming early
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.

The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next springs.

-Clyde Watson

Happy Thanksgiving!!

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NWLS Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
November 11, 2006
NWLS Headquarters, Ashland

1. Call to Order/Roll Call
Mary Poretti called the meeting to order at 12:05 p.m.

Present: Michael Bobin (Washburn County), Kate Boyle (Douglas County), Kathy Byrns (Iron County), Carol Eder (Bayfield County), Richard Ehlert (Sawyer County), Tuula Harris (Douglas County), Charles LaBelle (Vilas County), Karen Livingston (Douglas County), Al Lundquist (Ashland County), Sandra Mackie (Washburn County), Mary Poretti (Burnett County), Tom Thompson (Iron County), Carolyn Wedin (Burnett County), Marcia Wellnitz (Bayfield County), Jim Trojanowski (NWLS), Michael Sheehan (NWLS), Linda Stobbe (NWLS).

Excused: Joseph Crawford (Ashland County), Shirley Harrison (Vilas County), Shirley Riedmann (Sawyer County), Pam

Wallace (Douglas County).

2. Guest Comments
None.

3. Approval of the September 16, 2006 NWLS Board Meeting Minutes
Michael Bobin moved to approve the minutes of the September 16, 2006, NWLS Board of Trustees meeting. Chuck LaBelle seconded. Carried unanimously.

4. Appointment of Nominating Committee for 2007 Officers
President Mary Poretti appointed Marcia Wellnitz and Chuck LaBelle to the Nominating Committee.

5. Approval of September and October, 2006 NWLS Expenditures
Marcia Wellnitz moved to approve the September and October expenditures. Chuck LaBelle seconded. Carried unanimously.

6. Approval of October 31, 2006 Financial Statement and Budget Report
Karen Livingston moved to approve the October Financial Statement and Budget Report. Kathy Byrns seconded. Carried unanimously.

7. Approval of November Budget Amendment
Marcia Wellnitz moved to approve the November Budget Amendment. Al Lundquist seconded. Carried unanimously.

8. Approval of the Financial Procedures Handbook
Motion by Karen Livingston to approve the Financial Procedures Handbook. Second by Carol Eder. Carried unanimously.

9. NWLS Personnel Handbook Update

• Workers Compensation Policy: Motion by Kathy Byrns to approve the Workers Compensation Policy with changes agreed to by the Board. Second by Karen Livingston. Carried unanimously.
• Work Hours Policy: Motion by Carolyn Wedin to approve the Work Hours Policy. Second by Al Lundquist. Carried unanimously.
• Work at Home Policy: Motion by Marcia Wellnitz to approve the Work at Home Policy. Second by Michael Bobin. Carried 13-1 with Carolyn Wedin opposed.

10. Director's Report
Jim Trojanowski discussed:
-2007 workshop planning
-Northwest Children's Book Conference
-Proposed 2007 Staff In-service
-Act 420 update
-2006 WLA Conference
-Iron County library planning

11. Other Business
Chuck LaBelle discussed changes in staff at the Eagle River and Land O' Lakes libraries.

The meeting adjourned at 1:50 p.m.

Respectfully submitted by Jim Trojanowski.

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