Calendar
September 8 Teens in the Library: Successful Ideas that Bring Them In and Keep Them Coming Back, Peg Burington, 10:00 a.m., NWLS (See article below.)
September 16 NWLS Board of Trustees Meeting, 10:00 a.m., NWLS
September 19 - December 9 Public Library Administration Online Course, UW-Madison.
September 20-24 WLA Foundation's Tour to New York City
September 20 Supervisory Skills for New (and Old) Managers and Leaders, Pat Wagner, 10:00 a.m., Telemark Resort and Convention Center, Cable
September 20-21 Northwest Wisconsin Children's Book Conference, Telemark Resort and Convention Center, Cable.
September 22 - December 15 Collection Development Online Course, UW-Madison.
September 26 - December 9 Basic Public Library Management Online Course, UW-Madison.
September 30 Northwoods Conference of Library Friends and Supporters, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Rothschild Village Hall Community Room, Rothschild, WI.
October 2 - 30, 2006 What's New in Children's Books? Online Course, UW-Madison.
October 9 - December 17 Fundamentals of Cataloging Online Course, UW-Madison.
Current Events
Upcoming NWLS Workshop:
Teens in the Library
Are you looking for successful ideas that bring teens into the library AND keep them coming back? Join us on September 8 at NWLS for a workshop designed to help you serve your teen population.
Peg Burington, Assistant Director/Youth Adult Coordinator of the Waupaca Area Public Library will be here to share practical ideas for teen programming, participation, and creating teen friendly library spaces. She'll also give tips on sprucing up your teen collection with high interest titles.
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NWLS Board of Trustees Meeting
The NWLS Board of Trustees will meet on September 16, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. at NWLS Headquarters in Ashland. Agenda items include:
1. Call to order / Roll Call
2. Guest Comments
3. Approval of the July 15, 2006 meeting minutes
4. July and August 2006 NWLS Expenditures
5. August 2006 Financial Statement and Budget Report
6. NWLS Equipment Loan Policy
7. Revised Health Insurance Policy
8. Merlin By-Laws
9. Merlin Confidentiality Policy
10. Strategic Plan 2007-2011
11. 2007 NWLS Budget and Plan of Service
12. 2007 Member Library Agreements
13. 2007 County Service Agreements
14. Superior Public Library 2007 Resource Library Agreement
15. Executive Session as authorized by Wisconsin Statutes
s. 19.85 (1)c to conduct the Director's evaluation after which the Board will reconvene in open session.
16. 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)
83/20 Judge and Jury by James Patterson
71/34 Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
54/16 Angel's Fall by Nora Roberts
37/14 Ricochet by Sandra Brown
29/0 Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich
20/6 Failure to Launch motion picture/DVD
16/2 The Benchwarmers motion picture/DVD
15/2 Inside Man motion picture/DVD
14/0 Akeelah and the Bee motion picture/DVD
13/8 Born to Be Wild by Catherine Coulter
13/25 Dead Watch by John Sandford
12/2 She's the Man motion picture/DVD
12/3 Copper River: A Cork O'Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger
12/5 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 motion picture/DVD
12/6 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A natural history of four meals by Michael Pollan
11/2 Triptych by Karin Slaughter
11/4 Smitten by Janet Evanovich
11/7 Dispatches from the Edge: A memoir of war, disasters, and survival by Anderson Cooper
11/8 Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy
11/10 Syriana motion picture/DVD
11/12 Dead Wrong by J.A. Jance
10/0 Friends with Money motion picture/DVD
10/1 The Sentinel motion picture/DVD
10/1 The Libertine motion picture/DVD
10/3 Hoot motion picture/DVD
9/0 Poseidon motion picture/DVD
9/0 Red Leaves by Belva Plain
9/5 The Shaggy Dog motion picture/DVD
9/6 An Inconvenient Truth: The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it by Al Gore
9/8 The Ruins: A novel by Scott Smith
9/9 Cover of Night by Linda Howard
9/18 Marley & Me: Life and love with the world's worst dog by John Grogan
8/0 The Brethren by Beverly Lewis
8/4 The One Percent Doctrine: Deep inside America's pursuit of its enemies since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
Useful URLs
The Organic Center
From Librarians' Internet Index
The Organic Center is an advocacy site for organic farming featuring articles and reports on subjects such as pesticides in foods, nutritional quality, antioxidants, and food safety. Also find links to related sites. From an organization whose mission is "to generate credible, peer reviewed scientific information and communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society."
Reflection
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
-Mark Twain
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