PLA Electronic Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 16
October 11, 2002
http://www.pla.org/members/enews/vol5no16.html
In this issue:
*SPOTLIGHT ON PLA GOLD PARTNER - GAYLORD INFORMATION SYSTEMS
*SPRING SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION AVAILABLE
*PLA CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS
*COMMITTEE SEEKS INPUT ON "BEST BOOKS FOR ADULT NEW READERS"
*CONGRESS PASSES "TEACH" ACT
*PLA 2004 NATIONAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PROGRAM PROPOSALS
*ALA-PUBLIC PROGRAMS OFFICE ACCEPTING GRANT APPLICATIONS
FOR "FOREVER FREE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S JOURNEY TO EMANCIPATION"
*REMINDER - HELP RECRUIT PUBLIC LIBRARIANS
*GROLIER NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK GRANT DEADLINE EXTENDED
SPOTLIGHT ON PLA GOLD PARTNER - GAYLORD INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
www.GIS.GAYLORD.COM
Gaylord Information Systems is headquartered in Syracuse, New York. Gaylord
is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider and the 27-year-old software
development division of Gaylord Bros., Inc., a leading supplier and innovator
in the library industry for more than a century. In addition to its library
automation systems, GIS offers workflow analysis, retrospective conversion
and database enhancement services to libraries of all types. Thirty percent
of GIS staff is composed of professional librarians, including GIS President
Katherine Blauer. Gaylord product news!
Polaris leads the library automation industry with fully integrated cataloging, circulation, acquisitions, and serials control plus completely customizable system administration. The Polaris PAC offers patrons advanced searching and access to enhanced content such as book jacket images, reviews, and tables of contents. Polaris makes it easy to add functions like virtual reference; PC management/SmartCards; thin clients; check-in, sorting and conveyor systems; and EDI with your selected book vendors. Now available: Polaris PowerPAC in 115 languages!
Contact information
Gaylord Information Systems
7272 Morgan Road
Liverpool, NY 13090
Customer Phone No: 1-800-272-3414
Fax No: 315-457-4883
Email: gisinfo@gaylord.com
Customer Contact Name: Judy Michaelson, GIS Marketing and Public Relations, 740-362-3700, judy.michaelson@gaylord.com
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SPRING SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE
Registration is now open for PLA's 2003 Spring Symposium workshop series, to be held March 6-8, 2003, at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago. Registration information can be downloaded at http://www.pla.org/conference/spring03/index.html. In addition, all PLA members will receive the registration brochure via regular mail.Symposium attendees will have the choice of attending one of five programs that cover all aspects of librarianship: "Building the Perfect Library;" "Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness;" "Power Up With Print: Connecting Teens and Reading in a Digital Age;" "Emergent Literacy Part II: Research and Preschool Services;" and "Staffing for Results."
In addition, noted children's author Mem Fox will keynote the Opening General Session the Spring Symposium. Fox, whose books include "Possum Magic," "Time for Bed" and "Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge," frequently links the joyful experience of families reading together to children's future success. She has also written several books addressing literacy, including "Reading Magic" and "Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching Learning and Living." The recipient of numerous writing awards, Fox was a professor of Literacy Studies prior to embarking on her writing career.
Other special events to be offered at the 2003 Spring Symposium include tours of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and the Newberry Library, an author luncheon, and more.
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PLA CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS
The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announces a call for award nominations for the year 2002-2003. Each year PLA and various sponsors support an award program recognizing excellence in a variety of public library services. Application and nomination forms can be found at http://www.pla.org/awards/info.html or call 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA.For more information, call the PLA office, 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA, or see PLA's web site at http://www.pla.org.
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ADULT NEW READER COMMITTEE SEEKS INPUT FOR "BEST BOOKS FOR THE ADULT NEW READER" LIST
The Resources for the Adult New Reader Committee of the PLA Library Services Cluster is soliciting input for its "Best Books for the Adult New Reader 2003" list. The charge of the committee is to inform publishers that librarians have a growing interest in professional and learning materials in areas of adult education: literacy, GED, career information, and various other areas; to encourage publishers to produce and market more titles on these subjects; to encourage jobbers to carry more adult education materials; to encourage publishers of adult education materials to exhibit at library conferences; and to generate ideas for section programs and publications.The committee is looking for titles published in 2002 that would be appropriate for a best books for the adult new reader list. Input can come from the library community or the publishing community. Titles of books, copyright date, and publisher' s name are required.
To respond to this request, please contact Nick Fogarty at fogartyn@mail.cherokee.public.lib.ga.us or by mail at Cherokee County Libraries, 116 Brown Industrial Parkway, Canton, GA 30114. Deadline for input is January 10, 2003.
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CONGRESS PASSES "TEACH" ACT (From ALA Washington Office News 'ALAWON' OCTOBER 4, 2002)
http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/alwn1182.htmlCritical distance education legislation, the TEACH Act, has now passed both houses of Congress as an amendment to the Justice Department reauthorization bill (H.R. 5512). According to Senator Leahy the language of this legislation is identical to that of the Hatch-Leahy TEACH Act that the Senate passed in June 2001 (CR S9889). ALA has long supported this version. The President is expected to sign H.R. 5512 soon and the TEACH Act will go into effect immediately.
The TEACH Act expands face-to-face teaching exemptions in the copyright law, allowing teachers and faculty to use copyrighted works in the "digital classroom" without prior permission from the copyright holder. The law is complex and details numerous responsibilities that must be met before educational institutions (including their libraries) can benefit from the exemptions.
The ALA Washington Office has created a TEACH Web site to help members understand the complexities of TEACH www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html).
In addition, the Office for Information Technology Policy will offer an e-mail tutorial on distance education and copyright in the near future. Watch the Washington Office Web site and ALAWON for more information.
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PLA 2004 NATIONAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PROGRAM PROPOSALS
2004 PLA National Conference chair Clara Bohrer, West Bloomfield Library (Mich.), reminds PLA members that the deadline for submitting proposals for the next PLA conference is December 31, 2002. The Public Library Association (PLA) 10th National Conference will be held February 24-28, 2004, in Seattle.The program subcommittee, under the leadership of Neel Parikh, Pierce County (Wash.) Public Library System, is seeking proposals for programs and preconferences to be held at the National Conference. All programs are 75 minutes long. Preconferences can be one-half day, one-day or one-and-a-half days long.
Program topics of interest include, in addition to all aspects of library management and administration, Collection Management; Fund Development; Technical Services; and Services to Special Populations, Adults, Children and Young Adults. A complete list of subject categories is included in the online form. "Our quality programming is what makes the PLA conference the best continuing educational opportunity available to public librarians," said conference chair Bohrer.
All proposals must be entered using the online form available on PLA's Web site at http://www.pla.org/conference/conf04/proposal.html. Faxed or mailed proposals will not be accepted. Please read the detailed instructions on the Web site carefully before entering your proposal information. The deadline for entering proposal information is December 31, 2002. The deadline for entering proposal information for programs sponsored by American Library Association (ALA)/PLA committees, divisions, or affiliates only is January 31, 2003. After this date, the online form will no longer be available on the PLA Web site. Program organizers will be notified of acceptance or rejection beginning in February 2003.
Proposals for Talk Tables - loosely moderated round-table discussions - will be accepted at a later date and will have a different deadline.
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ALA- PUBLIC PROGRAMS OFFICE ACCEPTING GRANT APPLICATIONS FOR "FOREVER FREE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S JOURNEY TO EMANCIPATION"
This new traveling panel exhibit organized by The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.,and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York, incooperation with the ALA, reexamines President Lincoln's efforts toward the abolition of slavery during the Civil War. Organized by The Huntington's John Rhodehamel, Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical Manuscripts, the exhibit will consist of reproductions of rare historical documents from The Huntington's collections and those of the Lehrman Institute, and will draw on the latest scholarship in the field.Two copies of the exhibit will travel to 40 libraries around the country between September 2003 and February 2006. Each copy consists oftwo six-section, 75-foot-long panels that contain reproductions of rare historical documents, period photographs, and illustrative material, such as engravings, lithographs, cartoons, and political ephemera. The sections of the exhibition focus on young Lincoln's America, the House dividing, war for the Union, the Emancipation Proclamation, the role of black soldiers in the Civil War, and the final months of the Civil War and Lincoln's life. Libraries of all types interested in hosting the exhibition can download the application and guidelines at http://www.ala.org/publicprograms/lincoln/ or request a copy by sending an e-mail message to publicprograms@ala.org . Applications must be received by November 15, 2002.
Libraries selected for the tour will host the exhibition for a six-week period. Participating libraries are expected to present at least one program for library patrons and community members that features a lecture/discussion by a scholar on exhibition themes. All showings of the exhibition will be free and open to the public. Additionally, one staff member from each library hosting the tour will attend an orientation seminar at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., on June 6 and 7, 2003. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided major funding for the traveling exhibition.
ALA Public Programs Office
Linking Libraries, Communities and Culture
www.ala.org/publicprograms
publicprograms@ala.org
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REMINDER - HELP RECRUIT PUBLIC LIBRARIANS
The Public Library Association has developed a number of products to aid in the ongoing effort to recruit public librarians into the profession. The association has developed a comprehensive recruitment website (www.pla.org) that contains testimonials from real-life librarians on why they chose public librarianship; educational requirements; scholarships information and links; salary data and other resources; and an informative look at the public library world entitled "public library fast facts."In addition to the website, colorful "Ask Me Why I Love My Job" buttons are available for .25 each and brochures entitled "Public Librarianship: Imagine the Possibilities" are available for free. The order form for the buttons and brochures is available at www.pla.org/projects/button.html or call PLA at 800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA to place a telephone order. For more information visit the PLA web page at http://www.pla.org.
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GROLIER NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK GRANT DEADLINE EXTENDED
The deadline for the Grolier National Library Week grant has been extended to Friday, November 1, 2002. U.S. libraries of all types are invited to apply for the grant, which will award $4,000 to a single library for the best promotion/public awareness campaign during National Library Week (April 6-12, 2003) that promotes the role librarians play in the 21st century. The grant is sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing and administered by the Public Awareness Committee of the American Library Association (ALA). An application form and guidelines are available at http://www.ala.org/pio/nlw/grolierapp.doc.This is the first year that the Grolier Grant specifically will focus on the work of librarians. In doing so, the grant supports The Campaign for America's Libraries' goal of promoting librarianship as a profession and also ties into ALA President Mitch Freedman's year-long initiative, The Campaign for America's Librarians, which focuses on better salaries and pay equity.
Proposals must incorporate the @ your library brand. Libraries are encouraged to be as imaginative and inventive as possible in developing a local campaign or program for National Library Week that reflects the work that librarians do on behalf of their users. The @ your library brand, which is open-ended and provides lots of room for creativity, should be used on any and all promotional and publicity material to support National Library Week.
The Campaign for America's Libraries is a five-year public awareness effort sponsored by ALA to speak loudly and clearly about the value of libraries and librarians in the 21st century. The campaign officially launched to the public during National Library Week 2001 (April 1-7) at a kickoff event in Washington, D.C., featuring First Lady Laura Bush. For more information about The Campaign for America's Libraries and using the @ your library brand, visit the campaign's Web site at http://www.ala.org/@yourlibrary.
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