The Library Connection
The Monthly Newsletter of the Eastern
Shores Library System
www.esls.lib.wi.us
Volume 32 Number 2 February 2012
National Library Week, April 8-14, 2012
Click here for the Winter 2011 Bookmobile Schedule
Policy and Mission Statement Changes
David Weinhold, Director of ESLS
The ESLS Board approved the Policy Review Committee's report which made changes in the
ESLS Operational Policies. The Policy Review Committee, made up of
Board members: Rob Nuernberg, Howard Hoppe, Steve Ruggieri, and system
member library directors: Scott Gehrig (Sheboygan Falls), Linda Bendix
(Mequon-Thiensville), and Martha Rosche (Plymouth), met a number of times
during 2011 reviewing the policies with the purpose of bringing them up to date with
statutory changes, improving the sentence and format structure, and
removing outdated policies and recommending added policies. Some of
the changes include a revised mission statement which reads:
The Eastern Shores Library System is established as a federation of
public libraries and member counties which has as its mission: to
improve library materials and services for Library System residents, to
promote and implement resource sharing among its member public libraries,
to extend library services to residents of its member counties who do not
have a local public library, and to promote uniformity and excellence in
library service at the Library System's public libraries. The
former mission statement read: The
Eastern Shores Library System is established as a federation of public
libraries which has as its mission: to improve and extend public library
service to all residents of the library system.
Another change is the renaming of the Technical Advisory Committee(TAC) to the
Public Library Advisory Committee (PLAC). This name better reflects the
nature of the committee and is consistent with the statutes that authorize
the appointment of such an advisory committee.
One of the changes in the By-laws also changes the name of the Personnel
Committee to the Human Resources Committee that is more consistent with
current practice in area organizations.
Library system staff will publish these policies and post them to the new ESLS website when it is completed.
NISO Webinars on E-books
ESLS is sponsoring a
series of webinars on e-books presented by NISO.
NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, a non-profit
association accredited by the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI), identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards
to manage information in our changing and ever-more digital environment.
NISO standards apply both traditional and new technologies to the full
range of information-related needs, including retrieval, re-purposing,
storage, metadata, and preservation.
The webinars are
interactive web-based sessions presented in the Tolzman Community Room at
the F.L. Weyenberg library in Mequon. (http://www.flwlib.org/about-library.cfm?id=21
). You
are welcome to bring your lunch while participating in this group session.
If you are interested in
attending either one or both of these sessions, please send a message to
David Weinhold, Director of ESLS at weinhold@esls.lib.wi.us.
Library Directors can
earn 1.5 contact hours for each part of the webinar.
Understanding Critical Elements of E-books: Standards for Formatting and
Metadata
Part 1: EPUB 3: Putting Electronic Books into a Package
March 14, 2012 12:00 noon - 1:30
p.m.
Where: F.L. Weyenberg Library Tolzman Community Room, 11345 N.
Cedarburg Road, Mequon
About the Webinar
A critical element of the
e-book marketplace is a common file structure that is agreed upon between
content creators and the supply chain, and works with multiple reader
technologies. The newly released EPUB 3 specification offers a number of
major innovations over the previous version, including support for rich
media, interactivity, global language support), and styling and layout
enhancements. EPUB 3 is also tightly integrated to web standards. This
includes HTML 5, which is still in draft. Yet HTML 5 is already in use for
app development on the iPad and other mobile devices. This webinar will
provide a discussion of both of these standards and their use for creating
rich, cross-platform e-books.
EPUB 3 Overview, Evolution, and Benefits
Bill Kasdorf, Vice President, Apex
Content Solutions; Metadata Subgroup Lead, IDPF EPUB 3 Working Group
The recently released
EPUB 3 standard is expected to be the foundation for the next generation
of digital publications of all sorts--not only books. Developed by a
broad-based working group representing diverse constituencies, it provides
a common format for delivery to a wide variety of reading systems and
devices, from laptops to tablets to smartphones to dedicated eReaders, and
accommodates multimedia, rich layout and typography, scripting, and
greatly enhanced accessibility and metadata. Mr. Kasdorf will discuss how
this watershed standard was developed, what it is designed to accomplish,
and how it will evolve over time to stay in synch with today's dynamic
digital ecosystem.
Adding Interactivity to Ebooks with HTML5
Sanders Kleinfeld, Publishing Technologies Specialist, O'Reilly Media
HTML5 is revolutionizing
the Web, and now it’s coming to your ebook reader! Sanders will provide
an overview of several areas of HTML5 that offer great promise to ebook
publishers looking to expand beyond traditional text-and-graphic
narratives, including Canvas, Audio/Video, Geolocation, and MathML, as
well as an overview of the current state of HTML5 support in major
ereaders (e.g, iBooks, Nook Tablet, Kindle Fire).
and
Part 2: Find That E-book –– or Not: How Metadata Matters
March 21, 2012
Where: F.L. Weyenberg Library Tolzman Community Room, 11345 N.
Cedarburg Road, Mequon
About the Webinar
2011 will likely be seen
as the tipping point year for e-books. With more and more publications
being issued in electronic format, how do users find what is available?
How are identifiers such as the International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
and the new International Standard Text Code (ISTC) being applied to
e-books and used in the supply chain? What metadata is crucial for making
e-books discoverable? Without quality metadata, e-books will be invisible
online. This webinar will discuss the key standards in the metadata supply
chain and describe what can be done to ensure the discovery and delivery
of the titles users will want to buy and read.
Metadata: Without You I'm Nothing (Metadata Quality and its Importance
in E-Book Discovery)
Laura Dawson, Communications Chief, Firebrand Technologies
E-books are invisible
products. You'll never see one on the street, in the park, on the subway,
in a store. E-book devices don't display cover images——digital reading
is quite private. So how do readers find out about e-books? Without
metadata, there's no indication that the e-book exists. And e-book trading
partners have strange new requirements that print vendors don't have. In
this talk, Laura Dawson discusses how to make e-books visible.
Laura Dawson specializes in the technology behind books. She has
worked at Doubleday, Muze, Barnes & Noble.com, SirsiDynix, and as an
independent consultant whose clients have included the Book Industry Study
Group, Audible, McGraw-Hill, Chuckwalla, Adobe, Loyola Press, Cengage and
Scholastic. She is now Communications Chief at Firebrand Technologies,
helping publishers organize and distribute their metadata and e-book
titles.
Pointing readers to the correct book: ISTC, ISBN and E-book Assignment
Pat Payton, Senior Director, Publisher Relations and Content
Development, Bowker
The number of formats for
a book has been increasing as more and more platforms make the same
content available for sale. Pat Payton will cover when a work should have
a new ISBN and how the ISTC can help collocate formats for searchers.
Patricia Payton, Senior Director of Publisher Relations and Content
Development for Bowker, is responsible communicating metadata requirements
and best practices to publishers of all sizes. Patricia has experience
retail bookstores as well as international markets. She also holds a
Master’’s degree in Library Information Science specializing in
Digital Libraries as well as an MBA. She actively contributes to industry
committees for BISG and the AAP. You can find her on twitter @DiscoverBowker
ONIX for E-books
Graham Bell, Chief Data Architect at EDItEUR
Children's
Librarians Corner
Build It and They Will
Come
Cindy Beyer, Children's Services, W. J. Niederkorn Library of Port Washington
In 1949, Ole Kirk Christiansen’s company created a
plastic toy in a factory in Denmark.
I bet that he never dreamed that this simple toy would become so
popular that by 2012 it could be found in the majority of American homes. Nowadays they can even be found in public libraries.
These colorful plastic bricks have a way of bringing people together. People of all ages; girls, boys, the very young, the not-so- young folks, shy ones and rambunctious ones all love Legos. Put a box of Legos in front of a person and within minutes they will start creating. Therefore, Legos are the perfect tool for bringing patrons into a Library.
We began doing Lego Clubs several years ago.
Our first club we called The Junior Lego Club and it is geared for
children ages 4 through 7. We use three large plastic buckets filled with a vast array
of Legos. These Legos
were donated, purchased from rummage sales and then supplemented through
money from our Friends. At
the beginning of the session, I read a picture book that sets the theme
for the day. The children
then build creations for the next 20 minutes.
Afterward, we gather in a circle and discuss our creations.
Even the shyest kid comes out of their shell when they are
describing their creations. It
is so fun to listen to the children’s stories about their creations. Their imaginations have no limits.
Our second Lego Club is geared for children in 1st
through 5th grades. We
purchased many Creator sets for this group.
Creator Sets have instructions that can be used to make 2-3
different creations. These
kits can be pricey and many patrons may not be able to obtain them.
Having them available at the library opens the doors for many
families. We also have
several of the Lego games. The
older children have many different options to choose from during the club
meetings. We have a number of regulars who share information about Lego
destinations, stores and new products.
They almost always bring new friends each time they come.
The only disadvantage to Lego clubs would be the upfront cost of purchasing the Legos. Legos are expensive, but they last forever. Once you have the supplies, the club meetings are easy to schedule and staff. Having Lego Clubs at our library has brought in many new patrons. And once they come in, they have found all the other things that the library has to offer. Legos always go over big, give them a try.
ESLS
Receives Three LSTA Grants 
Paula Siefert, Administrative Assistant
State
Superintendent, Tony Evers, informed the Eastern Shores Library System
staff that the three Library Services and Technology Act grant applications
they applied for have been approved.
The
first grant, Accessibility in
Public Libraries written by Connie Meyer and Susan Potter was under the competitive Special
Needs category. The purpose of
the grant is to promote and demonstrate the role public libraries play in
meeting the mobility, hearing, or vision limitation needs of people with
disabilities.
Federal
funds requested and received were $11,068.
Five libraries within Eastern Shores Library System will
participate in this grant. The Cedar Grove Public Library and Elkhart Lake
Public Library will receive an induction loop assistive listening system
for use in their meeting rooms. The Mead Public Library will be installing
a new sound system in their meeting room and with this grant will
integrate an assistive listening system. All three libraries noted they
need to improve services to older adults and any individual with hearing
loss. Participants attending library programs are unable to hear in their
meeting rooms even when microphones are used.
The
Oostburg Public Library is in need of a desktop magnifier/reader. Many
magazines, newspapers, and books do not come in a large print format. This
will enable any patron with a vision impairment to read materials in the
library. The Frank L.
Weyenberg Library of Mequon-Thiensville will also receive equipment for
patrons with a vision impairment. They are in need of another 19-inch
monitor for the adult department. They currently have one 19-inch monitor
which is heavily used. The Weyenberg Library will also receive a walker
with a seat. This will enable the elderly library users to push the walker
to the book shelf and sit while selecting items.
____
The
second and third grants received were noncompetitive for public library
systems only.
Public
Library System Technology Project category, Eastern Shores received
$11,300 to assist the library system in meeting the technology needs of
the system and member libraries. Funds are appropriated using a formula
based on system area and population. ESLS uses the funds to provide wide
area network access to its member public libraries. Paul Onufrak is the
grant project coordinator.
E-Content
Licensing category, Eastern Shores received $9,426. The purpose is to support the expanded statewide cooperative
purchasing of e-books and other e-content through the Wisconsin Public
Library Consortium. David Weinhold is the grant project coordinator.
Cataloging News
Alison Ross, Cataloging Librarian and Paul Onufrak, Automation
Librarian, finished a project to add audience codes to all
bibliographic records in EasiCat. Only a small percentage previously had
an audience designation, especially for adult material. All records,
unless they are very new and haven't been processed in cataloging, yet,
should have a target audience code of either General (for adult material),
Juvenile, or Adolescent. Target audience is an option available for
limiting in the staff client as well as in EasiCat in the Search Options
window. It also appears as a limit option provided in the left hand
dashboard after a keyword search in EasiCat.
Alison began attending a class through the UW-Madison, School of Library and Information Studies Continuing Education Services called, Digitization Projects for Libraries. The goal is to help facilitate additional digitization projects at member libraries that have expressed interest after the work done through last year's LSTA local digitization grant. According to Alison, " My work with the LSTA grant illustrated some of the many components that should be considered when working on a digitization project. Based on the class description, it would offer a thorough overview of many of those parts with the goal of a digitization project plan by the end of the course."
Alison hopes to have a better understanding of the entire process,
especially assessing collections, developing a plan, dealing with hardware
and software or at least determining a content management solution, and
creating and providing consistent metadata and access. Alison noted
that, "the class will hopefully help me get a better handle on
project planning, start to finish, and from there I hope to help save time
and effort for the libraries. Other library systems in the in the state help facilitate digital
projects at their member libraries and this seems a good extension of the
goal of sharing resources and knowledge to improve service
system-wide".
Polaris
Upgrade
Paul Onufrak, Automation Librarian for ESLS has scheduled a Polaris upgrade for Tuesday, August 14. Polaris is the software that powers EasiCat. According to Paul, this is a medium upgrade and the staff pack and EasiCat will not be available for use until late that day.
News From the Area
March 1912 Cedarburg had its first Library Board
meeting made up of residents appointed by the City Council.
Vonna Pitel is communicating to the schools in regard to speakers for the
Library’s 100th Anniversary. The library is also working on a logo
for the anniversary.
On February 27 the Cedarburg Common Council made a decision about a new library, they have decided to rebuild on the current site. The Board will be looking for a temporary facility to house the library while the construction is underway, no timeline has been established for the project. Read more about it in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article by clicking here or check the Ozaukee/Washington section of the paper.
The
Friends of Mead Public Library will be celebrating their 40th Anniversary
this year. In recognition, 40 books be purchased and be
given book plates honoring the 40th Anniversary
of the Friends of Mead Public Library. The books should be displayed at
the Friends annual meeting in April.
The five 2012 furlough days for Mead Public Library employees have been decided. The proposed furlough day of August 14 (the Polaris upgrade date) conflicted with a voting day. The dates of March 23, May 18, June 28, August 17 and September 21 have been designated as 2012 Furlough days. The library will not be open on these dates.
Outstanding Library, Librarian or Trustee?
Do we have an outstanding library or librarian in our area? Perhaps you have an exemplary trustee? Then perhaps you should consider making a recommendation to WLA for one of their awards. Check out the applications & award criteria by clicking here. In 2009, UW- Sheboygan University Library was the Library of the Year and Darla Jean Kraus was awarded the Muriel Fuller Award, could this happen again in 2012? Nominations are due June 1, 2012.
Interesting Items
* It's here, it's here! After decades of work, the Dictionary of American Regional English is finished. Volume V has finally been published and is available. For more information check out the story from the Wisconsin State Journal and take the quiz . Click here to go to the University of Wisconsin-Madison DARE website.
* Betty McCartney, the Director of the Elkhart Lake Public Library is the new PLAC representative for the Eastern Shores Library System Board of Trustee Meetings.
The
Wakanheza Project® Training Workshop
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Time: 1st Session: 9:00 am--12:00 pm
(To register: www.wcfls.org/event-details.php?ID=10407)
or
2nd Session:
1:00 pm--4:00 pm (repeat of morning session)
(To register: www.wcfls.org/event-details.php?ID=10408)
Location: Country Springs Hotel, 2810 Golf
Road, Waukesha, WI 53187
Presenters: Darlene Simmons, The Wakanheza Project®
Trainer
Kelly Wochinske, Librarian, Milwaukee Public Library
Melissa Schneider, Head of Youth Services, New Berlin Public Library
Registration Deadline: Friday, March 16, 2012
Do you work in a public place? Have you ever witnessed a parent
struggling with a child, trying to keep them in line and well-behaved?
Have you watched that situation escalate? Did you wonder, and are
you still wondering now, what you could have done? Have you ever
BEEN that parent? Do you ever feel uncomfortable when you encounter
young people or teens in a "pack"?
"Wakanheza" is the Dakota word for child. The English
translation is "sacred being." Imagine if we were to treat
one another as sacred beings. Image a community where EVERYONE feels
welcomed and respected. Come to either session and learn the tools
and strategies you can take back to your organization.
 | effectively respond to everyday stressful situations between people |
| de-escalate difficult situations between parents and children |
| understand the root of many situations |
| prevent those situations from happening in the first place |
| find effective ways to help people |
| make public places more welcoming to everyone |
To learn more about The
Wakanheza Project®, simply click on the link. For more
information about the workshop, contact Claudia Backus, Waukesha County
Federated Library System (email: clbackus@wcfls.lib.wi.us
or phone: 262-896-8087).
This program is sponsored by the public library systems in southeastern
Wisconsin: Milwaukee County Federated Library System, Waukesha
County Library System, Lakeshores Library System, Kenosha County Library
System, Mid-Wisconsin Library System and Eastern Shores Library System.
