Library Science Core Collection for NH Libraries

Thanks to ARPA funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services a collection of 20 library science titles was selected and purchased by the staff at the NH State Library to serve as a core professional development collection for librarians in our state. 

A complete list of the selected titles is available at https://nhsl.libguides.com/librarydevelopment/LS_core_collection 

A box containing the set of 20 books will be distributed via NHSL van delivery between now and the end of March to each of the 212 NH public libraries that completed last year's Public Library Survey by the deadline. 

Cataloging records for each of these titles is available through the NHU-PAC.

Resources for Dealing with Book Challenges

The Library Director's call this morning focused on what is happening with challenges to library materials both locally and nationally.Several resources were shared in the chat at that meeting and I am listing them below so everyone has them.

An overview of how NH bills become law:

https://www4.des.state.nh.us/blogs/rivers/wp-content/uploads/How-a-Bill-Becomes-a-Law.pdf

Advocacy information related to NH Laws from the NH Municipal Association:

 https://www.nhmunicipal.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/gladflo2019.pdf
 

The NHSL LibGuide on Censorship includes numerous resources (and new ones all the time) about preparing your staff for challenges (including the role-play scripts) and samples of Collection Development and Reconsideration policies.

https://nhsl.libguides.com/censorship 

If you offer NH Downloadables to your patrons (as most of you do) your policies should include a link to the Collection Development and Reconsideration poliy for NH DownLoadables:

 http://nhdbooks.blogspot.com/p/policies.html

If you are a NH Library Director and are interested in joining these monthly calls the next one is scheduled for October 6, 2022 at 10am. The agenda and the meeting link are sent out on the NHAIS-L list the day before the meeting. 

If you don't subscribe to the NHAIS-L list visit https://maillist2.nh.gov/mailman/listinfo/nhais-l to subscribe.

Preservation Week

April 24-30, 2011 is preservation week. Brought to libraries across the country by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), in partnership with the Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this national awareness campaign was developed to promote the understanding and importance of care for personal and community cultural heritage collections regardless of their format.
American Libraries Magazine recently published an article that gives a nice overview of the project.
The ALCTS Preservation Week Website has lots of useful info and resources including preservation facts,
a bibliography, and ideas for getting kids involved.

Clippings from the Blogosphere

I'm catching up after being away, so some of these things may not be new to those of you who are on top of your blog reading.

• Info about the sunsetting provisions of the Patriot Act
• Putting library cards on smartphones
• Spring cleaning for your computer files or a place to store the mess
• Steampunk - a teen lit trend explained (Do you ever have ideas stalking you? Steampunk keeps popping up in my life lately, not really sure why)
• An analysis of Skyriver's response to OCLC in their ongoing lawsuit
• Wrangling social media content - 8 tools to use
• The National Book Festival is to be a two-day event
• Contest asks you to advertise Dummies Books to win them for your library -- not sure about this, but it's interesting
• Is your library prepared for a zombie attack?
• Are you getting all you can out of Twitter?
• Old books become cameras
• Great art via Google
• The Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute has worked with American University’s Center for Social Media and its Washington College of Law to create the “Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Poetry.”  Devised specifically by and for the poetry community, this best practices code serves as a guide to reasonable and appropriate uses of copyrighted materials in new and old media.
•  Preserving a Kansas creation -- bumper stickers
• How bookmarks miss the mark
• Borders files for bankruptcy -- Nashua store to close -- Concord store spared

A Video Introduction to ALA

The current president of ALA, Roberta Stevens, has done a 5 minute video introducing ALA. What it is, why you should join, and how members can get involved. It gives a nice quick summary of a lot of ALA stuff and -- I am guessing here -- a look at what one of the really nice offices at the Library of Congress looks like.

Clippings from the Blogosphere

There were a few interesting items in my RSS feed today that I wanted to share:

• How to Back-up Your Blog and Why You Should and on a related note, How to Prepare for the Delicious Shutdown
  


• Favorite New (to me) Tool of 2010 – JING!
  
  I am often needing to take screen shots for various applications and this seems like a cool way to do that.
  


• Is Your E-Book Reading Up On You?
  


• What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?
  Some info about TechSoup, which came up recently on NHAIS-L

A Clip from the Blogosphere

The current issue of OCLC's Above the Fold includes several interesting articles, including a piece on web sites for collaborative work.

Library Mashups

The current NH Center for the Book book-of-the-week, Library Mashups, may be of interest to NH librarians. It contains info relevant to NH libraries and written by a NH librarian.

Foreign Language Resources

A recent issue of The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian (#152, #3 of 2009, p. 20) included an extensive list of Spanish language resources from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg. They have also compiled resource lists for English, French, German, Italian, and Latin.

A Clipping from the Blogosphere

The question of internet access for libraries came up at a coop meeting I was at recently. I came across this posting on Bandwidth Boost for Libraries recently and thought it would be of interest to that group, and possibly others.

Notes from NELA - Part 2

It was a long drive to Connecticut, but it was a very good NELA Conference, so I'm glad I went. The NELA games (Monday night) were their usual combination of competition & chaos with a lot of silliness thrown in. The NH team excelled at duckpin bowling (that is our starting frame pictured), but we were ultimately defeated by the frisbee skills of the Vermont team. There were lots of great programs at the conference, most of which will have info posted on the conference website soon. Many of the programs were blogged as they happened, so I have linked to the blog posts where possible.
A few of the standout programs for me were Looking Good on a Budget: Principles of Design for the Artistically Challenged (presented by Darrell Eiffert from Lane Memorial Library); Born Digital (presented by Janet Eklund and Charles Shipman of the NHSL - I will be writing more about this project in a later posting); and To NELLS and Back. I also heard very good things about OS Smackdown. The Conference also gave me a chance to talk to the folks from Lyrasis (the entity that swallowed NELINET) about the products and services and discounts that might be available to NHAIS libraries through LYRASIS -- more on that after the promised follow-up calls happen.

Clippings from the Blogosphere

• LibraryZen offers HTML for a National Library Week corner banner you can use on your website.
  
• Two recent items on recycling electronics, one from Stephen's Lighthouse and the other from LifeHacker.
  
• The Library of Congress has been busy: they added Lincoln photos to their Flickr stream, started a Twitter feed, and launched a YouTube channel. They must have heard the news that social networking increases productivity.
  
• Librarian.net mentioned that ALA has launched their own social network, ALA Connect. Before you dive in -- or even if you already have -- check out the summary of a recent program on social network profile management from Librarian in Black.
  
• Next time someone asks you why libraries are necessary you can tell them that "the purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization." This is the first of The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians.
  
• A few recent reference items that looked interesting: A Master List of Free Online Language Lessons, The LIS Publications Wiki, The Dictionary of American Regional English. Please note that I am a cataloger and that these sources have not been evaluated by professional reference librarians before being listed here. I just thought they were interesting.
  
• An email interview with Gmail's Senior Product Manager Keith Coleman about where the 5-year-old service goes from here.
  
• LISNews reported recently on legislation to revise national security letters and the Children's Lead Book Ban Petition.

Clippings from the Blogosphere

I didn't get a lot of feedback on last week's clippings, but what I did get was positive, so here is another batch of items I found interesting:

• A presentation for CIL2009 by Librarian in Black on "The 10 LOL Cat Laws of Web Services for Smaller and Underfunded Libraries" I really don't get the whole LOL cat thing, but the tips in the presentation were good.

• Librarian.net had a recent post about a visit to the Howe Library (Hanover, NH) which includes some interesting points about mentoring new librarians.

• According to LISNews, the Library of Congress will be uploading digital materials to online services like YouTube and iTunes.

• Why starting at the end will improve the emails you write.

• I think a dry-erase board is the way to go if you want to mind-map, but for the more techie among you, the 5 best mind mapping applications (including some free ones) from LifeHacker.

• Are book reviews of value? Michelle Kerns, a blogger and book reviewer isn't sure they are.

• Will e-book anti-piracy technology hurt readers? A piece from NPR, pointed out by LISNews, which also posted a Talk of the Nation segment called "A Kindle Society Can Be Literate."

• The Demographics of Facebook - a post from Stephen's Lighthouse

• Broadband Stimulus info from Public Knowledge

• Are We Dangerously Dependent on Wikipedia?

• This video -- which is funny and includes some good basic tips on patron interactions -- was featured on Lipstick Librarian, a library blog for readers who are not easily offended.

Clippings from the Blogosphere

Last week on the Center for the Book blog I posted a list of assorted items I came across in the book/library blogs I read regularly (well, try to read regularly). This week's reading included several items that I thought might be of interest to the NHAIS community. Please send me an email and let me know if you think "Clippings" should become a semi-regular feature on this blog.

• Stephen's Lighthouse pointed readers to The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series which provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes: What it is, How it works, Where it is going, Why it matters to teaching and learning.

• LISNews pointed out that the illustrator of The Hungry Caterpillar created a cool google logo.
  

• Also from LISNews - a dictionary of quirky regional language is nearly complete.

• Librarian.net had a posting about the Shovers & Makers. I think there some excellent NH librarians who belong on this list! (This website was mentioned on several blogs, but this is where I saw it first.)

• The Library of Congress is now on Twitter.

What to do with weeded books

The September 15, 2008 issue of Library Journal included an article on Green Weeding (p. 32) that talked about ways to get rid of the stuff you weed out of your collection. As this is a question that comes up regularly on NHAIS-L I thought the article might be of interest.

LJ on Copyright

The November 15, 2008 issue of Library Journal had an article in it on making sense of copyright that included links to some websites that would be useful in untangling copyright questions. It was Reference Backtalk: Crash Course in Copyright by Cheryl Miller Maddox. (p. 98).