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AROUND THE SYSTEM:
@ Milton Public Library
430 E. High St.
Listen to the Mark
Moran
interview on local station
WCLO. Everyone is welcome
to come and observe.
@ Eager Free Public Library
39 W. Main St., Evansville
@ Beloit Public Library
605 Eclipse Blvd.
@Hedberg Public Library
316 S. Main St., Janesville
ISSUES
& NEWS:
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Show the Love: Library
Legislative Day on February 14
Don’t miss the annual Library
Legislative Day, cosponsored by WLA and the Wisconsin Educational Media
& Technology Association (WEMTA). Show your love for libraries by
attending the grassroots lobby day on February 14, 2012 at the Best
Western Inn on the Park in Madison.
But we all know that libraries can’t
live on love alone, and this day is also about articulating the real
needs libraries face in order to serve their constituencies. Issues in
focus will be the SB 375/AB 473 to extend the deadline on WiscNet
changes, public library district legislation and more.
Register
now to allow the committee time to make your appointments in
advance. Bring staff, friends and trustees! - from WLA E-News, 24
January 2012
Pew Research report on ereader and tablet ownership
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2176/tablet-computers-ebook-readers
PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNUAL REPORT ONLINE FORM IS OPEN
The LibPAS online reporting system for the 2011
Public Library Annual Report opened for access on January 18. Email
announcements with login information were sent to directors of all
public libraries throughout Wisconsin. Instructions and information
about the 2011 Public Library Annual Report (along with a link to the
reporting site) are available here: http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/annrpt.html
If you are a public library director and did not
receive your email announcement, please check the following:
-- if you have spam filtering, see if the message
was trapped and add "wi@countingopinions.com"
to the allowed addresses.
--if the director's position recently changed or is
vacant, please send a message to libraryreport@dpi.wi.gov
with the name and email address of the person who will be completing the
annual report.
This year, in an effort to reduce errors and
further streamline the process for libraries, 10 systems have supplied
the Department of Public Instruction with data that has been uploaded
and pre-filled on behalf of their member libraries. That data may
include collection and usage numbers derived from regional shared
catalogs and circulation systems, or financial information for grants or
reimbursements distributed by the regional system. The following systems
participated in the pre-load program: Indianhead, Lakeshores,
Mid-Wisconsin, OWLS, Nicolet, Northern Waters, South Central, Southwest,
Waukesha County, and Winnefox. Winding Rivers is compiling data for
upload next week. - Channel Weekly, Vol. 14, No. 16
-- January 19, 2012
RA
Crossroads: What To Watch (and Read) After Downton Abbey
By Neal Wyatt
Detailed and luxurious settings paired
with rich characterizations and witty dialog make this delicious soap
opera a delight. Writer Julian Fellowes's creation, starring Maggie
Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, and Dan Stevens, is set in
the late Edwardian era and follows the fate of an ensemble cast of
characters residing both upstairs (the Earl of Grantham and his family)
and downstairs (his staff) in the grand home of Downton Abbey.
Involving, charming, and highly addictive, the first season was event
television for its many fans. The second season is in full, if too
short, swing on PBS and is bound to leave viewers wanting a range of
consolations to carry them through the winter. Read
More... - LJ Reviews, January 19, 2012
Soaring
with the Red Tails
Joy Fleishhacker
Premiering in theaters on January 20, 2012, this World War II
action/drama film was inspired by the true tale of the Tuskegee Airmen,
members of the first all African-American aerial fighting squad who
exhibited boundless heroism in many battle zones—in combat in the
skies above Europe, in a military where opportunity was limited by
segregation and racial prejudice, and on a home front governed by Jim
Crow laws and marred by bigotry and discrimination. Red
Tails (PG-13), from Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox, is directed
by Anthony Hemingway with George Lucas serving as executive producer, a
real boon for a movie featuring an array of airborne action scenes.
Movie fans will be interested in learning more about this important
moment in history and the timing is perfect for displays and booktalks
geared toward Black History Month..Read
More››› - SLJ Teen, January 28, 2012
American Libraries Direct -
January 18, 2012
 Top
10 library stories of 2011
Facing natural disasters, technology issues, and privatization concerns,
librarians responded with advocacy and innovation. These are the top
library stories of 2011, as selected by American Libraries
editors. Share your top 10 in the comments. Watch the video
(2:47)....American Libraries feature;
AL Focus, Jan. 13
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websites with free fonts
Julie Greller writes: “Free is always good. And when it comes to fonts,
there are so many out there, why pay for them? This list should keep
graphic design teachers and other creative sorts busy. One thing to
remember: The downloads are in a zip file, so your school might block this
action.”...A Media Specialist’s Guide to the Internet, Jan. 17
Classifying
games and gamers
Welcome to Gamer Classification Week. This week, Jacob A. Ratliff and
Diane Rasmussen Neal are providing a five-part series on the
categorizations related to gamers and gaming. Understanding these aspects
of gaming is essential to helping you understand games, gamers, and the
information with which we collide. Make sure you catch up with Part
1, Part
2, Part
3, and Part
4.”...tl;dr, Jan. 13
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Art for the Sky -
http://www.artforthesky.com/default.htm
This is a website about the fabulous projects that conceptual artist
Daniel
Dancer has been producing with the help of field artist Stan Herd, schoolchildren, and the public since the 1980s. His works are
described as "[a]dventures in Team-Building and Perception to Deepen Our
Relationship to Sky, Earth & One Another." Visitors must check out the
"Sky Gallery" on this website to see many animal and environmentally themed works of sky
art. There are so many images that impress in the Sky Gallery, but in the "Schools" section there is a standout, the "Sea - Turtle -
Sky", depicting an endangered loggerhead sea turtle, made up of students and teachers in
Tallahassee, Florida. Visitors will also thoroughly enjoy the
"Videos" section of the Sky Gallery, which contains dozens of short videos of many
of the projects and their creation. [KMG] - The Scout
Report -- January 20, 2012
The Scientist - Multimedia -
http://the-scientist.com/category/multimedia/
The Scientist magazine is written for life science professionals, but promises it to be "concise, accurate, accessible, and
entertaining." The magazine's online version has a great Multimedia section on its website
that has "Videos", "Slideshows" and "Infographics".
Visitors shouldn't miss the story titled "Bat Hunt" from the January 2012 issue, which
profiles a mammologist working in the South Sudan. The photographs in included
this story are excellent, and visitors will be amazed by the photo of the wide-eyed fruit bat cradling its baby. Back on the homepage, the Infographics
section contains stories accompanied by colorful, easy-to-follow diagrams,
and it is also well worth a look. [KMG] - The Scout
Report -- January 20, 2012
ALS
CALENDAR:
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Librarian's Meetings:
Wednesday, February 15 at 9:30 a.m. at ALS offices
ALS Board of Trustee Meetings:
Wednesday, February 8 at 6 p.m. at
ALS offices
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Please feel free to contact the Monday Memo
editor, Martha Gammons, with comments, corrections or library news.
Phone: 608-758-6695 Email: gammons.martha@als.lib.wi.us,
210 Dodge St., Janesville, WI 53548
Arrowhead Library
System Director: Ruth Ann Montgomery, 608-758-6693, email:
montgomery.ruthann@als.lib.wi.us
Website: http://als.lib.wi.us
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