Idaho Commission for Libraries

Started the day with Legislative Committee which included information on telecommunication and broadband (i.e., regional cooperatives, rural broadband deployment, network neutrality),reauthorization of LSTA, e-rate, and copyright.

Attended Competencies for Your Staff: From Implementation to Integration, a CLENE-RT preconference session. Highlights:

Mixing It Up: The Mashed up Library was a symposium sponsored by OCLC at the ALA conference in Anaheim. Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan School for Digital Business, shared his perspective in his presentation "Managing Challeges of Instituional Innovation." Innovation in an institution is difficult because of its values, traditions, cultures, and bureacracies.

E-branch in a Box Fall Training Schedule

The Idaho Commission for Libraries will provide a half-day update training session for all current e-Branch in a Box users. This is a great opportunity to brush up on development and troubleshooting skills for the e-Branch administrators. You will have an opportunity to work on your own site customization issues.

If you were one of the lucky libraries to receive the Summer Reading Flag as part of your Read for Your Library initiative, here are some guidelines for flying your flag:

1. If you have one flag pole – Only fly the U.S., Idaho and MIA flags

Recent Grants awarded:

5/28/2008

• Lewiston City Library — Access for All Seniors Outreach Homebound $1,980.00
• Kootenai Shoshone Lib. — Access for All Seniors Outreach Program Seniors $2,000.00

6/11/2008 - Read to Me State Grants

• Ada Community Library - Star $5,000.00

Now that the dust has settled from the District Library trustee elections on May 27th, does your library have any changes to report?

It would help ICFL to ensure that trustees get information or any mailings that are sent out if you would let us know:

Name
Start and end date of term (month, year)
Address (at which they want their mail delivered)
Who are they replacing?

Libraries that received funding commitments for e-rate in Waves 7 and 8 are:

• Kootenai-Shoshone Area Libraries (Wave 7)
• Twin Falls (Wave 7)
• Clarkia (Wave 8)
• Clearwater District (Wave 8)
• Jerome (Wave 8)

The total funding commitment for Idaho libraries in Waves 1-8 is $98,566.80.

New Materials available through the Professional Development Service

Available for viewing 6/09/08

Available for check out by public 7/09/08

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I am so please to report that Let's Talk About It graphics have been redesigned. Take a peek of the ones for Living in the Modern West . More theme publicity materials will follow soon.

During this past month, 40 new titles were added to the collection of downloadable audiobooks available through LiLI eAudioBook Collection (LiLI ABC). The batch of MARC records for those new titles and a title list is available at http://libraries.idaho.gov/marcdownload.

Attn: Public Library Summer Reading Coordinators

One hundred eleven (111) public libraries signed up to receive free paperback books for their summer reading programs. These books are provided through a grant for $15,000 from the Fred Meyer Fund. We just received the check this week and the books have been ordered. We anticipate that the books will be shipped to the Commission by June 23rd. We plan to begin mailing books to libraries by June 27th. To see if your library signed up to receive books, check the list here.

You may ask, what about Wave 5? No libraries received funding commitments in Wave 5, but Emmett is the lucky recipient in Wave 6.

The total amount committed to Idaho libraries in Waves 1-6 is $56,599.89.

Want to get in on this but don't know where to start? Give me a call or drop me a line!

Jan Wall
Public Library E-rate Coordinator
Idaho Commission for Libraries

Attention members of ALA:

ALA has just released a survey to get input from members about electronic participation in the association. More information about the survey and a link to the online survey is at http://blogs.ala.org/memberblog.php?title=electronic_member_participatio....