Channel Weekly, Vol. 15, No. 29, May 16, 2013

1. County payment requests must be submitted by July 1
2. 2014 LSTA information and guidelines now online
3. 2014 LSTA grant training session
4. Recently retired UW-SLIS professor receives book award
5. Pew study reports that parents value libraries and reading for children and teens
6. BadgerLink Resource of the Week: BadgerLink on social media
7. Website of the Week: Wayback Machine
8. Calendar
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1. COUNTY PAYMENT REQUESTS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY JULY 1

Public libraries eligible to receive county payment for library services under Wisconsin Statutes 43.12, are reminded that they should submit necessary information by July 1, 2013, for their 2014 payment.

Wis. Stats. 43.12(2) states:

"By July 1 of each year, each public library lying in whole or in part in a county shall provide a statement to the county clerk of that county and to the county clerk of each adjacent county, other than a county with a population of at least 500,000, that reports the number of loans of material made by that library during the prior calendar year to residents of the county, or adjacent county, who are not residents of a municipality that maintains a public library under s. 43.52 or 43.53 and the total number of loans of material made by that library during the previous calendar year."

To receive payment by March 1, 2014, you must provide the following information to the county clerks by July 1, 2013. The relevant information can be found in the library's 2012 Public Library Annual Report and includes:

— The number of loans of material in 2012 to residents in the county who do not live in municipalities that maintain public libraries.
— The library's total 2012 circulation.
— The library's total 2012 operating expenditures (exclude capital expenditures of federal funds).

In some regions, the public library's regional library system may either submit the request on behalf of the member library, or may facilitate the request for payment by compiling necessary information. In other regions, the public libraries directly submit their own requests to the county clerks. Information on county public library funding under both Act 150 and Act 420 is available on the Department of Public Instruction's website at http://pld.dpi.wi.gov/pld_act150.


2. 2014 LSTA INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES NOW ONLINE

The 2014 LSTA Information and Guidelines is now posted on the Public Library Development website at http://pld.dpi.wi.gov/pld_lsta, along with an LSTA Grant Application Worksheet (in Word format suitable for preparation only—grants must be submitted online). The publication is available online only, but is in a format suitable for printing. The Guidelines present the LSTA grant categories for 2014 for library and library systems, and instructions on the application process. The worksheet will be particularly useful to new applicants, and helps clarify the terminology and expectations in the application process.

In 2014, there will be six competitive grant categories that include: Digital Creation Technology; Digitization of Library Historical Material (new in 2014); Serving Special Populations: Accessibility; Early Literacy (new in 2014); Literacy; and Merging Integrated Library Systems.

The upcoming informational webinar session is May 23, 2013 from 11-12 pm. See relevant article below to join the session.


3. 2014 LSTA GRANT TRAINING SESSION

The 2014 LSTA grant training session is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, 2013. The session will be hosted by the following staff from the Department of Public Instruction: Terrie Howe, LSTA Program Coordinator; Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, Youth & Special Services Consultant, and John DeBacher, Director of Public Library Development.

Grant category descriptions are now posted in the online 2014 LSTA Information and Guidelines (http://pld.dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/pld/pdf/guide14.pdf).

There is no need to register—just click the following link (http://tinyurl.com/d47ryoj) on the scheduled meeting date and time. The recorded information session will be available shortly following the live session.


4. RECENTLY RETIRED UW-SLIS PROFESSOR RECEIVES BOOK AWARD

The Gleason Book Award Committee of the American Library Association Library History Roundtable has announced that the winner of the 2013 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award is Dr. Christine Pawley for Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010).

Presented every third year, the Gleason Award recognizes the best book written in English in the field of library history. First given in 2004, the award honors the professional contributions of Dr. Eliza Atkins Gleason, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Library Science (University of Chicago, 1940).

Christine Pawley retired in 2012 as Professor and Director of the School of Library and Information Studies and Director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reading Places provides a thoroughly researched investigation and analysis incorporating oral history to tell the story of a contested experimental regional library service in Door and Kewaunee Counties of Wisconsin in the early 1950s. Dr. Pawley combines research in primary documents and library records, and use of contemporary periodicals and publications, with interviews that bring the topic to life in a most engaging way.

Additional information can be found at (shortened link) http://bit.ly/1072EW0 .


5. PEW STUDY REPORTS THAT PARENTS VALUE LIBRARIES AND READING FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS

Almost every parent (97%) says it is important for libraries to offer programs and classes for children and teens, a recent Pew Internet survey reports. The vast majority of parents of minor children — children younger than 18 — feel libraries are very important for their children. That attachment carries over into parents’ own higher-than-average use of a wide range of library services. For more information, view the summary of findings at http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2013/05/01/parents-children-libraries-and-reading/.


6. BADGERLINK RESOURCE OF THE WEEK

What to know what's new with the BadgerLink program? BadgerLink has an email list (http://www.badgerlink.net/list.html) and is on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WisBadgerLink), Twitter (https://twitter.com/wisdpibadgerli), and Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/wirl3)! Get searching tips, content updates, and helpful content! Friend or follow us, share or retweet our content.


7. Website of the Week

Wayback Machine — http://archive.org/web/web.php — The “Wayback Machine,” part of the Internet Archive, is a service that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can type in a URL, select a date range, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the Web.


8. CALENDAR

June 27-July 2, 2013 – American Librarian Association (ALA) Annual Conference, Chicago

July 12, 2013 – Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Black River Falls

October 3, 2013 – Public Library Youth Services Liaisons annual meeting, DeForest

October 4, 2013 – Continuing Education and Certification Consultants annual meeting, DeForest

October 22-25, 2013 – Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) annual conference, Green Bay

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Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries and Technology
P.O. Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439
FAX: (608) 267-9207

For questions about this information, contact Roslyn Wise (608) 266-6439