Newsletter of the Maine Library Association and the Maine State Library

VOLUME 22, NO. 10 ~ OCTOBER 2000

Editor
Anastasia S. Weigle
Editor's Note: The Maine Memo comes out during the first week of each month. If you would like to send information to be put on the Maine Memo, you can e-mail me at aweigle@warren.lib.me.us.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE ONE
Calendar of Events
Education/Training/Workshops
Here's an F.Y.I.
Job Opportunities

PAGE TWO
ALA News
Library Electronic Mailing Lists
News from the Maine Libraries Conference
Web Links of the Month


CALENDAR OF EVENTS



EDUCATION/TRAINING/WORKSHOPS
Managing for Results. effective Resource Allocation for Public Libraries presented by Sandra Nelson. Thursday, November 2 at the Bangor Public Library or Friday, November 3 at Andover College, Portland. This program will offer library managers training in Managing for Results methodologies. These methodologies provide guidance in developing a dynamic and relevant program of library service that meets community needs. Fee: $15. For more information or to receive a registration form, contact your District Consultant or call the Maine State Library at 207-287-5620 and 1-800-322-8899. Registration deadline is October 13. No refunds after October 27. 2000.

EBSCO Training sessions
The following EBSCO training opportunities are now available. Please note the new sessions scheduled for Brunswick and the University of Maine. Contact Cheryl Ramsay at 287-5620 (e-mail cheryl.ramsay@state.me.us) to register.

ARL Announces another Online Professional Development Opportunity. "Coaching For Performance" September 25 through October 13, 2000. http://www.arl.org/training/coaching.html. Other fall courses available online at http://www.arl.org/training/lyceum.html#Offerings

Library Management Skills Institute introduces The Management Process, October 23-26, 2000, Atlanta, Georgia http://www.arl.org/training/lmsi2oct.html

Institute Description:
 
In this four-day intensive learning event, participants focus on the organization as a whole and the individual's role in it. Based on the principles of organizational learning, it stresses the impact of individual and team learning on overall effectiveness. Participants will learn and practice some key principles of organizational learning. This institute is appropriate for any individual interested in creating increased capacity of growth and responsiveness.
 
Competencies gained or enhanced by this institute include: ability to see patterns and systematic cause and effect and understand the importance and nature of the organization as a system ability to inform the process of developing shared vision and understand the impact of individual roles on organizational effectiveness understanding of external and internal impact on organizational choice
 
Fees: ARL Members: $695 / Nonmembers: $745. Register two or more participants from your institution for the same public training institute and receive a 15% discount on each registration fee!
 
Hotel Information: Regency Suites Hotel, 975 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA 30309, Phone: (404) 876-5003 , FAX: (404) 817-7511
For Reservations: 1-800-642-3629 http://www.regencysuites.com. Single or double room: $119.00*
 
A limited block of rooms has been reserved at this special rate and will be held as a block, unless exhausted, until Friday, September 29, 2000, at which time they will be released to the general public. Guests must make their own hotel reservations and indicate that they are with the "OLMS Workshop" to qualify for the rooms in the block at the special rate. All reservations must be guaranteed with a one-night rooms deposit by remitting a check or a major credit card number and expiration date. All non guaranteed reservations are subject to cancellation without notification. Cancellation policy requires that the hotel be notified 72 hours in advance of scheduled arrival. All no-shows will be charged one night's charge
plus tax. Check in time is 3:00 pm and check out is 12:00. It is the responsibility of the registrant to cancel any reservations should the Institute be canceled. The above hotel policy information is provided to our workshop participants as a service and is not binding on the part of the hotel. Although this information is correct to the best of our knowledge, please be sure to verify this information with the hotel when making reservations to avoid any complications.
 
To obtain more information, please contact the ARL/OLMS Program Assistant, at phone (202) 296-8656, ext. 141, fax (202) 872-0884, or
email training@arl.org.
 
NEW!! ARL Advanced Licensing Workshop. November 16-17, 2000, Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, New Haven, CT. For more information, please contact: Mary Case, Director, ARL Office of Scholarly Communication. Workshop information online: http://www.arl.org/ scomm/licensing/advlic.html. Sponsored by the New England Law Library Consortium
 
Purpose and Overview: This two-day workshop will:
Collections Management System Workshop. A workshop on the installation and use of the Collections Management System (CMS) database will be held on Wednesday, October 18th, at the Maine State Archives Conference Room from 9-Noon. For those who wish, you can order sandwiches and drinks to be delivered at Noon. We can continue informally during and after lunch for an hour or so. Since several organizations are using the database, we should be able to share insights, practices, shortcuts, and problems. CMS is a database for organizing historical collections - records and objects operating under the MS-Access 97 program. Users need MS-Office '97 (which includes Access) or MS-Access '97. (I have not tested this with Office 2000, though it is likely to work after following Office 2000 upgrade directions, if any.) Demonstration files (cmsdemo.mdb and cmsdemdt.mdb),program files (cms.mdb and cmsdata.mdb) and INSTRUCTIONS on installation and use may be downloaded from http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/files/dbinfo.htm . Please RSVP to insure enough space will be available.
 
Old Fort Western to Offer Special Programming in Conjunction with Maine Archaeology Month. F.M.I. contact: Jay Adams, 626-2385. October is Maine Archaeology Month and Old Fort Western, the 1754 National Historic Landmark fort, store, and house museum on the Kennebec River in Augusta, will be participating by offering a day of public programming on Saturday, October 21, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Included are "Sandbox Archaeology," beginning at 10:00; archaeological "History Mysteries," beginning at 11:00; a special "House of Hewen Timber" presentation at the Fort at 1:00; and "The Pilgrims at Cushnoc," at 2:00.
Fees are $3.75 per person per presentation or $15.00 per person for the entire day. Pre-registration is required. The registration deadline is 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 19. Registration is by telephone at 626-2385. In addition, Fort archaeologist, Linda Novak, and Maine Historic Preservation Commission archaeologist, Lee Cranmer, will present a talk entitled "The Archaeology of Fort Western and Fort Halifax," Tuesday, October 17, at 7:00 p.m., in the Fort Western Learning Gallery, City Hall, Cony Street, Augusta. Admission to the talk is free. Donations in support of on-going archaeology at Old Fort Western will be accepted.
 
Maine Archaeology Month is a program of the Maine Archaeological Society. A host of other programs will be conducted in various locations throughout the state. A complete Maine Archaeology Month schedule is available at http://www.mainearchsociety.org
ARL Announces Another Online Professional Development Opportunity.
 
Training Skills Online: Facilitating Effective Learning. October 16 - November 24, 2000
Course Information Online: http://www.arl.org/training/tso.html
Registration Form Online: http://www.db.arl.org/training/lycreg.html
 
Course Description: This course will teach participants the basic concepts and methods of training. Participants will complete this course prepared to conduct training with skill and confidence. At its simplest level, the training process consists of five stages: analysis, design development, delivery, and evaluation. The process involves determining the "real" training needs, preparing instruction that will fill the skills gap, planning the learning experience,
conducting the event, and evaluating its success. Registration Deadline: extended! Please register by October 6th, 2000
 
This web-based course will address the following topics:
ACRL NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER CALENDAR OF CONFERENCES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION 2000 & 2001
October 1-3, Sunday-Tuesday. New England Library Association (NELA) 2000 Conference "Leap into the Millennium" Worcester, MA
Info: http://www.nelib.org. Contact: Mary Ann Rupert, marupert@aol.com
 
October 12, Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries Fourth Annual Conference "Creative Marketing: Promoting Library Resources and Services" Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. $30 registration fee (deadline 9/25) Info: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/conf2000.html. Contact: norma.pellerin@dartmouth.edu, (603) 650-1683
 
October 20, Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. ACRL/NEC Serials Interest Group Fall Program "The Road That May Be Taken: Identifying Trends in Technical Processing" Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Gutman Conference Center, Cambridge, MA
Info: http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~conf/gccdirections.html. Contact: Patty Hatch, ACRL/NEC SIG Chair, hat@shore.net
 
October 20-22, Friday-Sunday. Worcester Women's History Project "Women 2000" Info: http://www.worcesterwomen.com. Contact: wwhp@net1plus.com
 
October 22-24, Sunday-Tuesday. North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Conference "Portals to Partnership". Newport, RI
Info: http://nnlmner.uchc.edu/nahsl/nahsl2k/index.html. Contact: William Anger, Wanger@providence.edu, (401) 865-2581
 
November 2, Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. New England Innovative Users Group (III) Meeting New England Center, University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH. Contact: Marilyn Hanley, mhanley@library.umass.edu
 
November 2-4, Thursday-Saturday. Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Info: http://www.cofc.edu/library/conference. Contact: libconf@cofc.edu
 
November 2-5, Thursday-Sunday. LITA National Forum "High Tech/High Touch: The Human Aspects of Technology" DoubleTree Hotel-Lloyd Center. Portland, Oregon. Info: http://www.lita.org/forumY2K/index.htm. Contact: Valerie Edmonds, LITA Office, (800) 545-2433, ext. 4269
 
SAVE THE DATE: November 17, Friday ACRL/NEC Fall Conference, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
 
December 1, Friday. ACRL/NEC Information Technology Interest Group, "Cold Fusion", Salve Regina
 
February 2, Friday. ACRL/NEC Information Technology Interest Group "XML/XHTML"
 
March 15-18, Thursday-Sunday. Association of College & Research Libraries 10th Conference"Crossing the Divide" Denver, CO
Info: http://www.ala.org/acrl/denver.html
 
August 16-25, Thursday-Saturday International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) "IFLA 2001" Boston, MA
Info: http://www.ifla2001.org/
 
September 30-October 2, Sunday-Tuesday New England Library Association Conference (NELA) Burlington, VT
Info: http://www.nelib.org/
 
CONTINUING EDUCATION WEBSITES
 
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College. http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/programs/ce.html
Library Association Conferences. http://www.ala.org/cro/cal.html
Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners Continuing Education. http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us/noflash.html
Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network (MAHSLIN). http://nnlmner.uchc.edu/mahslin/calendar.html
Nelinet, Inc. Library Conferences and Meetings. http://www.nelinet.net/conf.htm
New England and Environs Preservation Calendar. http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us/mblc/ldev/preservation_calendar.shtml
New England Library Association (NELA). http://www.nelib.org/
Southern Connecticut State University, Library Science and Information. Technology. http://www.southernct.edu/catalogue/grad/LSC-ITC.html
University of Maine at Augusta, Library and Information Technology. http://www.uma.maine.edu/libraries/l&it_WEB/ulibMAINl&it.html
University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/conedu1.htm


HERE'S AN F.Y.I.

The Maine Association of School Libraries will hold its Fall Conference this year at Scarborough High School, on November 4th, 2000, starting at 9am. We will be showcasing the Ebsco Databases now available through the Maine State Library, providing detailed practical experience as well
as an overview from Ebsco's Ed Coyne. The agenda will be as follows:
There will be a nonrefundable registration fee of $15.00. DIRECTIONS TO SCARBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL: Scarborough High School is at the junction of Route 1 and Route 114. Take Exit 6 [Scarborough] off I-95. go straight across the intersection after the toll booth. Continue until the road ends and you you reach the junction of Route 1. Take a left heading North on Route 1 to the junction of Route 1, Route 114, and Route 207 (there will be a Burger King at the intersection). Take a left onto Route 114. The High School is on the left after you make the turn. Go straight to the back parking area and follow signs to the Library. If you get lost, please call 883-4354, ext.331. Please include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and affiliation with your check of $15 payable to MASL, and send with completed registration form to: Joyce Wheeler, Scarborough High School, 20 Gorham Rd., Scarborough, ME 04074. 207-883-4354, ext. 331. mailto:jwheele@scarborough.k12.me.us
 
ACRL is joining divisions of the American Library Association (ALA) and associations across America in support of the second annual ALA =
Divisions 2001 Job Shadow Day. This event, which will be held on February 2, 2001, partners junior high, high school, and college age students with library mentors for an up-close look at careers in librarianship. ACRL is looking for volunteers from academic and research libraries to serve as library coordinators and mentors. The goals of the ALA Divisions Job Shadow Day are to: introduce junior high and high school age-students to the library =
profession and help them understand what librarians do; B7 help young people make the connection between academics and careers, which will make their classroom work seem more relevant; and encourage on-going partnerships between institutions and young people in the community they serve.
Commitment forms are available on the Web at http://www.ala.org/acrl/jobshadowday.html. Completed forms should be submitted to ACRL Job Shadow Day, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Fax: 312-280-2520. For more information about Job Shadow Day or requests for Job Shadow Day planning kits, call Margot Sutton at 312-280-2522. E-mail: msutton@ala.org.
 
ADA-required signs available from ICMA. Does your library building have at least one employee or public entrance that is not wheelchair accessible? If you answer Yes, current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations (35.163) require that you mount ADA signs at every employee and
public entrance, whether accessible or not. In response to these requirements, the International City/County Management (ICMA) now offers an Entrance Sign Kit to help libraries cost-effectively comply with current entrance sign rules. Each Sign Kit includes the number of blue and white reflective aluminum signs that you need to mark library facilityentrances, as well as specific mounting materials, instructions and sign guidelines. All Kit text materials have been reviewed by the ADA Technical Assistance Center -Region V.
 
To obtain the Entrance Sign Kit from ICMA, count the number of accessible and inaccessible entrances to your facility (which are not currently marked
with wheelchair symbol/ADA signs) so that ICMA will know how many of each type of sign to include with your Kit. Then, call the ICMA ADA sign staff, toll free, at (877) 232-5487, or fax/send a purchase order to ADA KIT-ICMA Sign Project, 56 Salem Lane, Evanston, IL 60203, fax (847) 568-9485. Your Kit cost is $20 per sign ordered, plus $9.50 S&H. Please Note: Inaccessible entrance signs have right/left arrows on each sign to direct people to the nearest accessible entrance, as required by law.
 
Maine Old Cemetery Association (MOCA) has published on CD ROM inscriptions from 345 cemeteries in 31 towns in Kennebec County. It includes
a 136,000-entry Every Name index in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. CD is available from MOCA for $99.50 , shipping included.,Picton Press is also selling this, but MOCA can only cover its,publishing costs if it sells its copies of the CD. They can then continue to,offer other counties' records; they are presently preparing three smaller,counties, which may all fit on one CD. These are useful for genealogists, needless to say, and historian-type patrons.
The first publication of this series was York County, which is offered only in hard cover, 4 volumes for $260.00, copies still available from MOCA. To order the above or to join and get their quarterly newsletter, please mail to: Maine Old Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 641, Augusta, ME 04332-0641

Check out the FOML Web site : http://www.friendsofmainelibraries.org/organizations/foml
 
SMLD New Web Site
Check out the Southern Maine Library District's new web site http://www.state.me.us/msl/smld/index.htm .We are looking for suggestions and feedback. Special thanks to Webmaster Joyce Wheeler, Scarborough High School Librarian.
 
National Youth Storytelling Olympics. If any of you have been working with kids and storytelling, please encourage your young storytellers to enter the National Youth Storytelling Olympics. Kids need to send me a videotape of themselves telling a story. Maine winners become entered into the National Competition. The deadline is the end of October. Anyone born after December 31, 1982. If you want more details, please contact Rachel Quenk,
Children's Librarian, Thomas Memorial Library at 207-799-1720.
 
The National Marionette Theatre will present their exciting version of Paul Dukas' musical tone poem (musical story without words), "Sorcerer's
Apprentice" on Sunday, October 29th, 4pm, Winslow Homer Center at Scarborough High School, under the sponsorship of the Scarborough Public Library. Tickets purchased at the Library prior to the day of the performance are discounted: adults and seniors $4; children $3. Purchased at
the door, tickets will be adults $6 and children $5. Friends of Scarborough Public Library and Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution are local underwriters of the program. It is also funded in part by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts, with additional support from the six
New England Arts Agencies, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Awards from Public Library Association
THE HIGHSMITH LIBRARY INNOVATION AWARD recognizes a public library's innovative and creative service program to the community. (As part of the evaluation process with the vendor, after three years the emphasis may change to reflect new trends and needs.) A plaque and a $2,000 honorarium are presented annually at the ALA Annual Conference. Established in 1996. Sponsored by Highsmith Inc. Application Deadline is November 1, 2000. Read about this award and others from PLA at http://www.pla.org/awards/index.html.


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