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| Issue 177 | Friday, October 15, 1999 |
10:33:04 AM |
For a
bi-monthly wrap up of NOLA news and information, be sure to check out NOLA Notes! |
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| Library News |
NYC Man Arrested for 570 Overdue Books
New York City police arrested a 44-year-old former New York University student at his gym October 4 on charges of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property after he failed to return 570 overdue political-science and history books to the campus libraries. In addition, George Szamuely, who had ignored dozens of calls and letters asking for the books’ return, owes $31,000 in fines, the New York Daily News reported October 6.
Source: ALA Online
LSTA Full Grants AnnouncedState Library has announced the list of LSTA Full Grant recipients for Oct 1999-Sept 2000. Also the minutes from the September 15, 1999 LSTA Council Meeting are online, of interest to many public and school libraries is the discussion of using $2 million dollars in LSTA grant money to fund the technology portion of a statewide resource sharing project
LSTA Grant Recipients - http://winslo.state.oh.us/publib/lstafl99.html
LSTA Council Meeting Minutes - http://winslo.state.oh.us/publib/lsta999.html
Items submitted by:
Brad Stephens - Email
NOLA Regional Library System
| From the Field - Brad Stephens |
Until recently computers could only interact with two senses – sight and hearing. If DigiScents has it’s way you’ll be able to add one more sense to the list – smell. The company, featured in this month’s Wired magazine, has developed a number of products, including iSmell, a small device that plugs into your computer and is able to receive encoded scent data and reproduce the corresponding odor for the end user. In addition to creating the equivalent of "speakers for the nose", DigiScents is also creating a database of "registered" encoded scents that developers can license, a "snortal" – a web portal for the nose, and a streaming player for encoded scents that allows web users to download and smell odors from the net.
My only question – what’s Yahoo going to smell like?
Want to know more: http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,31909,00.html
The web cookie has received a great deal of bad press, much of it from users concerned about privacy and security who have raised issues since cookies were introduced in an early version of Netscape Navigator. Are the security and privacy concerns legitimate? Maybe.
Let’s start with a description of cookies and how they work:
Cookies allow web sites to store very small pieces of information on your hard drive. This information is related to your usage of a particular web site, and is intended to make the web a more user-friendly place.
The web server that set the cookie can retrieve the information in the cookie when you are using that same web site. Common uses of this information might be remembering a barcode number of a library user, site personalization (such as MyYahoo and MyNetscape), and remembering user entered searches and allowing them to persist between sessions.
For those worried about privacy: Data placed in cookies set by one web server should not be able to accessed by another web server. A recent exploit has created some debate about this fact, but it shouldn’t impact most users.
For those worried about security: Cookies cannot infect your computer with a virus, steal your passwords, access files on your hard disk or make your computer explode.
While there is a potential for abuse, overall cookies are a relatively safe and beneficial technology that helps to improve the usefulness of the web. It you’d like to know more about cookies visit: http://www.cookiecentral.com/
Items submitted by:
Brad Stephens - Email
NOLA Regional Library System
| Education Station - Lori Putt/CE Consultant |
The Art of Managing
"Good management is the art of showing average people how to do the work of
superior people."
John D. Rockefeller
We manage people every day, right? We "manage" our employees, our co-workers,
and even sometimes our boss...we "manage" our spouses, our kids, our
households...
we even "manage" ourselves once in awhile!
The study of management is a continual process - it includes not only the educational
process of learning various management techniques, but also the ability to talk to your
peers about their own management issues. Networking is one of the most important aspects
of management - it allows you to share ideas, to regale your successes, and to learn from
failures (both yours and others!)
Thus, the importance of Library Management Symposium, a yearly two-day conference, this
year sponsored by NOLA Regional Library System and MOLO Regional Library. We have two
GREAT program scheduled for November 18-19th at Punderson State Park - Surviving and
Thriving with a Library Board - presented by Dan Cain Lobbying for Success - presented by
Holly Carroll, State Rep. Jamie Callender, Linda Murray, and Vic Rubenstein, political
strategist
These topics are both designed to give library directors the insight they need to manage
effectively - from building good relationships with Boards of Directors, to building good
relationships and the how-to's of networking with your state and local government
officials.
We encourage you to attend this year's Library Management Symposium, and we do invite your
Board Members who are interested in lobbying to the second day (November 19th only).
Click here to register
online! Deadline for registration is October 30th; Deadline for Room
Registration at Punderson State Park is October 18th to guarantee overnight accomodations.
We hope to see you there!
"One cannot manage too many affairs: Like pumpkins in the water, one pops up
while you try to hold down the other".
Chinese Proverb
How True!!
Items submitted by:
Lori Putt - Email
NOLA Regional Library System
| CyberStuff from Reflinks |
Give me a little elbow room, will ya? Just how many people are on this planet, anyhow? I know, we'll ask POPIN. POPIN fresh? No, not the Pillsbury Dough Boy. POPIN....The United Nations Population Information Network. (Reflinks 304) Also find POPNET, links to statistical agencies of the countries of the world, and IDB, the International Data Base from the U.S. Census Bureau. Oh, and if you have to have your Dough Boy fix, try Reflinks 940, and visit the links about World War I.
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