Volume 5:     February 5, 2009 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1)  LEAD IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS

2)  NATIONAL MEDAL FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICE

3)  TECHSOUP, WEBINARS, AND DONATED SOFTWARE

4)  ARCHIVED FIRST TUESDAYS PROGRAMS: LISTEN ONLINE

5)  DUPAGE SOARING TO EXCELLENCE TELECONFERENCE FEBRUARY 13

6)  ROUNDTABLE ON SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

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1)  LEAD IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS

From ALA—The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has released an announcement to the Federal Register staying implementation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) until February 10, 2010: www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/foia09/brief/stayenforce.pdf.

Libraries now have a little room to breathe, but this announcement is not an end to this problem. Since we know children’s books are safe (from contamination by lead), libraries are still asking to be exempt from regulation under this law. While the CPSC and Congress continue to toss the burden of responsibility back and forth, libraries are caught in the middle. ALA will continue to work with members of Congress and the CPSC to ensure that a year from now, this matter is resolved once and for all, and America’s libraries remain open and welcoming to children.

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2)  NATIONAL MEDAL FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICE

The deadline for nominations for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service is Feb. 17, 2009. The National Medal for Museum and Library Service (formerly the National Award) honors outstanding institutions that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities. Selected institutions demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service, exceeding the expected levels of community outreach and core programs generally associated with its services. The medal includes prizes of $10,000 to each recipient and an awards ceremony to be held in Washington, DC.

Public or private nonprofit institutions are eligible to receive this award. A friends group for an individual museum or library is not an eligible entity. Institutions may be nominated by staff members or members of the public. Find more information and a nomination form at www.imls.gov/about/medals.shtm.

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3)  TECHSOUP, WEBINARS, AND DONATED SOFTWARE

Through TechSoup.org, public libraries can receive brand-new software donated by top companies for use on public access computers. For example, Microsoft Office Pro 2007 is available for a $20 administrative fee or Vista for a $10 administrative fee. Not only can you get donated software, you can get articles, a community forum, free webinars and more!

Attend this webinar and learn how your library can benefit from everything that TechSoup has to offer. Brenda Hough of TechSoup’s MaintainIT Project will interview Becky Heil from Dubuque County Library in Farley, Iowa and Brett Fisher from Flathead Country Library in Kalispell, Montana to learn how they use TechSoup and what advice they’d give to people new to TechSoup. Space is limited, so sign up today! Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009; time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST; registration: cc.readytalk.com/r/1nzgwjy5d05wj.

More Free MaintainIT Webinars — Registration and details at www.maintainitproject.org/events.

· 2/10/2009 Evaluations and Metrics: A MaintainIT Book Club Discussion

· 2/12/2009 Train-the-Trainer: Using MaintainIT Resources for Technology Training

· 2/17/2009 30-minute Webinars: Technology Services for Children

For more information on TechSoup, visit www.techsoup.org/stock

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4)  ARCHIVED FIRST TUESDAYS  PROGRAMS: LISTEN ONLINE

The archived recording of February’s First Tuesdays program, featuring Martha Shinners of WSL talking about Summer Reading and the Summer Reading Collaborative, is now available for your listening pleasure at www.secstate.wa.gov/quicklinks/tuesday. If you did not happen to hear the January program on WSL’s Washington Rural Heritage Project or the December one on WTBBL, the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, they also contain a lot of useful information. In fact, we are gathering quite a backlog of programs, all worth listening to. Check them out sometime. All are available from the right-hand column of our First Tuesdays webpage.

And if you have not looked at the Washington Rural Heritage Project’s website and blog recently, you’ll find some wonderful pictures and other material there, at washingtonruralheritage.org/ and blogs.secstate.wa.gov/wrh/.

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5)  DUPAGE SOARING TO EXCELLENCE TELECONFERENCE FEBRUARY 13

The Washington State Library is pleased to offer the College of DuPage’s teleconference series Soaring to Excellence and Library Challenges and Opportunities to all Washington libraries.

The February 13 program is “Targeting the Ages: Programming that Hits the Mark.” This program will look at some of the innovative programming libraries today are creating to meet the evolving needs of their patrons and will also provide a basic primer for anyone who has always wanted to plan a program, but didn’t know where or how to begin.

This teleconference will be Friday, February 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time.) Registration is available at:

· www.secstate.wa.gov/quicklinks/bcrtele for viewing the teleconference from your worksite.

· www.secstate.wa.gov/quicklinks/targeting for viewing the teleconference from the Washington State Library, Room 221.

More information on the series can be found at www.secstate.wa.gov/quicklinks/dupage. For questions, please contact Jennifer Fenton, CE/Training Coordinator, Washington State Library at 360-570-5571, toll free 1-866-538-4996, or [email protected].

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6)  ROUNDTABLE ON SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

The Getty Conservation Institute is pleased to announce that papers from its Experts’ Roundtable on Sustainable Climate Management Strategies (Tenerife, Spain, 2007) are now available for download from the GCI’s website. To read a description of the Roundtable, and find the documents, use this link: http://www.secstate.wa.gov/quicklinks/climate.

Topics addressed include current climate management strategies and emerging trends; the meaning of sustainability in relation to the preservation of cultural heritage; and whether cultural institutions such as museums, archives, and libraries can or should play a role in the debate about energy consumption. The participants’ discussion papers are supplemented by a transcript of the meeting and a bibliography on climate management.