Agenda_01_29_11

= NEMA Board Meeting Minutes = = January 29, 2011 = = Teleconference Sites = = NDE in Lincoln * Kearney High School * ESU 13 – Scottsbluff * ESU 7- Columbus =

I. Call to Order: Betty Meyer

 * Present: Betty Meyer, Karen Buckley, Beth Kabes, Lynne Wragge, Dr. Sherry Crow, Kathy Terrell, Laura Pietsch, Stacy Lickteig, Judy Henning, Glenda Willnerd, Janice Boyer, Mary Reiman, Kelly Melson, Nancy Larimer, Sharon Axthelm, Jean Hellman.
 * Absent: Sara Churchill, Carrie Turner, Stacy Johnson, Lora Leibrandt, Joie Tayler, Rod Wagner, Sara Mitchell

II. Additions to Agenda, Agenda Approval

 * ====m. Lynne Wragge s.Karen Buckley. Motion passed. ====

III. Minutes from September 2010: Beth Kabes

 * ====September 18, 2010 Meeting Minutes ====
 * ====m. Nancy Larimer s. Karen Buckley. Motion passed. ====
 * ====October 14 Annual Meeting Minutes ====

V. Executive Secretary Report: Jean Hellwege

 * 1) ====Membership: 333 current + 44 whose schools have been invoiced but payment has not been received = 377 and 46 whose membership lapsed on September 30, 2010. (2008--339 current; 2009--280 current; 2010--363 current) ====
 * 2) ====Biennial Report for a Nonprofit Corporation filled out and mailed January 14 to NEMA treasurer to pay the $20 fee. ====
 * 3) ====The 7th edition of the Nebraska Guide was mailed out to members who have not received them. ====
 * 4) NEMA elections updated listserv is completed. An email was sent to all members. Any bounces then will send postcard for election.

VI. Communications: Betty Meyer

 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NE Legislative Day on Feb 25 at Capital from 8 - 9 a.m. All members are welcome. Betty will plan to attend. Anyone interested, please contact Betty.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Received conference report from Michael.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Acknowledge with a card to Lori Umstead, and has just received national board certificate.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VII. Committee Reports-Written reports submitted.

 * 1) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finance Report: Lynne Wragge ====
 * Received a $2,500 check from NLC for Conference. There are a number of shirts left, look to promoting the shirts ideas. Looking to reevaluate budge expenditures and look more closely in April meeting. Come prepared with category expenditures from Lynne.There are boxes of materials that Treasurer currently holds, need to go through the contents at Retreat or at some time to reduce the contents. Could consider digitizing some contents. If some documents have historical value, then need to archive. The NLC archives NLA documents. Could consider looking to that organization for help/support. Another option could be NE Historical Society - once turned over, then the Historical Society owns the documents.
 * As part of Strategic Plan a budget item is included for Library System Projects. Suggesting the System Administrator to submit a Special Projects Funding Request form for educational activities. Share the form with the System Representatives to use for pre-approval and for reimbursement.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. L4L Committee: Judy Henning

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The L4L Committee presented at the Nebraska School Board Association Conference on Nov. 18 in LaVista. There were approximately 25 school board members and administrators in attendance for the 21st Century Learning presentation by Sherry Crow, Deb Levitov and myself. This is the only L4L presentation since the NLA/NEMA Conference program in Grand Island in October. Dr. Crow and myself have plans to present at the Midwinter Conference sponsored by Educational Service Unit #13 in Scottsbluff on Feb. 21. This is the second year I’ve presented at this professional development conference. The focus of this presentation will include the Nebraska Guide along with additional information on 21st Century Learning as an update to what I presented last year. I’ve been asked to submit another program proposal for Administrators’ Days in Kearney next July by the Kearney Public Schools Director of Curriculum and Assessment. Our proposal wasn’t selected last year, although we did have a booth at this event where we distributed brochures and other information on AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner. We had a lot of administrators ask why we weren’t doing a program when we distributed literature at the conference. I think this may have gotten back to the Administrators’ Days program selection committee. The proposal is due next month ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. AFCON Liaison: Lora Leibrandt
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The AFCON Fall Program and Annual Meeting were held on November 6th in Lincoln. The meeting’s theme was “Speechless in Nebraska: The High School Press” and Frank LoMonte was the featured speaker. LoMonte is Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center based in Arlington, Virginia. One of AFCON’s strategic goals for last year was to support the passage of the “Student Expression Act” as introduced into the Nebraska Unicameral by Sen. Ken Haar. This bill is designed to protect the first amendment rights of public school students. The other two goals were to renew the connection and relationship with K-12 schools and to expand the membership base of AFCON. The board is reassessing the goals for 2011 and in the last meeting we decided to focus even more on renewing the connection to K-12 schools. To that end AFCON is looking at supporting the push for civics education in the public schools, which is already in progress.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. NDE Liaison: Mary Reiman <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. NLA Liaison: Jan Boyer Will be having spring meetings. Legislative Day. 6. NEMA Liaison to NLA: Karen Buckley
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The newly revised Nebraska Guide was given to Brent Gaswick and Donlynn Rice at the Nebraska Department of Education. Brent Gaswick is willing to share NEMA and school librarian news with the principals throughout the state if we have information to share with them.
 * The NLA board held an orientation and meeting Dec. 10 at the Loren Corey Eiseley Branch, Lincoln. Keynote speakers for the 2012 conference, “Nebraska Libraries: Cultivating Community Connections” will be Cassandra Barnett, on Thursday, Oct. 6 and Jamie LaRue on Friday, Oct. 7. Cassandra was a presenter at last summer’s Heartland School Library Conference. She is past president of the American Association of School Libraries and school library media specialist at Fayetteville (AR) High School. Jamie is director of the Douglas County (CO) Libraries and a former president of the Colorado Library Association.
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jan Boyer, NLA president-elect, Michael Straatmann, NLA executive director and I will be meeting this afternoon to plan this year’s conference. We will be asking for program proposals and for volunteer assistance soon. ====

7. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NLC Liaison: Rod Wagner
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. State Advisory Council on Libraries: Glenda Willnerd > ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • Rod Wagner gave an update on the Library Services and the Technology Act funding. He is hopeful the funding will be the same as last year. ==== > ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • Rod Wagner reported the Broadband Technology Opportunity Grant had been approved. It covers a three-year period and includes $2.9 million dollars plus dollars from the Gates Foundation. ==== > ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • Dave Oertli gave an informative overview of the Digital Talking Book Program. The format has changed to a flash cartridge and they have over 3,600 titles available. They also provide patrons with books by Nebraska authors and magazines. ==== > ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • Beth Goble gave a report on Preservation Planning. ==== > ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • Mary Jo Ryan reported on the IMLS Grant – Cultivating Rural Librarians’ Technology Skills. This is a three-year project and will include funding in the form of scholarships for individuals that are pursuing a degree in library science. We will need to watch for this in May, 2011. ==== > ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • Steve Fosselman gave an update on the Pioneer Consortium. Lincoln City Libraries is a member of this consortium that is moving to open source. Their goal is to be up and running by April 2011, and have 15 libraries in the consortium. ==== > ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • Go to this link on the IMLS site for a self-assessment on 21st Century Skills @http://www.imls.gov/about/21stCSkills.shtm ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scholarships: The Nebraska Library Commission is once again offering scholarships for library science students at the associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s levels. NLC has received a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for $721,033. Scholarship application forms will be up soon (sorry I can’t give a date at this time) for students to begin school in the summer or fall of 2011. Nebraska Learns 2.0 is the Nebraska Library Commission's ongoing online learning program. The program goal is to encourage participants to experiment with and learn about the new and emerging technologies. Each month, we offer you an opportunity to learn a new Thing (or lesson). You have all month to complete that Thing and receive one CE credit. You may choose which Things to do based on personal interest and time availability. For more info, see: [] The 2011 One Book One Nebraska is Ted Kooser’s Local Wonders.Coincidentally, there is a DVD available to borrow from the Commission (and held by a number of Nebraska libraries) entitled, “Poetry-- Capturing the Moment, with U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser & Friends. This was produced by NET, the Nebraska Arts Council, the Cooper Foundation, and Woods Charitable Fund at the time Kooser was U.S. Poet Laureate. It provides multiple ways of experiencing poetry – for teachers or librarians and their readers. The Last Newspaper Boy in America by Sue Corbett is the 2011 One Book One Nebraska selection for Kids. ====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Watch for information, puzzles, discussion questions, and more to be posted soon on NLC webiste. The Governor’s biennium budget recommendations would result in a significant reduction in the Library Commission’s state funds appropriation. The Legislature’s appropriations committee will issue its preliminary budget recommendations the week of February 14 with agency budget hearings to follow.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nebraska State Advisory Council on Libraries met November 19, 2010 at the Nebraska Library Commission.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Nebraska Youth Advisory Board: Kelly Melson

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No report, no update. <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Four members of the Youth Advisory Board met in August 2010 to discuss the current state of the One Book program. They discussed what makes a good selection for kids: contains characters they can relate to; has a plot that makes kids want to keep reading, is funny, has a twist, or has a hook; offers a new perspective; helps develop empathy; can be read and discussed together with parents. They discussed what makes a good selection for teens: addresses social or societal issues; offers a new perspective; is worthy of discussion; is edgier or more controversial. The group discussed how to solicit submissions of creative works inspired by reading the One Book selections, to be posted on the new websites. The group discussed what the criteria for One Book selection might be: is available in paperback; is not a Golden Sower nominee; captures kids’ and teens’ interest; has the ability to foster discussion; has topics that can be further explored/studied. Those in attendance participated in a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis. Strengths mentioned included creating a community of readers, having the NLC web page and related activities as a resource, the availability of book sets, and having centralized leadership from the NLC. Weaknesses included the need for youth to feel connected with others from across the state, lack of awareness of the program by parents, lack of awareness of the NLC web page, and funding for programming sponsored by the NLC. Opportunities included having a new website/expanding web presences and collaborating with other youth organizations. Threats included kids’ busy schedules, limited budgets/funding, and time constraints. Website development The One Book for Nebraska Kids website highlighting “The Green Glass Sea” by Ellen Klages was designed in September 2010. Beta testing with four librarians and one youth was conducted in October 2010. All participants gave the design high marks, including the color scheme, navigation, and graphics. Overall, the participants agreed that the site had good variety of content and was detailed with information appropriate to the goals of the site. The youth participant provided the most insightful feedback, and many of her suggestions were implement upon revision of the website. The site went live in December 2010 (onebook4kids.nebraska.gov/greenglasssea) and feedback was sought from librarians, teachers, and students who had participated in One Book programming for “The Green Glass Sea.” Comments included the following: the website was easy to navigate; there was good use of icons; some youth liked the colors and graphics while others did not; most of the students learned something from the site that they did not know before; most of the students learned more about the author that they did not know before. Two websites are under construction: “The Last Newspaper Boy in America,” available from onebook4kids.nebraska.gov; and “Unwind,” available from onebook4teens.nebraska.gov. The two sites should be up and running by mid-February. ====

9. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Awards and Scholarships: Stacy Johnson

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nothing to report. Need to send a reminder to NEMA members about Karla Wendelin Scholarship for $300 (new). ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10. AASL Liaison: Nancy Larimer
> ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Future AASL Events: ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I represented NEMA at AASL Affiliate Assembly (Region IX) at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, Jan. 8-9, 2011. During Saturday's information-gathering session, regions discussed current trends, strengths, concerns, and opportunities. Affiliates prioritized topics on which AASL should focus its efforts. These will be compiled for the AASL Board for future action. At Affiliate Assembly on Sunday, AASL President Nancy Everhart reported that task forces have been created to work on member involvement (Director and Director-elect positions), assessment of student achievement (AASL is working with TRAILS), gaming, and the creation of a webinar promoting collaboration with school librarians for pre-service teachers. The ALA Board reported that no progress has been made on changing the availability of Stafford loans to school librarians. Everhart’s “Vision Tour” of outstanding national school libraries will visit Lincoln High School on April 27th. Learn more about the tour at @http://outstandingschoollibraries.org/ ====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Past-president Cassandra Barnett is working on a "bridge" document to correlate Common Core and AASL standards. The language arts standards have been completed; math is next. The Texas Assoc. of School Librarians and Texas PTA organization have partnered to create active parents as school library advocates. Their resources are online and can be shared/modified as needed. www.txla.org/tasl/parent-resources
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deadline for submission of Affiliate Concerns and/or Commendations is May 1, 2011.
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition (AASL Affiliate Assembly), New Orleans, June 23-28, 2011 ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AASL 15th National Conference & Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN, October 26-30, 2011. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AASL 16th National Conference & Exhibition, Hartford, CT, November 11-13, 2013. ====

11. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read Aloud Nebraska: Joie Taylor
12. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talking Books & Braille: Sarah Mitchell. No report.
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A reminder that Michael Sullivan will be in Nebraska in April. His topic is “Connecting Boys with Books”. He will be in Alliance on either April 11 or12, Lexington on April 13, Norfolk on April 15, and Seward on April 21. He is also doing some school and public library visits. His web site is [|www.talestoldtall.com]. This meeting is open to any educator in the state. ====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 28 or 29 communities and 88 schools registered.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RAN distributed boxes of books to 32 different places in October. Seven were communities and 25 were schools, however, Delta Kappa Gamma is counted as one community and there were several chapters that received books.,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mini-grants were given to the Auld Public Library, Blair School, and Seward Elementary. A Read Aloud Party was granted to Madison Middle School in North Platte.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The randomly selected Read Aloud Parties went to the Winside Library in Winside, NE and West Fifth Elementary in Ogallala,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next meetings are scheduled for January 25 and February 22, 2011 from 1-3pm at the Seward Memorial Library.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13. Student Liaison: Sharon Axthelm No report.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14. NEMA Webmaster: Sara Churchill- Nothing new to report

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. 2011 Officer Slate: Carrie Turner

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">President-Elect: Stacy Lickteig (Bryan HS - Omaha, NE) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Treasurer: Tammi Manns (Fairbury Jr/Sr High), Anna Sheeley (Plattsmouth HS) ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Board Member-At-Large: Bridget Kratt: (Horizon HS - Milliard Public Schools), Laura Pietsch (Omaha Public Schools), Ruth Walker (Mitchell Public Schools) ====
 * m. Karen Buckley s. Sherry Crow. Motion passed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. NEMA News Assignments-Deadline February 15, 2011

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PROOFREADERS: Beth Kabes and Laura Pietsch ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ARTICLES: ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Betty-President’s message ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Carrie-Slate of officers ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Karen-Conference “Save the Date” info & Program Proposal form ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mary-Legislative Day 2011 report ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Judy, Sherry-L4L ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy-AASL ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sharon-Student Liaison article ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kelly Melson-One Book ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Others: ====


 * ====Consider using Survey Monkey during same time frame as elections to survey membership on interests, commendations, concerns, Name, speakers (area of interest) for conference, session suggestions for conference. Nancy Larimer and Karen Buckley, Betty Meyer, Sherry Crow can work on developing a bank of questions for members.====
 * Motion by Laura Pietsch to use Survey Monkey for elections and and other purposes membership surveys. Seconded by Nancy Larimer. Motion passed.

4. Sponsor of Bus to AASL in Minneapolis in October.
 * Would like to have NEMA have discussion on participating in cost. Could offer for AASL or non-AASL. Will need to have a minimum of pariticpation. Show action organization, a tangible hands on perk for membership and promotion of membership to NEMA. Could have stopping points across state. UNK may be able to give financial support for the bus as well. Need to discuss pick up points and minimum number. In addition, have all on bus stay at hotel next to conference center.

5. Legislative Day Feb 25.
 * In the past mostly public librarians. Really need school presence as well to discuss school libraries and funding of resources that are needed. Coffee and donuts from 8 - 9 and then discussion with a tour of state library and state capital.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">X. Announcements- Future Board Meetings

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">April 30, 2011 Bryan High School, Omaha ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">July 14, 2011 Pius X High School, Lincoln ====

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">XI. Adjournment at 11:40 a.m.
 * With no further business, meeting adjourned.