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Conference Update By Rita Ennen, NDLA President-elect and Conference Chair Planning is in high gear for the 2010 NDLA Conference. The conference is scheduled for September 29 - October 2, 2010, at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. Our theme is “Libraries: a Census.” The New Oxford American Dictionary defines a census as an official count or survey of a population recording various details. In this year of the official national census, we look forward to surveying our North Dakota libraries to see what is happening and what we can learn from each other. Our keynote speaker will be Joe Raiola, comedian and senior editor of Mad Magazine. He will be sharing his nationally acclaimed program, The Joy of Censorship, in which he uses comedy and satire to examine first amendment rights issues like banned books, movie ratings, the Patriot Act, and Internet filters. We will also be treated to a presentation of some of Mad’s most controversial, thought-provoking, and outrageous covers and articles. For more information about Joe Raiola, view his website at http://joeraiola.com/home. html. The local arrangements committee is hard at work planning to highlight some special libraries in Grand Forks. We invite you to come early on Wednesday and tour the North Dakota School for the Blind and learn about their services. During the opening reception Wednesday evening, we will have a special screening of the movie, The Hollywood Librarian. Plans are also in the works for another book cart decorating contest and a survivor-type game night in addition to the informative and educational sessions we look forward to every year. For the third consecutive year, continuing education credit at the conference will be offered through Valley City State University. The credit(s) will apply toward school Library Media Specialist credential renewal in the Current Issues track. We hope many of you will take advantage of this great opportunity to receive credit while networking with other librarians. If you have questions about the continuing education credit, contact Donna James (Donna.James@vcsu.edu, 701-845- 7279). Watch the conference web pages at www.ndla. info/Conference/10conf.htm for updates. We hope to see many of you in Grand Forks! Libraries: A Census The Good Stuff - Page 4 - June 2010
North Dakota Correctional System Libraries By Konnie Wightman, System Librarian, North Dakota Department of - Update & Volunteer Opportunity Corrections and Rehabilitation Last year I wrote an article (The Good Stuff, June 2009, p. 6) about the four libraries in the North Dakota Correctional System and about what I do as system librarian for those facilities. Of the four facilities, the North Dakota State Penitentiary (high security) has about 10,000 books, which are cataloged using the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. The Missouri River Correctional Center in Bismarck (low security) has 3 to 5,000 books of which maybe 10% are cataloged using LC. In Jamestown at the James River Correctional Center, which is medium security, there are between 7 and 8,000 books cataloged in LC. At the Dakota Women’s Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in New England, there are 5 to 7,000 books, which are not cataloged at all. Last spring, we received a nice infusion of money from the Director of Correctional Systems, Leann Bertsch, and purchased over $21,000 worth of books and educational materials. Many of our books are donated and many of them are not current, so we based our purchases on a number of surveys done in the facilities and a study of the titles, authors, and subjects the patrons request through interlibrary loan. We use the Destiny library automation system, which can be used as a union catalog, and that is the concept I am trying to put in place. My goal is to get all of the books cataloged to create a union catalog, so patrons can request books that are within the system and take advantage of the robust delivery system between the facilities. Hopefully, this will help lower the number of books requested through the North Dakota State Library from other libraries, although it will not eliminate that need since our patrons have wideranging tastes. Many of our patrons are not able to get into the library for various reasons and The Good Stuff - Page 5 - June 2010 rely on shelf lists of what is available. Those who can get into correctional library facilities have a hard time finding what they want using LC. I hope to change from LC to the Dewey Decimal classification system in the near future. All of the new books and donated books that we are adding are being cataloged using the Dewey Decimal system. How You Can Help I would like to encourage any of you living in the Bismarck-Mandan, Jamestown, or New England areas to volunteer some of your time to help me catalog the uncataloged and donated books using the Follett catalog system. It is copy cataloging and I have library workers in each facility putting information into databases in order to search for and find matches for what we have on hand. Because the copy cataloging cannot be done inside any of the walls, I do it at home, although it can be done from any Internet connection, such as a computer lab setting. It’s quite an easy process. As of now, I probably have enough data to find records for 3 to 5,000 books. Once the cataloging is uploaded on a flash drive, I take it inside the walls and link each record to the book. The environment is very safe and secure any time I work there. If you have the time and inclination to aid our state correctional system, I would welcome your help. If you want to find out more, please call me anytime at 701.202.0307. If I don’t answer, leave your name and number and I will get back to you. I truly believe that having a good library inside a correctional system is as important as providing any other kind of library. It opens doors to the inmates that they would not otherwise have. Your volunteer work would be very valuable in helping others in a sad situation.
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