tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184000032025-07-28T00:34:29.836-07:00NTLP - Not Typical Library PartnersNews and announcements from NTLP.Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.comBlogger610125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-89860209341177959802013-04-01T07:05:00.002-07:002013-04-01T07:16:56.912-07:00NTLP Will Close on 4/30/2013
(This is not an April Fool's joke.) The following letter was sent on Friday, March 29 to the Directors of
all NTLP Partner Libraries from Ken Haas, chair of the NTLP Board of
Directors. (See printable PDFs of the letter and the cover email.)
(For followup information, please monitor the NTLP website and NTLP's new blog.)
March 29, 2013
Dear Partner Libraries of NTLP,
It is withJudyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-22581713052292434492013-03-22T07:40:00.000-07:002013-03-22T07:40:30.214-07:00Please Update your Bookmarks for NTLP's New BlogNTLP's blog has moved to http://nottypical.org/blog Please join us there for news about NTLP and our partner libraries, and NTLP staff commentary on trends in the library and technology worlds.
Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-32986735692505059052012-12-06T10:20:00.003-08:002012-12-06T10:20:56.000-08:00Library eReaders for Homebound PatronsSee the No Shelf Required blog for a podcast interview about the Dayton Metro Library's program for homebound patrons using Sony eReaders. They began the program when they noticed that certain materials the patrons had requested were not available in large print, but were available from the library as ebooks where the font could be enlarged on the device. It makes so much sense Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-57246868125698462832012-12-05T10:18:00.000-08:002012-12-05T10:21:40.670-08:00The Lingering eBook Mess of 2012Brian Kenney has an excellent article in Publishers Weekly about eBooks and eReaders in libraries. - http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/trade-shows-events/article/54958-the-p-l-sheet-ala-preview-2012.html
It covers a whole gamut of topics, from library book price-fixing in 1966, to the frustration of librarians helping patrons with eReaders so they can move their reading Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-85698301027934058222012-09-21T14:19:00.001-07:002012-09-21T14:19:15.836-07:00Aytz Chaim Foundation Offers Free Books to Public LibrariesThanks to CTLS Deputy Director Laurie Mahaffey, we were introduced to Mr. "Tank" Rubinett of Aytz Chaim Foundation and that nonprofit's offer to send a compendium of books about the Holocaust to Texas public libraries. The organization will pay for the books and ship them, postage paid.
Mr. Rubinett is passionately trying to get into as many public libraries as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-81149747436693246192012-09-04T16:29:00.005-07:002012-09-04T16:29:57.786-07:00Call for Nominees to NTLP's Board of Directors
Due to resignations and the current Board's decision to increase the number of Board members to a total of 11,SIX of the 11 positions will need to be filled for FY 2013.
Since NTLP no longer serves as home of NTRLS, its Board members no longer must be affiliated with any library (although we would hope that they're strong library supporters), and our Board members no longer must come Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-86275291036427767232012-09-04T14:05:00.000-07:002012-09-04T14:25:37.057-07:00Issues Facing Libraries that Want to Circulate eReader Devices<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-16937988881367157442012-08-28T14:53:00.001-07:002012-08-28T14:53:58.456-07:00Bill Whiteside Resigns from NTLP Board of DirectorsAt its meeting last week, the NTLP Board of
Directors accepted accepted with regret but understanding - and with
appreciation of his many years of service - Bill Whiteside's
resignation. Mr. Whiteside began serving our group in the
early 80s, when it was still the North Texas Library System. He
witnessed the development of the nonprofit North Texas Regional Library
System, Inc., andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-6386520853032364432012-08-15T15:25:00.000-07:002012-08-15T15:35:37.750-07:00Tips for Anyone New to Developing a Poster Session NTLP received the following information from Janet Bickel-Burton (SMU Cox School of Business Library & TWU Health Sciences Library – Dallas), who co-presented a Poster Session at NTLP's TechNet 2012 conference last week. With her permission - and our thanks - we're passing the suggestions on for anyone who can use the information.
As a poster-making novice, I learned several things Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-92166417999799960572012-08-03T17:45:00.001-07:002012-08-04T09:27:23.210-07:00NTLP Wins 2 TSLAC Grants
It's confirmed! At today's meeting, the Texas Library & Archives Commission approved all TSLAC grant applications which had been recommended, by the grant review committee, for funding. NTLP was awarded two grants.
A TSLAC Cooperation Grant will provide funding for development of an eBook platform. As the project reaches test status, interested libraries will provide Beta testing. To Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-34863589798839449362012-07-14T11:24:00.004-07:002012-08-04T09:24:45.164-07:00For ALL Library Personnel Who Work with YouthIt's awesome when things just happen to mesh well - like this example.
Library personnel who work
with youth at any type of library might want to consider this line-up
of session choices for TechNet 2012. You'll get to choose your own 4th
session, but check this out:
Session I: Internet Safety (Gary Price)
Session II: Arlington Public Library's Tech Centers (Erin Spicer & Jenny Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-31025647441593242282012-07-13T16:11:00.001-07:002012-07-14T11:25:32.899-07:00Electra Public Library Digitizes Electra Newspapers 1907-2011
Take a look at Electra's recently posted local newspapers, dated 1907 - 2011, which have been digitzed and are now accessible via Electra Public Library's website. That library started the digitization project in April and finished it this week. "This has been a fun and exciting project, and our community is so happy," says Library Director Terry Holbert, adding " 'specially our Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-4363875053817279282012-07-09T18:52:00.003-07:002012-07-14T11:25:51.834-07:00Where It All Started for NTLPAs NTRLS, formerly NTLS, rides into our nonprofit's history, it's interesting to note when NTLP, originally NTRLS, Inc., started, and which libraries were involved.
The date is April 1, 1985. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission sends a letter to the North Texas Library System
stating that the State agency has "received 35 affirmative resolutions
from governing authorities to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-76194167921181307932012-07-06T15:22:00.001-07:002012-07-14T11:26:12.524-07:00TechNet 2012: Tracing the Threads of TechnologyThe simultaneously invasive and pervasive nature of technology seems virtually impossible to evade in today's world. While we all enjoy instant access to facts, figures and other information, we seem to embrace it so quickly that we fail to ask just what the true cost of that access is. Are individuals - or, for that matter, libraries themselves - paying for increased access with the loss ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-7807859746885260952012-05-31T10:40:00.000-07:002012-05-31T10:44:38.945-07:00Closing Libraries - This Problem Has Been Around for Awhile.........
I happened across an older sitcom called "Heart's Afire" on www.hulu.com. The episode is titled: The Outsider and it is about someone coming into a community and speaking up for the library. It is a bit dated for sure, but I was encouraged to see the entire episode dedicated to public library survival!
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-49239415994684355662012-05-16T12:56:00.001-07:002012-05-16T13:12:32.405-07:00What's happening at NTLP this week? At the request of NTLP's Board of Directors, there will be a joint meeting of NTLP Development Committee and the NTLP Partners Advisory Committee Thursday May 17 at the Benbrook Public Library. Members of both committees have been asked to provide input for the Board's June meeting which will focus on the direction and action plan for NTLP.Members of the two Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-47589385629113877482012-04-11T09:17:00.003-07:002012-04-12T06:44:08.486-07:00Survival Guide for First-Time Attendees at the TLA Conference
Thanks to a three-year grant from the Priddy Charitable Trust (now incorporated with the Priddy Foundation), NTLP has been privileged to award a number of stipends for librarians from non-urban libraries serving small communities to attend the annual Texas Library Association Conference. For many of the stipend recipients, this has been their first opportunity to attend a large professional Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-79203700242046471262012-04-09T07:04:00.000-07:002012-04-09T07:05:42.761-07:00NTLP and Priddy Trust Award 15 Travel Stipends for 2012 TLA ConferenceThanks to a grant from the Priddy Charitable Trust, NTLP has been
able to award 15 stipends of $1500 each to enable library staff and
volunteers to attend the 2012 TLA Conference in Houston. The stipend
can be used for conference registration, travel expenses, and temporary
staff if necessary to cover the recipient's absence at the library.
The stipends were offered to staff and Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-8682767951376097432012-04-05T07:54:00.002-07:002012-04-05T07:56:03.679-07:00Ebook reading and purchasing patternsThe Pew Research Center just released a new report on the rise of e-reading. Commentary on the report has noted connections with the digital divide and the ever-present dominance of Amazon in the ebook market.
You can see highlights of the recent study at digitalbookworld.com and librarianbyday.net. (Librarian by Day Bobbi Newman was on the advisory board for the research.) Previous Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-37875733903269371592012-03-29T10:34:00.001-07:002012-03-29T10:34:49.603-07:00Are Privatized Public Libraries So Bad?Are Privatized Public Libraries So Bad?
Interesting article about privatizing libraries...........and what libraries should be preparing for in the coming months and years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-10859704547724968112012-03-19T14:31:00.002-07:002012-03-19T14:31:22.631-07:00The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction.....
Your Brain on Fiction
By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL
Published: March 17, 2012
The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated. Keith Oatley, an emeritus professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto (and a published novelist), has proposed that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-31247642874941603222012-03-18T19:18:00.004-07:002012-03-18T19:30:06.375-07:00NTLP's 2012 Library Supporters Conference "I told you you should have planned to be here," is the way an attendee of NTLP's 2011 Library Supporters Conference told us s/he would describe the event to her colleagues. And now ... It's BACK by POPULAR DEMAND from Library Supporters and staff who work with them ... thanks to the Center for Community Cooperation & Texas Book Consignments: The 4th annual NTLP Conference for Library Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-68716555270829337822012-03-06T06:42:00.000-08:002012-03-06T06:45:24.945-08:00eBook Prices to Libraries - Recent News and Reflections
The Random House ebook price hike to libraries last week created a storm of commentary. Here's a good round-up of the story by Bobbi Newman at Librarianbyday.net. The post is still being updated with new links.
Now that the fireworks have died down a little, the library world is generating some good,reflective analyses of the ebook dilemma. Here are a couple that you shouldn't Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-53617099965396647722012-03-02T09:38:00.005-08:002012-03-02T14:41:35.038-08:00eBook Pricing: Like that of Pop Audiobooks without Ownership of the Purchased Item
Wondering how much Random House pricing increased for Overdrive content, NTLP Digital Media Collection Development Coordinator Marci Chen made a duplicate cart of the big RH order she just placed for North Texas Libraries on the Go (NTLP-area Overdrive consortium). She found that a 200% increase was the norm, with the increase for some titles as high as 300% or more. We have no idea Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18400003.post-74533589035878237102012-03-01T08:58:00.004-08:002012-03-02T14:41:45.313-08:00NTLP Proposal for Distributing EBook ContentNTLP proposes a new protocol for the distribution of writing, music, speech, and video in electronic form through libraries.
NTLP recognizes that publishers imbue the elements of our culture with a level of quality that would be otherwise unattainable -- quality that makes cultural preservation and democratization by libraries worth while. In this time of rapid evolution in how the elementsJudyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147625570735326419noreply@blogger.com0