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Julie Boam called the fall meeting of the Share Northwest Regional Library Group, held at Saegertown High School on October 11, 2006, to order at 12:55 PM. 54 people were in attendance. Julie Boam expressed thanks to our host Betty Litke. New librarians were introduced (Andy Canfield- NW Middle School, Amy Adams-Corry Public Library, Sue Dobson-Villa Maria Academy and Angela Tarr- Fort Lebouef HS). Liana Gray made a motion to approve the minutes from the spring meeting Nicole Drabic seconded. Motion carried. Diane Johnson made a motion to approve the treasurer’s report Lynda Knauff seconded. Motion carried.

Committee Reports:

Interlibrary Loan Lynda Knauff - No Report - We will need a new person to head up this committee.

Electronic Communications - Peter Genco (not present)
Julie Boam will contact Peter about web site updates.
Karen Baldwin will forward information about HSLC’s list serve.
Give Share NW updates to Karen Baldwin

School/Public Liaison - Gail Myer
1. Funding levels have been restored to the 2003 level.
2. Remember to collaborate with the public librarians!

Professional Organizations -Peter Genco (not present)
1. International School Library Day October 23.
2. Remember to join PSLA!

Inservice Committee - Lynda Knauff
1. Karen Baldwin did a nice job with the Inservice on October 9th with assessment.
2. We will need a new committee chair.

Professional Development - Julie Boam
1. Governor’s Institute next summer. If you are going, contact Karen Baldwin.

Director’s Report
1. Ask Here PA 24/7 reference service.
2. School librarian’s get your PPID from PDE for Act 48
3. Law for Librarian’s conference
Karen is going October 31 in Harrisburg
November 8th it is in Pittsburgh
It will cover Patriot Act, book challenges, CIPA etc.
4. Assessment Primer workshop was part 1 of 3. Karen will be presenting it again on November 4th. It will be open to all private and public school librarians.
5. NCLB is up for a five year review.

New Business
1. Thank you notes were read from Sister Kathleen and Linda Roebel.
2. Lynda Knauff motioned to send a thank you card and gift to Linda Cook - She was instrumental in the founding of the share NW group. Liana Gray seconded the motion. Motion carried.
3. Think about spring elections. We will need Secretary/Treasurer and VP. We will also need a host site for the spring meeting.
4. Nicole Drabic - Elementary, Kristin Williams - Middle and Amy Adams - Public are going to form a committee to discuss informal gatherings to share ideas with colleagues.

Meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Jeanne Rose

Melissa Leonard called the spring meeting of the ShareNorthwest Regional Library Group, held at Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit #5 on May 16, 2006, to order at 9:00 AM. 48 people were in attendance. Melissa introduced our host Karen Baldwin. Karen then introduced Dr. Marjorie Wallace who will become Executive Director of the IU on July 1. Liana Gray made a motion to approve the minutes and treasurer’s report from the fall meeting. Marion Bennett seconded. Motion carried.

Committee Reports:
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) - Lynda Knauff - No report

Electronic Communications - Peter Genco
1. Peter urged everyone to send updates to him pgenco@iu05trc.iu5.org

School/Public Liaison - Gail Myer - No Report

Professional Organizations-Peter Genco
1. AASL Fall Forum in October in Rhode Island, topic - assessment
2. PSLA notes discussed later in meeting
3. IASL Lisbon Portugal 2006 - Tiawan has a proposal for 2007 - Erie 2008?
4. International School Library Day 4th Monday in October.

Inservice Committee - Lynda Knauff No Report

Professional Development - Julie Boam
Governor’s Institute on Information Literacy will take place this summer.

Director’s Report - Karen Baldwin - March 27 Regional Director’s Meeting in Harrisburg.

1. State looking into funding Wiki’s for librarians to communicate and share information.

2. Alan Simon Access Notes:
A. if a library uses Millennium for its circulation system the state will provide all support and all maintenance.
B. they are still working on multiple access entries.
C. if you are sending a full file transfer of records don’t let your vendors send adds as well. The duplication is causing problems.
D. Public librarians are encouraged to send their reference and/or tech people to Access training.

3. New for September:
A. New interface for manual updates
B. New summary button
C. Change for kids search to more appropriate subject headings.

4. Ill Notes:
A. New pop-up calendar feature on VDX system.
B. Upcoming feature- terminate button to cancel a request.
C. 24% increase in Ills - Do not send requests for multiple copies!!!
D. State library working on a digitization project
E. IDS membership fees
membership fee for the current year
package fee for the previous year
F. IDS user manual has been updated
G. Bills for Access PA went out in April 1
H. IDS needs new carrier currently using UPS - exploring other options.
1.
New Business
1. Elections
Marion Bennett made a motion to elect the following officers:
Peter Genco - Vice President
Secretary/Treasurer Jeanne Rose
Barb Hossain Seconded - Motion carried

2. as per bylaws:
Melissa Leonard - Past President
Julie Boam - President

3. Thank You from Jane Carney
4. Introductions of meeting attendees.

The business meeting adjourned at 10:15 AM. Afterwards, there was a PSLA update by conference attendees, discussion about ShareNW webpage by Peter Genco. In the afternoon there were three separate breakout sessions and door prizes. Spring Meeting will be hosted by Saegertown High School librarian - Betty Litke.

Respectfully submitted,
Jeanne Rose

Committee Reports:
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) - Lynda Knauff - No report
1. Lynda is on leave; Marion Bennett agreed to be interim committee chair.

Electronic Communications - Peter Genco
1. Peter urged everyone to send updates to him pgenco@iu05trc.iu5.org

School/Public Liaison - Gail Myer - No Report

Professional Organizations-Peter Genco
1. AASL had 4,000 attendees - largest ever.
2. AASL Reno is next national conference 2007
3. AASL has a biannual conference - off years they have a “mini-conference”.
4. AASL 2005 handouts are available now for a limited time.
5. PSLA in Hershey this MAY
6. IASL Lisbon Portugal 2006 - Sydney 2007
7. International School Library Day was last week.

Inservice Committee - Lynda Knauff No Report

Professional Development - Julie Boam
Governor’s Institute on Information Literacy will take place this summer.

Director’s Report - Karen Baldwin
1. Fall Director’s Meeting canceled.
2. ShareNorthwest directory will be coming out soon. There was a delay due to a computer virus.
3. You can deliver materials within ShareNorthwest via the IU van. A delivery schedule is available on the IMTS web site.

New Business
1. Everyone introduced himself or herself since we had 8 new librarians with us.
2. It was reported that Teresa Sculley retired from Wayne Middle School

The business meeting adjourned at 9:45 AM. Afterwards there was three break out sessions: Collection Development, Book Sharing and National Library Week promotions. After lunch Julie Boam and Mary Koenig presented Getting Teachers More Involved -A lesson from the Governor’s Institute for Informational Literacy. The day ended at 3:00 PM after door prizes were awarded.

Respectfully submitted,
Jeanne Rose

The spring meeting of the ShareNorthwest Regional Library Group held at
General McLane High School on April 14, 2005 was called to order by
Marion Bennett, co-president , at 9:05 a. m. Marion welcomed all and
introduced General McLane superintendent Dr. Therese Walter and
co-principals Donald Ickes and Richard Scaletta. Guest vendors
introduced were Jane McConnell and Matt Hancox. Minutes emailed
previously were approved with a correction made concerning the per
centage of budget cuts made to public libraries by the legislature last
year. The secretary/ treasurer reported a balance of $1,680.64 in the
ShareNorthwest account at the I.U.

Committee Reports:.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)—Lynda Knauff
1. Nothing to report
2. Jean Jenkins mentioned that she has been getting several requests
from the same school for the same book even after the item was mailed.
Cheryl Tunno seems to be getting requests at Meadville High School for
Meadville Public Library. Peter Genco requested that AccessPa give us a
definitive description concerning what “old” means concerning
copyright. These will all be reported to AccessPa.

Public Relations
1. No report.

Electronic Communications—Peter Genco
1. There have been many email changes this year. Please let Peter know
when a change occurs so he can keep the Share list up to date.

School/Public Library Liaison—Gail Myer
1. The Governor has proposed a 2 1/2% increase in public library
budgets. Public libraries are hopeful that eventually they will be
returned to full funding.

Professional Organizations—Peter Genco
1. Peter reminded members that the AASL conference will be held in
Pittsburgh from October 5 through 9, 2005 . He encouraged all to take
the opportunity to attend this national conference since it is being
held so close to us. He advised us that if we wanted a reduced
conference price we could join ALA now.

Inservice Committee—Linda Knauff
1. Linda asked if there was anyone who would be willing to host the
October region inservice to please contact her. Melissa Leonard is
checking into the possibility of doing this.

Professional Development—Julie Boam
1. Nothing to report

PSLA
1. No report

Nomination Committee—Mary Drapcho
1. A secretary/treasurer and program chair are needed for next year’s
executive board.
Please contact Mary or Melissa if interested.

Director’s Report—Karen Baldwin
1. Streaming videos that are now available for download will work for
Mac OsX if using Safari not Internet Explorer.
2. AccessPa software support fee will still be $180.00, but budget $130
for IDS. Right now there is no change in IDS pricing , but this could
change.
3. A suggestion was made that school libraries might want to place
AccessPa costs in their districts tech budget so more money would be
available in library budgets for other uses.
4. AccessPa is considering getting into audio book downloading. If
this does happen, they will give program software to every member.
5. AccessPa is also looking into the possibility of manual adds for new
products not already in the system.
6. The VDX system is trying to send an email when asked to renew
materials.
7. There will be two AccessPa/Powerlibrary workshops at the I.U. next
fall. They will take place on October 24 and 25th. These are only
refresher sessions. All new librarians must go to one of the 3 new user
sessions that will be located in designated areas across the state.
Those dates and places will be announced in the future. AccessPa is
also looking into putting theses training sessions online.
8. Summer rota for schools will be suspended on Friday, May 13 and will
go back into operation on August 29th. Contact Cyndi Pinchon if a later
suspension or earlier reinstatement is needed.
9. Please include documentation with each book. Once the due date is
entered the correct documentation will be available to print
10. Libraries working with Project 20 might want to consider applying
for LSTA grant this year. Special attention will be given to those
involved in this project.
Old Business: None reported

New Business:
1. Walden Books will do book fairs with a 20% return to school
libraries
2. Some members will be leaving our group. Gayle Crotty will be
leaving the public library, Karen Cunningham has moved to South Carolina
and Jackie Kutz will be going back to the classroom.
3. Retirements this year include Karen Locke, Carol Page and Jane
Carney. Gifts were presented to each on behalf of ShareNorthwest.
4. There will be a Governor’s School offering for libraries this
summer at Susquehanna from July 10-15. Visit the website for more
information.

The business meeting was adjourned at 9:45 a.m. to begin the first
program featuring Peter Genco and Matt Hancox from Gale to discuss
“Transitioning for the 21st Century”.
P.J. Merski, author of the book Roaring Boring Alice, was also a
featured presenter during the morning session. After lunch members
chose breakout sessions dealing with the following issues: Helpful
Hints for the New Librarian, Grant Writing, Budget Cuts and Concerns,
and Book Sharing.

The day ended at 2:30 after door prizes were awarded.

Respectfully submitted

Jane Carney, Secretary/Treasurer

The spring meeting of the ShareNorthwest Regional Library Group held at
Warren Area Senior High School on May 4, 2004 was called to order by
Mary Drapcho, president , at 9:20 a. m. Marion Bennett, president
-elect/program chair and Debbie Bevevino, WASH librarian, welcomed all.
Marion introduced Chris Andrews, Sagebrush Books representative.
Minutes emailed previously were approved and the secretary/ treasurer
reported a balance of $1,378.89 in the Sharenorthwest account at the
I.U. as of May 3, 2004

Committee Reports:

Periodical Union List (PUL)—Marion Bennett
1. Marion reminded everyone that this was the last year for the
periodical union catalog.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)—Lynda Knauff
1. No problems have been reported to date except for the Barber Center
which has not been having any pickups. This will be worked out through
Karen Baldwin at the I.U.
2. Although the public libraries in our region are no longer IDS
members, they will still send and receive shipments from libraries in
our area, but only through the I.U. delivery van.
3. Karen Baldwin can be contacted at the I.U. for a complete list of
libraries who are no longer IDS members.

Professional Development/Curriculum—Annette McElroy—no report

Public Relations—Gail Crotty
1. Only 15% of the state funding has been returned to public
libraries. In this year’s budget, the governor hopes to return 10%
more. Public libraries will still be short 25% from what was an already
lean budget. Our lobbying efforts helped, but our help is still needed.

Legislators must be contacted and urged to return full public library
funding.

Electronic Communications—Peter Genco—no report

School/Public Library Liaison—Gail Myer
1. Because of budget cuts, public libraries had to drop their IDS
membership, many other services, and shorten their hours.
2. Gail encouraged us to keep up our letter writing and calling
campaign to local legislators urging them to fully fund libraries.
Pennsylvania School Library Association (PSLA) rep—Priscilla Breese
1. Next year’s PSLA conference will be held at the same time as this
year’s…end of April and the beginning of May.
2. The goals of PSLA this year are reading literacy and recruitment.
3. The PSLA website has a powerpoint on recruitment that any of us can
use.
4. There will be a professional development workshop next year, but the
topic will depend on the choice of the new PSLA president.

Director’s Report—Karen Baldwin
1. By mid March AccessPa had over 200,000 requests.
2. Libraries need to make sure that holdings are updated every year.
3. If a library as over 10,000 holding, that library can have a full
transfer free every year from Brodart. Locally Karin Menz from the
Barber Center is having this done and for further information, members
can contact her.
4. AccessPa training for beginners is September 8. Refresher training
is September 9. Both are all day and both will be held at the I.U. The
morning portion will concentrate on training and the afternoon will
focus on PowerLibrary. If those in attendance want Act 48 credit, they
must stay all day. Attendance is limited and members were urged to sign
up on line as soon as possible.
4. There is a possibility that there will be a meeting between regional
tech people and librarians to discuss ways in which libraries might be
able turn off computer filters for research purposes. Karen will keep
us updated on this.
5. All school libraries will be suspended from the Interlibrary loan
rota from May 14 to August 30.
6. IDS is currently investigating a new delivery service other than
UPS who began, without notice, to charge $1 extra for each rural
delivery. This is raising costs for individual IU’s who are not yet
passing the extra charges on to us. Karen will keep us informed of
developments.
7. A question was raised concerning whether IDS members have to send
materials to non-IDS members outside of our area. This creates extra
costs for the IDS member. Karen stated that we do not have send these
materials.

New Business:

Elections:
1. It was moved and seconded to waive the two week slate notification
requirement for elections.
2. The slate for 2004-05 included Marion Bennett/Jean Jenkins as
co-presidents, Melissa Leonard, vice president/president-elect, and Jane
Carney, secretary-treasurer.
3. It was moved and seconded to accept the slate as presented by
acclamation.

Spring Meeting Date:

1. A concern about having the spring meeting in May was addressed. It
seems that there is so much going on during that month and not enough
subs to cover that we might want to consider having our spring meeting
in April.
2. The group agreed to this suggestion by consensus.

Fall Meeting :

1. The fall meeting of the Sharenorthwest Regional Library Group will
be held at McDowell Senior High School in Erie on a date to be
announced.
Announcements:
1. The IASL Conference will be held in Pittsburgh from October 5-9,
2005.
2. Cobblestone Publishing Company is offering a K-6 focus group dinner
meeting to all interested. Let Karen Baldwin know.
3. Mansfield State is offering an online Masters and certificate
program in library science. It requires a 1 week summer residency.
4. There will be a county wide library inservice program on October 11,
2004 at Iroquois High School. Anyone who has topic suggestions or is
interested in attending should contact Lynda Knauff.

Mary passed the gavel to new co-president Marion Bennett who adjourned
the business meeting at 10:40 a.m. to begin presentations that included
information on Egypt given by Annette Anderson, scheduling in the
elementary libraries by Karen Locke, and the Art Smart Grant by Jeanette
Walter . The day’s program also included keynote speaker and author
Nancy Whitelaw

The day ended at 2:45 after door prizes were awarded.

Respectfully submitted

Jane Carney, Secretary

The fall meeting of the ShareNorthwest Regional Library Group held at
Erie’s East High School on October 1, 2003 was called to order by Mary
Drapcho, president , at 9:10 a. m. who welcomed all.

Committee Reports:

Periodical Union List (PUL)—Marion Bennett
1. The periodical union catalog is only available in pdf format .
2. The catalog can be located on the Intermediate Unit homepage under
News You Can Use….http://www.iu5.org/imts/resources/pul/2003 04.pdf
3. This will be the last year for the periodical union catalog.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)—Lynda Knauf
1. The group was reminded that the charge for IDS mistakes is $30.00.
Double check addresses before mailing any book back in the IDS directory
found on the AccessPa web site.
2. Those who contacted IDS have gotten no satisfactory answers when
complaining about charge
3. Last spring John Emerick said we did not have to pay fines. Lynda
suggested that when a fine is received that the library call him and let
him know what is happening. Maybe he will be able to do something about
the situation. It appears that HSLC and IDS have not been working
together very well because addresses for libraries are different in each
database and maybe John can help in this area.
4. Lynda will also contact IDS and HSLC to see if she can get any
answers to the address and fine problem. She will let the membership
know results via email. She also suggested when individual libraries
have a problem that they should contact each entity to complain.

Curriculum—Annette McElroy—no report

Public Relations—Kathy Hannes
1. Kathy will step down as PR chair after this meeting.
2. Gail Crotty agreed to take on this position and discuss
reorganization of this committee

Electronic Communications—Peter Genco
1. Many districts have made changes in their servers and this causes
problems for our ShareNorthwest group email. Peter asked that anyone
who knew of changes in his/her district to please email him and he would
make the changes in our user list. A copy of his email was given to
everyone who attended the meeting for this purpose.
2. Peter suggested that just a couple of people be on LMNET and agree
to review messages forwarding anything of interest to the group

School/Public Library Liaison
1. A new chair is needed for this committee. Mary asked for a
volunteer.

Door Prize Committee
1. Mary asked for a chair for this newly formed committee
2. Peter Genco, Mary Drapcho and Jackie Baird have volunteered to work
together to carry out the duties of this committee rather than to have
just one chair.

Pennsylvania School Library Association (PSLA) rep—Priscilla Breese
1. There was a leadership training program for PSLA reps held in August

2. PSLA will be held in Hershey from April 28 to May 1, 2004. Speakers
include Harry Mong, Pam Munoz Ryan and Esme Raji Codiell.
3. The plagiarism topic that was suggested for this year’s Professional
Development Workshop was vetoed by the president. The topic will now be
the role of the school library media centers in literacy.
4. Mary Drapcho will be trained to present this workshop in our area.
Priscilla will notify us of the date, place and time when this will be
presented. Inservice and Act 48 credit will be offered.

Director’s Report—Marion Bennett (current spokeswoman)
1. Marion Bennett introduced Karen Baldwin who will be replacing former
director Marie Coy. Karen is currently waiting for confirmation from
the Department of Education, but is volunteering at the I.U. until
approved.
2. Ann Noonen would like an accurate listing of all libraries in the
tri county area whether or not they are Accesspa participants . Members
were asked to sign list which was circulated among the group.

Announcements:
1. Sharon Creech will be appearing at Borders bookstore on October 9 at
7:00 p.m. No numbers will be given. Participation will be on a first
come, first serve basis.
2. Borders will be having their annual teacher appreciation weekend
from October 10-12.
Librarians were reminded to bring proof of employment.
3. The annual AASL conference will be held October 23-26 in Kansas
City. Pittsburgh was next in line to hold the conference , but now will
not be host until 2005.
4. There will be a joint conference with ISLA and SLA of UK in Dublin
in June of 2004. It will be on the campus of Trinity College. The 2005
ISLA conference will be in Hong Kong
5. There was discussion of possibly having a group tour to Dublin for
the June ISLA conference.
6. International School Library Day is October 27, 2003. The theme is
“Breaking Down Barriers.” Peter will send an email to the group with
more information. If any library is doing anything to celebrate this
event, enter the information on the ISLA website and it will be
displayed for all to see. This day is recognized by ALA and CLA and
last year Julie Boam and East participated and noted it on the website.
7. Mary Drapcho introduced new librarians Melissa Leonard/Girard High
School and Betty Litke from Saegertown High School.

The business meeting was adjourned to begin program presentations.
These included information on WebFeet, a database of evaluated websites
presented by Claudia DiNardo from North East Middle School and Peter
Genco’s presentation of a variety of databases he uses at Fairview High
School including an evaluated website database called Nettreker.
Programs that work were presented in the afternoon by Karen Cunningham,
Dixie Gurdak and Jean Jenkins from Northwestern School District, Nicole
Drapcho from Wattsburg Elementary and Mary Drapcho from Erie’s Strong
Vincent High School. This was followed by book sharing groups
facilitated by Gail Crotty and Debbie Bevevino.

The meeting ended at 2:45 after door prizes were awarded.

Respectfully submitted

Jane Carney, Secretary