11/12/1998 - Packet AGENDA
TIGARD LIBRARY BOARD
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1998 - 7:00 P.M.
TIGARD PUBLIC LIBRARY— PUETT ROOM
13125 SW HALL BLVD.
TIGARD, OREGON
1. CALL TO ORDER Beck
2. ROLL CALL: BECK_ CHAPMAN_ GUSTIN_ HARPER_
HOKLIN IRWIN KASSON
3. Approve Minutes for October 8, 1998. Beck
4. Agenda Additions&Deletions. Beck
5. Call to the Public. Beck
6. Monthly Report for October 1998. Sisson
7. Friends of the Library Report. Burgess
8. Cooperative Library Advisory Board Report. Sisson
9. Ballot Results. Sisson
10. Facilities Planning. Sisson
11. Cooperative Public Library Services Agreement. Sisson
12. Other Business.
13. Adjournment.
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TIGARD LIBRARY BOARD
October 8, 1998
MINUTES
Call to Order: 7:00 p.m., by Chair Larry Beck.
Roll Call: Larry Beck, David Chapman, Tammy Gustin, Pat Harper, Nancy Irwin, and Sue
Kasson. Staff: Melinda Sisson.
Minutes: Irwin moved to approve minutes for September, seconded by Harper. Motion
passed unanimously.
Agenda Additions/Deletions: Move Internet Policy discussion to 7:30 p.m. when Teresa
Laubach, Youth Services Specialist, will be present to discuss her role and a special
program geared for parents and children using the Internet.
Call to the Public: None
Reports: September Monthly Report: Preparations were made for the kick-off of the
library's annual Adult Reading Program. Five staff members will present
booktalks. Public and staff participant registrations increase weekly. The Noon
Rotary Club of Tigard contributed $200 for Powell's gift certificates. This year
participants will be able to choose from two grand prizes. Director read a thank
you letter from last year's grand prize winners. The public got its first look at the
WlLlnet this month. Patrons are able to access WlLlnet through the Internet
from their home or the library. Staff and patrons are trying to deal with program
glitches so the Gaylord team is on-site at WCCLS until the glitches are resolved.
The public catalog is working fairly regularly. No cataloging or acquisitions
functions yet. Director indicated she will respond to a complaint that came
through on e-mail. Marin Younker, Young Adult Librarian, applied for a $5,000
grant in support of young adult programming including the Homework Center.
Representatives from Trust Management Services were at the library to review
With Younker. Director indicated an anonymous donation of $25,000 was given
to the library to be used for large print books and materials for seniors. There
has been a change in the Net Lender (ILL) reimbursement formula through the
State. Items loaned outside of WCCLS are reimbursed $4 per item and items
loaned within WCCLS are reimbursed at $1 per item. Tigard Library loaned more
items than it borrowed, qualifying the Library for uW to $12,530. The library
should know by October what the reimbursement amount will be.
Youth Services Specialist, Teresa Laubach: Director introduced Teresa
Laubach, the Library's new Youth Services Specialist. Laubach spoke about
herself and her education/career background. She is preparing for the program
"Families Connect at the Library" for October 27. The program is geared for
parents and children to attend together and is designed to assist parents with
developing guidelines for their children with use of the Internet including the
location of positive Web sites. Laubach distributed sample brochures that will be
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tailored to the workshop. Director will be present at the workshop to assist with
questions that may arise, especially those about filtering software for the Internet.
Friends of the Tigard Library: Burgess talked with the person that donated
$25,000 to the library. The Friends will add the name of the donor's sister to the
Donor Board as a memorial. The Friends generated a flyer with Councilor, Paul
Hunt, regarding the ballot measure and will distribute. Revising Coffee Service
contract. Will have the contract typed up soon. The Friends will have a new
book sale November 13 and 14. Entertainment Books are on sale for $40. It's
time to send out the annual solicitation letter. Burgess contributed an article in
Tigard Times Soapbox regarding the ballot measure.
CLAB: There was lengthy discussion regarding the Polaris system (WlLlnet).
Now that the WlLlnet system has been activated, it may take a couple of months
before staff feels comfortable with functions. Director expressed the concern that
questions have arisen regarding the purchase of the new WlLlnet system and
the upcoming City Facilities Ballot Measure on the November ballot. She
expressed to the Board that the two are not associated; the Polaris system was
purchased with six years of reserve funds from WCCLS, and the Facilities Ballot
Measure is strictly a City of Tigard decision. There was discussion about the
WCCLS funding formula. It is based on each library's collection expenditures,
volumes added, and open hours. The Tigard Library receives $5 for every
volume added annually and receives 50 percent match on collection
development expenditures. Board expressed interest in having a representative
from WCCLS present at a Board meeting to discuss its role. Total County-wide
participants for the Summer Reading Program was 10,261. Director presented
latest WCCLS newsletter.
Update on Facilities Ballot Measure and Planning:
The Tigard Times invited City representatives (City Manager, Assistant City Manager, Police
Chief, and Library Director) to discuss the upcoming Facilities Measure on the November
Ballot. Two articles will appear in the Tigard Times, one including a diagram.
Forming a Library Foundation Discussion:
Director attended two conferences on the subject of forming a library foundation. In addition
to the Friends of the Tigard Library, Library Foundations are made up of local, qualified
business people that solicit larger sums of money for the foundation. Director distributed
information received at the meetings on "Establishing a Support Group for Your Library" and
samples of foundations from other libraries. Director and Board will discuss the concept of
forming a library foundation in further detail at future meetings.
Other Business: None
Adjournment: It was moved by Chapman, and seconded by Gustin to adjourn the meeting
at 8:40 p.m. Motion passed unanimously.
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Bill Monahan, City Manager
FROM: Melinda R. Sisson, Director of Library Service
DATE: November 12, 1998
SUBJECT: Monthly Report, October 1998
• WILlnet a.k.a. Polaris: Most of the month of October proved to be disappointing due
to the instability of Polaris. Library Directors and the Cooperative Library Advisory
Board both met to discuss the extent of the damage; staff and patrons alike have
lost confidence in the new online system. However, as of October 29, the Gaylord
"fixes" have proven to be reliable. WCCLS and Gaylord are establishing a realistic
schedule for the remaining issues and reparations that WCCLS can expect for the
delays and harm caused by system failure. Mike Skiles, President of Gaylord
Information Systems, demonstrated both concern for our plight and commitment to
fulfilling Gaylord's contract with WCCLS. I believe that by January 1999 we should
be back on track with Polaris. Functions still outstanding include mail notification of
holds, accurate collection codes, acquisitions and cataloging modules, bibliographic
authority control, self-checkout, withdrawals that don't cancel fines, reports, and
tele-circ. Staff in all areas have been busy devising alternative ways of
accomplishing their assignments without full use of Polaris. Linda and Diana have
taken lead roles in developing "work around" solutions and training staff almost daily
in the new procedures. Circulation staff notify patrons by telephone of holds on their
materials, Amy has begun tracking acquisitions manually in an Excel spreadsheet
that she created, Technical Services has preprocessed every item in the backlog
and rapidly adds new items to Polaris for the two hours allotted each morning and
Reference patiently calls other libraries to confirm availability of an item before
sending patrons to pick up the item. Mary reports that she added 130 items (adult
and kids fiction) this month. Divided by 20 days in a month, that averages 6.5 items
a day! That must be a record, albeit at the wrong end of the scale. "If the system
continues to be as stable and quick as it was this morning, October 30, 1 think we
will be able to make some significant progress." While there has been little to rely
upon this month, I can safely say that each and every staff member of the Library
has performed admirably under these very extreme conditions. I only hope we can
recover the trust and patronage of our users.
• New Hires: Kathy Smith was selected as the first Adult Services Specialist for
Reader Services. Kathy began working with TPL in July 1997 as a Reader Services
Librarian soon after receiving her Master of Library Science Degree from Wichita
(Kansas) State University. The Circulation division recently hired three library
assistants -- all of whom have moved to Oregon in the past eight months. Terri
Hayes, who moved here from Atlanta, Ga., has worked for both academic libraries
at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology in acquisitions and 'interlibrary
loans and the Memphis Public Library. Ann Shinkovich moved here from Ohio,
where she worked at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. She received her Masters
Degree in Art History from Ohio State University in September. And Cassie
Maringer, who will work weekends, comes from Arkansas, where she worked as an
interlibrary loan clerk in the Ozarks Regional Library System.
• Make a Difference Day: While the Library enjoys the assistance from numerous
volunteers throughout the year, Make a Difference Day, couldn't have come at a
better time. Delays with the Polaris system created an unusually large number of
books to be reshelved. On Saturday, October 24, ten volunteers came in and
helped with shelf reading and dusting of shelves. What a difference this made for
both the public trying to find needed materials and for the staff and volunteers.
• Adult Reading Program: Paula reports that our Gateway to Paradise kick-off was
the most successful ever, with 45 people attending. After four weeks of the
program, 165 members of the public had registered and 58 staff members.
Donations have been received from Kiwanis Club of Tigard ($200), Tigard Chamber
of Commerce ($50) and Tigard Noon Rotary Club ($200). These funds will be used
to purchase Powell's certificates for participants who read 2,000 pages during the
six-week program. Also, Borders Books donated two certificates, when they
originally pledged one.
• Education and Training: A number of staff members attended the LINCC
conference in Wilsonville. Library Information Network of Clackamas County
annually sponsors a one-day event targeting paraprofessional staff with programs
designed to stimulate discussion and teach new skills. All supervisors attended the
Outcome Measures training, sexual harassment training and overtime compensation
review. A few staff received additional training on Polaris, a refresher class on the
acquisitions module. Diana and Melinda attended the two-day ICS Introductory
course. As you will read in Erik's report on .the LINCC Conference, this event
offered an exceptional opportunity for staff to develop their skills and knowledge on
current topics in the library field.
• Offices Moved: All of the Technical Services staff, half of the Reader Services staff
and our Volunteer Coordinator relocated to their new digs on October 11. With
much planning, we were able to squeeze out a few more feet of office space to
accommodate some of the new staff. Diana and her staff are now all located in the
back workroom. Mara, Kathy S., Vivian, Katie, Jenny and Jean are located in the
first office west of the Puett Room. Paula joined Melinda at the far end of the
Library. We have yet to complete the Volunteer work space, but expect to receive
WORK INDICATORS ALTOBER 1998 OCTOBER OCTOBER 1996
Circulation
Adult Materials 25,755 23,618
Juvenile Materials 29,279 24.325
Total 55,034 47,943
Days of Service 29 29 28
Average
Daily Circulation * 1,898 1,712 S o O K
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Increase in Circulation 14.8% 12.4% a o
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Materials Added PM. 1,531 1,232 N
Withdrawn 15 1,256 600
Borrowers Registered 377 473
Adult Programs 126 N/A N/A
(Number of sessions) (16)
Story Time 223 781 902
(Number of Sessions) (15) (23) (24)
Toddler Time 168 203 245
(Number of Sessions) (8) (11) (10)
Special Programs 578 138 316
(Number of Sessions) (18) (4) (8)
Children's Computer 43 N/A N/A
Word Processor 48 N/A N/A
Internet Users 1,574 557 93
Visitors est.
(Gate count divided by 2) 21,796 22,554 16,831
Increase in Visitors -0.3% 34% 0%
Fines/Fees Collected $303.18 $5,161.66 $4,697.38
Gifts Received $ .00 $ .00 $ 35.75
" No statistical report from WCCLS was generated due to WILI down-time.
the remaining Environetics furnishings before the end of the year. Open house
hasn't been announced yet, although a few staff have begun decorating for the
holidays!
• Reader Services: A new program that should help with collection development will
begin after the first of the year. Brodart Books Company will select, process and
ship new books in the areas of Technology and Social Sciences. There will be four
shipments between January and May. During this period the program will be
evaluated for quality and timeliness. TPL volunteered to participate in the Oregon
Book Awards Promotion Project. As a result, the Oregon State Library shipped a
promotional package that included 19 books, stacks of bookmarks, a poster, book-
promo postcards, a press release, a list of Oregon Book Award winners, a list of this
year's finalists with contact information and award seals, book jackets and more.
Congratulations go to Kate Miller and all the rest of the Reader Services staff.
WlLlnet classes have been offered weekly in hopes of assisting the patrons with the
transition to the new system. When WlLlnet is up, the classes are well received!
• Homework Center: The Library kicked off a new Homework Center program for
middle school age youth in partnership with the school district. Channel 2
Neighborhood News Watch aired a short film about the program that has already
increased interest among parents and kids. The Homework Center is now located
in the Teen Area of the library where a word processing PC and additional electronic
resources have also been set up.
• Volunteers:
Volunteer Type Number Hours
Adult 88 945.00
Young Adult 7 20.50
Local/Oral History 1 21.00
Adopt-a-Shelf 2 9.00
Library Board 6 9.00
Community Service 1 8.00
Friendly Visitors 3 14.75
Tutors 7 36.00
Total 115 1063.25 = 6.13 FTE
1 . November, 1998
From: Erik Carter
To : All Reader ' s Services staff
Subject : Report on the 1998 LINCC Conference of October
23ri, 1998
Session I : What is the Internet Public Library and Why
Should You Learn to Love It?
Dr . Joseph Janes, University of Michigan, soon to be at
the University of Washington.
Dr. Janes is the founding director of the Internet
Public Library, one of the most successful class projects in
history. Seriously, the IPL did arise out a graduate seminar
at the Michigan School of Information in early 1995 . Dr .
Janes created the phrase "The Internet needs a public
library" in the middle of a discussion as to what does it
mean to do librarianship in the online networked world.
Members of the seminar made an announcement on the Web, and
then the group put together the basic form and original
sections over about 10 weeks . The fact that over 5000 people
in 65 countries signed up for the IPL listsery in the first
week alone was some incentive.
The most important part of the IPL is the
Reference Center, which consists of the Reference
Collections and the Answer a Question Service . In the
Collection the IPL has roughly 48 FAQ' s and 40 subject area
Pathfinders, approximately 2771 ready reference sites
grouped by subject, a list of links to roughly 7700 online
texts (which you can browse by Dewey) , a Literary Criticism
section with 1529 sites organized by genre, country, and
era, about 2066 newspaper links, as well as a list of around
1200 associations of all sorts .
A new area, not yet up, will collect and organize links
to sites in New Media Fiction, ie . online audio stories,
interactive serials, etc.
There is a section of resources for librarians,
including a large list of employment resources .
The IPL also has sub-pages of sources created by
Michigan students as projects . One highly useful example
would be the POTUS file, a massive source in its own right,
and with links, covering every aspect of the subject of
Presidents of the United States . The newest project is a
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timeline, with pictures and links, of "Slavery and Religion
in America-1440 to 1866 . " There is also an Exhibit Hall of
multimedia informational presentations . The current featured
exhibit is "Music History 102, " with pictures , clips, and
RealAudio on music from the Middle Ages to the present .
The Reference Collection is a valuable set of sources,
but the most interesting part of the IPL is the Answer a
Question Service . Questions are taken through an browser
form which attempts to "invoke an information core dump"
from the querent, or through e-mail . Responses are
coordinated through an e-mail listsery that about 20
students and 70 volunteers nationwide tap into . Responses
are made in 18-24 hours to a week, although one running
problem is failure to get back in touch with people due to
bad e-mail addresses .
Dr. Janes thinks that there are several reasons for the
success of the Internet Public Library, including
extraordinary people, high standards, motivation (that press
release ! ) , and a creative but rigorous approach to design.
Further, he believes that there are three lessons to be
had from the success of the IPL: 1) Librarianship (ie . a
commitment to service and organization of knowledge) works
almost all the time, except for the sometime disconnect in
serving people without much feedback 2) The best way to
learn something like the Web is to do it; Librarians have
been dealing with new technology for 3000 years 3)
Technology is not the point, or a transformation of
librarianship; it is a tool for service, if we do our job
right .
One final note: the IPL had 5000 users on the first day
alone, currently it gets from 20-25, 000 hits per day, adding
to a total of roughly 10 million users since March 1995 .
Session II : Beyond CDA- What' s New with the Internet .
Jeffrey Condit, previously the City Attorney for Lake
Oswego .
Mr. Condit spoke on the emerging laws and legal trends
affecting the Internet in the wake of the Supreme Court' s 9-
0 overturn of the Communications Decency Act . '
First, censorship is a perennial local issue, not just
a national one . He personally discovered this several years
back when the Lake Oswego Library decided to get a
subscription to Playboy. In Oregon the local nature of
censorship issues is especially fraught because Article I,
Section 8 of the Oregon Constitution is even more powerful
than the First Amendment . The current interpretation of the
US Constitution gives different levels of protection to
different kinds of speech: the most to political and
religious speech, less to commercial speech, none to
"obscenity"-as defined in any particular case under the 3-
part Miller test . As it is currently considered, the Oregon
Constitution makes no such distinctions whatsoever: any
regulation on the basis of content is invalid on the face
(with narrow exceptions for fraud, perjury, etc) . Even
"time, manner, place" restrictions allowed under Federal
law, such as zoning porn shops, are invalid in Oregon
because the underlying goal is deemed to be attempting to
restrict content .
This means that the issue of Internet filtering is
trickier in Oregon than in the rest of the country. In the
US at large filters face two legal problems : 1) all filters
inevitably block protected speech, because "obscenity" under
Miller is a item-specific test and 2) filters may violate
the precedent set in Pico vs . Island Trees that acquisition
is a valid type of control over library materials but
removal of items from a given library is not . This means
that the legal question wrt . filtering Internet access in
public libraries boils down to whether getting the Internet
is the same as buying a whole new library of materials? If
it is, then adding filters to your Internet access is
functionally and legally "removal" of what you have already
brought in and hence unacceptable. In Oregon these two
points are even stronger because of the presumption in
Oregon law that "doing other things" that just happen to end
up restricting content is not valid. The only approach that
.,might pass legal scrutiny would be very narrowly tailored
restrictions on the "effects of speech. " In the case of
unfiltered public Internet access, no-one could possibly say
what might qualify as "effects of speech, " as yet .
In any case, the Supreme Court decision on the CDA was
a very strong pro-Internet First Amendment precedent . In
comparing the Internet with other types of media in order to
decide what level of controls on content were needed or
allowed the Court held that the Web was not analogous to TV
or radio, but rather qualified legally as some new
combination of library, public space, and newspaper. This
led the Court to decide that the Internet deserved the very
highest level of Constitutional protection. This leads Mr.
Condit think that filters will be found to be "removal" and
therefore not allowed in Oregon or anywhere else in the US,
when the famous Loudon Co. , VA anti-filtering case makes it
to the Supreme Court .
The strong Supreme Court decision to overturn the CDA
also makes Condit think that the so-called Son of CDA, which
was passed as part of the recent Federal budget, will also
fail before the Supreme Court . Son of CDA is almost the same
as the CDA, except for the new wrinkle of criminalizina the
provision of material harmful to minors, if you fail to
screen minors from your site . That clause is almost
literally the only change from CDA to Son of CDA.
Apparently, even the Department of Justice tried to report
to Congress that Son was still probably unconstitutional,
but the Act was passed in the last rush without any of the
recommended changes .
In the real world this means that we librarians, in
Oregon and elsewhere, are facing an interesting year or two .
The Son of CDA has the same accelerated appeal process built
in to it as the CDA did, but will likely take that long for
a Supreme Court decision . Until then, or until a filtering
case gets to the Court, there will be politically directed
installation of Internet filtering here and there, and
librarians will have to deal with that as a principled
issue, as well as the related practical questions of "all"
vs . "some" and "just kids?"
Keynote Speaker: The Next Librarianship
Dr. Janes spoke on the some of his concerns and visions
about the future of librarianship in the digital age.
He started with some interesting results from a study
he and McClure have just completed comparing traditional and
online sources . The upshot is, for reference the Web is, in
fact, ok. On a tough set of questions various search teams
did not do any worse using the Web than using paper sources .
Therefore, librarians should consider the Web a reference
resource and approach it carefully but with hope.
Related to the improvement of the Web as a source is a
definite trend that librarians should be concerned with.
Like it or not, the Web is causing an ongoing breaking down
of both editorial control (the authority and reputation of
publishers) and intellectual control (the cataloging and
classification done by libraries) by dissolving many of the
traditional structures of publishing that used to make up a
large part of the life cycle of information.
This matters to librarians because of another
interesting finding from the study: people don' t care about
the process of how we find them information, no matter how
much fun we think it is, they just want the results . What
this means is that _finding_ knowledge is power.
As a profession we librarians are looking at a
situation rather like that at the end of the nineteenth
century, when "reference" was invented. Today, though, the
sources are changeable and yet another order of magnitude
larger in size and quantity. Print is not going away,
either. For example, the sixteen million items in the
Library of Congress, not to mention the eighty million
uncataloged items in their possession, are not going to be,
digitalised any time soon. This means that librarians are
really running three libraries at once, those of the past,
present, and future .
In the near future money will continue to be scarce,
human attention will be scarcer in the face of X hundred
million Web pages, but content will be abundant and we are
not prepared. Using Dewey on Web pages will probably not
work.
If we have hope, and work at it, librarians can evolve
into this new environment . We should project coolness, and
let people know that we can find things that are actually
good and useful . In fact, librarians should try our best to
infect the web with the meme of librarianship, the tenets of
organization and relevance . Librarians can invent ways to
help people not see useless stuff, to get answers (because
they don' t care how) , to adapt our methods of organizing
information to the new, more extended life cycle of
knowledge.. Yahoo should have been thought of by librarians,
but we can, we must, invent the next step. In short,
customizing more and better information for the masses will
be the new fulfillment of librarianship in the 21St Century.
Session III : Finding the Little Engine that Can.
Rushton Brandis, Oregon State Library
This was an above-average presentation on search
engines, somewhat marred by the usual mid-afternoon Web
sludgedown. One interesting fact that caught my attention
was that the typical spider, from Alta Vista or whomever,
takes about two months to crawl the web. In other words,
even the best search services are not more up to date than
two months, even wrt . •their high-priority core list of sites
that get checked as often as possible. In the case of, say,
Alta Vista, what that says about the accuracy and timeliness
of the other 138 million Web pages they claim to index is
not a pleasant thought .
Please see attached handouts for some interesting
sites, and search engine comparisions .
Session IV: 101 Uses for OCLC WorldCat
Alayne Wilson and Sam Sayre, OCLC
Wilson and Sayre presented a demonstration of two OCLC
FirstSearch databases, WorldCat and NetFirst . WorldCat is a
user-friendly Web-based way to approach the 32 million+
. It looked useful
Online Union Catalog.records in the OCLC g
for general subject searching, to determine what the
literature is in a given area, and for preliminary
ILL
availability searches, if not ordering. It offers powerful
searching options, including multiple Boolean combinations
and specialized informational fields .
Because of its scope and range of search functions
WorldCat is definitely a professional tool . If the Library
were to buy access, it would be most productive if used by
RS staff at the Ref Desk as part of the Reference process .
Net First, a database of 100, 000+ Internet sites, is
trickier to assess from a very brief demonstration. It
offers, perhaps, a more rigorous indexing and cataloging of
Web sites than even Yahoo, as well as a regular schedule of
updating and verification. On the other hand, I tend to
share Dr. Janes' s skepticism about the utility giving web
sites Dewey Numbers and LCC Subject Headings . Still, if it
comes as a package with WorldCat it is a backup source to
help advise the Web-searching public. Investigating the
price and terms of the two databases would certainly be
worthwhile.
If you want to experiment with these databases, please
ask me for handouts on searching WorldCat and the trial
offer access codes (good until 12/23/98) .
Overall conclusions :
I think this was a very good conference . 1111 four of
the sessions I attended were informative, providing either
facts about useful tools or news about issues facing
libraries . Dr. Janes was a 'witty and inspirational speaker,
as well . I am glad I was able to attend.
Attached: Handouts from Finding the Little Engine That
Could.
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Finding the Little Engine that Can?
LINCC to Learning
17th Clackamas Network Conference
October 23, 1988
Holiday Inn Portland South
Wilsonville, Oregon
Cybergeography _-
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/geographic.html
LIbrarian's Index to the Internet- http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/IntemetIndex/
Infopeople Recommended Search Tools -
http://infopeople.berkeley.edu:8000/src/srctools.html
Internet Public Library - Summary of Web Search Sites
http://www.ipl.org/ref/websearching.htm]
Search Engine Watch -A Meckler publication
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
The American Journalism Review's AJR News Link
http://www.newslink.org/searchn.html
Product Design Impact - Netscape 4.05+ and use of keywords
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/13820.html
AltaVista Adds New Search Tools - Photo Finder, AV Family Filter and "Ask Jeeves"
Natural Language
http://www.alta-vista.net
PC Computing: A-List: Search Engines and Services
Recommendation - Hotbot
http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/alist/intemet/searchengines.html
Directories and Guides
Ask Jeeves - a directory/keyword hybrid
http://www.askjeeves.com
Mining Company- a directory/keyword hybrid `
http://www.miningco.com
Netguide - http://www.netguide.com/
Netsearch - http://www.netsearch.com/
Yahoo! - a directory/keyword hybrid
http://www.yahoo.com
Alexa Donates Archive of the Web to the Library of Congress
http://www.alexa.com/company/inthenews/loc.html
PC Magazine: Guide to Searching the Net
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/websearch/—open.htm
What Are Meta-Search Engines?When to Use and Not Use Them?
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html#MetaTable
A Filtered Approach
Searchopolis (developed by N2H2Bess) - http://www.searchopolis.conV
primarily for home and school use
AltaVista AV Family Filter-http://www.alta-vista.net
Then select "AV Family Filter" which should take you to
http://jump.altavista.conVcgi-bin/FF
Why Web Searching Doesn't Always Work
Your Favorite Thing to Do on the Web
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_2231.html
Search Sites Shocking Secrets -- They Stink. They're Getting Worse
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_2432.html
Why Web Based Information Discovery Doesn't Always Work
http://www.aeneid.com/ext_site/wp3page.html (free-registration required)
Facilitating Competitive Intelligence-The Next Step in Internet Based Research;
http://www.aeneid.com/ext_site/pagel.htm] (free -registration required)
The Future of Search Engines /7
http://www.thestandard.com/articles/article_print/0,1454,1826,OO.htm1
Google - Google's method is called PageRank. It's named after Larry Page, a Ph.D.
student at Stanford who created it with Sergey Brin, another Stanford grad
student. It works like life: It's not what you know, it's who you know.
http://google.stanford.edu/
Popularity Engine - http://www.directhit.com/try.htrnl
IBM's "Clever" Searching-http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/k53/clever.html
Clever doesn't crawl the Web but uses indices built by other programs to unearth two
kinds of useful Web sites: sources of specific information(dubbed "authorities"), and
compilations of authoritative sources (dubbed "hubs").
Rushton Brandis, Network Development Consultant
Library Development Services, Oregon State Library
State Library Bldg, Salem, OR 97310-0640
503 378 2112 x 224; fax 503 588 7119
rushton.g.brandis @ state.or.us
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Subject Directory11 IF Database Boolean options 11
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to the Internet
public library users, Best of...
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sunsite.berkeley.edu/ librarians. subject;title;or Databases
InternetIndex/
(4,000+). annotation. Specific Resources
Yahoo Submitted Web pages +to require.
www.yahoo.conV -to remove. News:hourly
(800,000+) Quotes for phrase. Stocks:etc.
Search defaults to Usenet(Deja News). AND(default),OR *to truncate. Sports:scores,etc.
Addresses(Four]1). (from options
Inktomi(HotBot's engine) Topic specific Yahoos- only.) Field searching: Maps,Weather
if nothing found in Yahoo. Kids(Yahooligans), t:title;u:URL Ratings: 6w' indicates
E Japan,SF Bay,etc. Limit by time(from best content.
Advanced search. options only.)
Selected and annotated Must use AND, #to truncate. Need to select a top-level
INFOMINE scholarly Internet OR if more than Field searching: category before you can
lib-www.ucr.edu/ resources.(14,000+). one word, subject;title;or search.
nesting(). keyword.
Reviewed sites rated(1-4
a ellan Submitted and reviewed stars)
www.mddnley.com/ Web pages(60,000+). In many cases search + Green dot indicates kid
results will also safe.
Large database of Have to select- Same as Excite's present a list of Search Voyeur-shows
unreviewed default is unreviewed related topics you can select. terms being searched,
sites,similar to Excite's. Web pages database. updated every 15 seconds
Owned by Excite.
WebCrawler AND,OR +to require. If search terms include
www.webcrawler.com/ (default),NOT, -to remove. U.S.city you'll get an
interactive map. �
NEAR(need to Quotes for phrase.
Selected Web pages(2 Owned by Excite-
million).
Search Engine specify#of words, Can use 'natural searches can be turned
e.g. near125) language searching." over to Excite from link at
Subject Directory ()to group words- bottom of search results
(reviewed sites) nesting. No truncation.
page.
Selected Internet Meta-Search Engines
MetaCrawler Searches AltaVista, +to require. Also search Computer
www.metacrawler.com/ Excite,Infoseek,Lycos, AND(all)- -to remove. Products,Newsgroups,
Thunderstone, default,OR(any), Quotes for phrase. FTP files.
Power Search. WebCrawler,and Yahoo. PHRASE. Power Search: limit MetaSov shows most
11 to region or domain recent searches by others.
Dogprle Searches 25 WWW, AND-default, Great feature:Can
www.dogpile.com/ Usenet,and News search OR,NOT,NEAR, Quotes for phrase. customize the order of
Can also search MetaFind. engines,3 at a time. nesting(). databases searched.
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(140 million)- Switchboard.
including many
Fuzzy OR(default). Can limit by date.
Zones:Entertainment
Advanced search. Advanced Search Field Searching: (CBS TV Web show),
archived mailing lists, only:AND,OR, domain:host:image:
Usenet group postings Finance(Wa11St.com),
Subject Directory AND NOT,NEAR, title: url:link:text: Health InteliHealth
(LookSmart). (14,000). nest(). anchor:applets ( )'
Capitalization. Travel(The Trip.com).
+to require. No truncation. Media type-can search
HotBot -to remove. Case-sensitive for for pages containing
www.hotboLcom/ AND-default(all mixed upper/lower specific technologies like
Full text of Web pages of these words);OR case e.g.NeXT. JavaScript or Shockwave
Advanced search. (110 million)- (any of these words); Also search for or images,audio,etc.
including most NOT: and PHRASE person or URL.
Subject Directory archived mailing lists. (can also use Don't use common Location-limit search to
quotes) words with phrase a part of world or
(LookSmart). Select Boolean and and AND searches. cybersphere(host limit).
can nest().
Northern Lieht +to require. Quotes for phrase.
Full text of Web pages * Results sorted into folders.
www.northernlighLcom/ -to remove. truncates multiple.
(67 million),Special To retrieve full-text of
AND-default,OR, % truncates single.
Power Search. Collection(4,500 print NOT. Limit by:date,fields. Special Collections results
resources). Stems plurals.
requires a fee.
No Subject Directory. Nesting(). p
+to require. Services:people,maps,
Infoseek Full text of Web pages Do not use AND or -to remove. e-mail,yellow pages,
www.infoseek.com/ (30 million),gopher OR,it searches ALL Quotes for phrase. UPS,stocks,currencies
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and ftp sites,Usenet words. a truncation. and news stories in past
Advanced search. groups,companies tem (but not Capitalize proper month.
(Hoovers Online),and words ending inames.n Also in:German,
Subject Directory. FAQs. "ing") Can refine results Spanish, French,
Field searching:url: Japanese,Italian.
link:site:title:
Keywords of Web AND,OR(default), +to require. News Channel:Search
Excite pages(55 million)- AND NOT,nesting -to remove. current news of over 300
www.excite.com/ including most (). Quotes for phrase. magazines&newspapers.
archived mailing lists, Using Boolean No truncation,so use Travel Channel:Search
Advanced Search. operators(CAPS) multiple forms of a more than 5,000
Great for conceptual turns off concept keyword. destinations
Subject Directory. Can sort results by Reviews:25,000+by
searching. searching feature. site. subject.
+to require. Can also search for titles,
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www.lycos.com/ headings,and links of Advanced Search: Quotes for phrase. specific Web sites,sounds
Web pages-including AND(default),OR, Can refine results. or pictures.
Advanced search. many archived mailing NOT,ADJ,NEAR, No truncation. Top 5%:subject directory
lists,gopher and ftp FAR,BEFORE. Advanced Search: of reviewed sites.
Subject Directory. sites(30 million). Can use"natural" City Guide:Searchable
language;Can set and by continent
relevancy.
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TY OF TIGARD Mayor says another bond measure will Mayor Jim Nicoli said a greater awareness Councilor Paul Hunt said there were two main
MAYOR likely be on the ballot In two years Would have helped the bond pass. factors in why the bond did not pass.
"I think we all could have done a better job of "I think the people will vote against anything
Four-year term P P g y g
selling it to the people; we could have pounded we propose right now because they're mad at us
S.Martin(NP)....... 3,509 35.1% � By KART HASTINGS-ARGUEDAS P P g Y'
icoli NP.............. 6,481 64.9% the pavement harder, Nicoli said.
( ) Of the Times � P concerning the water issue," Hunt said. "And
CITY COUNCIL He said councilors will be discussing their op- far as I'm concerned, I'm the only one wh
Two 4-year terms TIGARD— Voters rejected the $17.8 million tions in the next month on how to deal with worked for this bond. If we go out for anything
nner NP .............. 2,626 20.9% crowding in the library.
( 1 Tigard city facilities bond by a 10-percent mar- of this magnitude again,we need to have a united
atton(NP)............. 5,559 44.3% "The library is in the worst shape, so I think
heckla NP . gin, with 55 percent voting "no" and 45 percent Y front."
( ) ........... 4,377 34.8% we'll be making intermediate steps for that," P Y
voting"yes."
It would have funded a new library, police sta- Nicoli said. "And we won't have an choice but The bond would have funded a 42,000-
LLOT MEASURES tion and new city staff buildings. to go back to the voters in two years, although I square-foot libraryin a separate, two-story build-
The 20-year general obligation bond would don't know what that bond will look like." ing, a new police station on a separate site, and
MEASURE 3479 have cost 48 cents per $1,000 of assessed value. Nicoli said there is the possibility of adding renovation of existing buildings.
Cityer Durham onto the library or moving the library staff into The Civic Center, 13125 S.W. Hall Blvd.,was
charter proposal The owner of a $150,000 home would have paid rY g Y
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PROPOSED REIMBURSEMENT FORMULA MODIFICATIONS FOR NEW CONTRACT Oct '98
Target 1999-00 expenditures=$9,135,115 New
minus $50.000 for Pooled Ref Materials fund =$9,085,115 (, Stuff:
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98-99 97-98 Open 1.0 or 1.5 1997 Circ @ `"97-98 Vols Add. ^^97-98 Coll. Coll. Exp. Library
Payments ServPop. Hours Librarian Adi Circ $1.55 Vols added X$5.00 Ex eenndit's X 50% Total
Banks $37,299 1,783 ad 30 $ 39,600 17,060 $ 26,443 2,506 $ 12,530 $ 2,459 $ 1,230 $ 79,803
Beaverton $2,314,866 105,391 ad 65.75 $ 39,600 1,253,223 $1,942,496 29,428 $147,140 $ 489,000 $ 244,500 $2,373,736
Cedar Mill $1,324,208 47,641 ad 62 $ 39,600 715,0$7 $1,108,385 17,605 $ 88,025 $ 184,595 $ 92,298 $1,328,307
Cornelius $105,073 8,342 ad 46 $ 39,600 51,414 $ 79,692 2,956 $ 14,780 $ 13,005 $ 6,503 $ 140,574
Forest Grove $440,150 21,878 ad 60 $ 39,600 232,088 $ 359,736 9,049 $ 45,245 $ 87,716 $ 43,858 $ 488,439
Garden Home $77,518 1,828 ad 39 $ 39,600 39,158 $ 60,695 1,972 $ 9,860 $ 11,249 $ 5,625 $ 115,779
Hillsboro $1,053,467 73,764 ad 64 $ 39,600 563,993 $ 874,189 34,584 $172,920 $ 329,275 $ 164,638 $1,251,347
Tanasbourne $1,178,325 32,617 ad 64 $ 39,600 635,481 $ 984,996 $ - $ - $1,024,596
Sherwood $158,147 9,547 ad 60 $ 39,600 80,575 $ 124,891 3,903 $ 19,515 $ 41,000 $ 20,500 $ 204,506
Tigard $1,146,355 48,977 ex 65 $" 59,400 615,030 $ 953,297 15,570 $ 77,850 $ 201,535 $ 100,768 $1,191,314'^
Tualatin $419,818 22,450 ex 65 $ 59,400 218,032 $ 337,950 7,678 $ 38,390 $ 93,825 $ 46,913 $ 482,652
West Slope $322,942 10,353 ad 52 $ 39,600 167.688 $ 259,916 4.545 $ 22,725 $ 30,549 $ 15,275 $ 337,516
Totals $8,578,168 $ 514,800 4,588,829 $7,112,685 129,796 $648,980 $1,484,208 $ 742,104 $9,018,569
(+$303,900 (-$3,111,438 (ave$8.75Atem?)
from current) from current)
(In Open Hours, ad=meets Adequate, ex=Meets Excellent on OLA Standards)
"'Vols added could reflect a library's investment in the currency of information, new releases &donations from Friends, etc.
AA Expenditures on Collections could be an incentive for libraries to buy more expensive or non-circulating
items like Reference books, electronic resources, etc.
Open Hours+ Circ @$1.55+Vols Added X $5.00+ Expenditures on Collections X 50% _$9,018,569