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Baraboo Group Labeling Party

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Purpose: To label books previously brought back from trips to Baraboo.

Date: April 15, 2012

Participants: Kelly Kraemer, Travis Mueller, Rachael Page, Peter Rudrud, Dorothy Terry, and Phillip Yocham

From our previous visits to Baraboo, we’d brought back five or six boxes of books. The majority of the books were fiction. This was a chance to label the books so they could be returned to the center.

Over spring break, Phillip and Travis had prepared labels for the fiction. These labels have the first three letters of the author’s name, and provide a way to organize the substantial fiction collection. Fiction books also receive a colored sticker designating them as children’s fiction (for grades K-5 generally) or teen fiction (6-12).

With six people we were able to divide up the work. Jobs included: applying the author label; checking the book against our lists to make sure it was properly classed and recorded; applying the colored sticker and label cover; troubleshooting, checking LibraryThing for items not on the list, or adjusting tags for items that were improperly cataloged.

The work went well and we are happy to have this taken care of. Unfortunately, because of end of semester busyness, we are unlikely to do more labeling until sometime in May, after classes are finished. Our next scheduled visits are May 14th and 17th, when we will give a presentation to the students about our organization scheme for the library.

- Travis

Third Baraboo Trip – Making Progress!

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Purpose of Trip:  To transport a book cart for the center, to start labeling the books, and to bring back some of the fiction books for processing.

Date:  March 28th , 2012

TLAM Members:  Irene Hansen, Travis Mueller, Rachael Page, Peter Rudrud, Dorothy Terry, and Phillip Yocham

After hours of discussion, coordination, selecting and ordering, the Baraboo Group reached an important stage in our project with today’s visit. The labeling has begun!

We were able to get started on labeling books in the collection and enjoyed the camaraderie and successful feelings of being underway.

Rachel, Irene and Phillip were also able pick up a donated library cart from DPI and we brought it with us and delivered it to the Learning Center. We brought three boxes of mostly fiction books back with us to Madison and will discuss a time to get together and label those. This may prove to be an opportunity for other TLAM group members to get involved with our project without having to travel to Baraboo.

Our next trip to is scheduled for April 13th after Spring Break.

- Peter Rudrud

Red Cliff Awarded Start-up Grant

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Great news! The Shokapee Mdewakanton Dakota community (headquartered in Prior Lake, MN) has awarded a $300,000 grant to kick-start the Ginanda Gikendaamin Community Center capital campaign. The seed money is intended to pay for a site appraisal, a development budget, and architectural fees.

Congratulations to our partners at Red Cliff and our TLAM students who have been working so hard on this project!

Ho-Chunk Trip Number Two: A Van and a Plan

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Purpose of Trip:  To get a sense of the communities and children served by the Wellness Center; to complete the background checks; to meet with Beth and Mandy to finalize some details

Date:  March 21st, 2012

TLAM Members:  Irene Hansen, Travis Mueller, Rachael Page, Janice Rice, Peter Rudrud, Dorothy Terry, and Phillip Yocham

On March 21st, the Ho Chunk project group made their second trip to Baraboo with several goals in mind.  With all seven of us squeezed into a van driven by the fearless Peter Rudrud, we had a productive and educational afternoon.

Our first stop was at Ho Chunk Casino, where we visited the Compliance Department to be fingerprinted.  This was the final step of our background checks, which we chose to complete so that we would be able to read books with the children at the Center.

Next, Janice led us on a tour of several Ho Chunk communities, including Indian Heights, Timber Run, and Christmas Mountain.  These communities are all home to the children served by the Center.

We then traveled to the Wellness Center, where we met briefly with Beth and Mandy.  We showed them the labels we had ordered and described the labeling system.  We clarified a few details, discussed future trips (including a presentation to the children/families of the center to explain our project), and left with their approval.

If you have any questions or comments, please use the space below to let us know what you’re thinking!

–Rachael Page

Red Cliff Updates – 2/23

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Red Cliff Meeting: Thursday, February 23, 4:15pm, SLIS Commons

Attendees: Louise Robbins, Robin Amado, Janetta Pegues, Jennie Freeburg, Troy Espe, Jake Ineichen, Omar Poler, Sarah Morris

Louise just conference called with the Library Committee meeting up at Red Cliff

  • Library Committee’s 3rd meeting since TLAMers went up for capital campaign workshop in January! This is great.
  • Beth Paap has returned to the library project, and is now a member of the core group, which includes: Rose Gurnoe-Soulier (tribal chairwoman), Dee Gokee-Rindal (Early Childhood Center & Education Division Administrator), Carmen VanderVenter (Education Specialist), and Patricia Aiken-Buffalo (community member).
  • Jeff Benton, zoning administrator and planner, has joined the project.  He will be a second planner in addition to Randy Hella.

Business Card drafted: community created 2-sided card:

  • Front: Ginanda Gikendaamin; We seek to Learn; brightly colored hands border (on all early childhood stuff, means the flow of learning); sacred plants and canoe
  • Back: Seven feathers (representing 7generations); seal of the Red Cliff band; story fire and transmission of knowledge; trees and sag

Other Notes:

  • Beth is working on setting up a 501C3 account.
  • Louise completed a Programmatic Considerations document (met Feb. 20 deadline); being circulated for revision and acceptance in Library Committee; sent to Christian for architect input; available to TLAMers upon request (ask Robin or Troy)
  • Beth will stay with Louise after a conference on March 14-16 to talk about library project
  • Rose might not come to State of the Tribes, will be traveling for fundraising for health clinic
  • Rural Library Project posted a blurb on their website about Red Cliff

Goals: Find Start-Up Money for Capital Campaign (Louise says $50,000 is a great goal!). Tasks for TLAM students:

  1. Excel Spreadsheet for Grants
  2. Website/Wiki for Progress Updates
  3. Accordion File of Information
  4. Hooks and Narratives for Grants
  5. Kickstarter?
  6. Research on Capital Campaigns

Next Steps:

  • Omar and Louise need to talk about grant due on the 15th of March
  • Jeff will get an estimate on geotechnical surveys cost (based on past surveys)
  • Louise will email Jeff to introduce Troy for email correspondence
  • Louise will email Melissa at Leech Lake on how she used the site Razoo (sp?) to raise money
  • TLAM Red Cliff Meeting at Memorial Library Grant Research space on 2nd Floor, Wednesday, February 29, 2:15-4pm to work on Tasks 1, 2, and 6. All interested are welcome.

Qs? Feel free to contact attendees above.

- Robin

10/26/09 Curriculum Meeting

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This is just to cover a few things we discussed at the curriculum meeting. First we discussed why TLAM should be made into a class, some major points were: enrichment for SLIS, it reaches out to other students, not only SLIS students but undergrads and students from other disciplines, it also connects SLIS with communities beyond Madison. TLAM could also be a class to educate future librarians on the fundamentals of ACT 31. We also discussed the future of the class. There are so many directions that we could go in, but it seems that perhaps hosting a conference, may be the next step in the outreach process. Also discussed were the implications and possible purposes of the bibliography. What is most certainly gleaned from this project so far, is the uniqueness of the course and the interest that it has spurned in tribal libraries and other community institutions.