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- Colorado Association of Libraries, The Transformational Powers of the Library: Ensuring the Future of Your Library, Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm. Information about public library funding is presented based on research from the latest OCLC report, From Awareness to Funding. The research shows that people who experience the library as a transformational force in their lives are more likely to support tax increases to fund libraries. Listen to a panel that will highlight ways in which they are working to position their organizations as transformational and leave with some creative take-aways on aligning your advocacy and marketing efforts from Barnhart Communications. Speakers: Cathy De Rosa, Global Vice President of Marketing, OCLC; Jenny Johnson, Executive Director of Marketing and Branding, OCLC; Brenda Bailey-Hainer, President and CEO, BCR; Jamie LaRue, Director, Douglas County Libraries; Janine Reid Director, High Plains Library District; Barnhart Communications. Tickets: Advance: ALA Member, $100; Non-Member, $125; Student, $75. Event Code: CO1
- Reaching Today's Diverse Teens, Friday Jan. 23rd from 9:00 - 4:30. There are over 30 million teens in America today and they are the most ethnically diverse generation ever. Are you ready for them? Join us from 9:00 to 4:30 and learn how to identify all of the teens in their service area, as well as learn exciting, interactive and innovative ways to reach this diverse group. Serving recent teen immigrants will also be explored, as will how to maximize your impact by collaborating with youth serving organizations in your community. Lunch provided. Ticketed event. $210 for YALSA members, students and retirees; $250 for ALA members; $300 for nonmembers.
- YALSA Mixer & Tech Playground: Join YALSA on Friday Jan. 23rd from 8-10PM for a fun evening of mingling with colleagues and sampling new technologies for teen library services. Gain hands-on experience with great tech tools such as micro-blogs, DS games and more. Receive personal attention from a "tech concierge" and leave with ideas on how everything applies to your own library setting, no matter how small your budget. Refreshments and fun tech prizes available. Ticketed event, $40.
- AASL School Library Advocacy Institute, Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm. This Institute provides information, resources, and strategies that will help define advocacy and facilitate the development of long-term advocacy action plans for school library media programs. This Institute incorporates various tools available to school librarians, including the AASL Advocacy toolkit of online resources, the marketing resources developed through the ALA @ your library campaign, and the resources that will assist school librarians in developing a multiple year advocacy action plan that goes beyond PR and marketing. Speakers: Deborah Levitov, MS. Tickets: Advance: ALA Member, $229, AASL Division/RT Member, $189; Non-Member, $279. Event Code: AA1
- ACRL Bring it on Home! Creating Custom Search Plug-ins for Your Library, Friday, January 23, 2009, 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm. Discover how to create search plug-ins for web browsers and the social networking site Facebook.com. Through use of real life examples and hands-on instruction, the workshop presenters will illustrate how to deliver currently existing online content and services in the form of a plug-in. Plug-ins allow the user to customize their own search experience, providing access to content and services from the library without having to navigate to the library website first. Find out how plug-ins can help increase the online presence of your library. Speakers: Paul Beatty, Distance Learning Librarian, Regis University; Erin McCaffrey, Digital Systems Librarian, Regis University. Tickets: Advance and Onsite: ALA Member, $245; ACRL Division/RT Member, $205; Non-Member, $275; Student/Retired Member $95. Event Code AC3
- ACRL Do You Q? Looking at Your Users in a New Way!, Friday, January 23, 2009, 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm, Do you need to know what your users are thinking? Of course! But, how? Using Q Method you can measure the qualitative, fuzzy opinions of users in a quantitative way. Making strategic plans, evaluating new services, developing staff training programs - all of these can be helped with Q Method. Discover how to use Q in your library. During the workshop, receive sample data, and practice administering the sorting. Learn to use the freeware software developed by the Q Method community and brainstorm ideas for using Q in your library. Speakers: Mary Wilkins Jordan. Tickets: Advance and Onsite: ALA Member, $245; ACRL Division/RT Member, $205; Non-Member, $275; Student/Retired Member, $95. Event Code: AC2
- ACRL Nobody Told Me I'd Have to Teach! Strategies for the Accidental Librarian, Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:00 am– 4:00 pm, Many people become librarians because of a love of research and reading or a strong commitment to public service - not because they love getting up in front of groups and teaching. Yet academic librarians are more frequently finding themselves thrust into the teaching spotlight by the increasing demand for library skills and information literacy programs. This workshop uses a little lecture mixed with a lot of discussion and meaningful activities to explore some pedagogical fundamentals that will help you become better in the classroom. Speakers: Michelle Drumm, Emerging Technology Trainer; Laura Coons, Instructor, General Education, Johnson and Wales University. Tickets: Advance and Onsite: ALA Member, $285; ACRL Division/RT Member, $235; Non-Member, $305; Student/Retired Member, $95.Event Code:AC1
- ALA Development Office When Opportunity Knocks: Starting A Library Foundation, Friday, January 23, 2009, 2:00 pm-5:00pm, Many public and academic libraries have separate 501(c)3 organizations that specialize in raising funds. The impetus for setting up a foundation might be a fund-raising campaign for a specific purpose, a large bequest or donation, or come about as part of a library's strategic planning process. This workshop will feature examples from both large and small libraries, presented by library practitioners and others in the form of case studies with both descriptive and how-to information. Speakers: Peter Pearson, The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, MN; Paula Goedert, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago, IL; Chris Watkins, Christine Watkins Consulting, Chicago, IL; Additional speakers. Tickets: Advance: ALA Member $65, Non-Member $75, Student/Retired Member $65; Onsite: ALA Member $75, Non-Member $100, Student/Retired Member, $75. Event Code: AD1
- ALCTS Implementing an Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges, Thursday, January. 22, 2009, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm. Many libraries have joined the movement to create an institutional repository, providing a mechanism to acquire, maintain, and preserve scholarly and other material of lasting value to the institution. The presentations will focus on the challenges, pitfalls and promises of establishing and supporting institutional repositories. A discussion of the legal and access issues as well as various IR platforms and models will allow attendees to make informed decisions regarding the introduction of an institutional repository. Speakers: Greg Tananbaum, Consulting Services at the Intersection of Technology, Content & Academia; Georgia Harper, Scholarly Communications Advisor, University of Texas at Austin Libraries; Leah Vanderjagt, Digital Repository Services Librarian, University of Alberta Libraries; Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jessica Branco Colati, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Project Director, Alliance Digital Repository; Bob Gerrity, Director of Library Systems, Boston College Libraries; Robert Tansley, Google. Tickets: Advance: ALA Member $249; ALCTS Division/RT Member $199 Non-Member $299 Student/Retired Member $99; Onsite: ALA Member $299; ALCTS Division/RT Member $249 Non-Member $349 Student/Retired Member $99; Two-Day: ALA Member$419; ALCTS Division/RT Member $339 Non-Member $499 Student/Retired Member, $198. Event Code AS2
- ALCTS Breaking down the silos: planning for discovery tools for Library 2.0, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. Libraries today face many choices when trying to optimize resource discovery for their patrons. Much of our information resides in separate silos, yet patrons want an integrated, intuitive, and interactive discovery experience. Many companies have developed products that attempt to deliver that experience. How can libraries evaluate the options: next generation catalog interfaces, federated search engines, link resolvers? How do they choose which will be the best fit? Tickets: Advance: ALA Member, $249; ALCTS Division/RT Member, $199; Non-Member, $299; Student Member, $99; Onsite: ALA Member $299; ALCTS Division/RT Member, $249; Non-Member $349, Student Member $99; Two-day: ALA Member $419, ALCTS Division/RT Member, $339; Non-Member, $499; Student/Retired Member, $198. Event Code: AS1
- 2009 ALTA President's Reception, Friday, January 23, 2009, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm. Don't miss you chance to register for the 2009 ALTA President's Reception in Denver. Tickets are $55.00, and advance registration is recommended, as seating is limited. Specific location information will be available at a later date and posed on the ALTA Website at www.ala.org/alta or please call ALTA at 800-545-2433, ext. 2161. Tickets: $55 Event Code: AT1
- Chapter Relations Committee, Chapter Leaders Orientation, Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:30 am–4:00 pm. This institute presents information on such topics as how to create an excellent organization, how to financially manage an association; how to further your commitment to diversity; how chapter councilors work for the chapters; how to effectively navigate your way through ALA; and more. Join the "hot topic" discussions on board meetings, budgets, conference planning, diversity, advocacy and legislative issues, membership recruitment and retention, and more. This event requires advance registration and includes lunch. Tickets: Advance and Onsite: ALA Member, $70; Division/RT Member, $60; Non-Member, $70; Student/Retired Member, $50. Event Code: CR1
- HRDR/Conference Services, SUCCESS IN THE WORKPLACE, Friday, January, 23, 2009, 1:00 pm-5:00 pm. What does it mean to be successful in the workplace? Participants will identify barriers to their success and consider ways to feel more motivated and satisfied at work. Learn how to showcase talents, document progress, effectively communicate, and develop learning plans. Techniques for improving your relationship with your supervisor will be discussed. The workshop is interactive and will provide opportunities to share useful strategies and reflect on individual behavior in the workplace. Speakers: Debra Wilcox Johnson, Ph.D., Johnson & Johnson Consulting. Tickets: Advance: ALA Member, $100; Division/RT Member (LSSIRT), $100; Non-Member, $175 Onsite: ALA Member, $125; Division/RT Member (LSSIRT), $125; Non-Member, $200. Event Code HR1
- LLAMA Mission Possible: Practical Project Management, Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Projects can finish on time, under budget, at the level of quality you desire, and with everyone still speaking. An effective planning process can ensure improvement in the management of special projects, ongoing multiple projects, and even personal time. Participants will learn how to identify and address the basic causes of project successes and failures involving management of personnel and resources, and correct underlying problems in existing projects. Speakers: Pat Wagner. Tickets: Advance and Onsite: ALA Member, $245; LLAMA Division/RT Member, $195; Non-Member, $345; Student/Retired Member, $95. Event Code: LA1
- LLAMA Library Leadership: You Are How You Communicate, Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm. Library leadership is an essential core value for all who work in libraries. Effective communication skills, both verbal and non-verbal, are necessities for developing a vision, and the organizational advocacy for that vision. You will learn the essential tools to: Identify best communication practices for leadership including interpersonal communication, group dynamics, negotiation and conflict resolution; Understand, and build your successful leadership communication style; Understand, and work with the communication styles of others. Speakers: Alexis Sarkisian, international marketing executive, consultant, and entrepreneur, uses her education and professional experience today to help libraries and library staff to understand and utilize best practices in library marketing communication. Alexis is also a member of the adjunct staff at Dominican University. Tickets: Advance and Onsite: ALA Member, $285; LLAMA Division/RT Member, $235; Non-Member, $385; Student/Retired Member, $135. Event Code: LA2
- LITA User Centered Design for Digital Projects, Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Learn about design process for managing digital projects in libraries, usability theory and methodology. Includes: staff skills and responsibilities, artifacts of the design process, communication channels, Web technologies and standards. Receive practical steps to implement a design process in your own library plus a copy of Brenda Reeb's latest book, Design Talk: Understanding the roles of usability practitioners, web designers, and web developers in user centered web design (soon to be released by ACRL). Speakers: Brenda Reeb, University of Rochester Libraries. Tickets: Advance and Onsite: ALA Member, $315; LITA Division/RT Member, $220; Non-Member, $495. Event Code: LI1
- OLA The Advocacy Institute, Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:30 am-3:30 pm. Tickets: Advance: ALA Member, $50; Division/RT Member, $50; Non-Member, $50; Student/Retired Member, $50 Onsite: ALA Member, $75; Division/RT Member, $75; Non-Member, $75; Student/Retired Member, $75. Event Code: OL1
- RUSA Behind the Genealogy Reference Desk, Friday, January, 23, 2009, 8:30 am -5:00 pm. Genealogical research has never been more popular. Find out about the latest digital sources and the best methods for helping genealogy patrons get the answers they need. This institute was created for librarians looking for the tools they need to help these library users and will feature four speakers who are authorities in genealogical research. The program will be held at the Denver Public Library. Registration includes lunch and a tour of the facility. Speakers: James Jeffrey and Connie Reik. Tickets: Advance: ALA Member, $115; RUSA Division/RT Member, $95; Non-Member, $140; Student, $65; Onsite: ALA Member, $135; RUSA Division/RT Member, $115; Non-Member, $160; Student/Retired Member, $85. Event Code: RU1


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Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 1997 - Business & Economics - 876 pages
A text with a thoroughly integrated applications orientation revolving around the philosophy that companies need to know how to finance organizations in order to reach optimal capital structure. Recognizing that every investment decision involves choosing the right amount of debt and equity, the text suggests readers look at data and ask, "What is relevant? Why is this detail important? How does it answer the question?"
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Notes from the Border: Apple trees and cellar holds
Apple trees outlast cellar holes. In fact, one of the best ways to discover an old house's laid stone foundation as you hike through the now heavily wooded landscape of Vermont is to happen upon an ancient apple tree, still blossoming and still bearing fruit despite years of living wild amid the maple and birch that dominate the woodscape. This is how my mother and I found the outlines of a cellar hole on the CVPS road leading into Sucker Brook Reservoir. We didn't even notice it when hiking in, but on the way out, my mother, ever the Girl Scout with her knowledge of tree bark, leaf shape, and other identifying characteristics, easily spotted the domesticated misfit, and from there the sunken ground and two of the carefully laid cellar walls that were still visible and mostly intact.
(Photo credit fauxto_digit)
This time of year there is so much excitement over apples. VPR featured a wonderful program about running a commercially viable orchard. One caller remembered the early days when McIntosh and Red Delicious were the only varieties available; now Vermont orchards provide dozens of varietals, from heirlooms to new cultivars, each with its own unique characteristics and peak picking time. So I was touched when one of the orchard owners claimed the humble Mac as his all-time favorite. And I began to wonder what varieties were planted by the early settlers of Vermont, those tenacious trees that continue to work their gnarled reaching arms up to the sun through the tall, straight stands of newer forest.
In this part of Vermont, the early settlers almost all hailed from Connecticut, southern New Hampshire, and eastern Massachusetts. Coastal New England had become crowded with settlers from England, Ireland, and Scotland, as well as the natural population growth that arose from the average of seven live births colonial New England white women endured; but "Indian troubles" had prevented westward expansion. With relative peace established along the Appalachian frontier at the conclusion of fighting in the French and Indian War, New Hampshire colonial Governor Benning Wentworth signed over one hundred town charters in 1761 and 1762 in what became Vermont. The early charters were usually bought by groups of land speculators who were well connected with Wentworth, himself a wealthy merchant and corrupt land-speculator The names of these towns reflected these political connections, borrowing not only from the royal house of Governor Wentworth himself, but from the names of his closest political and business associates.
Few of these early owners ever saw Neshoba (as Brandon was then called), Leicester, Salisbury, Middlebury, Bridport, Shoreham, New Haven, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Bristol, and Addison—all chartered as part of the Wentworth land grants. Rather, they sold their shares to intrepid individuals and families who made up in hard work and ambition what they lacked in resources and opportunity in the more established parts of the country. Few white settlers ventured to the area until after the Revolutionary War, when hostilities with Tories and Native American Indian tribes who had allied themselves with the British had ceased to be a threat in the Champlain Valley. These settlers built log cabins, cleared fields, built stone walls—and planted apple seeds.
Hardy and well-suited to the climate, an apple sapling grew into a fruit-bearing tree within three to four years. The colder and more severe northern New England winters of the 19thCentury provided a natural pruning and thinning system that made apples a relatively low-maintenance crop. With ample sunlight on the branches, the trees created bountiful yields of nutrition-dense fruit that could be preserved and even fermented into an alcoholic beverage we Vermonters still love: hard cider. Though nowadays, orchardists and backyard apple trees require more aggressive intervention to produce an acceptable apple, the early settlers were both far more frugal and far less concerned with appearance, and they used drops and worm-eaten apples in "value-added" applesauce, apple butter, dried apples and apple brandy.
If settlers wanted to plant an orchard, they needed to bring enough seeds with them. A quirk of apple's genetic reproduction is that the offspring of an apple tree does not inherit the characteristics of its parents: scientifically speaking, apples are examples of an "extreme heterozygote." With three sets of chromosomes rather than the usual two, most triploids cannot reproduce at all; apples occasionally can, but the seedlings rarely survive. The crab apple seedlings that keep cropping up in my backyard where an ancient tree fell victim to a wind storm are not, as it turns out, the result of the years of rotting apples returning to earth, but rather root buds insisting on searching out light and life from the underground remnants of the stump.
"The old Vermonters grew apples in a rich and amazing variety. From orchards here were harvested Honeygold, Summer Rambo, Tompkins County King, Cox Orange Pippin, Pound Sweet, Nonesuch, Wolf River, Wealthy and Winter Banana. Vermont had apples named for towns, such as Bethel, Roxbury Russet, and St. Johnsbury Sweet; others were named for their shape (Sheepnose), their taste (Sops of Wine), and their color (Red Astrachan, Yellow Transparent, and Peach). Some of the apple names were mysterious, or pure poetry - imagine, for example, the taste of Seek-No-Further, Duchess of Oldenberg, King David, Black Gilliflower, and Lady.
Why so many? Apples have a natural tendency to reinvent themselves. A seed of one variety, once planted, will grow to bear something different. 'They won't come true to themselves,' a Vermont grower once said of apples.
Source: A History of the Vermont Apple Industry
So as you wander the wilder parts of Vermont where the hill slope farms once stood, the apple trees you find are survivors of the efforts of human hands planting and tending their orchards, not the willfulness of nature to overgrow human efforts to domesticate it. The foundation holes and the apple tree were both left to us as humbling reminders of the toil it took to build a new life on the Vermont frontier.


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Editorial: Live Fat, Die Young: The Upside
Live Fat, Die Young: The Upside
Overheard one morning in a U.S. Senate cafeteria...
Lobbyist: Glad you could meet with me, Senator.
Senator: Not a problem, anything for one of my biggest campaign contributors. How are things at Majorfoods, Inc.?
Lobbyist: Fantastic! Profits are soaring. In fact, we just released a new product, the St'uffin®-a sugar-glazed, deep-fried, chocolate-chip-and-peanut-butter muffin. It's flying off the shelves! Here, try one.
Senator: Thanks. Mmmm, that is good. Now, what was it you wanted to discuss?
Lobbyist: Well, I may have the answer to the Social Security logjam.
Senator: Do tell.
Lobbyist: Everyone thinks that Social Security is running out of money, right? Well, that assumes Americans are going to live as long tomorrow as they do today. But according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine-Americans' lives are now shorter by three months to a year because of obesity. And they'll soon lose another two to five years...
Senator: And you're saying this is a good thing?
Lobbyist: No, no, tragic. Absolutely tragic! Another St'uffin? But with average lifespans falling, Social Security will remain solvent for generations.
Senator: I see your point, but for some reason this seems wrong to me.
Lobbyist: I understand completely, Senator. It's easy to be swayed by the muckrakers who blame the food industry for making America fat. But we both know better than that. We live the good life here in America and some of us enjoy ourselves as fully as we can. Good drink, excellent food, magnificent desserts-these all increase our quality of life tremendously. But as with all things in life, some people overdo it a bit. Fortunately, Adam Smith is proven right again: the sum of individual Americans' decisions to enjoy themselves directly benefits the public good. Their choices will allow Social Security to thrive for many, many years.
Senator: Mm-hmm.
Lobbyist: Food producers, supermarkets, restaurants-all of these benefit the American economy. They provide needed goods and services, jobs, tax revenue. And they're doing their part to ensure the survival of Social Security as well!
Senator: Okay, I might not agree, but I see your point and the take-home message stays the same. No need to worry about Social Security reform, as it'll take care of itself. Good thing, too-this was taking up way too much time on the floor.
Lobbyist: Glad to help, Senator. One last thing: since you'll have a bit more time now, maybe you wouldn't mind pushing through that extension on sugar subsidies that we discussed at your last fundraising dinner?
Erik Assadourian, Worldwatch Staff Researcher


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A Trial By Jury
Defendant Bill Rose awaits prosecutor Jack Flintom's summation.
Witness Ken Treese tells his tale.
Mark Couvillon records the proceedings.
Mike Pfeiffer, Joe Musika, John Needre, and Ken Zeller weigh the evidence.
Ben Knecht and Mark Couvillon compare notes.
Governor Scott Green confers with Robin Reed.
Disgruntled defendant Bill Rose is escorted from the court by bailiff Steve Holloway.
A full gallery seats Russ Wells, Alex Clark, Phil Shultz, Frank Megargee, and Chris Allen.
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