From dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Wed Oct 1 15:59:59 2008 From: dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (MaryKay Dahlgreen) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:59:59 -0700 Subject: [AL-Directors] OregonReads 2009 Exhibits Message-ID: <62B338FC-D9E0-4EEB-BA32-465AB2A186C9@oslmac.osl.state.or.us> Sent on behalf of the OregonReads 2009 Committee: The Oregon Library Association OregonReads 2009 is pleased to be able to offer exhibits for 2009. There will be 2 exhibits available for libraries. The large one is available for 1 week, to be picked up by the hosting library on Mondays. There are 12 smaller tabletop exhibits that can be loaned for 1 month. The large exhibit will be ready to move January 26, 2009, the tabletops January 5, 2009. There are just a couple of requirements: 1.Your Library has insurance for exhibits 2.Your Library can contact and pickup at the Library that has the exhibit before you. The attachments will have all the information for your choices. Please email me, scharlton at beachbooks.org with your dates, Library name and contact person name and email. I will schedule on a first come-first serve basic. The Schedule will be on our website- www.oregonreads2009.org. I will also send a confirmation. Please do not hesitate to email me. Thanks! Library Name: Contact Person: Insurance for Exhibits Yes____ Email: Exhibit: Large___ Tabletop___ Dates Sara Charlton OregonReads 2009 Co-Chair Tillamook County Library Tillamook, Oregon scharlton at beachbooks.org MaryKay Dahlgreen Program Manager, Library Development Oregon State Library 250 Winter St. NE Salem, OR 97301 503-378-5012 marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Oregon Reads exhibit.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 315328 bytes Desc: not available URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Thu Oct 2 09:07:48 2008 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:07:48 -0700 Subject: [AL-Directors] Oregon Reads: your Stubborn Twig orders Message-ID: <032ECD3B-FEF1-4E93-BE8F-F4F79D6B9896@oslmac.osl.state.or.us> Dear Library Directors, Many of you are asking "When will we get our orders of Stubborn Twig?" If your library is receiving 10 or fewer copies of Stubborn Twig, your orders will be shipped on Friday, October 10 via courier or US Postal Services. If you don't receive your order by October 24, please contact Katie Anderson, katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528. If your library is receiving 11 or more copies of Stubborn Twig, an email will be sent Friday, October 24 on this listserv with instruction on how to schedule a time to pick up your order at the State Library. At that time your orders should be ready, and you will be able to schedule a time to pick them up. Note: if you just drop in without scheduling a pick up time we cannot guarantee that you will be able to pick up your books at that time. If you aren't sure how many copies of Stubborn Twig your library will be receiving, please review the attached list of orders to find out. Currently, State Library staff are working to repackage the books from the boxes they arrived in into boxes of individual library orders. In addition, each public library, branch library, and book mobile will be receiving one copy each of Apples to Oregon and Bat 6 thanks to a generous grant from the Starseed Foundation. The juvenile books will be included with your order of Stubborn Twig. Staff at the State Library will be putting bookplates signed by Deborah Hopkinson/Virginia Euwer Wolff, and recognizing the Starseed Foundation into each copy of the juvenile books. Deborah and Virginia were kind enough to sign each bookplate by hand, this is truly generous of them! Thank you all for your enthusiasm for Oregon Reads 2009. This is going to be a wonderful statewide event! Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: stub.twig.orders.xls Type: application/vnd.ms-excel Size: 89600 bytes Desc: not available URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Fri Oct 24 09:43:13 2008 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:43:13 -0700 Subject: [AL-Directors] Stubborn Twig: now available for pick up Message-ID: <20081024164313.4be490b0@OSLMAC.OSL.STATE.OR.US> Dear Public Library Directors, I am pleased to announce that every central library, library branch, and bookmobile in Oregon will be receiving, free of charge, one copy of Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff and one copy of Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson thanks to a generous grant from the Starseed Foundation. These books are the juvenile titles for Oregon Reads 2009, the first statewide community reading program in Oregon taking place January 2009 ? April 2009. I am also pleased to announce that Stubborn Twig has arrived and your copies are ready to be distributed or picked up! Read on for details: Attached is a list of how many copies of Stubborn Twig libraries are receiving; you will need this information to determine how to get your books. If your library is not on the attached list your library did not order copies of Stubborn Twig. If you would like copies of Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler you can purchase remainders of the out-of-print edition for a reduced price on the OLA website (www.olaweb.org). The new edition, with the Oregon Reads 2009 logo and special introduction from Governor Ted Kulongoski, is now available to purchase from vendors. Libraries receiving 11 or more copies of Stubborn Twig will pick up their copies of Bat 6 and Apples to Oregon at the State Library when they come to pick up their copies of Stubborn Twig. Please schedule a time to pick up your books with Joel Henderson (joel.henderson at state.or.us). You must contact Joel at least one day prior to the time you wish to pick up your books; do not assume your books will be available to pick up until you get a confirmation from Joel stating he has you on his schedule. Please provide your full contact information so Joel can contact you to confirm your pick up time. The State Library cannot guarantee that you will be able to pick up your books if you come to pick them up without an appointment. Libraries receiving 10 or fewer copies of Stubborn Twig will have their copies of Bat 6 and Apples to Oregon sent with their copies of Stubborn Twig to thier central library via courier or US Postal Service. Your books are in the process of being shipped, if you don?t receive them the week before Thanksgiving please contact Joel Henderson (joel.henderson at state.or.us). We encourage you to carpool or partner with other libraries in your area to pick up your books. For example, public and academic libraries in Umatilla County and Baker County may want to send one person to pick up all the orders for libraries in those two counties. There is a Library Director meeting at the State Library on November 17. There is also an SDLAC meeting at the State Library on November 5th. Check you calendars for other meeting you may have in Salem, ask your staff or friends and relatives if they are planning a trip to Salem and could pick up your books. Most orders will easily fit in the back seat or trunk of a sedan. If you have any questions about how your library will get their books please contact Joel Henderson (joel.henderson at state.or.us). For more information about Oregon Reads 2009 please visit the website (http://www.oregonreads2009.org/) or contact the co-chairs of the Oregon Reads Task Force, June Knudson (june.knudson at co.hood-river.or.us) and Sara Charlton (scharlton at beachbooks.org). 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William Stafford (1914-1993) was an Oregon and US poet laureate and national book award winner -- probably the greatest literary figure that Oregon has produced. By celebrating his birthday we librarians keep his poems alive in the minds and hearts of Oregonians, as we should. Here is a letter from my friend Paulann Petersen, herself an accomplished Oregon poet, telling you how you can celebrate Stafford's poetry in your library early next year ... --> Jim **** October 28, 2008 Dear Oregon Library Directors, This coming January, The Friends of William Stafford will again sponsor a series of events to celebrate Bill Stafford?s birthday--a way to help continue his vision and work. So far, we have a number of events promised in the Portland metro area, including at the Central Library in downtown Portland, the Lake Oswego Library, Broadway Books in Northeast Portland, West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in west Portland, and Portland State University. We also anticipate events in Ashland, Eugene, Salem, Corvallis, and Vancouver, among other sites. Last year we had over 60 events in Oregon, Washington, California, Kansas, New Jersey, and Texas. 2008 was our first international year: Stafford Celebrations took place in Malaysia, Scotland, Sweden and Mexico! Many of these events are held in libraries?a fitting spot to celebrate an Oregon writer whose work bore strong testimony to his respect for books. Most events will follow the same format. They?ll begin with a few writers who will each either 1) read a favorite Bill Stafford poem and one of their own poems in the spirit of Bill?s work, or 2) read a couple of Bill?s poems. Then the program will be open to anyone in the audience who?d like to read a favorite Stafford poem. I?ve been organizing these events for ten years, and they?ve been very successful. Their inclusiveness creates a strong sense of community and celebration?just what we want for such a birthday party. On behalf of The Friends of William Stafford, I?d like to encourage you to organize a similar event at your library. It?s really not too difficult or time-consuming. Once you set a time and date, all you have to do is ask five or six writers (or Stafford fans) to be featured at the event. Or you can ask one writer to both be the host and invite other writers. Then get the word out to the public. Most libraries photocopy a flyer to have available at the check-out desk, and put announcements on their web pages. Local newspapers and other media are usually very happy to print or broadcast announcements. Asking the featured writers to pass the word to other writers is effective. The Friends of William Stafford board members (especially Joe Soldati and I) would be happy to help you plan this. Many people who attend these celebrations do not normally attend literary events. They bring poems that hang on living room walls; they bring poems off refrigerators; they bring poems that they carry with them in their wallets?often folded and unfolded so many times, they?re almost in pieces. They relate anecdotes about their encounters with Bill Stafford. They explain why his poems are significant in their lives. These are moving gatherings of readers and writers. What better site for them than at a library? Please let me know what you think as soon as possible. I know that libraries need to plan for events early, and Friends of William Stafford would like to advertise your event in our next newsletter. I hope to hear from you soon. Best to you, Paulann Petersen 8403 S.E. 11th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97202 503-236-5229 paulann at paulann.net