From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Jun 3 09:25:28 2013 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:25:28 +0000 Subject: [kids-lib] Upcoming ALSC Webinars - June 2013 In-Reply-To: <94576663D7CA3E4298620188C486DE45027A7488@BE144.mail.lan> References: <94576663D7CA3E4298620188C486DE45027A7488@BE144.mail.lan> Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2437ECC11A@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Hello! I just received the following announcement for ALA's Association of Library Services to Children (ALSC) webinars. While they might seem expensive, remember there are no additional costs such as travel or meals. So You Want to Genre-fy your Library...and More Tues., Jun. 4, 2013, 6 - 7 PM CT Summer Science @your Library Thurs., Jun. 13, 2013, 11 AM - 12 PM CT Best Practices for Apps in Storytime Wed., Jun. 19, 2013, Noon - 1 PM CT The Power of Play for Early Childhood Learning in Your Library Tues., Jun. 25, 2013, 12 - 1 PM CT For more information on these webinars, such as times, fees, and registration, please visit the ALSC webinar site: http://www.ala.org/alsc/edcareeers/profdevelopment/alscweb/webinars. Questions? Contact: Jenny Najduch ALSC Program Officer jnajduch at ala.org (800) 545-2433 ext. 4026 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 ________________________________ From: Dan Rude [drude at ala.org] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 6:21 AM To: alsc-l at ala.org Subject: [alsc-l] Upcoming ALSC Webinars - June 2013 Upcoming ALSC Webinars ? June 2013 Summer reading makes for busy libraries during the warmer months. To help build skills even in busy times, ALSC delivers quality webinars all summer long. Try out one of these hour-long webinars, offered at convenient times for your schedule. For more information on these webinars ? such as times, fees, and registration ? please visit the ALSC webinar site: http://www.ala.org/alsc/edcareeers/profdevelopment/alscweb/webinars. Below is a calendar of upcoming webinars: June So You Want to Genre-fy your Library...and More Tues., Jun. 4, 2013, 6 - 7 PM CT Summer Science @your Library Thurs., Jun. 13, 2013, 11 AM - 12 PM CT Best Practices for Apps in Storytime Wed., Jun. 19, 2013, Noon - 1 PM CT The Power of Play for Early Childhood Learning in Your Library Tues., Jun. 25, 2013, 12 - 1 PM CT July Best Practices for Apps in Storytime Wed., Jul. 10, 2013, 1 -2 PM CT The Power of Play for Early Childhood Learning in Your Library Wed., Jul. 17, 2013, 11 AM - 12 PM CT Sensory Storytime: Preschool Programming That Makes Sense for Kids with Autism Tues., Jul, 23, 2013, 2 PM - 3 PM CT Summer Science @your Library Wed., Jul. 24, 2013, 1 - 2 PM CT August Best Practices for Apps in Storytime Wed., Aug. 7, 2013, Noon - 1 PM CT The Power of Play for Early Childhood Learning in Your Library Thurs., Aug. 15, 2013, 12 - 1 PM CT So You Want to Genre-fy your Library...and More Mon., Aug. 26, 2013, 1 - 2 PM CT ALSC Online Education Proposals Have an idea for an ALSC webinar or online course? The ALSC Education Committee is adding to ALSC?s online course and webinar offerings. If you are interested in teaching a course or webinar, please fill out the online education proposal form found at ALSC?s website: http://www.ala.org/alsc/online-education-proposal Dan Rude Membership/Marketing Specialist Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) drude at ala.org 312.280.2164 This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message; please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you for your cooperation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is a small 4,000 square foot branch that serves the surrounding community including staff with language skills to serve Spanish-speaking patrons. It had 101,636 visits in the last fiscal year while circulating 171,696 items. This position reports directly to the Neighborhood Libraries Assistant Director. *Please note**: Other Neighborhood Library Administrator vacancies occurring during the next 12 months may be filled from the list established by this recruitment. * * * For more information about this position or to apply, please visit our website at *www.multcojobs.org*. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.maurer at state.or.us Fri Jun 14 17:12:45 2013 From: jennifer.maurer at state.or.us (Jennifer Maurer) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:12:45 +0000 Subject: [kids-lib] Free Access to Online Books for Summer Reading on myON =>Oregon Summer Reading Opportunity Message-ID: Hi, The State Library is helping to promote a last-minute opportunity that ODE had to partner with myON (www.myon.com), a digital book platform vendor. Together they are offering all Oregonians free access to myON books through September 15th with the goal of encouraging reading in the summer. Content includes nearly 4,000 books, materials are for PK-12th grade, 70% are nonfiction, some are in Spanish, all can be read independently or listened to, and users can access them from the website or download a free Apple or Android app. There is one universal login that anyone in Oregon can use. For details, see the announcement below and the attachment. Please help spread the word. Permission has been granted to share the login widely within Oregon, and that includes posting the attached information sheet online. I also included two versions of the myON logo for those who choose to post an access point on their library websites. If you advertise library activities via social media, please consider promoting this opportunity there, too. By the end of next week, we'll add an access point on OSLIS that will stay through September 15th. What a great resource for summer reading programs! Questions? Please ask. Thanks, Jen Jennifer Maurer School Library Consultant Oregon State Library 250 Winter Street NE Salem, OR 97301 503.378.5011 jennifer.maurer at state.or.us OSLIS || www.oslis.org Learn to research. Research to learn.(c) [lm_2013_SR_EarlyLit-1_400057_7.jpg] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! From: superupdate-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:superupdate-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of ODE Communications Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 1:39 PM To: superupdate at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Subject: [SuperUpdate] Oregon Summer Reading Opportunity: Free Online Books for Summer Reading on myON! To: Oregon Educators Re: Oregon Summer Reading Opportunity: Free Online Books for Summer Reading on myON! There is little that impacts student success as much as strong literacy skills, and we are pleased to invite you, your children, and your community to join our statewide efforts to develop a culture of reading in Oregon. ODE is partnering with organizations including schools, libraries, Boys & Girls Clubs, scout troops, schools, faith-based organizations, United Way and other non-profits statewide to promote reading over the summer months. Join us by including reading within your summer programs this year. Thanks to a new partnership with myON BOOKS, students and their families across the state will have unlimited access to thousands of digital books on myON, giving families an opportunity to share rich, grade-appropriate, literacy experiences together regardless of socioeconomic status, access to a local library, or whether or not there is a proficient reader in the home. Through this summer partnership, Oregon students and families can access: * More than 3,000 digital books from Capstone and additional publishing partners, ranging from illustrated and picture books to chapter books, graphic novels, literary non-fiction, photo and informational texts spanning multiple eras and cultures. * Capstone imprints include Capstone Press, Heinemann-Raintree, Picture Window Books, Compass Point Books and Stone Arch Books. * Digital books from the following publishing partners will also be available: August House Little Folk/ Story Cove, Bellwether, Hothouse, Mikaya Press, Orca, Reference Point, Saddleback and Sylvan-Dell. * The collection includes 70% nonfiction, 10% Spanish or dual language, 20% high interest books for struggling readers, and is continually growing. * A wide range of titles and topics provides varying levels of text complexity and supports close reading in a range of genres and content areas, including history/social studies, science and technical works. * Users can read the books independently or listen to them, and they can choose whether or not to have sentences highlighted while in narration mode. * Through a secure environment, students have unlimited access to the entire digital library, within the parameters set by the Oregon Department of Education. We are encouraging all of our readers to read anything that interests them -including graphic novels, non-fiction books, magazines and newspapers- whether online or in print. We suggest that they: * Read with someone * Read to someone * Share with someone what he/she has read * Listen to someone read * Help others read * Read independently The Oregon summer reading partnership with myON will be available at NO COST until September 15, 2013. For more on gaining access to myON BOOKS at http://myOn.com, please see the attached document for login directions. If you have questions or need additional assistance, please contact Carla Wade at Carla.Wade at ode.state.or.us or Drew Hinds at Drew.Hinds at ode.state.or.us. Please share this resource and opportunity with your communities and help build a strong reading culture in Oregon this summer! For even more reading opportunities, take advantage of the magazine, newspaper, and reference book content in the Gale databases available on OSLIS (www.oslis.org). For example, students can read articles from Cobblestone, Faces, and The New York Times or learn about their favorite creatures in Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. OSLIS is an information literacy website from the Oregon Association of School Libraries in partnership with the Oregon State Library and is supported with an IMLS grant. For database login questions, please contact Jennifer Maurer, Jennifer.Maurer at state.or.us, the School Library Consultant at the State Library. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5515 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If you would like to request these or other materials from the Oregon State Library please use your library's established interlibrary loan process or send your full name, the name of your library, complete title information, shipping address, and a phone number to the document delivery department at library.request at state.or.us or (fax) 503-588-7119. Items will be checked out to your library, not to you personally, for 4 weeks (print materials) or 2 weeks (videos). Materials will be delivered via mail or Orbis Cascade Alliance Courier, and you may return them the same way. Normally a single copy is purchases and it is loaned on a first-come-first-serve basis. You may be put on a hold list for several weeks. Thank you for your patience. [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KUZ4uLlbM4s/UcDOT58LggI/AAAAAAAAAO0/PrvlGq9Un_4/s1600/diverselit.jpg] Naidoo, J.C. & Dahlen, S.P. (2013). Diversity in Youth Literature: Opening Doors Through Reading. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Surveying the landscape of children's and YA literature, this contributed volume shows how books have grown to include the wide range of our increasingly diverse society. Identifying both exemplary and problematic titles, the contributors * Provide context by sketching out the historical trajectory of diversity in youth lit * Organize titles into sections that range from familiar themes (African American, Asian, Latino) to the lesser known (such as literature dealing with incarceration, transnational adoption, and homelessness) * Offer guidelines for evaluating and selecting the best in diversity literature * Suggest youth-tested programs and strategies to promote multicultural books in the library and classroom This thoughtful and timely book helps meet the informational, recreational, and cultural needs of today's youth and those who serve them. (book description) [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7mMuFyxPvc4/UcDOVU5mH5I/AAAAAAAAAPA/j4Eez21aets/s1600/autism.jpg] Farmer, L.S.J. (2013). Library Services for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Autism is now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, and the number of children identified as autistic continues to grow. Introducing what autism spectrum disorders are, and identifying the great need to build and manage programs for different youth with these disorders, Farmer offers librarians in or outside a school environment all the information they need to build a library literacy program geared towards these children. Designed to both awaken sensitivities of library staff and address the questions of those who are already aware of the issue, this book * Shows how children with this diagnosis are increasingly mainstreamed into traditional library and school programs and identifies the special needs and issues they face in a library setting * Equips readers to meet the needs of young library users who are autistic with practical tools for training library staff, teachers, and volunteers * Explains hyperlexia, the main barrier to the development of literacy among these children, and how programs using sensory experiences can strengthen both literacy skills and socialization * Proposes strategies for using library design to ensure that materials and resources are accessible to all patrons Including a glossary of terms and bibliography of additional resources, Farmer's book is an important tool for raising awareness and supporting literacy development for children with these disorders in the library setting. (book description) Be sure to check out our Library and Information Science (LIS) blog (http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/) to discover the most recent additions to our LIS collection and search our catalog (http://oregon.gov/OSL/index.shtml) for our complete holdings. The library science collection is meant to support the whole Oregon library community. The Library Development Division welcomes your suggestions for acquisitions - see the blog for an input form or email us! This collection is funded with LSTA funds administered by the Oregon State Library. 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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County profiles: http://health.oregonstate.edu/sbhs/family-policy-program/occrp/childcare-dynamics-publications/child-care-and-education-in-oregon-and-its-counties-2012 Interactive map instructions: http://health.oregonstate.edu/sbhs/family-policy-program/occrp/child-care-and-education-map-instructions Interactive map: http://arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=263af05ae0104431b117f8a60e1dfa19 *Be sure to read the interactive map instructions. When you open the interactive map you will see elementary schools and the childcare capacity in within their boundaries, not actual childcare providers. You will need to read the instructions to learn how to see child care providers, diversity, and income. The map works best using Chrome or Firefox browsers *This is not 100% accurate. Childcare providers go in and out of business frequently and it is fairly common that family, friends, and neighbor childcare providers go unidentified by city, county, and state officials. The data on this map is from 2012. 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All potential ECRR trainers will need to apply and be approved as a Standardized Trainer by the Oregon Registry Trainer Program at the Oregon Center for Career Development in Childhood Care and Education (OCCD). Applications are due Friday, August 16th 2013 by 5pm. All potential trainers will be required to attend a full day Training of Trainers session Friday, September 20thth 2013 at the State Library in Salem, Oregon. The training will be free and will include a free catered breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack. Participants traveling more than 120 miles round trip will get a night of lodging reimbursed at the government rate for Marion County which is currently $77. Participants will also receive a free parking pass for the day. APPLICATION PROCESS (http://www.pdx.edu/occd/every-child-ready-to-read-training-of-trainers) 1. Trainers who are currently certified Oregon Registry Community Trainers or Master Trainers will use the ECCR-COM-MST Trainer Packet 2. Trainers who are employed as trainers or in a position that includes the responsibilities of a trainer may complete the ECCR- Employer Verify Packet. A supervisor/employer will complete the Employer Verification Form to document applicant qualifications. 3. Trainers who are independent or are employed in a position that does not include the responsibilities of a trainer will complete the ECCR-Direct Documentation Packet. Applicants will be notified by email or phone of approval to attend the Training of Trainers by August 23rd 2013. Questions about this application process can be directed to Michele Jaeger, Training and Education Coordinator at 503-725-8275 or 1-877-725-8535 or michele5 at pdx.edu. 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. From: Katie Anderson Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 11:40 AM To: 'kids-lib at listsmart.osl.state.or.us' Subject: Every Child Ready to Read Training of Trainers--save the date The Every Child Ready to Read Training of Trainers will be on Friday, September 20, 2013 at the Oregon State Library. The training will be presented by Specialized Master Trainer Heather McNeil, youth services manager at Deschutes Public Library, professional storyteller, and author of Read, Rhyme and Romp: Early Literacy Skills and Activities for Librarians, Teachers, and Parents. Participation is limited to 20 approved applicants. The save the date announcement is on the Oregon Registry website (http://www.pdx.edu/occd/oregon-registry-trainer-program-6). Application materials will be posted on the Oregon Registry website in June. Please spread the word! This training if for staff at libraries and other agencies and organizations that provide parent education or training for family, friends, and neighbor providers. Participants will receive Set Two continuing education credit and will become Every Child Ready to Read Standardized Trainers certified by the Oregon Registry train to their colleagues and peers to use the Every Child Ready to Read curriculum with parents and family, friends, and neighbor providers for Set One continuing education credit. Those of you familiar with Reading for Healthy Families may like to know that this will be a very scaled back training in comparison. There are no requirements to conduct trainings afterwards. The actual training will be much more focused on the curriculum and will not include all the bells and whistles like flannel boards and Washington Learning System's On-the-Go activities. The goal is to make sure the Standardized Trainers understand the curriculum well enough to train their colleagues, answer their colleagues' questions about the curriculum, and help their colleagues become comfortable using the curriculum to teach parents how to develop their child's early literacy skills. Please let me know if you have any questions. Please refer anyone else who has questions to me too. Thank you, Katie Note: If you want training in Every Child Ready to Read so you can use it with parents in your community this training is NOT for you. This training will create a cadre of people certified to conduct the training you need... which means hopefully the training you need will be available after September 20th! 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5365 bytes Desc: image004.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award is presented to a person or organization in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon's young readers. Nominee must be a full-time, living Oregon resident. Information about how to nominate an individual or organization for a special award are available on our web site: http://www.literary-arts.org/awards/ For more information, contact Susan Denning at susan at literary-arts.org or 503.227.2583 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award This award is presented to a person or organization in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon's young readers. 2013 Oregon Battle of the Books 2012 Dr. Ulrich Hardt of Portland 2011 The Children's Book Bank (Portland) 2009 The Dove Lewis Animal Hospital Read to the Dogs Program (Portland) 2008 Young Writers Association (Eugene) 2007 Mark Mizell (Seaside), teacher 2006 John Monteverde (Portland), artistic director, Northwest Children's Theater 2005 Carol Brown (Corvallis), retired teacher and president of Oregon Reading Association 2004 Patricia R. Gallagher (Monmouth), award winning teacher 2003 Jerry Isom, executive director of Books for Kids 2002 Ready to Learn, pro-literacy program of Oregon Public Broadcasting 2001 Oregon advisory boards of First Book, pro-literacy organization 2000 Cathy Schneider (Portland), coordinator of Books-2-U with the Multnomah County Library 1999 Claudia Jones (Enterprise), Wallowa County Libarian and founder of Bookmobile project 1998 Barbara J. McKillip, founder of the Libri Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5365 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Jun 24 10:50:33 2013 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:50:33 +0000 Subject: [kids-lib] Sources for literacy and education statistics good for grant applications and more! Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2437EE6882@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Hello! Below are my go-to sources for statistics on literacy (and all education topics PreK-12). These are great for grant applications, strategic planning/outcome based planning and evaluation, reports to key stake holders, and advocacy materials. * Children First for Oregon: You can view statistics for the state as a whole and by individual county so you can get statistics specific to your region and compare them with the state statistics. * Oregon Department of Education: Reports: Allows you to get school district level statistics on Reading & Lit. Click on 'Assessment', look under 'Results-District and School' and click on 'Search Test Results (2004-2011)' and you'll pull up a page that allows you to create detailed reports by year, district, population, and subject. * OregonLive.com: Your Schools: Provides similar information as ODE. There aren't as many options for creating detailed reports as ODE, but their reports are more user-friendly snapshots of statistics. * National Center for Education Statistics: They have tons of statistics, but their 'Fast Facts' page is pretty easy to use. Click on 'Assessments', then click on 'Reading' and you should find national statistics. You can also find state-by-state ranking under 'Assessments' if you are interested in learning how Oregon compares. * Kids Count Data Center: They also have a lot of statistics, but you can 'build a custom indicator report for your community' which includes only the data you want to see. In addition, the website allows you to compare this nationally collected data with similar data collected locally via Children First for Oregon. Enjoy! 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Chichester DuPont Foundation (September 1st deadline) http://www.chichesterdupont.org/pages/funding.html Kellogg Foundation (ongoing awards/no grant deadline): http://www.wkkf.org/grants/for-grantseekers.aspx Good luck, Katie 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I still haven't heard the details of the media package, but here are a few things: * The first TV spot which includes an interview with one of last year's winners: http://www.katu.com/amnw/segments/We-Dig-Summer-Reading--Saving-for-College-Summer-Reading-Contest-210106771.html * The KATU summer reading page: http://www.katu.com/amnw/sponsored/thinkbig/205463161.html * Order more summer reading sweepstakes entry forms by emailing Kathy Griffin at KGriffin at tiaa-cref.org The Summer Meals website is up-to-date so your low-income patrons with children under 18 years old can find free lunch sites this summer: http://www.summerfoodoregon.org/ All Oregon libraries have free access to online books this summer via myON. Thanks to a partnership between the Oregon Department of Education and myON BOOKS, students and their families across the state will have unlimited access to thousands of digital books, giving families an opportunity to share rich, grade-appropriate, literacy experiences together regardless of socioeconomic status, access to a local library, or whether or not there is a proficient reader in the home. Please share this resource and opportunity with your communities and help build a strong reading culture in Oregon this summer! * Go to: www.myon.com * Click on "Log in now" * Type in Oregon Readers for the "School name" * Type in read for the username * Type in read for the password * Learn more by emailing Carla Wade at Carla.Wade at ode.state.or.us or Drew Hinds at Drew.Hinds at ode.state.or.us. Summer slide info-graphic: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/books-help-kids-beat-the-summer-slide_b71386. Article on summer reading research by Matthew Boulay, founder of the National Summer Learning Association: http://www.oregonask.org/articles/research-summer-learning-loss. Some key points are: * the average American student - with data aggregated across subject area, grade level, student socioeconomic background, gender and racial/ethnic identity- experiences summer learning loss equal to one-tenth of a standard deviation, which equates to about one month's worth of math and reading/language knowledge on a grade level equivalency scale (Cooper et al., 1996) * The strongest and most consistently reported finding in the literature on seasonal comparisons is that inequality in cognitive skills emerges primarily during the summer months and is closely linked to family economic status (Downey et al. 2004; Entwisle and Alexander 1992; Alexander, Entwisle and Olson 2007; Heyns 1978; Cooper et al. 1996; Burkam et al. 2004) * the primary source of cognitive inequality lies in children's disparate home and community environments, not the school environment. * the "summer shortfall over the five years of elementary school accounts for more than half the difference" of the achievement gap between high and low SES at the start of ninth grade (Alexander, Entwisle, and Olson 2007, P.175). * Her study revealed, however, a strong relationship between learning and the amount children read; whether measured by the number of books read or the amount of time spent reading, the amount children read was the single activity that Heyns found consistently influenced achievement independent of socioeconomic class or race. 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5365 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Jun 24 16:16:36 2013 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:16:36 +0000 Subject: [kids-lib] Resource on LGBT health issues Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2437EE6D12@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> This seems like a good resource for you to add to you library's digital collection. In addition, it may be useful in educating staff and other colleagues about LGBT health issues. It has a nice glossary and has lots of references, and a pre-packaged PowerPoint presentation. Page 18 touches on gender identity among young children birth through 7 years old as do some of the PowerPoint slides, starting on page 73. Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations Information & Resource Kit http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo33167 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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[edWeb.net | Game-Based Learning] Presenters: Dr. John Richards with Dr. Michael Levine [http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs156/1102707682512/img/733.jpg] John Richards, Ph. D. is Founder and President of Consulting Services for Education, Inc. (CS4Ed) and Adjunct Faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education teaching Entrepreneurship in the Education Marketplace. At CS4Ed, John works with educational publishers and organizations on market research, strategic planning, and product development and evaluation. He is the author/editor of four books, over 90 articles and book chapters, and has been responsible for the publication of over 1,000 educational products. [http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs156/1102707682512/img/736.jpg] Dr. Michael Levine is the Executive Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, where he oversees efforts to catalyze and support research, innovation, and investment in educational media technologies for young children. Michael has been a frequent adviser to the U.S. Department of Education, and serves on numerous nonprofit boards. He received his Ph.D. in Social Policy from Brandeis University's Florence Heller School and his B.S. from Cornell University. Thanks to our co-host and sponsors [SIIA][BrainPOP] [Wowzers] [Free Webinar] The K-12 Market for Digital Games Monday, July 8th at 4pm ET REGISTER HERE Our community's next webinar will provide an analysis of the sales and market potential for digital learning games in the institutional K-12 market. Dr. John Richards will present an analysis that is the result of extensive market research and a series of over fifty structured interviews with leaders from the developer and publishing industries, and from the government, foundation, investment, and research communities. John will approach learning games in terms of the functions they serve in the school context. Dr. Michael Levine will explore how games and simulations have made their way into the current discussions of the most pressing education reforms - from embedded assessments to personalized, highly engaging project-based learning to new forms of teacherpreparation. He will be asking what teachers themselves think and will share how pioneering educators are responding to these new opportunities. Michael's presentation will explore the work of the Games and Learning Publishing Council, which will be surveying, documenting and scaling promising teacher practices that are integrating game-based technologies. Join John and Michael on July 8th to learn more about the K-12 market for digital games. 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Below are some of the questions these three news items brought to my mind. * As Demographics Shift, Kids' Books Stay Stubbornly White (listen/read the story) * A Few Observations on Publishing in 2012 (read the essay about the report) * See Baby Discriminate (read article) What percentage of our young patrons are black, Asian, Latino, and Native American? * Use American FactFinder to find out. What percentage of books in our children's and teen collections feature main characters who are black, Asian, Latino, and Native American? Why is providing culturally diverse literature important to the education and development of youth in your community? * "According to from the Census Bureau, nearly half of today's children under 5 years old are non-white." * "...children today are told, 'You can be anything.' But if they don't see themselves in the story, I think, as they get older, they're going to question, 'Can I really?' " * "If [children] don't see [themselves] then perhaps they lose interest," Nelson says. "They don't think there's anything in books about them or for them." But, what about white children? * "...it is also important for white children to see characters of different races. 'Not only do they learn to appreciate the differences,' she explains, 'but I think they learn to see the sameness, and so those other cultures are less seen as others.'" * "Right now, the vast majority of best-selling children's books are by and about white people... [and] publishers are going to respond to what the market demands." (i.e. Good books by and about white people aren't at risk of becoming under-represented anytime soon.) How do we select multicultural books? Here are a few books I know about that are available for you to check out from the State Library, please "reply all" to share other multicultural collection development resources you know about. * If you would like to request these or other materials from the Oregon State Library please use your library's established interlibrary loan process or send your full name, the name of your library, complete title information, shipping address, and a phone number to the document delivery department at library.request at state.or.us or (fax) 503-588-7119. * Naidoo, J.C. & Dahlen, S.P. (2013). Diversity in Youth Literature: Opening Doors Through Reading. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. * Knowles, L. & Smith, M. (2007). Understanding diversity through novels and picture books. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. * East, K. & Thomas, R.L. (2007). Across cultures: A guide to multicultural literature for children. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. * Naidoo, J.C. (2011). Celebrating Cuentos: Promoting Latino Children's Literature and Literacy in Classrooms and Libraries. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. 978-1-59158-904-4. * Alire, C. & Ayala, J. (2008). Serving Latino communities: A how-to-do-it manual for librarians (2nd ed.). New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers. * Cuban, S. (2007). Serving new immigrant communities in the library. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited * Wadham, T. (2007). Libros esenciales: Building, marketing, and programming a core collection of Spanish language children's materials. Neal-Schuman Publishers. In a hurry? Here are just a few multicultural booklists (bibliographies) I know about, please "reply all" to share other multicultural booklists you know about. * Cooperative Children's Book Center: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=42 * Reading is Fundamental: http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/booklists/multicultural-books.htm * A World of Difference: http://archive.adl.org/bibliography/bfc_book_categorization.asp#findingbooks Where can we find multicultural books? Here are a few sources I know about, please "reply all" to share other sources of multicultural books you know about. * Cinco Puntos: http://www.cincopuntos.com/index.sstg * Lee & Low Book: http://www.leeandlow.com/ * Shen's Books: http://www.leeandlow.com/ * HarperCollins: Amistad: http://www.harpercollins.com/imprints/index.aspx?imprintid=518006 How can we talk directly about race with children and teens through library programs and services? Please "reply all" to share your ideas. 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Also, for those who have not heard, Rudy Crew, Oregon?s Chief Education Officer, took a job in New York. http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2013/06/oregon_seeks_new_cheif_educati.html#incart_river http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20130625/NEWS/306250023/CUNY-hires-Oregon-education-officer Thanks, Jen Jennifer Maurer School Library Consultant Oregon State Library 250 Winter Street NE Salem, OR 97301 503.378.5011 jennifer.maurer at state.or.us OSLIS || www.oslis.org Learn to research. Research to learn.? [lm_2013_SR_EarlyLit-1_400057_7.jpg] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! From: noreply+feedproxy at google.com On Behalf Of AASL Blog Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: Jennifer Maurer Subject: View the Latest Posts to AASLBlog View the Latest Posts to AASLBlog [Link to AASL Blog] ________________________________ ALA Moving Forward with Focus on School Libraries Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:05 AM PDT For almost two years I have had the pleasure of serving as the co-chair (with NJLA Executive Director, Pat Tumulty) of an ALA Presidential Task Force on School Libraries. Initiated by Molly Raphael and continued by Maureen Sullivan, our task was to help raise the awareness among all of ALA?s divisions, round tables, offices, etc. regarding the need to work collaboratively to develop an understanding of and commitment to school libraries by parents, teachers, school administrators and policy makers as an essential ingredient for student success. We were tasked to develop a plan to assist ALA in the roll out of a more focused campaign and I am pleased to note that as we wrap up our work, the next phase is now in motion. Recently ALA President-elect, Barbara Stripling, ALA President Maureen Sullivan, Pat Tumulty and I shared a sense of where we are now and where things are headed in a message to the members of ALA Council and I wanted to share it with all of you as a harbinger of forward momentum. Dear colleagues: As we are all aware, school libraries across the country are at a critical point. On the one hand, budget and testing pressures on administrators and school districts have led to decisions to eliminate or de-professionalize school libraries. On the other hand, the increased emphasis on preparing all students to be college and career ready and the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards and integration of technology have opened an unprecedented door to school library leadership. ALA is planning a strong and multi-faceted campaign for school libraries. Building on the work of the School Library Task Force that presented its final report at Midwinter 2013 (this report is attached), a School Library Implementation Task Force has begun working on the strategic messaging and advocacy work for the next year (the proposed work plan is also attached). The School Library Implementation Task Force work will start with a short-term ?think tank? to develop key messages and strategies. Then the full task force will divide into subcommittees to tailor the messages and actions to the different constituencies identified by the School Library Task Force in its final report. The school library campaign will be jump started by beginning the national push for signatures on the Declaration for the Right to Libraries with school libraries who will then forward the signed declarations to public and academic libraries in their communities and state. The vision is to establish a window of 1-2 weeks in the fall for school libraries across the country to host signing ceremonies and for ALA to use this opportunity to leverage strong national media coverage and public support. The school library advocacy efforts will also include building partnerships with national organizations and targeting specific constituencies (like school administrators, classroom teachers, parents, and school boards). Increased advocacy with national legislators will be guided by the Washington Office. Several vendors have offered to support ALA advocacy efforts for school libraries. ALA will engage those vendors and enlist others to become a part of the school library campaign. Thank you for your many supportive comments and interest. Recently, we received very encouraging news about the inclusion of school libraries in the Senate Education Bill, but this is only the beginning. School libraries must be made a national priority, and we will need your help ? and the help of every member and every supporter ? if we are to succeed. The bottom line for our school library campaign is our shared understanding that all types of libraries form an ecosystem that really does impact the success of whole communities and the individuals within them. We must stand together and demand strong school libraries. No child in America should be deprived of that right. Sincerely, Barbara Stripling ALA President Elect Maureen Sullivan ALA President Susan Ballard and Pat Tumulty Co-Chairs, School Library Task Force The implementation Task Force referenced in this message has been formed and will be co-chaired by Gina Milsap, Chief Executive Officer ? Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, and our own incoming President-elect, Terri Kirk. The best is yet to come and I am excited at the prospects that this renewed focus on school libraries will bring! 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FYI, Jen Jennifer Maurer School Library Consultant Oregon State Library 250 Winter Street NE Salem, OR 97301 503.378.5011 jennifer.maurer at state.or.us OSLIS || www.oslis.org Learn to research. Research to learn.? [lm_2013_SR_EarlyLit-1_400057_7.jpg] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! From: Nader, Gayla Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:13 PM To: Nader, Gayla Subject: New Content Added to Kids InfoBits! New content has been added to your Kids InfoBits resource. Please see below for details: A total of 240 author biographies and 197 images from the Kids InfoBits Presents: Authors title now appear in Kids InfoBits. Biographies written at both the K-2 and K-5 content levels for the following popular authors are now included: Abraham, Denise Gonzales Alcott, Louisa May Alexander, Lloyd Angelou, Maya Austen, Jane Barrie, J.M. Baum, L. Frank Bemelmans, Ludwig Black, Holly Blake, William Bond, Michael Boynton, Sandra Bradbury, Ray Brown, Marcia Brown, Margaret Wise Brunhoff, Jean de Bunting, Eve Burnett, Frances Hodgson Cabot, Meg Carroll, Lewis Chopin, Kate Cleary, Beverly Cole, Joanna Colfer, Eoin Collins, Suzanne Crane, Stephen Cummings, E.E. Curtis, Christopher Paul DiCamillo, Kate Dickens, Charles Dickinson, Emily Doyle, Arthur Conan Eliot, T.S. Faulkner, William Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzhugh, Louise Freedman, Russell Fritz, Jean Frost, Robert Gaiman, Neil Gantos, Jack Grahame, Kenneth Hamilton, Virginia Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hemingway, Ernest Henkes, Kevin Hinton, S.E. Homer Hughes, Langston Hurston, Zora Neale Irving, Washington Jacques, Brian Juster, Norton Keene, Carolyn King, Stephen Kinney, Jeff Kipling, Rudyard Korman, Gordon Lang, Andrew Laskey, Katheryn Le Guin, Ursula K. Lee, Harper Levine, Gail Carson Lindgren, Astrid London, Jack Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Macdonald, George Marshall, James McKinley, Robyn Meyer, Stephenie Miller, Arthur Milne, A.A. Morrison, Toni Nesbit, Edith Norton, Mary O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor, Jane O'Dell, Scott Orwell, George Osbourne, Mary Pope Paolini, Christopher Park, Linda Sue Paterson, Katherine Poe, Edgar Allan Potter, Beatrix Pullman, Philip Raschka, Chris Rawls, Wilson Rey, Margaret and H.A. Rohmann, Eric Russell, Rachel Renee Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Selznick, Brian Sewell, Anna Shakespeare, William Silverstein, Shel Speare, Elizabeth George Steig, William Steinbeck, John Stevenson, Robert Louis Stine, R.L. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Streatfeild, Noel Thoreau, Henry David Tolkien, J.R.R. Twain, Mark Verne, Jules Voight, Cynthia Vonnegut, Kurt Walker, Alice Wells, H.G. White, E.B. White, T.H. Whitman, Walt Wiesner, David Willems, Mo Williams, Tennessee Wrede, Patricia C. Yep, Laurence Zerlinsky, Paul O. Gayla Nader Consortia & Major Account Services Manager Gale Cengage Learning 27500 Drake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6456 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 43 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Wed Jun 26 16:17:24 2013 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:17:24 +0000 Subject: [kids-lib] In the News: National ECD promotes Growing Young Minds: How Museums and Libraries Create Lifelong Learners Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2437EE7F24@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Hello! I recently received the email at the bottom of this page from the national Early Childhood Development agency (ECD) in which they promote a joint approach to improving the availability of high quality early learning and summer learning programs and are collaborating at the national level to call on "policymakers, schools, funders, and parents to include these overlooked but valued community institutions in comprehensive early learning strategies." The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in partnership with the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, published a report last week highlighting "10 Ways" museums and libraries support early and summer learning. The report (http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/GrowingYoungMinds_ExecSum.pdf) also provides specific recommendations for action. This report is worth taking 10-15 minutes to read. As you do, think about which of the "10 Ways" your library is already doing particularly well. You can pull talking points right out of this report to promote those activities among board members, council members, school administrators, teachers, and other community stake holders. What else might you use this document for? * Identify which of the "10 Ways" your library isn't doing very well and do some strategic planning/set one or two goals to make improvements. * Think about the recommendations for action for libraries and choose one or two activities to work on this year. * Use the language from this report in grant applications to make a stronger case for your library's early learning and/or summer learning programs. What is the State Library doing about this? Looking at the recommendations for action for state policy makers... * Oregon has already accomplished the first recommended activity; recognize libraries in early learning policy! Oregon libraries are included in the Oregon Education Investment Board's House Bill 3232 and the Early Learning Council's House Bill 3234. The State Library will now work on strengthening these new relationships. * I am working on the third recommended activity; create opportunities for incorporating libraries into support for community-based initiatives by: o Partnering with ODE to encourage local partnerships between local libraries and summer food sites o Partnering with OregonASK to encourage public libraries support of school libraries remaining open during the summer as part of the SL3 grant project o Attending Early Learning Council and Child Care and Education Coordinating Council meetings, and encouraging libraries to participate in their local early learning coalitions as they transition to early learning hubs o Sponsoring an Every Child Ready to Read Training of Trainers o And attending a lot of meetings to scope out other opportunities! * I have identified the second recommended activity as one to work on; link library services more intentionally to K-12 education. * In addition, I try to work closely with OLA's Children's Services Division and Oregon Young Adult Network on these efforts. For example, I invited CSD and OYAN Executive Board members to the first state level cross-agency/cross-organization meeting about services to pregnant and parenting teens so we can decide together what appropriate library participation may be. Please let me know if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks, Katie 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 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CE4751.8A8D6B50] Summer Reading 2013 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. [cid:image001.jpg at 01CE6C11.2FA6D6B0] Dear Colleagues: The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development (ECD) promotes a joint approach to improving the availability of high quality early learning and development programs. We are made up of the Office of Head Start, the Office of Child Care, and the Interagency Team. The Early Childhood Office also works with other federal agencies, state and tribal councils and administrators, and a wide range of national organizations and non-profit partners. These interagency, collaborative programs and communications help ensure a complete and integrated approach to improving the nation's childhood learning and development. Parents, business and civic leaders, researchers and policy makers have called for quality early education and summer learning opportunities to ensure more children learn to read proficiently. A new report from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, together with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, demonstrates that libraries and museums are part of the solution. Growing Young Minds: How Museums and Libraries Create Lifelong Learners, citing dozens of examples and 10 case studies, highlights 10 key ways libraries and museums are supporting young children. It provides a clear call to policymakers, schools, funders, and parents to include these overlooked but valued community institutions in comprehensive early learning strategies. "High-quality early learning is about the whole child and the whole family, and libraries and museums play an important role in this work. As a nationwide resource, museums and libraries offer an expanding list of collaborative opportunities that parents, providers, teachers and other early learning stakeholders would do well to learn about. In my experience as an early childhood educator, libraries and museums were always important resources for children whose learning I was attempting to stimulate. I have come to discover that what exists now far exceeds what museums and libraries used to offer. If you have not recently worked with your local museums or libraries, I encourage you to do so quickly and often," said Richard Gonzales. The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development is pleased to participate in this collaborative effort. Please visit Early Childhood Development for additional information and resources. ________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 7587 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5365 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: