[Libs-Or] LTLO March 2005
Arturo Guillen
arturo at www.osl.state.or.us
Tue Mar 1 08:03:32 PST 2005
Letter To Libraries Online
An Electronic Newsletter of the
Oregon State Library
Volume 15, Issue 3 March 2005
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LIBRARY BOARD NEWS
State Library Bills Heard in the Legislature
State Library Appoints Two Program Managers
LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Welcome New LSTA Advisory Council Members
Coming Up Taller Nominations Due March 24, 2005
U.S. Poet Laureate Visits Oregon
LSTA Proposals Due April 15
Academic Library Survey from NCES
OTHER LIBRARY NEWS
Horner Staff Exchange A Great Success
PS. (FROM THE STATE LIBRARIAN)
STATE LIBRARY CONTACT INFORMATION
LIBRARY BOARD NEWS
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STATE LIBRARY BILLS HEARD IN THE LEGISLATURE
In February the House General Government Committee, Chaired by State
Representative Vickie Berger of Salem, heard HB 2118, the State Library
Board’s bill that would create a digital repository for state
documents. The Committee, in general, showed support for the bill,
however there was some concern about the reduction in printed state
documents that state agencies would be required to deposit for
redistribution to depository libraries in the state. Also in February,
the Education Subcommittee of the Joint Ways and Means Committee heard
HB 5047, the Governor’s Recommended Budget for the State Library. State
Library Board Chair Bill Sullivan and State Librarian Jim Scheppke gave
an overview of the State Library’s programs and performance on February
22nd. Another bill, SB 577 was introduced by Senator Richard Devlin at
the request of the State Library and the Oregon Library Association.
This bill is a housekeeping bill that would fix a problem with the
statutory language dealing with the State Library’s assessment on state
agencies that funds library service to the agencies. More hearings on
these bills are anticipated in March.
STATE LIBRARY APPOINTS TWO PROGRAM MANAGERS
The State Library has two new managers for Library Development Services
and Government Research and Electronic Services. MaryKay Dahlgreen ,
who has served as Youth Services Consultant at the State Library since
1996 was promoted to head Library Development Services. Before coming
to the State Library, MaryKay worked for eight years in various
capacities at the King County Library System and for over four years at
the Albany Public Library. She holds a Master’s degree in
librarianship from the University of Washington. The new manager for
Government Research and Electronic Services is Robert Hulshof-Schmidt.
Hulshof-Schmidt is a native Oregonian who has worked for the past eight
years at the Southeastern Library Network, Inc. (SOLINET), based in
Atlanta. At SOLINET, Hulshof-Schmidt served in various capacities
including Manager of OCLC Services, and most recently as Manager of
Member Services. Before working at SOLINET, Hulshof-Schmidt was the
head librarian at the Goethe-Institute Atlanta and was a systems
librarian for the US Environmental Protection Agency. "MaryKay and
Robert both bring outstanding professional skills and experience to our
management team," said State Librarian Jim Scheppke. "Our ability to
appointments."
LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT NEWS
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WELCOME NEW LSTA ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS
Welcome to the new members of Oregon's Library Services and Technology
Act Advisory Council; Susan Brandt, Ann Evensen, Patsy Wilber, Kathy
Jensen and Pete Boghossian. Susan Brandt, representing library users,
has been involved for many years with every aspect of the Stayton
Public Library as a Friend, Foundation member, and most recently,
working toward a Library District. Ann Evensen, also representing
library users, is on the Board of the Deschutes Public Library System.
Patsy Wilber hails from Burns, and is a retired school media specialist
representing library users. She also serves on the Harney County
Public Library Board of Directors. Kathy Jensen is representing school
libraries and is active in the Oregon Educational Media Association.
Pete Boghossian, representing disadvantaged users, is a philosophy
professor and volunteer prison educator and is on numerous non-profit
boards.
COMING UP TALLER NOMINATIONS DUE MARCH 24, 2005
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) is
inviting nominations for its 2005 Coming Up Taller Awards. Offered in
partnership with IMLS, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Coming Up Taller Awards
recognize the accomplishments of after-school and out-of- school
programs and activities across the country. The $10,000 Coming Up
Taller Awards assist organizations, further knowledge, and encourage
development of future programs.
At the 2004 Coming Up Taller Awards ceremony, First Lady Laura Bush
remarked that "the arts and humanities are critical building blocks for
a child's development and they provide a strong foundation for a
lifetime of learning. ... The study of the arts and humanities gives
children the chance to be extraordinary-the power to be themselves."
For nomination forms, visit the Coming Up Taller Web site at
www.cominguptaller.org, or contact PCAH at 202-682-5409 for more
information. A list of the 2004 winners can also be found at the Coming
Up Taller Web site.
U.S. POET LAUREATE VISITS OREGON
Ted Kooser, U. S. Poet Laureate, will open the Portland Arts & Lectures
Poetry Downtown series on March 17th at the Wieden + Kennedy Atrium in
Portland. Mr. Kooser’s visit is being underwritten by the Oregon Center
for the Book at the State Library. The Poet Laureate will also open
both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly on March 17th. For more
information about the Poetry Downtown Series visit the Literary Arts
website at: http://www.literary-arts.org
LSTA PROPOSALS DUE APRIL 15
Please remember that LSTA proposals are due at the Oregon State Library
no later than 5:00 pm on April 15. The proposal should not exceed
three pages total and should be in 12 point Times New Roman with one
inch margins. Late proposals or proposals not meeting this format
will not be considered. Projects submitting a proposal for a second
or third year of funding should use appendix A1. The grant packet can
be found online at:
http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/libdev/LSTA/packet.htm. The OSL staff
is happy to look over your proposal and be a friendly sounding board.
Just call Ann Reed at (503) 378-2112 x254.
ACADEMIC LIBRARY SURVEY FROM NCES
As of February 24, 73% of Oregon's academic libraries have registered
for the biannual academic library survey done by the National Center
for Education Statistics, but only 33% have completed their data. The
deadline is March 22. Please register and participate, as the data
will not be published if the response rate is less than 85%. For
assistance in registration, or answering survey questions, call
1-800-523-3205 or email govs.aclib at census.gov.
OTHER LIBRARY NEWS
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HORNER STAFF EXCHANGE A GREAT SUCCESS
Two librarians from Fujian Province in the People’s Republic of China
braved the Oregon winter and spent the month of January touring Oregon
libraries and sharing information with Oregon librarians. Mrs. Zhang
Jianhua from the Fujian Provincial Library and Mr, Chen Feng from the
Xiamen Municipal Library were hosted by the Deschutes Public Library
with partial support from the Horner Library Staff Exchange Program at
the State Library. The State Library maintains an endowment fund that
was the gift of the late Dr. Layton Horner. The Chinese librarians
spent two weeks in Bend in early January followed by two weeks in
Western Oregon touring libraries in Salem, Corvallis, Eugene, and the
Portland area. At they end of their stay, the Oregon Library
Association International Relations Roundtable hosted a farewell
banquet. Many libraries and individual librarians contributed to the
exchange by providing housing, meals, transportation and translation.
The visit was originally to take place last fall, but visa difficulties
delayed the trip until January. Fujian has a tropical climate (it’s at
about the same latitude as Hawaii), but our guests seemed to enjoy the
snow in Central Oregon and our mild winter weather in Western Oregon.
Mrs. Zhang and Mr. Chen, while not knowing much English, were able to
learn a great deal about Oregon libraries. They were particularly
impressed with the participative management practices of Oregon library
managers. The State Library has requested a meeting later this year
with the OLA IRRT and the participants in this year’s staff exchange to
evaluate the program and see if any changes are needed for the future.
PS. (FROM THE STATE LIBRARIAN)
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Kids need libraries. That almost goes without saying, but a new report
from the National Center for Education Statistics provides evidence
that kids may need libraries more than ever.
You can download a copy by going to the NCES website:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005036.
The report is the first in a series of reports on a cohort of children
born in 2001. NCES researchers intend to follow the cohort, which is a
representative sample of all children born in 2001, and study their
educational development, and the influences on that development. This
first report simply gives a profile of the children at approximately
nine months of age (most of the children were between eight and ten
months old at the time of the study). The children’s parents were
interviewed and the children’s development was assessed. Over 10,000
parents and children were included in the sample.
This first report confirms what we often hear about the difficult
environments that many children face in our country today. Nearly one
quarter of the children born in 2001 (23%) were living in households
whose incomes fell below the poverty level. A fifth of the children
were living with only one parent. More than a quarter of the children
(27%) were living with a mother who was not a high school graduate. The
mothers of 11% of the children were 19 years-old or younger at the time
of the child’s birth.
The report shows how many parents are not able to stay home to care for
their infants. Even at nine months of age, half the children were in
some kind of regular child care arrangement. About half of these
children in child care were staying with a relative for most of their
waking hours, and another half were spending most of their waking hours
with a non-relative.
Too many children are living without a father as an important part of
their lives. About 20% of the children had no father in their
household, and less than half of the children (40%) had contact with
their father on the day of the parent interview.
What this report says about the children born in 2001 is that in the
richest nation on earth, many, many children are growing up deprived of
many of the things most of us take for granted. No one should be
surprised that when they reach school age, many of these children will
struggle to achieve even a basic level of learning. It’s fine to have
a goal that our schools leave no child behind, but think about how
“behind” many children are before they even get to school.
I hope that future reports from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
will shed some light on the role that books and libraries may or may
not play in the lives of the children born in 2001. Do these children
have books in their homes? If they are in child care, do their
providers have books? Are the children taken to a public library, and
do they participate in library programs? How do the demographic
characteristics of these children correlate with library use? The
Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey provides a wonderful opportunity to
shed light on these important questions. I can only hope that our
national library organizations (e. g., IMLS, NCLIS, ALA/ALSC) reach out
to NCES and become partners in this ground-breaking research. -- Jim
Scheppke
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STATE LIBRARY CONTACT INFORMATION
Technical Support 503-378-4246
MaryKay Dahlgreen
marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us 503-378-2112, ext. 239
Pam Horan
pam.horan at state.or.us 503-378-2112, ext. 224
Ann Reed
ann.reed at state.or.us 503-378-2112, ext. 254
Jim Scheppke
jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us 503-378-4367
Robin Speer
robin.d.speer at state.or.us 503-378-4243, ext. 221
Val Vogt
val.t.vogt at state.or.us 503-378-2112, ext. 222
OSL's home page
http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/
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