From dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Mon Dec 1 10:47:58 2008 From: dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (MaryKay Dahlgreen) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:47:58 -0800 Subject: [PL-Directors] Public Library directors meeting at State Library Message-ID: 1. As requested, I have scheduled a public library directors meeting at the State Library for fall, 2009. It will be held on Monday, September 28, 2009. If there is a major conflict that you are aware of, please let me know by the end of this week (December 5th). 2. We are in the process of setting up the email discussion list for public library directors. I have named it OR-PLDirectors to distinguish it from this list. We will continue to use pl-directors as an announcement-only list for library development staff to post to. I will subscribe all of you to OR-PLDirectors, all list members will be able to post and membership will be restricted to current public library directors. You will get a welcome message when you are subscribed. Unlike the PL-Directors list you will be able to unsubscribe from OR-PLDirectors if you wish. MaryKay 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: From jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us Mon Dec 1 11:08:01 2008 From: jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us (Jim Scheppke) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:08:01 -0800 Subject: [PL-Directors] Gates Broadband Assessment Survey - Due 12/19 Message-ID: Dear Public Library Director: I am writing to inform you about a new opportunity to work in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve access to high-quality technology services in public libraries across our country. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has recently launched a nationwide effort to collect detailed information about Internet connections in all public libraries in the United States. This effort, the Broadband Assessment Project, will help the foundation and its partners raise awareness of the need for high-quality Internet in public libraries and how to meet this need. The data collected by the foundation will also help us in our collective work to improve support and funding for Internet services in Oregon public libraries. It will provide essential data about the levels of Internet connectivity and the resources we devote to these services state-wide. Finally, the data collected through the project will inform future Gates Foundation investments to increase and sustain access to broadband Internet in public libraries. In order to ensure that the project can help us effectively advocate for increased support of library connectivity, we need your help. We strongly urge you to participate in this important program. The foundation has engaged a team of third-party researchers to conduct the Broadband Assessment Project. Here is what we need you to do now, so that we are able to assist the researchers in their work: > Download, save and review the attached spreadsheet, then gather the > information requested. Please note that we are asking you for the information > for each library facility (branch/outlet, please do not include mobile units) > you may be responsible for. The types of questions you?ll need to answer > differ from other broad-ranging surveys you may have already participated in > such as the American Library Association & Florida State University Public > Library Funding and Technology Access Survey (ALA/FSU Survey). Specifically, > the foundation wants to understand the following: > * Basic branch/outlet information, number of Internet subscriptions and > subscription decision-maker. > * The type of Internet connection, the connection speed, the provider and the > cost of the connection (information you can obtain from monthly bills or other > contract agreements; we will need this information for each Internet service > subscription at the branch/outlet). > * Basic description of the source of funding for your connections. > Enter your answers on the attached spreadsheet, for all the branches/outlets > you oversee. We have included spaces for up to 20 branches/outlets (one > column in the spreadsheet should be used for each facility). If you have any > questions on how to complete the form, please email Oregon at LRWsupport.com or > call Barbara Giaimo at 310-552-7704. > Review your answers for completeness and return the spreadsheet via email by > Friday, December 19th. Please attach and return the spreadsheet via email to > Oregon at LRWsupport.com . Please also save a copy for your own records. > Take the time to speak with the researcher who contacts you. A representative > from Lieberman Research Worldwide (a professional third party researcher hired > by the foundation) may contact you by telephone beginning on December 22nd to > confirm the information you have sent in, check on your completion of the > questionnaire, or, if we do not receive a spreadsheet from you, to collect the > information over the telephone. If a representative from Lieberman Research > Worldwide calls you, they will request that you refer to and/or read your > answers to the questionnaire over the phone so please keep your copy of the > spreadsheet in a place that?s easy for you to access. I want to thank you in advance for taking the time to provide the requested information completely and thoroughly. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has provided us and our colleagues across the country with an important opportunity to work together to help improve Internet connectivity in public libraries. Finding approaches to increase and sustain public library connectivity and public access to Internet-based library services is critical to Oregon libraries and the communities we serve. Again, you have questions about completing the survey please contact Barbara Giaimo at the email address or phone number above. I will greatly appreciate your cooperation. Sincerely, Jim Scheppke, State Librarian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Broadband Assessment Project Survey.xls Type: application/x-msexcel Size: 107008 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I will greatly appreciate your cooperation in helping the Gates Foundation to continue their commitment to improving public library services in Oregon and elsewhere. --> Jim Jim Scheppke, State Librarian Oregon State Library 250 Winter St. NE Salem, OR 97301 503-378-4367 (fax) 503-585-8059 jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Broadband Assessment Project Survey.xls Type: application/x-msexcel Size: 107008 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Fri Dec 12 10:51:50 2008 From: dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (MaryKay Dahlgreen) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:51:50 -0800 Subject: [PL-Directors] Fall 2009 Public Library Directors meeting Message-ID: It was pointed out to me that September 28th, the day I had scheduled the meeting is the first day of Yom Kippur. I have scheduled the rooms for October 5th as an alternate to September 28th if that is the group's wish. Please get back to me by January 5th with your preference: September 28th October 5th Thanks, MK 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: From jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us Mon Dec 15 09:28:38 2008 From: jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us (Jim Scheppke) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:28:38 -0800 Subject: [PL-Directors] Influential Legislators Message-ID: Dear Directors: Last week the committee assignments for the 75th Oregon Legislative Assembly were announced. Typically the Legislators who have the most influence about the State Library Budget, including the Ready to Read Grant program, are the member of the Ways and Means Committee in the House and Senate. Here are the members, for your information. The Legislators with an asterisk are even more influential, because they sit on the Education Subcommittee that is likely to hear our budget and make recommendations to the full committee. Joint Ways & Means (Senate members) Sen. Margaret Carter, Co-Chair (Multnomah Co.) Sen. Betsy Johnson, Vice Chair (North Coast) Sen. Alan Bates (Jackson Co.) Sen. Vicki Walker (Lane Co.) Sen. Joanne Verger (Central and S. Coast) Sen. Rod Monroe (Clackamas Co.)* Sen. Jackie Winters (Marion, Polk Co.) Sen. David Nelson (NE Oregon) Sen. Doug Whitsett (Central Oregon) Sen. Fred Girod (Marion, Linn, Clackamas Cos.)* (House members) Rep. Peter Buckley, Co-Chair (Ashland) Rep. Nancy Nathanson, Vice Chair (Eugene) Rep.David Edwards (Hillsboro)* Rep. Larry Galizio (Beaverton, Tigard)* Rep. Bill Garrard (Klamath Falls) Rep.George Gilman (Prineville, Lakeview) Rep.Bob Jenson (Umatilla Co.) Rep. Betty Komp (Woodburn, Salem)* Rep. Tina Kotek (Portland) Rep. Dennis Richardson (Grants Pass, Medford) Rep. Chip Shields (Portland) Rep. Greg Smith (NE Oregon)* In addition, Sen. Richard Devlin (Lake Oswego and Tualatin)*, Reps. Judy Stiegler (Bend)* and Gene Whisnant (Redmond)* will sit on the Education subcommittee, though not on the full Ways and Means Committee. If you have a Legislator on the list above (especially the ones with an asterisk), I would ask that you communicate with them about the importance of the Ready to Read Grant program and other State Library programs to your community. Ask them to support funding for the Ready to Read Grant program as recommended by Governor Kulongoski at $1 per child per year with $1,000 minimum grants (the same as this biennium). Let them know what your library plans to do with your Ready to Read grant to help more children in your community become good readers. The Legislature does not convene until January 12th, so you still have plenty of time to communicate with your Legislators before they come to Salem. Even if they are not on the Ways and Means Committee, let them know that the Ready to Read Grant program and other State Library programs are important. I also hope you have marked your calendar for Thursday, March 5th, which will be OLA Legislative Day in Salem. We need all of you here to support the Ready to Read Grant program and other programs in what will undoubtedly be a very tough budget year in Salem. I will appreciate your help. --> Jim Jim Scheppke, State Librarian Oregon State Library 250 Winter St. NE Salem, OR 97301 503-378-4367 (fax) 503-585-8059 jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us From cventgen at cclsd.org Mon Dec 15 15:13:52 2008 From: cventgen at cclsd.org (Carol Ventgen) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:13:52 -0800 Subject: [PL-Directors] Fall 2009 Public Library Directors meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4946E4B0.1050208@cclsd.org> I will not be able to attend on October 5 as I'll be out of the state. Carol ventgen MaryKay Dahlgreen wrote: > > It was pointed out to me that September 28^th , the day I had > scheduled the meeting is the first day of Yom Kippur. I have scheduled > the rooms for October 5^th as an alternate to September 28^th if that > is the group?s wish. Please get back to me by January 5^th with your > preference: > > September 28^th > > October 5^th > > Thanks, > > MK > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > PL-Directors mailing list > PL-Directors at listsmart.osl.state.or.us > http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/pl-directors > Hosted by the Oregon State Library > (503) 378-4246 >