From jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us Fri May 1 08:19:40 2009 From: jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us (Jim Scheppke) Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 08:19:40 -0700 Subject: [PL-Directors] Stimulus Funds for Broadband and Public Access Computing Message-ID: Dear Directors: There is an opportunity for public libraries to benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka "stimulus funds") that are targeted for improvements to broadband access and public access computing. This ALA website has lots of good information that you should review if you are interested in this: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/wo/woissues/washfunding/fedfund/arra 101pgs/broadband.cfm There are two programs that will have a total of $7.2 billion in funding nationwide. The Oregon Public Utility Commission has estimated that Oregon grantees may be able to receive a total of $55 million. Grants can be made to both public and private sector entities. The best opportunity for libraries appears to be with the NTIA program that you can read about on the ALA website. It sets aside $200 million nationwide specifically for "public computer center capacity" (sounds like public libraries to me!). The grant guidelines and applications for these programs are not yet available, but should be available before too long. The deadline for applications is not known, but may be sometime this summer. The NTIA grants will a require 20% match from non-federal sources, though there is a waiver provision. The most competitive applications may be from large-scale projects put together by coalitions of community partners, perhaps even public and private-sector partners. If I were you I would investigate whether there is already a coalition forming in your community that the library could be a part of. Most cities and counties are well-aware of these grants. Find out what is going on in your community. Governor Kulongoski plans to endorse a limited number of applications from Oregon that he believes will provide a good benefit to the state. If your library is part of a large scale project that might merit support from the Governor I would be happy to help try to get your project on the Governor's list. Things are moving quickly on this. Some project concepts have already been submitted to the Governor's office. Again, I would encourage you to try to find out what projects are cooking in your community that might be enhanced to benefit your library. --> 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 jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us Tue May 5 15:42:19 2009 From: jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us (Jim Scheppke) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 15:42:19 -0700 Subject: [PL-Directors] Meeting With Oregon Department of Revenue Message-ID: Dear Directors: The State Library got a lot of feedback from public libraries this year about the difficulties you experienced with new policies and practices of the Oregon Department of Revenue. We understand that tax forms and instructions were in very short supply in many libraries. Printing forms and instructions from the Department's website in the library presents other problems for library patrons. I spoke to the Director of the Oregon Department of Revenue, Elizabeth Harchenko, and she is willing to send some high level staff to a meeting at the State Library to discuss what might be done next year to improve the availability of tax forms and instructions in public libraries. I don't think we can expect a return to the policies and practices of the past, but I am hopeful that there are some ways that the current situation might be improved if we all put our heads together and look for solutions that work for everyone. I am looking for public librarians who would be willing to come to a meeting in Salem sometime in the next few months to meet with representatives from the Department of Revenue. If you or someone on your staff would be willing to do this, I would love to hear from you. I will need the name and contact information for the librarians who would like to participate. Please send a reply to this email if you'd like to suggest someone to participate. Thanks! --> 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 jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us Thu May 7 08:05:45 2009 From: jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us (Jim Scheppke) Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 08:05:45 -0700 Subject: [PL-Directors] Be Part of Oregon 150 Project 2059 In-Reply-To: <217371070905070158j748cf852xe38cb755f2a9f60a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Directors: I was asked by the Director of Oregon 150 to send you this message about the opportunity for public libraries to be part of an Oregon 150 project targeting youth in many communities throughout the state. Please read the message below and see if your library is in one of the targeted communities listed in the attachment. If you would like your library to be part of this project, please contact Travis Huntington by email or phone. Thanks for your consideration. --> Jim ********* Greetings, Public Library Directors My name is Travis Huntington and I am a media mentor with the Multnomah Youth Commission's Voicebox Media .? VBM is a city/county partnership providing free skills-based workshops in new media literacy, grass roots outreach and media production to under served youth.? I was engaged by Oregon 150 to lead a statewide effort to facilitate the Youth Legacy Project a visioning effort for the 2059 project.? The existing VBM student are aiding me in engaging and empowering youth across the state to assure all of Oregon's Youth have a voice in the shaping of our future. We are reaching out to you in hopes that you will partner with OR150 and host a 45 minute visioning process in the next two weeks.? The schedule for the most part has been determined and is attached for your perusal.? We apologize for the late notice, however I believe if possible, the library is a natural environment for this state-strengthening collaboration, especially since most of the coolest things I remember about childhood came from a library. As for support, we are 2 people needing a 10 x 10 space at a minimum to do the following: * Set up an easel with a dry erase tablet, a camera on a tripod and a laptop (connected to the Internet) on a table with two chairs * Provide a 15 minute jam session enabling and eliciting personal visions * Provide aid in inputting those individual visions onto the or150 website * Record individual visions on a video This effort is one of two stages. One involves myself traveling the state from town to town to engage youth in the visioning process. The second calls together 400 youth from around the state to convene in Salem for Youth Symposium June 29th-July 1st.? Ideally, the youth that attend this visioning process will be encouraged to attend the symposium.? At which, the collective vision will be formatted into a legacy action plan including several good works efforts and an eye towards the green jobs of tomorrow. To confirm this request please email me! Or feel free to call me directly at 503.312.1716 with questions or suggestions. I am hoping to confirm all possible locations by 5/12 at the latest. Sooner if possible. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this matter.? I look forward to meeting you all in person. Go Oregon. Best, Travis Huntington Media Mentor ---------------------------------------------- - findtravis at gmail.com - - 503.312.1716 - ---------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I am hoping that you will encourage participation in a brief survey by posting this email on your state library blog and/or forward this email to all the public library directors in your state. The survey is a Web-based survey and should take no more than 2-3 minutes to complete The link to the survey is http://jm.countingopinions.com/feedback/ Should you have any questions I would be delighted to respond via email. Kind regards, Joe Matthews Instructor, School of Library & Information Science San Jose State University www.slisweb.sjsu.edu Joe at JoeMatthews.Org ------ End of Forwarded Message -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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My thanks to all of the members of the Statewide Database Licensing Advisory Committee, chaired by Mary Finnegan of the Corvallis-Benton County Library, and to all of the external reviewers who assisted the SDLAC with their rigorous evaluation process. --> 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: 5-19-09 Directors.doc Type: application/msword Size: 96256 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us Wed May 20 16:19:39 2009 From: jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us (Jim Scheppke) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:19:39 -0700 Subject: [PL-Directors] FW: ALA, Gates Foundation Co-host Broadband Briefing; Video of Meeting Available In-Reply-To: <61ec90900905201429t78ed87a4v793a60685594d669@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Directors: I attended this meeting in Washington DC when I was there for ALA National Library Legislative Day last week. This is worth looking at if you are interested in getting ?stimulus? money to improve the broadband capacity and/or public access computing capacity at your library. What I heard at this meeting reinforces the message that I have already given to you: * If you want stimulus money the first step is to find out what is happening in your community and become a partner. * Leave no stone unturned ? contact your city, your county, your community college, your ESD, etc., as well as private providers of broadband services. * Private providers that are trying to get a grant to build out their broadband services might welcome having a library as a partner to show the ?public purpose? of their proposal. * Oregon is not putting together a big statewide initiative for broadband like some states, so it?s up to you to partner with a local coalition to get stimulus money. * I?m happy to tout your local coalition project to the Governor?s office for possible endorsement, if you let me know about it. I hope you or your staff will look at the video for helpful insight into the two Federal grant programs that will be releasing guidelines soon. Let me know if you have questions about this. --> Jim ------ Forwarded Message From: Diedre Conkling Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:29:39 -0700 To: libs-or , Subject: [Libs-Or] Fwd: [District Dispatch] ALA, Gates Foundation Co-host Broadband Briefing; Video of Meeting Available on 'Know Your Stimulus' Site ALA, Gates Foundation Co-host Broadband Briefing; Video of Meeting Available on ?Know Your Stimulus? Site May 20th, 2009 http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=2914 On May 12, the American Library Association (ALA) Washington Office and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-hosted a briefing on the broadband aspects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) targeted to state librarians and other leaders in the library community. The meeting was hosted and moderated by Emily Sheketoff and Alan Inouye of the ALA Washington Office and featured: * John Windhausen, President, Telepoly, and former Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee * Greg Rohde, President, E-Copernicus, and former Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) * Linda Schatz, President, EdTech Strategies, and former Vice President of the Universal Service Administrative Company (which administers the E-rate program) * Lynne Bradley, Director, ALA?s Office of Government Relations * Carrie Lowe, Director, Program on Networks in ALA?s Office for Information Technology Policy * Jill Nishi, Deputy Director, U.S. Libraries Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The agenda can be viewed here . The presentation slides, and video recording are available at the ALA ?KnowYourStimulus? Web site. -- Diedre Conkling diedre08 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us Thu May 21 10:03:53 2009 From: jim.b.scheppke at state.or.us (Jim Scheppke) Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:03:53 -0700 Subject: [PL-Directors] FW: ALA, Gates Foundation Co-host Broadband Briefing; Video of Meeting Available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Good question Andy. CIPA compliance is only required for certain expenditures of LSTA funds and E-rate funds. There is no CIPA requirement for the stimulus funds. --> Jim On 5/20/09 4:33 PM, "Andy Swanson" wrote: > Jim, > Is this with or without CIPA compliance? > Andy > > > From: pl-directors-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us > [mailto:pl-directors-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Jim > Scheppke > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:20 PM > To: Public Library Directors > Subject: [PL-Directors] FW: ALA, Gates Foundation Co-host Broadband Briefing; > Video of Meeting Available > > Dear Directors: I attended this meeting in Washington DC when I was there for > ALA National Library Legislative Day last week. This is worth looking at if > you are interested in getting ?stimulus? money to improve the broadband > capacity and/or public access computing capacity at your library. What I heard > at this meeting reinforces the message that I have already given to you: > * If you want stimulus money the first step is to find out what is happening > in your community and become a partner. > * Leave no stone unturned ? contact your city, your county, your community > college, your ESD, etc., as well as private providers of broadband services. > * Private providers that are trying to get a grant to build out their > broadband services might welcome having a library as a partner to show the > ?public purpose? of their proposal. > * Oregon is not putting together a big statewide initiative for broadband like > some states, so it?s up to you to partner with a local coalition to get > stimulus money. > * I?m happy to tout your local coalition project to the Governor?s office for > possible endorsement, if you let me know about it. > > I hope you or your staff will look at the video for helpful insight into the > two Federal grant programs that will be releasing guidelines soon. Let me know > if you have questions about this. --> Jim > > > > ------ Forwarded Message > From: Diedre Conkling > Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:29:39 -0700 > To: libs-or , > Subject: [Libs-Or] Fwd: [District Dispatch] ALA, Gates Foundation Co-host > Broadband Briefing; Video of Meeting Available on 'Know Your Stimulus' Site > > ALA, Gates Foundation Co-host Broadband Briefing; Video of Meeting Available > on ?Know Your Stimulus? Site > May 20th, 2009 > http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=2914 > On May 12, the American Library Association (ALA) Washington Office and the > Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-hosted a briefing on the broadband aspects > of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) targeted to state > librarians and other leaders in the library community. > > The meeting was hosted and moderated by Emily Sheketoff and Alan Inouye of the > ALA Washington Office and featured: > * John Windhausen, President, Telepoly, and former Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate > Commerce Committee > * Greg Rohde, President, E-Copernicus, and former Administrator, National > Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) > * Linda Schatz, President, EdTech Strategies, and former Vice President of the > Universal Service Administrative Company (which administers the E-rate > program) > * Lynne Bradley, Director, ALA?s Office of Government Relations > * Carrie Lowe, Director, Program on Networks in ALA?s Office for Information > Technology Policy > * Jill Nishi, Deputy Director, U.S. Libraries Program, Bill & Melinda Gates > Foundation > The agenda can be viewed here > gagenda-final2.pdf> . The presentation slides, and video recording are > available at the ALA ?KnowYourStimulus? Web > site. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Tue May 26 10:25:01 2009 From: dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (MaryKay Dahlgreen) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:25:01 -0700 Subject: [PL-Directors] Library Development Customer Service Survey Message-ID: Dear Directors: Thanks to those of you who have completed the 2009 customer service survey of Library Development at the State Library. Those of you who haven't responded, we would appreciate your feedback to our survey at: http://library.state.or.us/services/surveys/survey.php?sid=260 In addition to sharing this information with the State Library Board and the Legislature, we use your feedback to plan and prioritize the activities of Library Development. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. The survey will be open until the end of the day on June 1st. 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 reed_ann at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Tue May 26 10:27:19 2009 From: reed_ann at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Ann Reed) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:27:19 -0700 Subject: [PL-Directors] new data question to debut on FY08-09 public library statistical report Message-ID: <6251F0E5-C654-4647-BB1D-F140110CDCD2@oslmac.osl.state.or.us> Dear Directors, The Public Library Statistical Cooperative, coordinated by the IMLS, creates the national public library data set and voted to begin collecting information on library programs targeted to young adults. The Cooperative also agreed to define the age range of children as "up to age 11" and define young adult as "ages 12-18." Unfortunately, the Oregon State Library is on the earliest cycle of data reporting to the Cooperative, which starts very soon after such an election. The Oregon Public Library Statistical Report previously has collected data on the annual total for adult and children's programs and program attendance. We will include this new data element in the 2009 annual report but the information will be voluntary this first year, as many libraries may not already be collecting that type of information. This change means that libraries should count both the programs they offer for children and for young adults, and use the Cooperative's definition of children and young adults. As in the past, the audience count is everyone who attends, regardless of age. Libraries will decide for themselves if the programs they offer were targeted at children or young adults, but a single program may be counted only in one category, and attendance should be attributed correspondingly. Programs for all ages or for families often are counted as children's programs, but it all depends on the library's intended audience for the program. If the library does not offer programs targeted to young adults, the library would report 0. If a library is not able separate out estimates of young adult programs from current statistics, please use n.c. for not collected. This change at the national level is in response to the growing awareness that young adults benefit from specific services and that more libraries are offering services and programs designed for that audience. The new array of programming statistics: Number of Young Adult Programs A young adult program is any planned event for which the primary audience is young adult and which introduces the group of young adults attending to any of the broad range of library services or activities for young adults or which directly provides information to participants. Young adult programs may cover use of the library, library services, or library tours. Young adult programs may also provide cultural, recreational, or educational information, often designed to meet a specific social need. Examples of these types of programs include book clubs and summer reading events. Count all young adult programs, whether held on- or off-site, that are sponsored or co-sponsored by the library. Do not include young adult programs sponsored by other groups that use library facilities. If young adult programs are offered as a series, count each program in the series. For example, a book club offered every two weeks, 24 weeks a year, should be counted as 24 programs. Exclude library activities for young adults delivered on a one-to-one basis, rather than to a group, such as one-to-one literacy tutoring, services to homebound, homework assistance, and mentoring activities. This figure is a subset of the Total Number of Library Programs. Note: The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) defines young adults as age 12-18. Young Adult Program Attendance The count of the audience at all programs for which the primary audience is young adults 12 to 18 years. Include adults* who attend programs intended primarily for young adults. Note: Do not count attendance at library activities for young adults that are delivered on a one-to-one basis, rather than to a group, such as one-to-one literacy tutoring, services to homebound, homework assistance, and mentoring activities. * Please count all patrons that attend the young adult program regardless of age. With changes to the following: Number of Children's Programs A children's program is any planned event for which the primary audience is children and which introduces the group of children attending to any of the broad range of library services or activities for children or which directly provides information to participants. Children's programs may cover use of the library, library services, or library tours. Children's programs may also provide cultural, recreational, or educational information, often designed to meet a specific social need. Examples of these types of programs include story hours and summer reading events. Count all children's programs, whether held on- or off-site, that are sponsored or co-sponsored by the library. Do not include children's programs sponsored by other groups that use library facilities. If children's programs are offered as a series, count each program in the series. For example, a story hour offered once a week, 48 weeks a year, should be counted as 48 programs. Exclude library activities for children delivered on a one-to-one basis, rather than to a group, such as one-to-one literacy tutoring, services to homebound, homework assistance, and mentoring activities. This figure is a subset of the Total Number of Library Programs. Note: Children's age is defined as 11 years and under. Children's Program Attendance The count of the audience at all programs for which the primary audience is children 11 years and under. Include adults* who attend programs intended primarily for children. Note: Do not count attendance at library activities for children that are delivered on a one-to-one basis, rather than to a group, such as one-to-one literacy tutoring, services to homebound, homework assistance, and mentoring activities. * Please count all patrons that attend the children's program regardless of age. The number of adult programs, and adult program attendance remain unaffected. Please don't hesitate to call me with any questions. Ann Reed, Federal Programs Coordinator Library Development Services Oregon State Library 250 Winter St. NE Salem, OR 97305 phone 503-378-5027 fax 503-378-6439 www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Wed May 27 13:32:30 2009 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:32:30 -0700 Subject: [PL-Directors] Promote your authors events on the Oregon Authors Website Message-ID: <57713A22-01CC-4747-A14D-8DD564DBD3B0@oslmac.osl.state.or.us> Dear Library Directors, You can now add your library's author events to the calendar on the Oregon Authors Website! The Oregon Authors Website (http://www.oregonauthors.org/) is an excellent place for your library to promote author events because it is the one-stop-shopping site for people to learn about Oregon authors, their books, how to connect to Oregon's readers and writers groups, and upcoming author events. Please provide the following Events Calendar Guidelines and Login Information to the one person on your staff who will be responsible for adding your library's author events to the calendar on the Oregon Authors Website. Events Calendar Guidelines Only public, academic, and tribal libraries in Oregon may post events. Libraries may only post author events. Author events must be open to the public. Authors may be from states other than Oregon. Library staff posting events will not change, correct, or delete postings by other libraries. If you notice an error in another library's posting please contact us at contact at oregonauthors.org so we can work with the library to correct it. Libraries will select one staff member to be responsible for posting to the Oregon Authors Website events calendar. Libraries will use language appropriate for people of all ages--no profane, vulgar, graphic, or violent language please. If you have problems or questions please contact us at contact at oregonauthors.org. Login Information Go to: http://www.google.com/calendar/render Sign in to Google Calendar with: Email: OregonAuthors Password: 0reg0nauth0rs Sincerely, OLA's Oregon Authors Committee contact at oregonauthors.org http://www.oregonauthors.org/ The Oregon Authors Website is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: