From jennifer.maurer at state.or.us Fri Jun 1 10:26:52 2012 From: jennifer.maurer at state.or.us (Jennifer Maurer) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:26:52 +0000 Subject: [PL-Directors] FW: Get your library in strategic shape with PLA Boot Camp Message-ID: PLA is offering a four-and-a-half-day boot camp labeled as an "intensive library management training" and designed around PLA's Results series. For more information, see the email below or visit http://www.ala.org/pla/education/bootcamp. 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 From: Public Library Association [mailto:pla at ala.org] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 9:05 AM To: Jennifer Maurer Subject: Get your library in strategic shape with PLA Boot Camp [http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/pla/bootcamplogo221x164.jpg] 2012 PLA Boot Camp August 21-25, 2012 Nashville (Tenn.) Public Library One of PLA's most popular professional development programs returns this fall to offer intensive and interactive public library management education. Results Are What Matters: Management Tools and Techniques to Improve Library Services and Programs August 21-25, 2012 Nashville (Tenn.) Public Library Instructors: June Garcia and Sandra Nelson * Four and a half days of management training that you didn't learn in library school * Designed around PLA's Results Series, the definitive resource for everyday library management for more than a decade * Dynamic learning with individual and group activities Topics that will be explored during the 2012 PLA Boot Camp include: * Strategic Planning * Data-Based Decision-Making * Effective Resource Allocation * Implementation Strategies * Change Management Because participation is limited to ensure an environment that fosters group interaction and active engagement, interested librarians are required to fill out an online application to be accepted into Boot Camp. The application deadline is June 29, 2012. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance into the program within two weeks of submitting an application and can then proceed with registration. "PLA Boot Camp was the most practical, applicable library workshop I have attended in my 20-year library career." Previous Boot Camp Attendee ___________________________________________ [http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/pla/pla_purplebstreso.jpg] 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611 * (800) 545-2433 x5PLA * pla at ala.org [Share on Facebook][Shared on Twitter] [Informz for iMIS] [http://ala.informz.net/z/cmVkNi5hc3A_bWk9MjQwMjU3MSZ1PTEwMjAwMTYxNDEmYj00MDUz/image.gif] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us Fri Jun 1 16:27:32 2012 From: marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us (MaryKay Dahlgreen) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 23:27:32 +0000 Subject: [PL-Directors] Oregon State Library update Message-ID: Hello all- I want to share couple of things that have occurred recently that I think will be of interest to you. In the 2012 Legislative Session held during Feburary 2012 the Legislature agreed upon a general plan for covering the $28 million budget shortfall in the 2011-2013 state budget. We were told that we would need to reduce our general fund expenditures by $19,886. In March and April the Legislative Fiscal Office (LFO), in cooperation with the Governor's Office and the Department of Administrative Services (DAS), began working on a specific reduction plan. We were instructed that the reduction should come from management service. The final outcome of the discussions was that the LFO recommended to the Emergency Board, which met on May 23rd and voted in agreement, that the State Library would eliminate our Library Development Program Manager position (currently vacant), eliminate our Human Resources Manager and contract with DAS for HR services, and move a librarian position from Government Research Services to Library Development. The impact of this decision is that our TBABS manager, Susan Westin, will become the manager of Library Development services as well. The librarian position that is being moved from GRS to LD will become the key contact on the Statewide Database Licensing Program and the Libraries of Oregon project, in addition to the inevitable "other duties as assigned" We will not be able to make this change until July but are working on a plan and process for that move. I will remain very involved with libraries and the development of libraries. I believe that one of my primary tasks is interacting with libraries, communities and policy makers and once the dust has settled (which I have complete confidence will happen...) I hope to visit your library. OSL has a great staff and a great Library Board, the Oregon library community is one of (or perhaps the) best library community in the country. Thanks for all your help and support; past, present and future. 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Please read this email I sent to you several weeks ago for details: 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: pl-directors-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:pl-directors-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Katie Anderson Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:49 PM To: (pl-directors at listsmart.osl.state.or.us) Subject: [PL-Directors] Challenges to library material report reminder: due 7/9/12 to the State Library Dear Library Directors, Every year the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (OIFC) publishes a report on challenges to all types of library materials in Oregon. This report provides a landscape of censorship activity in Oregon, and is submitted to ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom to be included in their report on censorship activity in the United States. The Annual Report is also used by librarians, professors, and teachers to help them develop activities for Banned Books Week. The Annual Report is based on challenge reports OIFC receives from all types of Oregon libraries (school, academic, and public). All libraries are encouraged to report challenges to materials on a voluntary basis. OIFC does not publish names of people, organizations, libraries, schools, colleges/universities, or towns identified in challenge reports. I will be compiling the 2012 OIFC Annual Report in August. Please submit all challenge reports by July 9, 2012. Submit a separate challenge report for each formal challenge to library materials that occurred at your library between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. This information is complied to assist Oregon libraries currently facing a challenge as well as providing information that will help you plan Banned Books Week activities. The Annual Report will tell you what books were challenged in Oregon libraries the previous year. The more libraries reporting challenges to OIFC the better OIFC can help you! Please take time to report challenges to OIFC. The accuracy of OIFC's Annual Report and Title Index to Challenges is directly related to the number of Oregon libraries reporting challenges. To report challenges to materials at your library: 1. Print the attached challenge report form or download and print the form at http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml#Report_Challenges_to_the_State_Library. 2. Fill out a challenge report form for each item that went through your library's formal process for dealing with challenges to library material. 3. Send your completed form(s) to Ferol Weyand by: * Mail: Oregon State Library c/o Ferol Weyand 250 Winter St. NE Salem, OR 97301 * Fax: 503-378-6439 * Email: ferol.weyand at state.or.us For more information about OIFC visit our website (http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml) or contact the coordinator of OIFC, Katie Anderson, 503-378-2528. Thank you, Katie Anderson Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: oifc.report.challenge.word.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 70647 bytes Desc: oifc.report.challenge.word.pdf URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Jun 25 15:23:50 2012 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:23:50 +0000 Subject: [PL-Directors] Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute: Register now! Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2431454CE3@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> 2012 Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute Dates: Sept. 16th-19th, 2012 Fee: $75 (this includes meals and lodging!) Location: Menucha Retreat and Conference Center in the Columbia River Gorge Download the registration form online at: http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/youthsvcs/focusinstitute.aspx Registration Deadline: Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 Questions about registration? Contact Ferol Weyand at 503-378-2525 Questions about the Focus Institute? Contact Katie Anderson 503-378-2528 The Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute seeks to provide a foundation of professional knowledge about youth services necessary for the operation of small public libraries in Oregon. Participants will attend several training sessions over the course of three and a half days. The sessions concentrate on the principles of public library services to children and teens, and how to put those principles into practice. Session topics may change from year to year based on research, library practices, and trends which change and improve continually. Feedback from the previous Focus Institute participants is also considered when planning session topics. Training sessions are presented by highly skilled, experienced Youth Services Librarians in Oregon. Presenters are typically active members of the Oregon Library Association's Children's Services Division (CSD) and Oregon Young Adult Network (OYAN). 2012 Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute Sessions and Presenters Sunday 9/16: * Check-in 4:00-5:00pm * Orientation * Meet the new State Librarian, MaryKay Dahlgreen! * Networking Topic: getting to know each other and our libraries Monday 9/17: * Language, Literacy and Early Brain Development (Joann Contini) * Readers' Advisory for Parents & Young Children (Dana Campbell) * Storytime Best Practices (Rick Samuelson) * Outreach (Rick Samuelson) * Networking Topic: trouble shooting issues with services, programs, collections and more Tuesday 9/18: * Becoming Thinkers (Barbara Steinberg) * Applying Becoming Thinkers in Your Library (Deeda Chamberlain, Jane Corry, and Krist Obrist) * After-school Activities for the Elementary Set (Esther Moberg, Korie Jones Buerkle, and Nancy Peate) * Everyone Serves Teens (Susan Smallsreed and Deborah Gitlitz) * Networking Topic: sharing booklists, programming ideas, and other fun stuff Wednesday 9/19: * Selling it in the Stacks to Teens (Ruth Allen and Traci Glass) * Teen Programming (K'Lyn Hann) * Last session ends at noon Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In the FAQ there is a question about people without internet access and this is the response: Oregon's Kitchen Table is committed to trying to bring all Oregonians to the table. In our experiment phase, we are pursuing partnerships with libraries to increase access for folks without internet access. We're committed to identifying and addressing barriers to participation and hope you will offer any suggestions or solutions you have so we can make it easier for everyone to take part. I'm sharing this with you today because I am interested in knowing if any of your libraries have been approached to partner with this group and I also think this is an interesting experiment in civic engagement that you might want to highlight at your library. Thanks, MaryKay MaryKay Dahlgreen State Librarian Oregon State Library marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us 503-378-4367 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: