From marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us Wed Nov 6 13:18:07 2013 From: marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us (MaryKay Dahlgreen) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 21:18:07 +0000 Subject: [PL-Directors] Addendum to OSL Reorganization Report Message-ID: I will be posting this to libs-or in addition to sending it to you directors. I apologize for the cross posting but I need to spread the word a widely as possible. Thanks for your understanding. Senator Steiner Hayward and Representative Nathanson have created an addendum to their report that was released on October 25th. The addendum responds to questions that have been posed. They anticipate there will be other questions and they will continue to provide responses. We have replaced the October 25th version on our website with the November 6th version and will continue to post updated versions as we receive them. It is available at: http://www.oregon.gov/osl/Transformation/Final%20Library%20Reorganization%20Report-2013.11.06.pdf MaryKay MaryKay Dahlgreen State Librarian Oregon State Library marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us 503-378-4367 [cid:image001.jpg at 01CEDAF2.A1F76950] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1922 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From ann.reed at state.or.us Thu Nov 7 11:32:02 2013 From: ann.reed at state.or.us (Ann Reed) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:32:02 +0000 Subject: [PL-Directors] Oregon Digital Newspaper Program title selection announcement Message-ID: <810CC03BDFB8D94883767344C8B7EE2E4266C5F4@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Posted on behalf of the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program _______________________________________________ Thank you to many of you for nominating titles for our next phase of digitization for Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP)! After reviewing over 40 title nominations from public libraries and historical societies across the state, the ODNP advisory board has selected the initial titles for this phase. As part of the National Endowment for Humanities' National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), these titles will be available both on Historic Oregon Newspapers, http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu, and the Library of Congress' Chronicling America, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. The top 10 selected titles are: 1) Hood River. Hood River Glacier 2) Dallas. Polk County Observer 3) Albany. State Rights Democrat 4) Salem. Daily Capital Journal/Capital Journal 5) Pendleton. East Oregonian: E.O. 6) Roseburg. Douglas Independent/Roseburg Review 7) Heppner. The Gazette-Times 8) St. Helens. Oregon Mist 9) Corvallis. Corvallis Gazette/Corvallis Times/Oregon Union/Union-Gazette 10) Spray. Spray Courier We will begin working through portions of the top 10 titles, assessing conditions for digitization and collecting metadata immediately. Next fall, our advisory board will meet to select the remaining pages for this phase of our NDNP grant, reviewing secondary priority titles and additional pertinent titles that have significant state support. Secondary priority titles include selections from: Albany, Astoria, Athena, Canby, Condon, Dallas, Echo, Hillsboro, Junction City, La Grande, Lebanon, Portland, Silverton, St. Helens, and Weston. In addition to our grant project, we're ready and willing to work with you! Historic newspapers digitized through the ODNP are made keyword searchable and freely available to the public online at Historic Oregon Newspapers. With over 3,000 Oregon newspaper titles in the public domain, we have just begun to skim the surface of potential content to be included in the collection. Please contact us for more information if you're interested in helping to put your local newspaper content online and contributing to the valuable public service that the ODNP provides. Check out over 540,000 historic Oregon newspaper pages already online at: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu! Please let us know if you have any questions. Best, Sheila Rabun Project Coordinator, Oregon Digital Newspaper Program University of Oregon Libraries (541) 346-1859 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darci.hanning at state.or.us Fri Nov 8 16:10:26 2013 From: darci.hanning at state.or.us (Darci Hanning) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 00:10:26 +0000 Subject: [PL-Directors] Call for Speakers: 2014 Big Talk From Small Libraries (Online Conference) Message-ID: Greetings! This will be of interest to our smaller public libraries, don't hesitate to submit something, our very own Bob Jones was a presenter last year :-) Call for Speakers for the 2014 Big Talk From Small Libraries online conference The Call for Speakers for Big Talk From Small Libraries is now open! This free one-day online conference is aimed at librarians from small libraries; the smaller the better. Small libraries of all types - public, academic, school, museum, special, etc. - are encouraged to submit a proposal. Do you offer a service or program at your small library that other librarians might like to hear about? Have you implemented a new (or old) technology, hosted an event, partnered with others in your community, or just done something really cool? The Big Talk From Small Libraries online conference gives you the opportunity to share what you've done, while learning what your colleagues in other small libraries are doing. Here are some possible topics to get you thinking: * Unique Libraries * Special Collections * New buildings * Fundraising * Improved Workflows * Staff Development * Advocacy Efforts * Community Partnerships * That great thing you're doing at your library! For Big Talk From Small Libraries 2014, we're looking for seven 50-minute presentations and five 10-minute "lightning round" presentations. Big Talk From Small Libraries 2014 will be held on Friday, February 28, 2014 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (CT) via the GoToWebinar online meeting service. Speakers will be able to present their programs from their own desktops. The schedule will accommodate speakers' time-zones. If you are interested in presenting, please submit your proposal via the online form at http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk/call-for-speakers/ by Friday, January 10, 2014. Speakers from libraries serving fewer than 10,000 people will be preferred, but presentations from libraries with larger service populations will be considered. More details about the conference can be found @ http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk This conference is organized and hosted by the Nebraska Library Commission (http://nlc.nebraska.gov/) and is co-sponsored by the Association for Rural & Small Libraries (http://arsl.info/). Cheers, Darci ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Darci Hanning * Technology Development Consultant * Library Development Services Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 503-378-2527 darci.hanning at state.or.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: