From darci.hanning at state.or.us Tue Jan 6 11:03:06 2015 From: darci.hanning at state.or.us (Darci Hanning) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:03:06 +0000 Subject: [PL-Directors] USDA Community Connect Grant Program Webinar Message-ID: Greetings! Please see the attached PDF for complete information. On January 15th and 21st the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) will host webinars focused on the Community-Oriented Connectivity Broadband Grant Program (Community Connect Grant Program). These webinars will inform participants about the major eligibility and regulatory requirements of the program and will provide detailed guidance on how to submit a successful grant application. There will also be time for participants to ask the speakers specific questions about putting together an application. To register, please contact Deborah Herndon or Gayle Buckner at (202) 720-0800 or email: deborah.herndon at wdc.usda.gov and gayle.buckner at wdc.usda.gov. The Audio Conference and WebEx information will be provided prior to the scheduled workshop sessions. Contact the RUS at community.connect at wdc.usda.gov with questions about these events. For more information on the Community Connect Grants, please visit: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/utp_commconnect.html Cheers! Darci ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Darci Hanning * Technology Development Consultant Library Support and Development Services * Oregon State Library 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 503-378-2527 darci.hanning at state.or.us [stORytime] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 16295 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please have one person at your library complete this online survey by February 1, 2015: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ELHubs If your library is not working with your Early Learning Hub, the survey will take you less than 5 minutes to complete because you will only have to answer two questions. If your library is working with your Early Learning Hub, the survey will take you at least 10 minutes to complete. Most are multiple choice questions so shouldn't take you much time, but there are five optional open-ended questions at the end that will take you as much or as little time as you choose to spend on them. I will be sending an email out on the kids-lib, OYAN, and libs-or listservs to let your staff know you have the link to this survey. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Katie Katie Anderson, Library Support and 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 [StoryTime_GrandeRonde.png] Become a StORytime partner! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The transition team will be undertaking a software selection process for vendor-hosted virtual reference software. A vendor-hosted platform will be more affordable and require less maintenance by staff than the current software. It should also allow the service to keep up-to-date with transitions in technology without additional outlays of investment. Training on the new software will be organized by Answerland staff, and is planned to begin in May. We plan to continue all existing services of Answerland: chat, email, text, and 24/7 backup service. We will communicate regularly to keep you up to date. A transition page is in place at https://www.answerland.org/transition Since 2003 Answerland has been Oregon's collaborative virtual reference service. The service is staffed by 48 number of partner libraries and by volunteers, and answers an average of 35,000 questions by live chat, email and text messaging annually. Answerland is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library. The fiscal agent for the program since its inception in 2003 has been Multnomah County Library. The Oregon State Library Board of Trustees met on December 5 and voted unanimously in support of moving Answerland from Multnomah County Library to the Oregon State Library. If you have questions about the transition, please contact Rachael Short (rachaels at multco.us), the Answerland Service Coordinator. Please also feel free to call or e-mail me if you have questions, marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us 503-378-4367 MaryKay Dahlgreen Oregon State Librarian 503-378-4367 marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us http://oregon.gov/osl [StoryTime_Core.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition to our 2015-2017 budget the Governor, at our request, has introduced legislation to make changes to the Ready to Read Grant program. The bill number is HB2479 and changes the name from Ready to Read to Reading for Success, increases the ages served from 0 to 14 to 0 to 17, and allows libraries to provide out of school time activities for school age children in addition to early literacy and summer reading. Katie Anderson, our youth services consultant, brought together a group of stakeholders in early 2014 to develop the changes. She also spent some time on the road this summer introducing the concepts across the state. She will be doing a presentation at the OLA conference about the changes that will occur if the legislation passes. I will be in touch about this on a regular basis and welcome questions. The State Library is continuing to phase out Oregon Center for the Book activities. We still haven't found a new home for it and are working with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The Oregon Poetry Collection has moved to the University of Oregon. The Oregon Poetry Association, State Library, and University of Oregon are hopeful that the collection will get more use in an academic setting where professors can integrate it into their curriculum and students can use it for assignments. The Oregon Poetry Collection will still be available statewide via interlibrary loan and the Oregon Library Passport Program. The Oregon Center for the Book's partnership with Literary Arts to promote the Oregon Book Awards in public libraries has also changed. The State Library will still communicate Oregon Book Award related information to the library community on behalf of Literary Art, but will no longer distribute finalists' titles to select libraries. Literary Arts currently plans to continue providing copies of finalists' titles to select libraries, but will likely make changes to that program. This is the last year the Oregon Center for the Book will run Letters About Literature, the national reading and writing contest for youth in 4th through 12th grade. I am having discussions with several organizations to gauge their interest in running this contest. As you may have read in the January Letter to Libraries Online, we are having a materials offering at the State Library on January 21st. The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society (WVGS) has been housing selected genealogical resources at the Genealogical Resources Center (GRC) at the Oregon State Library (OSL) through a partnership that began in 1987. These materials were purchased and acquired by WVGS. They are WVGS materials and will be moved to the WVGS new location which is expected to be the Salem Public Library. The partnership between the State Library and WVGS has ended, although the State Library will store the WVGS materials until May 2015. Genealogy materials added to the Oregon State Library collection prior to 1987 that meet established collection development guidelines will remain in the State Library collection. Materials that are housed at OSL but belong to other organizations will not be removed from the collection. Materials that do not meet the mission of the Collections of the Oregon State Library will be weeded from the collection, which is standard practice with library materials. Weeded items will follow the OSL collection disposal process and stipulations in the Memorandum of Understanding between the Oregon State Library and the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society. Disposition of these genealogy materials is being coordinated with WVGS and the genealogical community in Oregon. Materials are being offered to genealogy organizations and other libraries. If you have questions about the material offering process please contact Kate McGann at kate.e.mcgann at state.or.us. We have been working with the consulting firm, Coraggio Group, since August of 2014 to develop a strategic plan that will take us through the 2015-2017 biennium. We have almost completed that work and I am creating a publication that we can share with you. I am very excited about the work that has been done by both the State Library Board of Trustees and the staff of the State Library. The work we have done in the last several months has been based on all the input and work the library community and other stakeholders have done in the last two years. We have updated our vision and mission, created core values, and strategic imperatives. The strategic imperatives we will be working on are: Focus on the Customer, Build Awareness of the State Library, Build on Staff Strengths, and Enhance Partnerships. I will send out a link when we get the publication together. The Oregon library community has been incredibly supportive of the State Library over the years and I can't thank you enough for your support, your interest, and your ideas. I am very excited as we continue to create an Oregon State Library for the 21st century. Please feel free to contact me with questions, concerns, or if you just want to chat. MaryKay MaryKay Dahlgreen Oregon State Librarian 503-378-4367 marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us http://oregon.gov/osl [StoryTime_Core.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We will continue to offer consulting, and commenting on proposal drafts. The requirements for outcome based evaluation continue and strengthen. A big change is the need for projects to stick to a realistic 12 month timeline, with very limited time for extensions. The proposed new schedule would look like this for competitive (and statewide) projects: January 2016 LSTA grant packet announced and available electronically Last 2 weeks in March 2016 A voluntary review group using google docs, or wiki, blog, etc for interested LSTA Council members to leave comments on electronic drafts January to April 2016 Writing time for full proposal Mid April 2016 Full Proposals due Mid May 2016 LSTA Council meets - recommends full competitive proposals to OSL Board Late May 2016 Library Development mails letter to applicants / sends Council recommendations to Board Mid-June 2016 Board reviews and approves new competitive grants Mid-June 2016 Send grant contracts July 1, 2016 New grants start September 2016 LSTA Council refines guidelines, best practice, reviews final grant reports (inc. evaluation) June 30, 2017 Competitive grants end We will be working with multiple year projects to cope with this change in schedule. 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URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Jan 26 08:07:21 2015 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:07:21 +0000 Subject: [PL-Directors] One week reminder: Libraries and Early Learning Hubs: information needed by 2/1 Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA24529DF987@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Just a little reminder that if you haven't take this survey about public libraries and early learning hubs yet, please do by the end of the day Sunday, February 1st. Thanks! Please have one person at your library complete this online survey by February 1, 2015: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ELHubs Katie Anderson, Library Support and 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 Follow us: [cid:image004.png at 01D0358C.4523C4D0] [http://www.thewwwblog.com/images/blogger-logo.jpg] [Picture] From: Katie Anderson Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:21 PM To: ' (pl-directors at listsmart.osl.state.or.us)' Subject: Libraries and Early Learning Hubs: information needed by 2/1 Dear Public Library Directors, The State Library and OLA's Children's Services Division are talking about how we can better support public libraries working with their regional Early Learning Hub. To get started, we need a little information from libraries. Please have one person at your library complete this online survey by February 1, 2015: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ELHubs If your library is not working with your Early Learning Hub, the survey will take you less than 5 minutes to complete because you will only have to answer two questions. If your library is working with your Early Learning Hub, the survey will take you at least 10 minutes to complete. Most are multiple choice questions so shouldn't take you much time, but there are five optional open-ended questions at the end that will take you as much or as little time as you choose to spend on them. I will be sending an email out on the kids-lib, OYAN, and libs-or listservs to let your staff know you have the link to this survey. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Katie Katie Anderson, Library Support and 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 [StoryTime_GrandeRonde.png] Become a StORytime partner! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image008.png Type: image/png Size: 22483 bytes Desc: image008.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 923 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image009.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 859 bytes Desc: image009.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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MaryKay MaryKay Dahlgreen Oregon State Librarian 503-378-4367 marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us http://oregon.gov/osl [02_inch_2_color_cmyk] ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear public library directors- As some of you know, I've been hired by the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) to conduct a needs assessment of Oregon's public libraries. The goal of the project is to assist funders in identifying how best to support public libraries of all sizes as they provide 21st century library services to a diverse public. In designing the research methodology for this project, I have placed a high emphasis on gathering information from public library directors because more than anyone else, you maintain the big picture about community needs and library services. Because you are all experts in this arena, I want to make sure that your many voices are heard. There are two ways that you can help make this happen: 1. Attend a focus group. These have been scheduled in late February and early March at eight locations around the state: * February 17: Wilsonville Public Library (10 - 11:30 am) 8200 SW Wilsonville Road * February 18: OCF Portland office (2 - 3:30 pm) 1221 SW Yamhill St., Suite 100 * Feb. 23: OCF Medford office (2 - 3:30 pm) 818 W. 8TH Street * Feb. 25: OCF Eugene office (10 - 11:30 am) 440 E. Broadway, Suite 160 * Feb. 27: Coos Bay Public Library (10 - 11:30 am) 525 Anderson Avenue * March 3: OCF Bend office (2 - 3:30 pm) 15 W. Colorado Avenue * March 5: Newport Public Library (1 - 2:30 pm) 35 NW Nye Street * March 11: Pendleton Public Library: (1 - 2:30 pm) 502 SW Dorion Avenue As you can see, four of these focus groups will be held at Oregon Community Foundation offices around the state and after these focus groups, there will be an informal opportunity to meet local OCF staff. (This is also true of the Coos Bay focus group, which will be held at the Coos Bay library.) My thanks to Pat Duke, Sami Pierson, Ted Smith and Mary Finney for hosting focus groups at their libraries. If you like to reserve your space in a focus group, e-mail me at penny at pennyhummel.com specifying which one you prefer. (A call is OK too; you'll find me at 503.890.0494) 2. Fill out an online survey. In a few weeks, you'll receive a link to an online survey that I'd like to you to fill out (even if you are attending a focus group). This survey is designed so that it can be shared with library board members, Friends and Foundation staff and board members. This needs assessment offers a once-in-a generation opportunity for Oregon's public libraries to provide comprehensive input about their current and future needs to the philanthropic community. A report documenting the outcomes of the needs assessment will be presented to The Oregon Community Foundation in June, 2015 and subsequently shared with the public. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at penny at pennyhummel.com or 503.890.0494. Thank you and I look forward to seeing many of you soon at the focus groups! Penny Hummel Penny Hummel Consulting www.pennyhummel.com 503.890.0494 penny at pennyhummel.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4678 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: