From katie.anderson at state.or.us Wed May 4 09:35:12 2011 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 16:35:12 +0000 Subject: [R2R-OR] 2011 SRP sweepstakes materials on their way to your library Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA241B25C6DF@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Dear Library Directors and Ready to Read key contacts, I will be sending the following announcement on the kids-lib and OYAN email lists next week to make sure all children's and teen librarians have this information. However, I wanted to give library directors and youth services managers (in most cases Ready to Read key contacts) a heads-up first. The 2011 summer reading sweepstakes materials should start going out today so please be on the look out to receive them in the coming weeks. If you don't receive your materials by Friday, May 27th please contact Kathy Griffin (email and phone number listed below). Please note that Destination College Savings is the name of the 2011 summer reading sweepstakes. Last year it was Dive into Saving for College. The name of the summer reading sweepstakes will change every year to reflect the statewide summer reading theme. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Katie 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 _________________________________________________________ Announcing the 2011 Summer Reading Program Partnership [X] 15 Opportunities for Libraries to Win $500 for Future Programs! DEAR OREGON PUBLIC LIBRARIES: The Oregon College Savings Plan, the Oregon State Library and the Oregon Library Association are pleased to announce the 2011 Summer Reading Program partnership, ?Destination College Savings.? Destination College Savings is designed to encourage Oregon residents to participate in your summer reading program while helping families learn more about saving for college. HOW IT WORKS: Simply encourage parents (or guardians and grandparents) to enter Destination College Savings when their child signs up for summer reading at your library (or any other way that works best for your library). They can enter by completing a short entry form and dropping the postage-paid card in the mail. Please note that entry cards will not be available at Multnomah County Library so their patrons will need to enter online at OregonCollegeSavings.com. Fifteen summer reading participants statewide will be randomly selected as winners of a $1,000 Oregon College Savings Plan account, (three per congressional district). Plus, each winner?s library will receive a cash prize of $500 to use toward future programs. The contest begins June 1, 2011 and ends September 2, 2011. HOW TO PROMOTE DESTINATION COLLEGE SAVINGS A starter kit of materials is on its way to your library (based on quantities your library ordered in November). More supplies can be ordered anytime for free at oregon.college.savings at admailinc.com. DESTINATION COLLEGE SAVINGS MATERIALS AVAILABLE TO ORDER * Entry Card. Encourage parents to fill out the postage-paid entry card at your library and drop it in the mail. One entry per child. Each child must be 18 or younger to participate. * Oregon College Savings Plan Brochure. Help families learn more about saving for college by distributing an Oregon College Savings Plan Brochure along with the Entry Card. * Bookmark. Give these out to the kids as a fun way to remind them about summer reading and college savings. * Table Tent. Place these on library tables or on your counter. * Posters. Hang posters where they will help you promote summer reading and the contest. Questions about materials? Contact Kathy Griffin at kgriffin at tiaa-cref.org or 503-477-9710. Questions about the program? Contact Katie Anderson at katie.anderson at state.or.us or 503-378-2528. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Please visit OregonCollegeSavings.com for official rules and prize details. Entries must be postmarked by September 2, 2011, and received by September 6, 2011. Sponsored by the Oregon College Savings Plan. Consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing in the Plan. Please visit OregonCollegeSavings.com to obtain a Disclosure Booklet containing this information. Read it carefully. Investments in the Plan are neither insured nor guaranteed and there is the risk of investment loss. The Oregon College Savings Plan is administered by the State of Oregon. TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing Inc., is the plan manager. C50743 ************************************************************************* This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. TIAA-CREF ************* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Fri May 6 15:39:22 2011 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 22:39:22 +0000 Subject: [R2R-OR] 2010 SRP report, stats to track for 2011 SRP Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA241B28E88A@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> 2010 Oregon summer reading program report Last November 124 of 128 Oregon public libraries completed the 2010 summer reading survey. The statistics reported in that survey have been compiled into the attached 'Oregon State Library: Summer Reading Brief 2011'. This brief is a snapshot of library summer reading program outputs in Oregon last summer. This has been shared at the state level to provide information about the impact of the Ready to Read grant program. Please feel free to use this report as template to create a summer reading brief to share your library's summer reading statistics with key stake holders in your community. 2011 summer reading program statistics reminder Many of you requested that I send out a reminder about what statistics you will be asked to report on the 2011 summer reading survey so you can be sure you're collecting the right data this summer. Below are the summer reading statistics you will be asked to report this Fall. Keep in mind that Oregon libraries are at liberty to implement the statewide summer reading program in whatever way works best for their communities therefore libraries may not track all of these statistics-that's okay, you don't have to report something you don't track. Please let me know if you have any questions. Do children and teens have to sign-up (or register) to participate in your summer reading program? If yes, then: * How many children and teens total signed up? * If you track children and teens separately, how many CHILDREN signed-up? * If you track children and teens separately, how many TEENS signed-up? Do children and teens participating in your summer reading program fill out a reading record (reading log, game board, etc.) to track how much they read/listen to books over the summer? If yes, then: * How many children and teens turned in completed reading records (i.e. how many finishers did you have)? * If children and teens reported the amount of time they spent reading on their reading records, how many HOURS did they read? (For example: If kids had to read 10 hours to complete a reading record and your library received 78 completed reading records, then you would enter '780' as your answer to this question. You can report to your stakeholders that kids at your library read 780 hours over the summer.) * If children and teens reported the number of pages they read on their reading records, how many PAGES did they read? (For example: If kids had to read 100 pages to complete a reading record and your library received 52 completed reading records, then you would enter '5,200' as your answer to this question. You can report to your stakeholders that kids at your library read 5,200 pages over the summer.) * If children and teens reported the number of books they read on their reading records, how many BOOKS did they read? (For example: If kids had to read 5 books to complete a reading record and your library received 100 completed reading records, then you would enter '500' as your answer to this question. You can report to your stakeholders that kids at your library read 500 books over the summer.) * If children and teens didn't report amount of time spent reading, number of pages read, or number of books read on their reading records; how did they track their reading over the summer? How many CHILDREN'S summer reading programs/activities/events did you offer? How many people attended summer reading programs/activities/events targeting CHILDREN? How many TEEN summer reading programs/activities/events did you offer? How many people attended summer reading programs/activities/events targeting TEENS? Did your library have an adult summer reading program? If yes, then: * How many adults participated? * How did you track participation? 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The deadline for submitting 2011-2012 Ready to Read applications is August 31, 2011. Please mark your calendars accordingly to meet that deadline because late applications will not be approved. Please contact me if you have any questions. I'm happy to help you with the application process. Thank you, Katie 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 Jim Scheppke Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 10:56 AM To: Public Library Directors Subject: [PL-Directors] Update on Ready to Read Funding Dear Directors: I wanted you to have the latest news about what to expect for funding for the Ready to Read Grant Program this year and next year. On Friday the Ways and Means Committee passed out SB 5521, our budget for the 2011-13 biennium. It contains a budget for the Ready to Read Grant program of $1,215,438. This is a 3% reduction from the program budget in the 2009-11 biennium which was $1,250,074. The 2011-13 budget is equivalent to 78 cents per child per year. You will recall that we started the 2009-11 biennium with funding for the program at 94 cents per child per year. However in the second year of the biennium the program experienced two across-the-board reductions that reduced the funding for grants made last December to 67 cents per child per year. Those of you who receive more than the minimum $1,000 grant should expect an increase in the grant you receive this December of 16%. In December 2012 your grant should be just slightly larger than the grant you receive this December. This will reflect the difference in funding from 67 cents per child in the second year of the 2007-09 biennium to 78 cents per child in both years of the 2011-13 biennium. The reason the grants go up slightly in the second year of the biennium is because they are based on the estimated growth in the number of children, birth-14, in the state. SB 5521 also keeps funding for he Ready to Read Grant program in the OSL budget for now. You may recall that Governor Kitzhaber proposed to move the program to the Early Learning Council, a new agency that he is creating. The Legislature decided not to do this until the Early Learning Council is better established. They will probably look at this again when they meet next February. SB 5521 still has to be approved by both chambers of the Legislature and signed by the Governor, but we expect this to happen in the next few weeks. As usual we will be sending out the applications for Ready to Read Grants on July 1st this year including an estimate of your grant award. I know this is kind of confusing, so please let me know if you have any questions about this. 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 [cid:image001.jpg at 01CC1961.DFE3C470]Go Green, Keep it on screen - think before you print. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1427 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: