From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Jun 2 09:28:08 2014 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:28:08 +0000 Subject: [R2R-OR] CORRECT LINK: Let us know how we're doing by 6/18: State Library's Library Development Team customer service survey Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA24457AC55B@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Hi again. The hyperlink for the survey isn't working properly. This hyperlink should work: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K2SFKDX. If it doesn't work when you click on it, then trying copying and pasting it into your browser. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks, 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 [Fizz Boom Read][Girlandcloud] Summer Reading 2014 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. From: Katie Anderson Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 3:55 PM To: 'r2r-or at listsmart.osl.state.or.us'; 'Abbie Anderson'; 'Aimee Meuchel'; 'Barratt Miller'; 'Danielle Jones'; 'Elvira Sanchez Kisser'; 'Ian Duncanson'; 'K'Lyn Hann'; 'Mark Richardson'; 'Sonja Summerville'; 'Traci Glass'; 'Becky Pearson'; 'Denise Willms'; 'Heather McNeil'; 'Jane Corry'; 'Karen Fischer'; 'Katie Anderson'; 'Korie Jones Buerkle'; Rebecca Mayer; 'Rick Sameulson'; 'Taylor Worley' Subject: Let us know how we're doing by 6/18: State Library's Library Development Team customer service survey Hello, We would very much appreciate your participation in the Library Development Services 2014 Customer Service Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K2SFKDX. We conduct this survey annually and are sending it to a wide range of customers: academic, public, and tribal library directors; the OLA Executive Board; the OASL Board; the Intellectual Freedom Committee; the OYAN Executive Board; the LSTA Council; the Statewide Database Licensing Advisory Committees; youth services librarians; and LSTA grantees. We are sending this announcement to several e-mail lists so you may receive more than one invitation to participate. Please respond to the survey just once if you receive multiple invitations. The deadline for completion of the survey is Wednesday, June 18th. Thanks for your assistance with this project. As we have in the past, we will use the responses to help shape our priorities and projects. 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Join me in person or by phone at one of these meetings taking place around the state: * Tuesday, April 22 at noon-1:00pm in Roseburg at Douglas County Central Library (NO CALL-IN OPTION) * Tuesday, April 22 at 4:30-5:30pm in Medford at Jackson County Library Services * Monday, April 28 at 11:30-12:30 at the Newport Public Library (NO CALL-IN OPTION) * Tuesday, April 29 at 10:30-11:30am at the Eugene Public Library * Friday, May 2 at 9:30-10:30am in Tillamook at the Tillamook County Library (and stay for the OYAN meeting which is 11am-3pm!) * Wednesday, June 11 at 10:30-11:30am in Baker City at the Baker County Library District * Wednesday, June 11 at 3:00-4:00pm at the Pendleton Public Library * Thursday, June 12 at 11:00am-noon at The Dalles-Wasco County Library (NO CALL-IN OPTION) * Tuesday, June 24 at 1:00-2:00pm in Salem at the State Library, room B9 If you plan to call in, here is the teleconference information you need: * Call 1-877-402-9753 five minutes prior the start time indicated in the schedule above * Dial in the access code 1983578 If you plan to attend in person, you can find the addresses to these libraries via the Oregon Library Directory and use Google maps or a similar website to get directions. Prior to the meeting, please carefully review the attached final draft of the proposal that was developed by the Reimagining Ready to Read task force. I will not be distributing copies of the attached documents at the meetings so please bring your own copy. Hope to see or hear you there, 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 [Fizz Boom Read][Girlandcloud] Summer Reading 2014 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. URSLs if the hyperlinks don't work: * Library Directory: http://libdir.osl.state.or.us/ * Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/preview -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Fri Jun 13 08:17:33 2014 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:17:33 +0000 Subject: [R2R-OR] Reminder: Let us know how we're doing by 6/18: State Library's Library Development Team customer service survey Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA24457B2C88@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Hello, We would very much appreciate your participation in the Library Development Services 2014 Customer Service Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K2SFKDX. We conduct this survey annually and are sending it to a wide range of customers: academic, public, and tribal library directors; the OLA Executive Board; the OASL Board; the Intellectual Freedom Committee; the OYAN Executive Board; the LSTA Council; the Statewide Database Licensing Advisory Committees; youth services librarians; and LSTA grantees. We are sending this announcement to several e-mail lists so you may receive more than one invitation to participate. Please respond to the survey just once if you receive multiple invitations. The deadline for completion of the survey is Wednesday, June 18th. Thanks for your assistance with this project. As we have in the past, we will use the responses to help shape our priorities and projects. Thanks, 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 [Fizz Boom Read][Girlandcloud] Summer Reading 2014 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Remember, the list of grants which tells you how much money your library may apply for is not available online because it is subject to change between now and when you receive your grant in December 2014. The grant list is attached and is included with the hardcopies you should receive this week or next week via snail-mail. Last year I provided coaching to the libraries that needed the most help with outcome based evaluation (OBE) on their 2013-2014 Ready to Read Grant application, and I promised I would send out OBE guidance to all of you with the 2014-2015 application. That guidance is below. I highly recommend that you read it thoroughly and have it in front of you when you fill out the application because the guidance walks you through the application step by step. I've created two examples of completed applications that reflect the examples in the guidance below so take a look at them to see how it all fits together. In addition, I've attached 3 scanned copies of real applications that demonstrated OBE successfully that look different than my two examples-we all have different ways of thinking and communicating so I thought these might be helpful too. Please contact me if you have any questions or need help. As Ann Reed always says, "call early, call often!" Thank you, Katie PS: Remember, the proposed changes to Ready to Read still have to go through the legislative process and, if approved, Reading for Success will replace Ready to Read starting with the 2015-2016 grant cycle. 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 [Fizz Boom Read][Girlandcloud] Summer Reading 2014 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. Step-by-step instructions for filling out your Ready to Read Grant application with OBE: Your library programs, services, and activities can change people's knowledge, attitudes, skills, or behaviors. Outcome based evaluations (OBE) is a way to show how the library helps people make those positive changes. 1. Select 1-3 outcomes listed in the grant application. Choose the outcomes you want to focus staff time and R2R money on to change your patron's knowledge, attitudes, skills, or behaviors. a. Summer reading example (SRP): i. Youth will increase their reading/listening comprehension and ability to effectively communicate their understanding of and opinions about what they are reading/listening. ii. More families with youth will participate in the summer reading programs together as a family. b. Early literacy example (EL): i. Young children will increase their print motivation, vocabulary, print awareness, narrative skills, letter knowledge, phonological awareness, and writing/drawing skills. 2. Describe the activities you plan to implement to help your patrons achieve each outcome you select. Here are two ways of thinking about this: a. (SRP) I want to use R2R to hire summer reading performers and buy giveaway books. i. Who benefits from performances and giveaway books? Kids and families. ii. How can performances and giveaway books change kids' and families' knowledge, attitudes, skills, or behaviors? Performances can bring families together more than other library activities and conversations with adults about the performances and books kids are reading or listening to can develop comprehension skills. iii. What activities can I do to get more families to attend performances together? Families attending the performance events together will get to enter a drawing to win a set of read-aloud books that appeal across ages. iv. What activities can I do to help adults in families and library staff engage kids in conversations about the performances and books that develops comprehension skills? At each event library staff will distribute a handout listing ideas for fun comprehension building activities families can do together at home and set up a display of related library material so families can easily grab and check them out as they leave the library. When kids turn in their reading logs they will be asked a comprehension question by library staff or volunteers and be given a free book. b. (EL) I want to use R2R to get young children to increase their print motivation, vocabulary, print awareness, narrative skills, letter knowledge, phonological awareness, and writing/drawing skills. i. What fun activities provide kids an opportunity to learn and practice the six early literacy skills? Reading, singing, writing, talking, and playing. ii. How am I going to engage young children in those activities? Present weekly preschool storytimes at the library. Each storytime will focus on one or two of the six early literacy skills and include reading, singing songs, using the dialogic reading method to talk about at least one of the books, and one play or writing activity. Activities might include things like creating shapes out of play dough and talking about them to develop vocabulary or using shakers while singing songs to develop phonological awareness. 3. Reread the activities you just described in this application. Did you describe conducting early literacy training to parents, childcare providers, other early childhood professionals, or library staff? Did you describe taking library materials, programs, or services out of your library and providing them elsewhere in your community? You/your library director will have an opportunity to report early literacy training your library provides with other funding on the Public Library Statistics survey. This application is only about how your library uses R2R funds, no additional information needs to be provided. 4. You must evaluate and report on each outcome you select. How do you know when you have changed people's knowledge, attitudes, skills, or behaviors? Some evaluation methods may be personal observation, photographs, surveys of participants, comments on books in a blog, and parents' observations. Just remember to document and file the results so you can include them in your R2R final report. a. (SRP) This example has two outcomes, therefore there will be two evaluations i. How will I know if the performances get more families with youth participating in the summer reading programs together as a family? If I see more people come to performances as part of a family compared to the number of people who come individually or kids who come without an adult caregiver. How will you document this? Take photos. ii. How will I know if kids increase their reading/listening comprehension and ability to effectively communicate their understanding of and opinions about what they are reading/listening? I'll ask kids a question when they turn in their reading logs to get their free book. I will know whether or not my outcome was achieved if more kids' answers demonstrate comprehension. How will you document this? Create a checklist for library staff or volunteers to quickly and easily check-off whether or not each kid is able to communicate their understanding of or opinion about one book they read/heard b. (EL) How will I know if storytimes helped the children increase their print motivation, vocabulary, print awareness, narrative skills, letter knowledge, phonological awareness, and writing/drawing skills? At the end of the last storytime each month I'll ask parents to raise their hands if they think their child has increased a particular early literacy skill as a result of attending storytime. How will you document this? I'll write down the question I asked and the survey results after storytime. 5. Reread the activities you just described in this application. Are you partnering with an organization, agency, business, or school to implement the activities you described? If so, what are the names of your partners? 6. Reread the activities you just described in this application. How many children 0-14 do you think will participate between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015? How many teens and adults 15 years and older will participate between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015? Calculate these numbers by: a. (SRP) Estimate how many people will attend each performance. For example, based on last year's performance attendance I think about 25 children and 20 teens and adults will show up on average. We plan to have 3 performers next year so that will be (25 x 3) 75 youth ages 0-14 and (20 x 3) 60 adults ages 15 and older. b. (EL) Estimate how many people will attend each storytime. For example, we plan to do storytime for 40 weeks and, based on storytime attendance this year, I think about 6 kids and 4 parents will show up every week. That's (40 x 6) 240 youth ages 0-14 and (40 x 4) 160 adults ages 15 and older 7. Items on your budget that are paid for with R2R funds must be mentioned in your activities or evaluation. The whole purpose of filling out this application is to tell the State Library how you plan to use R2R funds to achieve outcomes. a. (SRP) Contract with performers ($600) to present events that will be fun for the whole family. At each event library staff will distribute a handout listing ideas for fun comprehension building activities families can do together at home and set up a display of material related to the event and activities on the handout so families can easily grab and check them out as they leave the library. Families attending the performance events together will get to enter a drawing to win a set of read-aloud books ($100) that appeal across ages. When kids turn in their reading logs they will be asked a comprehension question and be given a free book ($300). i. But don't forget the other things necessary to implement these components of your summer reading program that also cost money such as staff time ($600) to book performers, create handouts, promote performers, set up displays, host performances, take photos at performances, order books, and ask questions and distribute books; printing photos ($10) for the evaluation; and printing fliers promoting the performances to post in the library and around town (promotional materials $10). ii. Are any other funders contributing to these components of your summer reading program? The Friend of the Library will pay for one of the performers ($300). b. (EL) Contract with a storytime presenter ($716) to plan and present weekly preschool storytimes at the library. Each storytime will focus on one or two of the six early literacy skills and include reading books, singing songs, using the dialogic reading method to talk about at least one of the books, and one play or writing activity. These activities might include things like creating shapes out of play dough and talking about them to develop vocabulary or using shakers while singing songs to develop phonological awareness (activity supplies $284). i. But don't forget the other things necessary to implement storytimes that also cost money such as staff time ($60) to promote storytime and storytime fliers to post in the library and around town (promotional materials $10). 8. If successful, do you plan to continue implementing this project in future years? 9. If you plan to continue this project in the future, where will the funding to pay for it come from? 10. Please double-check your work before resubmitting your R2R Grant application. Reread it-even better, have someone else read it if possible-and answer these questions: a. Does each activity explain how it addresses one or more of my outcomes? b. Is there at least one activity for each outcome I selected? c. 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If you have any questions, please contact StarWalk directly via this webpage http://starwalkkids.com/about-us/contact-us.html. I?m emailing this info via the R2R list because all of you are at CSLP member libraries, but not everyone on the other email lists are CSLP member so they do not have permission to use the attached graphics. 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 [Fizz Boom Read][Girlandcloud] Summer Reading 2014 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. From: Karen Yother [mailto:kareny at communitylibrary.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 5:49 PM To: statereps at cslpreads.org Subject: Starwalk popup web assets for CSLP members Hello everyone, StarWalk Kids has provided us with images for your libraries to use to promote the free access to 500 eBooks for kids. 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The 2014-2015 list was just announced, but it isn't on their website yet so here it is: 1. Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper, Philomel, 2010, 978-0399250910 2. In the Wild by David Elliott, Illustrated by Holly Meade, Candlewick, 2010, 978-0763644970 3. Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern Tale by Eric A. Kimmel, Illustrated by Omar Rayyan, Marshall Cavendish Children, 2010, 978-0761455998 4. Tarra & Bella: The Elephant and Dog Who Became Best Friends by Carol Buckley (photos), Putman Juvenile, 2009, 978-0399254437 5. Three Hens and a Peacock by Lester Laminack, Illustrated by Henry Cole, Peachtree Publishers, 2011, 978-1561455645 * Books and audio books on teachers' summer reading lists at your local schools. * Books and audio books on ALA's Association for Library Services to Children summer reading brochures: http://www.ala.org/alsc/2014-summer-reading-list. * Any type of library materials that supports the summer reading programs, events, and activities you have planned. For example, if you have the reptile man present at one of your summer reading events, then you can buy new books and DVDs about reptiles so your display the day of the event has fresh new, exciting materials for people to check out and extend their learning at home. * Any type of library material for children birth to 14 years old related to next year's summer reading theme. The 2015 summer reading theme is 'heroes' which includes any books about everyday heroes, historical heroes, super heroes, side-kicks, anti-heroes, mythological/fantastical heroes and more! There will be bibliographies (book lists) in the summer reading manuals you will receive in November or December, but you don't have to stick to them. You can ask your colleagues for ideas, check publisher's websites to see if they have created their own underground themed lists, and search the Internet. You might start with searching for "2015 summer reading dig into reading" on Pinterest. You'll find mostly programming and craft ideas, but you'll also find book ideas! If you have any questions or ideas, please contact me. 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Evaluation of the Road Show: * Desired outcome: library staff will feel better about the proposed changes to the Ready to Read Grant program. * 49 out of 131 eligible libraries participated in the Road Show. Many libraries sent 2-3 staff, but I didn't do actual head counts. (output measure, number of participating libraries) * I did an informal thumbs ups, thumbs sideways, and thumbs down survey at the end of most stops on the Road Show. Most people felt better about the proposed changes to the grant as a result of participating in the Road Show, 5-7 people felt about the same, and no one felt worse. (outcome indicator, survey) * Some participant comments (paraphrased) include: (outcome indicator, informal interview) o These changes seem better than Ready to Read as it is now. o These forms are much easier. o I'm glad the minimum grant and age range are increasing. o I like having more options for what I can spend state money on. o I'm glad the budget pages aren't changing. o I'm glad we won't have to worry about the 0-14 age limit for summer reading. o What we're already doing with Ready to Read meets the underserved criteria so I'm not worried anymore. o I learned that my library is an a geographically underserved community so everything I do meets the underserved criteria and I feel a lot better now. o I like having more options, but need more ideas for school age projects and teen SRP. o I'm going to need a lot help the first couple years figuring this out, but I'm not worried about the changes any more. o Having three evaluation options make me feel less overwhelmed, but I will need help the first couple years. o I feel better about the engaging the underserved criteria now, but I will need help the first couple years. o I'm not really concerned about the proposed changes, but I'm still worried about outcome based evaluation in general. o Ready to Read as currently exists overwhelms me and I don't think these proposed changes will make me feel better or worse. o I've never done Ready to Read so I don't know how I feel about it let alone the proposed changes. * At the beginning of Road Show stops I observed most participants to be intensely focused, not smiling, fairly quiet, and kind-of stiff. By the end of each session I observed most participants to be smiling, talking a lot, relaxed, and at several stops even laughing! These observations indicate that most people seemed concerned about the proposed changes at the beginning, but comfortable with them at the end of road show sessions. (outcome indicator, observation) Based on these evaluation results, the State Library plans to: * Submit a proposal to OLA to present The Ready to Read Road Show as a session at the 2015 OLA Annual Conference. This will be the same as what I just did on the Road Show because the evaluation indicated the way I conducted the Road Show was effective for most participants. This will provide an opportunity for libraries that didn't participate to do so and for repetition for those of us who need to hear things a couple times to feel we really understand it. * Conduct two face-to-face and one webinar training (recorded and archived) on outcome base evaluation as it relates to filling out the grant application, implementing the grant project, and filling out the grant report. No timeline yet, but I'll keep you posted... and warn you in advance it will be my first time presenting in a webinar! * Continue to provide Ready to Read/Reading for Success consulting on an as needed basis. Most of you are already doing this, but just in case you're new or didn't know... You can always: o Call or email me to ask questions. o Ask me to come visit your library to discuss the grant in detail-or to come visit me at the State Library! o Ask me to attend a staff, board, and/or cooperative organization meeting to answer questions. o Ask me to present a session at a staff in-service day or cooperative organization meeting on a particular grant related topic or issue. The proposed changes to the Ready to Read Grant program (Reading for Success) have started through the legislative process. This is a long process. The next time we'll hear anything is at the end of November when the Governor releases his proposed budget. We will give you an update at that time. In the mean time, please... Email (katie.anderson at state.or.us) or call (503-378-2528) the Youth Services Consultant to ask questions about the proposed changes to the Ready to Read Grant. Email the State Librarian (marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us) to express support for or concerns about the proposed changes to the Ready to Read Grant to be shared with decision makers. Thanks, 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 [Fizz Boom Read][Girlandcloud] Summer Reading 2014 at Oregon libraries! Find a summer food site. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 3127 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2117 bytes Desc: image004.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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