From katie.anderson at state.or.us Wed Mar 2 09:07:47 2016 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 17:07:47 +0000 Subject: [R2R-OR] Learn about hands-on programming for your summer reading program Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA246483DD08@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> While the following workshop isn't explicitly about summer reading, all of these hands-on programs could be part of your summer reading program for 0-14 year olds. It's a good opportunity to get ideas for trying new things next summer!-Katie ________________________________ There is still time to register for the OLA's Children's Services Division spring workshop! Follow this link and save your seat today. HANDS-ON PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOL-AGE KIDS Bubble Making with Violeta Garza (Multnomah County Library): Test several recipes to see which one makes the best bubbles! Calming Jars with Kathy Street (Oregon Trail Library District): These gorgeous jars of glitter are a great tool for starting conversations about feelings and helping kids manage their emotions. Island Dreams with Mary Beth Hustoles & Jessica Marie (Salem Public Library): An island themed activity course (indoor or out); instructions, demonstration and supplies to make Geckos, lanterns, Octopus and Hula Dancer crafts... and a couple of surprises. Marble Runs with Carson Mischel & Lizzy Lowery (Beaverton City Library): We will be bringing two large peg boards and a variety of tubes, pulleys, string and other whatnots. Participants can use the supplies provided and their imagination to create marble runs on the peg boards! Sign Language Storytime with Dawn Prochovnic (SmallTalk Learning): Sign language is the ultimate hands-on learning activity. Visit this Demonstration Station to explore and engage in a variety of tried and true Sign Language Story Time practices and related extension activities. We'll play games, sing songs, move and groove, use some props, and see some examples of a craft or two! Tinker Tech with Lucinda Gustavson (Springfield Public Library): Come play with us! We have Little Bits, Snap Circuits, Makey Makey boards, Dash & Dot Robots, Cubelets, 3D pens, Magna Tiles and more. This is your chance to try out all those fun tech toys you've heard about. SILENT AUCTION Our silent auction is back, bigger and better than ever before! We'll be auctioning off 3 fantastic baskets of goodies, plus giving 1 basket away as a door prize to a lucky winner. If you would like to bid on an auction item, please bring cash or your checkbook. Katie Anderson, Youth Services Consultant Library Support and Development Services Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 [cid:image004.png at 01D0358C.4523C4D0] [http://www.thewwwblog.com/images/blogger-logo.jpg] [http://www.aethlonmedical.com/assets/001/5130.png] [Picture] Reminder: Many small, rural libraries are not getting useful information about professional development opportunities and resources that is being shared on other listservs. Therefore I've decide to forward items that are relevant to improving early literacy for 0-6 year olds and summer reading for 0-14 year olds on the Ready to Read grant listserv. I will be very selective about what I share on this list to ensure they all relate to the purposes of the Ready to Read grant and so you aren't overwhelmed with too many emails. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA246483EA46@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Make a Splash with Project Outcome: Measuring the Success of Summer Reading Programs Thursday, March 17 at 11:00am-12:00pm This free webinar is designed to teach participants how to administer Project Outcome surveys to measure outcomes for their library's summer reading program. By successfully administering surveys, libraries will be able to use the results to showcase program successes and influence future summer reading programs. Participants will hear from one Project Outcome participant who successfully surveyed their summer reading program in 2015 and learned valuable lessons from the process. There will also be a Q&A and discussion segment where participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share ideas with their peers. Takeaways At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will: * Understand how to successfully measure summer reading programs using the Project Outcome Summer Reading survey; * Know how to apply best practices for summer reading surveying; and * Be able to use the results to influence changes to future summer programming. Who Should Attend This webinar is open to everyone, but will be most beneficial for those already registered with Project Outcome. Project Outcome is a free service provided by the Public Library Association. If you would like to enroll in Project Outcome in advance of the webinar, please do so at www.projectoutcome.org and view our "How to Enroll in Project Outcome" webinar for training. What is Project Outcome Project Outcome is a national program designed to help public libraries evaluate the impact library services and programs have on people and communities. Read the following email for details. Project Outcome would be a great tool to use to evaluate your Ready to Read grant projects-both summer reading and early literacy projects! Thanks, Katie Katie Anderson, Youth Services Consultant Library Support and Development Services Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 [cid:image004.png at 01D0358C.4523C4D0] [http://www.thewwwblog.com/images/blogger-logo.jpg] [http://www.aethlonmedical.com/assets/001/5130.png] [Picture] From: Katie Anderson Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 3:31 PM Subject: Frustrated by outcome based evaluation? Project Outcome for public libraries is a no-cost resource that may help! If you answer "yes" to any of the following questions, then Project Outcome might be right for your public library! * Do you have anxiety about conducting a proper outcome based evaluation? * Does your public library need to do outcome based evaluation, but you don't have the time or resources to do it from scratch? * Are you struggling to find a good survey tool to gather information about your programs for outcome based evaluation reports? * Are you unsure how to effectively analyze and present the results of an outcome based evaluation? * Are you considering paying to subscribe to Impact Survey? Project Outcome is free for public libraries until at least 2017 (maybe longer!) and also gives public libraries free access to Impact Survey. Learn more: https://www.projectoutcome.org/ Interested in trying Project Outcome? Talk with your library director about it. All public library directors should have received this email on 11/5/2015. If you want more information about how Project Outcome aligns with what's going on in the Oregon public library community, read on! If not, skip the rest of this email. Project Outcome evaluates four desired outcomes across seven types of library services and programs. The four outcomes evaluated are patrons' changes in 1) knowledge, 2) skills, 3) behavior, and 4) attitude as a result of using library services. The seven library service areas these four outcomes are evaluated in are: * Civic/community engagement * Digital inclusion * Early childhood literacy * Economic development * Education and lifelong learning * Job skills * Summer reading As an Oregon public library, you might use Project Outcome to conduct outcome based evaluations associated with: * Edge Initiative (digital inclusion, education and lifelong learning, job skills) * Ready to Read grant (early childhood literacy, summer reading) * Statewide databases (education and lifelong learning, job skills) * Optional: Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) competitive grants (Project Outcome service areas would vary depending on your LSTA grant) Questions about using Project Outcome for statewide programs? Contact: * Darci Hanning, darci.hanning at state.or.us (Edge Initiative) * Katie Anderson, katie.anderson at state.or.us (Ready to Read) * Arlene Weible, arlene.weible at state.or.us (Statewide Database Licensing Program) * Ann Reed, ann.reed at state.or.us (LSTA) Thanks, Katie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 859 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.gif Type: image/gif Size: 794 bytes Desc: image003.gif URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2098 bytes Desc: image004.jpg URL: From kids at bakerlib.org Mon Mar 7 11:33:00 2016 From: kids at bakerlib.org (kids at bakerlib.org) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:33:00 -0700 Subject: [R2R-OR] Opening for Youth Services Librarian, Baker County Library District Message-ID: <20160307123300.64abbf843f74d39945baf8df8e2b9d83.9c543244e1.wbe@email09.secureserver.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Mar 7 12:21:41 2016 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:21:41 +0000 Subject: [R2R-OR] Summer Reading Performer Showcase 2016- Save the Date Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA24648424B5@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Every-other year OLA?s Children?s Services Division (CSD) hosts a performers showcase where library staff can watch dozens of performers do 5 minutes of their act. Many librarians use the showcase to select all their summer reading performers for two years. The showcase is an in-person event at the Salem Public Library. Those of you at small, rural libraries in might consider working together to send one library staff person on behalf of several libraries. If you are going to the showcase to select your summer reading performers, then you may use Ready to Read grant funds to travel to showcase and hire a sub to work at your library while you?re at the showcase. Please let me know if you have any questions about using Ready to Read funds to go to the showcase. Below is the Save the Date from CSD with all the details. Save the Date! Performer Showcase - Saturday, September 24 2016 When: 9 a.m. (doors open at 8:30) to 4 or 5 p.m (depends on # of performers) Where: Salem Public Library?s Loucks Auditorium Finding high quality children?s performances to bring to libraries, schools or groups has just become easier. The Oregon Library Association?s Children?s Services Division and Salem Public Library are hosting the 2016 Performers Showcase. This Showcase allows audience members to see a five-minute preview from between 70 and 90 magicians, musicians, storytellers, animal acts, creative dramatics, jugglers, clowns, authors, and others who specialize in entertaining and educating children and families. Please pass the word to others in your community who either perform or who book performers for youth. Registration information will be available in July 2016. Questions? Performer referrals? Contact Karen Fischer, Showcase Coordinator by email at kfischer at cityofsalem.net, or call 503-588-6039. Katie Anderson, Youth Services Consultant Library Support and Development Services Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 [cid:image004.png at 01D0358C.4523C4D0] [http://www.thewwwblog.com/images/blogger-logo.jpg] [http://www.aethlonmedical.com/assets/001/5130.png] [Picture] From: OYAN [mailto:oyan-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Karen Fischer Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 12:12 PM To: kidslib ; libs-or at listsmart.osl.state.or.us; oyan Subject: [OYAN] Performer Showcase 2016- Save the Date Save the Date! Performer Showcase - Saturday, September 24 2016 When: 9 a.m. (doors open at 8:30) to 4 or 5 p.m (depends on # of performers) Where: Salem Public Library?s Loucks Auditorium Finding high quality children?s performances to bring to libraries, schools or groups has just become easier. The Oregon Library Association?s Children?s Services Division and Salem Public Library are hosting the 2016 Performers Showcase. This Showcase allows audience members to see a five-minute preview from between 70 and 90 magicians, musicians, storytellers, animal acts, creative dramatics, jugglers, clowns, authors, and others who specialize in entertaining and educating children and families. Please pass the word to others in your community who either perform or who book performers for youth. Registration information will be available in July 2016. Questions? Performer referrals? Contact Karen Fischer, Showcase Coordinator by email at kfischer at cityofsalem.net, or call 503-588-6039. Karen Fischer, Youth Services Manager Salem Public Library 503-588-6039 kfischer at cityofsalem.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Last year at this time Oregon public library directors filled out a survey about working with early learning hubs. Information provided by library directors via that survey was used to create resources for all public libraries! The resources are now available on the OLA Children's Services Division website. Are you struggling to get families to come to your storytimes or other early literacy programs? Are you having a hard time getting the word out to families with young children about the early literacy resources you have at the library? Use the Contact Directory to call or email someone at your early learning hub and start a conversation with them about helping families provide early literacy experiences for their children. Are you looking to start or expand early literacy outreach to childcare providers, Head Start, and/or other organizations in your community that serve families with young children? Here are some Activity Ideas for partnering with your early learning hub to help you reach the families that need library services the most. These are activities other Oregon libraries report doing with their early learning hub! Do need help justifying the staff time and other costs associated with working with your early learning hub? Tell your library's stakeholders how other Oregon libraries are benefitting from working with their early learning hubs. Your library might experiences these benefits too if you work with your hub. Do you need help figuring out how to work with your early learning hub? Here are tips from other Oregon libraries. Hopefully these resources will help you develop partnership with your early learning hub that help your library reach more young children in your community! 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Name: image004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2098 bytes Desc: image004.jpg URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Wed Mar 23 15:34:16 2016 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:34:16 +0000 Subject: [R2R-OR] Early literacy projects: storytime idea Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA246485916E@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Those of you doing early literacy projects might like the following idea for including poetry in your storytimes. This idea includes singing and movement to keep young children engaged, and help them develop all six early literacy skills. The article below includes links to online resources to help you plan your first poetry pocket activity! If you can't read the article below, you can online here.-Katie ________________________________ Poetry Paige's Pocket Posted: 23 Mar 2016 09:01 AM PDT [photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery] photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Do you share poems at your story time? Have you danced to a poem? Pretended you were a fish writing a poem in the ocean? Or maybe you crunched and munched along with a noisy food poem? While yelling out words and acting out the poem, poetry at story time incorporates the Early Literacy Skills and encourages families to be silly together. Add one or two poems to your story time theme each week. [photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery] photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Poetry Pocket Song: (Tune: Old MacDonald Had a Farm) Here's my poetry pocket with something inside. What could it be? I'll open it up and take a look. Tell me what you see? (Possible felt items: A Pizza! A Penguin! A Ball! A Fish! A Kite!) How it works: Sing the poetry pocket song, at the end of the song pull out a felt shape, have everyone yell out what it is, (It's a kite!). Then share the title of the poetry book and author. Have everyone stand up. Are you ready? Explain what the movement or word they will say then read the poem. For example: In the book Lullaby & Kisses Sweet: Poems to Love with Your Baby Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, read the poem, 'Up in the Air' by J. Patrick Lewis, have everyone act out each object-A leaf, a kite, a ball, a bird, a cloud and a swing. "A bird on a the wing," (flap your arms and fly like a bird). Depending on the poem have everyone repeat the words after you or act out the poem while you're reading it. Read the poem twice. Supplies: Felt board (big or small), Big felt pocket shape-any color, multiple felt objects and children's poetry books. Sheila Grier, Librarian at Deschutes Public Library created a big blue felt poetry pocket for me. The song is originally from Heather McNeil, Public Services Manager-Here's my bag with something inside. (I switched it to here's my poetry pocket with something inside.) Thank you Sheila and Heather! Some of the children in your audience might be hearing the word poetry for the first time. Invite parents/guardians and more to explore the poetry section after story time. Create several mini-displays during the month of April highlighting poetry books to read at home for ages 0-5. Explore Poetry Paige's Pocket Story Time book list on Rifflebooks. The following photos are a collection of my favorite poetry books, each flannel object matches up with a poem that invites interaction-making poetry come alive. [Story Time Poems: White, Blue, Red, Orange and Purple. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery] Story Time Poems: White, Blue, Red, Orange and Purple by Joyce Sidman. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery [Story Time Poems: Snake, Heron and Whale. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery] Story Time Poems: Snake, Heron and Whale by Julie Paschkis. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery [Story Time Poems: Snack Time, Spaghetti, Up in the Air, Slide and Bath Time. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery] Story Time Poems: Snack Time, Spaghetti, Up in the Air, Slide and Bath Time. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery [Story Time Poems: Barnyard Talk, When Pigs Could Fly, Heading Home, No Rest, Chuck's Duck and Love. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery] Story Time Poems: Barnyard Talk, When Pigs Could Fly, Heading Home, No Rest, Chuck's Duck and Love by Susan Pearson. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery [Story Time Poems: The Dolphin, The Starfish and The Blue Whale, photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery] Story Time Poems: The Dolphin, The Starfish and The Blue Whale by David Elliot. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery [Story Time Poems: 21 Things to Do with an Apple, Menu for a Gray Day and Arrival of the Popcorn Astronauts by Deborah Ruddell. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery] Story Time Poems: 21 Things to Do with an Apple, Menu for a Gray Day and Arrival of the Popcorn Astronauts by Deborah Ruddell. photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery Hopefully, you will be inspired to find your own favorites, yell out new words, and develop new ways to make poems jump out of books. A few past ALSC Poetry Paige blog posts. ? Poetry Ideas ? Poetry Blogs ? School Poems Please share your favorite poems for story time in the comments below. Paige Bentley-Flannery is a Community Librarian at Deschutes Public Library. For over fifteen years-from Seattle Art Museum to the New York Public Library to the Deschutes Public Library-Paige's passion and creative style for art, poetry and literature have been combined with instructing, planning, and providing information. Paige is currently serving on the ALSC Notable Children's Book Committee, 2015 - 2017. She is a former Chair of the ALSC Digital Content Task Force and member of the ALSC Great Websites Committee. The post Poetry Paige's Pocket appeared first on ALSC Blog. ________________________________ Katie Anderson, Youth Services Consultant Library Support and Development Services Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 [cid:image004.png at 01D0358C.4523C4D0] [http://www.thewwwblog.com/images/blogger-logo.jpg] [http://www.aethlonmedical.com/assets/001/5130.png] [Picture] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 859 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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