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<p class="MsoNormal">The last issue of the Oregon Library Association’s Quarterly journal (OLAQ) includes two articles that may be of interest to you.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are you trying to create a children’s area where families stay and play? Read Heather McNeil’s article
<i><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1800&context=olaq">Early Learning @ the Library: A Production in Three Acts</a>
</i>to find out what Deschutes Public Library is doing. If money is an issue and you aren’t sure how much you can do to create a play area, you might try only the community sponsor component Heather discusses in her article.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are you trying to better help families with young children looking for dinosaur and princess books? Read the first section, “Picture Books Collection”, in
<i><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1799&context=olaq">Meeting Patrons Where They Are</a></i> by three librarians from Hillsboro. They are reorganizing not only picture books by popular subjects, they are also include juvenile
non-fiction, and DVDs so <i>ALL</i> types of library materials about dogs for young children is one place.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hopefully this will inspire you to think of new things to try to better serve children and families in your libraries.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Enjoy,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Katie <o:p></o:p></p>
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are we doing? Please take this four question <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LSConsulting">
<span style="color:blue">survey</span></a> to let us know how we can improve your experience. (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/qxu9ysb"><span style="color:blue">http://tinyurl.com/qxu9ysb</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/pages/index.aspx"><span style="color:blue">Library Support and Development Services</span></a>
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