November 1, 2009 (Vol. 15, No. 24) – News
November 3, 2009
Message from Roberts Business Service / SRP Manual Distribution / LIRT is Back! / PLD Tech Petting Zoo
***Message from Roberts Business Service
As I/we transition to this new association management model, I would like to encourage OLA members to take a look at the Oregon Library Association’s web page http://www.olaweb.org. There is a lot of information available at your fingertips. At this time, I’ll call your attention to the category ABOUT OLA. It has a list of your OLA Board members and meeting schedule, meeting minutes, bylaws, financial information etc. In addition, you will find contact information not only for me, but your board members, as well.
I look forward to working with OLA in this new role and encourage you to not hesitate to contact me. I am still working at Pierce Library, Eastern Oregon University, part-time as an instructor, so if I don’t answer or respond immediately, leave a message and I will get back with you.
Shirley Roberts
olaweb@olaweb.org
sroberts.ola@gmail.com
541-962-5824
***Summer Reading Program Manual Distribution
Wondering about receiving your summer reading manuals? If someone from your library attends the Oregon Library Association’s Children Services Division fall workshop, November 7th at the Beaverton Public Library, we will be distributing manuals there. For those unable to attend the workshop we will ship them to you directly. This year libraries were given a choice to have a CD copy of the manual, a hard copy (printed on paper), or both. Those libraries that specifically requested CD manuals only will NOT receive a hard copy of the manual this year. This gives us the opportunity to save on paper and only print those items which each library really uses.
The CSD summer reading chair has a list of each library and the name of the person who will pick up the manual or whose attention the manual will be shipped to. We will also include Upstart Incentive catalogs with the summer reading manual. Each library has listed how many Upstart Incentive catalogs they require. Some manuals will be given to a librarian from a main library to be distributed among its library branches (as requested).
Further questions can be directed to Esther Moberg CSD Summer Reading Chair esther_creslib@centurytel.net or (541)895-3053.
***LIRT is Back!
Calling all instruction enthusiasts!
After a couple of years of inactivity, I am happy to announce that the Library Instruction Roundtable (LIRT) is back in the game, and I am its newly appointed leader. For those of you who don’t know me, I am Kate Rubick and I work as a reference and instruction librarian at Lewis & Clark College.
Do you wish to be affiliated LIRT at this time?
If the answer is yes (and you have not already heard from me in an email I sent out to LIRT membership according to Memberclicks) please send me your name and contact info, including job title and institution, so that I may add you to the list.
Also, I welcome your thoughts about how you might like to see LIRT resurrected.
Kate Rubick
OLA Library Instruction Round Table Chair
503-768-7338
rubick@lclark.edu
***PLD Technology Petting Zoo
Cameras and kindles and Wii games, oh my!
Spend a day at the Technology Petting Zoo! Come explore innovative technologies and their use in the public library setting. Hands-on time with electronic devices like flip cameras, gaming systems, iPods, and netbooks will be offered in the afternoon.
The Zoo will be held Friday, November 13th, 2009 at the Tualatin Public Library, from 9:30-4:00. It’s a free event, but please contact Abigail Elder (aelder@ci.tualatin.or.us) if you’d like to purchase a boxed lunch.
Thanks to the Public Library Division (PLD) for sponsoring this event. For more information, please contact Su Ikeda: opalsu@gmail.com
See you at the Zoo!
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