June 1, 2013 (Vol. 19, No. 11) – Happenings

Register Now for SSD Conference
Registration is now open for the annual Support Staff Division conference on Friday, July 19th , 7:30-4:30, in beautiful Hood River, Oregon in the Columbia Gorge!

Register before June 20 and save $10 on registration fee!  Registration deadline is July 12, 2013.

Take advantage of our special offers, such as:  four attendees for the price of three.  Or, if you’re traveling over 150 miles one way, apply for a $50 travel assistance scholarship.
Visit the website for more details.

Are We There Yet?  Come and find out this July, along with State Librarian, Mary Kay Dahlgreen; renowned presenter Leigh Anne Jasheway; Maureen Cole, Director of Oregon City Library, and exciting sessions presented by Support Staff from around the state!

Stay updated with SSD at our blog  sup.port.abil.i.ty, and on Facebook at Oregon Library Association Support Staff Division! -Margaret Harmon-Myers

ILL Conference Registration Open

Registration is now open for the 12th Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference! The conference will take place in Portland, Oregon on September 12th and 13th, 2013, at Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus. Preconference sessions will be held on September 11th.

This year’s program includes:

• The Future: E-Books and Interlibrary Loan | Ryan Litsey & Occam’s Reader Development Team
• WorldShare ILL: Migrating to the New World (or, What were we thinking!?!) | Karen Barnes & Martin Burgess
• Let the Numbers Speak: ILL Assessment | Ingrid Moisil from the Seattle Public Library
• Getting to the Core: What Centralized ILL Means for a Small Academic Library | Karen Hildebrandt & Bonita Bjornson
• … and many more!

Our keynote this year is Xavier Helgesen, co-founder and Chairman of Better World Books.

Visit our website to view the full program, register for the conference, or apply for a scholarship. We look forward to seeing you! -Linda Frederiksen, Washington State University, Vancouver

May 1, 2013 (Vol. 19, No. 9) – Happenings

Preservation Project Workshop Offered
Do you want to get a preservation grant to take care of your collections? Many institutions have used grant-funded projects to enhance the level of care they can provide for their collections, and sometimes even to jump start their preservation programs.

“Creating and Funding Preservation Projects to Enhance Collection Care” is a one-day workshop that begins with identifying and setting priorities among collection needs. With a clear sense of needs, the second part of the workshop reviews sources of grant funding available to your institution. The third part of the workshop addresses the key preservation questions asked on grant applications – participants answer the questions on behalf of their institutions, building the elements of a proposal for their own collection. The workshop emphasizes working collaboratively with colleagues to develop and receive feedback on project proposals. The workshop is sponsored by Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service (WESTPAS), and takes place at the Oregon State Library in Salem on May 3, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.  The instructor is Braclay Ogden, Preservation Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley

By the end of the workshop day, participants will have:

• Outlined a preservation project proposal specific to their institution
• Identified possible funding sources
• Tested their ideas with other workshop participants

Who should attend: Administrators and staff responsible for care of the collection in all types of libraries, museums and archives, with an emphasis on small-to-medium sized institutions without preservation grant writing experience. By registering for the workshop, the institution commits to supporting the attendee(s) to achieve the workshop’s goals to develop and submit proposals for preservation projects to enhance collection care. When possible, TWO attendees from an institution should attend so they can work together on project development.

Cost: No charge to the institution. WESTPAS is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Registration: Pre-registration required. Register online at  WESTPAS workshop. For registration assistance contact Alexandra Gingerich gingerich at plsinfo.org
For general & content information contact Kristen Kern kernk@pdx.edu

April 15, 2013 (Vol. 19, No. 8) – Happenings

Emporia Reception
Alumni, students, and friends of Emporia State University’s School of Library & Information Management are invited to a reception during the joint OLA/WLA Conference. The reception will be held on Thursday, April 25th, from 5:30 – 7:00 pm at the Red Lion Hotel Vancouver at the Quay (100 Columbia Street, Vancouver, WA).

Questions? Contact Perri Parise - pparise@emporia.edu or 503-23-8280.

2013 Horner Staff Exchange
Delegates from Fujian, China, our sister province to the state of Oregon, will be arriving for a three-week visit to area libraries for the purpose of the exchange of professional knowledge about library and information science.  In accordance with the MOU signed between the Oregon State Library and the Fujian Provincial Library, every three years, four delegates from Fujian visit Oregon in the spring and three delegates from Oregon (Pat French, MCL; Lori Wamsley, PCC; and Angela Lee, WCCLS ) will visit Fujian in the fall.

The members of the OLA International Relations Round Table (IRRT) have been busy planning for this year’s delegates.  Our visitors will arrive in time to attend the WLA/OLA Conference and the Banquet on April 25. Be sure to say hello if you see them at the conference.  They will be visiting Wilson High School on April 26 to participate in World History classes.  Later that day they will tour the remodel of the library at the University of Portland.  Saturday includes a visit to a class at Emporia State University SLIM program.  Monday April 29 finds the visitors at Mt. Angel Abbey Library.  Tuesday April 30 will find them at the State Library and time to see the legislature in action.  May 1 and 2 will be at OSU; back to Portland for a visit to PCC Sylvania on May 3.  UO and Eugene Public are on the docket for May 6 and 7.  Then they come back to Portland and PSU on May 8.  Their last two days, May 9 and 10, are spent at Fort Vancouver Regional Library and Multnomah County Library.

The OLA IRRT will be hosting a farewell banquet for our visitors on Friday May 10 and anyone from the library community is invited to honor and say goodbye to our guests.  Details will follow on the time and location.  The food is Chinese and always delicious!
Phew!  That is a whirlwind visit!  We wish we had more time to show them all around this beautiful state and all our wonderful libraries!  Thanks to all those libraries who are pitching in to host our guests.  -Nancy Hoover, Marylhurst University

Register now for OVRS
We are still accepting registrations for the Oregon Virtual Reference Summit on May 3rd, 2013. Go here to register: www.answerland.org/summit

Did we mention it was taking place at the Oregon Garden (beautiful!)?
Did we mention our keynote speaker is super dynamic and engaging (Eli Neiburger!)?
Did we mention the other great programs that you’ve come to expect from OVRS (We’re celebrating 10 years!)?
Did we mention what a great opportunity OVRS is for networking with fellow Answerlanders (we’ve got a button maker!)?

Good, so you know that you don’t want to miss it! Register today, and sign up for a lightning talk – just you, 5 minutes and a captive audience for whatever you want to share about virtual reference, libraries, or what the kids are doing these days. Sign up during registration at www.answerland.org/summit before April 29th.

Thanks, see you there! -Courtney Terry, OVRS Planning Committee, McMinnville Public Library

April 1, 2013 (Vol. 19, No. 7) – Happenings

Register Now for Information Literacy Summit
Registration for the Oregon IL Summit on April 20 in Bend at the OSU-Cascades Campus is now available.

The cost of the Summit (continental breakfast and lunch included) is only $25. The Information Literacy Advisory Group of Oregon (ILAGO) has, for the past several years, provided the Information Literacy Summit as an inexpensive means for academic and school librarians, writing faculty, and others interested in Information Literacy instruction to gather and discuss issues of importance to them. We hope to see both old and new friends and colleagues in Bend on April 20 at our annual gathering of the Oregon Information Literacy community. For the day’s schedule and directions to the campus, please visit: http://ilago.wordpress.com/oregon-il-summit-2013/

Thanks to the Oregon Library Association and the Library Instruction Round Table for their sponsorship and assistance. Please feel free to refer any questions to Bryan Miyagishima at miyagib@linnbenton.edu .

Registration Now Open for Collection Care Workshops
Workshops that enable libraries, archives and museums along the Oregon coast to care for their collections better, including preparing for disasters, will take place April 15-16 in Coos Bay.

“These training sessions will enable the volunteers and staff of these organizations to give better care and protection for the important books, records and treasures they hold for the public,” said project director Kyle Jansson.

People may attend one or both days of training. Pre-registration is required for these free workshops.

The collections care workshop on April 15 will cover the topics of collection policy, preservation planning, collections assessments, environmental controls, collections problem solving, and solving conundrums through networking.

The emergency preparedness workshop on April 16 includes connecting with emergency responders, disaster planning, identifying threats and resources, collections prioritization, and involving the public in disaster preparedness,

The workshops will include lectures, hands-on activities, discussions, guest presentations, and small-group work. They are designed for archives, libraries and museums and will be relevant to people with little collections experience as well those with more significant experience.

For more information and registration, visit the Connecting to Collections website.
For more information, email heritage.info@state.or.us or phone 503-986-0670.

The workshops are funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to a coalition of statewide organizations, including the Oregon State Library and the Oregon Library Association, led by the Oregon Heritage Commission. -Kyle Jansson, Coordinator, Oregon Heritage Commission

2013 Joint OLA/WLA Conference
Registration is now open for the 2013 Joint OLA/WLA Conference which will be at the Hilton Vancouver, April 24-26.

You can register online with a credit card or by check.  Once you have completed your registration form and have chosen a payment option, you will receive an email.  If paying by check, please include a copy of the email with your check and mail it to the address noted on the page.

Reservations can also be made for the Hilton Vancouver either online through the conference website or by calling (360)993-4500.  The Hilton Vancouver is located at 301 West 6th Street, Vancouver, Washington.  Rates are $124 per night for a single or double occupancy and $144 per night for triple occupancy.  The group name is OLA/WLA 2013 Joint Conference and the group code is WLM. Additional lodging is available at the Red Lion Hotel Vancouver, located at 100 Columbia Street, Vancouver, Washington. Reservations can be made by calling (360) 694-8341.

February 15, 2013 (Vol. 19, No. 4) – Happenings

ACRL-OR Co-Sponsors Copyright Workshop
The Oregon Library Association’s Academic Division (ACRL-OR) and the Pacific Northwest Religious and Theological Library Association (PNWRTLA) are co-sponsoring an online copyright workshop, presented by Kevin L. Smith , Director of Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Duke University.  This workshop will be on February 27th, April 3rd, and May 1st from noon-1 PM (Pacific Time).  The topics will be as follows:

• February 27th – How did we get into this mess: Copyright and its discontents.  This will be a chance to review the basic of copyright in the context of explaining why the law has been so unable to respond to the challenges of the digital age.
• April 3rd – Libraries go to court: a review of recent cases.  This will provide some updates about the status of four recent copyright cases involving academic libraries – GSU, UCLA, HathiTrust and Kirtsaeng v. Wiley — along with lessons that can be taken from each.
• May 1st – Policy decisions in the copyright arena.  This will provide an explicit discussion about choices to be made while formulating copyright policy for higher education institutions.

You may register for any or all of these.  Registration costs for individuals are $50 for all/ $20 each. Registration costs for groups are $100 for all/ $40 each.

Kevin L. Smith holds a Masters of Library Science from Kent State University and has worked as an academic librarian in both liberal arts colleges and specialized libraries. His strong interest in copyright law began in library school and he received a law degree from Capital University in 2005. Before moving to Duke in 2006, Kevin served as the Director of the Pilgrim Library at Defiance College in Ohio, where he also taught Constitutional Law. He is admitted to the bar in Ohio and North Carolina.  His expertise in copyright law, practice in academia, and experience in libraries have made his blog, Scholarly Communications @ Duke, a popular resource for issues related to copyright law and their relevance for academic libraries.

If there are any questions regarding this workshop or registration, please do not hesitate to contact Garrett Trott.  On behalf of ACRL-OR and PNWRTLA, we are eager to share this opportunity to learn from Kevin Smith’s expertise. Garrett Trott, Corban University, 503-589-8116 gtrott@corban.edu

Register Now for the 2013 Joint OLA/WLA Conference
Registration is now open for the 2013 Joint OLA/WLA Conference which will be at the Hilton Vancouver, April 24-26.

You can register online with a credit card or by check.  Once you have completed your registration form and have chosen a payment option, you will receive an email.  If paying by check, please include a copy of the email with your check and mail it to the address noted on the page. Early registration ends March 8, 2013.

Reservations can also be made for the Hilton Vancouver either online through the conference website or by calling (360)993-4500.  The Hilton Vancouver is located at 301 West 6th Street, Vancouver, Washington.  Rates are $124 per night for a single or double occupancy and $144 per night for triple occupancy.  The group name is OLA/WLA 2013 Joint Conference and the group code is WLM. Additional lodging is available at the Red Lion Hotel Vancouver, located at 100 Columbia Street, Vancouver, Washington. Reservations can be made by calling (360) 694-8341.

ORT, DIGOR Offer Conference Scholarships
The OLA Outreach Round Table is offering a scholarship for two OLA members to attend the 2013 OLA / WLA Joint Conference. To be eligible, the applicant must live in Oregon, be a librarian or library staff person or a student enrolled in an ALA-accredited library program and be a current member of OLA. Applicants must demonstrate an interest in library outreach services and successfully explain how they will benefit from attending the OLA / WLA Conference.  Two scholarships will be awarded, one to a student and one to a librarian or library staff person.

Applications are due by February 21st. The scholarship is for reimbursement for the conference registration fee and $150 to be applied toward hotel, travel expenses and/or meal expenses. The recipient will be notified by March 1st. To apply, please complete the scholarship application form. Please email questions to Outreach Round Table Chair Annie Lewis at alewis@ci.tualatin.or.us.

The Documents Interest Group of Oregon (DIGOR) is also pleased to announce a scholarship opportunity for an individual with an interest in government information to attend the 2013 OLA/WLA Joint Conference.  DIGOR will reimburse the scholarship recipient for the conference registration fee.

Eligibility: librarians or library staff working with government information in an Oregon library, or library school students with an interest in government information enrolled in an ALA-accredited library program, and living in Oregon.

Application process: Complete the online application form, available on the DIGOR homepage. Applicants are asked to submit two essays (250 words maximum for each essay) describing the applicant’s current library position and/or interest in government information services, and how attending the OLA conference may further develop the applicant’s interest in government information and/or library service.

Applications must be submitted by March 1st, 2013. All applicants will be contacted by the first week of April.  Please contact Tiffany Thornton with any questions:
346-1937 or tthornto@uoregon.edu

OLA Legislative Day
Save the Date!  OLA’s Legislative Day will be Thursday April 4.  Join your OLA colleagues at the State Capitol for a fun and informative day.  Learn about library issues and how the Legislature works.  Talk to your legislators and show them that people do care about our libraries.

For more information, check out the Legislative webpage with links to how to make appointments. Contact Diedre Conkling diedre08@gmail.com for assistance with making appointments. Contact Sara Charlton charlton@co.tillamook.or.us or  BJ Toewe bjtoewe@cityofsalem.net for more information on Legislative Day and how you can participate.

February 1, 2013 (Vol. 19, No. 3) – Happenings

OLA Legislative Day
Save the Date!  OLA’s Legislative Day will be Thursday April 4.  Join your OLA colleagues at the State Capitol for a fun and informative day.  Learn about library issues and how the Legislature works.  Talk to your legislators and show them that people do care about our libraries.  Details will be coming as the date approaches.  The tentative schedule is:

8:00-2:30 Displays (Galleria)
8:00-4:00 Individual Appointments with legislators
9:00 Issue Briefing – State Library Room 102-103
11:30-1:30 Lunch (pay for your own) Goudy Commons, Willamette University

For more information, check out the Legislative webpage with links to how to make appointments. Contact Diedre Conkling diedre08@gmail.com for assistance with making appointments.

Contact Sara Charlton charlton@co.tillamook.or.us or  BJ Toewe bjtoewe@cityofsalem.net for more information on Legislative Day and how you can participate.

January 15, 2013 (Vol. 19, No. 2) – Happenings

OLA Legislative Day
Save the Date!  OLA’s Legislative Day will be Thursday April 4.  Join your OLA colleagues at the State Capitol for a fun and informative day.  Learn about library issues and how the Legislature works.  Talk to your legislators and show them that people do care about our libraries.  Details will be coming as the date approaches.  The tentative schedule is:

8:00-2:30 Displays (Galleria)
8:00-4:00 Individual Appointments with legislators
9:00 Issue Briefing – State Library Room 102-103
11:30-1:30 Lunch (pay for your own) Goudy Commons, Willamette University

For more information, check out the Legislative webpage with links to how to make appointments.  Contact Diedre Conkling diedre08@gmail.com for assistance with making appointments.

Contact Sara Charlton charlton@co.tillamook.or.us or  BJ Toewe bjtoewe@cityofsalem.net for more information on Legislative Day and how you can participate.

ORCA Nominations Sought

January is the time that we start taking nominations for titles for the next year’s Oregon Reader’s Choice Award (ORCA). There is a Google form that anyone — students and adults — can use to nominate a title. The ORCA committee will allow people until January 31st to nominate a title. The only requirement is that the book has to have been first published in the U.S. in 2011. The committee also is reluctant to place a book as a nominee if it is in a series and it is NOT the first one of that series.

Please use the link yourself and please share the link with students and other adults. Also, if you belong to any other Oregon library or Oregon reading associations, please feel free to share. It is a great way to promote reading across our state.
For those who are not aware, the ORCA is for books that are geared for children from upper elementary through high school age.

For more information about ORCA, please check out the ORCA homepage.   -Stuart
Levy, ORCA Chair

November 15, 2012 (Vol. 18, No. 22) – Oregon Library News

Elections Deliver Wins and Losses to Oregon Libraries
Congratulations to the City of Warrenton, the Fern Ridge Library District, and Jackson County (Ashland), where voters passed operational levies. Congrats also to Multnomah County, where voters created a permanent library district.

Sympathy and support for our colleagues at the Lake Oswego and Gladstone public libraries in Clackamas County, where measures that would have supported the construction of much needed new libraries did not meet with voter approval.

This mixed bag of election results reminds us that our work in supporting great libraries throughout Oregon is never done. Bouquets of appreciation to everyone across the state who worked hard to tell the library story to voters during this election season. It made a difference!

September 15, 2012 (Vol. 18, No. 18) – Happenings

OSU Libraries Library Faculty Seminar
The Oregon State University Library Faculty Association invites all interested colleagues and friends to attend the first presentation of the 2012/2013 Seminar Series on October 12, 2012.

Moving from Institute to Network: Reflections on the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute chronicles a two-year project including the culminating event, the OSU-hosted Oregon Tribal Archives Institute held August 19-24, 2012. Made possible by a two-year Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA) grant, the Institute was designed to address the need for in-depth archives and records management training for Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes to support and facilitate the preservation of the cultural sovereignty of tribal nations through their archival collections and records.

Natalia Fernández, Oregon Multicultural Librarian, Tiah Edmunson-Morton, OSU Libraries’ Instruction and Outreach Archivist, and Larry Landis, Special Collections and Archives Research Center Director, collectively the Institute Planning Committee, will discuss the grant process, conducting site visits with all nine tribes’ records and archives personnel, creating needs assessment reports, designing a needs-based curriculum and planning a week-long conference. The committee will also reflect on the Institute itself and share future plans.

The presentation will take place in the Willamette Industries Seminar Rooms on the third floor of the Valley Library (VL 3622).

Please contact Uta Hussong-Christian, uta.hussong-christian@oregonstate.edu, with any questions.

September 1, 2012 (Vol. 18, No. 17) – Happenings

Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture
The Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College is pleased to announce the 2012 Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service will take place on Friday, September 28 at 3pm in Smith Hall on the campus of Lewis & Clark College.  A reception will follow the lecture.

Julie Evans, CEO of the national education nonprofit Project Tomorrow, will present  “Coming Soon to Campus:  The New “Free Agent” Learner – Are You Ready?”

“The dynamic profusion of emerging technologies, both in school and out of school, is propelling today’s K-12 students to make new demands on education institutions for technology-rich learning experiences and environments. Enabled, empowered and engaged, this next wave of students is bringing to college their own set of objectives for 21st century learning. Get a first-hand glimpse into the activities, attitudes and aspirations of tomorrow’s students through this presentation by Project Tomorrow CEO, Julie Evans, who will share the latest Speak Up National Research Project data findings from over 300,000 K-12 students.”

For further information, please see http://library.lclark.edu/lib/sherrer.htm or contact Elaine Hirsch at Watzek Library.