<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";
panose-1:3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.event-description1
{mso-style-name:event-description1;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone involved in Oregon Reads (if that isn’t
you, you can just ignore this e-mail) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Oregon Reads 2009 has started. The kickoff in Portland
with Lauren Kessler was wonderful with a great crowd for both the morning and
evening session. Lake Oswego gave out 800 copies of Stubborn Twig in
just 30 minutes with some people arriving hours before to ensure they would get
a copy. Beaverton had <span class=event-description1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oregon Poet Laureate,
Lawson Inada speak </span></span>last week. Many others have
started their program or will be in February in conjunction with Oregon’s
Birthday, February 14<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>With the event starting, the Oregon Reads Committee would
like to find out how it went in your library. We’ve set up an
evaluation form on the Oregon Reads 2009 web site, however, if you’d
like to see what we’re asking you to report on, checkout the evaluation
below. It is pretty basic info such as how many programs, how many attended
and how much is it costing, but if you’ll look at the evaluation now, you’ll
know what to keep track of as your program progresses. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Those libraries that received free copies of Stubborn Twig
from the Miller grant or received other funding or support through the Oregon
Reads program, really need to complete the evaluation form so we can report the
success of the program to those who gave significant funding. We need to
hear from everyone else as well as all libraries received support through
Oregon Reads in one fashion or another. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We want all libraries to report as we think Oregon Reads
will be the largest Oregon Sesquicentennial project and we won’t know
that unless you tell us! It would be great for libraries to have articles
in papers and on websites around the state saying that Oregon Reads was the
Sesquicentennial project that engaged the most Oregonians. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If you have any questions about the evaluation, let me
know. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=ola&formId=51981</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting"'>Leah
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>******************************<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Leah M. Griffith <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Director, Newberg Public Library <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>503 E. Hancock Newberg,
OR 97132<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>P
503.537.1256 F 503.538.9720<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>