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<H1><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><A name=Top></A>Letter To
Libraries Online</FONT></H1>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">An Electronic Newsletter from
the Oregon State Library.......Volume 19, Issue 5, May
2009</FONT></P></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><A
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<P align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">GOVERNOR APPOINTS
SHANNON APPLEGATE TO STATE LIBRARY BOARD<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Governor Kulongoski has appointed
Shannon Applegate of Yoncalla to serve a four year term on the State Library
Board of Trustees, beginning in July. The appointment will need to be confirmed
by the Oregon Senate. Applegate is the author of two acclaimed books,
<I>Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family’s History</I> and <I>Lore</I> (1988), and
<I>Living Among Headstones: Life in a Country Cemetery</I> (2005). In 2007 she
received the Governor’s Arts Award from Governor Kulongoski. She is a direct
descendant of Charles Applegate whose brothers helped blaze the Applegate Trail
in 1846. She lives outside of Yoncalla on her family’s original donation land
claim. Applegate has been a strong library supporter and has presented many
readings and programs in libraries around the state. </FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>STATE LIBRARY
BOARD SUPPORTS OLA VISION 2020</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The State Library Board approved a
$10,000 grant of Library Services and Technology Act funds to the Oregon Library
Association to assist with their Vision 2020 strategic planning process. The
request was made by OLA President Mary Ginnane and Vision 2010 Chair Teresa
Landers. The grant will be matched by a $5,000 contribution from OLA to fund a
Delphi process that will gather ideas from about 120 librarians throughout the
state. The results from this process will be used by the Vision 2020 Committee
at their planning retreat later this year. OLA hopes to complete Vision 2020 by
early next year. In other business, the Board approved the Library’s plan for a
30% General Fund budget reduction in the 2009-11 biennium. The reduction would
cut just over $1 million from the Library’s budget. The plan includes some
savings from a staff position in Talking Book and Braille Services, but the bulk
of the reduction comes from cutting funding for the Ready to Read Grant Program
from $1 per child per year to 37¢ per child per year. The Legislature will
consider the plan, along with similar plans from other agencies in May. The
Board also approved the use of interest from the Talking Book and Braille
Services Endowment Fund to purchase supplies and equipment that will be
necessary to jump-start the transition to digital talking books later this year.
The Library of Congress will supply the new digital players, but only about
5,000 digital talking books. The interest funds will allow TBABS to purchase
blank digital book cartridges in bulk for downloading and copying additional
books for the new collection.</FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>LIBRARY BILLS PASS
OUT OF COMMITTEE</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">At press time two bills that deal
with library services have passed out of committee and are headed on in the
Legislative process. The end of April was the deadline for bills to pass out of
the initial committee to which they were assigned at the start of the session.
SB 2586 passed out of the House Education Committee on April 27th. The bill
would make school libraries eligible for an existing grant program at the Oregon
Department of Education and require all school districts to plan for a strong
school library program. The bill is sponsored by Representative Peter Buckley of
Ashland and has 22 co-sponsors in the House and Senate. It has been endorsed by
the Oregon Association of School Libraries, the Oregon Library Association and
the State Library Board. Another bill, SB 849 would fund the <A
href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/TBABS/newsline.shtml">NEWSLINE</A> program for
the blind with funds from the Residential Service Protection Fund at the Oregon
Public Utility Commission in the 2009-11 biennium. The bill was sponsored by
Senator Alan Bates with support from the State Library Board, the Oregon
Commission for the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind of Oregon. The
NEWSLINE allows Oregonians registered with Talking Book and Braille Services to
access three major Oregon daily newspapers and hundreds of other newspapers and
magazines using a toll free phone connection and text-to-speech technology.
Newspapers and magazines can also be downloaded to portable adaptive audio and
Braille devices. The service was started three years ago and has been supported
exclusively by donations. If SB 849 passes, funding for the program would be
provided on a more sustainable basis. The NEWSLINE receives funding from public
utility commissions in ten other states.</FONT><BR></P>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">OREGON TEENS RECEIVE
NATIONAL HONOR AWARDS AT STATE LIBRARY</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Erikka Potts and Y Thein Hoang,
both from Portland, have received national honor awards in the 2009 Letters
About Literature reading and writing contest. This year 1,137 students from
Oregon entered the contest and there were almost 54,000 entries across the
country. A panel of national judges selected 6 winners and 12 honor awards from
these entries. Each national honor award recipient received a $100 Target
GiftCard and was able to select a library to receive a $1,000 grant from Target
Stores. Erikka selected Parkrose Middle School library to receive the $1,000
grant. Y selected St. Mary Academy’s school library to receive the $1,000 grant.
These school libraries may use grant funds to purchase new library materials,
provide educational programming such as writing workshops, or improve library
services for students.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Letters About Literature is a
reading promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress,
presented in partnership with Target Stores. To enter, young readers write a
personal letter to an author explaining how his or her work changed their view
of the world or themselves. The contest encourages students to explore his or
her personal response to a book, then express that response through writing.
Please visit <A
href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/aboutlit.shtml">Letters About
Literature</A> to read the 2009 winning letters. Local co-sponsors are the
Oregon Center for the Book at the State Library, Oregon Library Association
Children’s Services Division and Young Adult Network, Oregon Association of
School Libraries, and Oregon Reading Association. <BR></FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PUBLIC LIBRARIANS ARE
CONNECTING MORE OREGONIANS WITH TALKING BOOKS</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lately, Talking Book and Braille
Services (TBABS) has been noticing that an increasing number of librarians are
certifying patron applications and we couldn’t be more pleased. Helping your
blind, low vision, and physically handicapped patrons sign up for Talking Books
is just as easy as ever! Lots of librarians around the state are already
familiar with giving out applications to eligible patrons. But don’t forget that
you can help your patron fill out the application and even provide the
certifying signature on the back page. Talking Book and Braille Services has
always been a free service that provides audio books and players to
print-disabled Oregonians. Later this year we will begin to offer the new
digital talking books and digital players, a real breakthrough in talking book
technology. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To view the TBABS registrations
criteria and print applications on-demand, visit the <A
href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/TBABS/registration.shtml">registration page
online</A>. For posters, brochures, and pre-printed applications materials,
contact Elke Bruton at 503-378-5455. </FONT><BR></P>
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name=PS></A><B>P.S. (From the State
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<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gary Hamel is one of my favorite
writers on management. Years ago he co-authored, <A
href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PlML2w8dhJ0C&printsec=frontcover"><I>Competing
for the Future</I></A>, which still has a lot to say to librarians. Now he
writes a blog for the <I>Wall Street Journal</I>, and in a recent post he
suggests the best way to think the about the Millennial generation (people born
between about 1982 and 2001), and about what we need to do to create
organizations in which they can thrive. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hamel says we should think of them
as Generation F.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It’s the Facebook generation, many
of whom have grown up on the Web. Hamel says they will thrive in organizations
that mirror the values and behaviors common on social networks. And they will be
stifled and unproductive in organizations that follow classic bureaucratic 20th
century management practices. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As the father of three Generation F
children, I can relate to what Hamel is saying. It’s amazing to see how the Web
is such a large part of my kid’s lives, and how their wiring is different from
mine because of it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hamel has compiled a list of “12
work-relevant characteristics of online life” that today’s managers need to
acknowledge and adapt to in managing Generation F employees. Here’s a
sample:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><I>"All ideas compete on an equal
footing</I>. On the Web, every idea has the chance to gain a following—or not,
and no one has the power to kill off a subversive idea or squelch an
embarrassing debate.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><I>Hierarchies are natural, not
prescribed</I>. In any Web forum there are some individuals who command more
respect and attention than others—and have more influence as a consequence. On
the Web, authority trickles up, not down.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><I>Leaders serve rather than
preside</I>. On the Web, every leader is a servant leader; no one has the power
to command or sanction. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><I>Tasks are chosen, not
assigned</I>. The Web is an opt-in economy. Everyone is an independent
contractor, and everyone scratches their own itch.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><I>Intrinsic rewards matter
most</I>. The Web is a testament to the power of intrinsic rewards. Money’s
great, but so is recognition and the joy of accomplishment.”</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Go <A
href="http://blogs.wsj.com/management/2009/03/24/the-facebook-generation-vs-the-fortune-500/">here</A>
to see the whole list. Then think about what aspects of the organizational
culture in your library need to be changed to optimize the talents and values of
Generation F. – Jim Scheppke<BR></FONT></P>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><A
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Library</B></FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Technical Assistance:
503-932-1004.<BR><BR>Library Development: 503-378-2525, <A
href="mailto:marykay.dahlgreen@state.or.us">MaryKay Dahlgreen</A>, <A
href="mailto:mary.l.mayberry@state.or.us">Mary Mayberry</A>, <A
href="mailto:darci.hanning@state.or.us">Darci Hanning</A>, <A
href="mailto:ann.reed@state.or.us">Ann Reed</A>, <A
href="mailto:patty.sorensen@state.or.us"></A><A
href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us">Jennifer Maurer</A>, <A
href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">Katie Anderson</A>.<BR><BR>Talking Book
and Braille Services: 503-378-5389, <A
href="mailto:susan.b.westin@state.or.us">Susan Westin</A>.<BR><BR>Government
Research and Electronic Services: 503-378-5030, <A
href="mailto:robert.hulshof-schmidt@state.or.us">Robert
Hulshof-Schmidt</A>.<BR><BR>State Librarian: 503-378-4367, <A
href="mailto:jim.b.scheppke@state.or.us">Jim Scheppke</A>.<BR><BR>LTLO Editor:
503-378-2464, <A href="mailto:april.m.baker@state.or.us">April
Baker</A></FONT></P>
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