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<p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An Electronic Newsletter from the
Oregon State Library.......Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2010</span><br>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BOARD
APPROVES ADDITIONAL LSTA EXPENDITURES IN AUGUST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In a special meeting of the
State Library Board on August 6th, the Board approved recommendations of the
LSTA Advisory Council to spend surplus LSTA funds for three projects that
benefit all libraries in Oregon. The 2009 funds must be spent by the end of
September or be returned to the Federal government. The Board voted to make a
supplemental grant of $50,000 to the Oregon Digital Newspaper Project at the
University of Oregon Libraries, a $50,000 supplemental grant to the Oregon
Digital Library Consortium to purchase e-books, audiobooks and videos for
Library2Go, and $40,000 to purchase reference e-books for the Oregon School
Library Information System. The Board met by phone and approved the Council
recommendation in an unanimous vote. The next regular meeting of the State
Library Board will take place on October 15th at the State Library in Salem. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BOARD
WILL MEET SEPTEMBER 13 TO DECIDE ON BUDGET REDUCTIONS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The State Library Board will
hold a special meeting by phone on September 13th to finalize a plan to make
additional reductions to the 2009-11 budget. In June the Board approved
reductions totaling $156,780, including a $115,987 reduction to Ready to Read
Grants that will be made in December. After the August 26th state revenue
forecast showed a further decline in state revenue, the Governor indicated that
he plans to order a second round of across the board General Fund budget
reductions in September. At press time the State Library had not been informed
about the amount of the reduction target. The meeting will begin at 4 pm.
Anyone wanting to listen to the meeting can attend in Room 202 at the State
Library.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>STATE
LIBRARIAN ELECTED TO SERVE ON THE LYRASIS BOARD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>State Librarian Jim Scheppke
has been elected by the <a href="http://www.lyrasis.org">LYRASIS</a> Board of
Directors to a term on the Board beginning October 1, 2010. LYRASIS now serves
the eleven western states that were formerly served by BCR. LYRASIS is the
largest regional library network in the US, and now covers 33 states in the
eastern and western US. The mission of LYRASIS is to support library and
information professionals by providing opportunities for networking and
collaboration and member services including education, group purchasing
programs, digitization, preservation, consulting and advocacy. The State
Library has purchased a one year trial membership in LYRASIS for all Oregon
libraries so that librarians can learn about the advantages of becoming a
LYRASIS member. Go to the <a
href="http://www.lyrasis.org/Membership/Member-Enrichment-with-BCR.aspx">transition
website</a> to learn more about LYRASIS and to activate the one year trial
membership for your library. “I see real advantages for Oregon to
affiliate with 32 other states in LYRASIS, and I hope to be able to help with
LYRASIS’ expansion in the western states,” commented State
Librarian Jim Scheppke.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
AGENCY CONVERSATIONS PROJECT CONNECTS LIBRARY WITH CUSTOMERS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Government Research
Services Team at the State Library held five focus sessions with 35 state
employees in April/May 2010. Discussions evolved from four key questions that
were presented to these groups regarding their research activities, technology
preferences, barriers to research and what role the library plays in their
research. Findings from these conversations affirm some assumptions the library
has made based on working with patrons and feedback provided from the May 2008
Needs Assessment Survey. Results from focus sessions also offered insights into
shifts in use of technologies, the internet, resource needs, generational
differences, and preferred information formats and platforms. This project was
also an opportunity for the library to identify individuals who may wish to aid
us in spreading the word about our services. Next steps include creating a plan
to recruit and maintain agency champions to fulfill this important role. For
more information on this project contact <a
href="mailto:kate.e.mcgann@state.or.us">Kate McGann</a>, 503-378-5010.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
2010 PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS COLLECTION NOW OPEN</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 2010 Public Library
Statistical Report is now open at <a href="http://collect.btol.com">Bibliostat
Connect</a>. Public libraries should be sure they have the current link so they
will be able to log in to the survey. For assistance please call or email <a
href="mailto:ann.reed@state.or.us">Ann Reed</a>, early and often, 503-378-5027
or check out the <a
href="http://libdev.plinkit.org/faqs-for-state-statistical-reports">FAQ</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
LSTA ADVISORY COUNCIL TO MEET SEPTEMBER 10 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The LSTA Advisory Council
will meet in the first floor conference room (rooms 102 and 103) at the State
Library at 9:00 am on September 10, 2010. The Council will be reviewing and
making recommendations on FFY 2011 funding for seventeen competitive grant
proposals, continuing funding for five statewide projects, and two Extending
Library Service to the Unserved grant proposals. An open forum will be held at
1:00 pm and anyone may address the LSTA Advisory Council at that time. Funding
recommendations will be sent to the Oregon State Library Board for action at
their October 15, 2010 meeting. The Extending Library Service to the Unserved
grants are the result of a State Library Board initiative to create new
opportunities for providing library service to unserved Oregonians.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
DESCRIPTIVE VIDEOS ON DVD AVAILABLE FROM TBABS </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For several years, Talking
Book and Braille Services (TBABS) has offered descriptive VHS videos to patrons
who are visually impaired. The video titles include popular movies, classics,
and documentaries. During action portions of the movie there is an audio track
that describes the events taking place on the screen. This year, TBABS has been
able to start adding DVD movies to the descriptive video collection. The movies
are available for loan to registered TBABS patrons and are “menu
driven” which means that some sighted assistance will be necessary in
order to activate the movies. In addition to Descriptive Videos, the TBABS
collection still includes Digital Audio Books, Analog (cassette), Audio Books, and
Braille books. For more information about how to get your patrons access to any
of the formats offered from TBABS <a href="http://www.tbabs.org">download an
application</a> today at the TBABS homepage.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
FREE COLLEGE OF DUPAGE WEB TRAININGS BEGIN</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Library Futures: Staying
Ahead of the Curve 2011 webcast series will begin in September. All webcasts
will be from 9:00am - 10:30 PT.<br>
<br>
<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>September 24, 2010:</span></em>
Libraries & the Mobile Technologies Landscape <br>
<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>November 12, 2010:</span></em>
Redesigning Today's Public Services: Focus on Reference<br>
<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>February 4, 2011:</span></em>
Free Content for Library Collections </span><br>
<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>April 8, 2011:</span></em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Cataloging: New Perspectives </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>These webcasts will give
library staff a solid framework for problem-solving in today's complex library
environment. They are cost-effective ways for staff to stay current and
informed on libraries' use of technology. You and your staff can maximize these
opportunities by bringing a group of interested staff together to watch,
organize discussions about the impact of the shows' content on your library,
and brainstorm follow-up actions suitable for your library environment. Please
visit the <a href="http://www.dupagepress.com/library-learning-network/">College
of DuPage website</a> to learn more. Register now for one or more webcasts by
completing <a href="https://www.cod.edu/secure/software/registerteleconf.htm">College
of DuPage's online registration form</a>. This series of webcasts is being made
available free of charge to staff from Oregon libraries, paid for by the State
Library with LSTA funds. Also, DVDs of previous webcasts are available via ILL
from the <a
href="http://catalog.willamette.edu/search/X?SEARCH=college+of+dupage&SORT=D&searchscope=2">State
Library</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
FINAL YEAR OF READING FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES BEGINS </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>September 2010 marks the
beginning of the third and final year of the Reading for Healthy Families
(RFHF) early literacy training project. On September 9-10 the last train the
trainers sessions will be conducted. Four of the librarians and Healthy Start
staff who participate in the train the trainers sessions will then go on to
conduct the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library training component of
RFHF. Prior to RFHF there was only one Every Child Ready to Read trainer in
Oregon. One of the four goals of RFHF is to increase the number of trainers
from one to 12. The project has sparked great interest statewide among other
professionals who work with at-risk children and families. With permission from
the funders, Oregon Community Foundation and Paul G. Allen Family Foundation,
the RFHF train the trainers sessions have been opened up to include staff from
Head Start, Department of Child Care, Child Care Resource & Referral, and a
kindergarten teacher. After the train the trainers sessions in September there
will be over 30 Standardized Every Child Ready to Read Trainers certified by
the Oregon Registry in Oregon. Access to qualified trainers is key to
sustaining early literacy education efforts in Oregon libraries and
communities. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
2010 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OREGON INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM CLEARINGHOUSE COMING SOON</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 2010 Annual Report will
soon be available online at <a
href="http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml">Oregon Intellectual Freedom
Clearinghouse</a>. The report is a compendium of 24 challenges to library
material in one school library and three public libraries between July 1, 2009
and June 30, 2010. The Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (OIFC)
collects reports about formal, written challenges to library material from all
types of Oregon libraries. The information is reported to OIFC by Oregon
libraries on a voluntarily basis. OIFC compiles the reports from libraries into
an annual report each year; all previous reports are now available online at <a
href="http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml">Oregon Intellectual Freedom
Clearinghouse</a>. An email announcement will go out on the <a
href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/libs-or">libs-or
electronic discussion list</a> when the 2010 Annual Report is available online.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CHECK
OUT ENERGY SAVINGS WITH ENERGY TRUST OF OREGON BEGINS IN SEPTEMBER</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oregon public libraries are
teaming up with Energy Trust of Oregon to bring to their communities
information and tools that can increase energy awareness and drive energy
savings. Nearly 50 libraries, large and small, now have Kill A Watt monitors
and information to check out to library users. Kill A Watts measure how much
electricity electric appliances and devices are consuming when plugged in, such
as refrigerators, microwaves, computers, TVs, phone chargers, game consoles and
cable set-top boxes. Kill A Watt monitors can also be used to measure
“phantom” energy loads: the amount of energy an electronic device
will draw, even when in standby mode. In the average home, 75 percent of the
electricity used to power home electronics and appliances is consumed while the
products are turned off. Included with the Kill A Watt monitors are helpful
tips and information on next steps to save energy at home based on what is learned
by using the monitor. Libraries that did not choose to participate in the first
round of the project will have another chance to sign up and receive Kill A
Watts and information from Energy Trust. Eventually the State Library hopes
that every Oregon public library will participate in the project to help their
communities save energy. The project was modeled on a successful project at the
Eugene Public Library that began two years ago. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There are many benefits to
hanging out with state librarians. I actually belong to two associations of
state librarians. The Chief Officers of State Library Agencies is our national
association that concentrates mainly on looking out for our interests with our
federal partners like the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the
National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. We also have a
Western Council of State Libraries that includes all of the states west of the
Mississippi. Western Council is a more informal group that is good at sharing
best practices and collaborating from time to time on special projects.<br>
<br>
The fact that the Plinkit content management system now serves hundreds of
public libraries across the U.S. is due to the fact that Eva Miller and I made
a presentation at a Western Council meeting some years ago. Colorado and Texas
sat up and took notice at that meeting, and the rest is history.<br>
<br>
I believe it was at that same meeting where I first learned of the wonderful
historic newspaper digitization projects that state libraries in Colorado and
Utah had helped to get started. After that meeting I was determined to help get
a similar project going in Oregon. I started talking to Deb Carver and Mark
Watson at the Knight Library at UO. It was logical that they should take the
lead, since for decades UO has been responsible for collecting and preserving
newspapers in our state on microfilm. Deb and Mark were enthusiastic about
getting started on this and we held a summit of key stakeholders to begin to
build support.<br>
<br>
Of course money is always the key issue. For that UO Libraries successfully
competed for a two-year LSTA grant to get started. That grant has leveraged two
grants from the Oregon Heritage Commission. And all this local support helped
to attract major (hopefully ongoing) support from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. UO hired Karen Estlund who worked on the Utah project to lead
the Oregon project, and we were underway.<br>
<br>
You can understand how excited I was when the first fruits of this effort were
announced a few months ago. While our state website is being developed, UO has
loaded the first content into the Library of Congress Chronicling America
website: the Klamath Falls <a
href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99063812/issues/"><em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Evening Herald</span></em></a>
from February, 2008 to December, 1918. I got on the site and did a keyword
search for the first Oregon State Librarian, Cornelia Marvin. What a thrill to
bring up several articles recounting trips that Cornelia had made to Klamath
Falls, including one to promote school libraries in 1908.<br>
<br>
While NEH funds and other grant funds will support a portion of the
digitization work that needs to be done, the project will be turning to local
communities to come up with the funds to digitize their local papers. The
ultimate goal of the Oregon Digital Newspaper Project is to include all Oregon
newspaper content in the public domain. I hope we will see cooperation from
everyone in the Oregon library community to work with local heritage
organizations and others so we can meet this ambitious goal. – Jim
Scheppke </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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: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 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>.<i> Letter to Libraries Online</i> is published monthly by the Oregon
State Library. Editorial office: LTLO, Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE,
Salem, Oregon 97301-3950, 503-378-2464, editor: <a
href="mailto:april.m.baker@state.or.us">April Baker</a>.<i> Letter to Libraries
Online</i> is available free of charge and is available only in electronic form
on the publications page at the Oregon State Library's homepage: <a
href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL">http://www.oregon.gov/OSL</a>. Opinions
expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of
the Oregon State Library. News items or articles should be sent to <a
href="mailto:april.m.baker@state.or.us">April Baker</a>, or mailed to LTLO,
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, Oregon 97301-3950.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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