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<h1 align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Top></a><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Letter To Libraries Online</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
<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 11, November 2010</span><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=Board></a><b><span
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>STATE
LIBRARY AWARDS 2011 LSTA GRANTS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>At
their meeting on October 15th, the State Library Board awarded 14 Library
Services and Technology Act grants totaling $562,052. The grant projects are
slated to begin in February, 2011. The Board also approved the overall LSTA
program for FFY 2011, including continued support for statewide database
licensing, L-net, the Oregon School Library Information System and other
statewide projects. The Board also approved proposed changes to the <a
href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/adminrules.shtml">Oregon Administrative Rules</a>.
The rule changes will reduce the number of state documents depository libraries
in the state by one. Western Oregon University requested being dropped from the
list and the Board approved this change, along with other minor changes to the
rules governing the state documents depository program. The Board also amended
the rules governing statewide database licensing and the L-net program. The
amendments set new parameters for subsidies of these services. Currently, both
L-net and the statewide database licensing program are subsidized 100% with
LSTA funds. However, the new rules will give the Board flexibility in the
future to have libraries share costs if LSTA funds are no longer deemed
sufficient to fund these programs.<br>
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In other business, the Board conducted the biennial review of the State
Librarian’s performance and reviewed his financial transactions as
required by state policy. At the request of the Department of Administrative
Services, the Board reconsidered its prioritization of State Library programs.
The next meeting of the State Library Board will be on December 10th at the
Lebanon Public Library in Lebanon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>LSTA
COMPETITIVE GRANTS AWARDED FOR 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>At
the October 15, 2010 State Library Board meeting the following grants were
approved: <br>
Canby Public Library, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Improving
Library Services to Canby's Spanish Speaking Community, </span></em>$76,903.00.<br>
Eugene Public Library, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Story-Time-To-Go,
</span></em>$38,885.00.<br>
Lewis & Clark College, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oregon
Poetic Voices, Year 2, </span></em>$29,803.00.<br>
Multnomah County Library, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>D.I.Y.
Intern Program - Toolkit for Success</span></em>, $50,767.00.<br>
Oregon Council of Teachers of English on behalf of Oregon Encyclopedia, <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Libraries as Community Research
Centers</span></em> , $76,430.00.<br>
Oregon Afterschool for Kids, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Afterschool
Resource Library Partnership</span></em>, $26,500.00.<br>
Oregon Association of School Libraries, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>OASL
Standards for School Libraries</span></em>, $11,200.00.<br>
Oregon State University, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Development
and Management of Oregon's Tribal Archives</span></em>, $10,795.00.<br>
Pacific University Library, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Washington
County Digital Library</span></em>, $107,925.00.<br>
Salem Public Library, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Teen
Library Creation Station</span></em>, $13,500.00.<br>
Tualatin Public Library, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kit
& Kid-Oodles of Books</span></em>, $10,675.00.<br>
Umatilla County Special Library District, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Surfing
Umatilla County</span></em>, $20,000.00.<br>
University of Oregon Libraries, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oregon
Folklife Collections Access Project</span></em>, $37,401.00.<br>
Western Oregon University Library, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cooperative
Governors' Papers Project: A Planning Grant</span></em>, $51,268.00.</span><span
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>UNABRIDGED
DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK SERVICE ENDING</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The <a
href="http://unabridged.lib.overdrive.com">Unabridged</a> downloadable digital
audio book service offered through Talking Book and Braille Services (TBABS)
will discontinue service as of December 31, 2010. Constraints at the
participating regional libraries for the blind and declining usage of the
service were cited as the primary reasons for this decision by the project
steering committee. Unabridged uses a platform and books from OverDrive,
similar to that of the Oregon Digital Library Consortium's <a
href="http://library2go.lib.overdrive.com">Library2Go</a>. Since TBABS began
offering books through the Unabridged service six years ago, many public
libraries in Oregon have joined the Oregon Digital Consortium and offer access
to commercial audiobooks through Library2Go. TBABS will encourage its patrons
who are served by a public library that participates in Library2Go to use the
Library2Go service.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Other Library News</span></b><span
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>THE
LIBRARY FOUNDATION PROMOTES CARDHOLDER PRIDE</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Library Foundation, which assists and promotes the Multnomah County Library,
has launched a campaign that lets library users show their cardholder pride.
Since August, hundreds of library users of all ages at the Central Library and
at the Midland and Belmont Branches have posed in the library for professional
quality photographs with their library card. The photos are posted on a <a
href="http://cardholderpride.smugmug.com/">website</a>. The result is a moving
testament to the joy of being a patron at one of the best public libraries in
the U.S. The Library Foundation plans to continue the project into 2011 and to
take it to more of the Library branches. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There is every indication
that the scarcity of resources that state and local governments have been
experiencing since the onset of the Great Recession will constitute the
“new normal.” One thing we can do to cope with this is to ramp up
our efforts at collaboration among all types of libraries. This is one of the
major tenets of the Oregon Library Association's new Vision 2020.<br>
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Fortunately, we have already created a culture of collaboration among libraries
in our state. Think Orbis Cascade Alliance, the Sage Library System, the Oregon
Digital Library Consortium and L-net. Oregon is one of only two states where
responsibility for housing the regional Federal documents collections is shared
among four libraries (OSL, PSU, UO, and OSU). It is always gratifying to see so
many LSTA proposals for collaborative projects. This year we received
applications for collaborative projects from OSU Libraries, Multnomah County
Library, Pacific University Library, and Western Oregon University Library.<br>
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So we don’t have to create a culture of collaboration in Oregon. We just
have to redouble our efforts to work together instead of in our own
institutional silos.<br>
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The State Library is doing this with a new partnership we are forging with
Oregon State University Libraries to create new library portal site on the Web.
The working title of this site is the Library of Oregon. A few weeks ago we met
with Acting University Librarian Faye Chadwell and Terry Reese, the Gray Family
Chair for Innovative Library Services to begin to plan the project.<br>
<br>
The idea for the Library of Oregon came from the State Library Board, who wants
to see a website that would provide some basic library services to the 150,000
Oregonians who don’t have a local public library, in addition to
informing them about the library services they might be able to access by
purchasing a library card or by annexing to an adjacent library district, where
that might be possible.<br>
<br>
The Library of Oregon will be designed to meet that need in addition to
promoting library services to all Oregonians. It will have links to statewide
licensed databases, L-net, the Oregon School Library Information System, the
Oregon Digital Newspaper Project, and other Oregon library resources. Terry
believes it will be possible to create a statewide library catalog that will
enable users to search the collections of most of the major libraries and
consortia in the state. The State Library is in conversation with the Oregon
Digital Library Consortium about purchasing access to Library2Go for
“unserved” Oregonians through the Library of Oregon. <br>
<br>
The Library of Oregon will have a steering committee, so if you are interested,
contact <a href="mailto:terry.reese@oregonstate.edu">Terry</a>. If all goes
well the site will be unveiled at the OLA Conference next April. It will be one
of the first outcomes of our shared Vision 2020, and it will be the beginning
of a powerful new way to promote our services. – Jim Scheppke</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contacts at the Oregon State Library</span></b><span
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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>
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Talking Book and Braille Services: 503-378-5389, <a
href="mailto:susan.b.westin@state.or.us">Susan Westin</a>.<br>
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Government Research Services: 503-378-5030, <a
href="mailto:robert.hulshof-schmidt@state.or.us">Robert Hulshof-Schmidt</a>.<br>
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State Librarian: 503-378-4367, <a href="mailto:jim.b.scheppke@state.or.us">Jim
Scheppke</a>.<br>
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LTLO Editor: 503-378-2464, <a href="mailto:Ferol.Weyand@state.or.us">Ferol
Weyand </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
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