<div dir="ltr"><div style>This update has a little more in it than usual, as our conference is coming up! Yes, it's summer and that means we are having our annual conference in July. This year it will be happening in lovely Hood River on Friday the 19th. Our early-bird registration ($10 off!) ends on June 20th, which is a little over two weeks away. We have some great sessions and incentives this year, so please join us!</div>
<div style>This year's theme is "Are We There Yet?":</div><div style><a href="http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/05/are-we-there-yet.html">http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/05/are-we-there-yet.html</a><br></div>
<div style>Our base blog page where you can go to find the latest updates, as well:</div><div style><a href="http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/p/2013-conference.html">http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/p/2013-conference.html</a><br></div>
<div><br></div><div style>In other blog news, we have more ergonomics links, library funding ideas, and yeah, the library slide: </div><div style><a href="http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/04/library-news-and-ergonomics-and-slides.html">http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/04/library-news-and-ergonomics-and-slides.html</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>Our founder, Donetta Sheffold, retired in April. Jey Wenn wrote a lovely post about what it meant to have Donetta start our organization and I encourage you to read it:</div><div style>
<a href="http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-we-owe-donetta-sheffold.html">http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-we-owe-donetta-sheffold.html</a><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Jennifer Steward is back with more great customer service advice, or in this case, awkward-library-patron service:</div>
<div style><a href="http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/06/five-tips-for-creating-boundaries-with.html">http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/06/five-tips-for-creating-boundaries-with.html</a><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>
And finally, the most adorable books in the world. And who knew we had one in our State Library?:</div><div><a href="http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/04/worlds-tiniest-books.html">http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/2013/04/worlds-tiniest-books.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div style>Questions, comments, concerns? Let us know. Contact me through the blog (<a href="http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/p/contact-us.html">http://ola-ssd.blogspot.com/p/contact-us.html</a>), or reply to this email. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>We really hope to see you all at the conference this year!</div><div style><br></div><div style>- Rebecca</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>