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<div style="font-family: Avenir;"><font size="4"><b><span style="line-height: 16px;">Libraries Cultivating Creativity</span></b></font></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Avenir;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">“Creativity” is not easily definable, but as librarians, we are familiar with the term, especially as we are all asked to think more creatively in order to enhance our libraries
or to meet our continued challenges. It is understood that creativity is not limited to new inventions, products, or firms, but can also include revisions, enhancements, or new processes. An article in the </span><i style="line-height: 16px;">Chronicle of
Higher Education</i><span style="line-height: 16px;"> titled “Let’s Gets Serious About Cultivating Creativity” by Steven Tepper and George Kuh states that creative people:</span></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 16px; text-indent: -0.25in;">approach problems in non routine ways using analogy and metaphor;</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 16px; text-indent: -0.25in;">pose “what if” question;</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 16px;">see new or unexpected patterns;</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 16px;">face ambiguity and uncertainty;</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 16px; text-indent: -0.25in;">use feedback to revise and improve an idea; and</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 16px;">bring people, power, and resources together to implement or communicate novel ideas. </span></li></ul>
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<div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Avenir;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The Oregon Library Association Conference Committee is looking for program and preconference proposals for the 2015 Conference - <i>Libraries Cultivating Creativity</i> –
to be held at the Eugene Hilton & Conference Center in Eugene, OR, April 15-17. We are interested in proposals on how you or your library have been creative in cultivating your workplace or your library community. Check out the Summer 2014 OLAQ issue, </span><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/" style="color: purple; line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/</span></a><span style="line-height: 18px;">,</span><span style="line-height: 16px;"> to
get a broad sense of creativity and to spark your own creative ideas.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Avenir;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">At this point the program does not have to be fully organized; you can give us a general idea of the program and speakers (if known), and fill in the other details asked on
the proposal form. Each </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">preconference</span><span style="line-height: 16px;"> or program must be sponsored by an OLA unit, so before submitting the form, please contact appropriate unit(s) to discuss potential sponsorship
(</span><span style="line-height: 16px;">(</span><a href="http://www.olaweb.org/ola-units" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">http://www.olaweb.org/ola-units</span></a><span style="line-height: 18px;">).</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Avenir;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Submit a preconference proposal: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Avenir, sans-serif;"><a href="https://ola.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_174718" style="color: purple;">https://ola.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_174718</a></span></div>
<div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Avenir;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Submit a program proposal: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Avenir, sans-serif;"><a href="https://ola.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_174724" style="color: purple;">https://ola.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_174724</a></span><span style="line-height: 16px;"> </span></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Avenir;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Proposals are due <b>September 30, 2014</b>. Notifications will go out November 4th.</span></div>
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