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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Oregon Library Association Quarterly
is seeking submissions for the Spring 2016 Issue.  The OLAQ is a
professional/academic journal that showcases the writing and work of library
employees in Oregon, and is indexed in many online databases. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The author deadline is April 15,
2016.  See instructions for authors here: <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/author_instructions.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/author_instructions.html</span></a></span></p>

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The theme for the winter issue is Access Services in the New Century, and will
be guest edited by Turner Masland, Assistant Manager, Access Services, at
Portland State University. Turner invites potential authors to email him their
ideas at: </span><span class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:masland@pdx.edu">masland@pdx.edu</a>. </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Final articles will be due to Turner on April
15th. If you have any questions, please get in touch with Turner. </span></p>

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More about the theme:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Access
Services in the New Century</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">“plus
ça change, plus c'est la même chose”</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">“The
more it changes, the more it’s the same thing.”</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">-
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes
(“The Wasps”)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Libraries
are continuing to change at a rapid pace, transforming from quiet repositories
into a vibrant locations for knowledge and information gathering and exchange.
Books are being moved to storage facilities to make room for more collaborative
learning spaces. Technology demands are rising. Makerspaces are becoming
essential library services. While these changes are both scary and exciting,
they are also necessary for libraries to remain true to their core mission:
serving our communities and their information needs while respecting their
rights to privacy and intellectual freedom. While everything in our industry
feels like it is changing rapidly, it also remains the same.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">The
spring issue of OLA Quarterly will focus on access services in the new century.
How are core activities like circulation, interlibrary loan, space and stacks
management changing? Staying the same? How can we better meet our patron’s
needs? What have been our major success and victories in this new century?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Possible
paper topics include:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Experience
combining circulation and reference into an Information Commons</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Circulating
technology (laptops, tablets, eReaders, etc.)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Human
Resource Management</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Managing
physical space to meet patron needs</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Creating
fast and efficient resource sharing services</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Security,
safety and disaster planning</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Customer
Service training successes</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Technology
training for staff</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Managing
reserve collections in the face of rising textbook costs</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Intersection
of Access Services and Collection Development</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">ILS
migration / management</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">User
Experience from an access services perspective</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The OLAQ has global reach because it
is indexed by Library Literature & Information Science and Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts. Full text of the OLAQ is also
available through HW Wilson's Library Literature and Information Science Full
Text and EBSCO Publishing's Library, Information Science and Technology
Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Authors
retain the rights to their work, and past authors have gone on to have their
articles published in magazines such as American Libraries.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The theme for the winter issue is
Library Marketing and Communications, and the deadline is February 10^th,
2016.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Please contact Joan Petit of
Portland State University for more information at: <a href="mailto:jpetit@pdx.edu">jpetit@pdx.edu</a> </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Charles Wood </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">OLAQ Coordinator </span></p>

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