<div dir="ltr"><div>Congratulations to the Waldport Library for winning the LSTA grant of the year (fiscal year 2018) award!<br></div><div><br></div><div>You are amazing!<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Max Macias <br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:20 AM Jerry Curry via Libs-Or <<a href="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Volume 29, Issue 12 - December 2019<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The State Library of Oregon is partnering with U.S. Census Bureau Partnership Specialists to offer libraries an opportunity
to serve as Census Resource Centers. This program will provide libraries with Census promotional materials for a general audience when the 2020 Census survey is open. (Mid-March through July 2020).<br>
Each library that participates in this program will receive :<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">A toolkit with promotional resources (copies of Census forms, marketing/educational brochures and materials, social media messaging, posters and signs)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:150%">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Access to dedicated U.S. Census staff to help with staff and/or volunteer training, planning promotional activities, and answering questions about navigating Census forms<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Provide staff or volunteers to assist individuals that have questions about filling out their Census survey<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:150%">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Organize a “Census Night at the Library” or other activities that promote Census participation in their community<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">To sign up, go to:
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<b><span style="color:rgb(28,28,134);text-decoration:none">https://forms.gle/PNBgjkaF4QW1mvB4A</span></b></a><br>
Deadline: January 15, 2020.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Cory Horton joined the State Library on November 12 as the Operations Support Specialist. In this role, she provides
administrative support for the State Librarian and State Library Board, coordinates State Library conference room reservations and billing, and processes invoices and payment requests. Cory is a Salem native and joins the State Library with 16 years of executive
administrative office experience. After spending several years in the Columbia River Gorge at Insitu, Inc., a Boeing Company, Cory is excited to be back in Salem to apply her skills at the State Library. Outside of work, Cory enjoys cooking, listening to music,
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November 14, 2019, for their grant-funded project <em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Community Math Outreach.</span></em><br>
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Following a recommendation by the State Library of Oregon’s Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Council, the State Library Board recently voted unanimously to award
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Through a 2018 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Competitive Grant, funded by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and administered by the State Library of Oregon, Waldport Public Library successfully refreshed many aspects of
their youth programming over the past year to engage local students ages pre-K-12 and their families in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) related activities, with a special emphasis on math.<br>
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Through a creative new series of events such as Legos and math games, science-focused story times, math competitions, rocket workshops, as well as kids clubs for chess, radio controlled cars and drones, Waldport Public Library is helping redefine the library’s
role in a small community. It has also helped invigorate stronger relationships with teachers and administrators at the Lincoln County School District. According to Waldport Library’s Family Outreach Coordinator, Sharon McCrumb, “As a library, we keep striving
toward literacy for all ages, not just traditional reading. Math proficiency is also literacy. To become confident in math skills is a wonderful thing in a friendly, non-graded environment at the public library.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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staff, and members of the public. Some of the special guests included retired reference librarian Alice L. and Oregon Department of Revenue employee Joseph N., who were instrumental in scanning the cards, also attended. There was a cake decorated to look like
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This resource is especially valuable for finding local or state specific historical subjects or people. In some cases, the cards use archaic language that may have been considered appropriate in the context of the time when the citations were created, but may
be jarring to library users today. The cards have been digitized and posted without altering the content.<br>
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The Oregon Index was compiled by State Library staff and volunteers starting in the early 20th century and continuing to the mid-1980s. It contains 785,667 cards with citations to articles published in Oregon newspapers, magazines, book chapters, and more.
Topics cover events and issues important to Oregon history and state government.<br>
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We hope that Oregonians will enjoy exploring the history of this state through the citations in Oregon Index Online. If there are any questions about using the index please consult our
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