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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Amy
Wyckoff enthusiastically serves as a Youth Services Senior Librarian at
Beaverton City Library in Beaverton, OR where she works with a team of creative
librarians to plan and facilitate unique programs for the amazing children,
teens, and families in the community.<span style="color:rgb(77,77,79)"> Please
download and read her latest article, “</span>Summer Outreach Crew: An Experiment,” here: </span><a href="http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol25_iss4_6" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol25_iss4_6</span></a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span><span></span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,79)">From Amy’s article: “</span><span>In an effort to bring engaging and interactive
programming to families around our city and to promote summer reading, the
Beaverton City Library formed a Summer Outreach Crew (SOX) of six staff members
that visited parks, apartment complexes, free lunch sites, camps, and summer
school sites from June to August 2019. Each member of SOX visited an outreach
location in the community for approximately one hour once a week where they interacted
with lots of children, teens, and caregivers who in some cases were not regular
library users. We brought science experiments, games, trivia, robots, art
activities, and much more and left families excited about what the library has
to offer! Regardless of the size of your staff or the funding available, we
believe there are aspects of our outreach plan that would work for any library.”<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,79)">Before landing in beautiful Oregon, Amy worked as the Teen
Services Manager at ImaginOn in Charlotte, NC. Amy especially loves offering
STEM programs and hosts an annual Science Geek Out Festival where families come
to dig deep into all sorts of science topics. She co-authored a book called <i>Career
Programming</i> <i>for Today’s Teens: Exploring Non-traditional and Vocational
Alternatives</i>, which was published by ALA in 2018; it is a terrific resource
for any library staff looking to increase workforce development programming for
young adults.<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">

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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">This
article was written before the events that began this spring. The OLA Quarterly
Coordinator takes full responsibility for the lateness of this issue.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Thank you,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Charles Wood</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">OLA Quarterly Coordinator</font></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><span></span></span></p>





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