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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Greta Bergquist is the Youth Services Consultant for the
State Library of Oregon. Please download and read her latest article, “</span><span>Ready to Read Now and
Then,” here: </span><a href="http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss2_11" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss2_11</span></a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span><span></span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">From Greta’s article, “</span><span style="line-height:107%">The
Ready to Read project at your local public library is building literacy skills
in early learners and summer readers, even as I write these words. Oregon
libraries use Ready to Read funds in their daily work to support visiting Head
Start classrooms with storytimes, to offer teen or foster parent literacy
classes, to implement summer food site reading programs, and more—all to ensure
that as many Oregon kids as possible have the opportunity to build literacy
skills in their communities.”<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">Greta Bergquist has worked in public libraries, schools,
and afterschool programs from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest. She
holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University and an MLIS
from the University of Washington. Bergquist greatly enjoys working with public
library staff in her role as the Youth Services Consultant at the State Library
of Oregon.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">





</span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you,</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Charles Wood</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">OLA Quarterly Coordinator</span></font><br></div></div>