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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Attention Oregon school and public librarians!<br>
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It is time to vote to select the children’s and teen 2012 Oregon Summer Reading Certificates!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">HOW TO VOTE:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">View the seven children’s and three teen certificate options online at:
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.shtml#Vote_for_the_2012_Certificates">
http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.shtml#Vote_for_the_2012_Certificates</a>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Email the number and name of the one children’s and one teen certificate you want to cast your vote for to Katie Anderson (<a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</a>)
 by the end of the day <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">February 28, 2011</span></strong>.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Please type “<b>Vote for 2012 Oregon Summer Reading Certificate</b>” as the subject of your email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This year there are a lot of certificates to choose from and several look
<i>very </i>similar so <b>please be sure to include the <u>number</u> and <u>title</u> of the certificates you are voting</b><span style="color:red">
</span>for in your email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The winning certificates will be announced at the beginning of March via an email sent out on the kids-lib, OYAN, and OASL listservs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thank you to the librarians who designed these certificates.  Regardless of which certificates win, you all did a wonderful job. 
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Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<br>
* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<br>
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<br>
<a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</a>, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Details about the Oregon Summer Reading Certificates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In 2007 the Oregon Department of Education, Oregon State Library, and Oregon Library Association coordinated their efforts to create a joint Oregon Summer Reading Certificate with
 funding from the Oregon Education Association. The joint certificate has the national <a href="http://www.cslpreads.org/">Collaborative Summer Library Program</a> artwork on it and is signed by the State Librarian and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
 This effort signifies the commitment of schools and libraries to the education of Oregon’s youth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The winning certificates will be available in English and Spanish to download and print from the
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.shtml">Oregon summer reading website</a> starting in June 2012.  If you want hard copies, please read the following for details:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">PUBLIC LIBRARIES:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">  You already ordered hard copies of the 2012 summer reading certificates when you completed the 2011 Summer Reading Survey in September.  Certificates
 should be shipped to you at the end of May 2012 if everything goes as planned. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SCHOOL LIBRARIES:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> The email announcing the winning certificates will also include information for ordering of hard copies of the certificates.  Please start thinking
 now about how many children's certificates in English and Spanish and how many teen certificates in English and Spanish you will need so you are prepared when online ordering is available in March.  Remember, these certificates are FREE!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">URLs:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Oregon summer reading website:
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.shtml">http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.shtml</a>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Collaborative Summer Library Program:
<a href="http://www.cslpreads.org/">http://www.cslpreads.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Voting for 2012 SRP certificate:
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.shtml#Vote_for_the_2012_Certificates">
http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.shtml#Vote_for_the_2012_Certificates</a>
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