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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The State Librarian just sent the following email to all public, academic, and tribal library directors announcing the bill number for the proposed changed to the Ready to Read Grant. You can track the progress
of HB 2479 on the Oregon Legislature’s website: <a href="https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Measures/Overview/HB2479">
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Measures/Overview/HB2479</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please remember, if HB 2479 passes the Ready to Read grant will be replaced by the Reading for Success grant, expanding the program so libraries may use state funds on early literacy, summer reading, and school
age (afterschool) projects for youth birth—12<sup>th</sup> grade. I’ve highlight the part in the email below that pertains to Ready to Read for your convenience.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Katie <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Support and Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><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" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.olaweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=289"><span style="color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="159" height="61" id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D02E44.F201C340" alt="OYAN_logo_clr.JPG"></span></a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#1F497D">Talk about new teen books, teen programming ideas, and more at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#1F497D">OLA’s Oregon Young Adult Network
<a href="http://www.olaweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174">
winter meeting</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#1F497D">Friday, January 16, 2015 at Woodburn Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> AL-Directors [mailto:al-directors-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>MaryKay Dahlgreen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 10, 2015 3:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> pl-directors@listsmart.osl.state.or.us; al-directors@listsmart.osl.state.or.us; tl-directors@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AL-Directors] State Library Update-Please Read<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello all-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We have been pretty busy as the State Library for the last 6 months and I wanted to let you know about some things that have occurred and some things that are coming up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Probably most important to us is that the 2015 Legislative Session will be getting underway on February 2<sup>nd</sup>. The legislators will be sworn in on Monday January 12<sup>th</sup> and then spend the
next several weeks in training and organizing. We will be making our budget presentation before the General Government Subcommittee of the Joint Ways and Means committee. We don’t know the schedule yet but will be ready to go in mid-February. In
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">addition to our 2015-2017 budget the Governor, at our request, has introduced legislation to make changes to the Ready to Read Grant program. The bill number is HB2479 and changes the name from
<i>Ready to Read</i> to <i>Reading for Success</i>, increases the ages served from 0 to 14 to 0 to 17, and allows libraries to provide out of school time activities for school age children in addition to early literacy and summer reading. Katie Anderson, our
youth services consultant, brought together a group of stakeholders in early 2014 to develop the changes. She also spent some time on the road this summer introducing the concepts across the state. She will be doing a presentation at the OLA conference about
the changes that will occur if the legislation passes. I will be in touch about this on a regular basis and welcome questions.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The State Library is continuing to phase out Oregon Center for the Book activities. We still haven’t found a new home for it and are working with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The Oregon
Poetry Collection has moved to the University of Oregon. The Oregon Poetry Association, State Library, and University of Oregon are hopeful that the collection will get more use in an academic setting where professors can integrate it into their curriculum
and students can use it for assignments. The Oregon Poetry Collection will still be available statewide via interlibrary loan and the Oregon Library Passport Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Oregon Center for the Book’s partnership with Literary Arts to promote the Oregon Book Awards in public libraries has also changed. The State Library will still communicate Oregon Book Award related information
to the library community on behalf of Literary Art, but will no longer distribute finalists’ titles to select libraries. Literary Arts currently plans to continue providing copies of finalists’ titles to select libraries, but will likely make changes to that
program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This is the last year the Oregon Center for the Book will run Letters About Literature, the national reading and writing contest for youth in 4<sup>th</sup> through 12<sup>th</sup> grade. I am having discussions
with several organizations to gauge their interest in running this contest. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As you may have read in the January
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LTLO/LTLOJan2015/Jan2015LTLO.html">Letter to Libraries Online,</a> we are having a materials offering at the State Library on January 21<sup>st</sup>. The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society (WVGS) has been housing selected
genealogical resources at the Genealogical Resources Center (GRC) at the Oregon State Library (OSL) through a partnership that began in 1987. These materials were purchased and acquired by WVGS. They are WVGS materials and will be moved to the WVGS new location
which is expected to be the Salem Public Library. The partnership between the State Library and WVGS has ended, although the State Library will store the WVGS materials until May 2015. Genealogy materials added to the Oregon State Library collection prior
to 1987 that meet established collection development guidelines will remain in the State Library collection. Materials that are housed at OSL but belong to other organizations will not be removed from the collection. Materials that do not<span style="color:black">
meet the mission of the Collections of the Oregon State Library will be weeded from the collection, which is standard practice with library materials. Weeded items will follow the OSL collection disposal process and stipulations in the Memorandum of Understanding
between the Oregon State Library and the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society. Disposition of these genealogy materials is being coordinated with WVGS and the genealogical community in Oregon. Materials are being offered to genealogy organizations and
other libraries. If you have questions about the material offering process please contact Kate McGann at
</span><a href="mailto:kate.e.mcgann@state.or.us">kate.e.mcgann@state.or.us</a><span class="style10">.</span></span><span class="style10"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style10"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style10"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We have been working with the consulting firm, Coraggio Group, since August of 2014 to develop a strategic plan that will take us through the 2015-2017 biennium. We have almost completed
that work and I am creating a publication that we can share with you. I am very excited about the work that has been done by both the State Library Board of Trustees and the staff of the State Library. The work we have done in the last several months has been
based on all the input and work the library community and other stakeholders have done in the last two years. We have updated our vision and mission, created core values, and strategic imperatives. The strategic imperatives we will be working on are: Focus
on the Customer, Build Awareness of the State Library, Build on Staff Strengths, and Enhance Partnerships. I will send out a link when we get the publication together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style10"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style10"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Oregon library community has been incredibly supportive of the State Library over the years and I can’t thank you enough for your support, your interest, and your ideas. I am very
excited as we continue to create an Oregon State Library for the 21<sup>st</sup> century.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style10"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style10"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please feel free to contact me with questions, concerns, or if you just want to chat.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style10"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">MaryKay</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MaryKay Dahlgreen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon State Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">503-378-4367<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:marykay.dahlgreen@state.or.us">marykay.dahlgreen@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://oregon.gov/osl">http://oregon.gov/osl</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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