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OEMA Newsletter

An Electronic Newsletter
of The Oregon Educational Media Association
Volume 14 No. 6 April, 2002

APOLOGY FROM THE EDITOR
The OEMA Newsletter was scheduled to arrive in your e-mail box on Friday, April 5. The newsletter is arriving late because I was unable to send messages to the OEMA listserv last week. I started sending message on April 1 – no fooling - soliciting information for the newsletter from listserv members, but those requests never arrived in your e-mailbox This delay put me behind schedule. Again I ask for your patience as we work through technological and human inconveniences.

SUMMER RETREAT AT EAGLE CREST
Watch for Institute Brochure Coming Soon!
Theme: Building Partnerships: Teachers & Librarians Working Together to Meet the Standards (Bring a teacher or two with you!)
Major Speakers: David Loertscher and Allison G. Kaplan (tentative)
Date: July 15 & 16
Location: Eagle Crest Resort, Redmond
Cost: $125 will cover registration, dinner on Monday, breakfast and lunch on Tuesday
Registration Deadline: July 1
Information on Lodging at Eagle Crest:
Call 1-800-682-4786
Rates: Queen $95
Dbl Queen $105
Suite $120
Condo $220 (minimum 2 days - sleeps 6-8)
Rates guaranteed only until June 14

OEMA 2002-2003 SCHOLARSHIPS
Two scholarships of $800.00 each are being offered by OEMA to individuals studying at the graduate level in the fields of educational media/instructional technology. The scholarship grants may be used to assist the recipients to further their education in a summer session or
academic year of graduate study at any accredited college or university in Oregon. Programs of study may be at the Masters or Doctoral level. Scholarship money must be used between July 1, 2002-June 30, 2003.

Deadline for submission of all application forms and letters of recommendations is May 1, 2002. Judging results will be send to all applicants on or before July 1, 2002. Requests for application forms may be made by e-mail to Jenny_Takeda@beavton.k12.or.us, by calling
503-524-1315 (work), or in writing to Jenny Takeda at the address listed below. Selection of finalists and award amounts is subject to budget restraints and quality of the applicant pool.

All forms and letters should be sent to:
Jenny Takeda
OEMA Scholarship
Hiteon Elementary
13800 SW Brockman Road
Beaverton, OR 9708

DISTINGUISHED LIBRARY SERVICE AWARD FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
This award is a citation made by OEMA annually to an administrator of a school or group of schools for developing an exemplary School Library Media program and for having made an outstanding and sustained contribution advancing the role of the School Library Media Center as an agency for the improvement of education.

The administrator should demonstrate:
- evidence of leadership for the provision of high quality library media staff, facilities, collection, equipment, and staff development opportunities
- evidence of support for library media center services that provide learning opportunities and curriculum implementation for all students
- evidence of promotion of library media programs

Eligible for nomination are county or district administrators who are directly responsible for a school or group of schools at any level. Also eligible are district administrators who are responsible for broad instructional leadership. Nominations may be made by School Library Media Specialists, District Library Media Supervisors, and district or local Library Media organizations who are current OEMA members.

To nominate please submit:
- name, title, school, and/or district address, phone number, brief description of his/her job role, and educational and professional background
- a written narrative of the nominee's outstanding and sustained contribution toward furthering the role of the School Library Media program, a description of the district or building Library Media program and staffing, and an example of the administrator's library philosophy
- two signatures of fellow teachers who endorse the nomination of this administrator (identify each of the two supporters)

Nominations should be submitted by May 30, 2002 and mailed to:
Martha Decherd, Co-chair
O.E.M.A. Awards Committee
David Douglas High School
1001 SE 135
Portland, Oregon 97233
503.261.8357
Martha_Decherd@ddouglas.k12.or.us

2002 OEMA WLMA JOINT CONFERENCE

Libraries without Boundaries Joint conference of the Oregon Educational Media Association and the Washington Library Media Association October 10-12, 2002

Portland, OR – Doubletree Hotels at Columbia River and Jantzen Beach
Save these dates (October 10-12) and budget to attend! Registration materials will be mailed near the end of August.
For more information please view the conference web site – http://www.librarieswithoutboundaries2002.org
The web site is updated as details become available.

Conference Highlights:

Authors, authors, authors!
Over 125 one-hour concurrent sessions
Three- and six-hour extended sessions
Opportunities to interact with other teacher-librarians
Exhibits galore
Book sales
University and clock hour-credit available

Guests/Featured Authors/Specially Invited Presenters
Richard Rodriguez – the Friday banquet speaker, is an author, journalist and lecturer. He is an editor with the Pacific News Service, as well as a contributing editor to other well-known publications. His PBS NewsHour commentaries on American life have been honored with many awards, including the 1997 George Foster Peabody Award.

Featured authors include:
Lois Lowry, two-time Newbery Award winner
Francisco Jimenez, 1998 Horn Book Award winner for fiction
An Na, 2002 Printz Award winner
Virginia Euwer Wolff, 2001 National Book Award, 2002 Printz Honor Award
Jacqueline Woodson, author of 2001 Notable Book award for The Other Side

Among our specially invited presenters are:
Bernie Dodge: Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University and WebQuest concept developer.
Mike Eisenberg: UW Information School Dean, Big6™ guru and co-founder of AskERIC, the online question answering service for the K-12 community.
Judy Freeman: Children’s Literature consultant and writer, outstanding teacher and librarian par excellence.
Doug Johnson: Author of The Indispensable Librarian¸ writer, speaker, and consultant on school technology and library issues.
Jamie McKenzie: Editor of From Now On – The Educational Technology Journal, visionary promoter of educational technology integration.
Claire Rudolf Murphy: Writing instructor, storyteller, and author of books on Alaskan life.
Hazel Rochman: Editor of Booklist
Pat Scales: 2003 Caldecott Chair

OSLIS UPDATE
OSLIS now has LSTA funds to hire a half-time librarian to coordinate updating the OSLIS webpage. Expect to see the job announcement soon. OSLIS needs a dynamic person for this position.

This is no news regarding efforts the OSLIS Steering Committee has undertaken on behalf of all K-12 schools to secure state-wide funding to the EBSCOhost databases for the 2002-03 school year. The Steering Committee has its fingers crossed. If nothing materializes soon expect to receive an invoice from OETC in May to pay for EBSCOhost for next year. The sad story is that it will likely cost schools twice as much when districts pay individually than when a single source pays statewide.

If you are in a “poverty” school and are not using the OSLIS website, you should contact Jim Worden and schedule an inservice. Jim works part-time for OSLIS to reach those poverty schools that are not using OSLIS and EBSCOhost. He is available at wordenj@attbi.com

STATE LIBRARY BOARD TO CONSIDER COLLECTING SCHOOL LIBRARY DATA
The Oregon State Library Board of Trustees will meet at the Beaverton City Library on Friday, April 12. Jim Hayden will chair the meeting, which will begin at 9:30. An item of importance to the school library community is on the agenda. The Board will consider a proposal from the Library Budget Committee to approve a legislative concept concerning the collection of school library and other library statistics.

An open forum will be held at approximately 11:30 a.m. Any member of the public may address the Board on any topic during the open forum.

SENATE INTERIM TASK FORCE ON LIBRARY COOPERATION
Janet Webster, OLA President, writes . . . We haven't solved all the challenges facing Oregon's libraries, yet, but we did make progress. The Task Force, chaired by Senator Cliff Trow, met for the first of three meetings March 11th. A series of presentations took up the morning. These provided the Task Force members with common background on the state of Oregon's libraries, past legislative efforts, current funding sources, and possibilities for further action. In the afternoon, the Task Force split into two sub-committees. The first on solution identification, chaired by Senator Duncan, discussed the barriers to cooperation as well as key components of a successful model. The discussion was lively and yet, I came away with a sense of accomplishment. We have assignments, a broader understanding of the challenges, and a glimmer of actions. The second sub-committee, chaired by Senator Burdick, will be looking at molding the solutions identified into legislation. Thanks to the Task Force members as well as those colleagues who attended. We used everyone's expertise, and it was great to have such a supportive and informed audience. The next meeting is May 13 at the Capitol in Salem. For more information on the next meetings, here is the URL for the schedule: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/agenda/webagendas.htm

SDLG EVALUATING OREGONIAN ONLINE
The Statewide Database Licensing Group (SDLG) received 2 RFP to continue online access to the Oregonian for pubic and academic libraries and to determine the feasibility for K-12 access. The SDLG is evaluating the 2 responses and will select a provider in May.

GEORGE FOX MEDIA ENDORSEMENT PROGRAM PROFILE
The George Fox library media endorsement is an 18 semester credit program of 5 courses and 2 practica. This is 2 semester credits more than the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) requires. However, all the credits could count toward a Masters in Education and everyone is encouraged to position themself for completing the M.Ed. Students can be involved at 3 different levels:
Option 1. Library Media Endorsement only
Option 2. Students working on both the endorsement and the M.Ed.
Option 3. Students who need both the Initial Teaching License (18 semester credits) and the Library Media Endorsement (18 semester credits).

Five of the current students already have masters degrees: one is in business, another in piano performance, one is an MLS and two are either M.Ed. or MAT. Two students who have taken one course each in our program will complete MAT. Two or three others are well along in their M.Ed. and several others are definitely planning to complete the M.Ed. along with the endorsement program.

One classroom teacher took one of our courses, "Information Literacy in the K-12 Curriculum," as an elective in her M.Ed and one person who works at OPB took the same course as her last elective for her doctorate in education at GFU. At the other end of the scale is one student who has taken 2 of our courses for undergraduate credit as she earns enough credits to begin a degree completion program and then perhaps an MAT and her library media endorsement.

A total of 36 individuals have taken 1 or more courses in the GFU library media endorsement program in the first 3 semesters. Six have taken all 3 of the courses offered.

Fifteen of the 34 library media students are already in charge of school library media centers. Four of these are Option 3 people working on both the Initial Teaching License and the LM endorsement. One already has her LM endorsement. Three are substitute teachers and 6 are classroom teachers. Three are classroom assistants and 5 are school library assistants. One works in the GFU library. One is a social worker in a nursing home.

As expected, most of our students (19 of the 34) are working in or preparing for the elementary level. One other works in a pre-school and another has just been placed in charge of a K-12 library media program. Three work at the middle school level and 6 work at the high school level.

Students represent a wide geographic representation. The GFU program has been designed to serve distant students as much as possible. They come from Adrian, LaGrande, Pendleton, Prineville, Culver, Grants Pass, Central Point, Eugene, Springfield, Philomath, Jefferson, Keizer, Tillamook, Cloverdale. The other 20 live in the greater Portland area.

There are 2 racial minorities: 1 African/American and 1 Hispanic. Three of the 34 are men.

URLS TO TIMELY INFORMATION
April is School Library Media Month
http://www.ala.org/aasl/slmmonth.html

Growing Up Taller Award
http://www.cominguptaller.org/awards.html

AASL Resource Guides for School Library Media Program Development
http://www.ala.org/aasl/resources

Intellectual Freedom Resources from OLA
http://www.olaweb.org/ifcres.shtml

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