OEMA
NEWSLETTER
Electronic
Newsletter of The Oregon Educational Media Association
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Volume 18
No.4
December,
2005
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CONTENTS:
FROM THE
PRESIDENT
the
"official" letter***** Jim Tindall
FROM THE
MEMBERSHIP
1. Region 2
conference --- Carol Dinges
2. From your
Higher Ed Rep --- Ruth Murray
3. OSLIS Ideas
--- Patty Sorensen
4. NEA Members:
Library Information Literacy Caucus (LILT) ---
Jenny Takeda
FROM THE
STATE
1. Capitol report
from OLA Lobbyist --- Nan Heim
2. Library Science Classes at LINN-BENTON
Community College
3.
Employment Opportunities ---- from OLA
FROM ALA, AASL
and BEYOND
1. Missed
the AASL
conference? Read the blog!
2. AASL offers
Pre-Midwinter Institute in San Antonio
3. ALA Katrina
Relief
4. Resource helps
build information literacy
5. Patriot Act ----From the Washington
Office of ALA
SPECIAL
SECTION - Book Recommendations for the Holidays
or any other day
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FROM THE
PRESIDENT --- Jim
Tindall
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On November 12th
Martha Decherd and I had the opportunity to speak at the Oregon School Board
Association Conference in Portland. We were one of many advocacy groups to be
part of the Hot Topics Breakfast. Attendees moved among three stations
following their meal. OEMA was fortunate to be
represented. Thanks, Martha!
We held three
sessions, each with about a half dozen school board members. The hot topics
that came up included the following:
**Designing a
public/school library facility**
This topic often
comes up in hard times. I've experienced the discussion in three states and
it's always a little unnerving for a school librarian. We addressed the very
different missions of the two library types, provided models to study including
Dufur and Sherman County, and mentioned some design issues. In isolated, rural
regions of Oregon, this can be a healthy solution, but all leadership, voters,
and the school community need to have ownership in the concept for staffing and
services to meet the needs of all library users.
**OEMA's impact
at the state level**
We were asked by
a business manager, new to Oregon, why our organization wasn't more visible at
the state level. We shared with the group our
progress with ODE and changes in OSLIS,
but had to admit, that we could be more effective with the legislature. Is
there anyone in education in Oregon who doesn't feel that way to some extent?
The fact is, OEMA needs to work harder and more creatively to be heard in the
halls of the capitol.
**Collaboration**
One of our groups
included a board member who had spent years in the classroom as an AP English
teacher. He made a strong case for healthy licensed staffing by pointing out
how well his students were utilizing the books and computers in the library,
skills that were developed because he was collaboratively teaching with the
licensed media specialist, or teacher-librarian.
**Staffing**
The Scholastic
summary of library research was a huge aid to us. It offers strong statements
for staffing levels that provide robust licensed and classified staffing. If
you haven’t passed along copies of this booklet to leadership in your district,
consider doing so prior to the budget building process for next school year.
Contact Scholastic for copies of the updated
"School Libraries
Work".
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FROM THE
MEMBERSHIP
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1. Region 2
conference --- Carol Dinges
News item - The Region 2 Winter Conference will be
held on Saturday, Feb. 25, at Sprague High School in Salem. Children's author David Michael Slater
will be the featured speaker, and there will be the usual array of concurrent
sessions, vendors, door prizes, and a great lunch. Conference details and registration information will be sent
to all Region 2 schools in early
January, and it will be available online
at <http://www.oema.net>www.oema.net at
that time, as well.
Hope to see you
there!
2. From your
Higher Ed Rep --- Ruth Murray
From your Higher
Ed Rep.......
Great courses
from PSU and George Fox. Most are online- need hours for your certification?
Just want to learn new things- sign up! Contact Ruth Murray murrayr@pdx.ed or Deanna Draper
draperd@pdx.edu 503 725-8579- if
you have PSU questions or Karen Wedeking kwedekin@georgefox.edu
503-554-2858 Coordinator of the
George Fox library media endorsement program
PSU
classes-
**Children's
Literature
LIB 428/528 3
credits
Course #
45178 Undergrad
45177
Grad
Instructor:
Delores
Johnston
Dates: Sat
9:00-1:00 1/14 and Tues 6:40-9:20 pm 1/31, 2/21, 3/14
Optional WebCT
Orientation 8-9 am 1/14 310
Graduate School of Education
Location: 333
Smith Memorial Student Union
Fee: $381.50
Undergraduate/$795.50 Graduate
**Computer
Applications for the Classroom
CI 432/532 3
credits
Course #
45181 Undergrad
45182
Grad
Instructor: Dave
Bullock
Dates: Tues
4-6:30 1/10-3/14
Location: 310 GSE
PSU
Fee: $381.50
UG/$795.50
Grad
Endorsement
Courses
**Collection
Development and Evaluation
LIB 542 3
credits
Course
# 45175
Instructor:
Rebecca Macy
Dates: Sat
11am-2pm
1/14 and 11-4pm 3/11 plus online
Optional WebCT
Orientation 8-9 am 1/14 310 Graduate School of Education
Location: 310 GSE
PSU
Fee:
$795.50
**Library Media
Instructional Programs, K-12
LIB 547 3
credits
Course#
45170
Instructor: Tracy
Russell
Dates: Sat 9-11
1/14 and 3/11 plus online
Optional WebCT
Orientation 8-9 am 1/14 310 Graduate School of Education
Location: 310 GSE
PSU
Fee:
$795.50
**Planning and
Evaluation of Library Media Programs
LIB
576
Course #
45172
Instructor: Dave
Bullock
Dates: Sat 2-4
1/14 plus online
Optional WebCT
Orientation 8-9 am 1/14 310 Graduate School of Education
Location: 310 GSE
PSU
Fee:
$795.50
**Multicultural
Literature, K-12
LIB 432/532 3
credits
Course # 45424
Undergraduate
45425
Graduate
Instructor: Leigh
Ann Morlock
Dates: Wed 4-6:30
Jan 11, 3/15, and 3/22 plus online
Optional WebCT
Orientation 8-9 am 1/14 310 Graduate School of Education
Location: 209
Neuberger Hall PSU
Fee: $381.50
Undergraduate/$795.50 Graduate
**Multicultural
Storytelling
LIB 408/508
1 credit
with Noncredit Option
Course # 45429
Undergraduate
45171
Graduates
TBA
Noncredit
Instructor: Merna
Hecht
Dates: Fri 5-9 pm
Jan 20
Sat 9am-4pm Jan
21 + TBA
Location: PSU 408
Graduate School of Education
Fee: $159.50
Undergrad/$297.50Grad/$!56 NonCredit
**Information
Literacy and Online Searching
LIB 408/508 1
credit with Noncredit Option
Course # 45423
Undergraduate
45179
Graduate
TBA
Noncredit
Instructor: Leigh
Ann Morlock
Dates: Fri
4:30-8:30 pm Feb 24
Sat 9am-4pm Feb
25 + TBA
Location: PSU 310
Graduate School of Education
Fee: $159.50
Undergrad/$297.50Grad/$!56 NonCredit
Coming this
spring:
LIB 408/508
Picture Books and Information Literacy
1 credit with
Noncredit Option
LIB 408/508
Literature for At-Risk Students
1 credit with
Noncredit Option
LIB 592
Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature
3
credits
LIB 587 Video
Production
3
credits
And from George
Fox -
**EDFL 554 Core
Collection Development
3 semester hours
This course introduces the Library Media specialist to
Information
Access and Delivery, including the development of
information
resources, learning characteristics of students
and staff,
and methods for
matching student needs with appropriate materials. The
course will also
emphasize reference and information sources and
services in the
school media center.
Offered spring
semester Format: Combination of two Saturday sessions at
Portland Campus
and Online. January 14 and April 15 9:00-4:00
**EDFL562 Multi
Media Design and Production
2 semester hours
This course will give the examination and practice of
effective design
concepts for content delivery. Design and production of
lessons and
student projects keyed to national standards will use
various
multimedia software programs.
Offered spring
semester Format: Combination of two Saturday sessions at
the Portland
Center January 21 and April 22
9:00-3:00
3. OSLIS Ideas
--- Patty Sorensen
Newspaper Lesson
Ideas
Another great
resource available from the OSLIS website is the Newsbank Oregonian
newspaper. This is much more than
the <http://oregonlive.com>http://oregonlive.com website. It is more comprehensive and ncludes
archives of past issues from 1988 to the present.
The 5 W's
+1
Many Oregon
students were born after 1988 so one fun reading activity would be to use their
birth date in the “custom date” box. to read about an event that occurred on
the day they were born. Then ask them to answer:
Who is involved
in the story?
What is the story
about?
When did the
action take place?
Where did the
action take place?
Why did it
happen?
Invite students
to share their birth date articles in class.
This is a
variation of a lesson found at::
<http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/newspapertools/index.htm>http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/newspapertools/index.htm
Missing
Headlines
Here’s a great
idea about having students write headlines for
newspaper articles.
<http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp258-04.shtml>http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp258-04.shtml
----Print
articles from The Oregonian online.
An easy way to accomplish this is to go to a recent issue listed on the
Oregonian page from Newsbank. Go
to:
<http://www.oslis.org/>www.oslis.org,
select a level from the list on the right yellow box, then select the Newsbank
Oregonian link listed again on the right.
Select a date from the main page you retrieve then choose articles. Once you are in the article, you can
copy the text and paste it into a word processing document minus the
headline. If you want to check the
lexile of this article you could do so by putting it through the Lexile
Analyzer at:
<http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=ed&tabindex=2&tabid=16&tabpageid=335>http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=ed&tabindex=2&tabid=16&tabpageid=335
(Be sure to write
down your username and password as you create it
on this resource.)
Websites to Explore for Newspaper
Ideas:
--Using the
Newspaper in Classrooms from The Teacher’s Desk:
http://www.teachersdesk.org/news.html
--Newspapers in
Education (Check out the various
major newspapers listed on the right for lesson
plans.)
<http://nieonline.com/nieonline/lessons.cfm>http://nieonline.com/nieonline/lessons.cfm
--Oregon
Newspapers that participate in the print Newspapers in Education program are
listed at:
<http://www.orenews.com/nie/programs.html>http://www.orenews.com/nie/programs.html
Some of these
sites have lesson plans which can be easily used
with electronic newspapers.
4. NEA
Members: Library Information Literacy Caucus
(LILT) --- Jenny Takeda
NEA members are
encouraged to join this NEA caucus on school libraries. An annual $5
membership is all that is required to join. LILT Purposes from the
membership form:
*Advocate for the
issues which concern and affect School Library Media and Information Technology
Programs in the public schools.
* Participate in
NEA/RA business which impacts upon the library and technology community and
intellectual freedom.
* Inform NEA
members of those issues which affect the library and technology community and
intellectual freedom.
Please write the
$5 check payable to LILT and mail to:
Janet Henderson
1717 W.
Brady St.
Tulsa, OK 74127
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FROM THE
STATE
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1. Capitol
report from OLA Lobbyist --- Nan Heim
In just five months, we
will take the first step towards choosing
the next Oregon Legislature by voting in the May Primary. We already
know that some good friends of libraries will probably not return to the
Capitol. Senator Ginny Burdick, OLA's current Legislator of the Year, is
running for Portland City Council. Rep. Steve March, a vocal library supporter,
is running for Multnomah County Auditor. So, as always, we need to encourage
more legislators and candidates who support libraries.
You can help by contributing to
People for Oregon Libraries, the library PAC. If you contribute up to $50 by
December 31 of this year, you can take your contribution as a credit on your
state income tax - up to $50 on a single return
and up to $100 on a joint return.
It is a tax credit, not a deduction, so your
contribution costs you
nothing.
People for Oregon Libraries has
three purposes: to support campaigns of legislative candidates who are
supportive of libraries, to support campaigns for
local library funding measures;
and to support or oppose statewide ballot
measures with impact on
libraries.
People for Oregon Libraries is a
registered political action committee with the Secretary of State. OLA's
current president, immediate past president, president-elect and legislative
chair serve on the Board.
A few OLA members have already
contributed to People for Oregon Libraries this year when they paid their OLA
dues. They deserve our thanks for helping to advance library interests. If you
would still like to support People for Oregon Libraries, it is not too late!
Send your contribution now to: People for Oregon Libraries, 833 SW 11th Ave.,
#315, Portland OR 97205
Please join us in supporting
People for Oregon Libraries and help elect legislative candidates who will
stand up for libraries next session.
2. Library Science Classes at LINN-BENTON
Community College
Linn-Benton
Community College's Education/Child & Family Studies Department offers
classes in Library Science each academic year term. For winter term 2006, they
will be offering two classes taught by Paul Gregorio. Paul teaches juvenile
literature in Portland State University's graduate program. Paul is also a
librarian and former Education/Outreach person
for the Oregon State
Library.
ED 7.742 (CRN 35142)
"Reference Materials and Services"
11 weeks: January
10 - March 22, 2006
3 Credits, Tuesday evenings, 7
p.m. - 8:50 p.m.
Room ST-213A, located at LBCC's
main campus in Albany
Introduction to using print and
electronic reference materials and providing information services to students.
Includes information literacy skills, and working with teacher and student
assignments.
ED 7.748 (CRN 34993)
"Library Skill Curriculum"
11 weeks: January 11 - March 22,
2006
3 Credits, Wednesdays, 7 p.m. -
8:50 p.m.
Room ST-213A, located at LBCC's
main campus in Albany
An overview of the educational
mission of K-12 instruction, library skills instruction and strategies to
support classroom educational activities.
Tuition cost per class:
$186.00
Please register early, as classes
require a minimum enrollment in order to run. Registration for winter term
starts December 5. To register, go to <http://sis.linnbenton.edu> and
choose "Click here to login to SIS." (NOTE: Classes do not need to be
taken in sequence.)
Questions can be
directed to Jane Tillman at 541-917-4912 or
<jane.tillman@linnbenton.edu>.
3. Employment Opportunities ---- from
OLA
*** Youth
Services Librarian, Deadline December 1, 2005
*** Humanities
Librarian, Deadline December 1, 2005
*** Collections
Mgmt/Tech Services Manager, Deadline December 2, 2005
*** Substitute
Library Clerk, Deadline January 9, 2006
*** Library
Director, Open Until Filled
*** University
Librarian, Open Until Filled
*** Systems
Analyst, Open Until Filled
*** Reference
Librarian, Open Until Filled
*** Account
Manager, Open Until Filled
*** Library
Technician 3, Open Until Filled
*** Librarian II
- Reference Dept., Open Until Filled
*** Librarian I -
Children's Dept., Open Until Filled
*** Technical
Services and Collection Librarian, Open Until Filled
More information
available on the OLA web site: http://www.olaweb.org/hotline/
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FROM ALA, AASL
and BEYOND
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1. Missed the
AASL conference? Read the blog!
Check out the
AASL National Conference blog, at
http://www.noodletools.com/aasl
2. AASL offers
Pre-Midwinter Institute in San Antonio
The 2006 American
Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting will be held in San Antonio, Texas,
January 20-25.
AASL has planned
an exciting Pre-Midwinter Institute "Library Media Best Practices Workshop
and Tour," which will be held on Friday, January 20, 2006, 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
To register for
the Institute go to http://www.ala.org/aasl/midwinter
3. ALA Katrina
Relief
ALA Hurricane
Katrina Relief Fund has raised $50,000 for Gulf Coast libraries. Read full
story at
http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2005/october2005/katrinafundraises50K.htm For more information on ALA's response
to the Katrina tragedy see http://www.ala.org/katrina
4. Resource helps
build information literacy
A Syracuse
University program, S.O.S. (Situations, Outcomes,Strategies) for Information
Literacy, is a free multimedia resource for K-8 teachers and media specialists
who want their students to learn more, and become excited, about research. The S.O.S. project is "a
solution to an age-old problem," said Julie Walker, executive director of
AASL. "We talk a lot about integrating content and skills, whether those
skills are information gathering or technology,
but many people have a difficult
time doing that." S.O.S.
launched Oct. 7 at the AASL National Conference
in Pittsburgh.
Browse the S.O.S.
online resources at
http://www.informationliteracy.org/training/Home.htm
5. Patriot Act ----From the Washington
Office of ALA
We now have the
opportunity to continue to spread our message to Members of Congress before
they return to Washington. The House
returns to DC next week and the Senate returns on December 12th. We
expect negotiations on PATRIOT Reauthorization to resume immediately and we
expect a possible vote by December 16th. Please call your Members of Congress
TODAY and ask them to support efforts to change the language of the Patriot Act
conference report to reflect these concerns:
1. The current draft has
7-year sunsets-- We want a 4-year sunset that will make it possible to correct
an abuse of Section 215 at an earlier date.
2. The current draft requires
that the FBI need only assert facts "relevant" to a general terrorist
investigation to get an order from a secret FISA court for records. This is a
lower and less protective standard than the Senate version of the bill that
required the FBI to demonstrate a connection between the records sought and a
terrorist organization or a suspected terrorist.
We want the Senate language.
3. The current draft does not
provide a meaningful ability to challenge an NSL
or order of the FISA court.
4. The current draft does not
provide meaningful safeguards for patron privacy. The Senate language is more
protective.
5. Tell the PATRIOT conferees
that you want the conference report to reflect
the points above.
6. Thank you for supporting
the civil liberties of library patrons.
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SPECIAL
SECTION - BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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From Billy
Cook
Stranger in
the Woods by Carl R. Sams Jr and Jean Stoick is an absolutely beautiful photographic winter story. It should become another classic like the Polar Express,
and is a perfect story to read aloud to primary classes in December because it has a Christmasssy feel. ISBN
0-9671748, price is 19.95.
From Edith
Fuller
The forest lover / Susan Vreeland. New York
: Viking, 2004.
Fictionalized
biographyof Emily Carr, painter in British Columbia, of the region's wilderness
and Indian carvings and totem poles.
Wildly inspiring. For teens
and adults.
From Becky
Hickox
The Eyre
Affair by Jasper
Fforde
Many librarians
and English teachers have already discovered it,
but The Eyre Affair was recently introduced to me through
Book Lust. It's a non-techie science fiction
set in a present-day alternative England where literature is so important
there's a government agency devoted to keeping it safe. One of its agents, Thursday Next, must
track down the villain who kidnapped Jane Eyre from the middle of the original
manuscript leaving millions of Bronte fans confused and bereft. There is
liberal use of "language" so I'd hesitate recommending it to a
student, but it's a very clever, funny, and fast ride packed with literary
allusions. The narrator in the
recorded version is excellent.
From Lisa
Hardey
The Schwa Was
Here by Neal Schusterman
When Anthony
"Antsy" Bonano meets Calvin Schwa, he is puzzled by his ability to
appear and disappear before his own eyes. Antsy concocts a moneymaking scheme
based on the Schwa's invisibility.
Everything is going well until the boys are caught by the town's
legendary mean millionaire, Mr. Crawley. Their resulting community service
project--walking the 7 virtues and 7 vices (Crawley's 14 afghan hounds) and
going out with Crawley's granddaughter Lexie--cements and ultimately challenges
friendships. This is a book for anyone who's ever felt that they can try their
hardest to be noticed but always seem to be invisible. "The Schwa" is
a boy that just goes unnoticed in life. A must-read for every teen and people
who live and work with them!
From Merrie
Olson
"Zorro: by
Isabel Allende is a great action packed story of the legendary Zorro
character. The character, Zorro,
starts from a young boy and
progresses to present legend.
Isabel once again has a great way of developing her charaters with
richness. Purely for pleasure read!
From Carol
Dingses
Oh - my favorite
new title is a not-so-recent book entitled Thinking In Pictures: And Other
Reports from My Life with Autism, by Temple Grandin (Vintage, 1996; ISBN 0679772898). The
author is a high-functioning autistic
woman who gives an incredible glimpse into how an autistic person perceives the
world and others in it. Moreover,
she explains how her autism has given her the focus needed for her
accomplishments (she designs specialized equipment for handling cattle in feed
lots), thus debunking some of the conventional wisdom regarding how autistic
children should be dealt with.
This is definitely an adult book, and
one that I would highly recommend for anyone associated with education. High school students interested in
autism would likely also find this worthwhile.
This is not a book that I would
ordinarily have picked up - a friend insisted that I read it - but I'm very
glad I did. Not only did it help
me to better understand the autistic students in our school, but also a
few adults I deal with who display some autism-like behaviors that I've
always cheerfully attributed to their simply being jerks. Hmmm...
Home computers
are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption
of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- -Doug Larson