OEMA Newsletter
An Electronic Newsletter
of The Oregon Educational Media Association
Volume 14 No. 7 May, 2002
FROM THE PRESIDENT
The number of messages on the listserve in the
last few weeks about library program cuts has
made it difficult to stay positive. I know we
all work hard to advocate for our programs.
So how do we turn this trend around? Is it too
late? It may be too late for some programs this
next school year. However, I do not believe
we should go quietly. I am convinced that we
all must be more politically active. We have
to do more than participate in ALA’s National
Legislative Day and in our own Oregon Legislative
Day every other year. Our entire membership
is going to have to roll up their sleeves and
hit the campaign trail. If you aren’t working
on someone’s campaign, find a candidate
who will listen to you. Tell them about the
cuts, about the Oregon Study, and the inequities
in Oregon schools, and then go to work for their
campaign. I recently worked a phone bank for
two candidates who care about schools and school
libraries and are running for the Oregon State
Senate and the Oregon House. Working the phone
bank was uncomfortable. Personally, I don’t
care for those calls when they are directed
toward me. A couple of people on the other end
of the phone did become angry and more than
one person hung up on me. I did live to tell
about it. We have to give more of our time and
energy. It isn’t enough to educate our
administrators and colleagues about the impact
school librarians have on student achievement.
We have to talk and work with those candidates
at the local level who can make a difference
when they head to Salem for the next legislative
session. All our voices need to be heard politically
through our work and our vote.
FROM THE EDITOR
The OEMA Newsletter has been arriving electronically
since September. The original commitment was
to published the newsletter bi-monthly, but
since January, the newsletter has been published
monthly. This May issue will be the final one
until September. The editor would appreciate
any feedback regarding the content, format or
frequency of the newsletter. Please send comments
to Sheryl Steinke <steinke@4j.lane.edu>.
Her contact information is available at the
end of this newsletter.
ELECTION RESULTS
Congratulations and a huge thank you to the
following OEMA members! They have been elected
to serve on the OEMA Board. They will take office
on July 1, 2002.
President-elect Linda Ague, Cal Young Middle
School in Eugene
Secretary Christine Sime, Crook County High
School
High School Representative Cindy Bennett, North
Marion Middle and High Schools
Commercial Representative Steve Baker, Follett
Library Resources
The Elementary Building Representative position
remains open. If you are interested in running
for the elementary building representative
position please contact Margo
Jensen<mjensen@teleport.com>. This
is a two year position on the OEMA Board.
LITERACY THROUGH SCHOOL
LIBRARIES
Timeline:
Application Notice - May 24, 2002
Application Available - May 24, 2002
Application Deadline - July 24, 2002
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review - Sept.
24, 2002
Estimaed average size/number of awards - $50,000
/ 250-300
Contact: Margaret
McNeely
E-mail: Margaret.Mcneely@ed.gov
Fax (202) 205-0310
Telephone (202) 260-1335
The grant language states that 20 percent of
the students served by the local educational
agency are to be from families with incomes
below the poverty line. Check with your district
administrative office to get this information
before you spend a lot of time preparing to
write the grant.
To prepare to get a grant for your school, you
should analyze the age of your collection; determine
what areas are in greatest need of replacement;
document how many years it has been since your
library has received funds.
Develop a list of what you would buy to upgrade
your collection. In other words, how much money
would it take to bring your collection up to
date? If you can do some of the preliminary
work you will be prepared to write the grant
application which will be coming in late in
the school year - May 24.
If you get the grant you should prepare ahead
of time, before the end of this year, to be
ready to order and process the materials early
in the next school year (fall of 2002).
BEVERLY CLEARY CHILDREN'S
CHOICE AWARD
Nominated titles for 2002-03:
Gloria's Way by Ann Cameron
Weird Stories from the Lonesome Cafe by Judy
Cox
Here We All Are by Tomie DePaola
Mammalabilia by Douglas Florian
How to Talk to Your Dog by Jean Craighead George
Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
Dear Whiskers by Ann Whitehead Nagada
Marvin Redpost: Super fast, Out of Control by
Louis Sachar
This new contest is targeted at second and third
grade readers, but is open to any elementary
school-aged student. In order to vote for their
favorite book, students must read (or have read
to them) at least 4 of the nominated titles.
Voting will take place between March 15 and
April 1, 2003. Students should vote for their
favorite book. Teachers, librarians, and home-school
parents may e-mail the total votes for each
book to committee chairman,
Jann
Tankersley at daytong@yesd.k12.or.us. (Vote
only once-at a public library, school or home
school) Additional information will be available
on the OEMA website, www.oema.net/.
OSLIS RENEWALS
Because no statewide funding has been secured
for the 2002-03 school year, OETC mailed renewal
invoices to school districts in the middle of
April. The invoices need to be returned to OETC
by June 1 indicating your intent to renewal
or not renew.
Library media specialists should check with
their district administrators who manage the
federal Leave No Child Behind funds. Title IID
is a new category focusing on technology in
instruction. The costs of renewing EBSCOhost
in an eligible expense of Title IID. These applications
are due in Salem on May 15. Contact your district
administrator soon to let them know that renewing
EBSCOhost is an excellent way to use Title IID.
Next year at this time OSLIS will have a new
refreshed look. The OSLIS website is being renewed
with funds from an LSTA grant from the Oregon
State Library. A half-time librarian position
will be posted. Focus groups will be asked to
provide feedback to improve the website. Ten
experienced OSLIS users will be hired to help
write/develop additional tutorials. Workshops
around the state will introduce the new OSLIS
in the fall.
LIBRARIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES,
joint conference of OEMA and WLMA, October 10-12,
2002 in Portland Oregon.
Banquet Speaker (Friday evening) - Richard
Rodriguez, 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.
Featured Authors
| 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 and 2002 Printz Honor Award |
| Jacqueline Woodson, 2001 Notable
Book Award |
| Plus many more local authors are included
in the program |
Featured Presenters
| Bernie Dodge |
Professor of Educational Technology
at San Diego State University and WebQuest
concept developer |
| Mike Eisenberg |
UW Information School Dean,
Big6 guru and cofounder 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 |
| Plus many, many more individuals
of note who will present well over 100 sessions |
Thursday Extended Sessions:
Bernie Dodge, WebQuests
Mike Eisenberg, The Big6*
Judy Freeman, Hi Ho Librario!
Doug Johnson, AM: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward,
What's Needed to Teach Teachers to Use Technology
Effectively and PM: Are You Paid As Much as
the Real Teachers? Using Planning and Reporting
to Build Library/Media Program Support
Cecilia McGowan/Janet Hogan, Best Books of the
Year for K-6,
Jamie McKenzie, AM: Searching for the Grail
and PM: Beyond Plagiarism/The Great Questioning
Toolkit
Claire Rudolf Murphy, The Writing Process, repeat
Jerene Battisti/Angelina Benedetti, Best Books
of the Year for YA,
Patti Tjomsland, Web strategies
Saturday Extended Sessions:
Teresa Bateman, Puppetry Workshop
Steven Engelfried, Mock-Caldecott
Thom Garrard, Online Literature Circles
Carolee Harrison, Book Repair Workshop
Sheryl Steinke and Alison Conner - Creating
a Library Home Page
The conference will be held at the adjacent
Jantzen Beach and Columbia River Doubletree
Hotels. our negotiated room rate is $100 per
room per night plus tax. Conference attendees
must mention the group code OWL for this special
rate. Reservations may be made on-line at the
Doubletree website www.doubletree.com or through
the Doubletree toll-free line 800-222-8733.
For more information about the conference visit
our website at www.librarieswithoutboundaries2002.org
REPORTS FROM REGIONAL
SPRING CONFERENCES
REGION 3 met at McCornack Elementary
in Eugene on April 27. Region 3 rep is Melinda
Warburg.
Margo Jensen, OEMA Immediate Past President
brought greetings from the board. She brought
the group up to date on the Summer Retreat at
Eagle Crest, distributed information from the
George Fox media program, talked about the efforts
made by the Board this year to improve The Interchange
and the electronic newsletter.
Diane Chaffee from Guy Lee Elementary School
in Springfield demonstrated the video streaming
pilot that she has been involved in this school
year through the Lane ESD. Participants were
able to spent some time on this site.
Sheryl Steinke from the Eugene School District
presented a workshop on using PowerPoint.
REGION 4 met on April 27 at Centennial
Middle School. Region 4 rep is Edith Fuller.
After hearing from Jeri Petzel, OEMA President,
about recent OEMA/OSLIS activities, three PPS
media specialists, Karen Oehler, Alameda School,
Janet Setness, Marshall HS, and Nancy Vandervelde,
Roosevelt HS, talked about their varied experiences
in weeding, leading a good group discussion
on weeding and allied topics; Paul Gregorio,
PSU, shared with us three approaches to reading
promotion on the elementary, middle and high
school levels; and Linda Fredrickson from WSU
Vancouver informed us about approaches to the
Invisible Web."
REGION 6 met at Pendleton High School
on April 13.
Librarians, library assistants and teachers
came from Baker, Union, Pine Eagle, La Grande,
Pendleton, Milton Freewater, Hermiston, Umatilla,
and Arlington. Kelly Kuntz, president-elect
of OEMA, was the keynote speaker. Her presentation
was entitled "Smooth Sailing on the Sea
of Benchmarks". She was also the luncheon
speaker, where she discussed the Oregon Study.
Conference participants learned about the Pioneer
Library System from Shirley Roberts, librarian
at Pierce Library on the Eastern Oregon University
campus. The Pioneer System, with a combined
catalog of 40 school, 27 public, and 3 academic
libraries, serves 10 eastern Oregon counties.
Diana Gleason, from EOU, discussed the reference
service and training provided by the Oregon
Reference LINK.
Deborah Hopkinson’s session was entitled
"Living in History: Using Historical Fiction
in the Classroom." Deborah, who works at
Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, is a children's
author. She showed slides, talked about her
latest books, and taught conference attendees
how to use her web site to make teaching/learning
connections.
"The Journey Continues…..Accelerated
Reader" was the title of a session presented
by Donna Murdock and Sue Westergard. The presenters
reviewed the essential pieces of AR and provided
information and strategies to enhance the conference
participants’ classroom and library AR
management skills, while making AR goal setting
more teacher and student-friendly.
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
Questions? Contact co-chairs:
Martha_Decherd@ddouglas.k12.or.us 503.261.8357
or
Sue_Kelsey@ddouglas.k12.or.us 503.266-1110
E-REFERNCE TASK FORCE
Margo Jensen will be representing OEMA on the
E-Reference Task Force appointed by State Librarian
Jim Scheppke. The charges to the E-Reference
Task Force are:
1) To design a collaborative E-reference support
service to serve end users (within public library
service areas; students and faculty of schools,
colleges, and universities), and public, academic,
school, and publicly-funded special library
staff in Oregon.
2) To incorporate components of Oregon Reference
LINK, as deemed necessary, as part of the proposal.
3) To propose whether the service should be
a virtual reference or digital reference system,
that is, with a real time component or not.
4) To propose whether the service should be
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or
on some other time schedule.
5) To propose the costs of establishing and
maintaining the service, and investigate what
kind of compensation would be needed, if any,
to the provider libraries.
6) To submit a report to the State Library and
the LSTA Advisory Council by October 1, 2002.
NEW LSTA FIVE-YEAR PLAN --
PLEASE COMMENT!!
The draft
of Oregon's new five-year Library Services and
Technology Act Plan, 2003-2008, is on the
Web at http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/libdev/lsta.htm.
Please take some time to look at it and send
comments to Ann Reed at ann.reed@state.or.us
by May 14, 2002. Public comment on the plan,
or the LSTA program, can also be made at the
LSTA Advisory Council Meeting in Beaverton at
Nike on May 20 at 1:30. If you are planning
on addressing the Council, please notify Ann
Reed ahead of time and bring 15 copies of your
comments.
The Five-Year Plan is the guide for how Oregon
implements a $1.9 million a year federal grant
program. The Five-Year Plan sets out goals for
the development of library services in Oregon.
Grants need to support the purposes in the five-year
plan. The new draft plan will be presented to
the LSTA Advisory Council on May 20. There will
also be an opportunity to give input after the
LSTA Advisory Council recommends a draft plan
to the State Library Board. The final draft
will be sent to the Institute of Museum and
Library Services by July, 2002. The new plan
incorporates suggestions made in interviews
and focus groups for the evaluation of the 1998-2002
plan, and ideas raised at a LSTA retreat in
February.
LSTA funds currently support the Interlibrary
Loan Net Lender Reimbursement program, the Reference
LINK program, consulting programs at the Oregon
State Library, materials in the library science
collection at the State Library, and over one
million dollars annually in competitive grants.
For lists of recent LSTA projects
in Oregon, see http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/libdev/lsta.htm.
FindOR:
Oregon.gov SEARCH ENGINE
The Oregon State Library now operates a new
version of the FindOR Government Information
Locator System (GILS), serving as the main state
government search engine. FindOR is a powerful
combination of aYahoo-style topical browser
as well as a full text search engine. It spider-indexes
all Oregon state government Web sites (except
Higher Education).
You can get a quick look at it and feel out
the horsepower and handling, by going to the
Oregon.gov home page at http://www.oregon.gov/.
The search engine query blocks at the top left
of the page are gateways to the FindOR search
engine.
JANET MURRAY SPEAKS TO
JAPANESE LIBRARIANS
The May issue of MultiMedia Schools magazine
features a story entitled "Japanese Librarians
Learning from American School Librarianship."
The Japanese government has only recently begun
to install Internet access in the schools and
has mandated the addition of school librarians
by 2003. American-educated Japanese librarians
have proposed a continuing education curriculum
to help their peers implement an information
literacy focus.
OEMA member Janet Murray spoke to a symposium
of Japanese librarians and library educators
at the University of Tokyo in January. They
asked Janet to inspire their audience with her
experience "Pioneering Technology in the School
Library." The slide show she delivered
is available on her web page: http://www.surfline.ne.jp/janetm.
Remarkably, one of the attendees came up to
Janet after the presentation to remind her that
she and others from her school had visited Wilson
High School's library ten years ago!
GRAPEVINE
Cheryl Johnson, Astor Elementary School Library
Media Specialist in Astoria, spent her Spring
Break in the Amazon. She actually met a librarian
and visited a library! She has a great story
to tell. Contact her at cjohnson@astoria.k12.or.us
Margo Jensen along with Carol Tripp of WOU's
Hamersly Library curated the Arkley Collection
of Children's Literature from the 1800's now
on display at the Hamersly Library at Western
Oregon University. The exhibit includes rare
editions of famous children's books on loan
from the University of British Columbia. The
exhibit will continue through Monday, May 27
and is open to the public during the libraries
regularly scheduled hours. This is a wonderful
opportunity to see an interesting collection
and WOU's new library.
WEBSITES TOO GOOD TO MISS
Media
Literacy
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
PBS
Teacher Source for Library Media
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
IMLS
highlights school library programs
http://www.imls.gov/closer/hlt_c0402.htm
Surf
Into Summer (Bend area)
http://www.e-wally.org/surf.htm
CALENDAR
OEMA Newsletter -- Editor: Sheryl Steinke,
Eugene 4J Schools
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