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OEMA Newsletter
  
An Electronic Newsletter
of The Oregon Educational Media Association
Volume 15 No. 3
November, 2002

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE - Kelly Kuntz

At our early Saturday morning (8 am) presentation at the National Middle School Conference here in Portland last weekend, Garnetta Wilker (your incredible board member who makes sure Interchange arrives in your mailbox complete, intact and full of wonderful articles) and I faced a group composed mostly of library media teachers to share the results and implications of the Oregon Study: Good Schools Have School Librarians. We looked out over faces from North and South Carolina, Texas, Alaska, California and even Bermuda!

And what was their reaction? It was "I wish my administrator was here with me to hear this!"

And so, take heed with the latest from Keith Curry Lance who tells us the five things every library media teacher should do every single day:

1. Collaborate with classroom teachers to build solid learning experiences.
2. Teach integrated information literacy.
3. Motivate learners to read more.
4. Push information beyond the LMC into the classroom and the home.
5. Work on a leadership agenda.
   ....and I would add a sixth task....
6. Share the wonders of life in the library media center with your administrator.

OEMA OCTOBER 12 BOARD MEETING NOTES
Connie Hull Endowment fund information is on the OEMA web site at http://www.oema.net/hull_endowment.html.
The Oregonian 2002-03 subscription of $10,000 is being paid by OSLIS, OEMA and OETC.
The Winter Interchange focus on legislative efforts is being edited by Jeri Petzel. The Spring Interchange theme is Raising the Professional Bar.
Regional reports:

The Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award will be announced April 12.
The joint conference was great success thanks to Mary McClintock and committee.
The decision to have a summer institute will be decided in December by Exec Bd.
Oregon study books Good Schools Have School Librarians are for sale.Contact Jim Hayden at jhayden@bendnet.com.

OEMA AWARD WINNERS
OEMA honored these award winners at the fall conference. Each winner celebrated their award with a few remarks following their introduction by the person who nominated them.
2002 Elementary Library Media Teacher of the Year
*Jann Tankersley, Dayton Grade School, Dayton, OR
2002 Secondary Library Media Teacher of the Year
*Gregory Lum, Astoria High School, Astoria, OR
Distinguished Library Service Award for School Administrators
*Dr. Steve Carlson, Associate Superintendent for Information and Technology, Beaverton School District
*Karen Goirigolzarri, Principal, Roseburg High School
*Doug Sharp, Director of Technology and Assessment, David Douglas School District

OEMA MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL TIME
Now is the time to renew your annual membership in OEMA. If you haven't renewed yet please do so soon. You don't want to miss any of the mailings that keep you up-to-date about the latest conferences and events in the world of Technology and Library.

Mail membership info to:
OEMA Membership
PO BOX 122
West Linn OR 97068
Membership form can be found at: http://www.oema.net
$40 for professional,
$50 for Commercial vendors
$25 for full-time students, retirees, non-certified and out-of-state

GIFT GIVING TO SUPPORT OEMA AND LITERACY
As the holiday season begins to roll closer and closer, you may be perplexed again, a perennial dilemma, what to buy for Cousin Fred?
The answer is simple and allows you to carry the message of literacy promotion far and wide. If you buy an "I LV 2 Read: Support School Libraries" t-shirt or sweatshirt, in striking black with clever Oregon license plate design, you are supporting the organization that works for you at all levels of librarianship.

If you enjoyed the conference, if you benefited from the Oregon Study, if you utilize OSLIS and its EBSCO and Oregonian databases, then consider gift giving to support OEMA and literacy.

Sweatshirts are $20.00,
t-shirts are $15.00,
shipping and handling (by specially trained OEMA elves) is $3.75.

Checks may be made payable to OEMA Promotions and orders may be mailed to Jim Tindall, 199 Oak Ridge Road, White Salmon, Washington 98672-8115.

LSTA 2003 NEWS from Patty Sorensen, LSTA representative for school libraries.
The Oregon State Library Board awarded Library Services and Technology Act grants for 2003 to 12 projects totaling $911,725 on October 18, 2002. Watch the LSTA website at http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/libdev/lsta.htm for complete information about these grants. Their funding cycle begins January 2003. They were awarded to City of Scio, Crook County Library, Falls City SD #57, Lane Council of Governments, Multnomah County Library (2), Orbis Library Consortium (2), Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Library Association and the Washington County Cooperative library Service. Only one of these grants directly involves a school library, but the results of many of these projects will be accessible and useful to school libraries. 

Please think about applying for an LSTA grant. The 2003 grant applications and guidelines are available at the above website. The new LSTA five-year plan for Oregon for years 2003-2008 is posted on the website. In future newsletters, Patty will cover specific guidelines and continue to encourage school libraries to apply for these grant funds. OEMA has been a successful applicant for various projects in the recent past including several grants for OSLIS and funding to develop The Oregon Study by Keith Curry-Lance.
The LSTA application process includes first a project proposal which is usually due in late May or early June. Successful grant proposal applicants are then invited to submit a complete application due in mid-August.
As you consider applying, here are LSTA grant goals to consider:

1. Expand services for learning and access to information and educational resources in a variety of formats, in all types of libraries, for individuals of all ages.
   
2. Develop library services that provide all users access to information through local, State, regional, national, and international electronic networks.
   
3. Provide electronic and other linkages among and between all types of libraries
   
4. Develop public and private partnerships with other agencies and community-based organizations.
   
5. Target library services to individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, to individuals with disabilities, and to people with limited functional literacy or information skills.
   
6. Target library and information services to persons having difficulty using a library and to underserved urban and rural communities, including children (from birth through age 17) from families with incomes below the poverty line (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget).

Browse the previous successful applicants at the OSL website and then put on your creative hats! For additional information, watch future OEMA newsletters for more LSTA articles.

TLCF OSLIS GRANT WRAPS UP
The OSLIS 2001-02 TLCF (Technology Literacy Challenge Fund) ended on September 30, 2002 with success being demonstrated in most of its goals. The TLCF grant, awarded by the Oregon Department of Education, aimed at providing access to, and training in, the use of EBSCO on-line databases and value-added curriculum materials on the OSLIS website.

ODE’s grant to OSLIS enabled the consortium to provide the EBSCOhost database at no cost to every school, every teacher, and every student at no cost to the district. Teachers and students were able to access this rich resource from home as well as from school. This project aimed at broadening the OSLIS message from its aim primarily at school library media specialists to include a basic level of skill training to teachers, library aides, administrators, school volunteers and lms not yet included in the OSLIS project. One could summarize this by saying that the training emphasis was on schools not yet taking advantage of these resources, high poverty schools, and schools not having a Library Media Specialist.

Mark Schalock, Teacher Research – Western Oregon University, has completed an excellent evaluation of the project. Based on performance on the Oregon statewide assessments, high schools continued to be strong. Performance at the elementary was mixed, and performance at the middle level was the weakest. 

Overall, TLCF achieved its three main goals. OSLIS sponsored trainings were held throughout the state and included participants from at least 529 Oregon schools. Over half were high poverty schools and 87% were schools new to OSLIS. Participants indicated a high level of satisfaction with the training, knowledge, and skill acquired at the presentations. A much lower percentage felt confident in helping others to use the resource. Interestingly, non-library media specialists indicated less confidence in helping others use the resources than did those who are licensed librarians. Teachers indicated improved student performance on classroom research assignments and projects, though at levels below previous projects.

Jim Worden will continue to be the highly effective trainer for OSLIS during the latest OSLIS grant from the Oregon State Library, the Library Services and Technology Act grant.

EBSCOHost COMBINED TITLE LIST
The EbscoHost gurus have come up with the combined title list for the Oregon/Orbis statewide buy. I imagine reference and/or serials staff all over the state will be happy to have a copy. The contact person at EBSCO Publishing for the list is Susan Entrican sentrican@epnet.com

SENATE TASK FORCE ON LIBRARY COOPERATION
The Senate Task Force on Library Cooperation had its 3rd and final meeting in Salem Octoer 21. School libraries were talked about often by the task force.

The purpose of the meeting was to approve a legislative proposal. The significance of the proposal for K-12 is that school libraries are specifically mentioned in the list of library types that can receive financial assistance from the state library. The main thrust of the legislative proposal is to eliminate reimbursements to libraries that make interlibrary loans (this is the state library net lender reimbursement program). The legislative proposal establishes matching grants or other assistance for purpose of licensing electronic databases, provides for reimbursing libraries that provide e-reference services (this will replace Oregon Reference Link) and facilitate a statewide courier system for libraries.

This proposal will be introduced by Senator Ginny Burdick when the legislature convenes in January. OEMA will want to work with OLA to support this legislation.The senators advised us how important it will be to lobby for this bill.

The other important agenda item for schools is a letter that will be sent by Sen. Cliff Trow (chair of the task force) to the Quality Education Commission. The letter asks the QEC to consider the need for a certified school librarian in every Oregon elementary school. The letter cites the Lance study as well as Steve Wisely's presentation at the White House.

QUALITY EDUCATION COMMISSION REPORT
The ODE has published an updated QEM report on their website as a pdf file. http://dbi.ode.state.or.us/qualityed/ The good news: This report suggests $31 per student for library books, reference materials, subscriptions for elementary students. The bad news: Specialist FTE improved from 2.2 to 4.5, but districts/schools have the option about how to divide among art, music, PE. reading, math, TAG, library/media, second language or child development.

GEORGE FOX MEDIA COURSES
For those wishing to add a library endorsement, get a Master's degree with a library endorsement, or add to their professional knowledge, George Fox University is offering the following courses spring term( which begins 1/13):

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 in Portland(1/25 and 4/12) and online

EDFL 533  Advanced Studies in Children’s and Adolescent Literature  
  2 semester hours   The course focuses on a critical examination of children’s literature as literature, considers curriculum development based on children’s literature, and on a further development of a broad understanding of literacy learning issues.
Format: Classroom Centered  Saturdays(9:00-3:00) 1/18,2/15,2/29,3/8.4/19  Newberg

Registration begins December 9 and can be done on line at www.georgefox.edu

Will be glad to send further information to those interested in the library endorsement  program.
Karen Wedeking
Coordinator of the Library Media Endorsement Program
George Fox University
414 Meridian
Newberg, Oregon 97132
503-554-2858
kwedeking@georgefox.edu

LSTA ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER PROPOSALS REQUESTED
At their December 6, 2002, meeting, the State Library Board will be appointing four new members to the LSTA Advisory Council. The Council is a 13-member body that advises the State Library Board on LSTA competitive grants and statewide programs. Terms on the Council are for three years. The State Library staff would like to have your suggestions for new Council members. We plan to nominate two persons for each vacancy at the December Board meeting.

Here are the vacancies that the Board will need to fill:
* Public library representative (2 positions)
* Library user representative
* Disadvantaged persons representative

Since there are a total of three public library representatives and five library user representatives on the Council, the staff will endeavor to have a good geographic representation in our nominations to the Board. We already have a public library representative from the Willamette Valley (Yamhill County), and library user representatives from Eastern Oregon (Grant and Union Counties), Central Oregon (Deschutes County) and Southern Oregon (Douglas County).

The Council normally meets twice a year, with special meetings as needed. All travel expenses are reimbursed for Council members to attend meetings.

If you would like to suggest new members for the LSTA Council, please forward their name, email address (so we can contact them), and a brief statement of their qualifications to Ann Reed at the State Library <ann.reed@state.or.us>. Suggestions must be received no later
than November 6th. 

Remember that school libraries are library users.

LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE 2003

The Letters About Literature project, sponsored nationally by the Center for the Book in association with the Weekly Reader Corporation and in Oregon by the Oregon Center for the Book, Oregon Educational Media Association, Oregon Library Association's Children's Services Division and Oregon Young Adult Network, invites students to write a letter to an author -- living or dead -- explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world. Winners receive cash awards at the national and state levels.

Beginning with the 2003 LAL, three competition levels are now offered for students in grades 4 through 6, 7 and 8, and 9 through 12. Copies of the guidelines have been sent to school principals in Oregon, to children's and young adult librarians in public libraries, and OEMA members. The entry deadline is December 6, 2002. Each entry must have an entry coupon attached. Guidelines and entry coupons are available at http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/letters.html

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LATEST FROM ALA ON SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND THE CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT (CIPA)

The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has created an updated "Schools and the Children's Internet Protection Act" Web page with information about what the federal court ruling means for school libraries. Visit this page at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/cipaandschools.html.

OREGON E-RATE WEB PAGE
The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) is now hosting an E-rate support Web site <http://www.ode.state.or.us/erate/> designed for libraries as well as schools and school districts.

The Oregon E-rate Web page information is intended to help E-rate applicants and to guide them through the process. There are numerous links to pertinent information at the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) Web site (e.g., Forms, Technology Planning, the Discount Matrix, Library Consortium, etc.) as well as local information (e.g., Free and Reduced Lunch Participation Data, support e-mail discussion/announcement lists, Oregon contact information etc.).

The new ODE E-rate Web site is the result of collaboration between the Oregon Statewide E-Rate Coordinator, Pat Middelburg, the ODE E-Rate Coordinator, Doug Kosty and his staff (for schools and school districts), and the State Library E-rate Coordinator, Pam Horan (for public libraries).

STATEWIDE E-REFERENCE TASK FORCE PROPOSAL
The proposal of the Statewide E-Reference Task Force is now available, and is linked from the E-Reference Task Force Web page http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/libdev/eref/eref.htm. The proposal recommends that Oregon establish a statewide, e-reference program to serve Oregon citizens and libraries, and that a pilot project be undertaken during 2003 with a Program Coordinator to oversee and promote the project.

The Statewide E-Reference Task Force was established by State Librarian Jim Scheppke and charged to design a statewide collaborative e-reference support service for end-users and library staff. Task force members represent the five established Reference LINK centers, OLA (two representatives), Orbis, and PORTALS. OEMA was also asked to participate.

The task force proposal will be considered by the LSTA Advisory Council on November 14 and then forwarded to the State Library Board for consideration at its December 6 meeting.

STATE LIBRARY AND BCR SPONSOR SATELLITE TELECONFERENCE SERIES
The State Library and the Bibliographical Center for Research will co-sponsor the College of DuPage teleconference series during 2002-03, and have purchased unlimited site licenses available cost free to all Oregon libraries.

Official OSL/BCR satellite downlink sites will be hosted by Oregon libraries throughout the state (see below). Teleconferences will include three presentations in five sessions covering the topics of Web page design, reference service (virtual, digital and in-library) and the future of databases and information services. In addition, sponsored teleconferences will include the longstanding and successful Soaring to Excellence series (three presentations) with its support staff focus.

The first teleconference, "Building Another Bridge: Equal Access to Technology for Special Populations", is part of the Soaring to Excellence series and will be presented November 15, 2002 from 9:00-11:00am PT.

Oregon teleconference downlink hosts include:
* Blue Mountain Community College (Pendleton)
* Beaverton City Library
* PORTALS at Portland Community College
* Valley Link at Chemeketa Community College (Salem)
* Hamersly Library at Western Oregon University (Monmouth)
* Lane Community College Library (Eugene)

For additional information about registration see: http://www.bcr.org/~shoffhin/telecon/
For additional information about the College of DuPage teleconferencetopics: http://www.cod.edu/teleconf/ and the Soaring to Excellence Series: http://www.cod.edu/teleconf/soaring/j.

REPORT OF THE OREGON INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM CLEARINGHOUSE
The Fifteen Annual Report of the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse, covering challenges reported to the Clearinghouse between July 1, 2001 and June 30, 2002 in available at http://osl.state/or/us/home/libdev.oifch.html

OREGON HUMANITIES MAGAZINE
Oregon Humanities is a biannual magazine published by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. It contains essays and poetry, usually around a theme that connects the humanities to a topic of current interest. In the most recent issue, the theme is Wealth. There is no cost for a subscription. Just send an email to <och@oregonhum.org> to request a free subscription for your library.

NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
Oregon libraries and literature were well represented at the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival in Washington. The Festival, presented by First Lady Laura Bush and the Library of Congress, was held on the Capitol lawn and National Mall on Saturday October 12, 2002. Every state library/center for the book was represented at the Pavilion of the States. COSLA (Chief Officers of State Library Agencies) sponsored the states' participation with funding from IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services).

The Oregon table was staffed by MaryKay Dahlgreen, Coordinator of the Oregon Center for the Book and Howard Aaron, Literary Art's Portland Arts and Lectures Program Director. In addition to sharing information about Oregon libraries and literary life, Festival participants stamped an image of Oregon's own Ramona Quimby on a United States map that children could stamp with a local book character at each state table. For more information on the National Book Festival visit the website, http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/.

OEMA members Nicki and Jim Maxwell attended the Festival. Jim is an adviser on the Laura Bush Foundation which was meeting in Washington D.C. that weekend. The Maxwell attended breakfast at the White House along with authors present for the Festival.

CALENDAR

OEMA Newsletter -- Editor: Sheryl Steinke, Eugene 4J Schools
Published monthly on the 5th of the month September through May; also available on the web. To receive the OEMA Newsletter by email, subscribe to the OEMA mailing list using the form at http://www.oema.net and then scroll down to OEMA ListServe(s).
Send news items for the Newsletter to:
* Fax: 541-687-3463
* Email: steinke@4j.lane.edu
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Deadline: 1 week before publication, except 2 weeks for the January issue.