OEMA Newsletter
An Electronic Newsletter
of The Oregon Educational Media Association
Volume 16 No. 2
October, 2003
FROM THE PRESIDENT LINDA AGUE'S KEYBOARD
How could it be that one month is gone already! It's already
time to take the Banned Book display down ( I'm at a middle
school. It takes
a while to get through the hormone layer and into the intellect layer so I
play out Banned Books straight into Teen Read Week which they won't notice
until Christmas.) I always have such a great time with the book
talks during
Banned Book week. This time of course, it was what would I do to
protect their
right to read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with the
6 and 7 graders
and should The Da Vinci Code be on the mystery reading list for
the 8th graders?
The debate about who exactly is portrayed in Da Vinci's Last
Supper is still
hot and heavy. They will probably never figure out that the debate ( which
causes all versions of the Bible in my library and every art book
to be strewn
on the tables) was my point as much as the book.
I am hoping that you are all busy selecting just the right outfits for the
conference. This is your chance to break out all the cutsy library jewelry
that you no doubt get every birthday. There may be fewer of us
this year but
we still know how to throw a good party and come away enlightened. There is
still time to reserve your place and finish reading The Maze and Esperanza
Rising. Our profession is changing so rapidly, we need to take advantage of
opportunities to stay current and refreshed or we are easy targets to leave
behind.
So what should you be thinking about? OSLIS. What is it's future? The grant
money is gone but the need to maintain the site remains. Many
school librarians
around the state have put in many hours to keep it relevant, all supported
by grant money. What now? Losing this resource would be tragic to schools
around the state who could not afford these resources alone. What
role should
OEMA play in keeping it useable and available? Make sure you are
considering
more than just the EBSCO databases. There is much there to share with your
students.
In a note from Jim Sheppke, state librarian, he urges everybody to do what
you can to fight the measure to undo the governor's budget. He feels very
strongly that a reduction in state funding will have a direct affect on the
number of librarian's in this state. Having the opportunity to be
in a school
is the only real way to prove that libraries are a quality over
quantity choice.
That places that encourage live human discourse and debate have
an advantage
over isolated encounters with electronic excess. Is my bias showing? Could
your students tell? Are we making sure they have the information that would
allow them to argue either way? Isn't working an a place where these kinds
of questions are what we do a wonderful place to be!
And finally, the big question: What shall we do about the
librarians superhero
doll who says, "Shhhhh!" Aaaargh! See you at the
conference. - Linda
KEEPER OF THE KEYS -- OCTOBER 10 - 11
At the end of this week you will be holding the key to unlock the doors to
information and ideas if you're in Corvallis for this year's fall
conference
<http://www.oregonvos.net/~klassenj/2003/>.
There is something for everyone who works in Oregon school libraries. Mike
Eisenberg, creator of Ask Eric and LM_Net, and now dean of the
I-School (formerly
known as library school) at the University of Washington is keynoting the
conference, as well as presenting two half-day sessions on Friday. You'll
be energized and informed after listening to Mike.
It's not too late to read Esperanza Rising by Pam
Munoz Ryan and The Maze by Will
Hobbs. These two choices are the featured books at this
conference giving
attendees something to talk about with the person you're standing next to
in line, sitting next to in a session or meeting in the exhibit hall.
There's still room in most of Friday's 3-hour extended sessions. Saturday's
concurrent sessions are capped with longer sessions on the best books for
elementary and secondary students with both sessions led by
public librarians.
Keeper of the Keys will be an exciting event chock-full of
inspiring and informative
speakers. Be there to get your key to a good school year.
Carol Dignes, librarian at Lebanon H.S. reports that this year
they're starting
out in "Camp Library" while the entire building
continues to undergo
remodeling. Luckily, the library has a fairly large area to call
their temporary
home, and since construction is a little ahead of schedule, they should be
moving into their new digs right after Christmas break. They've
unpacked the
reference and fiction books, but decided to keep the rest of the nonfiction
in their boxes, organized in tidy rows in order so that they can retrieve
books as needed. Unfortunately, someone didn't get the message to install
computer drops, but they've been promised to materialize
"soon."
To celebrate "Camp Library," Carol had an open house
for staff Friday,
Sept. 26 (students don't start until Monday,) with a camp theme - they made
s'mores in the courtyard outside the library and gave away lots
of door prizes
while showing the staff what would be available in their
temporary quarters.
Now they're surviving the construction dust...
Kathy Chan, Library Teacher at Greenway School in Beaverton reports that at
the beginning of every school year, third and second grade teachers collect
data and teach their students to chart the information by hand as a part of
their math program.
This year Kathy emailed the teachers when those lessons would be
taking place.
Then, she wrote them back to tell them when to bring the
data to library
class. Next, Kathy showed the students how to create bar
graphs in Appleworks.
The second and third graders got really excited about creating their
own graphs with their information, especially when they got a
chance to choose
their own colors and designs. Then, Kathy showed them how to copy the graph
and paste it onto a draw page and print it in color. Then, the next
time they came to class, they created pie graphs.
One teacher had her papers hanging up for Back to School night
and the parents
were impressed that their second graders could do that!
SURVEY OF JEWETT HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS
Ruth Prater, librarian at Jewett H.S. in Gardiner ran a student survey in
her library. The most requested issue by students was to
"get the hottest
teen reads." Ruth noted that the OYAN "Books to Rave
About: is one
of the most attended sessions at the fall conference.
CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR WINTER
INTERCHANGE
OEMA President Elect Martha Decherd is the guest editor for the next issue
of the Interchange, and is looking for articles! The theme of the
next issue
is "Keeping the Keys Working", sort of a follow-up to
the fall conference.
If you have any ideas of something you'd like to contribute, run it by her
at Martha_Decherd@ddouglas.k12.or.us.
You could be published! Finished articles will be due to Martha
by Oct. 17.
MALHEUR COUNTY S.D. RECEIVES FEDERAL LIBRARY
$$$
Malheur County School District is one of 73 school districts in the country
to receive grant funds from the Improving Literacy through School Libraries
program, part of the No Child Left Behind program. Malheur will
receive $27,420
to implement the “Success through Access” initiative designed
to increase the reading achievement of its 250 students in grades
K-12. Students
will gain access to more factual resources, to an electronic
library catalog,
to more computers, to instruction designed collaboratively by teachers and
the library media specialist, and to the library itself beyond
school hours.
Demand for fully trained library media specialists is up, and the program
at Portland State University is responding with a new
"hybrid" program
that combines face-to-face and distance instruction to support
this statewide
need. Teachers who want to add an educational media endorsement
to their Oregon
Teaching license can complete the necessary course work in one year through
this updated program. Those who do not hold teaching licenses can combine
this program with PSU's part-time teacher education program and
complete both
the endorsement and a teaching license over the course of two years.
This program builds on the solid core of courses that have been offered through PSU for over 15 years by combining technology, with classroom and field-based experiences. Students in the program have the benefit of working with faculty who are experienced library/media specialists while they build a community of peers.
For more information about this program go to: http://www.ceed.pdx.edu/lib_media/
or contact Diane Salisbury, salisbud@pdx.edu,
secretary for the program.
MARY MCCLINTOCK NAMED TO
STATEWIDE COMMITTEE
Members of the new Statewide Database Licensing Program Advisory Committee
(SDLPAC) were selected by the Library Services and Technology
(LSTA) Advisory
Council.
The members of the committee are:
| Public Library Representative -- 25,000 or less | Will Stuivenga |
| Public Library Representative ˆ 25,000-100,000 | Mary Finnegan |
| Public Library Representative ˆ Over 100,000 | Greg Doyle |
| Academic Library Representative ˆ Community College | Nadine Williams |
| Academic Library Representative ˆ Oregon University System | Faye Chadwell |
| Academic Library Representative ˆ Private Academic | Lynda Larremore |
| School Representatives ˆ School | Mary McClintock |
| School Representatives ˆ OETC | Aaron Munter |
| Resource Sharing Network | Barbara O'Neill |
The committee will advise the LSTA Advisory Council and the Oregon State Library staff in RFP development and database product evaluation, and provide ongoing database product assessment and customer feedback. In addition, the committee will advise the LSTA Advisory Council on the appropriate percentage allocation of periodicals database costs to public, academic and school libraries, based on OAR 543-060-0000/0060.
STATEWIDE DIGITAL REFERENCE
UPDATE
Oregon's Statewide Collaborative Digital Reference Pilot Project, is ready
for the autumn reference rush. The 24/7 reference service pilot
was initiated
April 16 with 21 volunteer service provider libraries. Usage increased some
30% each week until summer, when requests fell. With the advent of autumn,
the service is receiving increased use as faculty and students
return to school.
Currently called Answerland, the service offers 24 hour reference service,
with staff live online 48 hours per week to answer questions from Oregon's
citizens or queries referred from libraries. Questions may also
be submitted
by e-mail at any time. Hours for live chat reference are
Monday-Thursday 1-9pm,
Friday-Saturday 2-6pm, and 2-10pm on Sunday. More information
about the service
may be found at http://www.answerland.org/.
OREGON INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM CLEARINGHOUSE 16TH
ANNUAL REPORT
AVAILABLE
The Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse collects
information about written
challenges to library materials in any type of library in Oregon.
The information
is submitted voluntarily and an annual report is prepared. The content of
the Annual Report is taken from the reports that are submitted to
the Clearinghouse.
Challenges to materials that have been reported to the Oregon Intellectual
Freedom Clearinghouse are included in the Annual Reports produced each year
since 1978.
The Sixteenth Annual Report, available on the Oregon State Library website
<http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/libdev/oifch.html>,
summarizes 25 challenges to library materials in six public libraries and
one school district between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003. The Title Index
to Challenges on the Oregon State Library website contains
summary information
while the Annual Reports contain more complete information.
CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL LIBRARY DAY
Begin planning now to celebrate the fifth annual International
School Library
Day (ISLD), Monday, October 27, 2003. This event, sponsored by
the International
Association of School Librarianship (IASL), focuses on the
importance of school
libraries worldwide and the role libraries play in the education
of students.
The theme this year is "Breaking Down Barriers." How
does your school
library overcome barriers that prevent students from achieving their full
potential? Share and exchange your ideas with library colleagues
from around
the world. Broaden your horizon!
For more information on ISLD, including suggested activities from
past years
and a sample press release based on this year's theme, go to
http://www.iasl-slo.org/isld.htm
NEW LIBRARY ART RESOURCES CD FROM
ALA GRAPHICS
Are you looking for digital art with a library theme? Look no further. ALA
Graphics has compiled over 40 high quality images from some of today's top
illustrators.
Once you purchase this CD, the digital art included is yours to
use royalty-free
for promotional items. For pricing and ordering information, go to the ALA
Online Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org
INTERNET SAFETY WEBSITE
NetSafeKids < http://www.netsafekids.org>
from Connect for Kids by the National Academy of Sciences Web site offers
practical information and tips for keeping kids safe online --
including sources
of sexually explicit content, ways that inappropriate material
can reach children
and teens, cyberstalking, and the pros and cons of filtering.
PLAGIARISM RESOURCES
Thanks to Kelly Kuntz for these four excellent resources about plagiarism,
including an on-line workshop.
"Plagiarism Workshop"
<http://mail.nvnet.org/~cooper_j/plagiarism/>
"Turnitin Research Resources"
<http://www.turnitin.com/research_site/e_home.html>
"Borrowing? Fraud? Plagiarism?: An Internet Sampler"
<http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/samplagiarist.html>
"Articles"
<http://www.plagiarism.org/articles.html>
You can reach it at <http://news.google.com/news/es/es/main.html> .
For those of
you keeping score at home, Google News now offers news for
Australia, Canada,
France, Germany, India, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, the US, and Spain.
OR another way to access is to go to <http://www.google.com> Click
on News and scroll to bottom of page to select language
LOC ANNOUNCES WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT
PAPERS
The Library of Congress announced the resource of the Wilbur and
Orville Wright
Papers at
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/> . This
collection contains
over 10,000 items related to the Wright brothers and includes
correspondence,
diaries, notebooks, drawings, and a collection of glass-plate photographic
negatives.
WEBSITE FOR SPANISH SPEAKING
PARENTS
Reading Rockets is pleased to announce the full, completely
bilingual, version
of "Color In Colorado" <http://www.colorincolorado.org>
This new, comprehensive Web site is designed specifically for
Spanish-speaking
parents to help their children learn to read and succeed in school. Packed
with information, activities, and advice on turning children into confident
readers, the Web site is rooted in the vast resources of Reading Rockets,
WETA's multi-media initiative that provides information on teaching kids to
read and helping those who struggle. The Web site is for parents
of children
between infancy and nine years old and includes simple,
powerful ways to help them become successful students.
Some of you may have heard the latest on the lawsuit OCLC filed against the
Library Hotel in New York for using their trademark materials.
Here is a good story (related) with a happy ending from Nicki
Maxwell, librarian
at Eugene's Churchill H.S. Nicki's daughter Chelsea is Tori Amos' personal
assistant. For those of you who know nothing of Tori
Amos, she is an alternative rock star and owns hundreds of
pairs of shoes.
Tori is releasing a greatest hits album in November. Tori and
Chelsea decided
on a library theme. The title is A Collection of Tales (or something like
that). Chelsea went to the OCLC web site and consulted Dewey numbers that
she, in turn, assigned to each of the songs on the album. By the
way she did
consult with Nicky who, in turn, consulted with Marji McPherson, Eugene 4J
cataloger, on the numbers used.
When they went to production with it, questions were asked about copyright.
After several phone calls, the lawyers for the record company and
the lawyers
for OCLC settled. The Dewey numbers will appear on the album packaging and
credit will be given to the source. OCLC is going to post it on
their website
to get exposure for their involvement.
Here is what Chelsea had to say.
We are all very, very happy to hear about what happened with OCLC. It's a
huge relief. When you see the artwork you will know what I mean -
I was sick
when I thought we might have to change it all. The cover has all the Dewey
numbers for her songs on it. You can use it along with this quote
that's going
out in her press release - "Librarians have such access to
information.
Knowledge is the sexiest. In my mind every librarian wears a
stiletto heel."
(from the queen of alternative rock)
| October 10-11 | 2003 OEMA Fall Conference, Corvallis "Keeper of the Keys" |
| October 12 | OEMA Fall Board Meeting following conference |
| October 19-25 | Teen Read Week |
| Ocrtober 22-26 | AASL National Conference, Kansas City, MO |
| November 13 | 17th annual Oregon Book Awards ceremony at 7:30 PM. |
| November 17-23 | Children's Book Week "Reading is a Right! Free to Read" |
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