FROM THE MEMBERSHIP
1. Interchange Winter ---- Carol Dinges
2. 2008 OASL WLMA Fall Conference ---- Sheryl Steinke
3. Exhibit A Visit From St. Nicholas ---- Cathi Rooth
4. OBOB Update ---- Deborah Alvarez
5. Contest at Multnomah County Library ---- Sybilla Cook
6. Board Positions to Fill ALL CALL ---- Merrie Olson

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FROM THE PRESIDENT --- Merrie Olson
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I trust that you are all organized, have your Banned Book display up and are relaxing, maybe enough sipping a cup of tea and thinking about the great fall conference coming up. Ya right! Well join the rest of us who are still trying to weed through the pile of new books, teaching library orientation to all freshman, setting up student assistant schedules, or pulling resources for that teacher who just this morning came in requesting help!

In this year of national elections, political candidates, and the democratic process, we pause to think about the leadership in libraries and what better place to be than at the OASL/WLMA Joint Fall Conference. The conference is less than a week away. If you have not signed up yet please go to http://oemawlma2008.org, click the register button in the right hand column to register online. I know there will be something of interest for everyone. Can you believe Frank McCourt will be the banquet speaker? As well as authors John Green, Pete Hautman, Nina laden, Naomi Shihab Nye, Todd Strasser, Kevin Hawkes, and Justina Chen Headley and more! You will come away with lots of leader opportunities by countless concurrent sessions and extended sessions. So my mission to you is to go forth and be a leader.

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FROM THE MEMBERSHIP
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1. Interchange Winter ---- Carol Dinges

The winter issue of The Interchange will be all about Oregon Reads. How are you promoting (or planning to promote) Oregon Reads in your school, district or community? Send me a paragraph or two (to carol.dinges@lebanon.k12.or.us), and I'll compile them into an article that will hopefully inspire others to take part in celebrating Oregon's sesquicentennial and literary heritage, as well.

2. 2008 OASL WLMA Fall Conference ---- Sheryl Steinke

Great conversations and sessions await you at this joint OASL WLMA Fall Conference at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Join with our fellow school librarians from Washington for sessions from national presenters and acclaimed authors. Come for the entire conference and leave re-energized with ideas and enthusiasm to make this school year one of your best ever.

3. Exhibit A Visit From St. Nicholas ---- Cathi Rooth

The Hamersly Library at Western Oregon University is the site of an exhibit titled "A Visit from St. Nicholas" which features selected editions from Cathi Rooth's collection of A Night Before Christmas books.

The exhibit will be on display during Fall Term 2008 and there is an opening Reception on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Library.

--- Cathi is a former President of OEMA and wrote a children's literature column for Interchange from 1993-2003. Her Night Before Christmas books were the subject of her column titled "Moore Mania" in the Winter 2001 issue of Interchange.

4. OBOB Update ---- Deborah Alvarez

The OBOB Website has the link for the registration page in addition to resources to download and the new updated handbook at http://www.oasl.info/OBOB/.

Accommodating student needs source: Talking Books and Braille Services: Here is the TBABS website for 2008-2009 OBOB books in the catalog. This year, there are 21 of the books in an accessible format. Some of these books are in recorded cassette, some are in Braille, and at least one is on Unabridged downloadable audio. Go to http://www.tbabs.org/OSL/TBABS/or_bob.shtml.

Please bring your questions with you to the Fall OASL/WLMA Joint Conference! OBOB will be presenting Saturday morning, Oct. 11th. Debbie Alvarez, OBOB Chair -- lsta_oema@yahoo.com.

5. Contest at Multnomah County Library ---- Sybilla Cook

The Multnomah County Library is Portland is planning an exhibit of illustrations, books, and paper toys created by Berta and Elmer Hader during the heyday of children s publishing in the nineteen hundreds. For those of you who may not remember, among the 100 plus books written and illustrated by the Haders were the 1949 Caldecott Winner The Big Snow, and Caldecott Honor Books The Mighty Hunter and Cock a Doodle.

In planning this exhibit, we of the Hader Connections (the Haders niece Joy Hoerner Rich; Sybilla Cook and Karen Tolley) wonder how many of the Hader books still survived In Oregon school libraries. We are offering a prize of an original book to the library with the largest collection. Send your list to Sybilla Cook (sybilla@charter.net) and we ll announce the winner in this column before the end of the year.

6. Board Positions to Fill ALL CALL ---- Merrie Olson

The Board has two openings that need to be filled:

--Intellectual Freedom
--Membership - two people that are interested in being trained under
   the current membership chairperson, JoAnn Klassen

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