Chair – 1 year term as chair / 1 year term as past chair

It is preferable the Chair position alternate from year to year between university/college, two year college, and K-12 representation.

The current Chair – Robert Monge is from a university/college. We encourage nominations for chair to be from a two year college or K-12 institution.

Vice Chair/Chair elect — 1 year term; acts as Chair the following 1 year term; acts as Past Chair for a 1 year term

K-12 representative – 2 year term

College/University Representative – 2 year term
Interested members should E-mail Robert Monge by May 25^th.  Voting will take place from May 26^th –June 8^th.

Position descriptions:

Chair organizes the fall meeting and relevant board meetings throughout the year.  The chair coordinates with the working groups throughout the year. The Chair will work as needed with outside groups in the articulation of information literacy. The chair coordinates financial responsibilities with the board.

Vice-Chair/Chair Elect assumes the office of Chair after one year as Vice Chair. The vice-chair assists the Chair; becomes familiar with the on-going conversation around IL in Oregon; facilitates the Oregon IL conversation and IL articulation among ILAGO members; attends meetings and chairs meetings in the absence of the Chair.

K-12 Representative represents the information literacy interests of the K-12 community.  Representatives will participate in board meetings when possible and provide feedback, commentary, and vote on ongoing issues presented by the board.  K-12 representatives are encouraged but not required to attend the fall meeting, Spring Summit, and participate in workgroups as their schedule allows.

College/University Representative represents the information literacy interests of the college/university and will participate in board meetings when possible and feedback, commentary, and vote on ongoing issues presented by the board. College/University representatives are encouraged but not required to attend the fall meeting, Spring Summit, and participate in workgroups as their schedule allows.

Immersion Program

“Environments for Student Growth and Development” focuses on collaborations between campus student services and libraries. Librarians and student affairs professionals share a commitment to student success and holistic development, collaborative strategies and reflective practice. The book explores how librarians and student affairs professionals partner through programming and other activities in order to create stronger campus environments for student learning, growth and development.

This lively study of campus collaboration features an introduction to student affairs and student development by Hinchliffe and Wong, followed by 14 case studies of successful collaborations co-authored by student affairs and library professionals. Also included is a bibliography of selected publications on student affairs, strategies for collaboration and library and student affairs collaborations.

“Environments for Student Growth and Development” is essential reading for library administrators, librarians involved in outreach and programming, student services professionals and library school collections. “Environments for Student Growth and Development” is available for purchase in print, as an e-book, and as a print/ e-book bundle through the ALA Online Store; in print and for Kindle through Amazon.com; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442-8633 for international customers.

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ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 12,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. ACRL is on the Web at http://www.acrl.org/, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ala.acrl and Twitter at @ala_acrl.

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Please see the end of this message for a list of libraries eligible for position #5 – Academic library from an Oregon community college               

If you are interested or know someone who may be, please read further and/or pass along this message.

Process and Timeline

Nominations are being accepted online only at: ttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SDLAC2012.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, May 11, 2012, 5:00 pm.

Once confirmed, the slate of nominees will be presented by the State Library staff to the LSTA Advisory Council at their May 18, 2012 meeting. Appointees will be notified by the State Library as soon as possible after the LSTA Advisory Council meeting.

Expectations

In making appointments, the LSTA Advisory Council will seek representatives with experience in database licensing and with the use and/or selection of databases.

Involvement in SDLAC will include representing your constituent group by attending meetings, participating on a listserv, participating in the database vendor selection process, and providing feedback on the success of the statewide database licensing program.

The Statewide Database Licensing Advisory Committee is required to meet once a year. Currently the committee meets nearly every quarter. Once the RFP process begins in about a year, members will likely meet more often. Attendance can be in person in Salem or via teleconference. Participation is voluntary and reimbursements cannot be made for travel, parking, or substitute staff.

Additional Information

SDLAC committee members represent the following groups:

• One representative from the LSTA Advisory Council;
• Three public library representatives, one each from libraries serving populations over 100,000, between 25,000-100,000, and 25,000 or less;
• Three academic library representatives, one each from a community college, Oregon University System, and private academic institution;
• One representative from a resource sharing system;
• One representative from a tribal library and,
• Two school library representatives drawn from OASL (formerly OEMA) membership.

Nominees for Position #5 (academic library from an Oregon Community College) may come from libraries at the following institutions:

Blue Mountain CC, Central Oregon CC, Chemeketa CC, Clackamas CC, Clatsop CC, Columbia Gorge CC, Klamath CC, Lane CC, Linn-Benton CC, Mt Hood CC, Oregon Coast CC, Portland CC, Rogue CC, Southwestern Oregon CC, Tillamook Bay CC, Treasure Valley CC, and Umpqua CC.

If you have any questions or concerns about this process or the SDLAC, please ask.

Thanks,

Jennifer Maurer

School Library Consultant

Library Development

Oregon State Library

250 Winter Street NE

Salem, OR  97301-3950

Telephone: 503-378-5011

Email: jennifer.maurer@state.or.us

• AAAS, Pacific Division 93rd Annual Conference
  Boise, ID, June 24-27, 2012

  Call For Papers: Library Science and Archives Symposium
  General and Interdisciplinary Section(Conference info: http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2012BOISE/index.html)

  Final deadline for submission: April 18, 2012.Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, so early submission is highly encouraged!

  The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pacific Division is hosting a Library Science and Archives Symposium under their General and Interdisciplinary Section.

  For this symposium, we are interested in any and all topics related to:
  

  • Instruction and reference services
  • Open Access publishing and scholarly communications
  • Digitization projects, electronic records programs, and institutional repositories
  • Author’s rights and copyright
  • Innovative technologies or techniques applied to libraries or archives

  We will consider proposals for individual contributed papers, panels organized around a theme, and poster sessions. Oral contributed papers are typically scheduled for 20 minutes, with 15 minutes for speaking and 5 minutes for questions. However, exceptions can be made. Please contact the symposium coordinators for special arrangements.

  Student papers, panels, or poster sessions are welcomed and highly encouraged.

  Format your submission as follows:

  In a Word or .rtf file, please include this information:

• Line 1: Submitter’s name
  
• Line 2: Submitter’s telephone number and e-mail address
  
• Line 3: Presenter’s name (if different from above) or “SAME” (if same as above)
  
• Line 4: Presenter’s telephone number and e-mail address (if different from above)
  
• Line 5: Society, section or program to which you are submitting your presentation for review
  
• Line 6: Type of presentation (ORAL or POSTER)
  
• Line 7: Is the presenter a student? (STUDENT or NOT A STUDENT)
  
• Line 8: Special equipment needs (other than standard computer equipment and PowerPoint)
  
• Line 9: Paper Title Italicized and in Title Case, AUTHOR’S NAME(S) IN ALL CAPS AND BOLD (Full address(es), including institution, mailing address, city, state and zip code, and e-mail address(es)). Refer to the example for additional information.
  
• Line 10: Text of abstract. Limit: 250 wordsEmail your submission to ALL of the following:

  The Pacific Division office– rchristi@sou.edu
  The General and Interdisciplinary Section chair– robert.chianese@csun.edu
  The Library Science and Archives Symposium chairs– crystal.goldman@sjsu.edu , michal.walden@ishs.idaho.gov

  For more information on the call for abstracts for contributed papers or poster sessions, please visit:

  http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2012BOISE/Forms/CallForAbstracts2012.pdf

  If you have any questions, please contact one or both of the symposium coordinators. Please feel free to forward, cross-post, or link to this call for submissions.We look forward to your proposals!

  Crystal Goldman
  Scholarly Communications Librarian
  King Library
  San Jose State University
  One Washington Square
  San Jose, CA 95192-0028
  crystal.goldman@sjsu.edu

  Michal Walden
  Archivist
  Idaho State Archives
  Division of the Idaho State Historical Society
  2205 Old Penitentiary Road
  Boise, ID 83712-8250
  michal.walden@ishs.idaho.gov

AGENDA

1. Project updates
2. ACRL webinars on writing and publishing
3. Other available research resources
4. Would the group be interested in writing a scholarly article on the Alliance E-book project (question from John Helmer, Executive Director of the Orbis Cascade Alliance)?
5. Future Research Workshops
6. Other ideas & comments time

DATE: Friday, May 4, 2012

TIME: 10 a.m.-12 noon

WHERE: Online! Instructions on how to participate will be sent out a week before the meeting.

QUESTIONS? Please contact Laura Zeigen (zeigenl@ohsu.edu) or Robin Paynter (paynter@ohsu.edu)

The open positions are:

• Vice-President/President Elect (3 year term, position description)

• 2 Members-at-Large (2 year term, position description)

To nominate yourself, send an email with the following information to Jim Holmes (jholmes@reed.edu) or Judith Norton (norton@ohsu.edu). To nominate someone else, email that person’s name and email address to Jim or Judith.

Please provide a biography that includes the following information (as applicable):

• Your name
• Your education–list in chronological order institutions attended, degrees conferred, and dates awarded.
• Your present position–list your title, the name of the library and college or university and the dates of employment.
• Previous positions, if desired–list no more than two, the most recent first.
• Professional activities, such as memberships and positions held in national, state and/or regional library organizations (indicate name of organization, offices held and dates of service).
• Honors, special projects, publications, and/or presentations–list no more than two recent examples of each of these.
• Candidates for Vice President/President Elect also need to include a Candidates’ Statement explaining why you would like to be elected, which should be no more than 200 words

Eligibility:

• Vice-President/President Elect candidates must be members of OLA and ACRL-Oregon and national ACRL
• Member-at-Large candidates must be members of OLA and ACRL-Oregon

Elections will be May 1 – May 20. Let us know if you’d like to run by April 16, 2012!

Please note: We gather at a host library for each webinar – these sessions are open to EVERYONE (members and non-members alike) and are intended to encourage group discussion and networking. Online access to the session URL will be emailed to ACRL-Oregon and ACRL-Washington members after each webinar.

From Idea to Publication: Analysis and Writing (ACRL National Program Description)

Quantitative methods necessitate certain kinds of analyses, while qualitative methods operate on different assumptions and different kinds of data.  It is essential to have an understanding of the appropriate forms of analyses (along with their possibilities and limitations).  Learn learn to express their research in publishable form.

Location: Portland State University Library, Room 160

Contact: Amy Hofer (ahofer@pdx.edu)

When: Wednesday March 7, 2012 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST

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• Analyze your population(s) to determine the best mode(s) of instructional delivery
• Determine the pros and cons of technologies for instruction and training
• Develop a sustainable strategy for the creation, maintenance and integration of online learning materials

Head of Instructional Services at Portland State University and a lecturer at San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science, Meredith Farkas is also the author of the book, Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online. In addition, she writes the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology.

Where: Oregon Library Association Annual Conference (Bend, Oregon)

When: April 25, 2012  1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Cost: $40

Register on-line via the OLA website 

Please note: We gather at a host library for each webinar – these sessions are open to EVERYONE (members and non-members alike) and are intended to encourage group discussion and networking. Online access to the session URL will be emailed to ACRL-Oregon and ACRL-Washington members after each webinar.

From Idea to Publication Part One: Understanding the Research Question
February 7, 2012
Learn to formulate and define good research questions, select appropriate research methodologies and design the research study. Specific topics will include developing useful questionnaires, techniques used in conducting telephone interviews, working with focus groups and constructing surveys to get the information you need.

Location: Oregon State University, Willamette Meeting Room
Contact: Jennifer Nutefall (Jennifer.Nutefall@oregonstate.edu)
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST
Parking information TBA

From Idea to Publication Part Two: Analysis and Writing
March 7, 2012
Quantitative methods necessitate certain kinds of analyses, while qualitative methods operate on different assumptions and different kinds of data.  It is essential to have an understanding of the appropriate forms of analyses (along with their possibilities and limitations).  Learn learn to express their research in publishable form.

Location: Portland State University Library, Room 160
Contact: Amy Hofer (ahofer@pdx.edu)
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST
Parking information TBA

Shifting Sands: How Small Changes in Policy, Culture and Technology are Determining the Future of Libraries
March 27, 2012
Discover how changes in national and international policy, the growth of the free culture movement, and the rapid evolution of technology are having big impacts on libraries, and what you can do to help turn the tide.

Location:  Washington State University at Pullman, Room TBA
Contact: Corey Johnson (coreyj@wsu.edu)
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST
Parking information TBA

From Idea to Publication Part Three: Submitting for Publication
April 3, 2012
Learn how to select an appropriate journal or publisher, learn how to prepare a manuscript for submission, and understand what the submission process will encompass.

Location: University of Washington at Tacoma Library, Room TBA
Contact: Erica Coe (elcoe@uw.edu)
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST
Parking information TBA