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

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!

Library Snapshot Day is an effort to gather data and pictures from all types of libraries across the state on a single day to illustrate the importance libraries have in our communities.  The data and pictures can be used for advocating to legislators, administrators and community members.  States across the country will be holding their own Library Snapshot Day this winter and spring.

For examples of what other states have done for Library Snapshot Day, check out these two resources:

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/advocacy/statelocalefforts/snapshotday/index.cfm

http://njla.pbworks.com/w/page/12189934/Snapshot

To volunteer to help out with this task force contact Hannah Gascho Rempel at hannah.rempel@oregonstate.edu.

Liaisons Coordinating Committee – Oversees and coordinates the ACRL liaison relationship activities across all levels of the association; establishes and manages processes of establishing liaison relationships and provides common guidelines for appointing liaisons to the ACRL units managing liaison relationships; assesses effectiveness of the liaison program and makes recommendations for its improvement; communicates assessment findings with the ACRL Board and future directions for the liaison program.

Liaisons Grants Committee – Manages liaison program support budget; establishes and manages competitive processes for liaisons to apply for funding for specific liaison activities over a defined period of time with a focus on assessable outcomes.

Liaisons Training & Development Committee – Manages ALA Connect Community for Liaisons; provides training and resource materials for liaisons including suggestions for communicating the results of liaison work to ACRL membership.

ACRL members interested in volunteering for a term starting immediately on one of the above committees should send a short expression of interest to President Lisa Hinchliffe at ljanicke@illinois.edu by November 30, 2010. They should also complete the online volunteer form at http://www.acrl.org/volunteer.

The Pacific Northwest Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the publication of outstanding scholarship by undergraduates and their mentors from academic institutions of higher learning in the Pacific Northwest. The Journal accepts submissions of research articles, fiction, poetry, photography, videos, and other creative works from undergraduate students in all academic disciplines. Each submission must be the original work of at least one undergraduate student with at least one faculty mentor, although the work may be submitted shortly after the student(s) has graduated.

Additionally, the Journal provides an opportunity for undergraduates to gain valuable experience with the peer-review process. Faculty and students at institutions of higher learning in the Pacific Northwest review every submission. Whenever possible, reviews are done by student-faculty pairs so that student reviewers can be mentored through the process.

Thus, the purpose of the Journal is:

• To encourage and showcase scholarly work in all disciplines.
• To provide a beneficial learning experience for undergraduate students.
• To provide a setting for dissemination of research, ideas and creative concepts.

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and will be published on the Journal website after successful review. Our goal is to have submissions reviewed within 8 – 12 weeks. However, the process may take longer depending on the availability of reviewers.

If you are interested in assisting with the Journal or serving as a peer reviewer, please contact the Co-managing Editors, Dr. James Butler (jjbutler@pacificu.edu) and Dr. Natalie Lupton (luptonn@cwu.edu).

If interested, contact Joni Roberts (jroberts@willamette.edu) or Carol Drost (cdrost@willamette.edu) and please include your subject interests with your email.

Visit http://www.bowdoin.edu/~samato/IRA/submit/index.html for more details. We look forward to hearing from you!

The goal of the liaison program is to help ACRL Oregon facilitate communication among all academic libraries in the state.  The long-term goal is to have a liaison in every academic library in the state of Oregon.  This liaison will have the ability to post news to this blog.  The liaisons will be expected to post news from their libraries regularly (as often as they’d like but at least a couple of times a year).  News would include personnel information (who got that great job you advertised), stories about upcoming (or completed!) programs and events, and anything else the liaison feels like sharing about their libraries.

We hope that this kind of information sharing will help us all feel more connected to one another and be more aware of the goings on at each other’s libraries.

Naturally, the liaisons will also receive any important news from ACRL Oregon to pass along to their colleagues at their libraries.

We also see the liaison program as a way of increasing participation in ACRL Oregon.  Not everyone has the time, support, or inclination to serve on the Board but many people do have an interest in participating a way that requires less time and/or travel.  Serving as the liaison from your institution could be just the thing!

Interested?  Please let Diane Sotak know!  She’ll get you set up with an account on the blog and you’ll be off to the races!

I know it was a real pleasure to join the board and find out how many great things the board is working on.  Its been a treat to inherit some great projects and I know that there will be a lot of good things going on next year as well.  Consider serving!