In this highly participative session, participants will explore how the human brain impacts behavior, and how tomake use of emotional experience without being controlled by it. Participants will discuss how to increase self‐awareness andmore effectively respond to triggering events. ola-wla – why we react the way we do – and how to avoid going reptilian…Read more Why We React the Way We Do and How to Avoid Going “Reptilian”
“Story time has been a staple of the children’s library as long as there have been children’s services. But what about the children who can’t come to story time at the library? With limited professional staffing, outreach to child care sites usually can’t be done. Using the expertise of library staff to train volunteers in…Read more Early Literacy Outreach Using Volunteers
Materials portraying queerness across a wide spectrum of everyday life are crucial to truly represent all of our community members. Panelists will share booktalks highlighting recent LGBTQIA+ representing books for tween, teen, and adult readers. Speakers: April Younglove, Annie Greenewood-Sprague, Le Button, Alyssa Colkinis Material Provided Queer-Lit-for-Tweens-to-Adults_-Reading-the-Rainbow-(1)—Alyssa-Cokinis OLA-Reading-Rainbow-presentation-slides
This attractive poster has seven easy to understand concepts relating to intellectual freedom and privacy issues in the library. Protecting patron privacy and supporting intellectual freedom is the role of everyone who works in the library from director to volunteer. Created to pair nicely with the OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee Toolkit http://www.olaweb.org/intellectual-freedom-toolkit, this staff facing poster…Read more Creative Ways to Bring Intellectual Freedom to Your Library
Description When libraries create welcoming spaces, they can be a solace that can change or even save peoples lives. It is vital that we authentically engage communities to create spaces that are truly and genuinely welcoming – not only for dominant culture but for members of all our diverse cultures. Speakers Kate Lasky, Oregon Library…Read more Keynote: Creating Welcoming Environments – Community Voice to Create Inclusion
Presentation on Library2Go given at OLA 2012 by Lorie Vik (Virtual Services Librarian, Eugene Public Library) and Greg Williams (Technology Librarian, West Linn Public Library). The presentation focuses on Library2Go’s current funding and usage, some of the significant challenges identified by the Oregon Digital Library Consortium (ODLC), responses to those challenges, and an outline of Library2Go’s…Read more Library2Go: Where We Are, Where We’re Going, and Useful Information to Help Patrons
In 2013 the State Library commissioned an analytical report on the coordination and collaboration of digital collections and projects across the state. This session will provide an overview of that report followed by a discussion with attendees on how the State Library can best use LSTA funds to support statewide digitization. Presenters: Danielle Plumer, Consultant;…Read more Digital Collections Plan for Oregon
What do China, Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea, and India have in common? They’re the five leading countries of origin for international college and university students in Oregon. Currently there are over 10,000 international higher education students in the state and the number is expected to grow. In this session you will get an introduction…Read more Library Service and the International Student
Speakers: Robert Kohl, Multnomah County Library; Heather Pitts, State Library of Oregon Description Does the idea of implementing alternatives to Library of Congress Subject Heading vocabulary seem daunting? Not sure where to start? Don’t let perfection stand in the way of progress! In this session you will hear from libraries taking an incremental, iterative approach,…Read more Alternative Subject Heading Vocabularies – Progress, Not Perfection
Libraries want to connect patrons with the materials they need and be responsible stewards of their collections. This presentation will focus on how libraries can apply proven practices from the retail merchandising profession to create a clean, neat and easy to browse library collection that works for staff and patrons. Techniques for determining the best…Read more A Book for Every Person: Presenting Your Collection to Improve Patron Engagement
This session provides a basic orientation to Resource Description and Access (RDA) for copy catalogers and gives them tools to interpret records in WorldCat. The focus will be on identifying RDA records and understanding the new fields and practices that differ from AACR2 so that copy catalogers can select bibliographic records and edit them appropriately.…Read more RDA for Copy Catalogers
Launched in January of this year, the Oregon Library Passport Program is a voluntary, opt-in program that provides participating Oregon public & academic libraries the ability to offer their patrons free access to libraries across the state. A patron’s local library card becomes their passport to resources anywhere they live, work, play or shop. Participating libraries share…Read more Oregon Library Passport Program
Sensory Storytime involves children in varying stages of sensory development and/or on the autism spectrum who might otherwise find storytime too challenging or overwhelming. This session will talk about the elements of a strong, inclusive Sensory Storytime, including suggested resources and activities, and how to promote your program to reach the right families. We will also discuss…Read more Get Creative and Kids Will Come
A panel of wonderfully knowledgeable librarians will share their library assessment success stories. Hear about library assessment best practices, library assessment techniques, and how to make decisions from library assessment evidence. Bring your challenging library assessment questions to be answered by this wise panel of experts. Presenters: Rick Stoddart, Oregon State University Libraries; Sara Seely, Portland…Read more State of Library Assessment in Oregon
Darci Hanning, Oregon State Library Esther Moberg, Director of Seaside Public Library Presentation on current and future technology trends in Oregon libraries and beyond with a look to future potential practices and current best practices. We will have specific examples from Oregon academic and public libraries, and plan to have some “idea boards” of future…Read more Creativity in Technology: Current and Future Trends
Description Design is subjective, both visually and experientially. It is reflective of who we are as human beings and is capable of shaping the world around us. Unfortunately, the comfort of privilege can be found in biased design throughout history. Designers and engineers of digital products have a great responsibility to bring inclusivity into our…Read more Identifying and Learning from Exclusivity and Biases in Design
Melanie Hetrick, Tillamook County Library; Kiva Liljequist, Metropolitan Learning Center, Portland Public Schools; MacKenzie Ross, Beaverton City Library & Murray Schools. OLA Slides ORCA ORCA 18-19 Bookmark grades 3-5 ORCA 18-19 Bookmark grades 6-8 ORCA 18-19 Bookmark grades 9-12 ORCA 18-19 Bookmark grades 3-5 ORCA 18-19 Bookmark grades 6-8 ORCA 18-19 Bookmark grades 9-12
In this highly engaging workshop, participants will discover how to harness the creative power of teams to achieve success in their organizations. Participants will discuss their experiences of being part of effective/ineffective teams, assess their own tendencies/preferences toward task, process, and relationship aspects of teamwork, identify the stage of teamwork that their current team is…Read more Teams: Making them effective
The MAC Reads community reading program is a long-time partnership between Linfield University Libraries, McMinnville Public Library, and Third Street Books store. Over the past years, many organizations have issued statements in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and condemning racism. The MAC Reads partners decide to take direct action to address racism in…Read more MAC Reads 2021 Becoming an Anti-Racist: One Community’s Journey
Embedded librarians? Like, where you ride around with the troops all day and offer them reader’s advisory? Well, no. Actually it’s the idea of sending librarians out into the community to do more than the usual tabling; to offer our professional information-finding skills and reference services off-site, to partner with other departments and neighboring library…Read more Embedded Librarians