Children’s Services Division 2023 Survey

Greetings to all librarians serving Oregon and southwest Washington. The Children’s Services Division (CSD) of OLA would like to hear from you by December 16th, 2023. When you complete the survey you can enter the drawing for a chance to win a $25 gift card from Amazon. The survey should take you 2 minutes or less to complete. You can find it by clicking HERE. Thanks!

Author

Jaime Thoreson
Youth Services Librarian II
Sherwood Public Library
CSD Chair Elect 2023-202

2024 Mock Geisel Titles

Join us at the CSD Booth at the OLA Conference

CSD Position Openings

CSD Chair-Elect  This is a three-year commitment and an elected position. Click here for the full job description. This position will start in September 2023. Here are the main duties and responsibilities. Advocate for CSD members as a member of the OLA Annual Conference Program Committee Coordinate CSD’s annual fundraising activity (typically held concurrently with the Spring CSD Member Workshop) Support and learn from the current Chair and Past Chair. ​

Secretary: POSITION FILLED. The secretary is a voting member.  Click here for a detailed job description.  This position would start immediately. Here are the main duties and responsibilities: Attend CSD events and take notes.  2 hours/month

Communication Lead The CSD communications chair leads a committee of two to four additional volunteer members (three to five members in total) to implement CSD member communications and event promotions. We have people who can teach you the ropes of the position. This position would start immediately. Click Here for a detailed job description. Promote CSD events Oversee blog posts Update CSD website 5 hours/month​

Lampman Award Committee Members: Review nominations and help select award winner Help plan and host the celebration of the award winner 2 hours/month during December-April. 5 hours on award celebration day.

Scholarship Chair: Plan and organized a scholarship campaign for CSD Review applications using designated criteria and select recipients Attend CSD meetings to update board 1-2 hours/month Scholarship Committee Members: Review applications using designated criteria and select recipients 3-5 committee members needed 4-8 hours total

Mock Award Committee Members Read and select books using award criteria 3-5 committee members needed

Oregon Library Presenters' Directory Committee Member Meet monthly to make decisions about directory Assist with promotion of the directory Complete other tasks as assigned

Author

Tara Morissette
CSD Co-chair 2022-23

CSD Virtual Board Meeting
February 8, 2023
1:00 to 2:30 pm
Email: [email protected] for Zoom link

Author

Tara Morissette
​CSD Co-chair 2022-23

You are invited to the next virtual CSD board meeting!

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 1:00 pm via Zoom Join us to meet the new CSD board, discuss Children’s Services Division events, and look over the CSD budget for 2022-23.  CSD members have received a Zoom link.  Can't find it?  Head to the OLA calendar for the Zoom link. If you are not a CSD member and would like to join us, please email [email protected] with your name and library. ​Looking forward to seeing you!

Agenda

Author

Emily West and Tara Morissette
CSD Co-Chairs 2022-23
​[email protected]

Thank you, Susan!
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Susan Cackler

As the new year starts for the Children’s Services Division, we want to send a huge thank you to Susan Cackler for leading the Division this past year.  She planned and prepared the Fall Workshop on Slow Librarianship and the Spring Workshop on the Power of Play.  She supported and led the volunteer teams that presented the Mock Caldecott workshop and Lampman Award.  We appreciate Susan’s organization, willingness to lead, decisiveness, and creativity over the past year.  Thank you for your service and thank you for continuing to serve as Past Chair this year. ​CSD Past Chair Susan Cackler Banks  Public Library [email protected]

​Emily West and Tara Morissette will lead the CSD team for 2022-23

Emily West and Tara Morissette are excited to lead CSD for 2022-23.  Emily West began her literacy career in Tennessee. She was hired to work within one of the first family literacy organizations in the state. Later, she worked for the Center of Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee as a curriculum developer for adult education. Emily then was hired by the National Institute for Literacy where she helped to reform and improve adult, and family literacy standards.  Emily has been a long time advocate and practitioner of the Baldrige Continuous Improvement Framework and received her Malcolm Baldrige Regional Examiner certification in April of 2022.

Emily West

Tara Morissette is a library assistant in Circulation at the Tigard Public Library.  She loves helping people, be it library patrons, fellow employees or volunteers. She looks forward to serving our library community, connecting with other library workers in our state, being creative, and problem solving in a collaborative way.   Her goals are to: support children’s library workers with CSD workshops, support the CSD board in their duties, and represent the CSD at OLA meetings. ​ CSD Co-Chairs 2022-23 Emily West, North Plains Public Library ​Tara Morissette, ​Tigard Public Library [email protected] ​

Tara Morissette

Monica Hoffman joins the CSD Board as Chair Elect

Monica Hoffman

Thank you for voting in Monica Hoffman as our new CSD Chair Elect.  Monica is the Early Literacy Outreach Program Manager of the Umatilla County Special Library District.  Most of her patrons call her the Storylady.  She partners with early childhood educators and care providers such as Head Start, Early Intervention/Special Education teachers, private and in home childcare providers.

Welcome CSD Board Members

Secretary Alec Chunn Multnomah County Library [email protected] Lampman Award Chair Holly Campbell-Polivka Tigard Public Library ​[email protected] Summer Reading Chair Dena Chaffin Silver Falls Library [email protected] Oregon Library Presenters' Directory Co-Chairs Anna Bruce Happy Valley Library Jaime Thorenson Sherwood Public Library [email protected]​​​

CSD Scholarship Deborah VanDetta Estacada Public Library​ Members at Large Jennifer Knight Jane Corry

A Great Year Ahead

Authors

Emily West and Tara Morissette
CSD Co-Chairs 2022-2023
c[email protected]

Oregon Mock Caldecott Committee announces short list for workshop

The Oregon Mock Caldecott committee is excited to announce the short list of books for the Mock Workshops on December 9th and January 6 from 3:00 to 4:30 pm.  Please try to read as many as you can in order to vote on January 6th.  Click on the button below to register for the workshop.​ Register Here

Click here to find them in a bibliocommons list. ​

Author

Tara Morissette
CSD Communications, Web Editor, and Co-Incoming Chair
​Library Assistant, Tigard Public Library

Congratulation to Tehlor Kay Mejia, our 2021 Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award recipient for her significant contribution to Oregon in the field of children’s literature from the Children’s Services Division of the Oregon Library Association (OLA). The Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award is presented annually by the Children's Services Division and is given in memory of Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1907-1980), noted Oregon teacher, journalist, and author of children’s books. Southern Oregon resident ​Tehlor Kay Mejia is an author of YA and middle grade fiction featuring queer, Latinx characters.   For more information about Tehlor, check out our Lampman Award webpage.

Author

Tara Morissette
CSD Communications/Web Editor
Library Assistant, Oregon City Public Library