Hayden said that OEMA is waiting to see what OLA does about membership in the organization. Discussion around the table included comments on the plan which appeared to be status quo. Also there is no action plan. Spaulding said she thought an action plan would be the next step. This is a national contest from the Center for the Book which is promoted by the Weekly Reader.
Schools help with the contest.
There are awards, some of them cash for the children. Scheppke moved and Webster seconded the endorsement. Webster said that they are planning for conference programs on system migration, support staff roles in libraries, school reform and its affect on academic libraries, web management, and meta data for beginners. There is an issue involving the depository system for Oregon documents. It includes revision of Title 44.