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Focus Institute
2012 Focus Institute
Dates: September 16-19, 2012
 
Location: Menucha Retreat Center (Corbett, OR)
 
Cost: $75 (includes lodging and meals)
 
Registration Forms: Download and print (word or .pdf)
 
Registration Deadline: Submit registrations forms by August 1, 2012 to Ferol Weyand at:
·         ferol.weyand@state.or.us (email)
·         503-378-6439 (FAX)
·         250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 (mail)
 
Registration is limited to 25 people. Preference will be given to library youth services staff who do not have a Masters in Library Science Degree and library staff who work with youth in small, rural libraries.
 
Sessions:
·         Language, Literacy and Early Brain Development (Joann Contini)
·         Readers’ Advisory for Parents & Young Children (Dana Campbell)
·         Storytime Best Practices (Rick Samuelson)
·         Outreach (Rick Samuelson)
·         Becoming Thinkers (Barbara Steinberg)
·         Applying Becoming Thinkers in Your Library (Deeda Chamberlain, Jane Corry, and Krist Obrist)
·         After-school Activities for the Elementary Set (Esther Moberg, Korie Jones Buerkle, and Nancy Peate)
·         Everyone Serves Teens (Susan Smallsreed and Deborah Gitlitz)
·         Selling it in the Stacks to Teens (Ruth Allen and Traci Glass)
·         Teen Programming (K’Lyn Hann)
 
Questions about registration? Contact Ferol Weyand at 503-378-2525
 
Questions about the Focus Institute? Contact Katie Anderson 503-378-2528
 
About Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute
The Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute seeks to provide a foundation of professional knowledge about youth services necessary for the operation of small public libraries.  Participants will attend several training sessions over the course of three and a half days.  The sessions concentrate on the principles of public library services to children and teens, and how to put those principles into practice.  Session topics may change from year to year based on research, library practices, and trends which change and improve continually.  Feedback from the previous Focus Institute participants is also considered when planning session topics.  Training sessions are presented by highly skilled, experienced Youth Services Librarians in Oregon.  Presenters are typically active members of the Oregon Library Association's Children's Services Division (CSD) and Oregon Young Adult Network (OYAN).
 
The Focus Institute is held in September of even numbered years.  Registration is limited to 25 participants. It is designed for library staff who serve children and teens, and have no graduate level education in librarianship.  Staff from libraries that are not yet offering youth services programs constitute the highest priority for the Institute, if attendance will result in the library implementing programs for youth.   
 
The Focus Institute is able to keep costs low for participants because it is primarily supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library.
 

 
About the Conference Site
Past the stone entry, a forest embraces travelers along a serpentine road. The destination: a one hundred acre sanctuary in the Columbia River Gorge. Seven hundred feet above one of the nation's epic rivers, this is a place where bald eagles float their shadows across old growth conifers; where trails may lead to heirloom gardens or perennial springs. It's called "Menucha " (Men-oo-ka), a Hebrew word meaning "ever-changing stillness."