SERVICE DISRUPTION: We are experiencing technical difficulties with these lists that are impacting signing up, changing preferences, and accessing the archives. We are working with State of Oregon IT to address these issues. Currently, subscribers are able to post and receive messages. If you'd like to sign up for a list, change your subscription, or access any list archives, please email library.support@slo.oregon.gov.
Discussion Lists
The State Library hosts and manages the following discussion lists for the Oregon library community.
This electronic discussion list is for classified staff who are currently employed in a school library in Oregon to share resources and ask questions about school libraries. Fill out this form to subscribe. Prior posts to the list can be viewed at the Classified-PLC Archives.
This electronic discussion list is sponsored by the Oregon Library Association's Children Services Division (CSD). CSD is a non-profit, educational and informational organization whose defining goal is to provide support and continuing education for Oregon's children's librarians and for support staff who work in children services. This list enhances communication for CSD members and other interested parties. Possible uses may include job announcements, meeting announcements, conference announcements, announcing training opportunities, gift offerings, resource sharing, and questions about children's services and library-related issues. To see the collection of prior posts to the list, visit the
Kids-lib Archives.
The library district directors list is a vehicle for current public library directors of library districts to exchange information and discuss common issues. Only current public library directors of library districts will be allowed to join this list. Current subscribers can view the libdistrict-directors archives with their email address and password.
This electronic discussion list is intended for sharing information about the Oregon library community. It is for library staff at public, school, academic, tribal, and volunteer libraries in Oregon. Possible uses may include job announcements, meeting announcements, conference announcements, announcing training opportunities, gift offerings, resource sharing, and questions about library-related issues. Prior posts to the list can be viewed at the Libs-Or Archives and new subscribers should review the user guidelines which outline rules and etiquette for posting messages.
The Northwest Digital Projects email list is an open, un-moderated forum for communication about digital collection projects in the Pacific Northwest. Subscribers are encouraged to share information about projects, resources, training opportunities, and best practices. Prior posts to the list can be viewed at the
NWDigitalProjects Archives.
The Oregon Public Library Directors list is a vehicle for current public library directors to exchange information and discuss common issues. Only current public library directors will be allowed to join this list. Current subscribers can view the
OR-PLDirectors Archives with their email address and password.
This electronic discussion list is sponsored by the Oregon Library Association's Oregon Young Adult Network (OYAN). OYAN is a non-profit, educational and informational organization whose goals are to advocate for excellence in library services for young adults, to take a proactive role in providing library services to teens, and to provide a network of communication among librarians and support staff who work with teens. This mailing list enhances communication on these issues for OYAN members and other interested parties. Possible uses may include job announcements, meeting announcements, conference announcements, announcing training opportunities, gift offerings, resource sharing, and questions about teen services and library-related issues. To see the collection of prior posts to the list, visit the
OYAN Archives.
This closed list is for public library directors and key contact staff for the Ready to Read Grant. The grant administrator will send out information regarding Ready to Read through this list. Directors and key contacts can use this list to share information, ask questions, and exchange project ideas regarding the Ready to Read Grant. To see the collection of prior posts to the list, visit the
R2R-OR Archives.
Announcement Lists
The following closed lists are for official announcements from the State Library to members of the Oregon library community.
AL-Directors is a closed list for academic library directors only. It is a vehicle for the State Library to send official announcements such as grant program announcements, grant applications, and deadline reminders. Although directors cannot post or reply to the list, they may reply directly to the sender. The
AL-Directors list archives permit subscribers access to past announcements, although attachments are not archived.
This email discussion list is the main communication channel for Answerland, Oregon's statewide reference service. Through this list the Coordinator sends out updates about software, scheduling, etc. as well as calls to help answer questions. Answerland staff are encouraged to subscribe.
This list is used by the State Library to communicate essential information about the Oregon Summer Reading Program (SRP) for all ages at public libraries. Membership is limited to one person per library to ensure every library receives the most important summer reading information, and that the information is going to the right person at each library. If you don't know who from your library is subscribed to this list, please ask your library director first. If your library director doesn't know, then contact the list administrator. Archives can be viewed at
OR-SRP Archives.
OSLISTThis announcement list is used to send information to Oregon school library staff about the Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS), the K-12 statewide databases, and major school library news, resources, and opportunities. Oregon school library staff, and other Oregon educators who are active OSLIS users, are encouraged to
subscribe. Messages related to OSLIS and the databases are
posted on the
OSLIS website. Additionally, archives of all messages can be viewed at
OSLIST Archives.
PL-Directors is a closed list for public library directors only. It is a vehicle for the State Library to send official announcements such as grant program announcements, grant applications, and deadline reminders. Although directors cannot post or reply to the list, they may reply directly to the sender. The
PL-Directors list archives permit subscribers access to past announcements, although attachments are not archived.
A weekly e-newsletter covering how-to technology and communication tips. While not written specifically for library staff, the State Library regularly receives positive feedback about this service. Tech-Talk is emailed weekly to the Libs-Or mailing list (relatively high-traffic); alternatively, you can subscribe to the
TechTalk mailing list to receive just the e-newsletter each week. Please note that due to our licensing agreement, we request that you do not forward individual newsletters to colleagues, etc. Instead, encourage them to subscribe directly.
TL-Directors is a closed list for tribal library directors only. It is a vehicle for the Oregon State Library to send official announcements such as grant program announcements, grant applications and deadline reminders.
The TL-Directors list archives permit subscribers access to past announcements, although attachments are not archived.