1. Oregon Reader’s Choice Awards
Jen Blair, BSD District Librarian
Grace Butler, Whitman Elementary School
MacKenzie Ross, Beaverton City Library
Session description: Join fellow librarians as we share the 2018 Oregon Reader’s Choice Award (ORCA) winners and the lists of the 2019 nominees! A variety of resources and prizes will help you become familiar with the titles so you can promote them to the students at your schools, and we will also share how we’ve used and highlighted ORCA at our respective libraries and schools.
Session info: Saturday, 10/13, 11:30am-12:20pm
Idea from Grace: Would be fun to talk about how we choose what to read. Why do we choose books like George (diverse/inclusion titles)
Additional ideas: Bring plaques to show? Highlight a couple titles from each division. Put booktalks up on website.
Do we want to bring bookmarks? No - point people to website.
Put booktalks on website.
How to make the presentation participatory? Kahoot voting? Use Smore? Ask participants what they want to see from ORCA?
Does WHS have wifi - double check with Stuart? We should be good.
Who wants to bring computer?

2. Using ORCA in your schools and libraries
End of year celebration (pizza party, author visit)
Voting boxes
Tournament bracket voting
Social Media posts - videos and pictures - library challenge
Having kids/teens nominate titles: talking about how to find copyright date, having clipboard available
Having kids/teens write a title they read and use as a raffle ticket for prizes

3. Title Selection
Criteria: The committee creates the final ballots based upon a number of criteria, including literary quality, creativity, reading enjoyment, reading level, and regional interest.
Look for the link to submit public nominations in January!
How we find our titles: SLJ, Fuse 8 blog, Powells, on shelves at public library, listening to what kids/teens like, what’s circulating, different award lists, reading low-radar titles
Taking into account what kids/teens are interested in, but also titles they might not know about (hidden gems!); this is about what kids and teens want to read and like to read!
#WeNeedDiverseBooks and #OwnVoices titles

4. Upper Elementary Division
Grace

5. Middle School Division
MacKenzie - kahoot voting for each title (prizes - ORCA titles)
Go to kahoot.it on your mobile device’s browser!
Kahoot!

6. High School Division
Jen - smore with all book covers - how to embed a newsletter in Destiny [screen shot is linked]
Link to Smore:
Embed code for Smore: <iframe width="100%" height="600" src=" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="min-width: 320px;border: none;"></iframe>

7. Questions? Comments? Genius ideas?
Contact:
Resources:
If ORCA were to create a guide or manual for the titles, what would you want to see? Book discussion guides, booktalks, book trailers, timeline for promoting ORCA, readalikes