OASL (Oregon Association of School Libraries)

10/11/2026

Alan Gratz ended the conference with an inspiring author talk. Food was made by Reynold HS culinary students!Lunch Keynote Speaker was Dr. Jarred Amato (Project LIT co-founder, JUST READ IT). Sessions throughout the day were fantastic! Thanks to everyone who came, and to the conference committee for a great day.

10/11/2026

That’s a wrap on another incredible OASL Fall Conference, held this year in Troutdale. Authors Steph Littlebird, Leslie Bernard Booth, Courtney Gould, and Emily Winfield Martin kicked us off with a phenomenal panel!

10/11/2026

Congratulations to all of our 2026 OASL Award Winners!
Gregory Lum, Jesuit High School Retired - Lifetime Achievement Award
Bryan Freschi, Lincoln County SD - Distinguished Library Service Award for School Administrators
Julie McMillan, Portland Public Schools - District Librarian of the Year
Lori Lieberman, Lincoln High School, Portland Public Schools - Secondary Teacher-Librarian of the Year
Kathy Kammerer, Neah-Kah-Nie School District, Classified Library Employee of the Year
Jennifer McKenzie - Intellectual Freedom Champion of the Year

10/03/2026

Just one week left until the conference! https://sites.google.com/oasl.olaweb.org/oasl-2026/home?authuser=0

09/08/2026

Just a little over a month away, the best professional development opportunity for school library staff in the PNW! Registration is open: https://sites.google.com/oasl.olaweb.org/oasl-2026/home?authuser=0

09/03/2026

“I want students to read for fun and to have that become a lifelong practice so that when they leave here, it’s just part of your life,” Battle says. “It doesn’t have to be solely academic.”

Faced with massive budget cuts, PPS librarians invent their own extracurricular book clubs.

08/10/2026

The State Library of Oregon Jobline is a compilation of currently open library-related job postings both in Oregon and out of state. Right now, there are school library vacancies posted for both Reynolds School District and Medford! https://oregonstatelibraryjobline.com

08/08/2026

What is our role in the schools, and specifically libraries, to help prevent this outcome? => "Put the two bodies of evidence together, the real-time disengagement we can already measure under AI and the structural [brain] loss we know follows from disengagement in every other setting, and the conclusion is hard to avoid: a life steadily outsourced to AI is a life of less cognitive effort, and less effort, sustained over decades, is how brains grow smaller and dimmer rather than sharper."

The body became a luxury good that the rich bought their way out of the damage. The brain is next, and it comes with no scale, no fix, and no warning light.

08/05/2026

Introducing your 2026-27 OASL Board!

08/03/2026

The Library Dads: Books, Bonding, and Brotherhood => What a great idea! 📚The gentleman who started this in Georgia went from weekly library visits with his young daughter to a group of 10 and now to a reach of over 1,200. And guess what his grandma did for a living? She was a school librarian. 💗 Mr. Arnold gets it: "People often confuse teaching children to want to read with teaching them how to read." His goal is to develop lifelong readers.

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