Wednesday, April 23
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Session 8

Buried Treasures

Sponsor: University and College Division

The featured buried treasures are the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, highlighting the art museum, genealogical resources, fine arts exhibitions and educational programs and the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore, one of the seven selections of the FOLIO-sponsored Centennial program Oklahoma Literary Landmarks.

Speakers: Tom Mooney, Cherokee Heritage Center, Karen Neurohr, Oklahoma State University, and Julia Ratliff.

Of interest to all.

Latinos Learning Locally

Sponsor: Public Libraries Division and Social Responsibilities Roundtable

With funding received from the OCLC Gates Foundation, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries has been piloting with six sites statewide to reach out to Spanish speaking populations. This past year, the sites developed and presented workshops and activities on the topics of health, citizenship, and family literacy. In this second year of funding, the topics will be employment, consumerism/finance and cultural differences. Come see and hear about the project and learn how to use what has been developed—templates developed, materials used, resources found, etc.

Speakers: Oklahoma Department of Libraries: Pat Williams, Consultant, Leslie Gelders, Literacy Coordinator, Vicki Mohr, Division Director.

Of interest to public librarians, managers and support staff.

OASLMS Business Meeting

Sponsor: Oklahoma Association of School Library Media Specialists

OASLMS business meeting.

Of interest to all OASLMS members and school library media specialists.

Sequoyah Research Center: A Repository of Native Thought

Sponsor: Centennial Ad Hoc Committee

The American Native Press Archives is one of the world's largest repositories of Native thought. Its collections of Native newspapers, manuscripts, periodicals, special collections, film and press histories cover periods from 1828 to the present. The Archives also include published information on Indian business and professional groups, literature and other publications documenting contemporary Native American communities. This session focuses on the twenty-five year effort to build the collection of the published words of Native peoples. An overview of the collection, contents and future of the library will also be discussed.

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Littlefield, Jr., holds a Ph.D. degree from Oklahoma State University and was a classroom teacher for forty-five years. He has been a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock since 1970 and from 1983 to 2005 he was director of the American Native Press Archives, the world’s largest archival repository of Native American newspapers and periodicals. In 2005, he left teaching and became Director of the Sequoyah Research Center, which houses the Archives and the Dr. J. W. Wiggins Collection of Native American Art.

Of interest to all.