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  Ever wonder what an OLA regional meeting is really like?  Karen Neurohr describes a recent meeting in Wilburton.
 


District 15 of OLA met Tues., Oct. 7, hosted by Eastern Oklahoma State College Library. Seventeen librarians attended with representation from Wilburton, McAlester, Heavener, Quinton, and Poteau.
 

We enjoyed supper and a program by the EOSC Drama Department promoting their production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Karen Neurohr shared information about the Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma program, and various members shared news about what is happening in their libraries. There were drawings for door prizes and no one left empty-handed! We concluded the evening with a tour of the EOSC Library, led by Director of Library Services Mary Edith Butler. Their soft music on the 2nd floor and "Spotlight on the Staff," an ongoing display that highlights various employees of EOSC and their hobbies and personalities are terrific!

District 15 is comprised of four counties- Pittsburg, Haskell, Latimer, and LeFlore. This is our second meeting since March 4, when Kay Boies, Sharon Saulmon, Ellen Duecker, and Wayne Hanway came to promote OLA and give members in our area an opportunity to organize and network with each other.

At the March meeting, hosted by Carl Albert State College, attendees voted to try to meet twice a year. It is difficult for many of us to travel to OKC or Tulsa for meetings, and there is a lot of enthusiasm for getting together in southeastern Oklahoma. Fourteen of us met again on April 29, hosted by Buckley Public Library in Poteau.

We all agreed that it takes some effort in our busy lives to attend an evening meeting after working all day, but the benefits are well worth it. We hope to meet again in the spring of 2004.

Karen Neurohr, Library Director, Carl Albert State College

 
 
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