About Northwest Central

 

Northwest Continuing Education Network of Training Resources for All Libraries

The goal of Northwest Central is to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for library continuing education. Library staff can use Northwest Central to

 

Northwest Central is a community-driven online clearinghouse for library continuing education and collaboration serving library staff in Oregon, Washington, and beyond. The project was developed in 2005 by the PORTALS (Portland Area Library System) consortium with LSTA funding from the Oregon State Library. In June 2006 the pilot site was launched, and in November 2008, a redesign of the site by Insite Web Publishing was released. Portland Community College Library provides hosting and administrative support for Northwest Central.

As a free, community-driven project, Northwest Central depends upon members of the library community to share their resources, ideas, and calendar listings. Northwest Central invites you to join our community of life-long library learners.

 

Advisory Group

The Northwest Central project is guided by a voluntary Advisory Group made up of librarians representing a range of library types and geographical regions. You can contact the Northwest Central Advisory Group member nearest you with questions or suggestions, or contact Northwest Central with your ideas.

 

Central Oregon

Glenna Rhodes
Deschutes Public Library
(541) 617-7087 | glennar@dpls.lib.or.us

 

Eastern Oregon

Marie Baldo
Hermiston Public Library
(541) 667-5050 | mbaldo@hermiston.or.us

Ken Watson
Eastern Oregon University Library
(541) 962-3546 | kwatson@eou.edu

 

Oregon State Library

Ann Reed
Oregon State Library
(503) 378-5027 | ann.reed@state.or.us 

 

Portland Metro

Gretchen Leslie
Special Library Association Liaison
(503) 213-4744 | gretchen-leslie@spiritone.com

Ruth Murray
Portland State University 
(503) 725-9860 | murrayr@pdx.edu

Perri Parise
Emporia State University School of Library & Information Management
(503) 223-8280 | pparise@emporia.edu

Donna Reed
Portland Community College Library
(503) 977-4497 | donna.reed@pcc.edu

Roberta Richards
Portland Community College Library
(503) 977-4571 | rrichard@pcc.edu

Sam Sayre
OCLC Western
(503) 223-2884 | Sam_sayres@oclc.org

 

OLA Liaison

Jessie Gorton
OHSU Library
503.494.2399 | gorton@ohsu.edu

 

Washington

Mary Bucher Ross
WLA Continuing Education Coordinator
(206) 546-8834 | mbucherross@earthlink.net

Jennifer Fenton
CE&T Coordinator, Washington State Library
(360) 570-5571 | jfenton@secstate.wa.gov

Nancy Schutz
Timberland Regional Library
(360) 943-5001 | nschutz@trlib.org

Paula Swan
Spokane Falls Community College Library
(509 533 3809) | PaulaS@spokanefalls.edu

Nicholas Schiller
WSU Vancouver Library
(360) 546-9171 | schiller@vancouver.wsu.edu

 

Volunteers

As a community-driven project, volunteers are essential for keeping the Northwest Central website full of great content.  We would like to thank the following volunteer Content Editors for their work on the project. 

Carlie Hoffman
Roxie Garrison
Valerie Walters
Chrystal Seager
Linda Knight
Linda Malone

 

If you would like information on being a volunteer Content Editor for Northwest Central, or if your name was left off this list, please contact us from the Contact link on the bottom of this page.
 

Northwest Central  reserves the right to remove content that is dated, irrelevant, or otherwise deemed to be inappropriate.