<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Please let your Friends groups know about the upcoming "FOML Spring Workshop and Fred Ruffner Symposium" that will be held on Thursday, April 23rd at the Rochester Hills Public Library.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">For a full agenda and link to register online, visit: <a href="http://foml.org/eventsconferences/2015-spring-workshop/">http://foml.org/eventsconferences/2015-spring-workshop/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">The theme is <b style="text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing:1pt">“Community
Engagement: How Friends Can Promote the Value of Your Library”</span></b></font></div>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">​The </font></div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">synopsis<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline">​:​</div>  Friends can play a vital role as advocates
for the library and its services. What are some of the strategies that Friends
can undertake to promote and increase the value of the library? How can Friends
work with the director, library staff, and trustees to carry out cooperative
and collaborative activities which make the library a center of community
engagement?</font><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">​</font></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Topics <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline">​and speakers ​</div>include:</span><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">"Telling Your Library Story" by our Fred Ruffner Symposium speaker John Pelegrino from Gale/Cengage Learning</li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">"Success Stories: How Our Friends Promoted Our Millage" with Doreen Hannon, Director of the Salem-South Lyon Library</li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">and Kris Rzepczynski, Archivist at the Archives of Michigan, speaking about "Our Michigan Archives"</li></ul></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">​</font></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">FOML will also hold the annual meeting for the membership and present the 2014 Outstanding Friends of the Library Merit Awards. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">These workshops are a great time to network with other Friends groups, tour the </span><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Rochester Hills Public Library</span><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">, and spend a day learning how to support your library!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline">​with regards,</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline">Paul Snyder, FOML President</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;display:inline">attachment: workshop registration form</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span></p><div class="gmail_defa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