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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please share these upcoming WebJunction opportunities with colleagues at your library. Don’t forget that all library staff in Michigan can take advantage of these continuing education offerings.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Below you can find information on an advocacy webinar that features a couple of our own Michigan library directors, Lance Werner and Julie Meredith. It’s an opportunity to see how your colleagues in Michigan
and beyond are making use of advocacy tools available to everyone to make a difference in their communities. Mark your calendars for August 13 at 2pm EST.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Highlighted content from WebJunction</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/start-from-scratch.html">Start from Scratch</a>! Read about a new program at the Bucks County Free Library that helps patrons bring their old computers
back to life using freely available, open source software. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/more-than-healthcare-community-conversations-about-health.html">Health is more than healthcare</a> - how libraries are uncovering and supporting community
health needs. The article includes links to online data resources that can help you identify local needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">August Webinars</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Remember, if you can’t attend a live session, all WebJunction webinars are archived and available when you are in the
</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://learn.webjunction.org/">course catalog</a></span><span style="color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Because Advocacy Never Stops: New Tools for Taking Action<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thursday, August 13, 2015 </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">♦</span><span style="color:black"> 2 pm Eastern /
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">11 am Pacific
</span></strong></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">♦</span><span style="color:black"> 90 min<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Registration: </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/because-advocacy-never-stops.html">http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/because-advocacy-never-stops.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">This webinar will highlight free, newly revised downloadable materials for public libraries distilled from landmark advocacy and awareness-building programs. Learn about two resources scheduled for release in summer
2015: updated curriculum from <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Turning the Page</span></em> including tools, worksheets and training materials you can adapt locally to grow your team’s advocacy knowledge and abilities; and a new online guide
that walks through each step of planning and carrying out a local library awareness campaign modeled after
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Geek the Library</span></em>. Hear from library leaders who have put these ideas to work to build advocacy know-how, increase staff confidence, and engage more deeply with the community. Whether you are looking
to get started, or seeking to maintain momentum following a recent advocacy effort, join us to discuss strategies to take your library to the next level.<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Presented by: <b>Lance Werner</b>, Director, Kent District Library; <b>Cathay Keough</b>, Statewide Coordinator, Reference Services, Delaware Division of Libraries & Executive Director, Delaware Library Association;
<b>Ava Ehde</b>, Library Services Manager, Manatee County Public Library; <b>Barbara McGary</b>, Executive Director, James V. Brown Library;
<b>Julie Meredith</b>, Library Director, Clarkston Independence District Library;
<b>Mary Lou Carolan</b>, Director, Wallkill Public Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Best Small Library in America 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Tuesday, August 18, 2015 </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">♦</span><span style="color:black"> 2 pm Eastern /
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">11 am Pacific
</span></strong></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">♦</span><span style="color:black"> 60 min<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Registration: </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/best-small-library-in-america-2015-belgrade-community-library.html">http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/best-small-library-in-america-2015-belgrade-community-library.html</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">With just six staff members serving a community of 12,700 outside of Bozeman, MT, the
<b>Belgrade Community Library </b>won this year’s <i>Library Journal </i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/01/awards/the-loaves-and-fishes-library-best-small-library-in-america-2015/#_">Best Small Library in America
Award</a></span><span style="color:black">. This award, cosponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was created in 2005 to encourage and showcase the exemplary work of libraries serving populations under 25,000. What is Belgrade’s secret award-winning
sauce? With a robust volunteer base, they have reimagined library services and aggressively developed new outreach efforts to meet the community’s changing needs. The result is intense engagement and support from the community and an impact beyond Belgrade’s
borders through leadership to small libraries throughout the state. Learn how to replicate and adapt Belgrade’s ambitious outreach efforts on a small-library budget.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">This webinar is hosted in collaboration with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries and Library Journal, and will include an overview of the
</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://features.libraryjournal.com/awards/best-small-library-in-america-award-nomination-guidelines/">nomination process</a></span><span style="color:black"> and details for next year's award (Deadline: September 9).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Presented by:
<b>Gale Bacon</b>, Director, <b>Rebekah Kamp</b>, Children and Youth Services Librarian and
<b>Keiley McGregor</b>, Public Services Librarian, all at the Belgrade Community Library; and
<b>Meredith Schwartz</b>, Executive Editor, Library Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Shannon D. White<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">702 West Kalamazoo, P.O. Box 30007, Lansing, MI 48909-7507<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Ph: 517-373-9489; Fax: 517-373-5700<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Toll free: 877-479-0021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:whites29@michigan.gov"><span style="color:blue">whites29@michigan.gov</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan"><span style="color:blue">http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Nourishing Michigan’s Future…during school and during the summer! Encourage Michigan’s children to Meet Up and Eat Up – and Read Up! Find the Summer Food Service Program site nearest you at: <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/sfsp"><span style="color:#1F497D">www.michigan.gov/sfsp</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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