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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Are you looking for advocacy resources to increase your skills in making the case for your library? Be sure to join this WebJunction webinar on August 13 to find out more. Two of our Michigan library director
colleagues will be contributing to this webinar as well. (WebJunction webinars are also archived and available for later viewing.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<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 EST
</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">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Shannon D. White<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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">Ph: 517-373-9489; Fax: 517-373-5700<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Toll free: 877-479-0021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><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"><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">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:windowtext">www.michigan.gov/sfsp</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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