<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee57ccf8-4d2b-b166-f21e-0d164552d81c"><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Monday, April 14th, 10:30-12noon. National Library Week Town Hall:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join Barbara Stripling, President of the American Library Association, for a town hall meeting on </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Declaration to the Right to Libraries! </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><br>

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">President Stripling will share her national and international perspectives on the greatest challenges and opportunities for libraries to be life-long learning institutions, community builders, publishing partners, collaborators, empowerment engines, maker spaces, and much more.  </span></p>

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The town hall meeting format encourages questions from the audience.  If you have questions to submit in advance, please contact: Karen Downing (</span><a href="mailto:kdown@umich.edu" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">kdown@umich.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) or Emily Hamstra (<a href="mailto:ehamstra@umich.edu">ehamstra@umich.edu</a>).</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read more about Barbara Stripling’s work: </span><a href="http://my.ischool.syr.edu/Profiles/Preview/bstripli" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://my.ischool.syr.edu/Profiles/Preview/bstripli</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">April 14, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm National Library Week Lecture: </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">American Library Association President Barbara Stripling Discusses “Why Libraries Are Here To Stay”</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Libraries today have transformed themselves into community centers of conversation, innovation, and literacy – both face-to-face and virtual!  But, what does the future hold for libraries of the 21</span><span style="font-size:9px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap">st</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Century?  Join us for a special National Library Week event as American Library Association President Barbara Stripling discusses the current state and future of libraries in a presentation entitled “Why Libraries Are Here To Stay.”  </span></p>

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact Tim Grimes (</span><a href="mailto:grimest@aadl.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">grimest@aadl.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) with questions about this event.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Events are co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor District Library and the University of Michigan Library and are free and open to all.</span></p>

<div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div>Emily Hamstra<br>Learning Librarian<div>Kinesiology Librarian<br>

University of Michigan<br>734-615-1444<br></div></div>
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