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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it August already!? In preparation for the new school year, the Library of Michigan has put together a week long training on Michigan eLibrary resources so you can help your pre-schoolers through 4 graders when they’re back in school
this Fall! The week of August 25<sup>th</sup> the following libraries will host our vendor trainers in a day long session at which you will learning how the eResources found most easily in MeL’s Kids Gateway (Homework Helpers),
<a href="http://mel.org/kids">http://mel.org/kids</a> can best be used with your youth, students and so you can inform their parents and teachers and academic librarians, your pre-service teachers and faculty!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Each session will run 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with training beginning at 9:00 a.m. Five vendors will be joining us this week to showcase the eResources that we make available statewide in MeL: Gale, ProQuest, EBSCO, Scholastic, and
WorldBook. The trainers will take you through their resources and show you how they align to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Morning coffee and lunch provided. Below you will find all the locations that we’ll be visiting:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">August 25 – Canton Public Library, Canton, MI <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information and to register, contact: Laurie Golden,
<a href="mailto:goldenl@cantonpl.org">goldenl@cantonpl.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">August 26 – Jackson College, Jackson, MI <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information and to register, contact: Forthcoming in a message later this week.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">August 27 – <span style="color:black">Pere Marquette District Library, Clare, MI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information and to register, contact: Irene Bancroft,
<a href="mailto:ibancroft@mmlc.info">ibancroft@mmlc.info</a> or 810-232-7119<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">August 28 – Pickford Community Library, Pickford, MI (eastern Upper Peninsula; 45 minutes NE of St. Ignace)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information contact: Ann Marie Smith, <a href="mailto:amsmith@uproc.lib.mi.us">amsmith@uproc.lib.mi.us</a> or 906-647-1288
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To register contact: Pam Malmsten, <a href="mailto:pamm@uproc.lib.mi.us">pamm@uproc.lib.mi.us</a> or 906-228-5627<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">August 29 – Kent District Library Service Center, Comstock Park, (Grand Rapids area) MI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information and to register, contact: Sheryl VanderWagen at
<a href="http://arwen.llcoop.org">http://arwen.llcoop.org</a> <b>after August 6.</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know if you have any questions and please feel free to share this training opportunity with your children’s librarians and pre-school through 4<sup>th</sup> grade teachers or homeschool parents you may know. Looking forward
to meeting you at the end of August!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deb<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#7030A0">Deb Biggs Thomas, MA AMLS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Michigan eLibrary & Outreach Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Library of Michigan/Michigan Dept. of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">702 W. Kalamazoo St.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Lansing, MI 48909<br>
Phone: 517-373-4466<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><img border="0" width="936" height="138" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CFB0B3.FE606B00" alt="LMSigforEmail"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#7030A0">Visit MeL at:
<a href="http://mel.org/"><span style="color:#7030A0">http://mel.org</span></a> and on Facebook at:
<a href="http://facebook.com/mel.org"><span style="color:blue">http://facebook.com/mel.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";background:white">The Library of Michigan is pleased to share a new video series highlighting Michigan libraries and how they are making a difference in their communities. To experience Michigan
libraries in a new light, v</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">isit
<a href="http://brightside.cedam.info/"><span style="color:blue">http://brightside.cedam.info/</span></a> and watch the 21<sup>st</sup> Century Libraries episode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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