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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>The Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME) is offering </span><span class=im><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050;background:white'>opportunities for professional development and invites you to attend one or </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>more of these special events next month:*</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><br><br><br><span style='background:white'>*The first is the <b>Mahoney PreConference: **Collaboration and Student</b></span><b><br><span style='background:white'>Achievement: How School, Public and Academic Libraries are Working Together</span></b><span style='background:white'>*</span><br><br><br><span style='background:white'>*</span></span><a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07eb9do4n8ac764478" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07eb9do4n8ac764478</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><span style='background:white'><</span></span><a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07eb9do4n8ac764478" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07eb9do4n8ac764478</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>>*</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><br><br><span style='background:white'>*</span></span><i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#376092;background:white'>A primary focus will be on models of collaboration between school, public</span></i><i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#376092'><br><span class=im><span style='background:white'>and academic libraries to support and improve student achievement from</span></span><span style='background:white'><br><span class=im>early literacy through to higher education. The continuing issues with</span><br><span class=im>school library program support and staffing in the school and broader</span><br>community will be part of this focus.*</span></span></i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><br><br><br><span style='background:white'>*The second is the <b>MAME42, two day conference</b>:</span><br></span><a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07eb0mzsuo6380d947" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07eb0mzsuo6380d947</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><span style='background:white'><</span></span><a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07eb0mzsuo6380d947" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07eb0mzsuo6380d947</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>>*</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><br><span style='background:white'>*As usual, our two day conference has fabulous keynote speakers and is full</span><br><span style='background:white'>of opportunities for professional development. </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><br><span style='background:white'>*<b>OR if you only have time to hear a nationally renowned author</b>,* *<span class=aqj>Friday</span></span><br><span style='background:white'>morning's Author Breakfast’s featured author is Eliot Schrefer! *</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>*Eliot's featured presentation is “<i>Expanding Our Empathy Through Children’s</i></span><i><br><span style='background:white'>Literature.”*</span><br></i><br><span style='background:white'>*</span></span><a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07ebjnp6xg559afc46" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07ebjnp6xg559afc46</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><span style='background:white'><</span></span><a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07ebjnp6xg559afc46" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07ebjnp6xg559afc46</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>>*</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><br><i><span style='background:white'>* About Eliot: Eliot's fifth novel, Endangered, was a finalist for the</span><br></i></span><span class=im><i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050;background:white'>National Book Award in Young People’s Literature. It was also one of NPR’s</span></i></span><i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050;background:white'><br><span class=im>“Best of 2012,” an editor’s choice in The New York Times (which called it</span><br><span class=im>“dazzling" and "big-hearted"), a finalist for the Walden Award, winner of</span><br><span class=im>the Green Earth Book Award, and won the Sigurd Olson</span></span></i><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#17365D'> </span>Nature Writing Award.</i> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>In addition to being our featured breakfast speaker, Eliot will present an hour-long session immediately following, titled <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“Fact in Fiction: Weaving Research into Narrative”. <o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Please join us in Bay City, November 11-13!</span></em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>Karen Becknell MALS<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><a href="mailto:bookwoman@mi.rr.com"><span style='color:#548DD4'>bookwoman@mi.rr.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>Library of Congress TPS Trainer<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>MAME Database Manager<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><a href="mailto:mamedatab@gmail.com">mamedatab@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>Editor: Michigan Authors & Illustrators Database<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><a href="mailto:miaieditor@gmail.com">miaieditor@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” Henry Ward Beecher<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>