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<p style="margin-top:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#716659">Public libraries that serve small and/or rural communities are invited to apply for a travel stipend to attend a one-day dialogue and deliberation
pre-conference workshop at the 2018 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#50473D;background:white">Attending the pre-conference is free, though space will be limited to 50 participants. Twenty-five participants from public
libraries serving small and/or rural communities will be selected to receive an $800 stipend to help cover travel costs for one library employee.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#716659"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#50473D">"Libraries Transforming Communities: Conversation Café Workshop for Public Libraries Serving Small, Mid-Sized and/or Rural Communities" will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday,
June 22, 2018, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#50473D;background:white">This workshop is offered as part of</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/tools/librariestransform/libraries-transforming-communities" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328;background:white;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:windowtext;background:white;text-decoration:none">Libraries
Transforming Communities: Models for Change</span></a><span style="color:#50473D;background:white">, an initiative of ALA and the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD). The initiative seeks to introduce libraries to various dialogue and deliberation
approaches, enabling libraries to foster conversation and lead change in their communities.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information visit the link
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.programminglibrarian.org/articles/dialogue-deliberation-workshop-stipend-smallrural-public-libraries">http://www.programminglibrarian.org/articles/dialogue-deliberation-workshop-stipend-smallrural-public-libraries</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shannon White<br>
Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">517.373.9489<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whites29@michigan.gov<o:p></o:p></p>
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