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<p class="MsoNormal">Reporting your impact to your community is essential for libraries. MeL provides statistics and tools to tell the story of how your individual library is working on crucial issues, like early literacy and more. Please join us on January
19 at 11:00am Eastern for a 30-minute webinar focused on how you can access and utilize vital resources to communicate to your community and stakeholders the good work your library is already doing.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Registration is free and open to all Michigan library staff, educators, and other interested users.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Read more and <a href="https://store.mcls.org/index.php/mel-databases-mel-statistics-for-libraries.html">
register for this webinar</a>.<br>
<a href="https://store.mcls.org/index.php/mel-databases-mel-statistics-for-libraries.html">https://store.mcls.org/index.php/mel-databases-mel-statistics-for-libraries.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This webinar will be recorded, and made available on demand anytime.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="http://mcls.org/mel/mel-training-events/">http://mcls.org/mel/mel-training-events/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MeL training is funded in part by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan. Additional service support comes from the Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) via the
<a href="http://www.imls.gov/" target="_blank">Institute of Museum and Library Services</a> (IMLS).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please share.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">David Votta</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Community Engagement Librarian</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS)
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Lansing, MI<br>
Phone: (800) 530-9019 ext 122</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Phone: (517) 492-3822
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Fax: (517) 492-3886<br>
<a href="mailto:vottad@mcls.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">vottad@mcls.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“For every complex problem there is an answer which is clear, simple, and wrong.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>-H.L. Mencken<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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