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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Be sure to register for the upcoming FOML and FOML Trustee Alliance workshops on April 4 and 5. Details about the events and registration links are below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Friends of Michigan Libraries, FOML, and the FOML Trustee Alliance, will be providing two 1-day workshops in April for library friends and trustees. Each day will feature Jamie LaRue,
speaking about intellectual freedom and related topics, as well as other presenters. These workshops will be held at the Novi Public Library on April 4 & 5, 2019.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Workshop synopsis: Libraries are viewed as open access organizations, providing information resources and materials to their communities without barriers to those services. Libraries
have an obligation to provide materials and information which represent all points of view and which reflect diversity of opinion. What happens when a library is challenged about its selection of materials or its use of meeting room space? How does a library
meet that challenge?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Registration and full details, including an agenda for each day, can be found using the links below.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Thursday, April 4, Friends of Michigan Libraries FOML –
</span><a href="https://fomlevents.org/events/spring-workshop-and-fred-ruffner-symposium/"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://fomlevents.org/events/spring-workshop-and-fred-ruffner-symposium/</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Friday, April 5, FOML Trustee Alliance -
</span><a href="https://fomlevents.org/events/trustee-alliance-workshop/"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://fomlevents.org/events/trustee-alliance-workshop/</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The cost for each is $25 for members and non-members is $35. This registration rate includes all workshop materials, refreshments and lunch.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Library of Michigan.</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>517.335.1507</b></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:Whites29@michigan.gov"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Whites29@michigan.gov</span></a></p>
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