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Congratulations to our MI libraries who were awarded first round Census Equity Fund grants: </div>
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Dearborn Public Library<br>
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Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Library<br>
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Hope this edition of the news finds you & yours safe & well. </div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2XAVXQg" title="https://bit.ly/2XAVXQg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style="">ALA
praises IMLS for rapid release of COVID-19 relief</a></span><br>
<span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced measures to award the first $30 million of $50 million appropriated to the agency in the CARES Act. The American Library Association
(ALA) issued the following statement by ALA President Wanda Brown.<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif"></span><span><a href="https://bit.ly/2XAVXQg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif">Read
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<a href="https://bit.ly/3elNV3r" title="https://bit.ly/3elNV3r" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">ALA awards additional 13 Library Census Equity Fund
grantees</span></a><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">The American Library Association (ALA) and Capital One announced the names of 13 additional libraries receiving<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/govinfo/census/grants" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Library
Census Equity Fund mini-grants</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span> </span>of $2,000 to bolster their service to hard-to-count communities and help achieve a complete count in the 2020 Census.<span> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3elNV3r" title="https://bit.ly/3elNV3r" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style="">Read
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2Vpsm9E" title="https://bit.ly/2Vpsm9E" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700">ALA
Nominating Committee seeks candidates for 2021 election</span></span></a></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">The Nominating Committee for the 2021 ALA election is soliciting nominees to run on the 2021 spring ballot for the offices
of ALA president-elect and councilor-at-large.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman""><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">The Nominating Committee will select two candidates to run for president-elect and no fewer than 51 candidates for the 33 at-large council seats to be filled in the 2021 spring election.</span><span> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/2Vpsm9E" title="https://bit.ly/2Vpsm9E" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif">Read
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3a8Ovyp" title="https://bit.ly/3a8Ovyp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Public
Library Association seeks volunteers for committees, task forces, and advisory groups</span></a></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Attention: Public Library Association (PLA) members. Are you looking for ways to expand your professional network and become
more active in PLA? Please consider applying to serve as a volunteer on one of our committees, task forces, or advisory groups. Our volunteers help shape the Association by advancing its strategic plan and influencing the direction of public librarianship.</span><span> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3a8Ovyp" title="https://bit.ly/3a8Ovyp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif">Read
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700">ALA 2020 ELECTION RESULTS</span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2K5X7Lv" title="https://bit.ly/2K5X7Lv" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lucia
Gonzalez elected ALSC vice-president/president-elect</span></b></a></div>
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<a href="https://bit.ly/2XIdJkm" title="https://bit.ly/2XIdJkm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Janice Young announced as the 2020-2021 president-elect
of ASGCLA</span></a></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2xudizC" title="https://bit.ly/2xudizC" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">2020
Public Library Association election results</span><br>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700">AWARDS AND GRANTS</span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3caZCs2" title="https://bit.ly/3caZCs2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Donna
Morris receives AASL Intellectual Freedom Award</span></a></div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><a href="https://bit.ly/2K5XhCB" title="https://bit.ly/2K5XhCB" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Jillian
Ehlers receives AASL Collaborative School Library Award</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><a href="https://bit.ly/2V942dd" title="https://bit.ly/2V942dd" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Dr.
Kevin Smith receives AASL Distinguished School Administrator Award</span></a></p>
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</span><a href="https://bit.ly/2XAx3QF" title="https://bit.ly/2XAx3QF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Connecticut Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Committee receives the 2020 Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award</span></b></a></p>
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Jennifer L. Dean - PhD, MLIS - she, her, hers</div>
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Dean of Libraries and Instructional Technology<br>
University of Detroit Mercy<br>
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