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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><b>The Library Community Moving Forward in the New Normal”<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><u></u> Thursday, June 4, 1:00-2:15 pm Central</p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">(free webinar)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.ala.org/united/forward" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">http://www.ala.org/united/<wbr>forward</span></a></span></u><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><u></u> Join us for insight and discussion with leaders from state, public, academic, and school libraries on the continued efforts and strategies to reopen library facilities across the
country. Attendees will benefit from hearing about preliminary results from the recent national “Libraries Respond: COVID-19 Survey,” and have the opportunity to ask questions and compare and contrast planning and guidance across the range of library types
to inform your own robust planning and services responses.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><b>Facilitator:</b><span> </span> Patty Wong, Incoming ALA President-elect, Santa Monica Public Library</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><b>Speakers<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">Ramiro Salazar, PLA President, Director, San Antonio Public Library<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">Jon Cawthorne, ACRL President-elect, Wayne State University<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">Mary Keeling, AASL President, Library Services Supervisor, Newport News (Va.) Public Schools<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">Jake Speer, State Librarian, Indiana State Library<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">Lucinda Nord, Executive Director, Indiana Library Federation</p>
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ALA News</div>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2ABgiex" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">ALA Executive
Board stands with BCALA in condemning violence and racism towards Black people and all People of Color</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The Executive Board of the American Library Association (ALA) stands with the Black Caucus of the American
Library Association (BCALA) in condemning violence and racism towards Black people and all People of Color.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The ALA Executive Board endorses BCALA’s May 28 statement, in which the caucus decries the death of George
Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police Department officers and cites Floyd’s death as “the latest in a long line of recent and historical violence against Black people in the United States.”<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/2ABgiex" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
more</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2XsXN4Y" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Public Library
Association, National Network of Libraries of Medicine continue partnership with new digital literacy, citizen science tools</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The Public Library Association (PLA), National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) and the All of Us
Research Program (All of Us) are working together to support health literacy by promoting the importance of digital literacy in health and wellness.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/2XsXN4Y" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
more</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3716dnt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">PLA’s COVID-19
webinar series highlights need for sharing, new ideas</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The Public Library Association (PLA) recently wrapped up its free webinar series, Public Libraries Respond
to COVID-19, which included six webinars that took place between March 26 and April 23, 2020. The webinars covered topics of immediate need to the field, such as addressing the digital divide, managing anxiety, and responding to community needs through innovative
solutions and services. More than 9,000 public library professionals registered for the series.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3716dnt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
more</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2XpPgzS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">AASL partners
with StoryCorps to launch StoryCorps Connect and bring individuals together</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is partnering with StoryCorps to launch StoryCorps
Connect. The new free platform allows Americans to conduct and record StoryCorps interviews remotely. AASL encourages school librarians to utilize the technology to support learners in connecting with others amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and, in the process,
to contribute to the creation of a unique first-person historical record of this unprecedented crisis.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/2XpPgzS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">AWARDS AND GRANTS</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2zLEY4k" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Missouri Association
of School Librarians receives AASL Past-Presidents Planning Grant for National School Library Standards</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2zUWRNZ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">2020 Will Eisner
Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries recipients announced</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2U1Wbgy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Wyoming Library
Association School Library Interest Group receives AASL Past-Presidents Planning Grant for National School Library Standards</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2MmwZNs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Three manuscripts
awarded AASL Research Grants</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">ALA PUBLISHING</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3eMZiRF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">ALA Editions releases
free PDF of coloring pages, writing prompts, and uplifting quotes</span></b></a></p>
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Dean of Libraries and Instructional Technology<br>
University of Detroit Mercy<br>
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