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<p class="MsoNormal">Join Friday at 11am ET for Gigabit Library Network’s (GLN) year-end wrap up and look ahead. What just happened in 2020?!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When: 12/18 at 11am ET<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Register: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/part-32-libraries-in-recovery-2021-outlook-michelle-jeske-julie-walker-tickets-133013311395">
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/part-32-libraries-in-recovery-2021-outlook-michelle-jeske-julie-walker-tickets-133013311395</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We'll hear from PLA President, Michelle Jeske and GA Librarian, Julie Walker on what they see as some lessons from 2020 and as opportunities of 2021.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michelle will deliver her perspective from the national (& her local) scene. Julie will return to present an array of promising wireless expansion projects the state library is supporting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All good stuff to help us turn the page on this monster of a year where crisis upon crisis continues to exhaust yet somehow inspire library innovation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brighter days ahead? Yes! Out of crisis, opportunity. But it'll be up to all of us to make it so.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers: Michelle Jeske, Director, Denver Public Library and current President, Public Libraries Association. Julie Walker, State Librarian for the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Find previous Libraries in Recovery webinar recordings on the GLN Pandemic Response page here
<a href="http://giglibraries.net/page-1712339">http://giglibraries.net/page-1712339</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shannon White<br>
Library of Michigan, 702 W. Kalamazoo, Lansing, MI 48909<br>
<a href="mailto:Whites29@michigan.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">Whites29@michigan.gov</span></a> 517-335-1507 |
<a href="http://www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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