<div dir="ltr"><div>Jessica,</div><div>Thank you for this! It's timely as I am teaching an Organization of Information course for school librarians and this will be great to share with them!</div><div>Regards,</div><div>Elizabeth</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#999999">Elizabeth A. Gross, MLIS, PhD<br></font></div><br><div><font color="#999999"><br></font></div>Keepin' my eyes on the people. That's the prize<div>~Common<br><br>
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Good morning Michigan libraries!</div>
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Several years ago, I had seen a post on Reddit in which someone had photographed a '<b><i>tough topics</i></b>' poster at a public library. The poster showed patrons where they might find some very important subjects that they might be hesitant to ask a librarian
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I asked one of my department's Technology Training Associates to create one for us (shout out to Kayla Steeby for her work on this 🙂) so that we could update, customize, and possibly print these to display around our department.</div>
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I haven't seen anything like this for sale, so we thought we would just go ahead and make one ourselves and share it with anyone interested. I think this could be very helpful in empowering patrons to utilize library resources at their own comfort level.</div>
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If anyone is interested, I have here <a href="https://www.canva.com/design/DAGp_6MkQvw/xc4DgkY551QsUEE7Z20w1w/edit?utm_content=DAGp_6MkQvw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton" id="m_-8648609938174151192OWA48ad857c-33df-20d8-3427-7ea30f466696" title="https://www.canva.com/design/DAGp_6MkQvw/xc4DgkY551QsUEE7Z20w1w/edit?utm_content=DAGp_6MkQvw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">
a link to a sharable Canva template</a>, please just make yourself a copy that you can edit, print, download, etc.</div>
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Thank you everyone, and Happy Wednesday! </div>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Black",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Jessica Bostian</b></span></p>
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