[Libs-Or] Fwd: [alacol2] FW: 'Rallying Your Community: Mobilizing the Grassroots' webinar to showcase examples of community advocacy efforts

Diedre Conkling diedre08 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 12:21:07 PDT 2012


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*'Rallying Your Community: Mobilizing the Grassroots' webinar to showcase
examples of community advocacy efforts*

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"Rallying Your Community: Mobilizing the Grassroots" will be the topic of a
free webinar sponsored by ALA's Committee on Library Advocacy from 1:30
p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, May 2.****

In a difficult economy, the citizen voice is more important than ever.
Learn how two community organizations, the Sustainable Library Citizens
Coalition of Indianapolis-Marion County (Ind.) Public Library and Urban
Librarians Unite of New York City, have used their voices to impact library
funding.****

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Laura Johnson, deputy director, public services, of the Indianapolis Public
Library and Tara Seeley, senior grants officer, Central Indiana Community
Foundation, will share their story of engaging the Indianapolis community
to successfully advocate on behalf of libraries and librarians.****

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Lauren Comito, director of communications and operations, Urban Librarians
Unite, will describe this group's radical tactics for promoting and
supporting libraries in the New York area.****

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Marci Merola, director of the ALA Office for Library Advocacy, will
moderate the webinar and demonstrate practical applications of resources
from the ALA Office for Library Advocacy.****

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Registration is mandatory.  Visit https://ala.ilinc.com/register/thvbchx to
sign up today.****

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Jaclyn Finneke, Communications Specialist****

Office for Library Advocacy ****

American Library Association ****

50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611****

312.280.2428; 800.545.2433, x2428****

jfinneke at ala.org****

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*Diedre Conkling**
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR 97365
Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066
Work email**: **diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org*<diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org>
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Home email: **diedre08 at gmail.com* <diedre08 at gmail.com>

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