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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please see below regarding the release of a new toolkit,
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><a href="https://veterans.libguides.com/home">Libraries and Veterans National Forum Toolkit</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, designed to help libraries
of many types in working with veterans. The toolkit provides several ways to browse, including by: library type, resource type, programming audience, and topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you have any questions, please contact: Dawn La Valle at
<a href="mailto:dawn.lavalle@ct.gov">dawn.lavalle@ct.gov</a>, Director, Division of Library Development, Connecticut State Library.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Darci Hanning, MLIS (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">State Library of Oregon <b>|</b> Library Support and Development Services
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darci.hanning@slo.oregon.gov</a> <b>|</b> <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/library">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Continuing Education Resources: </b><a href="https://libguides.osl.state.or.us/conted"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://libguides.osl.state.or.us/conted</span></a><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">I am very pleased to share with you an IMLS Grant Funded project “The Libraries and Veterans National Forum Toolkit” which the Forum team is preparing to share nationally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">To help librarians just getting started working with veterans, as well as those looking for new ideas to bring to their libraries, an online toolkit was created to
collect the shared knowledge of librarians working with the veteran community. It contains lesson plans, program outlines, collection development policies, best practice documents, and more to help ease the way for those just getting started in this work -
and to make it easier for those already engaged to find new ideas and new strategies to increase the success of their programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">We are also pleased to launch the Libraries and Veterans National Forum Toolkit:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://veterans.libguides.com/home"><span style="color:blue">Home - Libraries and Veterans National Forum - Libraries and Veterans National Forum at Libraries and Veterans National
Forum (libguides.com)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">About this project:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Libraries and Veterans National Forum was born out of efforts from librarians at the Texas A&M University Libraries and their desire to better learn from other
libraries' efforts to support the veteran and military communities. Collaborating with librarians from academic, public, school, state, and VA libraries, the Libraries and Veterans National Forum project team gathered 250 librarians engaging in this work to
share their success stories, brainstorm solutions to their challenges, and gain new ideas to bring back to their libraries. The online Forum took place during the Fall of 2021, and recordings of the Forum sessions will be made available on this site Librarians
across the U.S. also had the opportunity to apply for microgrants that could seed veterans’ programming at their local libraries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dawn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dawn La Valle</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> |Director, Division of Library Development |
<a href="mailto:Dawn.lavalle@ct.gov"><span style="color:blue">Dawn.lavalle@ct.gov</span></a> |
<i>Hartford Office: </i>(860) 757-6665|<br>
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| 231 Capitol Ave. Hartford CT 06106 | Fax: (860) 757-6503<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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