<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_7097368305402061528gmail-docs-internal-guid-ddffade5-4c1e-0a6c-cb97-a770be4a616d" style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Please welcome back your volunteer Answerland Quality Team! The Answerland Quality Team will be responsible for the following:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Creating and updating Best Practices and Tip Sheets to support both new and experienced Answerland librarians</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Coordinating the Answerland mentoring program</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recognizing outstanding work by librarians staffing Answerland</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’re working on updating the </span><a href="https://answerland.org/about-us/quality-team/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Quality Team page of the Answerland website</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> so all of this information will be up-to-date and easy to use. We’ll also be posting updates to the listserve every other month.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The current members of the team are: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li>Valerie Florez, volunteer librarian extraordinaire (<a href="mailto:valpg@alum.calberkeley.org">valpg@alum.calberkeley.org</a>)</li><li>Joanna Milner, Multnomah County Library (<a href="mailto:joannam@multcolib.org">joannam@multcolib.org</a>)</li><li>Heidi Senior, University of Portland (<a href="mailto:senior@up.edu">senior@up.edu</a>)</li><li>Clare Sobotka, Linn-Benton Community College (<a href="mailto:sobotkc@linnbenton.edu">sobotkc@linnbenton.edu</a>)<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here’s what we need from you:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Your feedback.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> What do you wish you’d known when you started staffing Answerland? How was your experience having (or being) a mentor? What has made you feel most proud of your work with Answerland? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Your great ideas.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> What Tip Sheets do you wish existed? How would you recognize excellent work with Answerland? What would the perfect mentoring program look like?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You!</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> There’s still room for more members of the team. We currently meet by phone every other month or so and do most of our collaboration by email and Google docs. </span></p></li></ol></span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail-m_7097368305402061528gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><div>We look forward to hearing from you!</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>The Answerland Quality Team</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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