<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">OLA's  leadership taskforce has been working on getting leadership training in Oregon. This all day preconference on April 15 is our first offering. If you have questions, ask me or Candice Watkins.</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Jane</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Lead From Any Position</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Are you looking to develop your leadership skills to benefit your library? Your community?  Your professional association? Your career?  The Oregon Library Association is offering a full day leadership training at the 2015 OLA <span class="">Conference</span>in Eugene -- </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Leading From Any Position: Creating Learning Libraries in Five Easy Lessons </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">-- that you can register for now. This <span class="">preconference</span> is being planned by the OLA Leadership Task Force. OLA is committed to supporting the building of leadership skills in its members. The <span class="">preconference</span> is open to all library workers.</span></p><br style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Becky Schreiber and John Shannon, facilitators of the well regarded PNLA Leads! Leadership Institute, will guide participants in exploring leadership from all positions in libraries. Their results have been recognized by library staff who embrace the concepts and implement the disciplines of Peter Senge’s Learning Organizations. This <span class="">preconference</span> will examine innovative ideas and provide support for participants’ efforts to lead in our librarie and beyond.</span></p><br style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">What can a leadership training do for you? Read this testimony and </span><a href="https://ola.memberclicks.net/leadership-testimonials?servId=2863" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">more</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> on OLA’s Leadership Taskforce webpages.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/LRFWq7vc7L881IuUrjbiqLiKFcJhpBV8m6UQ3Iu4CSEBkL3TZT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arent">.</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jane Corry<br>Youth Librarian-Belmont Neighborhood Library<br>Multnomah County Library<br>503.988.5382<br><br><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">"You would think that if there is anything in the world that we can all agree on is an unequivocal good, a moral absolute, an end in itself, it is the happiness and health of children."  -Alison Gopnick</span><br></div></div></div></div>
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