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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Century Gothic"><span
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Conference Keynote: <st1:PersonName w:st="on"><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Bob
Welch</span></b></st1:PersonName>, award winning <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State> author<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
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font-style:italic'>Pebble in the water: How libraries matter more than they
might know<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Based on his Oregon Book Award –
finalist book, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>American Nightingale, Welch
discusses his four-year journey to research, write, promote it – and how
integral libraries were to the process. </span></i> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Welch is the general columnist at The
Register-Guard in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Eugene</st1:City></st1:place>
and twice has won top honors in the National Society of Newspaper Columnist
contest. He has written 12 books, had stories of his published in numerous
collections and been published in such magazines as Reader’s Digest,
Sports Illustrated and Los Angeles Times. Additionally, he is an adjunct
professor of journalism at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Oregon</st1:PlaceName>, and found of the Beachside
Writers Workshop in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Yachats</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></st1:place>. For more information
visit Bob’s website at www.bobwelch.net<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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