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FYI<br>
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Suzanne L. Sager<br>
ALA Oregon Chapter Councilor<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For Immediate
Release
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right">Contact:
Marci Merola<o:p></o:p></p>
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Director,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5in; text-align: right;"
align="right">ALA Office
for Library Advocacy<o:p></o:p></p>
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312-280-2431<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mmerola@ala.org">mmerola@ala.org</a>
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<h1><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal;">Coalition
Building for All Libraries in a Tough Economy at
ALA Annual Conference<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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CHICAGO – Join ALA President Jim Rettig; moderator Jan Sanders,
Director of
Libraries and Information Services for the City of Pasadena, Calif.;
and others
for “Coalition Building for All Libraries in a Tough Economy” during
ALA’s 2009
Annual Conference in Chicago. <span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">The program will take
place from 4
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 11, at McCormick Place West, Room
196b,<strong><span
style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;"> and
will </span></strong>focus
on the value of building statewide coalitions during times of economic
downturn
and the concept of the “Library Ecosystem,” or how libraries of all
types are
interdependent.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Panelists include Donna
Bero,
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library; Gerri Fegan, President of
the
Massachusetts School Library Association; Pat Harris, Councilman and
Trustee,
St. Paul, Minn.; Carole Kupelian, President of the School Library Media
Section
of NYLA; and Anne Masters, Director of the Pioneer Library System in
Oklahoma. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">For more information on
the panel
discussion and the “Library Ecosystem”, please visit, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ala.org/libraryecosystem">http://www.ala.org/libraryecosystem</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">“Coalition Building for
All
Libraries in a Tough Economy” at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference is
sponsored by
the Advocacy Training Subcommittee of the ALA Committee on Library
Advocacy,
the ALA Chapter Relations Committee, the Committee on Legislation, and
Jim
Rettig’s Ad Hoc Task Force on Advocacy. It is coordinated by the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ala.org/ola/">Office for
Library Advocacy</a> (OLA). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">-30-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jaclyn Finneke, Communications Specialist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Office for Library Advocacy <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">American Library Association <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">312.280.2428; 800.545.2433, x2428<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jfinneke@ala.org">jfinneke@ala.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<img alt="Portland State University logo"
src="cid:part1.03080005.08080908@pdx.edu" align="left" height="35"
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<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Suzanne
L. Sager<br>
Library East, Cataloging<br>
Portland State University<br>
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503-725-8169<br>
503-725-5799<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sagers@pdx.edu">sagers@pdx.edu</a></p>
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