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FYI,<br>
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Suzanne L. Sager<br>
Oregon ALA Chapter Councilor<br>
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<td>[alacro-l] Kettering Foundation Names ALA as Center for
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<td>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:13:01 -0500</td>
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<td>Don Wood <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dwood@ala.org"><dwood@ala.org></a></td>
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style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Contact: Mary Ghikas<br>
American Library Association<br>
312-280-2518<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mghikas@ala.org">mghikas@ala.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">NEWS<br>
For Immediate Release<br>
March 10, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="color: black;">Kettering Foundation Names ALA as
Center for
Public Life<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">The American Library
Association
(ALA) and the Kettering Foundation have signed a research agreement to
establish a Center for Public Life. The Center will train librarians
from
different types of libraries to convene and moderate deliberative
forums and
frame issues of local and national concern, using National Issues
Forums materials
and processes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">During the first year,
ALA will
form an advisory committee and begin training moderators to convene and
conduct
local deliberative forums. Initially, the new Centers will tap into
the
experience of libraries already convening deliberative forums. They
will
form the hub of a network of active mentors capable of strengthening
and
expanding their work locally, statewide and nationally and connecting
it with
other forum conveners throughout the country. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Unlike other such
Centers, ALA will
provide training to members of a single profession—librarianship, in
different locations around the country. The ALA Center will document
the
growing involvement of libraries with deliberation and the challenges
and
opportunities they face in conducting a nation-wide program that
supports local
public institutions such as libraries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Since the founding of
the
Kettering Foundation’s National Issues Forums in the 1980’s,
libraries have hosted and some have even convened these and other types
of
forums like Study Circles, Choices and Conversation Cafés. For many
years, ALA has worked with libraries to encourage public deliberation,
hosting
moderator training sessions and other programs related to community
building
and engagement. A recent survey of librarians for the Kettering
Foundation found strong interest in convening deliberative forums. But
two-thirds of respondents said they needed training in order to
participate,
with most indicating that they were likely to participate in an ALA
sponsored
training program—particularly if it was affordable, nearby and/or
electronic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">ALA’s proposal was
developed
by past president Nancy Kranich, with the assistance of Taylor
Willingham and
Mary Ghikas. Kranich and Willingham founded the ALA Libraries Foster
Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group (MIG) in 2004 to advance
dialogue
and deliberation through libraries. Over the past few years, the MIG
has
worked with the Intellectual Freedom Roundtable to frame the issue of
privacy. That framing will be part of the Office of Intellectual
Freedom
Privacy Revolution that will launch in the spring of 2010. The new PPI
will teach librarians how to moderate deliberative forums about privacy
in
local communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">For
more
information, contact Mary Ghikas (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mghikas@ala.org">mghikas@ala.org</a>)
at ALA or Nancy Kranich, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu">nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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