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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Registration is now open
for the 2011 Oregon Virtual Reference Summit! <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Join your peers to engage in
learning, participate in great programs, see the sights, and hear Keynote
speaker Jessamyn West.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Jessamyn West is a community
technology librarian and a community manager at the massive group blog
MetaFilter.com. She lives in a rural area of Central Vermont where she teaches
basic computer skills in an adult education program. She assists tiny libraries
with technology planning and implementation, helping them with wifi and
websites and making sense of their systems and is an "Intrepid
part-timer" at her local library. She maintains an online presence at jessamyn.com
and librarian.net and has had her address and phone number on the Internet for
a decade. Her first book Without A Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide,
is forthcoming from ABC-CLIO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>This year the Oregon Virtual
Reference Summit will be held at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The
Dalles, Oregon. The registration fee is $50. A limited number of scholarships
will be available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>We also invite you to
participate by giving a lightning talk and/or by participating in a chat
transcript peer-review session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>For more information and to
register, please visit the Summit web site: <a
href="http://oregonlibraries.net/summit">http://oregonlibraries.net/summit</a> and
if you want to get a taste of the Summit, take a peek at our trailer: <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NdHJJfLPU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NdHJJfLPU</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The Summit Planning Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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