<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:center;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Mark your calendar now for the 2013 OLA/WLA Joint
Conference!!!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:center;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">April 24-26, 2013 at the Vancouver Hilton</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:center;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">The Keynote Speaker is Sara Houghton (Librarian in
Black)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.25pt;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Sarah Houghton is the Director for the San Rafael Public Library in
California, a two library system serving a town of 60,000. She also writes the Librarian
in Black blog which has been around since 2003.  Sarah has worked in
libraries for the last 15 years (as a librarian for 10).  She has worked
with state and national library advocacy organizations including Infopeople,
California Library Association, American Library Association, and the Library
and Information Technology Association–including a three-year stint as a member
of  </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaresources/toptechtrends/toptechnology.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#5eafd7">LITA’s Top
Technology Trends Committee</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> and working on the OITP eBooks
Taskforce.  She was named a <i>Library Journal </i>Mover & Shaker
as a Trendspotter in 2009.  She speaks internationally at live and online
events for libraries and other institutions.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Suzanne L. Sager</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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