<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Mark your calendar now for the 2013 OLA/WLA Joint Conference!!!</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">April 24-26, 2013 at the Vancouver Hilton</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The Keynote Speaker is Sara Houghton (Librarian in Black)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:11.25pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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 LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> 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. For more information about Sarah Houghton, visit her website at </span><a href="http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/</a></p>
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