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<b>COURSES:</b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">CEU’s AVAILABLE!
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/asclaevents/onlinelearning/libraryservices" target="_blank">Improving Library Services to People With Disabilities</a> -
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">March 2 - 29, 2015 <br>
<b> Two live course chat meetings: Chat 1: </b> Thursday, March 12, 1-2 pm CST.,<b>Chat 2: </b> Thursday, March 26, 1-2 pm CST.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Explore and create services offered to people with disabilities.
<a href="http://Improving%20Library%20Services%20to%20People%20With%20Disabilities" target="_blank">
Read more and register</a>.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">NEW COURSE!</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/correctional-librarianship" target="_blank">An Introduction to Correctional Librarianship</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> - March 16 - April 25, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Designed to introduce prison librarianship to participants who have little or no prior knowledge of the field.
<a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/correctional-librarianship" target="_blank">Read more and register</a>.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">CEU’s AVAILABLE!
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/asclaevents/onlinelearning/goingtojail" target="_blank">Going to Jail: How Juvenile Books Portray the Prison Experience</a> -
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">April 13 - May 17, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Explore portrayals of the incarceration experience in juvenile and young adult literature.
<a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/asclaevents/onlinelearning/goingtojail" target="_blank">
Read more and register</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">NEW COURSE! </span>
</b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/reader-friendly-library" target="_blank">The Reader-friendly Library - evaluating the visitor experience</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> -
April 20 - May 31, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This course offers learners a range of reader-centered research tools, supporting material and background theory.
<a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/reader-friendly-library" target="_blank">Read more and register.</a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">WEBINARS:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/accessible-literacy-online" target="_blank"><b>Accessible literacy online: Options for patrons with disabilities that affect print reading</b></a> Thursday, March 19,
2015: 2-3:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Participants will learn how patrons with disabilities that affect print reading can access books and periodicals for independent reading online using computers, smartphones
or even landline phones. <a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/accessible-literacy-online" target="_blank">
Read more and register</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/free-and-affordable-apps-accessibility" target="_blank"><b>Free and Affordable Apps for Accessibility</b></a> Thursday, March 26, 2015: 1-2:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This webinar will focus on free or low cost apps that are useful in serving special populations of all ages.
<a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/free-and-affordable-apps-accessibility" target="_blank">
Read more and register</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/youth-with-disabilities" target="_blank"><b>One Size Doesn't Fit All: Building a Collection for Youth with Disabilities</b></a> Tuesday, April 21, 2015: 10-11:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Gain a basic understanding of some of the more common disabilities and disorders that children in your community may have (i.e. Down syndrome, ADHD, autism, dyslexia)
and what materials your library can provide to support those families better. <a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/youth-with-disabilities" target="_blank">
Read more and register</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/successful-initiatives" target="_blank"><b>Successful Initiatives in Library Services for People who are Incarcerated</b></a> Tuesday, May 05, 2015: 10-11:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Participants will be introduced to various types of programming that has been proven effective in prisons and in juvenile detention centers.
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