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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The latest issue of International Leads (March 2018) is now available on the International Relations Round Table website
</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/rt/irrt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">http://www.ala.org/rt/irrt</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">.
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">A copy of the same is also attached.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The issue includes the following stories:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The first of two reports from IRRT member Janet Lee about her experience in Ethiopia as a Fulbright Scholar;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">IRRT member and REFORMA President Tess Tobin shares about her visit with IRRT Chair Loida Garcia-Febo to libraries in Puerto Rico recovering from Hurricane
Maria;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The professional development opportunities provided by the AfLIA Leadership Academy;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">An introduction to the National Digital Library of India;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Two interviews with international librarians in South Korea and Uganda;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">IRRT updates: committee reports from ALA Midwinter, project with the ALA Emerging Leaders, and IRRT webinars; and
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Message from the IRRT Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Do you have news about international projects you’re involved with? Stories of partnerships, exchanges, or outreach to other cultures? We encourage you to share
with International Leads! You can find guidelines for authors at the International Leads webpage, or write to Florence Mugambi or Rebecca Miller (co-editors) at
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:ala.intl.leads@gmail.com">ala.intl.leads@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> for more information.
We hope to hear from you!</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>International Leads</i> - the newsletter of the ALA International Relations Round Table<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">View current and previous issues of <i>IL</i> here: <a href="http://www.ala.org/irrt/intlleads/internationalleads" target="_blank">http://www.ala.org/irrt/intlleads/internationalleads</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Instructions for authors: <a href="http://www.ala.org/irrt/intlleads/authorinstructions/instructions" target="_blank">http://www.ala.org/irrt/intlleads/authorinstructions/instructions</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Follow IRRT on the web: <a href="http://www.ala.org/irrt/about" target="_blank">http://www.ala.org/irrt/about</a>
<b>and </b> <a href="http://alairrt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://alairrt.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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