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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Greetings!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Save the dates for these upcoming webinars – including one in September with presenters from Multnomah County Library!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Opportunity Out of Adversity: Digital Access in Rural and Small Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Thursday, August 6, 2020 / 12:00 pm Pacific / 60 minutes<br>
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<a href="https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/opportunity-out-of-adversity.html">
https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/opportunity-out-of-adversity.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Opportunity often hides behind adversity. As libraries look to a future of post-pandemic challenges, from looming budget cuts to increasingly urgent community
needs, David Lankes, in The "New Normal" Agenda for Librarianship, encourages us to consider framing the positive opportunities, rather than loss, in the changes that lie ahead. If we are intentional, we can use these circumstances to grow our organizations
and to address the digital access disparities in small and rural communities. This presentation will explore how one rural library has improved internet access in partnership with an internet service provider, hosted telehealth appointments in collaboration
with healthcare providers and transportation agencies, worked with schools to ensure opportunities for youth through esports, and improved digital literacy skills for patrons and local businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Presented by:
<b>Dianne Connery</b>,<b> </b>Director, Pottsboro Area Public Library, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Strengthen Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Practice Through Self-Paced Learning<br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Tuesday, September 15, 2020<b>
</b>/ 12:00 pm Pacific </span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#1F4E79">/</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"> 60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Registration: <a href="https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/strengthen-EDI-practice-through-self-paced-learning.html">
https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/strengthen-EDI-practice-through-self-paced-learning.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">While classroom training has an important place in library staff education, learning is extended and reinforced when staff have the opportunity to work
through difficult topics outside of the classroom. In order to support staff learning about issues of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), Multnomah County Library has developed a “Racially Just” toolkit, containing activities staff can use to learn and
practice on their own, with colleagues, or in their staff groups. The toolkit workbooks include information and activities related to bias, microaggressions, allyship and cross-cultural communication, as well as a workbook focused on learning about Native
American and Alaska Native people and communities. Learn how Multnomah County Library developed the workbooks and what indicators signaled that their organization was ready to support staff with self-paced learning about EDI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Presented by:
<b>Ekatrina Sotomayor</b>, Access Services Assistant, Multnomah County Library (OR); and
<b>Amy Honisett</b>, Learning and Development Specialist, Multnomah County Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Cheers!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Darci Hanning, MLIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="color:#1F4E79">Public Library Consultant / CE Coordinator<br>
</span></b><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:#2E74B5">Continuing Education Resources:
</span></b><a href="https://libguides.osl.state.or.us/conted"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:#0563C1">https://libguides.osl.state.or.us/conted</span></b></a><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:#2E74B5">
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</span><a href="mailto:darci.hanning@state.or.us"><span style="color:#2E74B5">darci.hanning@state.or.us</span></a><span style="color:#1F4E79"> | 503-378-2527|
</span><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/library"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.oregon.gov/library</span></a><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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