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<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] ARSL Conference Scholarship Applications Open Next Week!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rural Routes</span></strong>! This blog will feature timely and relevant articles written by ARSL members, for ARSL members about the things that matter most to our profession. It will tackle a broad range
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This year's conference theme is "Unite & Ignite"! Our conference provides an opportunity to unite as a professional community and foster a sense of togetherness across a nation
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<p style="line-height:140%"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">New This Year: The Empowering Library Workers of Color Conference Scholarship</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Library workers of color have been, and in many places continue to be, given access to fewer opportunities for professional growth and advancement. Establishing this scholarship
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Applicants for this scholarship must be members of one or more marginalized and/or underrepresented ethnic, racial, or cultural identity groups within our profession<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Are you a community engagement superstar? Have a storytime formula that can't be beat? Do your reader's advisory recommendations always hit
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If the thought of lecturing at the front of the room turns your legs to jelly our pop-up program demos might be the opportunity you've been
waiting for! These 20-minute sessions will give presenters the opportunity to demo a craft or other library program piece for small groups of attendees. These practical, actionable demo sessions will let programming pros share their ideas in a less intimidating,
more familiar environment. Special consideration will be given to pop-up demos that incorporate intentional accessibility for patrons of different ages and ability levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The ARSL Professional Development Book Club is now the
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to the needs of library professionals working in small, rural libraries. The Continuing Education Committee will curate a list of suggested reading and listening material in a variety of formats and lengths in an effort to provide right-size resources for
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Discussion 1: 3:30 p.m. PT/ 4:30 p.m. MT/5:30 p.m. CT/6:30 p.m. ET<br>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://arsl.memberclicks.net/message2/link/db5d4c99-5f18-4d47-9c9a-0f506f4a84eb/14" target="_blank"><span style="color:#236FA1">Library Leadership Podcast: Slow Librarianship</span></a><br>
<a href="http://arsl.memberclicks.net/message2/link/db5d4c99-5f18-4d47-9c9a-0f506f4a84eb/15" target="_blank"><span style="color:#236FA1">Burnout is About Your Workplace, Not Your People</span></a><br>
<a href="http://arsl.memberclicks.net/message2/link/db5d4c99-5f18-4d47-9c9a-0f506f4a84eb/16" target="_blank"><span style="color:#236FA1">Rekindling from Burnout Webinar</span></a><br>
<a href="http://arsl.memberclicks.net/message2/link/db5d4c99-5f18-4d47-9c9a-0f506f4a84eb/17" target="_blank"><span style="color:#236FA1">Libraries Transforming Communities Sustaining Yourself Worksheet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The ARSL Membership Committee is seeking a few additional volunteers to help start our Professional Networking Groups this year! We appreciate the robust response from people
willing to lead discussions, and those who have submitted ideas of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The following groups currently only have one volunteer facilitator. To lighten the leadership load on any one volunteer we are seeking additional volunteers to serve as co-facilitators.
Some of the groups below were suggested by current volunteers and may be merged together based on member demand and facilitator availability. Please respond by
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Friday March 31 </span></strong>if you are interested in co-facilitating one of these groups. You can use the "Other" option on the form to write-in the group(s) you would like to co-facilitate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Public Library Association (PLA) biannual conference is headed to Columbus, OH, April 3-5, 2024! Members of ARSL are inited to submit a proposal to share your idea for
a workshop or program session. For the 2024 Conference, PLA is especially seeking proposals and speakers representing a wide range of diversity, with a commitment to representation of groups that have been historically marginalized or excluded due to race,
gender identity, and expression, sexual orientation, ability, economic background, and age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://arsl.memberclicks.net/message2/link/db5d4c99-5f18-4d47-9c9a-0f506f4a84eb/20" target="_blank"><span style="color:#236FA1">Submit a proposal</span></a> to share
your idea for a workshop or program session! Proposals for both in-person and virtual programs are being accepted. The deadline for submitting proposals is May 1, 2023, at 11:59 PM Eastern. Before getting started, you can
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