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		<title>Reference lovers: contribute your passion to the 2010 RUSA President&#8217;s Program</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention lovers of reference! The members of the 2010 RUSA President&#8217;s Program committee need your assistance with a project! See below for details.
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Be a part of the conversation at the RUSA&#8217;s President&#8217;s Program at Annual 2010l! The planning committee wants to share your interest in and passion of reference with conference attendees.
Please send an e-mail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASCLA Midwinter Institute prepares librarians for successful consulting careers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We thought this opportunity from our friends at ASCLA was so awesome and not-to-miss, we had to share it with you.
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Librarians looking to strike out on their own in the library profession, or those library professionals approaching retirement and seeking a flexible way to maintain employment, won’t want to miss “Assembling a Consulting Toolkit: What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishers invited to submit nominations for RUSA reference and adult reader literary awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz, RUSA staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RUSA&#8217;s literary awards committees are seeking outstanding published works for consideration for a variety of 2010 reference awards and prestigious lists for the adult reader.
The Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of RUSA, which is home to librarians with expertise in both collection development and readers’ advisory, offers five annual book awards—the Notable Books List, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing RUSA&#8217;s program lineup for 2010 Annual Conference</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has released its list of programs scheduled for the 2010 ALA Annual Conference, June 24-29, 2010 in Washington, D.C.
RUSA, the home to general and specialized reference, readers advisory, resource sharing and collection development within ALA, will offer 14 programs on a variety of timely topics in these fields. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation: Genealogy Lock-In</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Carter, Heritage Room librarian at the Athens-Clarke County Library in Athens, Ga. just posted information about the library&#8217;s genealogy lock-in event to the Genealib listserv. We thought it sounded so cool that it was worth posting about here, too.
Contact Laura directly at lcarter@arlsmail.org with any questions.
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The Athens-Clarke County Library&#8217;s annual Night Owl Prowl, a [...]]]></description>
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