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	<title>RUSABlog &#187; User Services</title>
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	<description>The Official Blog of the ALA's Reference and User Services Division</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>RUSA President&#8217;s Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bergis Jules</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So apparently librarians can sing.   And the full house at the RUSA President&#8217;s Program got to experience the amazing talents of a group of reference librarians as they did their own version of YMCA only replacing those infamous letters with RUSA and adding their own verses.  Past RUSA President David Tyckoson unveiled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;An Endangered Species: The Black Male Librarian&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/16/an-endangered-species-the-black-male-librarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bergis Jules</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more thought provoking sessions I attended was a discussion on whether or not the Black male librarian was becoming invisible or whether he had existed at all in the library profession. The session moderator was Julius Jefferson, a researcher at the Library of Congress and the event was sponsored by the BCALA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RUSA Approves New Definition of Reference</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/01/31/rusa-approves-new-definition-of-reference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Cieslak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the January 14, 2008, meeting of the RUSA Board, a new definition of reference was approved. It was based on solicited input received on the RUSA Blog as of 12/8/07. Thank you to all those who gave input, as well as all those who worked hard to come up with a definition that could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Evaluation Data to Change &#38; Improve Virtual Reference:  Call for Virtual Poster Session Proposals</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2007/12/07/using-evaluation-data-to-change-improve-virtual-reference-call-for-virtual-poster-session-proposals/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2007/12/07/using-evaluation-data-to-change-improve-virtual-reference-call-for-virtual-poster-session-proposals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Cieslak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Using Evaluation Data to Change
&#38; Improve Virtual Reference: 
Call for Virtual Poster Session
Proposals
MARS Management of Electronic Resources and Services (MERS) Committee
How does your library (or consortium) use the results of evaluation to
change and improve your Virtual Reference service? Have you used data,
statistics, opinions, or other feedback to persuade administrators, librarians
and staff, or your patron body? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speakers&#39; Presentations from RUSA President&#39;s Program 2007</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2007/07/09/speakers-presentations-from-rusa-presidents-program-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2007/07/09/speakers-presentations-from-rusa-presidents-program-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Cieslak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Presentations
from two all four speakers are available! 
The first
from Genevieve Bell (Director, User Experience), who is an anthropologist with
Intel, concerns the nature and meaning of libraries with an emphasis on their
significance even as the size of personal digital collections keep growing. 
The second
is from Lee Rainie (Director, Pew Internet &#38; American Life Project) whose
research examines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digitization Projects for Local History (RUSA-HS)</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2007/07/06/digitization-projects-for-local-history-rusa-hs/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2007/07/06/digitization-projects-for-local-history-rusa-hs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Cieslak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Local History Committee of RUSA&#39;s History Section has recently discussed creating a list of digitization projects with content for local history. Librarians could add to the list, refer patrons to the list, and help our committee keep the list current.
All History is Local in a Digital World. Our program at ALA Annual in 2007 [...]]]></description>
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