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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Correction to registration deadlines for Business Reference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops! The registration deadlines posted on the page for our Business Reference course are incorrect!
Here are the correct dates:
Online: Sept. 26
By Fax: Sept. 24
By Mail: must be postmarked by Sept. 10
Learn more about this course and register.
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		<title>Follow us on Twitter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/08/19/follow-us-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lmarkel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet tweet! What&#8217;s RUSA up to now? Find out by following us on Twitter, a neat communication tool that gives you instant updates on RUSA activity.
Find and follow us: &#8220;ala_rusa&#8221;.
Not on Twitter? Sign up for free and find out what all the chirping is about.
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		<title>Expand your tree of knowledge&#8211;Genealogy 101 registration closes this Friday</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/08/19/expand-your-tree-of-knowledge-genealogy-101-registration-closes-this-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lmarkel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in learning how to help patrons research their family history? Here&#8217;s the opportunity you&#8217;ve been waiting for.
Genealogy 101 is one of RUSA&#8217;s online professional development offerings this fall. Taught by Jack Simpson, Curator of Local and Family History at the Newberry Library in Chicago, this five-week online course will use a case study to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond White Privilege 101: Continuing the Conversation.</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/20/beyond-white-privilege-101-continuing-the-conversation/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/20/beyond-white-privilege-101-continuing-the-conversation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bergis Jules</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As far as how people live, race will determine who breathes polluted air, who gets waste dumped in or near their neighborhood, who eats fish polluted by waste and toxins and race will also determine who accumulates assets that accumulate in value and gets passed down to future generations.&#8221;  These are some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RUSA President&#8217;s Program</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/19/rusa-presidents-program/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/19/rusa-presidents-program/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/16/an-endangered-species-the-black-male-librarian/#comments</comments>
		<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 New Chair Orientation Welcomes New Officers</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/16/rusa-new-chair-orientation-welcomes-new-officers/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/16/rusa-new-chair-orientation-welcomes-new-officers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bergis Jules</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The RUSA New Chair Orientation gave me a good overview of how the organization runs as a whole.  This was the session where new RUSA President Neal Wyatt welcomed all the new committee chairs and gave them more information about their tasks but mostly the session was about functions, procedures and rules of the association&#8217;s board and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zora Neale Hurston Award</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/16/the-zora-neale-hurston-award/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/16/the-zora-neale-hurston-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bergis Jules</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first time I have attended RUSA programs at ALA.  I am very grateful to RUSA and President Neal Wyatt for choosing me as this year&#8217;s Spectrum Intern. I must say that the first program I attended as the RUSA intern was very interesting and I did not expect it to be. I accompanied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spectrum Scholarship Institute at ALA Annual</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/15/spectrum-scholarship-institute-at-ala-annual/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/15/spectrum-scholarship-institute-at-ala-annual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bergis Jules</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first three days of my conference experience was fully occupied by the Spectrum Scholarship Institute.  A mini conference at annual that brings together all 70 plus newly chosen Spectrum Scholars.  The Spectrum Scholarship, probably ALA&#8217;s most popular and rewarding scholarship for minority library students, comes with a $5000 award, matching funds from your academic institution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MERS Virtual Reference Virtual Poster Winner: Two Programs, One Service</title>
		<link>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/08/mers-virtual-reference-virtual-poster-winner-two-programs-one-service/</link>
		<comments>http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/07/08/mers-virtual-reference-virtual-poster-winner-two-programs-one-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Cieslak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Programs, One Service: Recursive Assessment in the Gelman Library System&#8217;s IM Reference Service
Sarah Palacios-Wilhelm &#38; Elizabeth Edwards, George Washington University
PowerPoint format &#124; PDF format
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