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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The past year has been full of change!</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Join us on April 12th & 13th, 2022 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EST to unpack your experiences and connect with other reference service providers at the ALA Connect eForum:
<b>Back to Basics: Crowdsourcing a Virtual Reference Praxis</b>. This year’s </span>
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://connect.ala.org/rusa/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=a798567e-ec74-4298-a353-327b0a23ab08__;!!PhOWcWs!k-XsOySi7DXfmmB-_AIgYxNF4e_X8_JsYl1uK8LcAD6vnaF6kmEwzfyj8tmDdr2WA0bLbQ$"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">Virtual Reference and Emerging Technology eForum</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
will focus on changes to reference services, emerging trends, and shared introspections on how reference work has evolved. Our shared experiences can illuminate the changes happening in every area of reference, from information literacy instruction and assessment
to recruiting and training. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Find lively discourse on topics such as the changing models of reference, the future of work, upskilling staff, creative marketing practices, and more!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Share your experiences with recruiting, hiring, and training, particularly in the light of the Great Resignation. Discuss the changes to the RUSA’s Guidelines for Behavioral Performance of Reference
and Information Service Providers, especially in light of evolving experience with virtual and in-person reference. Exchange marketing and creativity practices and tools, or pontificate on the future developments of reference services.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Spark a conversation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, share your experience, hot tips, and tools, and make friends in the process!
<b>We have a topic for what you geek</b>, regardless of whether your passion is diversity, equity, and inclusion, emerging economic trends, or revitalizing our foundational ideas.
<b>Topics, schedules, readings, and more can be found @ </b></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/vrc-eforum__;!!PhOWcWs!k-XsOySi7DXfmmB-_AIgYxNF4e_X8_JsYl1uK8LcAD6vnaF6kmEwzfyj8tmDdr0TnAxJcA$"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://sites.google.com/view/vrc-eforum</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This eForum is a joint collaboration of the Virtual Reference Services & Emerging Technologies Hot Topics RUSA committees and is open to all. Find the Virtual Reference & Emerging Technology eForum
at its home in </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://connect.ala.org/rusa/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=a798567e-ec74-4298-a353-327b0a23ab08__;!!PhOWcWs!k-XsOySi7DXfmmB-_AIgYxNF4e_X8_JsYl1uK8LcAD6vnaF6kmEwzfyj8tmDdr2WA0bLbQ$"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">ALA Connect</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">ALA Connect Details: To Join the
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Navigate to ALA Connect: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://connect.ala.org/__;!!PhOWcWs!k-XsOySi7DXfmmB-_AIgYxNF4e_X8_JsYl1uK8LcAD6vnaF6kmEwzfyj8tmDdr07VQG6wQ$">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Already an ALA member? Log in<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Not an ALA member? <b>(ALA membership not required)
</b><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=login&template=*CustomSource*register*register.cfm__;Ly8v!!PhOWcWs!k-XsOySi7DXfmmB-_AIgYxNF4e_X8_JsYl1uK8LcAD6vnaF6kmEwzfyj8tmDdr11dc87Vg$"><span style="color:#1155CC">Create your account first</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://connect.ala.org/rusa/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=a798567e-ec74-4298-a353-327b0a23ab08__;!!PhOWcWs!k-XsOySi7DXfmmB-_AIgYxNF4e_X8_JsYl1uK8LcAD6vnaF6kmEwzfyj8tmDdr2WA0bLbQ$"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://connect.ala.org/rusa/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=a798567e-ec74-4298-a353-327b0a23ab08</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">eForum Site: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/vrc-eforum__;!!PhOWcWs!k-XsOySi7DXfmmB-_AIgYxNF4e_X8_JsYl1uK8LcAD6vnaF6kmEwzfyj8tmDdr0TnAxJcA$">
<span style="color:#1155CC">https://sites.google.com/view/vrc-eforum</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Contact Melissa Del Castillo (<a href="mailto:medelcas@fiu.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">medelcas@fiu.edu</span></a>) for help<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Troubleshooting ALA Connect: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://connect.ala.org/faq/home__;!!PhOWcWs!k-XsOySi7DXfmmB-_AIgYxNF4e_X8_JsYl1uK8LcAD6vnaF6kmEwzfyj8tmDdr0r9ukIwQ$">
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