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(Please excuse duplicate posts and please forward to Texas library staff who might benefit from this event.) The Texas State Library invites ALL Texas library staff/volunteers/affiliates to the following free continuing education event: INFORMATION LITERACY FOR LIFE BROADCAST DATE AND TIME: Friday, November 21, 2008, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Central Time PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Mary Evangeliste, Director of User Services & Outreach at Gettysburg College and co-founder of Fearless Future: Marketing & Design for Things That Matter, will bring together three librarians from three very different institutions and backgrounds to explore how school librarians, public librarians, and academic librarians can collaborate to create comprehensive information literacy programs that span a user's lifetime. You'll get the foundation for starting a local dialogue based on national principles. Mary will be joined by Alex Hodges, Assistant Director of Library Instruction at American University in Washington; Niketha McKenzie, School Librarian at the Thurgood Marshall Academy, a public charter high school in Washington, DC; and Roshin Mathew, a master's student at University of Maryland's iSchool and a teacher of information literacy to older adults through the public library as well as undergraduates at UM's Freshman Writing Program. Additional information about this and other upcoming programs is available on our main Teleconference and Webcast page at: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/teleconferences/ . VIEWING AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION: These programs may be viewed with a group via teleconference or Webcast at various host sites around the state. They may also be viewed on your own using the online Webcast option. To view these programs with a group at a host site near you or to host a group viewing at your library, please follow the instructions posted under "Viewing Options" on the TSLAC Teleconference home page at: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/teleconferences/index.html . To view the programs on your own via an online Webcast, please follow the instructions listed on the TSLAC Teleconference Webcast site at: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/teleconferences/webcasts.html . CE CREDIT HOURS: This program qualifies for 1.5 hours of Texas State Library Continuing Education credit or 1.5 hours of SBEC Continuing Education credit for school librarians. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Naomi DiTullio, Distance Learning Consultant, Library Development Division Texas State Library and Archives Commission 1-800-252-9386 (in Texas) or 512-936-2586 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have special equipment, space or language needs to participate in this program, please contact Naomi DiTullio as soon as possible. [END OF MESSAGE]
