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		<title>Vienna or Nigeria?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former State Librarian, Suzanne Miller, began training for her new position in the Foreign Service in May. By the end of the training period, she had been told she would be assigned to Vienna or Nigeria. Wow! Talk about polar opposites! 
Ready for the answer? Here&#8217;s the update from Suzanne: 
&#8220;I will be posted to Abuja, Nigeria. I will spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is she going?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Librarian announced recently that she has resigned in order to join the Foreign Service as an Information Officer.  (She will be missed! And she knows she will miss us!)
Where will she go? Those who join the Foreign Service Information Services are asked to apply, pass a lengthy interview and security check, accept the position, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chief Justice Magnuson and Publisher Reed Anfinson and FOI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Reed Anfinson, owner/publisher of the Swift County Monitor-News, received the annual John R. Finnegan Freedom of Information Award from MNCOGI, the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information. Retiring Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Eric Magnuson gave the remarks, talking about the courts and open government. 
Follow the event on Twitter #finnfoi. For photos, visit http://tweetphoto.com/14622325 and http://tweetphoto.com/14619721.
MNCOGI Board Member/Librarians Helen Burke, Mary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Courtesy of Ben Franklin and MHS, library staff get free admission to MN History Center during March!</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=267</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Quimby, Minnesota Historical Society, shared this invitation today:
For those not following the MHS&#8217;s Twitter feed:
&#8220;FREE: To honor Ben Franklin&#8217;s founding of a lending library, Librarians get free admission to MN History Center during March.&#8221;
More about the Ben Franklin Exhibit can be found at:
http://benfranklinexhibit.org/
In answer to a few questions about the free admission for librarians to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Leaders in Our Midst</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=223</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Library Associations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MN Libraries in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MN Library Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALA Emerging Leaders Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cody Hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cynthia Matthias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Minnesota Libraries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two Minnesota library staff have been selected for the prestigious 2010 ALA Emerging Leaders program.
Cody Hanson, Technology Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis, sponsored by LITA
Cynthia Matthias, Teen Services Librarian, Hennepin County Libraries, sponsored by the Minnesota Library Association
The Emerging Leaders program is a leadership development program for newer library workers from across the country. 100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robbinsdale Schools to Study Effectiveness of Interactive Whiteboards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MN Libraries in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MN Library Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Library Media Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jane Prestebak]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[School library media specialist and Robbinsdale schools program director for media and instruction technology, Jane Prestebak, was quoted in yesterday&#8217;s Star Tribune article, &#8220;Interactive boards get screened in class&#8221;. *
Jane and her district are working to find out whether interactive whiteboards make a difference in student achievement. See the article for the details. Jane clarified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MLA/RART Offers Read Dating to Librarians and Reading Public</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=167</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Walker Smalley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Library Associations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Library Association Readers&#8217; Advisory Round Table asks,
Are you reading so much that dating has fallen by the wayside? Looking for good times as well as good books? Maybe you should try Read Dating!
Here is the description:
The first round is a mixer. You (along with every other participant) will draw a question such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smalley &amp; Solie to Present at National 23 Things Summit, 3/3</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=115</link>
		<comments>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=115#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[23 Things on a Stick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Library 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MN Library Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WebJunction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[multitype systems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Minnesota&#8217;s Ann Walker Smalley &#38; Ruth Solie will appear tomorrow as special guests during the WebJunction-sponsored, 23 Things Summit, 1-3pm Central.  They will join other 23 Things program leaders in an exchange of ideas and success stories. Minnesota’s seven multicounty multitype library systems (multitypes) sponsored Minnesota&#8217;s successful 23 Things on a Stick program as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of future won&#8217;t go by the book anymore (Star Tribune, 2/22/2009)</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=111</link>
		<comments>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=111#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Library Value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MN Libraries in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MN Library Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough Economic Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lois Langer Thompson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The increased use of libraries and their value to Minnesota residents in a tough economic period has the attention of the media, local residents, and funders.  In another article about libraries, the Star Tribune profiled new Hennepin County Library Director, Lois Langer Thompson. Her job description: Cheerleader, advocate, defender, budget cutter and seer.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put the Spotlight on YOU!</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=59</link>
		<comments>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=59#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Walker Smalley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MN Library Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WebJunction Minnesota]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WebJunction Member Profile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WJMN invites all Minnesota library staff to be in the spotlight on WJMN&#8217;s front page. We know library staff are interesting people and we want to know more! Do you have a cat named LC or Dewey? What are your favorite things about library work? Got a funny story about your library to share? Hobbies, [...]]]></description>
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