Please see the attached news release announcing that the
Association of Rural and Small Libraries is working with WebJunction to offer a
new community on the Web to share best practices, research, ideas and
discussion on issues most relevant to rural and small libraries. The
partnership was announced Wednesday during the ARSL Conference in
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MORE INFORMATION:
Association of Rural and Small Libraries
to collaborate with WebJunction
Online community to focus on specific needs of rural and
small libraries
DUBLIN, Ohio, September
27, 2007—The Association of Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) is working
with WebJunction to offer a vibrant new community on the Web to share best
practices, research, ideas and discussion on issues most relevant to rural and
small libraries. The partnership was announced Wednesday during the ARSL
Conference in
The developing online
community <www.webjunction.org/arsl>
combines content from the former ARSL Web site with the training, materials and
community participation of library staff at WebJunction. As part of the
new community, ARSL contributed journals, newsletters and postings from its
site to WebJunction, and will continue to provide regular webinars, updates and
relevant advice to the community.
“This partnership
will help ARSL expand its reach, and help us in our efforts to become a
national voice for rural and small libraries,” said Ken Davenport,
outgoing President of ARSL. “We’re very excited about this
opportunity.”
WebJunction is the online
community for library staff to meet to share ideas, solve problems and develop
their professional skills in order to help ensure relevant, sustainable
libraries for every community. The partnership with ARSL will help
WebJunction continue to address the specific needs of rural and small
libraries.
The WebJunction Rural
Library Sustainability Project, a three-year workshop schedule with more than
6,000 library staff members involved in 42 states, was recently completed and
all of the resources, best practices, and discussions that have been developed
and shared will now be combined on the WebJunction site with ARSL materials.
“WebJunction and
ARSL working together is an important step forward in the effort to support and
sustain a critical group of libraries,” said Marilyn Mason, Executive
Director of WebJunction. “We are thrilled that this partnership
with ARSL will help WebJunction continue to address the specific needs of staff
at rural and small libraries.”
The ARSL Conference
continues in
About
WebJunction
WebJunction is the
online community for library staff to meet to share ideas, solve problems and
develop their professional skills in order to help ensure relevant, vibrant,
sustainable libraries for every community. WebJunction is supported in
part by OCLC, grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, partners in state library agencies and
other library service organizations, and by the library community itself.
Launched in 2002, WebJunction is based in
About
the Association of Rural and Small Libraries
The mission
of the Association of Rural and Small Libraries is to provide a network of people and
materials to support rural and small library staff, volunteers, and trustees to
integrate the library thoroughly with the life and work of the community it serves. ARSL is
supported by the Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship at Clarion
University of Pennsylvania in cooperation with the H.W. Wilson Foundation of
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OCLC
Founded in 1967
and headquartered in
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