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Librarian Named Top 10 CNN Hero

Hello all,
If you haven’t already seen this, a librarian named Yohannes Gebregeorgis has been named one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes.  This puts him him in the running for the CNN Hero of the Year.  You can check out Yohannes’ story and vote for him here: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/cnn.heroes/index.html.  He’s fantastic!  Check it out.

Conference reminder

Conference registration forms are available here.
Rates for registration are as follows:
$50 for OK-ACRL members (paid 2008 membership dues in ACRL or OK-ACRL)
$65 for non-members
$20 for students
A note about membership: national ACRL members are automatically members of OK-ACRL.  If you are not a national ACRL member, OK-ACRL membership dues are $15, valid for a calendar year, January 1 […]

How Popular Should Academic Libraries Become?

In hard economic times, more people are turning to their local public libraries for their information and entertainment instead of the bookstore or the video rental store. But as this article in the U Penn Daily Pennsylvanian points out, this increase in traffic has not necessarily spilled over into the academic library setting, […]