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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">"What skills or abilities do you think are necessary to successfully run public programs at libraries?”</span><br>
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<div><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><b></b></span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">More than 1,200 library professionals from all around the country and from all types of libraries
weighed in on this question last fall as part of ALA's National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment (NILPPA) research. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">As we read their responses, we found nine categories of skills that came up time and again. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">...</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"></span><b style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Continue reading
and comment online at </span><a href="http://nilppa.org/phase-1/the-wide-and-wild-world-of-programming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk299199" previewremoved="true"></a><a href="http://nilppa.org/phase-1/what-skills-make-for-good-library-programming/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk296001" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">http://nilppa.org/phase-1/what-skills-make-for-good-library-programming/</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">.</span></b></div>
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<div><b style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"></span></b><b style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You
can also share feedback by email: publicprograms@ala.org.</b></div>
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<div><b style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></b><i style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">The
National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment (NILPPA) is a two-year research project of the American Library Association (ALA) in collaboration with New Knowledge Organization Ltd., a social science think tank. NILPPA: Phase 1 is made possible in
part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Learn more at </span><a href="http://nilppa.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk164091" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">http://nilppa.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Sarah Ostman</span><br>
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