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<p class="MsoNormal">(The following is an update about ALA’s National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i>“My event planning, volunteering for 16 years doing cultural events for my school district, and my theater/musician training helped a lot.”<o:p></o:p></i></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i>“These are basic life skills learned by parents (e.g. doing homework in grade school, planning a birthday party, etc.).”<o:p></o:p></i></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i>“Working in a very high-scale restaurant as a server and working in a public museum on the visitor services side of things helped me gain skills in good customer services and event
planning.”<o:p></o:p></i></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Between September and November 2017, the National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment (NILPPA) team
<a href="http://nilppa.org/phase-1/what-skills-make-for-good-library-programming/">
surveyed more than 1,200 library programming staff</a> about their professional experience. They come from all around the country and from all types of libraries. In an earlier post, we looked at the skills staff need. Here, we look at how library workers acquired
relevant skills.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We quickly realized that the overwhelming majority had benefited from informal training — and less than half of them thought their formal training was relevant to the everyday work of planning programs. For many of them, past experience
outside libraries is also essential to their ability to run public programs. …<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Continue reading and comment online at <a href="http://nilppa.org/phase-1/how-do-we-learn-to-run-library-programs/">
http://nilppa.org/phase-1/how-do-we-learn-to-run-library-programs/</a> <o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>You can also share feedback by email: <a href="mailto:publicprograms@ala.org">
publicprograms@ala.org</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><i><span style="color:#212121">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 <a href="http://nilppa.org/" target="_blank">http://nilppa.org/</a>.</span></i><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">_______________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sarah Ostman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Communications Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Public Programs Office<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">American Library Association<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">312-280-5061<o:p></o:p></p>
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