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Early Bird Registration Extended One Week to September 13th! You wanted to register early for the ALA Library Research Roundtable’s 5th Library Research Seminar, Integrating Practice and Research, but a busy summer and a hectic Labor Day weekend got in the way? Well you are in luck! You can still save money; Early Bird registration has been extended ONE week to September 13, 2010! ACT NOW!! Go to the conference website http://www.lrsv.umd.edu to register. The website also has information about the venue & hotel, special events and more. The October 6-9, 2010 conference is being hosted by the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies at the Marriott Inn and Conference Center near the University of Maryland’s campus. You don’t want to miss this conference! Over three hundred of your colleagues from all over the U.S. and Canada will be there. If you attend, you will be among a diverse community of scholars from academia and practitioners from libraries and archives. Conference sessions will include: · Improving children and young adult services · Information literacy and user instruction · Preservation of digital archives · Workforce and staffing issues · And much more! Access the conference schedule and program, which has linked abstracts, at http://www.lrsv.umd.edu/schedules.pdf Attendees will: · Gain insight into a wide variety of research · Interact with like-minded professionals · Forge crucial relationships that will be helpful in professional development, setting agendas for research and scholarly activities, policy-making, decision-making, and implementation of best practices You’ll be glad you decided to attend!