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Don’t Miss Out – Registration Closes on October 1st! You don’t want to miss ALA Library Research Roundtable’s 5th Library Research Seminar, Integrating Practice and Research! 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. Several hundred of your colleagues from all over the U.S. and Canada will be there. Some of them are blogging about the conference now. Go to http://www.lrsv.umd.edu/blogs.html to get the inside scoop from some of the presenters, view comments from some of those planning to attend, and add your own comments. 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 The conference also includes meals: · Continuous morning and afternoon refreshments breaks each day · Lunches on Thursday and Friday 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 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. You’ll be glad you decided to attend!