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The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) invites interested instructors and presenters to submit proposals for online professional development courses and webinars to be offered starting in early 2011. RUSA currently offers several online courses in the areas of reference and readers advisory, and is looking to expand its available course topics, and also include webinars among its offerings. Topics of particular interest include skills for assisting patrons with job searches, collection development and introductory reference and user services skills. There is also significant interest in offering online learning opportunities that go more in-depth with business reference skills as a follow-up to the consistently sold out Business Reference 101 course currently offered by RUSA. Additional topics for online learning proposals might include but are not limited to company and industry research; international business; small businesses; entrepreneurship; consumer demographics; fundamentals of reference; providing reference in virtual libraries; providing reference in the one-person library; reference services in church and synagogue libraries; customer service fundamentals for reference staff; reference service fundamentals for embedded librarians; marketing the library and reference services; government documents fundamentals for reference librarians; legal reference for non-law librarians. More information about how to submit proposals is available at the RUSA blog: http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2010/10/15/2010callforprofdevelproposals-1/ Please share this information with any colleagues, friends or distribution lists that might find it of interest. Thank you! Liz F. Markel, M.A. Marketing Specialist Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) The American Library Association // 50 E. Huron Street // Chicago, IL 60611 800-545-2433 // p. 312-280-4398 // f. 312-280-5273 // e. [log in to unmask] Find our divisions online at www.ala.org/rusa & www.ala.org/ascla Want to know what we're up to daily? Subscribe to our blog RSS feeds! RUSA: http://rusa.ala.org/blog/feed/ ASCLA: http://ascla.ala.org/blog/feed/