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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Congratulations to Kent State SLIS students Don Jason and Marisol Vasquez on winning 2011 ALA Spectrum Scholarships. Read more here: <a href="http://www.kent.edu/einside/briefs.cfm?issueweek=2011-07-25+09%3A33%3A03#2794089" target="_blank">http://www.kent.edu/einside/br<span style='font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'></span>iefs.cfm?issueweek=2011-07-25+<span style='font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'></span>09%3A33%3A03#2794089</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Don also was recently accepted into the Association of Research Libraries Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce. It is a two-year program filled with professional development, networking, job-training and scholarship funds. It has the end goal of successful job placement after completion of the program. This summer he received an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) fellowship in its competitive Career Enhancement Program and has been interning at the National Library of Medicine, in Bethesda, Md.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Marisol just came to SLIS this summer with a graduate assistantship to work with the school’s Center for the Study of Information and Religion.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Congratulations to these two outstanding students!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>All the best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Flo<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><~><~>~<~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Flo Cunningham<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marketing Communications and Public Relations Director<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School of Library and Information Science<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kent State University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>330-672-0003<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:fcunning@kent.edu"><span style='color:blue'>fcunning@kent.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>