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<div class="elementToProof" style="text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><a href="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2024-power-up/" target="_blank" id="OWA638f7559-60a7-552b-9e29-4ca7e0cab249" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2024-power-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="0" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">Power
Up Conference 2024</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers & Staff</b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">March 21 - 22, 2024, Madison, WI</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2024-power-up/power-up-2024-registration/" target="_blank" id="OWA62b0c863-95be-8394-eb9a-9285bdcd40d8" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2024-power-up/power-up-2024-registration/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="1" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">Register
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Power Up brings together youth services librarians and staff from public libraries, schools, after-school programs, museums,
and other community partners. This year our opening keynote will be Past President of ALSC and REFORMA and award-winning author Lucia Gonzalez. Closing out the conference will be Mimi Ito, author of eight books, including Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking
Out: Youth Living and Learning with New Media. You can take a look at the full line-up of sessions
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">In addition to the great sessions happening during the conference there are also two post-conference workshops offered on
Friday afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2024-power-up/power-up-2024-post-conference-workshops/" target="_blank" id="OWAb9d44aa6-e5ad-274e-385a-d3f943aad8f6" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2024-power-up/power-up-2024-post-conference-workshops/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="3" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">Taking
a Stand for True Play</a> with Carissa Christner, Madison Public Library</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2024-power-up/power-up-2024-post-conference-workshops/" target="_blank" id="OWAcbaa4199-aee2-9b21-2d6e-40ccdc2385f7" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2024-power-up/power-up-2024-post-conference-workshops/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="4" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">Materials
Challenge Readiness</a> with Megan Schliesman and Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC)</span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b>Post-Conference Workshops</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Materials Challenge Readiness </b></span></div>
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Book Center (CCBC)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Friday, March 22, 1:30-4:00 pm </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">We’ll walk through ways to be prepared for and respond to concerns and
challenges in this workshop that will provide opportunities to acknowledge and then decenter fear in order to focus on the reasons why libraries do what they do when it comes to providing community members with diverse materials and a wide range of choices.
We encourage all participants to review their library’s mission and selection and reconsideration policy and related procedures in advance.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Taking a Stand for True Play</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">with Carissa Christner, Madison Public Library</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Friday, March 22, 2:00-4:00 pm </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"><br>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Would you like to reduce the amount of time spent planning programs for
children AND increase the positive outcomes for participants? In this workshop, we will be discussing the various ways that Madison Public Library has embraced the Anji Play approach since 2016 and the benefits for staff, patrons and outreach partners. The
workshop will include a tour of the Central Library children’s area play spaces as well as an opportunity for adult play during the workshop, so be sure to wear comfortable shoes!</span></div>
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