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Progressive Library Guild Promotes Friends of the UNCG Libraries

The UNCG Chapter of the Progressive Library Guild, a student organization, has been promoting membership in the Friends of the UNCG Libraries as part of their outreach activities

Lawrimore Selected for Archives Leadership Institute

Erin Lawrimore, University Archivist in the University Libraries’ Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, was recently selected as a member of the 2013 cohort of the Archives Leadership Institute (ALI). Selection to highly-selective ALI is based upon leadership skills and potential, ability to influence policy and change within an organization and the archival field, commitment to the archival profession, and career progress and history. The Archives Leadership Institute provides advanced training for 25 emerging and innovative leaders each year, giving them the knowledge and tools to transform the archival profession in practice, theory and attitude. Participants will attend a week-long Leadership Intensive at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) in June 2013, conduct a practicum-style leadership project at their home institution, participate in ongoing discussions, projects, and networking opportunities through a virtual ALI Salon, attend the ALI Practices Wor