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The Public Library Association enhances the development and effectiveness of public library staff and public library services.

News from PLA

• View the 2008 PLA Election Results
• Library Directors -- Do your trustees get Public Libraries magazine? Now they can. Save 40% off of group subscriptions!
• Call for "Perspectives" essays for Public Libraries magazine.
• Winner of PLA Feature Article Contest Announced
• PLA Programs and PLA President's Reception with Jamie Lee Curtis at ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA
• 2008 PLDS Order Forms Now Available
• PLA receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant to help public libraries build skills and experience needed to increase local support and funding
• CPLA Courses - Online registration is open for PLA's nine Certified Public Library Administrator (CPLA) courses
• Updated Service Responses available for download at ALA Online Store
• New PLA publication addresses emergency response
• New product from PLA!  Expand your early literacy effort with Nursery Rhymes, Songs and Fingerplays. 
• Meet our PLA Partners

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