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Tomorrow is the big day, UK friends! Voices for the Library has a listing of all the events, plus more. It is wonderful to witness all this love for UK libraries.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is hosting a webinar for library professionals to discuss the central role that libraries play in cultivating the creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communications skills that individuals need to be successful in the 21st century.

Making the Learning Connection: Museums and 21st Century Skills Webinar

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 from 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET

Full details on how to join the webinar are in the original post at Beyond the Job.

If you haven’t been following the saga of the hawk in the LoC Main Reading Room, it starts here. Yay for happy endings!

UK readers, please consider taking part this 5 February.

From the article: “We knew it was going to be a tough battle-it always is-but this is something just completely shocking,” Maribel Castro, the president of the Texas Library Association (TLA), told Library Journal. “We anticipated we’d lose some leverage, but to come out and basically eliminate the three areas that make up the infrastructure for libraries in the state of Texas — I will not deny there were tears in my eyes,” she said.

Classmates, take note! I know some of us are crazy about the social networking. This blog has an open call for guest posts.

From PW.org: “The residents of Stony Stratford, England, have successfully checked out every single one of the town library’s sixteen thousand books, in an effort to show support for the library and protest its impending closure.”