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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=C9E9C1E7-A364-EB11-80EF-00155D0A2721"><b>Pivoting Absentee Ballot Day in the Library during the Pandemic</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*<b>Free</b>* webinar on 2/25/2021, 2:00 – 3:00pm Eastern
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In 2018, American University Library offered its first “Absentee Ballot Day in the Library” and assisted 1005 students in requesting absentee ballots. Since that time, Gwendolyn Reece from AU
and Mary Evangeliste from Fearless Future have been gathering other interested librarians to organize for the 2020 election. Kristina Alayan of Howard University joined effort and Howard offered an Absentee Ballot Day for the 2020 Primary. And then--COVID
struck. Not to be discouraged, we pivoted Absentee Ballot Day in the library to become Request a Ballot week. Coordinating through a listserv, we provided a Libguide with all of the state-by-state materials, letter templates, graphics for advertising and social
media, and concocted a plan that allowed us to provide assistance to our students so that they can vote, even though we did not meet in person. We are already committing to working again together for 2022 and invite others to join us. This briefing talks about
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kristina J. Alayan, Law Library Director & Assistant Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mary Evangeliste, Fearless Future<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gwendolyn Reece, Associate University Librarian and Director of Research, Teaching and Learning at American University
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