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PLA Reading Kit Sale Through August 31
Great Tools for Parents – Great Savings for You. Save up to 50% on kits for young readers. Help parents foster reading at home by offering these engaging reading kits at your librayr. Each publication below if 40% off through August 31, 2011. Combine it with your 10% ALA discount and you get 50% off! [...]
University of Washington recruiting libraries for IMPACT Survey pilot
The University of Washington, with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is extending the benefits of the 2009 U.S. IMPACT Study patron web survey by making it available to all public libraries to use in their own data collection, evaluation, and advocacy efforts. Through the survey website, http://impactsurvey.org, public libraries will also [...]
September PLA Webinar – Check Out E-Readers!
Check Out E-Readers! Sacramento Public Library Did It and You Can Too! Sacramento (Calif.) Public Library recently received a $100,000 grant from the California State Library to form a partnership with Barnes & Noble and develop a plan to successfully check out e-readers to the public. In six short months, a committee of nine figured [...]
PLA Fellowship to Attend REFORMA
The PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION is offering a $1,000 Fellowship to attend the REFORMA NATIONAL CONFERENCE IV (RNCIV) – Elevating Latino Library Services to a Higher Level: Juntos (Together) in the Mile-High City! The conference will take place September 15-18, 2011, in Denver, Colorado. If you are a PLA member and a public librarian – and [...]
PLA Kits for Young Readers Sale
Save up to 50% on kits for young readers. Help parents foster reading at home by offering these engaging kits at your library. Each publication below is 40% off through August 31, 2011. Combine it with your 10% ALA discount and … you get 50% off! Just use the promotion code “sale11″ when you place [...]
Discover Earth: A Century of Change – New Traveling Exhibition Opportunity
The ALA Public Programs Office, in partnership with the National Center for Interactive Learning at Space Science Institute, the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the National Girls Collaborative Project, is accepting applications for a new traveling exhibition opportunity for public libraries. Ten public libraries will be selected to host the interactive exhibition called Discover Earth: [...]
