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		<title>Nominations sought for second annual Zora Neale Hurston Award celebrating those who promote African-American literature</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nominations are now being accepted for the 2010 Zora Neale Hurston Award, a RUSA award presented annually to an individual RUSA member who has demonstrated leadership in promoting African-American literature.
Founded in 2008 and sponsored by HarperPerennial, the award is given to the nominee who has developed a project of outstanding quality and significance that promotes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Stories CLUB now accepting applications</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connect troubled teens with the power of reading with a Great Stories CLUB reading and discussion series. The ALA Public Programs Office and YALSA are now accepting online applications through November 2 for the next round of Great Stories CLUB grants at www.ala.org/greatstories. Funding was provided for this program by Oprah&#8217;s Angel Network.
The Great Stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of the Newbery and Children with disabilities in the library topics of fall ALSC online courses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is offering two engaging online education courses, including: The Newbery Medal: Past, Present and Future and Children with Disabilities in the Library.  Registration is now open, and courses run Oct. 5 though Nov. 13, 2009.  Check-out the ALSC Blog for past participant experiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nominations open for 2009 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK&#8211;Nominations are open for the 2009 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award.
The award invites library users to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community. Nominations will run through October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation: Genealogy Lock-In</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Carter, Heritage Room librarian at the Athens-Clarke County Library in Athens, Ga. just posted information about the library&#8217;s genealogy lock-in event to the Genealib listserv. We thought it sounded so cool that it was worth posting about here, too.
Contact Laura directly at lcarter@arlsmail.org with any questions.
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The Athens-Clarke County Library&#8217;s annual Night Owl Prowl, a [...]]]></description>
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