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National Library Week 2011: Telling their own stories Anderson Herald Bulletin Library announces Carnegie winners Anderson Herald Bulletin Soldiers' lives now on library database Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Library expressing misgivings on gun bill Gary Post-Tribune Greensburg Daily News Library hosts Battle of the Books Indianapolis Star Government reform effort may be revived next year Indianapolis Star Another hurdle for library to jump Indianapolis Star Library system could see some relief Indianapolis Star Senate passes bill allowing guns in most government buildings Indianapolis Star Local film part of Danville library's inaugural fest Muncie Star Press New Castle-Henry County Library offers e-books, help with tech devices Muncie Star Press Bracken Library exhibit gives glimpses of 'Disappearing Muncie Muncie Star Press Abraham Lincoln to be featured at Muncie Public Library Northwest Indiana Times Hammond library promotes summer reading Northwest Indiana Times C.P. council approves library variance Northwest Indiana Times E.C. Library Board, Maldonado settle Northwest Indiana Times Untouchables touch down in East Chicago South Bend Tribune Two-time shuttle astronaut recounts space experiences at South Bend library Warsaw Times-Union
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Grants Available for Organizations Preserving Indiana History
The
Indiana State Historic Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) is
offering a new grant opportunity for organizations that
preserve and maintain historic collections of Indiana
records. The Hoosier History Digitization Grants will be
awarded to six (6) local entities that desire to digitize
specific types of records that may currently be in jeopardy.
Specifically, the grant program supports the conversation of
indenture records, locally held early statehood records,
African American-related government documents, and Civil War
records into a digital format that can accessed online. The
grant program is designed to enable local digitization
experts to index and digitize Indiana’s culturally and
historically significant records. Young Hoosier Writers Honored in National Writing Contest The Indiana Center for the Book honored 124 contest semifinalists and 16 finalists at the 2011 Letters About Literature Awards Ceremony held at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis. Over 300 guests, including students and their teachers and family, attended the ceremony which was headlined by Helen Frost – an award-winning young adult poet and author from Fort Wayne.
Letters
About Literature is a national reading-writing contest that
asks students in grades 4-12 to write a personal letter to
an author, explaining how his or her work changed their view
of the world or themselves. Letters About Literature is
sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of
Congress, in partnership with Target Stores, and is
administered statewide by the Indiana Center for the Book.
The 16 finalists, including the author to which they wrote,
are as follows: These finalists all received GiftCards courtesy of TargetŪ and the Indian Center for the Book. All semifinalists and finalists also received a certificate and a copy of one of two Helen Frost novels. Teachers Ms. Monica Plantan and Ms. Jenni East of Zionsville Middle School received the third-annual Letters About Literature Instructor of the Year Award. Entries for the 2011/2012 contest will be accepted beginning this August. For more information about Letters about Literature, visit www.centerforthebook.org. |
Join ALA for Virtual Library Legislative Day The ALA is hosting Virtual Library Legislative Day, an opportunity for all library advocates to make their voices heard on a national level. For more information about Virtual Library Legislative Day, including talking points, a how-to webinar, and resources to find and contact your elected officials, visit www.ala.org/altaff or www.ilovelibraries.org.
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