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<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">John L. Amundsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">Program Officer, Outreach and Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy & Outreach Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">312-280-2140<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030"><a href="mailto:jamundsen@ala.org"><span style="color:#0055A5">jamundsen@ala.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">CHICAGO — Underfunded libraries, schools and non-traditional organizations that provide educational services to children are invited to apply to receive one of three Coretta Scott King Book Donation Grants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">Awarded by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee, the grant program provides books submitted for consideration for the Coretta Scott King Book Awards to libraries and other organizations to expand
their collections. Each year, three organizations that demonstrate need and potential benefit from receiving the collection are selected. All three libraries will receive copies of more than 40 titles submitted for consideration for the 2017 awards, including
a full set of the 2017 winner and honor titles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">Applications will be accepted through Feb. 21, 2017</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">, and winners will be announced by mid-April.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">For more information, and to apply, please visit <a href="http://www.ala.org/csk" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0055A5">www.ala.org/csk</span></a> and click on Book Donation Grant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#303030">The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee of the ALA’s Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) to encourage the
artistic expression of the African-American experience via literature and the graphic arts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">Cathy Lancaster</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">Youth Services Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">Statewide Library Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">517-335-8129<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">517-373-5700 f<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:LancasterC5@michigan.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">LancasterC5@michigan.gov</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:red">Help us acknowledge and celebrate the great work of Michigan educators! Go to:
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.michigan.gov/proudMIeducator"><span style="color:blue">www.michigan.gov/proudMIeducator</span></a>
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:red">today.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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