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<div>If you coordinate a youth, teen and/or adult summer reading program, please see the update (attached or below) from this week's Collaborative Summer Library Porgram's Annual Meeting. These updates include the 2019 slogan and the 2020 theme!</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Kwame Alexander, our National Summer Reading Champion, has recorded PSA's (available when you login to <a href="http://cslpreads.org">cslpreads.org</a> and
look under Proprietary Downloads) & he has released a recommended reading list: <a href="https://www.cslpreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kwame-Alexander-Recommended-summer-reading_CSLP-2017.pdf">https://www.cslpreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kwame-Alexander-Recommended-summer-reading_CSLP-2017.pdf</a>.</span></div>
<div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Do you do school/camp outreach? Don't forget CSLP offers ready made "Kits" for the program under the Proprietary
Downloads tab on our website, once you login at <a href="http://www.cslpreads.org">
www.cslpreads.org</a></span></div>
<div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>I was elected to serve the CSLP as a Board Member-At-Large on Wednesday. I'm looking forward to being a part of
decision making at CSLP and moving the organization forward as we work to provide great reading program materials & more to libraries across the country & even so far as Guam and other territorial islands. (They fly the furthest every year!) </span></div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What you may not realize is that CSLP board and committees are made up of volunteers. I will keep you posted when there are calls for volunteers to serve or submit programming
ideas. I encourage you to participate when the opportunity arises!</span></div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Have a great weekend,</span></div>
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<span class="s7" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Updates from the 2017 CSLP Annual Meeting in Charleston, SC</span></p>
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<span class="s8" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2020 Artist</span></p>
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<span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CSLP is happy to announce the artist for the 2020 Early Literacy and Children’s artwork is LeUyen Pham!</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">LeUyen Pham is the illustrator of over fifty children’s books. Her books include the best-selling </span><span class="s10" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">Freckleface
Strawberry</span><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> series with Julianne Moore, the </span><span class="s10" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">Princess in Black</span><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> series
by Shannon Hale, the </span><span class="s10" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">Alvin Ho</span><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> series by Lenore Look, </span><span class="s10" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">Grace
for President</span><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> by Kelly S. DiPucchio, as well as her own self-authored </span><span class="s10" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">There is No Such Thing as Little,
The Bear Who Wasn’t There </span><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and </span><span class="s10" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">Big Sister, Little Sister. </span><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">She
also designed artwork used on the bookmarks for the “We Need Diverse Books” campaign in 2014. </span></span></p>
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<span class="s8" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2019 Slogan</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">State representatives and voting proxies selected </span><span class="s11" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">A
Universe of Stories</span><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> as the slogan for all age groups for the 2019 “Space” theme. The “Space” theme was selected at the 2016 annual meeting to commemorate the 50</span><span class="s12" style="line-height: 8.399999618530273px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s9" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">anniversary
of the landing on the moon.</span></span></p>
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<span class="s8" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2020 General Theme</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition to a 2019 slogan, state representatives and voting proxies also selected “Fairy Tales/Mythology/ Fantasy” as the general theme for 2020.</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The following slate of nominees were elected to fill board and committee chair positions beginning June 1, 2017:</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vice President/President-elect: Chrissie McGovern (NC) *Board</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Secretary: Josephine Camarillo (WA) *Board</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Treasurer: Anne Lemay (NJ) *Board</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Membership: Sally Snyder (NE) *Board</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vendor: Deanne Dekle (NM) *Board</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Children’s Program: Tanya DiMaggio (LA) *Committee Chair, non-Board</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At Large Members:</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Cathy Lancaster (MI) *Board</span></p>
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<span class="s13" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Jamie Chipman (UT) *Board</span></p>
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“To provide a unified summer reading theme along with professional art and evidence-based materials
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