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<p><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA News for August 1, 2017</span></b><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Apply now for Media Literacy @ Your Library opportunity for public libraries<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The American Library Association (ALA), in collaboration with the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University, invites public libraries to apply for Media
Literacy @ Your Library, a pilot program that will train library workers to help their adult patrons become better news consumers.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/apply-now-media-literacy-your-library-opportunity-public-libraries" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/apply-now-media-literacy-your-library-opportunity-public-libraries</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New York librarian's 10th annual fundraising swim for Spectrum<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Miriam Tuliao has announced that she will participate in the Steve Belson Memorial Ocean Mile Swim to raise funds for the Spectrum Scholarship Program.
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<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/ny-librarians-tenth-annual-fundraising-swim-spectrum" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/ny-librarians-tenth-annual-fundraising-swim-spectrum</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALSC now accepting applications for 2018 Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#303030; background:white">The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Grants Administration Committee are now accepting online applications
for the 2018 Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Awards. This award, made possible by an annual gift from </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.penguin.com/children/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0055A5; background:white">Penguin
Young Readers Group</span></a><span style="color:#303030; background:white"> and Random House Children’s books, provides a $600 stipend for up to four children's librarians to attend their first ALA Annual Conference. The award also includes an invitation
to the Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder banquet.<br>
</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/08/alsc-now-accepting-applications-2018-penguin-random-house-young-readers-group" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/08/alsc-now-accepting-applications-2018-penguin-random-house-young-readers-group</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS<br>
Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/ricardo-enricque-johnson-selected-2017-peter-lyman-memorialsage-scholarship" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/ricardo-enricque-johnson-selected-2017-peter-lyman-memorialsage-scholarship</a><b></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mary V. Gaver Scholarship</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/haneen-ali-samad-selected-2017-mary-v-gaver-scholarship-recipient" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/haneen-ali-samad-selected-2017-mary-v-gaver-scholarship-recipient</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA Century Scholarship</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/broghan-mcvicar-sagers-selected-2017-ala-century-scholarship-recipient" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/broghan-mcvicar-sagers-selected-2017-ala-century-scholarship-recipient</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WEBINARS AND WORKSHOPS<br>
‘Libraries Transforming Communities: Models for Change for Academic Libraries’<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/announcing-libraries-transforming-communities-models-change-academic-libraries" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/announcing-libraries-transforming-communities-models-change-academic-libraries</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Providing Services to People Living with Alzheimer's<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/new-workshop-providing-services-people-living-alzheimers" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/new-workshop-providing-services-people-living-alzheimers</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">36 Adult Program Ideas in 90 Minutes<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/new-session-36-adult-program-ideas-90-minutes" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/new-session-36-adult-program-ideas-90-minutes</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rethinking Library Programming: Transforming Your Approach<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/new-workshop-rethinking-library-programming-transforming-your-approach" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/new-workshop-rethinking-library-programming-transforming-your-approach</a></span></p>
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