The ODL press release is available for download PDF or TXT format.

This is from the Reforma: National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking listserv.

“Greetings from Colorful Colorado!

The Colorado State Library of the Colorado Department of Education has compiled a list of web resources pertaining to Spanish literacy for kids.  It has been publicized in Colorado, but is useful to a wider audience, hence this message to Reformistas.

“Spanish Language Resources on the Web: Children’s Literacy” can be reproduced by government agencies at no cost, with proper credit given to the Colorado State Library.  Bonnie McCune, longtime Colorado Reformista, deserves special mention for her work on this project.  ¡Muchas gracias, Bonnie!

Here’s the link for this pdf file:

http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/download/pdf/SpanishLiteracyWebResourcesForKids.pdf

Permission granted to nonprofits and government agencies to reproduce at no cost; please credit us.

Lando Archibeque”

July 21, 2007 is the release date for the seventh and final book in the series. The book is priced at $34.99, but Amazon and Barnes & Noble are already discounting it cheaper. There are several editions to choose: library, children hardcover, adult hardcover, deluxe, gift and audio.

This is news worth chair bouncing for!

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JK Rowling’s web site.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 2007

The Libri Foundation is currently accepting applications for its 2007 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grants.

The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new, quality, hardcover children’s books to small, rural public libraries throughout the United States. Since October 1990, the Foundation has donated over $3,000,000 worth of new children’s books to more than 2,300 libraries in 48 states, including Alaska and Hawaii.

In order to encourage and reward local support of libraries, The Libri Foundation will match any amount of money raised by your local sponsors from $50 to $350 on a 2-to-1 ratio. Thus, a library can receive up to $1,050 worth of new children’s books. After a library receives a grant, local sponsors (such as formal or informal Friends groups, civic or social organizations, local businesses, etc.) have four months, or longer if necessary, to raise their matching funds.

The librarian of each participating library selects the books her library will receive from a booklist provided by the Foundation. The 700-plus fiction and nonfiction titles on the booklist reflect the very best of children’s literature published primarily in the last three years. These titles, which are for children ages 12 and under, are award-winners or have received starred reviews in library, literary, or education journals. The booklist also includes a selection of classic children’s titles.

Libraries are qualified on an individual basis. In general, county libraries should serve a population under 16,000 and town libraries should serve a population under 10,000 (usually under 5,000). Libraries should be in a rural area, have a limited operating budget, and an active children’s department.

Please note: Rural is usually considered to be at least 30 miles from a city with a population over 40,000. Town libraries with total operating budgets over $150,000 and county libraries with total operating budgets over $350,000 are rarely given grants.

Applications are accepted from independent libraries as well as libraries which are part of a county, regional, or cooperative library system.

A school library may apply only if it also serves as the public library (i.e. it is open to the everyone in the community, has some summer hours, and there is no public library in town).

A branch library may apply if the community it is in meets the definition of rural. If the branch library receives its funding from its parent institution, then the parent institution’s total operating budget, not just the branch library’s total operating budget, must meet the budget guidelines.

Previous BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grant recipients are eligible to apply for another grant three years after the receipt of their last grant.
Libraries that do not fulfill all grant requirements, including the final report, may not apply for another grant.

Application deadlines for 2007 are: (postmarked by) January 15th, April 15th, and August 15th. Grants are awarded January 31st, April 30th, and August 31st.

Application guidelines and forms may be downloaded from the Foundation’s website at: www.librifoundation.org.

For more information about The Libri Foundation or its Books for Children program, please contact Ms. Barbara J. McKillip, President, The Libri Foundation, PO Box 10246, Eugene, OR 97440. 541-747-9655 (phone); 541-747-4348 (fax); libri@librifoundation.org (email). Normal office hours are: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Pacific Time.