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May 11, 2010

Children’s Book Award committee members needed

Livingston Lord Library is looking for volunteers who are interested in serving on our children’s book award committee. Committee work includes evaluating new picture books, attending committee meetings and ultimately selecting the best read aloud picture books of 2010. Committee work may also include reading aloud to children. To receive an application form for committee membership, contact Korella Selzler [selzler@mnstate.edu]. Application deadline: Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Additional information about the Read Aloud Program is available at http://www.mnstate.edu/cmc/ComstockReadingAloudInitiative.cfm.

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May 10, 2010

Read Aloud winners announced Wednesday

The sixth annual Read Aloud Picture Book Awards will be announced on Wednesday, May 19 at 1:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic School, Moorhead. The two awards, the Comstock Book Award and the Wanda Gág Book Award, are part of the Livingston Lord Library’s Comstock Reading Aloud Initiative. Award books will be read aloud. All ages are invited to attend this one-hour presentation. For further information, contact Carol Sibley, sibley@mnstate.edu.

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May 7, 2010

Electronic reserves update

If you are a faculty member who has previously had materials on the Library’s electronic reserves system and would like to activate your reserve readings for summer classes, contact Jenny Jensen (jensnjen@mnstate.edu or 477-2342) in the library. For those faculty who are new to e-reserves, it is not to late to begin putting your materials in the library’s electronic reserves system (http://frylock.mnstate.edu/eres/default.aspx) for your classes. Click headline for more information.

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May 4, 2010

Stacy Voeller elected library association secretary

The College Libraries Section (CLS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (a division of the American Library Association) recently elected Stacy Voeller, Library, as secretary for 2010-11. The purpose of the CLS is to advance college librarianship and encourage the development of library services in baccalaureate degree-granting institutions. Voeller was elected by a vote of the CLS membership.

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April 20, 2010

From Oprah Kids to Youth Sports

Carol Sibley, Library, has recently worked with a committee of the American Library Association to develop two new bibliographies of children’s books. Oprah Kids’ Reading List will be posted on Oprah’s website and includes recommended books for toddlers through tweens. The sports booklist, developed for Up2Us, a national coalition of Sports-Based Youth Development organizations, lists recommended children’s books by sport. Click headline to see both reading lists.

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