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Get connected with YALSA’s Teen Tech Week mini grants

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) will award up to twenty mini grants, consisting of $450 cash and $50 worth of Teen Tech Week(tm) (TTW) products, for librarians who plan to offer inventive activities, resources and services to celebrate Teen Tech Week, March 2-8.

Visit http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teentechweek/ttw08/ttw.cfm and click on "Contests" to read the official rules and download the application form.
Applicants for the TTW Mini Grants must submit the official application form to the YALSA office at yalsa@ala.org by Jan. 7. Winners will be notified the week of Feb. 4. In addition to $450 cash for the winners' TTW plans, they'll receive a prize pack from ALA Graphics consisting of one full-size Teen Tech Week poster, three Teen Tech Week mini posters and two packets of bookmarks.

Do not miss this opportunity to get
free money for your teen tech programming!

This contest is open to YALSA members only. Join YALSA today, and you could win new books and a prize pack from Simon & Schuster.

The first 25 new members that register at the following link are eligible for this offer: http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2007/join.cfm. For more than 50 years, YALSA has been the world leader in selecting books, videos, and audio books for teens. For more information about YALSA or for lists of recommended reading, viewing and listening, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm, or contact the YALSA office by phone: 800-545-2433, ext. 4390; or e-mail: yalsa@ala.org.

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IREAD Manual Submissions Deadline

Don’t forget that the IREAD Manual (for 2009: “Read on the Wild Side”) submissions are due by January 7, 2008. Please have all your wonderful ideas and the ideas of your colleagues submitted by that date. You can go to the ILA Website (http://www.ila.org), click on the IREAD icon, fill out the submission form, and then hit submit. Or you can email Julie Anne Robbins (at the Gail Borden Public Library) at julieannrobbins@comcast.com. Please help to make this the best IREAD Manual ever!

New Feature Articles on the LTLS Home Page

The following articles have been posted to the LTLS home page (http://www.lincolntrail.info):

Libraries as 21st Century Technology Leaders--Background
Characteristics of 21st Century Technology Leaders
21st Century Assessment Test
Are You a Successful 21st Century Technology Library--Share Your Story

SPECTRUM DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: LEADERS WANTED!

Interested in a dynamic career in library and information science (LIS) education, research, or executive level administration?

The Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship program is currently accepting applications for students beginning doctoral studies in the Fall of 2008. The deadline to apply is January 18, 2008. More information and application materials can be found at www.ala.org/spectrumphd