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Barbara Stripling, director of library services, New York City Department of Education.
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ean Preer’s Library Ethics (Libraries Unlimited, 2008) was selected from a large and strong field of nominated books, according to the award jury. Preer was recognized for her comprehensive Ethics Champion approach to an issue that pervades every Greenwood Publishing Group aspect of modern library Award for the Best Book in Library life, her exhaustive covLiterature of $5,000 for the best book that helps library professionals erage of all aspects of in the areas of management the topic, the enduring principles and practice, relevance of her work, understanding and application of her combination of new techniques, or furthering the readability and thoreducation of librarians or other information professionals. ough scholarship, and Donor: Greenwood Publishing Group. because the book fills an important lacuna in modern library literature. A professor in the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science in Indianapolis, Preer received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award and the Association for Library and Information Science Education Award for Teaching Excellence. She is also a past recipient of ALA’s Library History Round Table’s Justin Winsor Prize.
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ndianapolis–Marion County Public Library received the award for “The Learning Curve” at the Central Library, a physical and virtual programming space that provides a high-tech, high-energy, hands-on information environment for children. Through real and virtual activities, children have the opportunity Chris Cairo, director of development. to use technology in productive ways that reinforce basic information literacy skills, such as using a computer, synthesizer, and digital camera to make their own digital books, High-Tech, Hands-on songs, photos, or videos. They can then Learning Providers share their creations ALA/Information Today Library of the on the plasma screen Future Award of $1,500 to an individual, with other visitors in library consortium, group of librarians, the Curve or add them or support organization for innovative planning, application, or development to virtual CurveWorld of patron training programs about galleries.
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he Office of Library Services at the New York City Department of Education will use the grant to Creating Literacy Skills Experts train staff on how to conduct nonfiction book clubs and H. W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant of $3,500 integrate Web 2.0 tools into to a library organization for a program to further its staff their book club practices development goals and objectives. as part of the New Yorkers Donor: H. W. Wilson Company. Read—Eight Million Reasons to Read Book Clubs. The New Yorkers Read project is part of a larger campaign to address the crisis in middle school achievement levels. Reports reveal a large gap along racial and ethnic lines within the area and a disengagement of middle school students that ultimately leads to their failing to finish high school and short-circuiting career and life choices.
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