HIT: Library Events & Dates!

["Tony L. Pope" <Pope1966@AOL.COM>]

I have compiled a list of library-related events and dates for the=20
up-and-coming Georgia Library Media Association Newsletter.  They are listed=20
below.  Thought you may be interested.  For those of you on LM_NET who are=20
not from Ga., there are a few Georgia-related dates.

Tony Pope, Media Specialist
McHenry Primary School
100 McHenry Drive
Rome, GA  30161
Pope1966@aol.com

Library Related Events, 1999-2000

Mark your library calendars for the following dates:

Sept. 25 - Oct. 02, 1999    Banned Books Week;=20
                Theme:  "Free People Read Freely"
                Website:  www.ala.org/bbooks/

Oct. 1-3, 1999      National Storytelling Festival; Jonesborough, TN
                Website:  www.storytellingfestival.net

Oct. 15, 1999   Cherokee Rose Storytelling Workshops/Performances;=20
Carrollton, Ga.
                ***For more information or to be placed on the mailing list,
                call (770)  832-1161.

Oct. 17-23, 1999    Teen Read Week=20
                Theme:  "Reading Rocks:  Read=85For the Fun of It"
                Website:  http://ala8.ala.org/teenread/

Oct. 20-22, 1999        COMO at Jekyll Island, Georgia
                Theme:  "Surfing into the New Millennium"

Oct. 21, 1999       GLMA Bd. of Director's Meeting; Jekyll Island, GA

Oct. 27-29, 1999    Technology Leadership Conference; Athens, GA

Nov. 1, 1999    Family Literacy Day
    Website:  www.famlit.org

Nov. 10, 1999   National Young Reader's Day (Sponsored by Pizza Hut/BOOK IT)
    Website:  www.bookitprogram.com

Nov. 10-14, 1999    AASL National Conference in Birmingham, Alabama

Nov. 14-20, 1999        American Education Week
                Website:  www.nea.org

Nov. 15-21, 1999        Children's Book Week
Theme:  Plant a seed=85Read!
Website: www.cbcbooks.org

Jan. 14-19, 2000    ALA Midwinter Meeting; San Antonio, TX

Feb. 16-20, 2000    AECT National Conference; Long Beach, CA
March 24-25, 2000   Georgia Children's Literature Conference; Athens, GA
    Website:  www.coe.uga.edu/gachildlit

April 2000  School Library Media Month

April 9-15, 2000    National Library Week
    Theme:  "Read!  Learn!  Connect! @ the Library"
    Website: http://www.ala.org/pio/factsheets/nlw.html

April 24-30, 2000   National TV Turnoff Week
    Website:  www.tvfa.org/turnoff.html

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