Laura Bush announces school library foundation

[Steven Hofmann <shofmann@ALA.ORG>]

Laura Bush announces school library foundation
          First Lady Laura Bush is creating a nonprofit foundation to =
provide grants to help school libraries extend their collections. The Los =
Angeles Times reported that the foundation will be administratively housed =
within the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region. Operationa=
l details, including the fundraising mechanism, are yet to be developed. =
(American Libraries Online)

Follow the headline link on the AASL home page <http://www.ala.org/aasl> =
to read more.

posted by:

Steven L. Hofmann
Director, Digital Development

American Association of School Librarians
a division of the American Library Association
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2795

800-545-2433, ext. 4389
312-280-4389 direct
312-664-7459 fax
shofmann@ala.org
www.ala.org/aasl

www.ala.org/aasl/kqweb - Knowledge Quest on the Web
www.ala.org/aasl/SLMR - School Library Media Research

Be sure to join us for the AASL Tenth National Conference, Nov. 14-18, =
2001 in Indianapolis, Indiana - www.ala.org/aasl/indy

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