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During
Library Card Sign-up Month, the American Library Association (ALA) and librarians across the country will remind students, parents,
and caregivers that a library card is the most important school supply of all.
Each September, ALA and libraries around the nation celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month. A library card provides access to technology, multimedia
content. and educational programming that transforms lives and strengthens communities. Libraries provide people of all ages the opportunity to pursue their dreams and passions.
All libraries can participate and amplify this message using free tools from ALA. They include:
• Promotional artwork featuring this year’s Library Card Sign-up Honorary Chair, Marley Dias, the 16-year-old author, executive producer of
Netflix’s Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices, and founder of
#1000BlackGirlBooks.
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Audio public service announcements (PSAs) featuring Phil Morehart, host of
American Libraries magazine’s
Call Number podcast. These include ready-to-air PSAs for radio stations tagged with the ALA ID lasting 10, 15, 20, and 30 seconds in both the WAV and MP3 formats. They also include customizable PSAs
of similar length to which ALA members can add their own ID.
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Social media graphics in both English and Spanish. Libraries and library lovers are encouraged to share their stories on Facebook,
Twitter, and Instagram using the hashtag #LibraryCardSignUpMonth. ALA’s digital graphics are free for all to use on their websites and social media accounts.
• Other tools, such as a sample press release, PSA scripts, mini-posters, and yard and window signs are available on the
Library Card Sign-up Month web page.
In addition, all libraries are encouraged to ask their patrons how their library empowers them or their community. Just use the hashtag #LibrariesEmpower
on Twitter or Instagram from Sept. 1 to Sept. 22. Entries can also be submitted by posting as a comment or wall post on the
I Love Libraries Facebook page. The creator of one randomly selected post will receive a
$100 Visa gift card and an ALA Graphics
The Child Poster. Additionally, three second-place winners will receive an ALA Graphics The Child Poster.
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The wildly popular pups of PAW Patrol are headed to the big screen this month. In the film the crime-fighting dogs go on an epic adventure –
and you can too when you visit your local library. Libraries provide access to e-books, audio books, movies, video games, and more that take us on fantastic journeys.
To celebrate the film, ALA has teamed up with Ryder and crew to
give away thousands of bookmarks libraries can share with their communities. Featuring Chase, Marshall and Skye, the bookmark celebrates the new film and will delight fans of Ryder and everyone’s
favorite heroic pups.
Fifty libraries will be randomly selected to receive 200-300 bookmarks free of charge shipped to your library.
Please
enter your information here.
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United
for Libraries, a division of ALA, will host its annual
Gala Author Tea event via Facebook Livestream will be presented virtually and available to join free via Facebook livestream on Thursday,
August 19, 2021, 1:00 pm ET.
Enjoy your beverage of choice while hearing from writers
Ruth Ozeki (The
Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel), Daniel Black (Don't
Cry for Me), David Wright Falade (Black
Cloud Rising), and Meg Waite Clayton (The
Postmistress of Paris). Barbara Hoffert, editor of LibraryJournal's Prepub Alert, will moderate. Part of
United for Libraries' 2021 Virtual Event. Learn more about the
Gala Author Tea.
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United
for Libraries Virtual 2021, August 17-19, will offer 10+ educational sessions for library Trustees, Friends, Foundations, and the staff who work with them..
On Thursday Aug. 19th at noon ET, the Mt. Pleasant Library Friends in Washington, DC. will discuss how they tripled their fundraising budget
through online sales of a viral t-shirt, resulting in over 7,000 sales internationally.
Learn more about the session.
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ALA invites all library users to nominate their favorite librarians for the prestigious I Love My Librarian Award. The national award recognizes
librarians working in public, school, college, community college, or university libraries for their outstanding public service contributions.
Nominations are accepted online now through September 27, 2021.
ALA member leaders will select ten librarians from thousands of nominations, and each will receive $5,000 in recognition of their outstanding
public service. The association will honor award recipients at the I Love My Librarian Award Ceremony on January 22, 2022 at
LibLearnX
in San Antonio, Texas. Winners also will receive complimentary LibLearnX registration as part of their award packages as well as a $750 travel stipend.
Spread the word. Nominate a librarian in your life or encourage others to do so.
Promotional
resources are available to everyone.
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More than 550 library professionals signed up for a July webinar and training session ALA supported alongside Heartland Forward. During the
session attendees learned how they can empower patrons to participate in the Federal Communications Commission’s Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program to access affordable internet. Heartland Forward and ALA share a commitment to closing the digital divide
and recognizing the important role libraries play in solving the connectivity crisis.
Watch
the webinar here if you missed it live.
In April, ALA Past President Julius C. Jefferson, Jr. said of EBB, “The American Library Association and library workers nationwide welcome
the creation of the Emergency Broadband Benefit program as one step among many needed to address longstanding barriers to broadband access and use. K-12 school, college and university, and public libraries see first-hand the digital chasms so many students,
families, and people of all ages have experienced.”
Heartland Forward has also created a
toolkit of printable and shareable materials about the Emergency Broadband Benefit.
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Other news you may have missed:
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Because of you, more than 18,000 libraries and library advocates have joined Libraries Transform! Encourage your colleagues to sign up at
LibrariesTransform.org.
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