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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006
12:49:07 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sara
Weissman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Publib] Grant
application deadline
To: "p"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Apply by December 1st for
$2,500 Reading and Discussion Program Grant:
Let's Talk About It: Jewish
Literature
Public and academic
libraries are reminded to apply for the newest
round of "Let's Talk
About It: Jewish Literature" grants by December 1,
2006! Complete information
is available at www.ala.org/publicprograms.
Selected libraries will
receive a $2,500 programming grant, inclusion in
a national training workshop
for project directors, and program and
promotional materials.
Based on the "Let's
Talk About It" reading and discussion model
pioneered nationally by ALA
in 1984, "Let's Talk About It: Jewish
Literature" features
scholar-led, theme-based discussions that explore
the best in contemporary and
classic Jewish literature. Over the past
three years, "Let's
Talk About It: Jewish Literature" grants have been
awarded to 159 libraries
nationwide. Participating libraries host a
five-part discussion series
featuring one of six themes. The two new
themes and book selections
are:
Modern Marvels: Jewish
Adventures in the Graphic Novel
A Contract with God, Will
Eisner
Maus I/II, Art Spiegelman
Julius Knipl, Real Estate
Photographer: Stories, Ben Katchor
The Quitter, Harvey Pekar
The Rabbi's Cat, Joann Sfar
Neighbors: The World Next
Door
A Journey to the End of the
Millennium, A.B. Yehoshua
Red Cavalry, Isaac Babel
Neighbors, Jan T. Gross
The Assistant, Bernard
Malamud
Mona in the Promised Land,
Gish Jen
Previous themes, which also
are included, are Your Heart's Desire: Sex
and Love in Jewish
Literature; Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Monsters of
the Jewish Imagination;
Between Two Worlds: Stories of Estrangement and
Homecoming; and A Mind of
Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing
World.
"Let's Talk About It:
Jewish Literature" grants will be awarded for two
application deadlines:
December 1, 2006 and December 1, 2007. Libraries
that have already received a
grant and completed a "Let's Talk About It:
Jewish Literature"
series are eligible to apply for a single-series
$2,500 grant or a two-series
$5,000 grant under each deadline.
"Let's Talk About It:
Jewish Literature - Identity and Imagination" is
funded by a multi-year grant
from Nextbook. For more information, please
visit www.ala.org/publicprograms or www.nextbook.org.
-----------------------------------
Lainie Castle
Program Officer,
Communications
Public Programs Office,
American Library Association
p: 312.280.5055 -- f:
312.280.5759
http://www.ala.org/publicprograms
Support community &
cultural programming @ your library.
Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director
Central Texas Library System, Inc.
1005 West 41st Street
Austin, Texas 78756
512-583-0704, ext. 18
