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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Below is information about</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> the 2017</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"> El
Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros and some resource to help you plan from ALA’s Association for Library Services to Children.—Katie
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<a name="1"></a><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AlscBlog/~3/WN7YLn13moM/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#000099;text-decoration:none">Countdown to Día 2017!</span></b></a>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Have you already started planning for this year’s Día celebrations? El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros is a celebration of children and
reading across all language and cultures. While it is intended to be celebrated all year long, April 30 marks a special day of nationwide events. ALSC has a number of resources ready to support your events, all available at dia.ala.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Here are links to some of the great content found there:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="http://dia.ala.org/fact-sheet"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">Fact Sheet:</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Learn about the history and goals of Día.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="http://dia.ala.org/content/free-program-downloads"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">Free Program Downloads:</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Explore resources including the publicity toolkit, web badges, coloring sheets, activity ideas, and booklists with groupings by grade on “Building
STEAM with Día” and a “20 Years of Día.” Don’t miss the special Book Day Cake recipe!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="http://dia.ala.org/content/national-d%C3%ADa-program-registry"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">Program Registry:</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Join the Día community by entering your event in the program registry. See what your colleagues are cooking-up and share your plans to inspire
others! Use the searchable map to see program locations and previous years’ program descriptions as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Now that you have all these tools to plan and publicize a fantastic Día event, there’s something more to consider. Your planning reflects work
on multiple <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/edcareeers/alsccorecomps"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">ALSC Core Competencies</span></b></a>: Commitment to Client Group (1,2), Programming Skills (1, 5), and Knowledge, Curation and Management
of Materials (2) to mention a few!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Jennifer Duffy, a Children’s Services Librarian at King County Library System, is writing this post on behalf of the Public Awareness Committee.
She can be reached at <a href="mailto:jduffy@kcls.org"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">jduffy@kcls.org</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The post
<a href="http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2017/03/countdown-dia-2017/"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">Countdown to Día 2017!</span></b></a> appeared first on
<a href="http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog"><b><span style="color:#000099;text-decoration:none">ALSC Blog</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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