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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Posted on behalf of</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> ALA’s Office for Literacy and Outreach Services.
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#303030">Applications open for 2015 Coretta Scott King Book Donation Grants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#303030">CHICAGO — Underfunded libraries, schools and non-traditional organizations that provide educational services to children are invited to apply to receive one of three Coretta Scott
King Book Donation Grants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#303030">Awarded by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee, the grant program provides books submitted for consideration for the Coretta Scott King Book Awards to libraries and other
organizations to expand their collections. Each year, three organizations are selected that demonstrate need and potential benefit from receiving the collection. All three libraries will receive copies of more than 60 titles submitted for consideration for
the 2015 awards, including a full set of the winning titles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#303030">Applications will be accepted through Jan. 31, 2015, and winners will be announced by early March.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#303030">For more information, and to apply, please visit </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.ala.org/emiert/cskbookawards/bookgrant">http://www.ala.org/emiert/cskbookawards/bookgrant</a>.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#303030">The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee of the ALA’s Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table
(EMIERT) to encourage the artistic expression of the African-American experience via literature and the graphic arts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information, please contact: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>John L. Amundsen | Program Officer, Outreach and Communications | ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services
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<p class="MsoNormal">50 East Huron Street | Chicago, IL 60611 | T 312.280.2140 | F 312.280.3256 |
<a href="mailto:jamundsen@ala.org">jamundsen@ala.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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