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Moline Public Library was one of 3,000 school and public libraries selected to receive a collection of 17 classic books from We the People Bookshelf, a project of American Library Association and National Endowment for the Humanities. This year's theme, Created Equal, has 17 titles for grades kindergarten through high school such as "The Ugly Duckling," "Lincoln: A Photobiography," "Freedom ......
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HUNTINGTON -- The Cabell County Public Library received another two-series grant from the American Library Association and Nextbook to continue its Jewish Literature Series. ...
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for "American Library Association" Fri, May 16 2008 23:06:56 EDT
We are very honored announced that our close collaborators, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, has opened a grant competition to support the adoption of Creative Commons Licensing Framework in the countries of the South Caucasus.
Proposals may be submitted for Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan,
From their website:
The initiative seeks to enable and popularize the legal sharing and reuse [...]...
From: Creative Commons ยป CC News Fri, May 16 2008 10:49:29 EDT
HANOI, May 16 Asia Pulse Vietnams domestic market is facing shortages of several different types of paper despite increases in imports and local production, industry insiders said. Although prices were raised 10 to 40 per cent, shortages have still been reported on the local market, making it difficult for publishing houses and printers to purchase supplies. However, representatives from two ......
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Thu, May 15 2008 23:16:00 EDT
astern Libraries have been awarded a $99,830 grant funded by the American Library Association and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation...
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for "American Library Association" Mon, May 12 2008 10:04:56 EDT
Poet Mekdes Jemberu, founder of Ethiopian Women Writers Association, published a new her latest poem book entitled Muga on Monday after a decade-long absence from the publishing industry in the country....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Mon, May 12 2008 7:29:12 EDT
The venerable Library of Congress (LC), said to be our nation's oldest federal cultural institution, has certainly not been acting staid and traditional. Lately it's been leading the way with some exciting digital preservation projects, working with leading multimedia partners on innovative projects, and reaching out to other international organizations to establish a World Digital Library (WDL). In April, Kathy Dempsey reported on the massive project just launched by LC called the Library of Co...
From: Information Today News Breaks Mon, May 12 2008 0:00:00 EDT
More than 70,000 visitors, including traders, bibliophiles and book market professionals, visited the Third St. Petersburg International Book Fair at the Lenexpo exhibition complex on April 24-27....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Sun, May 11 2008 17:52:51 EDT
Author Walter Dean Myers dares to take on tough issues. At 70 years old with 85 books to his credit, he could rest on his considerable laurels. Sunrise Over Fallujah Walter Dean Myers Scholastic, $17.99, 290 pages, ages 12 and up How I Learned Geography Uri Shulevitz Farrar Straus Giroux, $16.95, 32 pages, ages 4-8 ...
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for "American Library Association" Sun, May 11 2008 3:15:43 EDT
Mr. Ellis led the venerable family-owned publishing house John Wiley & Sons back to fiscal health in the 1990s after a period of misdirected expansion.
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From: NYT > Business Fri, May 9 2008 21:29:47 EDT