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SW Subject: [PUBPRGMS:92] Reminder! Apply by 12/1 for Let's Talk About It grant Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please distribute widely and forgive cross-posting. ***** 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® http://www.ala.org/ccf Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
