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Library of Congress National Book Festival attracts 150,000

Setting a new attendance record, an estimated 150,000 book-lovers gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for the 10th Annual National Book Festival. The festival is organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, with Honorary Chairs President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and David M. Rubenstein, who this year gave the festival a $5 million gift, are co-chairs of the new National Book Festival Board. This gift has helped cement the festival for the next few years.

Two sisters from New Jersey won a set of Little House Books

Festival-goers celebrated creativity and imagination with their favorite authors, illustrators and poets in standing-room-only pavilions. South Dakota was represented in the Pavilion of States tent this year by Jeannette Chaney Moody and her husband John from the Deadwood Public Library and Kathleen Slocum from the State Library. Information from SD Tourism, Ingalls Homestead Museum in De Smet, Game Fish & Parks, Sturgis Motorcycle Committee and the SD Humanities Council was distributed. Two sisters from New Jersey won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Series donated by the Ingalls Homestead Museum. They were so excited to get home and share them with friends. Thousands of people stopped by the booth to share personal stories of visiting SD, living in SD and about their future plans to visit the state. Visit the following Web site to see the webcasts on the festival homepage www.loc.gov.

Check out these titles to learn more about library policies and procedures

At the recent Library Policies and Procedures training session held during the SDLA Conference, SDSL staff brought several books from the collection along for participants to check out. If you missed the session, following are titles that you can check out to learn more. Contact the State Library at 1-800-423-6665 or library@state.sd.us if you are interested. Make sure you have your State Library card number handy. If you don’t have a card, we can easily set you up with one.

• Collaborative Collection Development: a Practical Guide for Your Library
• Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collections
• Copyright Policies
• Crash Course in Collection Development
• Developing an Outstanding Core Collection: a Guide for Libraries
• Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals
• Emergency Preparedness for Libraries
• First Amendment and Cyberspace
• 501 Great Interview Questions
• Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
• How to Hire, Train, & Keep the Best Employees for Your Small Business
• Law and Libraries
• Less is More: a Practical Guide to Weeding School Library Collections
• Libraries, Access, and Intellectual Freedom
• Library Board Strategic Guide: Going to the Next Level
• Library Collection Development Policies: Academic, Public, and Special Libraries
• Library Collection Development Policies: School Libraries and Learning Resource Centers
• Library's Legal Answer Book
• Performance Appraisal Handbook
• Public Library Policy Writer
• The Reference Librarian's Policies, Forms, Guidelines, and Procedures Handbook
• Weeding Library Collections

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