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Today is Support Teen Literate Day! The goal of Support Teen Literature day is to raise awareness about teen literature as an exciting, ever grow area of the book market.

Although the first nationally celebrated Bookmobile Day occurred in 2010, bookmobiles themselves have been on the roads and in the hearts of citizens around the world for more than a century.  Sometime between 1857 and 1859, a horse-drawn collection of books began making the rounds in Cumbria, a non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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It’s National Library Workers Day, a day to recognize the valuable contributions made by everyone who works in the library.

To commemorate, we’re highlighting some special librarians, those who won the 2011 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. 

Share your story of why you belong at your library by composing a six word story for National Library Week!

Gaining popularity on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, six word stories, as the name implies, challenges authors to write a complete story in six words.  Here are a few examples we came up with:

Town’s kids visit Narnia. Librarian leads. 

What connects far and wide? Bookmobiles. 

School library doors open. Girl smiles.

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Share your story of why you belong at your library by composing a six word story for National Library Week!

Gaining popularity on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, six word stories, as the name implies, challenge authors to write a complete story in six words.  Here are a few examples we came up with:

Town’s kids visit Narnia. Librarian leads. 

What connects far and wide? Bookmobiles. 

School library doors open. Girl smiles.

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March is Women’s History Month, a celebration of women's contributions to history, culture and society. 

Women's Education - Women's Empowerment is the theme of Women’s History Month 2012 and serves as a reminder that although women now outnumber men in American colleges nationwide, the fight to learn was once a struggle waged by many women.

This month educate the young women (and men) in your life with these true life accounts of how women have changed the world.
 

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March 23 - the opening day of The Hunger Games movie based on the popular book by Suzanne Collins - is only a week away.  With the excitement building, it's hard to find some place to channel it. Librarians excited about the movie themselves have developed fun programs for the lead up to its release.

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Hungry for more Hunger Games? You’ve read the books, you pre-ordered your tickets, but the movie debut is still two weeks away.  Now what?

Satisfy your Hunger Games appetite by preparing a Hunger Games inspired menu with your family.

The 74th Annual Hunger Games is coming live to the big screen in just three weeks.

Many fans couldn’t wait for Hollywood’s interpretation and instead made their own book trailers and short movies inspired by what they read in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games.

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“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” -Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

March 2 is the 108th birthday of Dr. Seuss, as well as the opening of the latest movie based on his work The Lorax.