Need $4000 for your school library program? On spring break with your laptop or tablet? So many great school library programs focus on humanities projects like social studies, poetry, drama, art, music, language arts, foreign language, and culture. Applications are accepted till 11:59pm this Friday!

The Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award is an annual award to a school library that has conducted an exemplary program or program series in the humanities during the prior school year. It consists of (1) a $4,000 cash award; (2) a plaque; and (3) the promotion of the winner as a model program for other school libraries.

Past winners are listed here (if you scroll down):http://www.ala.org/programming/jaffarianaward

This was last year’s winner: The program used fairy tales from around the world to serve as a creative introduction to global studies for the school’s third grade students. Combined with cross-curriculum lessons in world geography, art, mathematics, music and physical education, the library helped students focus on a specific culture while crafting their own fairy tales, integrating common themes in order to illustrate the interconnectedness of world cultures.

Sound like your program? I'll bet it does.

Go for it, Sara

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Sara Kelly Johns
Instructor, Mansfield University School Library & Information Technologies Program
President, New York Library Association
Executive Board, American Library Association
AASL Past President (2007-08)
67 Canaras Ave.
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
skjohns@gmail.com

sjohns@mansfield.edu

PH: 518-891-2339

"All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market"--Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings