T Planning for 2006-07 @ your library®
August 4 GOLD GALILEO, Athens
www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/2006/Aug/04/gold.phtml
September Library Card Sign-up Month
www.ala.org
September 1-3 Decatur Book Festival
http://www.decaturbookfestival.com/
September 8 International Reading Day
www.reading.org
September 20-22 COMO, Athens
http://www.georgiacomo.org/
Sept. 23-30 Banned Books Week
www.ala.org/bbooks/
October National Book Month
http://www.nationalbook.org/
October 6-8 Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/infolit.html
October 6-8 National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, TN
www.storytellingfestival.net
October 15-17 IRA Southeast Regional Conference, Mobile, AL
http://www.reading.org/association/meetings/regional.html
October 15-21 Teen Read Week
www.ala.org/teenread/
November 3-4 Georgia Literary Festival
http://www.georgialiteraryfestival.org/
November 13-19 Children’s Book Week
www.cbcbooks.org
November 15-17 Georgia Educational Technology Conference, College
Park
www.gaetc.net
January Caldecott and Newbery announcements
www.ala.org
February 9 CSAC, Macon
http://www.georgialibraries.org/lib/child.html
February 25-27 Georgia Reading Association Conference, Omni,
Atlanta
http://www.georgiareading.org/
March 2 Read Across America Day
www.nea.org/readacross
March 3 Regional Helen Ruffin Reading Bowls
www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~canbylane/hrrb/Georgia.htm
March 27-28 Conference on Literature for Children & Adolescents,
KSU
http://www.kennesaw.edu/education/mge/childlit/
April National Poetry Month
http://www.poets.org/npm/
April 4 Thank You, School Librarians! Day
April 15-21 National Library Week
www.ala.org/pio/nlw/
April 21-22 Children’s Literature Conference, UGA
State
Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl
www.coe.uga.edu/gachildlit
April 23-29 National TV Turnoff Week
www.tvturnoff.org
May Get Caught Reading Month
http://www.getcaughtreading.org/
June
6-7 GLMA Summer Institute, Macon ETTC
http://www.glma-inc.org/
June 21-27 ALA Annual Conference, Washington, DC
www.ala.org
June 25-27 NECC, Atlanta
http://www.iste.org/
Rebecca Amerson, Media Specialist
National Board Certified
Library Teacher
Woodstock High School
2010 Towne Lake Hills South Drive
Woodstock , GA 30189
770-592-3500 x247
http://webtech.cherokee.k12.ga.us/woodstock-hs/ramerson