Applications open for 2014 Coretta Scott King Book Donation Grants
For Immediate Release
Tue, 11/12/2013
Contact:
John L. Amundsen
Program Officer, Outreach and Communications
ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services
(312) 280-2140
CHICAGO — Underfunded libraries, schools and non-traditional organizations that provide educational services to children are invited to apply to receive one of three Coretta Scott King Book Donation Grants.
Awarded by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee, the grant program provides books submitted for consideration for the Coretta Scott King Book Awards to libraries and other organizations to expand their collections. Each year, three organizations are selected that demonstrate need and potential benefit from receiving the collection. All three libraries will receive copies of more than 80 titles submitted for consideration for the 2014 awards, including a full set of the winning titles.
Applications will be accepted through Jan. 31, 2014, and winners will be announced in late February.
For more information, and to apply, please visit www.ala.org/csk and click on Book Donation Grant.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee of the ALA’s Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) to encourage the artistic expression of the African-American experience via literature and the graphic arts.