2005 season of Join the Major Leagues @ your library to go online in April
Contact: Megan Humphrey
Campaign Coordinator
mhumphrey@ala.org
For Immediate Release
February 25, 2005
2005 season of Join the Major Leagues @ your library® to go online in April; prizes include trip to World Series
This year, players of the Join the Major Leagues @ your library® program, developed by ALA and Major League Baseball, will be able to step up to the plate online for a chance to win a trip to a game of the 2005 Major League Baseball World Series.
All of the program’s baseball trivia questions will be posted for the first time on the Join the Major Leagues Web site and answers can be submitted on an electronic form. The questions will be available when the program launches to the public in April. Players will also be able to submit answers by mail.
Librarians are encouraged to plan their promotion of the program now. Free downloadable promotional materials are now available to libraries that register on the
Join the Major Leagues Web site. Tools include downloadable bookmarks, a poster and a toolkit, which includes programming ideas and customizable media relations materials.
The first 100 libraries to register will receive a free Jackie Robinson History Lives poster from ALA Graphics and a Join the Major Leagues @ your library t-shirt courtesy of Major League Baseball.
A new program poster will also be given free of charge to librarians that register, while supplies last. One poster will be sent per library or library branch.
Join the Major Leagues @ your library is designed to help people of all ages build their 21st century information literacy skills. The centerpiece of the program is an online baseball trivia contest that challenges participants to utilize the resources available at the library to answer baseball trivia questions of increasing difficulty. Available in English and Spanish, this year’s trivia questions will once again be organized by age group (10 and under, 11-13, 14-17 and 18 and older).
The grand-prize winner of the program will receive a trip to a designated game of the 2005 Major League Baseball World Series next fall and first-place prizes will be awarded as well.
Major League Baseball is a founding partner of The Campaign for America's Libraries. The Join the Major Leagues @ your library program is supported by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), the Public Library Association (PLA), REFORMA, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum.
