OHIO +Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Toledo 

Toledo, with six existing Sister City relationships and five additional developing ones, will use an international Sister Cities theme for the year 2000 Summer Reading Club. The library will plan programs with and for children and teens and utilize community resources and local people with ethnic backgrounds. It will send Book Buddy, the library’s mascot, to all Toledo Sister Cities during the Summer Reading Club. 

PENNSYLVANIA +Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw 

The Book Bugs Club members, grades 4-8, participate in literaturebased activities. The library in Cessnock, Australia, will establish a 

similar group so the children can share thoughts about books, videotapes and computers. Sharing this information with the community and hosting international programs for families will also be part of this program. 

TEXAS +Austin Public Library (North Village, Windsor 

and Southeast Community Branches), Austin Special programs about Adelaide and Australia will be presented 

throughout the year at the North Village Branch, and children and teens will correspond via e-mail and postcards. The Windsor Branch 

and a library in Saltillo, Mexico, will dedicate a day to the art and 

culture of Saltillo. The Southeast Austin Branch and a library in Lima, Peru, will work with the schools so children can communicate with one another. Special programs will be developed system-wide for the multicultural population. 

TEXAS +Fort Worth Public Library, Fort Worth 

Fort Worth has initiated a pilot project with Fort Worth Sister Cities to encourage children and teens to learn more about their six Sister Cities. Already 110 youths have corresponded with pen pals in one of their Sister Cities. 

TEXAS +Houston Public Library, Houston 

During Children’s Book Week, children in Houston will link with children in Perth, Australia. They will work together on a cultural 

exchange: the Houston Public Library will send children’s books written by Texans, information about the library, art work, writings and crafts. 

VIRGINIA +Virginia Beach Public Library, Virginia 

Beach 

Activities during Children’s Book Week will focus on children’s authors. Teen volunteers will offer suggestions that will help Miyazaki Public Library in Japan start its own teen volunteer 

program. 

VIRGINIA +Williamsburg Regional Library, 

Williamsburg 

Plans include an exchange of recipes with children in Denmark to 

create a cookbook and a booklet with comparisons of holidays and customs. Chat lines will be set up for children and teens. 

WASHINGTON +Colfax Consortia, Colfax 

Colfax High School, Whitman County Library and Jennings Elementary/Junior High School will join together to learn about the people and culture of India through e-mail exchanges. They will 

share books, have reading challenges and use video-conferencing. 

WASHINGTON +Edmonds Library, Sno-Isle Regio

Library System, Edmonds The library will organize a program of cultural exchange with thHekinan, Japan library, featuring stories from Japanese teenaand storytelling with American teenage folklore. 

WASHINGTON +Washington School Library, Mou

Vernon Washington School is an example of a family school involved service learning and care for the whole child. With the assistathe school library, the students will compare and share historic 

information about their school with children from another schosmall community that has served generations of families. 

WISCONSIN +Marathon County Public Library, W

The exhibition “Down Under and Over Here: Children’s Book Illustration from Australia and America” will come to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum as a result of collaboration betvarious agencies and institutions and a grant from Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The exhibition will introchildren and adults to children’s book illustration and to the joywonders of reading. Children and families will have electronic connections to children in Campbelltown, Australia. 

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DELAWARE +Castle Hills School, New Castle 

By using books, videos, e-mail and the Internet, students will have a unique opportunity to learn about life in Watford, England. The 

program will include cooking projects, songs, storytelling, author 

studies, dress up days, journal writing and a myriad of crosscurricular activities both in the library and in the classroom. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA +District of Columbia Public 

Library, Washington 

Four branches will have programs allowing children, youth and families to correspond by e-mail with families in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss their communities and culture. This will be an interactive exchange that can be replicated in other locations. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA +Sidwell Friends School, 

Washington 

Sidwell Friends has a well-established Chinese Studies program and its students and staff will share materials with and make suggestions for the purchase of new materials for their Sister Library in Beijing, China. “Keypals” will allow students to practice their Chinese/English link via e-mail. A group of students from Sidwell visits China each summer and actual face-to-face encounters might be arranged. 

FLORIDA +Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale 

Developing a small world-wide web page for each library’s web site where information relating to children and teens can be posted is one of the varied activities designed for the Broward County Library’s exchange with Gold Coast, Australia. 

GEORGIA +DeKalb County Public Library, Decatur

Teens in Decatur and Trujillo, Peru, will be encouraged to design a 

program that best fits their needs. Varied segments of the population will be invited to meet for programs featuring multicultural and bilingual storytellers, crafts and conversation groups. 

GEORGIA +Peach Public Libraries, Byron 

Children will exchange local histories, have virtual tours on the web of their respective communities, and use simultaneous programs with on-line evaluation for comparisons with Byron, Australia. 

GEORGIA +Tifton-Tift Public Library, Tifton 

Information about Picton, Australia, will be incorporated in the 

children’s programs and the library will work with schools to include research about Australia in their curriculum. 

ILLINOIS +Carbondale Public Library, Carbonbdale 

Currently providing library tours for educators and businessmen from Nakajo, Japan, the library will suggest that a librarian be included in future visiting delegations. To promote this partnership, Carbondale Public Library will host a Japanese tea ceremony and programs highlighting Japanese music, holidays and celebrations. Programs will be videotaped for exchange with their Sister Library. A “partners in reading club” will be started. 

IOWA +Ames Public Library, Ames 

Story hours, displays with cross-cultural discussions and visuals will take place in Ames and Mérida, Mexico. Books will be shared between the libraries and the librarians. 

KANSAS +Johnson County Public Library, Shaw

Plans include sponsoring a storyteller or dramatic program highlighting stories from Ireland. The program will be held in Listowel Park, named after the Irish settlers of Shawnee, Kans

MARYLAND +Cecil Manor Elementary School, El

Students will learn about another culture using media resource materials and primary accounts from students in France. The 

project will focus on third grade students. 

MASSACHUSETTS +Overlook Middle School, 

Ashburnham 

Working with Takatori Junior High in Fukuyama-shi, Japan, w

one of Overlook’s teachers was a Fulbright Scholar, students wcommunicate with one another via filmed or recorded morning announcements and the school web site. Eighth grade studenwork cooperatively on this project. 

MICHIGAN +Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbo

Ann Arbor students and librarians will collaborate via e-mail anrooms with their colleagues in Tübingen, Germany, to create articles. These will focus on short stories for young teens, and final publication will be bilingual and available in both print and formats. 

MICHIGAN +Detroit Public Library, Detroit 

Shared summer reading programs and themes will promote cuand ethnic awareness and a destination for Internet activities. 

MICHIGAN +West Bloomfield Township Public L

West Bloomfield A “teen read-in” or virtual book discussion group, during which Library participants read and discuss the same books, exchanbooks from local authors and share lists of favorite authors, wjust one of the activities shared with participants in HigashiuraJapan. 

MINNESOTA +Cloquet Public Library, Cloquet 

Teens will come to the library and use chat rooms to talk to thepartners in Cloquet, Finland about lifestyles, reading and sch

committee of teens and children will work together to design programs and activities. 

MISSOURI +Kansas City Public Library, Kansas 

Targeting children and teens in Ramle, Israel, and Seville, Sp

special areas will be established in library branches with informabout the other libraries. A special web page for youth will be developed with direct links to the other Sister Library web sites

MONTANA +Bozeman Public Library, Bozeman 

Children will write letters describing Montana, their home, scholibrary. Each school will be asked to donate five items to be band exchanged with their Sister Library in Hamilton, Bermuda

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