It's gratifying to see MCI acknowledge their contributions. The deadline for contest applications is April 30, 1998. Librarians, trustees and Friendss are encouraged to contact their local stations and urge them to air the video news release. The report includes interviews with Barbara J. Ford, President of ALA, and John Dayhoff, vice provost for information technology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The package includes on-air script for local announcers, additional soundbites and video footage of librarians, children and adults at various public, school and university libraries.
Tapes are also available.
271 or Christina Grimaldi, ext. Jon Chess is a supervisor at the Rockwood branch of Multnomah County Library. Jane Corry and Peter Ford are youth librarians at Multnomah County Library. Althea Pribyl is Series Bibliographic Control Coordinator for Blackwell's Book Services in Lake Oswego. Donna Reed is the Community Information System specialist at Multnomah County Library.