[Libri] Save the Date -- Thursday, October 3rd

[Sharon Shaloo]

The Massachusetts Center for the Book Invites You to the Second Annual Massachusetts Book Awards on Thursday, 3 October 2002, at the newly rebuilt Worcester Public Library!

Join us in this celebration of Massachusetts book culture and our commonwealth's contributions to the second National Book Festival.  (The national festival will be held in Washington, D.C., Saturday, 12 Octoer 2002.)

Special Guests: Stanley Kunitz, recipient of the first MassBook Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and John Y. Cole, Executive Director, Center for the Book in the Library of Congress

6:00 p.m. 


Pre-Awards Recognition of Massachusetts Organizations contributing to the Second National Book Festival


7:00 p.m. 


The Massachusetts Book Awards Ceremony 


John Y. Cole introduces the Second National Book Festival


MassBook Judges announce the best works of Massachusetts fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the preceding year


The Massachusetts Center for the Book and the Masssachusetts Book Awards honor Stanley Kunitz for lifetime achievements in poetry and book-community service 

Book Signing and Reception Follows


The Massachusetts Center for the Book is the Commonwealth Affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Its founding partners include the American Antiquarian Society, Boston Public Library, Five Colleges, Inc., Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, and University of Massachusetts Amherst.  We sponsor programming that will expand the circle of Massachusetts readers and stimulate widespread interest in the past, present, and future of commonwealth book culture, emphasizing in all our work the central role libraries play in a civic society.

This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Library of Congress through the generosity of ATT and the Carnegie Foundation.

Watch the National Book Festival on CSPAN's Book TV.

For additional information, contact the Massachusetts Center for the Book.  Hope to see you there!!

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Sharon Shaloo
Executive Director, Massachusetts Center for the Book

Mailing Address (until December 1, 2002)
Massachusetts Center for the Book
University of Massachusetts
W.E.B. DuBois Library, Room 1385
Amherst, MA  01003
413-545-2029 (voice); 413-577-4050 (fax)
shaloo at library.umass.edu (office)
S_Shaloo at msn.com (home)

"There is no frigate like a book" -- Emily Dickinson

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