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December 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2006

The Connecticut Library Association, Connecticut Library Consortium and the Connecticut State Library are partnering with Barnes & Noble Booksellers to Love Your Library this holiday season in a special fundraiser that will support InfoAnytime.


With InfoAnytime, Connecticut residents can access the help of a librarian online 24x7. As with most innovative new services, funding is a key to ensuring its success. That's why this year's Love Your Library proceeds will go to InfoAnytime, for libraries and their patrons throughout the state to enjoy.

Love Your Library vouchers are on their way to every public library, via C-Car. Visit www.loveyourlibrary.com, to download and print vouchers.

Buy your books at Barnes & Noble with your Love Your Library voucher on Love Your Library days – Friday, December 1st through Sunday, December 3rd.

EETT Award letters have been mailed!

Congratulations to the awardees!

ACES, Bridgeport, CREC, Danbury, Derby, Ashford (EASTCONN), New London, Plainfield and Windham.

For a copy the readers’ summative evaluation for your district, please call (860-713-6553) or send me an e-mail (arthur.skerker@ct.gov)

CECA Podcasts are UP!

Clint Kennedy has posted the podcasts from the CECA conference.

These may be found at http://feeds.feedburner.com/CECA. The episodes include David Warlick's session entitled "Flattening of the Web" and the CECA Conference slide show put together by Ted Roth.

Thanks Clint!

New award to invest in IT literacy

The Verizon Tech Savvy Awards were established by the National Conference on Family Literacy (NCFL), the Verizon Foundation, and the First Lady of Iowa Christie Vilsack, a Verizon Literacy Champion, and are designed to support sustainable programs that help parents bridge the widening gap between adults’ and children’s understanding of technology. The two generations must learn about technology together so parents can be effective teachers and advocates to ensure that their children are literate in technology and prepared for the 21st century workforce.

Successful programs should create innovative ways to employ technology as an important component in family literacy, and those methods should have the ability to be easily replicated at other sites across the country.

Four $5,000 regional awards and one $25,000 national award will be presented at NCFL’s National Conference on Family Literacy in March 2007. Deadline for submissions is January 12, 2007. For more information, please visit www.famlit.org/techsavvyawards