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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:#494949;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">ALA is</span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE"> now<span style="color:#494949">
accepting applications from libraries interested in participating in the Great Stories Club, a book club program for underserved youth. See below for details.
<a href="http://www.programminglibrarian.org/articles/apply-now-great-stories-club-truth-racial-healing-transformation">
Click here to view this info online.</a> –Sarah, ALA Public Programs Office<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:#494949;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:#494949;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">Library professionals are invited to apply for the American Library Association’s Great Stories
Club series on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT). This thematic reading and discussion program series will engage underserved teens through literature-based library outreach programs and racial healing work.</span><span style="color:#494949"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;margin:1rem 0rem;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="color:#494949"><a href="https://apply.ala.org/greatstories/guidelines" target="_blank"><span style="color:#337AB7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Visit the project guidelines</span></a> and <a href="https://apply.ala.org/greatstories" target="_blank"><span style="color:#337AB7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">apply
online</span></a> by Nov. 16. Up to 70 libraries will be selected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;margin:1rem 0rem;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="color:#494949">An expansion of ALA’s longstanding Great Stories Club program model, the TRHT series will feature books that explore questions of race, equity, identity, history, institutional change and social justice. The series is a part of the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation efforts, a comprehensive, national and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism. <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">The
TRHT Great Stories Club is supported by a </span></span><span style="color:#337AB7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/ala-receives-11-million-wk-kellogg-foundation-reading-and-discussion-model" target="_blank"><span style="color:#337AB7">grant
from the Kellogg Foundation</span></a></span><span style="color:#494949;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">.</span><span style="color:#494949"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#494949">Participating libraries will work with small groups of approximately 10 teens; provide up to four theme-related books for each participant to keep as their own; convene opportunities for exploration and discussion of relevant humanities
content among peers; and offer at least one interactive session for program conveners and participants led by a racial healing practitioner(s).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;margin:1rem 0rem;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="color:#494949">All types of libraries (public, school, academic and special) are eligible, as long as they work in partnership with, or are located within, an organization that reaches underserved teens (e.g., juvenile justice facilities, alternative
high schools, agencies serving teenaged foster children, youth-focused community nonprofits).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#494949">Below is a sampling of partnerships from libraries that participated in the TRHT Great Stories Club pilot program:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Juneau Public Library (Juneau, Alaska) partnered with the treatment unit of the Johnson Youth Center to introduce students in the detention facility to literature and ideas that resonate with them. “Too often curriculums and pop culture present a homogeneous
culture that reflects colonization norms and does not resonate with our students,” wrote librarian Amelia Jenkins. “This series is a concrete step toward acknowledging their experience and expanding their intellectual life.”<br>
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Dallas Public Library (Dallas, Texas) collaborated with Promise House, a nonprofit group home that supports homeless LGBT youth, to lead weekly gatherings with their youth. <span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">“The
participants gain an understanding of how their racial identity affects them and how to navigate society and develop positive relationships with those who are different from them,” says Monique Christian-Long, the library’s teen services coordinator.</span><br>
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Towson University (Townson, Maryland) worked with Baltimore Public Schools in a collaborative program for high school and college-age students. “<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">By connecting the high school
students with university students who are involved with Towson University’s Black Student Union, Towson Freedom School and our library’s A-LIST Student Leadership Program, we hope to provide a window into what activism and engagement on a college campus can
look like,” wrote librarian Miriam DesHarnais.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="color:#494949">Grantee benefits include 11 paperback copies of up to four books on the reading list; a programming grant of up to $1,200; travel and accommodation expenses paid for attendance at a two-day orientation workshop in Chicago; and additional
resources, training and support from ALA’s Public Programs Office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#494949">Applicants may choose to apply for one of the following themes: “Deeper Than Our Skins: The Present is a Conversation with the Past” and “Finding Your Voice: Speaking Truth to Power.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#494949">Libraries selected for a “Deeper than Our Skins” grant may choose up to four books from the following reading list:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">“</span></b>Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano” by Sonia Manzano<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices,” edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“The Shadow Hero” by Gene Luen Yang, illustrated by Sonny Liew<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“Mother of the Sea” by Zetta Elliott<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.” by Luis J. Rodriguez<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="color:#494949">Libraries selected for a “Finding Your Voice” grant may choose up to four books from the following reading list:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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“The Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo9;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“I Am Alfonso Jones” by Tony Medina<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo9;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“Gabi, A Girl in Pieces” by Isabel Quintero<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo9;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“Piecing Me Together” by Renée Watson<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo9;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“American Street” by Ibi Zoboi<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color:#494949;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo9;background:#FEFEFE;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
“Anger is a Gift” by Mark Oshiro<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="color:#494949;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">The TRHT Great Stories Club <a href="http://www.ala.org/tools/programming/truth-racial-healing-transformation-GSC/implementation-team" target="_blank"><span style="color:#337AB7">Implementation
Team</span></a> has led creation of both series. The “Deeper Than Our Skins” series has been developed by literature scholar Maria Sachiko Cecire (Bard College) and librarians Wini Ashooh (Central Rappahannock Regional Library System), Edith Campbell (Cunningham
Memorial Library at Indiana State University) and Vanessa “Chacha” Centeno (Sacramento Public Library). “Finding Your Voice” was developed by literature scholar Susana M. Morris (Georgia Institute of Technology) and librarians Angelina M. Cortes (Sno-Isle
Libraries), Joslyn Bowling Dixon (Prince William Library System) and Amira Shabana (Barrington (Illinois) Middle School).</span><span style="color:#494949"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#494949;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">A final round of Great Stories Club grants for the TRHT series will be offered in 2019 for programs held Oct. 1, 2019 – March 31, 2020. Additional details are available <a href="http://www.ala.org/tools/programming/truth-racial-healing-transformation-GSC"><span style="color:#337AB7">online</span></a>.</span><span style="color:#494949"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#494949;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">The Great Stories Club is administered by ALA’s Public Programs Office in partnership with ALA’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services. Funding is provided
by the Kellogg Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and Acton Family Giving.</span><span style="color:#494949"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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