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MASL 2008 Fall Conference
Turf Valley Conference Center
Oct. 16 & 17, 2008

Keynote speaker:
Joyce Valenza

Feature Author:
Joesph Bruchac

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and the
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award

Join MASL aboard the Black-Eyed Susan, "an authentic 'turn-of-the-century' paddlewheel-driven riverboat" on Saturday May 3 at 12:30 for a 3-hour cruise.  Enjoy the beautiful Baltimore Inner Harbor from this unique viewpoint, dine on a wonderful "Summer Buffet" lunch, find out the nominated Black-Eyed Susan books for 2008-2009, and most important, learn first hand the winners of the Black-Eyed Susan Book Awards for 2007-2008.

Our guest author on board will be Johanna Hurwitz.  Her book Rip-Roaring Russell was an ALA Notable Book.  Johanna is a former school librarian whose books have been chosen for numerous state awards.

Click here for the cruise registration form.

Maryland Students Honor Authors
With Black-Eyed Susan Book Awards

The Maryland Association of School Librarians (MASL) would like to congratulate the more than 50,000 Maryland students from 16 counties, Baltimore City and 39 independent schools that read and voted for this year's nominated Black-Eyed Susan books. The students selected the following books to receive this prestigious award:

AASL Launches Blog

AASL has established a permanent weblog-AASLblog-to provide a focused and flexible format for information about programs, conferences, projects, resources, and activities of interest to AASL members and others in the K-12 library media community....

http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2006/june2006/AASLpermanentblog.htm

http://blogs.ala.org/aasl.php