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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=caps><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>***Please distribute widely and forgive cross-posting***<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=caps><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=caps><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>NEWS<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=caps><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=caps><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>February 23, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=caps><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=caps><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>CHICAGO</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>– As libraries gear up to celebrate the third National Bookmobile Day on April 11, they can now share what makes their <span style='color:#333333'>bookmobile special through the “Why We Love Our Bookmobile” YouTube video celebration. Through April 11, libraries across the country are invited to submit videos on the National Bookmobile Day YouTube channel that highlight the essential library services that bookmobiles and their dedicated staff provide every day, in communities large and small.</span></span><span style='color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;border-image: initial;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;orphans: 2;text-align:-webkit-auto;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=dquo><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=dquo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>“</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Why We Love Our Bookmobile” is open to libraries and library agencies who post videos that feature at least one of the following themes: patron support for the bookmobile; bookmobile services; or the library’s 2012 National Bookmobile Day celebrations. On National Bookmobile Day, three participating libraries will be selected at random to receive $50 gift certificates from<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=caps><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>ALA</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Graphics.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;border-image: initial;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;orphans: 2;text-align:-webkit-auto;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>For more information about “Why We Love Our Bookmobile,” including submission guidelines and instructions, please visit<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/bookmobiles"><span style='color:#8D3A3A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>www.ala.org/bookmobiles</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and click on “Why We Love Our Bookmobile.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;border-image: initial;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;orphans: 2;text-align:-webkit-auto;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>National Bookmobile Day celebrates America’s bookmobiles and the dedicated staff that provide vital library services in their communities. National Bookmobile Day is an opportunity for Americans to express their support for these important mobile institutions. For more than 100 years, bookmobiles have delivered information, technology and resources for life-long learning to Americans of all walks of life. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.9pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;border-image: initial;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;orphans: 2;text-align:-webkit-auto;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>National Bookmobile Day, begun in 2010, is celebrated in conjunction with National Library Week (April 8-14) and honors mobile delivery outreach as an integral and vital part of library service in the United States. National Bookmobile Day is sponsored by the American Library Association (<span class=caps><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>ALA</span></span>), the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services (<span class=caps><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>ABOS</span></span>) and the Association for Rural <span class=amp><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>&</span></span> Small Libraries (<span class=caps><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>ARSL</span></span>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To view the original news release on American Libraries, please visit: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/why-we-love-our-bookmobile-video-celebration-puts-spotlight-mobile-outreach">http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/why-we-love-our-bookmobile-video-celebration-puts-spotlight-mobile-outreach</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For more information, please contact: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>John L. Amundsen | Communications Specialist | ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>50 East Huron Street | Chicago, IL 60611 | T 312.280.2140 | F 312.280.3256 | <a href="mailto:jamundsen@ala.org">jamundsen@ala.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>