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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:#FCFCFC"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please excuse duplicate postings<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:#FCFCFC"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Registration is now open for the 31st Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth, scheduled for April 9 and
10, 2015. Early bird and group rates are available for this year's event, which features award-winning authors and illustrators David Macaulay, Grace Lin and Rita Williams-Garcia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Virginia Hamilton Conference is held each year at Kent State University and is sponsored by the School of Library and Information Science, the College of Education, Health, and Human
Services and the Office of Continuing and Distance Education. The conference provides a forum for discussion of multicultural themes and issues for children and young adults.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="http://www2.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconference/index.cfm" id="http://www2.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconference/index.cfm|"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#FCFCFC">Read
more about this year's conference and keynote speakers</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:#FCFCFC">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:#FCFCFC"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Early Bird Registration</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This year the conference will offer early registration discounts for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">regular</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>registrants.
(Note: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">student</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>rates are already discounted and cannot be discounted further for early bird registration.
See below.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The discounted rates are: Thursday evening only, $35; Friday only, $105; full conference, $120. Early registration ends<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Feb.
1, 2015.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>After that date, the rates will be: Thursday evening only, $40; Friday only, $120; and full conference, $150. Registration for the conference ends on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March
20, 2015.</span></strong><b><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Group Registration</span></strong><br>
</b>Group rates are available for teachers and librarians who register through their school/library. For every three registrations purchased at the regular rate, the school/library will get one free registration. (Note: All three registrations must be the same;
e.g., all full registrations, or all Thursday only, or all Friday only.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The school or library should contact the Office of Continuing and Distance Education (OCDE) at 330-672-3100 or<a href="mailto:continuinged@kent.edu" id="mailto:continuinged@kent.edu|"><span style="color:#333333">continuinged@kent.edu</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
register for the group rate. (Group rate is not available through online registration.)<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Purchase Orders</span></strong><br>
Schools/libraries may pay for the registration with purchase orders. Please submit the registration form and the purchase order together. The Office of Continuing and Distance Education (OCDE) will then invoice the school/library for payment. Any questions
about the purchase order process can be directed to OCDE at 330-672-3100 or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:continuinged@kent.edu" id="mailto:continuinged@kent.edu|"><span style="color:#333333">continuinged@kent.edu.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Student Rates</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Student participants receive the following discounted rates: Thursday only, $25; Friday only, $65; full conference, $75. Students may<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www2.kent.edu/cde/conferences/virginiahamilton.cfm" id="http://www2.kent.edu/cde/conferences/virginiahamilton.cfm|"><span style="color:#333333">register
online</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or using the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www2.kent.edu/academics/cde/conferences/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=3877012" id="http://www2.kent.edu/academics/cde/conferences/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=3877012|"><span style="color:#333333">registration
form.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For more information about the conference and registration, visit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www2.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconference/index.cfm" id="http://www2.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconference/index.cfm|"><span style="color:#333333">http://www2.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconference/index.cfm.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Flo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Flo Cunningham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">School of Library and Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kent State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">330-672-0003<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:fcunning@kent.edu"><span style="color:blue">fcunning@kent.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges</span></i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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