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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Cross-posted. Please excuse duplication.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Voting for the Buckeye Children’s and Teen Book Awards</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is now open! Ballots are on the BCTBA website:
<a href="http://www.bcbookaward.info/" target="_blank">www.bcbookaward.info</a>. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You may direct children and teens directly to this link where Ohio students in grades K-12 can register their votes:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://bcbookaward.info/home/vote-now/">bcbookaward.info/home/vote-now/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Students only please!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Librarians and teachers may collect votes on behalf of their students, TAB/TAG, program attendees, library users, etc. Librarians and teachers should submit those votes here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://bcbookaward.info/home/teachers-and-librarians-vote-now/">bcbookaward.info/home/teachers-and-librarians-vote-now/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ballot bookmarks are available for you to download, print, and distribute to students – but remember, their vote doesn’t count until it’s submitted via one of the two links above. You may choose
to keep a jar at the desk, or make a ballot box as part of a library display, and have students complete and turn in their votes – then you add them up and submit then using the teacher/librarian form. Find the ballot bookmarks, and other resources including
free access to TeachingBooks.net materials, here: <a href="http://www.bcbookaward.info/resources" target="_blank">
www.bcbookaward.info/resources</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Voting is open from September 1 – November 10.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The lists of nominated books are on the bookmarks, on the student voting page, and here:
<a href="http://www.bcbookaward.info/current-nominees" target="_blank">www.bcbookaward.info/current-nominees</a>. Put together a display, or just spread the word among the children and teens at your library.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As students vote this fall, they can also nominate new books that they are reading now. Nominations for the 2020 awards are being accepted until March 10, 2020. Books published in 2018 and 2019
are eligible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Buckeye Book Award program is Ohio's statewide reader's choice award for students in grades K-12, empowering Ohio’s students to commend their favorite books.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BCTBA is designed to encourage children in Ohio to read literature critically, to promote teacher and librarian involvement in children's literature programs, and to commend authors of such literature.
It was established in 1981 and is a collaborative effort of the Ohio Literacy Association, the Ohio Educational Library Media Association, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, the Ohio Library Council, the Kent State University iSchool, and
the State Library of Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Like the Buckeye Children’s and Teen Book Award on Facebook:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Buckeye-Childrens-Teen-Book-Awards/322915497718866" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/pages/Buckeye-Childrens-Teen-Book-Awards/322915497718866</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002E62">Janet Ingraham Dwyer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002E62">Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002E62">Columbus, OH 43201<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002E62">Tel: 614-644-6910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002E62"><a href="mailto:jdwyer@library.ohio.gov">jdwyer@library.ohio.gov</a>
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