[OPLINLIST] News from YALSA

Tue Jun 2 16:51:45 EDT 2009

From: Stephanie Kuenn 
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:19 PM
To: Jenny Najduch; Louisa Worthington; Satia Orange; Don Wood
Subject: YALSA's SummerSlam Reading Jam: Please forward

Hello all:

Please forward to appropriate listservs. It's much appreciated!

Attention public librarians!

YALSA and World Wrestling Entertainment(r) have joined forces for the
SummerSlam Reading Jam, a pilot project with two great prizes: your
library could win $1,000 for teen and tween materials for your library's
collection and two of your tween and teen library patrons can win a free
trip for two to WWE's SummerSlam pay-per-view event in Los Angeles.

Here's how it works:

*         Sign up online! The first 500 libraries to register for the
pilot project
<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=oMf7rqwQoEKZjLEsS44ukQ_3d_3d>
will receive mini-posters courtesy the WWE. The deadline to sign up for
the SummerSlam Reading Jam is June 8 (although registration will close
once 500 libraries have signed up for the pilot project).

*         Check 'em out! Each librarian who signs up will receive 25 WWE
mini-posters, which should be distributed to any library patrons between
the ages of 10 and 18 who take out two books between June 24 and July
16. The posters are all numbered. Distribute all your posters by July
16.

*         Win prizes! Two lucky poster holders each will receive a Grand
Prize of a free trip for two to WWE's SummerSlam pay-per-view event in
Los Angeles, Calif., on August 23, 2009. In addition, they will receive
$200 in spending money. WWE will also be giving away 10 copies of the
WWE Encyclopedia, which recently made the New York Times Bestseller
list. The libraries that distributed the winning posters for the two
Grand Prizes will each receive a stipend of $1,000 from WWE for teen and
tween materials for your library's collection.

Full details and the official rules are available online at
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/summerslam.cfm. (Contest open
only to those who reside in the 50 U.S. states and the District of
Columbia.)

And don't forget to sign up for the WrestleMania(r) Reading Challenge,
which launches during Teen Read Week in October. Registration is
available through Teen Read Week registration
<http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2009/registr
ation.cfm>  through July 31.

Questions? Please contact me at skuenn at ala.org. 

-Stevie

Stephanie (Stevie) Kuenn

Communications Specialist

Young Adult Library Services Association <http://www.ala.org/yalsa> ,
the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association

skuenn at ala.org

v: 312.280.2128

f: 312.280-5276

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