Finding Aid for National Library Week Publications, 1958-1964, 1967, 1970-1971 | The American Library Association Archives

Title: National Library Week Publications, 1958-1964, 1967, 1970-1971

ID: 74/1/10

Primary Creator: National Library Week Committee

Extent: 0.3 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Chronological

Subjects: National Library Week, National Library Week Publications, Publications

Languages: English

National Library Week Publications covering state programs, advances, goals, promotion or readings, schools and children. The organization handbooks cover the aims of National Library Week, sponsoring, history, subcommittee activities, suggestions and materials. The series includes Books and Libraries, tools of the academic world covers college and university libraries (1958), Report of the 1st observance of National Library Week (1958), National Library Week 2nd annual report (1959), Wake Up & Read; National Library Week organization handbook, 1 poster included (1959), For a better-read, Better-inform America, 3rd annual report (1960), Open Wonderful New Worlds... Wake up & Read; National Library Week Handbook (1960), to Stimulate Reading Throughout the Nation, 4th annual report (1961), For a Better-Read, Better- Informed America; National Library Week organization handbook (1962), Read and Watch You World Grow, 5th annual report (1962), The fifth freedom, 6th annual report (1963). The series also includes promotional book jacket Reading is the Key to New Worlds (1964); brochure The National Library Week Program/Growing with the Community (1967); Local Organization Handbook (1967); and Executive Director's Organization Handbook: Suggested Procedures for State Committees (1967); bookmarks and other promotional materials: Read and Watch Your World Grow (1962), Reading is the Key (1964), Explore Inner Space -- Read (1967), Reading is for Everybody (1970), You've Got a Right to Read. Don't Blow It, Life is an Open Book, If Books are Dead, so Are We (1971).

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Accruals: 4/26/1974; 5/13/1988; 4/16/2012

Other Note: Read and Watch Your World Grow (1962), Reading is the Key (1964) donated by Marvin Atkin, 10822 Liming Van Thompson, Hamersville, OH 45130

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/7401010a.pdf

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