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October is National Reading Group Month — Celebrating the Joy of Shared Reading
NEW YORK -- August 7, 2008 -- The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) is launching the second National Reading Group Month in October 2008 to promote reading groups and to celebrate the joy of shared reading. "We champion reading and literacy by supporting reading groups," says Joan Gelfand, president of the Women's National Book Association.
Events featuring reading-group favorite authors are planned nationwide in the Association's nine chapters, including Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and the newly formed Seattle chapter. Partners from all aspects of the book industry are joining to support the initiative.
Women's National Book Association Names Rock Bottom Remainder Founder 2008 WNBA Award Recipient
Kathi Kamen Goldmark to receive award in ceremony planned for November 8, 2008.
The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) has named author, musician and Rock Bottom Remainders founder Kathi Kamen Goldmark recipient of its 2008 WNBA Award. A reception in her honor will take place on Saturday, November 8th at 4:30PM in San Francisco.
Dedicated to promoting literacy, a love of reading and women's careers in the world of books, the Women's National Book Association presents the WNBA Award every other year to honor a living American woman who derives part or all of her income from books and the allied arts and who has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond the responsibilities of her profession.
Past WNBA Award recipients include Eleanor Roosevelt, Patricia Schroeder, Nancy Pearl and, in 2006, Dr. Perri Klass, the pediatrician-author, who was recognized for her role as medical director of Reach Out and Read, a internationally recognized literacy program for children.
WNBA Announces Winners of 2008 Pannell Award
The Women's National Book Association is proud to announce the winners of this year's Lucile Micheels Pannell Award given annually since 1983 to two bookstores that excel in contributing to their communities in ways that bring books and young people together. The winner in the General Bookstore category is Kepler's Books and Magazines in Menlo Park, CA; the winner in the Children's Specialty Store category is The Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne, VT. Honorable Mention is awarded to Vero Beach Book Center in Vero Beach, Fl.
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2007 WNBA Eastman Grant
The Eastman Grant committee is pleased to announce that Hana Kim is the recipient of the 2007 WNBA Eastman Grant. Ms. Kim is Korea Studies Librarian in the East Asian Library at the University of Toronto, Canada. She wrote, "My mother owns a small publishing company in South Korea. Therefore, I was exposed early to the Korean publishing industry by assisting her occasionally. This experience developed my passion for books and influenced my career choice as a librarian."
When Ms. Kim was notified, she said, "It is great honour to receive this grant." She has enrolled in a course titled "Publishing Overview: Trade" at Ryerson University in Toronto. This course examines many aspects of the publishing industry including children's and mass-market books. Specific topics include publisher-author relations; subsidiary rights and co-publishing; administration, editorial, design, production, and marketing.
Kim says this course will enable her to become a resource on book publishing within her library. She also plans to provide workshops to library patrons on how to get their work published. "Most particularly, I would like to focus on how to select a publisher as well as the relationship between authors and publishers; for example, contracts, royalties, rights, and creative input. I am also interested in book design and copyright issues."
We wish her well and look forward to hearing from her when she has completed her course work.
Welcome
Welcome to the original WNBA - the Women's National Book Association, established in 1917, before women in America even had the right to vote. WNBA is a vibrant national organization. There are chapters with individual Active Members in nine cities, individual Network Members across the country, numerous corporate Sustaining Members, and chapter Honorary Members in the world of books and beyond. WNBA is a broad-based non-profit organization with some 800 members across the country, three distinguished national awards, and a history of lively events in chapter cities and elsewhere.
Mission
The Women's National Book Association is a national organization of women and men who work with and value books. WNBA exists to promote reading and to support the role of women in the community of the book.
Purpose
The purposes of WNBA are educational and charitable. WNBA came into being to inform book women about matters relevant to themselves and the book world so that these women could inform and help one another.
That's what we still do, through actions such as these:
- bring together women and men who are active in the world of books
- educate and inform the public about the need to create, produce, distribute, and use books
- respond to requests for information about books and the allied arts and generate and support projects that help to disseminate such information
- serve as a catalyst for all in the book community who wish to work together, and
- promote recognition of women's achievements in the book industry.