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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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WNBA Responds to Myanmar Cyclone Disaster with Members' Donations to U.S. Fund For UNICEF
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.
Women's National Book Association Launches National Reading Group Month in October 2007
The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) is pleased to announce the launch of National Reading Group Month (NRGM) in October 2007 to mark the 90th anniversary of the association's founding.
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National Reading Group Month Launch & 90th Anniversary Celebration
This is your invitation to celebrate the Women’s National Book Association’s 90 years of supporting the community of the book with our launch of National Reading Group Month.
A read-a-thon featuring best-selling authors.
Wine, food, and conversation round out the festivities.
Monday, October 29; 6 to 9 p.m. at the New York Center for Independent Publishing 20 West 44th Street; between 5th and 6th Avenues; New York, NY
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WNBA Announces Winners of 2007 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 retail bookstores that excel at inspiring the interest of young people in books and reading. The winner in the General Bookstore category is Books & Books of Coral Gables, Florida; the winner in the Children's Bookstore category is Wonderland Books of Rockford, Illinois. The awards will be presented by Mary Grey James, WNBA Pannell Chair, at ABA's Annual Celebration of Bookselling on the evening of May 31st at the ABA Marriott Hotel in Brooklyn.
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WNBA Pannell Award Partners with Penguin Young Readers Group
The Women's National Book Association is pleased to announce a new partner in presenting the 2007 WNBA Pannell Award at this year's BookExpo America on June 2nd. Penguin Young Readers Group has agreed to underwrite the award to recognize and publicly applaud the work of booksellers who stimulate, promote and encourage the interest of young people in books.
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Los Angeles celebrated WNBA's 90th Anniversary
Diane Scott, Kelly Sullivan Walden, Laurel Shapiro, Ruth Light and LaVergne Rosow prepare for the skit, WOMEN BOOKSELLERS UNITE!
New: Network Membership.
WNBA is pleased to announce a new membership category: Network Membership. If you live in a city without a WNBA chapter, you can join any chapter of the organization and are entitled to all rights and privileges accorded to active chapter members and to any additional benefits extended by that chapter to its members. For information about the benefits of Network Membership, click here.
2006 WNBA Eastman Grant
The Eastman Grant committee is pleased to announce that Linda Moskovics is the recipient of the 2006 WNBA Ann Heidbreder Eastman Grant. Ms. Moskovics manages the Allied Gardens/Benjamin Branch of the San Diego Public Library System.
She has enrolled in The Institute of Children's Literature course entitled Writing for Children and Teenagers. This course examines many aspects of the publishing industry including writing, editing, design, manufacturing, and marketing.
2006 WNBA Award Winner
The Women's National Book Association is delighted to announce the 2006 WNBA Award winner is Perri Klass, M.D. Dr. Klass' many books and articles, her impact as a leader of Reach Out and Read, where she currently serves as its medical director and president, have had an enormous impact on the world of literacy and books.
The ceremony in her honor, co-hosted by the Boston and New York City chapters, was held at a brunch reception on Sunday, December 3, 2006 at The New York Society Library.
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.