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Step Up to the Plate @ your library®
The Keene Public Library wants to know: do you know more about baseball than than the librarians at the National Baseball Hall of Fame? If you think you do, then enter Step Up to the Plate @ your library, and show off your knowledge of baseball trivia. You may win a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The American Library Association and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Step Up to the Plate @ your library program teams up two American classics – baseball and libraries – to promote the importance of information literacy skills and to increase awareness of the library as an essential information resource. People of all ages are encouraged to use the print and electronic resources available at their library to answer a series of trivia questions designed for their age group (10 and under, 11-13, 14-17 and 18 and over). Questions are available in both English and Spanish. Everyone who successfully completes the program will be eligible to win a trip for two to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. The program runs through September 4, 2010.
“Reading has always been a key skill,” explains Youth Librarian Gail Zachariah. “But today’s literacy is about more than reading. Information literate people are those who have learned how to learn. They know how to learn because they know how knowledge is organized, how to find information – whether it’s in a book or online – and how to apply that knowledge once it is located.” Unlike most contests, players are encouraged to look up the answers using both print and online sources at their library. Players can pick up a copy of the Step Up to the Plate Playbook appropriate for their age group at the library or on the program’s Web site at www.ala.org/baseball. Each player can enter by online or send in the Playbook by mail.
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For more information about the program, visit www.ala.org/baseball. Visit atyourlibrary.org to learn more about what’s available at today’s libraries. More information on the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is available at www.baseballhall.org.
