Celebrate National Library Week and Create your own story @ your library ® at the Bloomfield Public Library, April 10-16

Libraries are places for new beginnings.  Whether you are getting your first library card, learning new computer skills or planning a trip, the library is the place where your story begins. This National Library Week, join our nation's libraries and librarians and Create your own story @ your library.

     The Bloomfield Public Library  is celebrating National Library Week with an Essay/Picture Contest.   Create your own story depicting what the Bloomfield Public Library means to you.  Here are some guidelines and categories: 

Guidelines:

Artwork - 8 1/2 by 14 or smaller; 

Essays - 100--500 words; 

Poetry- less than 50 lines. 

Categories:

Pre-school 

K-2

Grades 3-6

Teens (grades 7-12)

Adults (age 18-up)

Family or Group

     One entry per person.        All entries must include: name, phone number, and category entered. Children's and teens' entries must include age and grade.   Artwork must include a caption (adults may help children with theirs). Please affix the entry form to the back of your entry (forms available in the library).   

     Entries must be submitted during  National Library Week, between April 10-16, 2011.  The deadline is Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 5pm.  Prizes for each category are gift certificates to  Holsten's Brookdale Confectionary.  Gift certificates were donated by Bloomfield Rotary Club, with our thanks.   Entries will be judged on creativity, originality and relevance to the Bloomfield Public Library.   

     First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April.  "Every day, libraries across the country are helping people create their own unique stories," says Lisa Cohn, Librarian.  "Whether it is by opening a book and exploring