College Student Essay Contest-deadline 1/8/09

NCBS

The National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) is the leading organization of Black Studies professionals in the world. For more than 30 years NCBS members have been at the forefront of driving the development of Black/Africana Studies as a respected academic discipline.

Essay Contest

Submit your essay today to compete in the NCBS Annual Student Essay Competition! Winners will be recognized at the Student Luncheon.


ESSAY GUIDELINES:
Essays should focus on any aspect of the Africana experience, i.e., art, education, history, literature, politics, psychology, social and policy issues.
Must bet typed in MS Word, 12-18 pages in length, double-spaced with one-inch margins left-to-right and top-to-bottom.
Students are asked to document sources using either the MLA or APA style guides.
Submissions must be mailed to the address below. Faxed or electronic essays are not accepted!

Please include the following information on your cover sheet only:
Name
Mailing address
Telephone number
Email Address
Name of college or university
Class status (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Graduate Student)
Name of Faculty Advisor
Do not include the above information on any subsequent pages of the essay other than on the cover sheet.
DEADLINE: January 8, 2010
(must be received by this date)


Send all manuscripts to:

National Office, NCBS
Department of African American Studies
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4109
Atlanta, GA 30302-4109

Street/Overnight Address
1 Park Place South, #962
Atlanta, GA 30303

Prizes

Winners
Undergraduate Winners:
1st Place - $350.00
2nd Place- $250.00
3rd Place- $125.00

Graduate Winners:
1st Place - $350.00
2nd Place- $250.00
3rd Place- $125.00

For more information:

http://www.ncbsonline.org/home

http://www.ncbsonline.org/student_essay_contest

info@ncbsonline.org

GSCBA-Attention: New Jersey Public and School Librarians

Don't delay- Submit your tally sheets!-deadline 1/1/10

The Garden State Children's Book Award Committee would like to encourage New Jersey school and public libraries to make the children's votes count!

For the official tally sheet and ballot for the 2010 Award Winners, as well as information on where to send your library's winning results, please see the following link on the NJLA website: http://njla.pbworks.com/f/gscbaballot10.pdf

If your library has set up a display and ballot box for the 2010 nominees, please tally up the three most popular titles in each of the four categories (Easy Reader, Easy Reader Series, Fiction and Non-Fiction) and send your library's winning results to the committee by Friday, January 1, 2010.


If your library has not set up a display and ballot box for the 2010 nominees, your library can still participate by using your library's circulation statistics to determine the three most popular titles in each of the four categories and send your library's winning results to the committee by Friday, January 1, 2010.

For information on the Garden State Children's Book Award, the 2010 Ballot and Past Winners, please see the following links on the NJLA website:

Ballot
http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/GSCBAballot.pdf
http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/GSCBA_annotations_fiction.pdf
http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/GSCBA_annotations_NF.pdf

Nominees
http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/GSCBA_annotations_ER.pdf

Information
The Garden State Children's Book Awards were established in 1977 to honor books for younger readers. The Children's Services Section (CSS) of the New Jersey Library Association felt that books for the early and middle grades seldom received proper recognition. Yet it is at this age, more than any other, that the potential reader needs to be encouraged, stimulated and captivated by the printed work and good illustration.

The winners are chosen by a committee of the Children's Services Section of the New Jersey Library Association on the basis of literary merit and popularity with readers. The awards are given to both author and illustrator in four categories: "Easy to Read" as specifically designated by the publisher, "Easy to Read Series", Fiction and Non-fiction for younger children in grades 2-5. Because children vote for their favorite books, the committee works with titles published three years before the award.

http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/index.html

Past Recipients:
http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/childrens.html
http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/teen.html

If your library did create a display of the 2010 GSCBA nominees and would like to share pictures of it with us, or if you have any questions, please email us at GSCBACom@gmail.com.