Applications for the new Better World Books/NCFL Libraries and Families Award are now available! Through this opportunity NCFL and Better World Books will reward and enhance existing family programming and expand literacy-building practices of families in library settings.

One $10,000 grant will be awarded in each of these categories:
· local Friends of the Library programs
· public/academic libraries
· urban libraries

The winners will also receive scholarships to NCFL’s 2010 National Conference on Family Literacy that will take place April 11-13 in San Antonio, Texas.

The deadline to apply is March 3, 2010. To learn more about the award and to apply, visit www.famlit.org/BWB-library-award.