News from the Center for the Book: Promoting Reading at the Book Festival

摘要

For the fifth straight year, the Center for the Book played a key role in the Library's annual National Book Festival. The center develops, coordinates and oversees arrangements for the presentations by the festival's authors, illustrators and poets. In turn, the National Book Festival helps the center strengthen its mission of stimulating public interest in books, reading, literacy and libraries. The state centers for the book and many of the center's national reading promotion partners are active festival participants. For example, in cooperation with two of its national reading promotion partners — the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities — the center organizes and manages the Pavilion of the States. A third partner, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), has sponsored the Poetry Pavilion since 2003 and once again played a role in the selection and support of this year's participating poets.