Nationwide Activities

Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival through a statewide media campaign coordinated by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in partnership with the Pennsylvania State Library, the Pennsylvania Library Association, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association, and the Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Each of these organizations will publicize the National Book Festival through their own publications and activities, displaying the poster and distributing the bookmark at appropriate events. WPSX-TV, Penn State's public broadcasting station, will publicize the National Book Festival in connection with a new project being developed with the Pennsylvania Center for the Book about books that have helped shape the state and its citizens. The project will be part of WPSX's Emmy award-winning "What's in the News" television program, which is seen throughout central Pennsylvania and syndicated for viewing in 30 states. The Pennsylvania Center will use its "What Pennsylvanians Read and Why" project to develop a statewide book club and statewide bibliography of what Pennsylvanians have read, and might want to read. A promotional partnership will also be offered to all of Pennsylvania's newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The project will be highlighted and promoted at the Pennsylvania table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival on Oct. 12, 2002.

Contact: Steven Herb, phone: 814-865-0401, fax: 814-865-3665, e-mail: slh18@psu.edu