10 Beautiful Things Photo Contest
Iowa is full of beautiful things!
Celebrate our state and Ten Beautiful Things by Molly Beth Griffin—Iowa’s 2024 “Great Read from Great Places” selection for youth—with a photo contest.
Photo submissions are due September 30, 2024.
Use the online form to send a photo you have taken of something beautiful in Iowa. Winning entries will be displayed on the Iowa Center for the Book website, on Ames Public Library’s social media, or at Ames Public Library’s special exhibit November 1-30.
Find out more or submit your entry at
www.AmesPL.org/form/ten-...
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Library of Congress Centers for the Book choose 2024 “Great Reads”
The 56 affiliated Centers for the Book of the Library of Congress have chosen books, called Great Reads, that will be recognized at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
The Library of Congress Center for the Book (https://www.loc.gov/programs/center-for-the-book/about-this-program/) has affiliates in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and Northern Marianas. These affiliates carry out the center’s mission of promoting books, reading, libraries and literacy, as well as their local literary herit... Read Full Blog