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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Curtis Rogers <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> SCPLIBPR@LISTSERV.SCSL.STATE.SC.US;
SCSL-PRESS@LISTSERV.SCSL.STATE.SC.US<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Staff; Amanda LeBlanc; Martha Alewine; Sara June Goldstein;
yohogclc@earthlink.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> South Carolina Middle School Student Receives National Honor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>South Carolina
Middle School Student Receives National Honor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Columbia,
S.C. – More than 69,000 young readers from across the country participated in
this year's Letters About Literature writing contest, a reading promotion
program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, presented in
partnership with Target and sponsored in South Carolina by the State Library’s
Center for the Book. In South Carolina, a total of 1,074 students
participated in the Letters About Literature program.<br>
Sydney Hodgin, a student
at West-Oak Middle School in Westminster, SC was the 1<sup>st</sup> place State
Winner in the Level 1 (grades 4-6) category. Her letter went on to
national level judging and she has received a Letters About Literature National
Honor award. Sydney wrote to John Howard Griffin, author of <em><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Black Like Me.</span></em><span
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Sydney is one of four</span></span> National Honors recipients who get to
designate a library to receive a $1,000 Target grant. Sydney said,” I decided
to give the money to my school because teachers there are helping me become an
outstanding student and citizen.” She will also receive a $50 Target Gift
Card. Sydney is the daughter of <span style='color:black'>Derek and
Jane Hodgin in Westminster.<br>
Sydney will be
recognized along with 8 other South Carolina Letters About Literature Award
Winners at an award ceremony held Friday May 7, 2010, at 11:00 am in room 309
of the State Library’s administrative building located at 1430 Senate Street in
Columbia. For more information about the Letters About Literature
program, visit <a href="http://www.lettersaboutliterature.org">www.lettersaboutliterature.org</a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>About
the S.C. State Library<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The
South Carolina State Library is the primary administrator of federal and state
support for the state’s libraries. The Library is a national model for
innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. The Library’s
mission is to optimize South Carolina’s investment in library and information
services. In 1969, as the result of action by the General Assembly, the State
Library Board was redesignated as the South Carolina State Library and assumed
responsibility for public library development, library service for state
institutions, service for the blind and physically handicapped, and library
service to state government agencies. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., the
Library is funded by the state of South Carolina, by the federal government
through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and other sources.
For more information, visit </span><a href="http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>www.statelibrary.sc.gov</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> or call
803-734-8666.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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