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SLIS Alumna Receives John Cotton Dana Award
MARY ANNE PARKS, MLS'74, COORDINATOR OF MEDIA INFORMATION SERVICES AT WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT IN INDIANAPOLIS, accepted the John Cotton Dana Award on behalf of the school district in summer 2000. The national award is given to libraries for outstanding work in public relations.
Parks chaired a reading celebration during National Library Week in April 2000. The celebration, Once Upon A Millennium: Washington Township Schools Celebrate Reading 2000, involved the entire school district and community.
About 1,500 people attended the event, which was held at North Central High School. It included a book fair, a reading circle with storytelling by the mayor of Indianapolis and a state senator, and presentations by nationally known children's book authors Gordan Korman and Margaret Peterson Haddix and illustratorFloyd Cooper.
Jim Davis, creator of Garfield the cat, designed a special Garfield holding a book for the occasion and donated two signed books as prizes.
Parks received a certificate and $2,500 from the H. W. Wilson Co. during the annual American Library Association Conference in June 2000 in San Francisco.
Photo: Mary Anne Parks MLS'74 With Representative From H.W. Wilson Co.
Posted December 13, 2001