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Emily Fitch of Fort Wayne, Indiana won the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2010 Morris/Nonfiction Book Trailer Contest. Her video, a trailer for The Everafter by Amy Huntley, portrays the feelings she got from reading the book through images and music.

Why is your library important to your community?  In an essay of 700 words or less, tell Woman's Day magazine what makes your library special.

One Book One City (or community, or university, or conference, or the like) programs have spread rapidly since librarian Nancy Pearl created the first one in Seattle in 1998. One Book programs encourage members of a community to all read the same book at the same time, and then come together to discuss it. Taking part is a great way to connect with your community--and it all happens at your library.

We're a few days after Valentine's Day, but in that spirit comes this story via SouthCoastToday of the romance that blossomed over a stolen library book.

In January, Paul Drake returned a book to the Fairhaven High School's Millicent Library that his father Woodland had, ahem, borrowed in 1940 to help a girl finish a report. Naturally enough, that girl would become Woodland's wife and later Paul's mother.

February is Black History Month, and from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in Charlottesville, Virginia, comes this page of

Black History Month resources

. Included are links to interviews with leaders in the black community, an archive of materials on racial segregation laws, details on almost 35,000 slave trade voyages, and the New York Public Library's African-American Migration Experience, among many others.

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The Brighouse Branch of Richmond (British Columbia) Public Library is just a few kilometers from downtown Vancouver, and it lies within the O Zone, a 60-acre celebration of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

From Booklist Online's Donna Seaman comes this new list of the ten best environmental books published in the past 12 months. These "works of extraordinary research, thought, passion, and insight" address natural disasters, the food supply, manufacturing, water, wilderness preservation, and a whole lot of top-knotch policy thinking.

The American Library Association has announced the top books, audiobooks, and video for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, King, Newbery and Printz awards – at its Midwinter Meeting in Boston.

See the Newbery and Caldecott winners on the "Today Show"

A list of all the 2010 literary award winners follows:

If you had to sum up American libraries in 2009 with one word or phrase, what would it be? While tech-savvy teens might say “Library 2.0,” others might opt for “Sorry, we’re closed!” or “Where’d all the books go?” Either way, everyone can agree that 2009 meant changes @ your library.