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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.ala.org/rt/gncrt/eisner" id="OWAc1bdc37f-99fe-5c03-127b-9f959927972a" class="OWAAutoLink">Eisner Graphic Novel Grants
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);">Two Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries will be given in the 2024 grant cycle
- one Will Eisner Graphic Novel Growth Grants will provide support to a library that would like to expand its existing graphic novel services and programs and one Will Eisner Graphic Novel Innovation Grant will provide support to a library for the initiation
of a graphic novel service, program or initiative. These Grants will support two categorical grants that will encourage public awareness on the rise and importance of graphic literature, sequential art, and comics as a literary medium. The objective of the
Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries is to facilitate library-generated programs and services that will promote graphic novels to library patrons and to the local community.</span></div>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);">Each winning library will receive a grant award
of $4,000 to support initiatives that align with the objective of the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries. The grant award will consist of the following: </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">$2,000 grant in collection development funds to purchase graphic novels,</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">$1,000 grant to host a graphic novel-themed event at a library or another community location, and</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">$1,000 grant to attend the ALA Annual Conference to receive their grant money. This grant can be
used towards any of the following: conference registration, transportation, lodging and food.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);">In addition, from the book publishers and the Eisner Foundation, the winning libraries will also receive the following
graphic novels, valued at approximately $3,000:</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Will Eisner Library: A graphic novel collection of Will Eisner’s work and biographies about Will
Eisner* (comprising approximately 40 books)</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A selection of the winning titles from the current year’s Will Eisner Awards* at Comic-Con International
(comprising approximately 40 books).</span></li></ul>
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Cassandra E. Osterloh </b></span><span style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Cherokee Nation)</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>,</b></span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><img width="122" height="122" style="width: 122px; height: 122px; max-width: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:4d6f72f1-4ed4-4635-9317-4fe4ef8aee69"><b>Tribal
Libraries Program Coordinator</b></span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Library Development Bureau,
<b>New Mexico State Library</b></span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">1209 Camino Carlos Rey</span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>ALA-APA Councilor, NM Chapter</b></span></p>
<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">505-264-2427 (cell)</span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">cassandra.osterloh@dca.nm.gov <br>
<b>Learn more: <a href="https://nmstatelibrary.org/services-for-new-mexico-libraries/tribal-libraries-program/" class="ContentPasted0">
Tribal Libraries Program</a></b><br>
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