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Florida
The Florida Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival through a statewide publicity campaign in cooperation with the State Library of Florida, the state's 87 public library systems, and local bookstores, newspapers, media, and other organizations. The campaign will begin on Sept. 6 and continue through the Spring of 2003 in order to cover 10 major Florida book festivals, including the Miami Bookfair International (November 2002), the Festival of Reading in St. Petersburg (November 2002), and .the Key West Literary Seminar (Jan. 9-12, 2003). The National Book Festival poster and bookmark will be distributed throughout the state. It will jointly feature the National Book Festival and the 10 major Florida book fairs. In addition, the Florida Center for the Book will develop a model project for possible future use by others at book festivals across the nation. To promote advance interest in the National Book Festival, the center will survey National Book Festival authors, posing the question, "What book made the biggest difference in your life and what difference did it make?" Their answers and photos will be posted on the Florida Center for the Book's Web site. Other celebrities will be added for Florida, including Florida's book festival authors. The survey also will be taken via a paper questionnaire at the Florida table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. For added convenience, the Web form and paper questionnaire will be available in Spanish. The Florida Web site will feature links to the National Book Festival Web site and the national Center for the Book's Web site, which maintains a current listing of book festivals across the country and the world.
Contact: Jean Trebbi, phone: 954-357-7404, fax: 954-357-6122, e-mail: jtrebbi@browardlibrary.org