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Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival by expanding the reach and promotion of the second annual Massachusetts Book Awards, which take place in Worcester on Oct. 3. Center for the Book Director John Y. Cole will be a speaker at the ceremony and talk about the National Book Festival. Each of the four winners of the 2002 Massachusetts Award will be invited to spend at least a half an hour at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States on Oct. 12 at the National Festival. Moreover, each of the partner organizations participating in the "Great Ideas for Promoting Reading" pavilion on Oct. 12 that has a Massachusetts chapter or office will be invited to participate in the Massachusetts Book Awards ceremony on Oct. 3. Finally, the publicity campaign for the Massachusetts awards will include publicity for the National Book Festival.
Contact: Sharon Shaloo, phone: 413-545-2029, fax: 413-577-4050, e-mail: shaloo@library.umass.edu