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Team\n\nest-selling author Wally Lambwill be the keynote speakerwhen some of Connecticut's young-est writers are recognized at anawards dinner next June inLitchfield.The winners of theIMPAC/Connecticut State Univer-sity Literary Awards for YoungWriters will be honored then.Se-lected competitors will be invited toa writing workshop conducted byMr.Lamb.  \n“We are grateful to Mr.Lambfor his encouragement of theyoung writers in our program,”said Andy Thibault,chair of theIMPAC/CSU awards board.“We are happy to ensure thatjust as in sports,the literaryachievements of students willalso be recognized and ap-plauded.”  \nIMPAC is a leading produc-tivity management firm,whichalso endows the InternationalIMPAC Dublin LiteraryAward,which at 100,000 Irishpounds($135,000-$150,000)isthe world's largest literary prizefor a single work of fiction.  \nThe Connecticut State Uni-versity System,with more than  \n32,000 students on campuses inDanbury,New Britain,New  \nCONNECTICUTLIBRARIESA Publication ofthe ConnedicutLibraryAssociation  \nHaven and Willimantic is the state'slargest public university system.  \nLiterary Awards for Young Writ-ers,now in its third year,began inLitchfield County and this year isbeing extended to the entire state.It is conducted in cooperation withthe Connecticut Commission on theArts,and the Connecticut LibraryAssociation is among the sponsorsof the program.Students from ages13 through 18 are eligible to partici-pate.Two young writers from eachof Connecticut's eight counties willeach win $1000 awards for eitherprose or poetry.From that pool,judges will select the two best works  \nWWw.lib.uconn.edu/cla  \nStudents Get the Book Bug.……………2Looking at Book.……………………………2From the President………………………………3Executive Board Highlights ……………4Astoria Ridley,Spectrum Scholar……4Heritage:Cos Cob,Greenwich………5Connecticut History Online ………………6A Poem for Our Times.……………………………………7John Updike,Conference Keynoter...7Technology.…………………………………8CCSU Celebrates 150 Years…………………9Police Academy Library.………………………9Association Budge.……………………………10Arbuthnot Lectureship…………  ……11People ………………………………………………12ILL Loses a Super Sleuth……………12  \nThe winners of Litchfield County's 1999IMPACLiterary Awards for YoungWriters,Natalie G.Araujo for poetryand Amar Mebta (rigbt)for prose,areshozen with James B.Irwin,chairman ofIMPAC and awards donor  \nin the state;those two authorswill receive an additional $1000.Total prize money for next yearwill be $18,000.  \nYoung writers are asked tosubmit their best single work inpoetry or prose.Only one en-try per student is permitted andeach must be nominated by ateacher in a public or privateschool.Home school nomina-tions are also accepted.Proseentries may include essays,shortstories,reviews,plays,researchpapers or news articles.Thereare no length requirements.Theeditors of Connecticut Review,the literary journal for the Con-necticut State University Sys-tem,will consider publication ofthe winning statewide entries.  \nContinued on page 3  \n# Students GetThe Book Bug\n\nPlanning plus  \nbard work yield  \na successful  \nsummer reading  \nprogram in  \nManchester.  \nL0OKING AT  \nhe childrenof Manchester cameto itslibraries in stunningly high numbers for this summer's reading programs.Participation increased 80 percent over last year.That translates into 2635young people who regularly haunted Mary Cheney Library,reading about   \n40,000 books between June and the end of August.Attendance also increased at Whiton Memorial Library,the North Main Street branch.  \nLibrarians and educators,who workedtogether to promote summer reading,should bebursting their buttons over the results.Circulation has been leaping each year at the libraries.This summer it rose 13 percent over the summer of 1998.Anyone who visited the main branch in the past few months could sense the enthusiasm m the long lines of young patrons.  \nManchester's success demonstrates that youngsters can get excited about reading if they're 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