Innovative reading projects honored

Five state centers for the book from California, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, and Maine are the 2007 winners of the $1,000 Boorstin Award for innovative reading promotion projects. The awards were announced in May by John Y. Cole, director of the Center for the Book at the U.S. Library of Congress. The centers were honored for a wide variety of community-level and statewide projects. For further information about the activities of the Center for the Book and its state affiliates, visit the Center for the Book website.