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Librarian Mariela Aguilar Wins Award for “Clara Guevara”

Congratulations!

Photo of Mariela Aguilera with book cover of "clara guevara and glucar sugar" overlaidYouth Services librarian Mariela Aguilar’s bilingual book “Clara Guevara y Glúcar Azúcar – Clara Guevara and Glugar Sugar” (published by Editorial Costa Rica) has received the Fundación Leer/IBBY Costa Rica Cuentos de mi Tía Panchita literary award in the translation category.

The IBBY, or International Board on Books for Young People, is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together.

Mariela, who has type 1 diabetes, first created the character of Clara Guevara as a way to help children learn to live successfully with their own type 1 diabetes. Since then, Mariela has written many adventures for Clara, excerpts of which can be found on her blog.

“Clara Guevara y Glúcar Azúcar – Clara Guevara and Glugar Sugar” will represent Costa Rica in the 2018 catalog IBBY Honour List, along with two more books awarded in the illustration and creative writing categories.

The 2018 IBBY Honour List will be presented at the 36th IBBY International Congress in Athens, Greece, from Aug. 30-Sept.1, 2018.

In the News: The Washington Post Explores Our Center for Local History

Judy Knudsen, manager of the Center for Local History at the Arlington’s Central Library, looks through a drawer of train and trolley route maps. (John Kelly/The Washington Post)

In the May 30, 2015 Washington Post article “Interested in Arlington History? This is the Place for You,” columnist John Kelly revels in the Arlington past as he meets the staff and sees the unique resources of Arlington Public Library’s Center for Local History.

 

 

In the News: Preserving Arlington Stories

Years from now, new generations will be grateful for today’s Center for Local History at Arlington Public Library

Arlington Television captures the long-term value of an official County archive as it helps preserve the story of Joan Mulholland, the fearless civil rights activist who fought segregation from Lee Highway to the Deep South before raising a family and teaching for decades back home in Arlington. This video won the 2014 Best of Show Award from the Library Leadership & Management Association.

An extensive oral history with Mulholland, available from the Center, represents just one “Arlington story” in a vast collection of memories and artifacts.

As a “footnote” to those stories and the piece above, Center manager Judith Knudsen received the 2014 lifetime achievement award from the Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region organization.

Judy and the Center’s work speak for themselves. And because of that, so do so many voices of Arlington’s past.

 

Learn more about the Center for Local History at the Arlington Public Library.

 

In the News: A Remarkable Gift for Future Arlington Library Users

Rosemarie G. Bowie wanted to share her love of Arlington Public Library.

The Washington Post’s Pat Sullivan looks at a dedicated library user’s generous gift to the Library, spelled out in the will she left before her death in June at the age of 76.

ARLNow.com writer Ethan Rothstein, Patch editor Jason Spencer and the Sun Gazette also tell the story of Rosemarie G. Bowie’s generosity.

As a follow-up, Washington Post Northern Virginia writer Tom Jackman is seeking more details about Ms. Bowie.

 

 

In the News: KidsPost Checks Out "American Girl Doll Lending Program"

Even When You’re the Stuff of History, You Can Still Make Today’s Paper

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March 19, 2013

Check out what the Washington Post’s KidsPost page had to say about the Library’s new American Girl Doll Lending Program, and how they let the Washington area know about the fun American Girl Doll events taking place around the Library system.

 

 

 

Video: Sustainable Libraries Award

Bikes, Buildings and Broccoli

On July 23, Susan Benton, President of the Urban Libraries Council, presented Arlington Public Library Director Diane Kresh with the 2012 award for Top Innovator for Sustainability.

The award, recognizes the Library’s efforts in three areas:

  • Encouraging clean transportation
  • Clean energy buildings
  • Using Library landscape space to create community gardens

Learn more.


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