National Library Week 2006
April 2-8
Pensacola Junior College

During the week of April 2-8, 2006, library patrons may return overdue library materials and have the fines associated with those items waived. Please use this opportunity to " clean up" your library account.
Also during the week, members on the PJCLIST e-mail will receive a poem each day written by a PJC student, faculty member or employee. Additionally, PJCLIST members will have the opportunity to play literary trivia each day. First one to answer all ten questions will win a prize!
Daily activities:
Monday: Coffee, juice and donuts in the lobby of the Pensacola campus LRC. Begins at 7:30am and lasts until the refreshments are gone.
Book Fair: 9am-3pm, Pensacola campus LRC. Books for everyone – fiction, children’s, history, mystery, etc. as well as gift shop type items will be available for purchase. Funds raised will go to the PJC Foundation account for the LRCs use.
Google it! Workshop 2-3pm, given by Ginny Vail, PJC reference librarian. SPD credit will be awarded to registered participants.
Tuesday: Portrait unveiling of Dr. Lois Zaragoza-Goode, 2pm, second floor of the Pensacola campus LRC. A reception will follow the unveiling.
Thursday: PJC Authors’ Reception, 1pm-2pm, second floor of the Pensacola campus LRC. PJC students, faculty, and employees who have published during the past year will be honored.
Saturday: PJC/WFLF Writers’ Conference. PJC Student Center, Room 509. Registration, 8:30-9:30am. Cost $25 which includes lunch. Registration limited to 35.
First Session: 9:30-11:00: "Cutting the Umbilical Cord: How Editing Gives Life to the Words You Produce" given by Linda Wasserman, President of the Pelican Press, Pelican Press: A subsidiary of The Pelican Enterpise, LLC.
Second Session: 11:00-12:30: "Secrets to Writing Magazine Articles that Sell" given by Harriet Riley, University of West Florida, Department of Communication Arts.
Lunch: 12:30-1:30
Third Session: "From Pitch to Publication" given by Sarah Smiley. Military spouse Sarah Smiley is the author of Shore Duty, a syndicated newspaper column that reaches more than 2 million weekly and of the memoir Going Overboard: The Misadventures of a Military Wife (New American Library.) Sarah has been featured in The New York Times Magazine and Newsweek, and on ABC’s Nightline, CNN, CBS The Early Show, Fox News and MSNBC. The rights to Going Overboard were recently optioned by Kelsey Grammer’s company, GRAMMnet and Paramount Television Grammnet, and Paramount Television. It is now in development to be a half-hour sitcom for CBS. Smiley will be signing copies of Going Overboard after the third session.