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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cape Coral - Lee County Library Patron Wins World Series Trip
FORT MYERS,
Fla., October 26, 2004
A Cape Coral
man will be a VIP guest at tonight's world series game after winning a
nation-wide library contest.
James Dinkins, age 58, of Cape Coral was the grand prize winner in the American Library Association's (ALA) Join the Major Leagues @ your library trivia contest. He will be attending tonight's World Series game in St. Louis between the Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox.
Dinkins picked
up a copy of the program playbook from the Cape Coral - Lee County Public
Library and completed a series of baseball-related questions designed to
test players' information literacy skills.
Sharon
Robinson, daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, drew Dinkins' name
from more than 1,500 library patrons nation-wide who completed playbooks.
Dinkins received two tickets to tonight's game.
A pre-game
announcement will be made tonight at the stadium.
In addition to the grand-prize winner , Lee County
Library System also had one of the 12 national first-prize winners. Drew
Leitman, 45, of Cape Coral will receive a copy of "Jackie’s Nine" by
Sharon Robinson, a Join the Major Leagues @ your library T-shirt and an
ALA READ poster featuring Jackie Robinson.
The drawings
were held at Major League Baseball offices in New York City.
The "Join the Major Leagues @ your library" program is designed to test players' information literacy skills by challenging them to answer questions like "What player holds the big league record with 4,256 hits?" or "The designated hitter made its first appearance in the major leagues in what year?"
This new
program is designed to help children and adults build their 21st century
information literacy skills and better understand how libraries and
librarians can help them. The program ran June 1st through September 10,
2004 at all Lee County Library System locations.
More information on the program is available at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/jointhemajorleagues . Other events were also held throughout the summer to support Join the Major Leagues @ your library. Children age 12 and under received free tickets to Fort Myers Miracle "Books and Bats" games by completing a Miracle "Books and Bats" reading log and redeeming it at a participating Pizza Hut.
The Lee County
Library System attended these "Books and Bats" games at the Lee County
Sports Complex and visitors to the LCLS table could show their library
cards to receive a special prize.
Fort Myers Miracle Baseball Team mascot and Miracle players also participated at special programs at Lee County Library System locations.
Karen Scholz, Library
Development Specialist Or Heather O'Connell Community Relations Coordinator Lee County Library System hoconnell@leegov.com Phone: (239) 461-2924 |