Current Projects

  1. Lewis & Clark Activity Book for Kids, to be published in April 2003.
    Available to Montana Libraries at $2.00 per book.
    Based on themes from the Expedition, the book contains original drawings for coloring by Billings Gazette artist Victor Ady, puzzles, games, and activities by Roseanne Price, narrative by Cheryl Heser, and bibliographies by MLA Children's and Young Adults' Interest Group.
  2. Montana Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Passports, available to libraries beginning in April 2003.
    Free to all libraries willing to hand them out to patrons and visitors.
    The passports have places for library stamps as well as local history stickers or notes.
  3. Workshop, Thursday, April 24, at 1:00p.m. as part of the Montana Library Association Convention in Butte, Montana. 
    "Are You on the Trail?: Librarians Love Lewis & Clark" will feature Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, daughter of Undaunted Courage author Stephen Ambrose, who is publishing The Lewis & Clark Companion this spring and who relates her experiences on the Lewis & Clark trail as a child traveling with her famous father.
    Co-presenter is L&C Bicentennial Task Force Chair Cheryl Heser, who will update librarians on all current Lewis & Clark activities and opportunities.
  4. Packets for librarians are in the process of being developed, giving librarians websites for information, directions on obtaining MLA materials and publications, project suggestions, etc.
  5. Posters based on the theme "The Story Starts in a Library" are in process of being created and will be available to librarians sometime during the summer of 2003.
    The posters will be laminated and will have space for libraries to write or pin up their local activities, programs, and materials related to the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial.
  6. A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed committing MLA and other library associations from "trail states" across the nation to support the National Park Service educational project "Corps of Discovery II".
    This traveling exhibit, which will be on display in communities across the United States, includes both Expedition materials, materials for local activities, and the "Tent of Many Voices" for storytelling and sharing of all aspects of the Lewis & Clark story.

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