Welcome to the Iowa Center for the Book
The Iowa Center for the Book (ICB) is a program of the State Library of Iowa and an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The mission of the ICB is to stimulate public interest in books, reading, literacy and libraries. To fulfill this mission the ICB offers a variety of programs and resources.
Joice library looking for 15 authors for fundraiser
The Joice Public Library is looking for 15 authors from Iowa for its 8th annual Omelet Breakfast Fundraiser and Author Invitational from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 13 at the Joice Bethany Lutheran Church. The fundraiser typically brings in 200 people. Authors will have a table, can sell their books and visit with library patrons.
Iowa breaks record for LAL entries with 1811!
The national reading/writing contest for grades four through twelve - "Letters About Literature" - deadline was December 12th with trainloads of letters sent to the Library of Congress' Center for the Book.
All Iowa Reads Announces 2010 Book - "Driftless" by David Rhodes
When David Rhodes’ first three novels were published in the mid-seventies, he was acclaimed as “one of the best eyes in recent fiction” (John Gardner), and compared favorably to Sherwood Anderson. In 1976, a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, and unpublished for the subsequent three decades.
Timothy Barrett, ICB boardmember, named MacArthur Fellow
Tim Barrett, a member of the Iowa Center for the Book Advisory Council and a research scientist and professor at the University of Iowa’s Center for the Book, has been named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, one of 24 recipients of the annual award. Barrett is an internationally renowned papermaker. The award gives recipients $500,000 over 5 years and frees them to pursue their craft, art, and research agenda.
Books You May Have Missed: "Parsnips in the Snow: Talks with Mid-Western Gardeners"
by Jane Anne Straw and Mary Swander. Last February I found myself on the way to the airport with no book to read. In the backseat ofmy car was a pile of books a friend gave me to take to the library book sale. I grabbed "Parsnips in the Snow," a Bur Oak Original published in 1990 by the University of
