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Judith Furnari

Sponsoring Organization: North Country Library System
Attending: Syracuse University

This is my funny story! I am currently at Syracuse University working on my MLA in School Media and I am also the Children's Room Coordinator at the Oswego Public Library. I am going to be doing my high school fieldwork in Pulaski, NY.

I planned to have a Chinese New Year's Party in February 2007 at the Oswego Public Library for the community and 2007 is "The Year of The Pig". Monique Frey, an English Teacher at Pulaski Jr/Sr High School actually owns a pot-bellied pig and brought it our party. The Oswego Daily News (oswegodailynews.com) is an online local news source that reported and covered the activities at our party and posted this online. It was great fun.

One month later I received a call at the Oswego Public Library from a George Eberhart who said he was from the ALA. At first I did not believe him and thought he was a salesman. Actually, he does work for the ALA and wanted to put our Chinese New Year's story in the April 2007 ALA magazine and on the e-mail edition of their newsletter. This actually happened! I was shocked.

I asked how he found out about our party and he told me that the ALA actually has people search the web for library news of interest all over the US and he found our story. To think, I thought he was a salesman on the phone and almost hung up!