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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Georgetown County Wins Smart
Investing @ Your Library Grant to Promote Financial Education<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Georgetown,
S.C. – Georgetown County Library will launch a two-year, innovative,
“Smart investing @ your library®” program, to promote financial
education throughout its entire community. The public library will be working
with a variety of civic groups countywide to help local citizens, including
many disadvantaged ones, to learn to manage and invest money more effectively
and wisely: very important topics during these tough economic times! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>In January
2010, the American Library Association (ALA) and the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Investor Education Foundation awarded $87,300 to
the Georgetown County Library – through the Friends of the Georgetown
Library organization – as part of the national “Smart investing @
your library®” program. The Georgetown County Library is one of only 19
libraries nationwide to be selected for participation. It is also the only
South Carolina library this year to receive this award. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The grant
will help to build the capacity of the Georgetown County Library to provide
effective, unbiased money-management and investor education to the community at
large. With the funding, the Georgetown County Library will introduce
“Powerful Investment Education” (P.I.E.) to enhance local
folk’s basic financial literacy. “We want to make sure that every
citizen in our district has a place at the table to enjoy a piece of the
economic P.I.E.,” said Georgetown County Library Director Dwight
McInvaill. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The
Georgetown County Library’s <i>Powerful Investment Education</i> (P.I.E.)
will encompass <i>P.I.E. Productions</i>, <i>P.I.E. Play</i>, and <i>P.I.E.
Presentations</i>. The “Productions” component will involve
establishing collections of books and materials on basic money management and
investment in locations throughout the county, filming teen-generated public
service announcements on financial education resources and opportunities,
creating a digital collection of historic photographs on the Great Depression
along with oral-history videos to remind the public how we’ve always
faced such challenges, and adding FINRA investment education modules to the
library’s website for more in-depth information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>P.I.E.
Play</span></i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> will involve
families in using digital means like Microsoft Photo Story 3 to share their
remembrances of tough economic times while recalling how they persevered by
working and striving together. Tots at childcare centers will be taught very
basic money-related concepts in fun and age-appropriate ways. Older children
will be encouraged to participate in tournaments involving educational
interactive gaming on money management and financial topics. Folks of all ages
will be invited to two community-wide parties to engage celebrate financial
knowhow in ways that are informative but fun. “Picture for instance, a <i>Happy
Days Are Here Again Fashion Show</i>,” said Georgetown County Library
Director Dwight McInvaill, “with ‘Recessionistas’ or
‘Frugalistas’ – rather than <i>Fashionistas</i> –
strutting a ruthlessly pragmatic art of low-cost clothing: a fashion statement
for our times with free food, too! Think lots of Kudzu Bakery cookies!
Yes!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>P.I.E.
Presentations</span></i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> will
feature workshops and talks on financial management and investment topics.
Activities will range from lectures by university professors to informational
sessions for parents of endangered children. There will also be training for
library staff in finding the very best money-making resources for local
citizens when they visit the library for free, valuable information.
“Such speakers will be submitted for approval to FINRA before being
hired, since FINRA permits no one from the brokerage-firm-community to be involved
with this project: the money for this grant comes from fines on this group,
and it would be inappropriate to return the money to that sector,” said
Library Director Dwight McInvaill. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>“We
are so pleased to have been selected by the ALA and FINRA Investor Education
Foundation for participation in this important investor education
program,” said Georgetown County Library Director Dwight McInvaill.
“Through the grant, we are able to offer a number of new high-quality
investor educations and services, enabling our library to become an even
stronger resource for patrons looking to learn more about investment options
and saving strategies.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>"Smart
decisions about personal finances and investing often begin at the local public
library," said John Gannon, president of the FINRA Foundation. "By
nearly doubling last year’s funding for Smart investing @ your library®,
we are helping to turn library cards into passports for people hoping to arrive
at a brighter financial future. Our Foundation is proud to partner with the ALA
and to support the important investor education efforts at the Georgetown
County Library.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>“The
Georgetown County Library has always been a valuable source of information for
its citizens, and libraries are part of the solution when a community is
struggling economically," said ALA President Camila Alire. “From
free access to books and online resources for families to library business
centers that help support entrepreneurship and retraining, libraries enable
lifelong learning. I would like to thank the FINRA Foundation for its continued
investment in our nation’s libraries. We are thrilled that through the
FINRA Foundation’s generous support, Smart investing @ your library®
grantees will have the resources to provide library users with access to
unbiased investor education.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Smart
investing @ your library®</span></i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
is being administered jointly by the Reference and User Services Association
(RUSA), a division of the ALA, and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation
(formerly known as the NASD Investor Education Foundation). The program
supports public libraries in their efforts to meet investor education and
protection needs at the community level. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Established
in 1876, the ALA is the oldest and largest library association in the world.
Its mission is “to provide leadership for the development, promotion, and
improvement of library and information services and the profession of
librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for
all.” For more information, visit <a href="http://www.ala.org">www.ala.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The FINRA
Investor Education Foundation supports innovative research and educational
projects that give underserved Americans the knowledge, skills and tools necessary
for financial success throughout life. For details about grant programs and
other FINRA Foundation initiatives, visit <a
href="http://www.finrafoundation.org"
title="blocked::http://www.finrafoundation.org/">www.finrafoundation.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>FINRA, the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is the largest non-governmental
regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA
is dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and
efficient regulation. FINRA registers and educates industry participants,
examines securities firms; writes and enforces rules and federal securities
laws, educates the investing public and provides trade reporting and other
industry utilities. FINRA also administers the largest dispute resolution forum
for investors and registered firms. For more information, please visit our Web
site at <a href="http://www.finra.org">www.finra.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The
Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library
Association, is the foremost organization of reference and information
professionals who make the connections between people and the information
sources, services and collection materials they need. Established in
1876, the American Library Association is the oldest and largest library
association in the world. It strives to provide leadership for the development,
promotion and improvement of library and information services and the
profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to
information for all. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.ala.org">www.ala.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>For more
information, contact Dwight McInvaill, Director, Georgetown County Library,
843-545-3304 or <a href="mailto:dmcinvaill@georgetowncountysc.org">dmcinvaill@georgetowncountysc.org</a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>About
the S.C. State Library<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The South
Carolina State Library is the primary administrator of federal and state
support for the state’s libraries. The Library is a national model for
innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. The
Library’s mission is to optimize South Carolina’s investment in
library and information services. In 1969, as the result of action by the
General Assembly, the State Library Board was redesignated as the South Carolina
State Library and assumed responsibility for public library development,
library service for state institutions, service for the blind and physically
handicapped, and library service to state government agencies. Headquartered in
Columbia, S.C., the Library is funded by the state of South Carolina, by the
federal government through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and
other sources. For more information, visit <a
href="http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov">www.statelibrary.sc.gov</a> or call
803-734-8666.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Curtis R. Rogers, Ed.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Communications Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/">South Carolina
State Library</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>POB 11469, 1430 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ph:803-734-8928 fax:803-734-8676<o:p></o:p></p>
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You Joined SCLA Yet for 2010? </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> If not, please do! The
Association needs you as an active member in 2010! Click on <a
href="http://www.scla.org/index.php/Documents/Membership">http://www.scla.org/index.php/Documents/Membership</a> and
join today. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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