Join Rod Wagner, Nebraska Library Commission Director, Mary Jo Ryan, Nebraska Library Commission Communications Coordinator, and Teresa Lorensen, Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation Director, to: * Learn about how to create a successful local reading promotion using Nebraska's year-long, statewide celebration featuring Bess Streeter Aldrich, one of Nebraska's best-loved authors. * Brainstorm strategies to read and discuss A Lantern in Her Hand, a classic story of a pioneer woman who withstands the adversity of existence on the prairie to triumph in the joy of everyday life. * Find tools to help engage your community in local activites to encourage them to come together through literature to explore this classic work in community-wide reading programs. NCompass Live - March 11, 2009.

1. 2009 ONE BOOK ONE NEBRASKA: Nebraska Reads A Lantern in Her Hand NCompass Live – March 11, 2009

2. One Book, One Nebraska http://www.onebookonenebraska.org/

3. 2009 A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich http://www.bessstreeteraldrich.org/one_book.html