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As Priority Consultant for ALSC Priority Group V, Projects and Research, my role is to promote, encourage and support projects, activities and research relating to our division of the American Library Association. I’m responsible for four committees and one discussion group. Here’s what they’re doing: The Collections of Children’s Books for Adult Research Discussion Group provides a forum for the discussion and study of specific collections of children’s materials in terms of their research value. New co-conveners, including Sylvia and Kenneth Marantz, founders of the Children’s Literature Database and collectors of picture books for 40 years, promise to breathe new life and focus into the group. Since they overlap with the National Planning of Special Collections committee, they will be in contact by sitting in on meetings and making suggestions to the committee. National Planning of Special Collections Committee is working on a program for Annual in 2008 entitled, “Using...