/24-7PressRelease/ - FALLS CHURCH, VA, April 16, 2008 - AdoptALibrary.org, the smash hit literacy advocacy website, is being honored by having April 23 named "Adopt A Library Day" by proclamation of the governors of Virginia and Nebraska and the South Dakota state legislature.
Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia has proclaimed April 23rd "Adopt A Library Day" to celebrate AdoptALibrary.org and its creator and director Lynn Gaubatz, a Virginian, and draw attention to what we all can do for libraries. The governor of Nebraska and the South Dakota legislature honored AdoptALibrary.org because of the thousands of books libraries on reservations and tribal colleges have received through AdoptALibrary.org.
"Adopt A Library Day is becoming an annual event, and is helping so many libraries across the country," says Lynn Gaubatz. "Each year Adopt A Library Day gets bigger and better, and more schools and libraries - and of course, people! - benefit."
Created by classical musician Lynn Gaubatz in 2002, AdoptALibrary.org is designed to encourage and facilitate donations to schools and libraries, in prisons, on Native American reservations, and around the world.
AdoptALibrary.org does not ask for or accept donations - all donations offered go directly to libraries and schools, or organizations which aid them.
AdoptALibrary.org is a smash hit - 250,000+ visitors! and is so popular it has been "Website of the Week" in Woman's World and Good Housekeeping's Quick & Simple! magazines. Hundreds of newspapers across the US, from an editorial in Bigfork, Montana to "Hints from Heloise", have praised AdoptALibrary.org and it's listed on websites and newsletters about recycling and ecology worldwide because of all the books it keeps out of landfills.
Besides Lynn's two August 2007 appearances on Oprah & Friends! Radio, AdoptALibrary.org was featured in the April 2007 "Special Green Issue" of Town & Country in a special section called "Going, going, GREEN." In November 2007 Woman's Day magazine declared her one of four winners of their "7th Annual Woman's Day Awards: Women Who Inspire Us."
In 2004 AdoptALibrary.org ran The Ben Franklin Xtreme Library Challenge! to find the most clever and eco-friendly uses for old National Geographic magazines, with the prize awarded by the National Geographic Society.
AdoptALibrary.org founder Lynn Gaubatz is considered to be one of classical music's most brilliant soloists. Named "One of America's Ten Most Outstanding Young Working Women" by GLAMOUR Magazine, Lynn has wowed audiences on four continents - North and South America, Europe and Africa - including solo performances in Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, and Washington.
Besides her career as a soloist and chamber musician, Lynn is an avid literacy activist who performs benefit concerts in the US and Europe. On her three benefit "Concerts for India" in Austria, Lynn performed the world premières of two of the five works composed for her by Fritz Berens, an Austrian composer who fled the Nazis in 1939, and the world première of a work by Danish composer Ivar Danielsen. She also performs, and lectures on music banned and destroyed by the Nazi regime to bring to light the forgotten music, and credits libraries with preserving much of the music and literature that would otherwise be lost.
Lynn's performances have been broadcast worldwide on radio and TV by The Voice of America, CBS, PBS, Radio Nacional de España, and Radio Nacional de Venezuela, and several of her solo recitals from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC have been broadcast worldwide via the Internet. She's the only bassoonist ever featured by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC on their lectures "Art of the Virtuoso" and "The Concert Experience".
Lynn taught at the world-renowned Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria for several years, and has given master classes in Salzburg, Vienna, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, Madison, Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
If you would like more information, please feel free to contact me. Each time AdoptALibrary.org gets media attention, donations SKYROCKET! so I'll be happy to cooperate any way I can.
Thanks,
Lynn Gaubatz
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