Today's post is from Cindy Boyle at TLA:

We are very pleased to introduce you to the TLA 2008 Conference Sponsors. Please be sure to convey your appreciation to these companies and their representatives when you see them at their booths at the annual TLA Conference and as you work with them throughout the year. They help make TLA strong.

Authors Area - Librarian’s Yellow Pages

Author Session with TBA Award Winner - Bound To Stay Bound

Badge Holders - Capstone Press/Compass Point Books/Picture Window Books/
Stone Arch Books

Black Caucus Round Table Author Session - Follett Library Resources,Renaissance Learning, Inc., & Stone Arch Books

Book Cart Competition - DEMCO, Inc.

Closing Author Session - SMART Technologies

Conference Information Center - Gumdrop Books

CONFERENCE TIMES Newsletter - Gumdrop Books

Conference Programs
Designing Projects for 21st Century Learners - Highsmith, Inc
Oh No, I Have to Catalog, too? - Auto-Graphics, Inc.
Getting Them Where They Live - Garrett Book Company

Diversity Fair - DEMCO, Inc.

Exhibits Directory & Buyers Guide - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Exhibit Hall B Café - Davidson Titles, Inc.

General Session I - netTrekker d.i.

General Session II - Brodart Company

Hetherington Fun Run/Walk - ProQuest

Internet Room - MAXIMUM RIDE

Net Fair - netTrekker d.i.

Pocket Program - Gumdrop Books

President’s Party - Baker & Taylor
President’s Party Spirits - EBSCO Information Services & Encyclopedia Britannica

Small Community Libraries Dessert Social - Star Book Sales

TALL Texans Leadership Institute - DEMCO, Inc.

TLA/TBA Store - Sentry Technology Corporation & Library Design Systems

Welcome Party - Ingram Library Services Inc.

Scholarships, Awards, Grants & Conference Stipends
Biblionix – Small Community Libraries Round Table Conference Stipend

DEMCO, Inc./TLA Research Grant

Escue Annual Conference Stipend

Garrett Scholarship

Highsmith Library Awards
“Letters about Literature” for 2008 – Texas Center for the Book and Texas Association of School Librarians

ProQuest/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award

Quality Books – NMRT Professional Development Grant

Texas Book Festival Grants

Tocker Foundation Conference Stipends

Van Dusen-Brady-Tobin Scholarship

Walter H. Escue Memorial Scholarship

Contributions to divisions, round tables, interest groups, and districts are recognized
by the individual units.

TLA thanks the following exhibiting companies for their support of the “Strong Libraries, Strong Scores” mini-conference on April 16:
ABC-CLIO
Follett Library Resources
Perma-Bound
Tandem Library Books