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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR
WIN.
A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
Eligibility:
Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the 50 United States
and D.C. (excluding Florida) age 18 or older. Winners must be
librarians, working staff of a library or seeking employment at a
library. Employees of vendors of services and products to libraries
are not eligible. Employees of Reed Business Information (the
"Sponsor") and its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and
promotion agencies and their immediate family members and/or those
living in the same household of each are not eligible to enter.
Subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and
regulations. Void where prohibited by law.
Entry: Method #1:
To enter, follow all entry instructions to complete and submit
the online entry. Online entries must be received between 12:01 AM
Eastern Time ("ET") on 11/01/06 and 11:59 PM (ET) on 12/15/06.
Online entrants subject to all notices posted online including but
not limited to privacy policy. Limit: One online entry per person or
email address. In the event of a dispute, online entries will be
deemed to have been submitted by the Authorized Account Holder of
the email address submitted at the time of entry. "Authorized
Account Holder" means the natural person who is assigned to an email
address by an internet access provider, online service provider, or
other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses
for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Method
#2: To enter via US mail, mail a postcard with your name and address
to: SLJ/LJ Fall Collection Sweepstakes, c/o: School Library
Journal/Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South, Room 13-004, New
York, NY 10010. Each postcard must be mailed separately. Mail-in
entries must be postmarked between 10/01/06 and 11/15/06 and
received by 11/30/06. Photocopied, illegible, or mechanically
reproduced entries are not eligible. All entries and requests become
Sponsor's property and will not be returned or acknowledged. Sponsor
is not responsible for lost, late, damaged, misdirected or postage
due mail/entries.
Prizes/Approximate Retail Values
("ARV")
6 Prizes Total
- 3 Taking Sides Student
Collection (ARV: $418.36 each)
- 3 Annual Editions Collection
(ARV: $383.46 each)
Random Drawing:
Winners will be selected in a random drawing from all eligible
entries received. Random drawing will be conducted on or about
01/05/07. Winners will be notified by e-mail, and at the judges'
discretion, may be required to complete and return an Affidavit of
Eligibility and Liability and a Publicity Release
("Affidavit/Release"), if permissible, within 14 days of date
specified on notification, or an alternate winner will be selected.
Prizes awarded within 90 days after receipt of Affidavit/Release. If
Affidavit/Release or prize is returned as undeliverable, it will
result in disqualification, and the corresponding prize will be
awarded to an alternate winner in a separate random drawing. If a
winner is otherwise eligible under these Official Rules, but is
nevertheless deemed a minor in his or her state of primary
residence, the prize will be awarded in the name of winner's parent
or legal guardian. Prize is non-assignable or transferable except to
a surviving spouse. Prize winner is responsible for all federal,
state, local and sales and income taxes. Prizes awarded to winners
on behalf of their institution. Entry and acceptance of any prize
constitute permission to use each winner's name, prize won,
institution name and likeness for online posting and promotional
purposes without further compensation, except where prohibited by
law. All prizes are guaranteed to be awarded.
General:
Participating entrants agree to these Official Rules and the
decisions of the Sponsor, and release the Sponsor and their
affiliated companies, and all other businesses involved in this
Sweepstakes, as well as the employees, officers, directors and
agents of each, from all claims and liability relating to their
participation, acceptance and use of each prize. Winners assume all
liability for any injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused,
by participation in this Sweepstakes or use or redemption of any
prize. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other
error in the printing of the offer, administration of the
Sweepstakes or in the announcement of the prizes. Winners
acknowledge that the Sponsor, its parent companies, affiliates and
all other companies concerned with this Sweepstakes and their agents
do not make, nor are in any manner responsible for, any warranty,
representations, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relative
to the quality, conditions or fitness of any aspects of the prizes.
For a list of winners (available after 01/15/07), send a stamped,
self-addressed envelope by 01/31/07 to:
"SLJ/LJ Fall Collection
Sweepstakes" winners
c/o: School Library Journal/Library Journal,
360 Park Avenue South, Room 13-004
New York, NY 10010
Sponsor:
School Library Journal/Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South,
New York, NY 10010.
Confidentiality:
By entering you may be contacted by the Sponsor with future
promotional offers. Information provided by you to participate in
this Sweepstakes is subject to Sponsor's privacy policy.
In the event of a dispute over the identity of an online entrant,
entry will be deemed submitted by the "Authorized Account Holder" of
the e-mail address submitted at time of entry. Authorized Account
Holder means the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address
by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other
organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for
the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Entry
materials/data that have been tampered with or altered, or mass
entries or entries generated by a script, macro or use of automated
devices are void. The Sponsor is not responsible for: (i) lost,
late, misdirected, damaged, illegible or postage due mail/entries;
or (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in
operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized
access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical,
network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or
software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or
failure to receive entry information by Sponsor on account of
technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any
web site or any combination thereof; or (iii) any injury or damage
to entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting
from participating in the Sweepstakes. By participating in the
Sweepstakes, you (i) agree to be bound by these official rules,
including all eligibility requirements, and (ii) agree to be bound
by the decisions of Sponsor and the independent judging
organization, which are final and binding in all matters relating to
the Sweepstakes. Failure to comply with these official rules may
result in disqualification from the Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves
the right to: (i) permanently disqualify from any sweepstakes it
sponsors any person it believes has intentionally violated these
official rules; and (ii) withdraw the online method of entry if it
becomes technically corrupted (including if a computer virus or
system malfunction inalterably impairs its ability to conduct the
Sweepstakes), and to select winners from among all eligible entries
received prior to withdrawal.
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AN INDIVIDUAL, WHETHER OR NOT AN ENTRANT, TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE,
DESTROY, TAMPER OR VANDALIZE THIS WEB SITE OR INTERFERE WITH THE
OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES, IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL
LAWS AND SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND DILIGENTLY
PURSUE ALL REMEDIES AGAINST ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
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