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2017 Arbuthnot Lecture Site Application Deadline Extended
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the 2017 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Committee are proud to announce the opening of the application to host the 2017 event featuring Newbery Honor and National Book Award winning author...
Carnegie Whitney Grant 2016 winners
CHICAGO —The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types...
2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Selection Committee announced
The 2017 committee is starting work on selecting titles for the longlist for these prestigious awards, now in their sixth year. Since 2015, the shortlist announcements are being made in October (for books published during that calendar year) and winner...
"The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom" named 2016 Eli M. Oboler Award winner
The Intellectual Freedom Round Table has announced the winner of the 2016 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award, which recognizes the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom. The 2016 award goes to The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual...
Okerson and Holzman monograph wins ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
CHICAGO — The recipients of the 2016 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Publication Award are Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman for their monograph “ The Once and Future Publishing Library” (CLIR, 2015). The...
Swanson Best of LRTS Award to Alonso Lifante and Molero Madrid
CHICAGO—M. Pilar Alonso Lifante, doctor of astronomical information retrieval, and Francisco Javier Molero Madrid, doctor of astrodynamics, at University of Murcia in Murcia, Spain, have been awarded the 2016 Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award for...
ALSC names eight more Great Websites for Kids
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the 91传媒, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, its online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children. The...
Tickets available for 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture featuring Pat Mora
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Santa Barbara Public Library System announced that tickets for the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture featuring Pat Mora are now available. The lecture, titled "Bookjoy! ¡Alegría...
ALSC announces 2016 Notable Children's Videos
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the 91传媒 (91传媒), has selected its 2016 list of Notable Children’s Videos. The list includes videos for children 14 years of age and younger that exhibit...
ALSC announces 2016 Notable Children's Recordings
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the 91传媒 (91传媒), has selected its 2016 list of Notable Children’s Recordings. The list includes recordings for children 14 years of age and younger of...
ALSC names 2016 Notable Children's Books
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the 91传媒 (91传媒), has selected its 2016 list of Notable Children’s Books. The list of titles includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and picture books of...
BOSTON—The Notable Books Council, first established in 1944, has announced the 2016 selections of the Notable Books List, an annual best-of list comprised of 26 written for adult readers and published in the U.S., including fiction, nonfiction and poetry...
91传媒 announces 2016 youth media award winners
BOSTON - The 91传媒 (91传媒) today announced the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – at its Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits in Boston. A...
Matt de la Pe帽a, Sophie Blackall win Newbery, Caldecott Medals
BOSTON - Matt de la Peña, author of “Last Stop on Market Street,” and Sophie Blackall, illustrator of “Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear,” are the 2016 winners of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals, the most...
David A. Adler, Sam Ricks win Geisel Award for 鈥淒on鈥檛 Throw It To Mo!鈥
BOSTON – Author David A. Adler and illustrator Sam Ricks are the 2016 recipients of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for “Don’t Throw It To Mo!” published by Penguin Young Readers, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC. The award was announced today by the...
