1. President's budget proposes increases in LSTA funding
2. ALA announces award winners
3. Applications for "John Adams Unbound" traveling exhibit due April 4
4. Culver's again promoting National Library Week
5. Let's Talk About It: Love & Forgiveness reading/discussion grants
6. Applications for "Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience" due April 4
7. Website of the Week - Smithsonian Photography Initiative
8. Calendar
1. PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSES INCREASES IN LSTA FUNDING
President Bush's fiscal year 2009 budget, released this week, includes the following proposed increases in Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding:
-- $171.5 million for state grants, an increase of $10.6 million over FY 2008 (final state grant funding for 2008 represented a decrease of 1.75% below 2007 funding);
-- $12.715 million for the National Leadership Grants for Libraries, an increase of $556,000 over FY 2008;
-- $26.5 million for the Recruitment of Librarians for the 21st Century, an increase of $3.16 million over FY 2008;
-- $3.717 million for Native Americans Library Services, an increase of $143,000 over FY 2008; and
-- $3.5 million for library policy, research, and statistics (included in the administration total), an increase of $1.54 million over FY 2008.
The President's budget proposals will now be considered by Congress. The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) is the only federal program exclusively created for libraries, and is administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Information on Wisconsin's LSTA program is available at http://www.dpi.wi.gov/pld/lsta.html.
2. ALA ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS
The American Library Association (ALA) recently announced the 2008 Children's Book and Media Awards. Other related awards were also announced. The award winning titles are included here. In addition the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) has announced the Charlotte Zolotow Award winners and that list is also included.
2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal - awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children (http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.htm)
Caldecott Winner
"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
Caldecott Honor Books
"Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad" illustrated by Kadir Nelson written by Ellen Levine (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)
"First the Egg" by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
"The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtin" by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)
"Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity" by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
2008 John Newbery Medal - awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children
(http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.htm)
Newbery Winner
"Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
Newbery Honor Books
"Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic/Scholastic Press)
"The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
"Feathers" by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam/GP Putnam's Sons)
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award - given to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. (http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/geiselaward/GeiselAward.htm)
Geisel Winner
"There Is a Bird on Your Head!" by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Geisel Honor Books
"First the Egg" by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
"Hello, Bumblebee Bat" written by Darrin Lunde, illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne (Charlesbridge)
"Jazz Baby" by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Harcourt)
"Vulture View" by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Holt)
2008 Pura Belpré Award Winners - given to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. (http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/BelpreAnniversary.htm)
Pura Belpré Winner
"The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano" by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Sean Qualls (Holt).
Pura BelpréHonor Books
For illustration:
"Los Gatos Black on Halloween," illustrated by Yuyi Morales, written by Marisa Montes (Holt).
For narrative:
"Frida: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life!" written and illustrated Carmen T. Bernier-Grand (Marshall Cavendish).
"Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale" retold by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Michael Austin (Peachtree).
"Los Gatos Black on Halloween" by Marisa Montes, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Holt)
For illustration:
"My Name is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez/Me llamo Gabito: la vida de Gabriel García Márque" illustrated by Raúl Colón, written by Monica Brown (Luna Rising)
"My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo" written and illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children's Book Press)
ALSC Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal - awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year. (http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/sibertmedal/Sibert_Medal.htm)
Winner
"The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain" by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)
2008 Honor Books
"Lightship" written and illustrated by Brian Floca (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
"Nic Bishop Spiders"written and illustrated by Nic Bishop (Scholastic Nonfiction, an imprint of Scholastic)
2008 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winner - presented annually to an American producer for the outstanding video production for children (up to age 14) released in the United States in the previous calendar year. (http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/carnegiemedal/carnegieterms/carnegiemedal.htm)
Winner
Producer Kevin Lafferty along with executive producer John Davis, and co-producers, Amy Palmer Robertson and Danielle Sterling, are the 2008 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winners for the production of "Jump In!: Freestyle Edition."
2008 Odyssey Award - given for the first time in 2008 to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
(http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/odysseyaward/Odysseyaward.htm)
Odyssey Winner
"Jazz" produced by Live Oak Media
Odyssey Honor Audiobooks
"Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary 'Jacky' Faber, Ship's Boy," produced by Listen & Live Audio
"Dooby Dooby Moo," produced by Scholastic/Weston Woods
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," produced by Listening Library
"Skulduggery Pleasant," produced by HarperChildren's Audio
"Treasure Island," produced by Listening Library
2008 Mildred L. Batchelder Winner - citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
(http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batcheldercurr/batchelderaward.htm)
Batchelder Winner
VIZ Media for "Brave Story" by Miyuki Miyabe and translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith
Batchelder Honor books
Milkweed Editions for "The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity" by Jutta Richter, with illustrations by Rotraut Susanne Berner, and translated from the German by Anna Brailovsky."
Phaidon Press for "Nicholas and the Gang" by René Goscinny, illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, and translated from the French by Anthea Bell
2009 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer -- The lecturer may be an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children's literature.
(http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/arbuthnothonor/arbuthnothonor.htm)
2009 Lecturer
Walter Dean Myers
ALSC's Notable Children's Books, Recordings, and Videos
Lists of the Notable titles are online at
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/childrensnotable/Default1888.htm
2008 CCBC Zolotow Award - given by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for outstanding writing in a picture book written in the previous year. (http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/zolotow.asp)
Zolotow Winner
"Thank You, Bear" by Greg Foley (Viking)
Zolotow Honor Books:
"At Night" written and illustrated by Jonathan Bean, edited by Wes Adams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
"Dragon Dancing" by Carole Lexa Schaefer, illustrated by Pierr Morgan, edited by Tracy Gates (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group)
"Pictures from Our Vacation," written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins, edited by Virginia Duncan (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Zolotow Highly Commended:
"The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll" by Patricia C. McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkey (Schwartz & Wade / Random House)
"The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County" by Janice N. Harrington and illustrated by Shelley Jackson (Melanie Kroupa Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
"A Good Day" written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins)
"Granddad's Fishing Buddy" by Mary Quigley and illustrated by Stephane Jorisch (Dial)
"Jazz Baby" by Lisa Wheeler and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Harcourt)
"Only You" by Robin Cruise and illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Harcourt); /Pierre in Love, /written by Sara Pennypacker and illustrated by Petra Mathers (Orchard / Scholastic)
"Those Shoes" by Maribeth Boelts and illustrated by Noah Z. Jones (Candlewick Press)
"The Trouble with Dogs Said Dad" written and illustrated by Bob Graham (U.S. edition: Candlewick Press)
"What Happens on Wednesdays" by Emily Jenkins and illustrated by Lauren Castillo (Frances Foster Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
The Schneider Family Book Awards - honor an author or illustrator for a book in three age categories that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences. The book must portray some aspect of living with a disability. Books must be published in the previous two years. Dr. Katherine Schneider, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and her family endowed this American Library Association Award in 2003. The award is administered by the ALA Governance Office. (http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=awards&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=163339)
Schneider Award for Young Children
"Kami and the Yaks" by Andrea Stenn Stryer, illustrated by Bert Dodson (Bay Otter Press of Palo Alto, CA, 2006)
Schneider Award for Middle Grades
"Reaching for the Sun" by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (Bloomsbury USA Children's Press, New York, NY., 2007)
Schneider Award for Teens
"Hurt Go Happy" by Ginny Rorby (Starscape Book, Tom Doherty Associates, 2006)
3. APPLICATIONS FOR "JOHN ADAMS UNBOUND" TRAVELING EXHIBIT DUE APRIL 4
"John Adams Unbound" is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Boston Public Library, and the American Library Association (ALA). The exhibition is based upon a major exhibition of the same name that was on display in the galleries of the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, in 2006 and 2007 (see http://www.johnadamslibrary.org).
The Small Grants to Libraries program brings traveling exhibitions and other types of public programming to libraries across the country. The traveling exhibition and tour are funded by a major grant from NEH to the Boston Public Library.
"John Adams Unbound" has been designated as part of the NEH's We the People program, which supports projects that explore significant events and themes in our nation's history and culture and advance knowledge of the principles that define America. The exhibit is about Adams's personal library itself-a collection of 3,500 books willed by Adams to the people of Massachusetts and deposited in the Boston Public Library in 1894. The exhibition shows Adams wrestling with intellectual and political ideas as he interacted with these books throughout his life. Adams set forth quite deliberately to educate himself by collecting books on an immense variety of subjects and by engaging the great thinkers, philosophers, and political minds of many times and places through their writings. His engagement was active and argumentative, as evidenced by the meticulous and voluminous personal commentary he crammed into the margins of the works he read. In the photo-reproductions of these annotated volumes in the traveling exhibition, the viewer encounters an intimate and candid conversation that engaged Adams at every stage of his long life-as a boy, university student, Boston lawyer, revolutionary, Founding Father, diplomat, President, and citizen of the early American republic.
Applications must be submitted through grants.gov by April 4, 2008. In addition to the traveling exhibit, awarded libraries will receive $2500 to promote the exhibit and defray costs. Information about the grant, physical dimensions of the display, and application procedures are available at:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/SGL_JohnAdams.html.
4. CULVER'S AGAIN PROMOTING NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
Culver's is continuing their joint National Library Week program with the Youth Services Section of the Wisconsin Library Association. The program will be the same as in previous years and children will be asked to submit coloring sheets that correspond with the Join the Circle of Knowledge @ Your Library National Library Week theme. When children return their coloring sheets to participating libraries they receive coupons for free custard. After coloring sheets have been collected, each participating library chooses one grand prize winner (this is done either by a drawing or by judging the entries). Culver's will be providing rubber playground balls and mini camping lanterns as prizes for the top entries at each library.
The project runs in April and libraries are free to design the program that best fits your needs. Many libraries collect coloring sheets in the early weeks of the month and then present the prizes to winners, either chosen through a drawing or by library staff serving as judges, during National Library Week (April 13-19, 2008). The program is for children ages 10 and under. This is an optional program and libraries are not required to participate. Library System Youth Services Liaisons will be distributing more information about this program.
5. LET'S TALK ABOUT IT: LOVE & FORGIVENESS READING/DISCUSSION GRANTS
The American Library Association and the Fetzer Institute, as part of its Campaign for Love & Forgiveness, present "Let's Talk About It: Love & Forgiveness," a scholar-led reading and discussion program for libraries interested in exploring themes of love and forgiveness in everyday life through classic and contemporary literature. Public libraries are invited to apply for grants to support the program in their community.
Successful applicants will receive:
-- A grant of $2,500 to be used to support program costs and scholar honoraria.
-- Program materials, which include introductory literature, essays, additional reading, and promotional templates for each of the themes.
-- Training for the library project director at a national training workshop.
More information and links to download the program application and guidelines are available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/ppo/programs/currentprograms/letstalkaboutit/ltailove.cfm.
6. APPLICATIONS FOR "PRIDE AND PASSION: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN BASEBALL EXPERIENCE" DUE APRIL 4
"Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience" is a collaboration between the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Library Association (ALA), and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The exhibition is based upon a permanent exhibition of the same name on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y. The traveling exhibition and tour are funded by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to the American Library Association.
"Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience" has been designated as part of the NEH's We the People program, exploring significant events and themes in our nation's history and culture and advancing knowledge of the principles that define America. The exhibit and accompanying materials give libraries many perspectives from which to develop programs for public audiences. Besides exploring the history of baseball and examining how the treatment of black players reflected conditions in American society, public programs can focus on individual players, barnstorming, the Negro Leagues, the conditions players faced when they traveled, baseball rules and how they changed through the decades, and a myriad of other sports and history topics. Through a cultural timeline of American history that will be part of the exhibition, visitors will be able to place the African American baseball story into the larger context of American history and see how it intersects with major events such as the Supreme Court decisions in the Dred Scott case, the case of Plessy versus Ferguson, and the case of Brown versus the Board of Education; the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Fifteenth Amendment, the Jim Crow laws, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and the Great Migration to the North.
Applications must be submitted through grants.gov by April 4, 2008. In addition to the traveling exhibit, awarded libraries will receive a $2,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for exhibition-related expenses. Information about the grant, physical and thematic aspects of the display, and application procedures are available at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/SGL_PrideandPassion.html.
7. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Smithsonian Photography Initiative -- http://photography.si.edu/ -- The Smithsonian Photography Initiative is devoted to the presentation and study of the more than 13 million photographic images throughout the Smithsonian museums and research centers, viewing photography as an art form, a record keeper, and a cross-disciplinary medium that encompasses science, history, popular culture, and more. The website aims to be an educational tool, serving anyone who wishes to study, explore, and enjoy photographs of many kinds.
8. CALENDAR
February 22, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, South Central, Madison
February 29, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, South West, Fennimore (Snow date March 7)
March 5, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Nicolet, DePere
March 6, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, OWLS and Winnefox, Appleton
March 14, 2008 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, Hartford
April 3, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Winding Rivers, LaCrosse
April 6-8, 2008 - Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association spring conference, Milwaukee
April 16, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Milwaukee and Waukesha, Milwaukee
April 16, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Eastern Shores and Manitowoc-Calumet, Manitowoc
April 16-18, 2008 - Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians annual conference, Manitowoc
April 24, 2008 - HOLA! Project workshop, Arrowhead, Janesville
April 30-May 2, 2008 - Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries annual conference, Stevens Points
May 5-6, 2008 - COLAND Statewide Library Strategic Visioning Summit, Green Lake
May 19, 2008 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
June 26-July 2, 2008 - American Library Association annual conference, Anaheim, California
June 29-July 2, 2008 - 2008 National Educational Computing Conference, San Antonio, Texas
October 10, 2008 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
For more details about these and other meetings, see the WISDOM calendar at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/wisdom.html and the BadgerLink and WISCAT training site at http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/wiscat/training.html.
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