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Table of Contents
1. Seven Wisconsin libraries win ALA Great Stories CLUB grants to serve troubled teens
2. ALA Children's Book and Media Awards to be announced January 26
3. Six tips to preserve your election collections
4. Website of the Week - I Do Solemnly Swear...
5. Calendar
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1. SEVEN WISCONSIN LIBRARIES WIN ALA GREAT STORIES CLUB GRANTS TO SERVE TROUBLED TEENS
The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) have announced that 237 libraries were selected to receive Great Stories CLUB grants, which will support book discussion programs targeting troubled teens. Among those selected to receive grants, 53 sites will additionally receive small cash grants to support program-related expenses. Funding was provided for this program by Oprah's Angel Network.
Wisconsin public libraries receiving the grants are Frederic, Milton, and Platteville. School libraries receiving the grants are Verona Integrated Program, Harvey Philip Charter School in Waukesha, Waunakee High School, and the Detention Center School in Wauwatosa. Congratulations to these libraries! The complete list of winners is at
http://www.ala.org/greatstories.
Launched in 2005, the Great Stories CLUB (Connecting Libraries, Underserved teens and Books) is a reading and discussion program designed to reach underserved, troubled teen populations through books that are relevant to their lives. Participating libraries will receive 11 sets of three theme-related books to provide to members of a book club. They will also have access to a variety of online resources, designed to help plan and implement programming.
All types of libraries located within or working in partnership with facilities serving troubled teens (such as juvenile detention centers or alternative high schools) in the United States and its territories are eligible to apply. ALA will begin accepting applications for the next round of Great Stories CLUB grants in September 2009. YALSA's Outreach to Young Adults with Special Needs Committee selected "Breaking Boundaries" as the 2009 Great Stories Club theme, along with the following titles:
"Luna" by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown Young Readers, 2004)
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007)
"Black and White" by Paul Volponi (Viking Juvenile, 2005)
2. ALA CHILDREN'S BOOK AND MEDIA AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED JANUARY 26
The American Library Association (ALA) unveils the best of the best in children's and young adult literature and media at the 2009 presentation during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver, CO. The award announcements will take place at 7:45 a.m. MST on January 26.
Awards announced during the Youth Media Awards presentation include:
* Alex Awards for the best adult books that appeal to teen audience
* Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video
* Coretta Scott King Book Awards honors African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults that demonstrate sensitivity to "the African American experience via literature and illustration."
* John Newbery Medal honors the author of the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
* Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
* Margaret A. Edwards Award honors an author's lifetime contribution in writing for young adults as well as a specific body of his or her work.
* May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizes an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature, who then presents a paper, considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children's literature, at a winning host site.
* Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults
* Mildred L. Batchelder Award is presented to an American publisher for the most outstanding book originally published in a country other than the United States in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States.
* Odyssey Award is presented to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults available in English in the United States.
* Pura Belpré Award recognizes Latino/Latina writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
* Randolph Caldecott Medal honors the illustrator of the year's most distinguished American picture book for children.
* Robert F. Sibert Medal honors an author, illustrator and/or photographer of the most distinguished informational book published for children.
* Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience.
* Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is presented annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States.
* William C. Morris Award begins in 2009, honoring a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
A live webcast of the ALA Youth Media Awards will be available through Unikron (
http://ala.unikron.com/), as well as on Twitter (
http://twitter.com/alayma) on January 26, at 7:45 a.m. MST. Access to information on the winners will also be available through a Facebook fan page (
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ALA-Youth-Media-Awards/43002248757).
3. SIX TIPS TO PRESERVE YOUR ELECTION COLLECTIONS
Across the nation, Americans are saving newspapers, posters, buttons, and bumper stickers to commemorate the historic election and inauguration of Barack Obama, America's first African American president. Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Director of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), encourages citizen-collectors to make sure that their presidential inauguration collections will be preserved long into the future.
"The election day newspaper - cared for properly -- will still be there years from now to remind us and future generations of this singular moment in American history," Radice said. "This is a great time to raise awareness of the need to protect election and inauguration-related items from common threats such as high temperature, humidity, and light exposure."
Follow these simple preventive steps* to keep your treasures safe and sound for the next generation:
1). If you feel comfortable, your treasures will be comfortable. When you feel hot or cold, damp or dry, so do your treasures. You wouldn't feel comfortable living in the basement or attic and neither are they. You feel better when there is good circulation; so do they.
2). Avoid extremes of temperature and humidity. Strive to maintain as moderate and stable a level (72 degrees Fahrenheit and 50 percent relative humidity) as practically possible. When choosing where to display or store objects remember that the conditions of the interior walls, room, and closets are more stable than those on the exterior.
3). Create micro-climates and use protective covers. Matting and framing with proper materials creates protective micro-climates, as do chemically stable boxes (even boxes within boxes). Use dust covers on stored objects and polyester liners on wooden shelves to protect your treasures from dust and pollutants.
4). Limit light exposure. The damaging effects of light are cumulative. Take precautions with the amount and type of light to which your treasures are exposed.
5). Inspect your treasures regularly and tend to problems as they arise. Regularly checking your treasures will help you monitor and tend to problems as they arise. A water condensation problem might not be present in the summer, but left unattended during the winter, could cause serious damage.
6). Be sure that any alterations are reversible. Respect the original historic materials and structure. Don't cut an artwork to fit a frame. And if you must clip a photograph for your scrapbook, do it to a copy and keep the original intact elsewhere.
*This guidance was excerpted from "Caring for Your Family Treasures" by Heritage Preservation, IMLS's partner in Connecting to Collections, a multi-year, multi-faceted initiative that aims to help museums and libraries save their collections from poor storage conditions, pest infestation, and exposure to light, humidity, and high temperatures.
For more information on preserving your collections, please go to the Guide to Online Resources section on Care For Collections at
http://www.imls.gov/collections/resources/care.htm.
4. Website of the Week
I Do Solemnly Swear... Presidential Inaugurations --
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/ -- This site from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection includes items and files from the inaugurations of George Washington in 1789 to George W. Bush 2001, including diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, and photographs.
5. CALENDAR
January 29, 2009 - Delivery Services Advisory Committee, Webinar conference call.
February 3, 2009 - WEMTA/WLA Library Legislative Day, Madison
March 13, 2009 - Council on Library and Network Development, by videoconference
March 22-24, 2009 - Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association Spring Conference, Madison
April 21-24, 2009 - Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians Annual Conference, Green Lake
May 6-8, 2009 - Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries Spring Conference, Wisconsin Dells
October 20-23, 2009 - Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, Appleton
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