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Table of Contents
1. CCBC director named 2010 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer
2. Libraries complete PC inventory for Gates grant
3. ALA children and young adult book awards announced
4. Website of the Week - Encyclopedia of Life
5. Calendar
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1. CCBC DIRECTOR NAMED 2010 MAY HILL ARBUTHNOT HONOR LECTURER
Kathleen Horning, director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected to deliver the 2010 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. The announcement was made at the press conference during the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Denver announcing the children's and young adult literature awards. The Arbuthnot lecturer, chosen annually, may be an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature who is chosen to deliver a paper that will be a significant contribution to the field of children's literature.
Horning will deliver the lecture in April of 2010. The location has not yet been determined. Sites wishing to host the lecture go through an application process.
For more information, go to
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/january2009/ymaarbuthnot.cfm.
2. LIBRARIES COMPLETE PC INVENTORY FOR GATES GRANT
The Wisconsin public libraries possibly eligible to receive PCs as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have now completed the initial process of taking an inventory of their public access PCs. Libraries may be eligible for grants to replace PCs that are over 4 years old or add additional PCs, based on criteria set by the foundation. The foundation is now reviewing the PC inventory data from each library. In early March the foundation will notify the Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning on exactly how many PCs each eligible library will receive. The libraries will then be asked to send a letter to the division by the end of March stating that they will or will not participate in the grant. More information on the grant program is available on the Web at
http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/gatespcgrant.html.
3. ALA CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED
The American Library Association (ALA) recently announced the top books, videos and audio books for children and young adults, including the Caldecott, King, Newbery, Schneider Family, and Printz awards, at its Midwinter Meeting in Denver.
In addition, the ALA celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards and introduced a new award, the William C. Morris Award.
The Newberry and Caldecott awards for 2009 are:
Newbery Medal
"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins Children's Books
Newbery Honor Books
"The Underneath" by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
"The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom" by Margarita Engle, Henry Holt and Company, LLC
"Savvy" by Ingrid Law, Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media, LLC
"After Tupac and D Foster" by Jacqueline Woodson, G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers
Caldecott Medal
"The House in the Night," illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Caldecott Honor Books
"A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever" by Marla Frazee, Harcourt, Inc.
"How I Learned Geography" by Uri Shulevitz, Farrar Straus Giroux
"A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams," illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
The full list of all ALA Youth Media Awards for 2009 is at
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/january2009/ymawrap.cfm
4. Website of the Week
Encyclopedia of Life --
http://www.eol.org/ -- The Encyclopedia of Life is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites - one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species. Each site is constantly evolving and features dynamically synthesized content ranging from historical literature and biological descriptions to stunning images, videos and distribution maps. (Website reference courtesy of refdesk.com)
5. CALENDAR
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
June 28-July 1, 2009 - National Educational Computing Conference, Washington D.C.
July 9-15, 2009 - American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago
October 20-23, 2009 - Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, Appleton
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