Awards (Books & Media)
2017 Morris Award finalists announced
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CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app (), selected five books as finalists for the 2017 William C. Morris Award, which honors the year’s best books written for young adults by a...
unveils shortlist for 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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CHICAGO — The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app () today announced six books shortlisted for the esteemed Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year's best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult...
Longlist for 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced
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Forty-seven books (24 fiction, 23 nonfiction) have been selected for the longlist for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The list is now available on the awards’ website. The six-title shortlist—three each for the...
ALSC selects eleven more Great Websites for Kids
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, its online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children. The...
ALCTS 2017 Publication Awards nominations sought
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CHICAGO —Nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) awards for excellence in publication. ALCTS presents two Publication Awards to honor individuals for outstanding achievement in research...
South Carolina State Library chosen as site for 2017 Arbuthnot Lecture
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ORLANDO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) announced that the 2017 May Hill Arbuthnot Committee has selected the South Carolina State Library and the city of Columbia, South Carolina to serve as the host site for the 2017 May Hill...
AASL announces 2016 Best Apps for Teaching & Learning
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CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced its 2016 list of Best Apps for Teaching & Learning at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app () Annual Conference in Orlando. The list of 25 apps provides technology resources for...
AASL announces 2016 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning
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CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced its 2016 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app () Annual Conference in Orlando. The annual list honors 25 websites that provide enhanced...
2016 PR Xchange winners announced
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CHICAGO, June 8, 2016 — The Library Leadership and Management Association--Public Relations and Marketing Section (LLAMA-PRMS) PR Xchange Committee is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s PR Xchange Awards Competition for library promotional...
More Great Websites for Kids selected by ALSC
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CHICAGO —The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, the online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children. The...
Belpré Award celebrates 20 years of outstanding Latino children’s literature at Annual Conference
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and REFORMA (The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking) will hold a special celebration to commemorate the 20th anniversary of...
The 2016 guide to the Newbery and Caldecott awards
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CHICAGO—Updated to include the 2016 award and honor books, “ The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, 2016 Edition,” published by Editions, gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children's...
Authors bring historical fiction, fantasy, poetry and adrenaline to RUSA’s 2016 Literary Tastes program
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CHICAGO-- The Reference and User Services Association will host five award-winning authors — James Hannaham, Joy Harjo, Naomi Novik, Jim Shepard, Karin Slaughter-- at the 2016 Annual Conference program “ Literary Tastes: Celebrating the Best Reading...
2017 Arbuthnot Lecture Site Application Deadline Extended
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, its online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children. The...