See all ALA literary award winners at http://www.ala.org/mw07winners

Newbery Medal -
Higher Power of Lucky
written by Susan Patron (and illustrated by Matt Phelan)

Newbery Honor Books -
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord

Caldecott Medal -
Flotsam illustrated and written by David Wiesner

Caldecott Honor ( Read more... )

The winners of the 2007 Newbery and Caldecott medals will be announced Monday, January 22, 2007, starting at 7:45 AM PST from the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. The press release listing all the winners will be available online by 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST at http://www.ala.org/mw07winners.

ALA will provide a free live Webcast of the event. ( Read more... )

While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,
The alalibrary of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around.

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
from the Christmas Song Generator.

Thank you for contacting me about the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) of 2006, H.R. 5319. I appreciate hearing from you.

This bill would require that all schools and libraries receiving federal funding prohibit access to social networking websites or chat rooms where obscene material or communications of a sexual nature between adults and ( Read more... )

(cross-posted - sorry for the duplication)

Mary Ellen Davis, the director of ALA's Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL, a division of ALA <http://www.ala.org/acrl>) reminded staff, with the help of Karen Muller, the ALA Librarian, that TODAY IS ALA'S 130TH BIRTHDAY! In honor of that, I could think only of the following song and music ( Read more... )

Unlike some library workers who caught awful colds and so missed the chance to promote Banned Books Week here (ahem!), I will be more on top of things in promoting the upcoming Teen Read Week http://www.ala.org/teenread!

I invite everyone to find out more about the group that created and sponsors the event, ALA's Young Adult Library Services ( Read more... )

Also posted on my MySpace site (naturally!!) at:
http://blog.myspace.com/librefgirl

Senator Obama:

As one of your Illinois constituents who works in a library, I must ask that you vote against the DOPA legislation. I absolutely believe that something must be done about online predators, but DOPA's measures would do more harm than good to library ( Read more... )

Sigh. Something kept nibbling at me about next year's National Library Week theme, as I compiled ALA's staff "Ready Reference" list of event dates--a thought that I wouldn't let raise forward into my conscious mind and reach complete fruition (so to speak!). And now I realize that it was that old Monty Python sketch, "Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no ( Read more... )

(lightly cross-posted)

Did anyone see the Hollywood Librarian presentation at the ALA Annual Conference? If so, tell all!

OK, true, I didn't post it here, but over on the blog on my new MySpace page, at:

Library Reference Girl
http://blog.myspace.com/librefgirl

If you have an account at MySpace as well, send me an "Add Friend" request!

(cross-posted)