Awards (Books & Media)
IFRT accepting nominations for 2016 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award
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CHICAGO — The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) is seeking nominations for its 2016 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award. The biennial award is presented for the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom and consists of $500 and a citation...
¾«¶«´«Ã½unveils shortlist for 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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CHICAGO-The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) today announced the 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 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced
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CHICAGO — Forty books (20 fiction, 20 nonfiction) comprising the longlist for the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction have been selected. The list is now available on the awards’ website. The six-title shortlist—three each...
Santa Barbara Public Library System chosen as site for 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) announced that the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Committee has selected the Santa Barbara Public Library System (California) as the site of the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture featuring Pat...
'All the Light We Cannot See,' 'Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption' win 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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SAN FRANCISCO —The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, funded, in part, by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. “All the Light...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, keynote speaker at Andrew Carnegie Medals announcements and celebration
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CHICAGO -- In what’s shaping up to be an exciting literary event at ¾«¶«´«Ã½Annual Conference in San Francisco, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been announced as keynote speaker at the celebratory 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence award ceremony. The event...
2015 RBMS Leab Exhibition award winners
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CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) has selected five winners and two honorable mentions for the 2015 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition...
The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ honors Camila Alire with Equality Award
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CHICAGO — ¾«¶«´«Ã½past-President Camila Alire is the 2015 recipient of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ Equality Award. The annual award, $1,000 and a framed citation of achievement donated by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, is given to an individual...
2015 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees to be announced during National Library Week
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CHICAGO — To celebrate National Library Week, the Young Adult Library Services (YALSA), a division of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½, will officially announce the 24 nominations for its 2015 Teens’ Top Ten on April 16, the Thursday of National Library...
The 2015 guide to the Newbery and Caldecott awards
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CHICAGO — Updated to include the 2015 award and honor books, “ The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, 2015 Edition,” published by ¾«¶«´«Ã½Editions, gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children's...
ALSC Invites E-book Submissions for the 2016 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Pilot Program
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) announces that e-books, including a book published in both the country of origin and the United States exclusively as e-books or a book published in both countries as an e-book and print...
¾«¶«´«Ã½unveils shortlist for 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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CHICAGO —The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) today announced the 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...
IFRT accepting nominations for 2016 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award
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CHICAGO — The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) is seeking nominations for its 2016 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award. The biennial award is presented for the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom and...
Cathy Langer, Tattered Cover Bookstores, joins 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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CHICAGO — Cathy Langer, lead buyer for the independent Tattered Cover Bookstores in Denver, Colorado, joins the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction selection committee. She was chosen by the American Booksellers...
2015 Carnegie Whitney Grant winners announced
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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...
Berger’s Rare Books and Special Collections wins 2015 ABC-CLIO Publishing Award
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CHICAGO — The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) proudly acknowledges Sidney E. Berger as winner of the 2015 ABC-CLIO Award for the Best Book in Library Literature for "Rare Books and Special Collections," published by ¾«¶«´«Ã½Neal-Schuman. This award...
Swanson Best of LRTS Award to Christine Turner
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CHICAGO—Christine N. Turner, electronic resources librarian at University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded the 2015 Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award for the article, "E-Resource Acquisitions in Academic Library Consortia," published in...
ALSC invites applications for 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture with Pat Mora
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CHICAGO - The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Committee are proud to announce the opening of the application to host the 2016 event featuring award-winning children’s book author and pioneering...
Maxwell's 'Handbook' wins ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
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CHICAGO — The recipient of the 2015 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Publication Award is Robert L. Maxwell for his book Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA: Explaining and Illustrating RDA: Resource Description and...
ALSC names 2015 Notable Children's Books
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA), has selected its 2015 list of Notable Children’s Books. The list of titles includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and picture books of...