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American Library AssoCIation
ALA Honors Top Youth Authors and Illustrators
Schneider Family Book
Award
Children’s Book
A Boy and a Jaguar
Alan Rabinowitz
Catia Chien, illus.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Coretta Scott
King Author
Award
Coretta Scott
King
Illustrator
Award
Middle School
Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin
Macmillan
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Penguin Group
Firebird
Christopher Myers,
illus.
Misty Copeland
Penguin Group
Schneider Family Book Award
Teen Book
Girls Like Us
Gail Giles
Candlewick Press
I Lived on
Butterfly Hill
Marjorie Agosin
Simon & Schuster
Children’s Publishing
The Adventures of Beekle:
The Unimaginary Friend
Dan Santat, illus.
Dan Santat
Little, Brown and Company
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt
Schneider
Family Book
Award
Pura Belpré
Author Award
Randolph Caldecott
Medal
John Newbery
Medal
Michael L.
Printz Award
Stonewall
Award
I’ll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson
Penguin Group
This Day in June
Gayle E. Pitman
Kristyna Litten, illus.
American
Psychological
Association
Theodor Seuss
Geisel Award
You Are (Not) Small
Anna Kang
Christopher Weyant,
illus.
Two Lions
2016 May Hill
Arbuthnot Honor
Lecture Award
Pat Mora
Laura Ingalls
Wilder Award
Donald Crews
RUSA Announces Adult
Book and Reference Awards
Pura Belpré
Award For
Illustration
Viva Frida
Yuyi Morales, illus.
Yuyi Morales
Neal Porter Books
Youth Media Awards information as of press time.
For a full listing of awards, visit http://www.ala.org
The Reference and
User Services Association announced
the winners of its
adult reading and
reference awards at
the Midwinter Book and Media
Award Reception on Sunday,
including the Notable Books
List; the Reading List; the inaugural Listen List: Outstanding
Audiobook Narration; the Dartmouth Medal for
outstanding reference work of the
year; the Sophie
Brody Medal for achievement in
Jewish literature; the Outstanding Reference Sources list; and
many other noteworthy honors.
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MONday, februARY 2, 2015
LeVar Burton Highlights Personal Heroes, Mentors
By Brad Martin, LAC Group
LeVar Burton paid homage to four great storytelling mentors in his life and talked about
one of them as being especially influential in
the creation of his first children’s book, The
Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, which was
co-written by Susan Schaefer Bernardo and
illustrated by Courtenay Fletcher.
“The world we live in today is one where
we all face tough times, from the death of a
goldfish to school shootings. My friend Fred
Rogers was the adult in the world who used
to address in an age-appropriate manner the
subject of living in the world that is dominated by the actions of adults to an audience
of children. And my friend Fred is gone…. If
Fred were here, he would be addressing this.
And, absent Fred, I thought it was necessary
for someone to address it, and that’s why I
took it upon myself.”
In The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, little
Mica Mouse is frightened by thunder crashing outside her cozy home. To comfort her,
Papa Mouse tells a story about a rhino who
finds himself feeling terrible after swallowing
a storm. The rhino is helped on his journey to
wellness by a succession of other animals. Burton said that the message is clear: “If a rhino
can be brought down by the circumstances of
life, then all of us are vulnerable.”
Burton’s mother, Erma Jean, was his “first
storytelling mentor” and much more. “My
mother not only read to me; she read in front
Children’s literacy advocate, actor, producer, director and educator LeVar
Burton reads from his book The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm during his
Auditorium Speaker Series presentation.
of me, which is an incredibly important message to send,” he said. Burton also credited his
mother with preparing him to grow up in a
world where he would be judged because of
the color of his skin. “I am the man I am,
because she is the woman she is,” he said.
Burton is well-known as the host of the
original “Reading Rainbow” PBS series (he
credits Fred Rogers for showing him the power
of television to be “part of a larger ministry”)
and as Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge in the
“Star Trek: The Next Generation” TV series.
But it was his earlier portrayal of Kunta Kinte
in the groundbreaking TV mini-series “Roots”
that resulted in meeting another of his great
storytelling mentors, Alex Haley.
Burton described Haley as “one of the
most authentic people I have ever met” and
said that when he was with you, “Alex was
laser-locked on you.” Haley also sensed that
it was important to have Burton’s mother be
on location during the filming of “Roots,”
and paid all the expenses to make it happen.
“That was the man who, in the service of
telling his family story, his personal narrative,
changed a nation’s view of itself, changed the
way America looks at slavery and its attended
legacy of racism.”
“The power of Alex’s story is part of the
throughline that begins in the South, postReconstruction, after the Civil War, and
moves through that migration… from the
South to the North and finally to the West,
of which my family is a part.” Burton added
that this throughline continued through the
civil rights movement in the 1960s and that
“Roots in the ‘70s goes right through to the
election of Barack Obama.”
Burton’s experience on “Star Trek: The
Next Generation” brought him into contact
with Gene Roddenberry, who he said taught
everyone the value of remembering that our
heroes are human. The experience was also
quite an inspiration for Burton. “When I saw
Nichelle Nichols [Uhura] on the bridge of the
Enterprise, it inspired me not to just believe,
but that I belonged.”
A Q&A session followed, which was dominated by many people taking the opportunity
to thank him for the inspiration they received
from “Reading Rainbow” and from his other
projects.
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MONday, februARY 2, 2015
‘Trombone Shorty’ to Wrap Up/Rev Up with Jazz
Internationally renowned Grammynominated trombone and trumpet
player Troy “Trombone Shorty”
Andrews will get attendees on their
feet to Wrap Up the 2015 Midwinter Meeting in Chicago and Rev
Up for Annual Conference in San
Francisco. His energetic music at
the Wrap Up/Rev Up performance
will be featured today from 2:00
– 3:00 p.m., in McCormick Place
W375b. Andrews will discuss his
collaboration with award-winning
illustrator Bryan Collier, on a lively
picture book autobiography that
shows how Andrews followed his
dream of becoming a musician and
succeeded despite the odds. (April
2015, Abrams Books for Young
Readers.)
Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy
“Trombone Shorty” Andrews got
his nickname by wielding a trombone
twice as long as he was high. A prodigy,
he was leading his own band by age six,
and today he headlines the legendary
New Orleans Jazz Fest. Acclaimed illustrator Bryan Collier worked with
Andrews to create his picture book autobiography that takes readers from his
early dreams to international stardom.
Trombone Shorty is a celebration of
the rich cultural history of New Orleans and the power of music. Collier
has won three Caldecott Honor Medals and five Coretta Scott King Awards.
Prizes including a free registration
for 2015 Annual Conference in San
Francisco will be given away after the
performance, which begins in the Exhibits. Attendees must be present to win.
His appearance is sponsored by
Abrams Books for Young Readers.
Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews
Best Historical Materials Named by RUSA’s History Section
The annual list of Best Historical materials
was announced during the Reference and
User Services Association (RUSA) Book and
Media Awards Ceremony at the American
Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting.
The list, in its 11th year, recognizes the
evaluation and effectiveness in coverage of
historical resources in all fields of history.
Published in Reference and User Services
Quarterly (RUSQ), these sources are selected
by a committee that seeks to improve the
usefulness of bibliographies and indexes
in the field of history and shared among
bibliographers, indexers, publishers, and
professional associations.
The list includes:
Europeana 1914-1918 – Untold Stories &
Official Histories of WW1, which offers the
culmination of “three years of work by 20
European countries,” including 400,000 rare
documents, 660 hours of film, and 90,000
personal papers. An excellent, diverse collection of World War I materials, Europeana
1914-1918 offers significant content with
the promise of continued growth.
Mapping Gothic France, a collaboration
between the Media Center for Art History
Exhibit
Prizes
Join us Monday afternoon to close
the Exhibits and Rev Up for the
Annual Conference in San Francisco. Start in the Exhibit Hall with
discount sales and exhibitors offering
special giveaways in their booths,
such as a chance to win a Sony
point-and-shoot digital still camera
in booth #4922, or a free paperback
middle-grade novel (to the first 25
people) by mentioning the code
“ALAMW2015 Middle Grade”
at the Peachtree Publishers booth,
#4924. Check with the exhibitors
throughout the Exhibit Hall to enter
various drawings.
in the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University, the Visual
Resources Library at Vassar College, and the
Columbia University Libraries. It attempts
to depict Gothic space via an online, interactive 3D experience and create links between
the “architectural space of individual buildings, geo-political space, and the “social space
of the interaction (collaboration and conflict)
between builders and users.”
1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War, an “Englishlanguage virtual reference work on the First
World War” that claims more than 1,000
participants from over 50 countries. An
informative and objective site with wide appeal, this is a welcome reference source on
World War I.
Lowcountry Digital History Initiative, a
digital public history project that consists
of a series of high-quality online exhibitions
folded into scholarly contextual narratives.
Across all exhibitions, there is prominent
emphasis on exploring underrepresented histories of race, class, gender and labor within
the Lowcountry region. In its production,
the site is an excellent model for the collaboration and outreach opportunities afforded
by digital history, while in its presentation
the site shows excellent potential for learning
and teaching at multiple levels.
Darwin Online, which brings together in
one place Charles Darwin’s complete publications, private papers, and manuscripts,
Monday Schedule
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Renee Rosen
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Mystery Series Panel
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
A Novel Approach to Tough Topics:
A Discussion on Writing Headlinedriven, All Too Real Fiction
along with reviews of his works and works
about him. With the recent completion of
the Beagle library project (2012-14) one can
see on Darwin Online what works Darwin
could not do without on his voyage. A must
for anyone studying Darwin or evolutionary
biology or whose imagination is captured by
the idea of the Beagle’s voyage.
Freedom Summer Digital Collection, which
contains over 100 digitized manuscript collections on the Mississippi Freedom Summer
Project of 1964. The 25,000 pages available
online contain official records, personal
papers, memos, letters, diaries, newsletters,
pamphlets, brochures, press releases, and
magazine and newspaper articles. The Freedom Summer Digital Collection is a valuable
contribution to the history of civil rights.
Densho Digital Repository, which contains
historic photographs, documents, newspaper
articles, letters, and other primary sources
documenting Japanese-American life before,
during, and after World War II. Pre-war photographs focus on immigration to the United
States and aspects of Japanese-American life,
while WWII-era materials center on what
life was like in various internment camps
throughout the (mostly) Western United
States and post-WWII collections focus
on the late 20th century (1990s onward)
pictures of Japanese Americans attending
reunions, visiting internment camp historic
sites or giving interviews of their experiences
in the camps during the war.
The Roaring Twenties: An interactive exploration of the historical soundscape of New York
City, which provides visitors with an intriguing interactive experience about the urban
soundscape and human responses to industrial,
human, and transportation noise from January
to June 1930. Complaints, documents, official
responses, articles from the New York Times,
newsreels, laws, and Noise Abatement Commission (NYC) responses provide context to
the historic view of the soundscape. The Roaring
Twenties provides historians, students of history,
and the public with an innovative way to study
comparative points of view for nuisance and
human response.
The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American
Library Association, represents librarians and
library staff in the fields of reference, specialized reference, collection development,
readers’ advisory and resource sharing. Learn
more at www.ala.org/rusa.
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ISSN: 0738-4319  Volume 2015 Issue IV
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MONday, februARY 2, 2015
Presidential Candidates Share Individual Vision, Goals
By Brad Martin, LAC Group
The four candidates for ALA president presented their cases
at a forum on Saturday, urging everyone to vote in the upcoming election – and, of course, to vote for them.
In their opening and closing statements, JP Porcaro,
Julie Todaro, Joseph Janes, and James (Jamie) LaRue used
the opportunity to highlight their backgrounds and outline
the vision they hope to bring to the office of president. In
between, they fielded questions from the audience.
Porcaro, librarian for acquisitions and technological
discovery at New Jersey City University Guarini Library, presented himself as a candidate of change in his opening statement, and emphasized that while ALA has done a good job
of promoting libraries as institutions, he would concentrate
more on the people who make up the libraries. “If elected,
I’d initiate a large-scale public relations campaign within
the ALA supporting and promoting us, librarians. A library
without a librarian is just a building, and our users know
this,” he said. Porcaro’s accomplishments include being an
ALA Emerging Leader in 2010 and being named as a Library
Journal Mover & Shaker in 2012. He also founded the ALA
Games and Gaming Round Table and runs the online space
called ALA Think Tank. Porcaro expressed his concern that
the makeup of ALA does not match that of the nation as a
whole, and this needs to change. More listening to all the
divisions, roundtables, and caucuses is needed.
Todaro, dean of library services at Austin (Texas) Community College, described her career-long commitment to
institutional and association service at the local, state, and
national levels, including service in ACRL, ALSC, and as part
of a number of roundtables and committees. Experienced as
both a school and children’s librarian, she noted that “some
of the most fun I have had was working on presidential
initiatives to help those people in leadership positions in
From top left, JP Porcaro, James LaRue, Joseph
Janes, and Julie Todaro.
ALA make their dreams come true, their vision realized,
and it literally is a vision and a dream when you step up to
this position.” Todaro went on to speak about how “you can
have the most beautiful library and the best access services,
but unless you have those people who are the experts come
together to connect people with diverse target populations,
and help our constituents meet their needs and realize their
vision and their dreams, it isn’t what I would call library
service in the community.”
Janes, associate professor and chair of the MLIS program
at the University of Washington Information School, opened
his remarks by thanking several people who have helped and
supported him in his run for ALA president. “I have made
people into librarians for 25 years, so even though my dean
likes to say he has the best job in the world, I have the best
job in the world, because I get to help people live out their
dreams and do a better job of serving their communities.”
Janes went on to reflect on a comment he heard from a
newspaper reporter from the Oneida Daily Dispatch in his
hometown of Oneida, N.Y. “Where would we be without
the library? People don’t think about that.”
After citing a few examples of the importance of libraries, Janes said, “I want to tell that story. I am tired of people
thinking we are a luxury. I’m tired of people thinking we are
a good idea. I’m tired of people think we are nice. We are
vital. We are critical. We are absolutely the most important
part of any community. We are the most important profession in the world, because we make every human activity
better, every day.’
LaRue, CEO of LaRue & Associates in Castle Rock,
Colo., opened by saying, “I think that, like all of us up here,
I am in it for love, people.” He went on to tell where his
love of libraries began, which was in a bookmobile of the
Waukegan (Ill.) Public Library, where the warm greeting
and encouragement of the librarian, Mrs. Johnson, made
a lasting impression on him. LaRue was five years old and
curious about the concept of the speed of light. After asking
the librarian about this, her reply was, “What a fascinating
question. Let’s find out.”
“Libraries had me at hello,” LaRue said.
“For the next 30 years, I was working at trying to fulfill this promise that I felt Mrs. Johnson had given me,”
LaRue said. He talked about creating a library club in the
seventh grade, volunteering in libraries, and working in
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some of this work
was involved with
standards and “how to move average
or below-average organizations into
extraordinary organizations.”
“Over the past several years, I have
realized that librarians know how to
talk to librarians. What we need to
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effort.
The candidates also fielded questions from the audience. For more,
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Discovering the Role of Libraries
in the Makerspace and Hackerspace World
By Kacee Anderson, Harmony Science Academy
The role of the library within a community is
constantly evolving. Mita Williams, University of Windsor, Windsor (Ontario, Canada)
took audience members through a historical
journey from the first Mechanics Institutes to
present-day Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, and
TechShops during the ALA Masters Series on
Sunday morning.
Business startups such as incubators and
accelerators are everywhere. Where do library
Makerspaces fit in? Hackerspaces and Makerspaces can be successfully implemented in
libraries. Hackerspaces, like Makerspaces,
allow users to come together to collectively
create new products.
C-base, one of the very first Hackerspaces
in the world, was built from a reconstructed
space station that fell to earth. As Europe’s
largest Hackerspace, C-base has been around
for 30 years. Numerous activities have been
hosted at C-base such the establishment of
the German Pirate Party and a meeting place
for German Wikipedia. There are currently
around 1,000 Hackerspaces.
TechShops, which first appeared in 2006,
are privately-owned places for members to
work to build prototypes for their Kickstarter
campaigns. There are currently only eight
TechShops in the United States. They are
slow to open as they require access to space
Mita Williams talks about Mechanic
Institutes, Hackerspaces and other
modern forms of business and how
libraries will fit.
that includes half a million dollars in equipment and at least 800 people to pay $100/
month to be viable.
FabLab first started in 1998 with one
professor’s course at MIT on how to make
almost anything. Launched in 2001 as educational outreach, there is now an ambitious
network of labs around the world. Each
FabLab provides a core set of tools to anyone
so they can make almost anything. Each
FabLab has to be made regularly available
to the public at little or no cost.
The first library Makerspace actually
began as a FabLab in New York. One of the
major differences between Makerspaces and
FabLabs today is that all Makerspaces are
completely different from each other and
they are generally open to everyone.
Mechanics Institutes, largely geared toward working-class men to keep them busy,
were short-lived. Although most did not survive, the book collections of failed Mechanics
Institutes became the core collections of the
first public libraries.
While the maker movement is trying to
bring a playful approach to learning, one
downfall is that it does tend to collect makers as opposed to encourage new and diverse
members.
Williams expressed her appreciation for
the library’s role in the Makerspace and
Hackerspace world. “One of the admirable
things about libraries is that they have embraced Makerspaces and keep people as the
focus of the space and not the technology.”
Williams also noted how proud she was that
libraries have opted to be much more accessible in their materials and Makerspaces.
Libraries tend to host activities which encourage personal expression. Williams stated,
“As long as libraries focus on the people,
libraries will continue to be a space where
the future can be built.”
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Janet Lee, University of Denver, and hundreds of other ALA attendees
patiently wait to have books signed by LeVar Burton after his Auditorium
Speakers Series presentation Sunday. Burton signed his book The Rhino Who
Swallowed A Storm.
MONday, februARY 2, 2015
Author Lisa Tawn Bergren (right) is one of several authors serving hot
chocolate in the lobby area outside the Exhibits Hall as librarian Kristen
Costello (left), Las Vegas, Nev., pauses for a cup and a chat.
Chicago weather puts the “winter” in Midwinter as a worker cleans off snow
from the sidewalk outside McCormick Place.
Melanie Mason, Columbia City, Ind., prepares to pack up a stack of books as
high as herself after her excursion through the Exhibits Hall acquiring books to
share with her students.
Optomist, film and televison producer Mick Ebeling, on the cutting edge of
the new “Maker Movement,” shows DIY technologies that offer people greater
access to medical devices during the ALA President’s Program. (See the story
in the Cognotes Highlights issue, e-mailed to ALA members and posted at
http://alamw15.ala.org/cognotes, in early February).
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MONday, februARY 2, 2015
BCALA Announces the 2015 Literary Awards Winners
The Black Caucus of the American Library
Association (BCALA) announced the winners of the 2015 BCALA Literary Awards
during the ALA Midwinter Meeting. The
awards recognize excellence in adult fiction
and nonfiction by African-American authors
published in 2014, including an award for
Best Poetry and a citation for Outstanding
Contribution to Publishing. The recipients
will receive the awards during the 2015 Annual Conference of the American Library
Association in San Francisco.
The winner of the 1st Novelist Award is
Forty Acres: A Thriller by Dwayne Alexander
Smith (Atria Books).
The Fiction category winner is Citizens
Creek: A Novel by Lalita Tademy (Atria
Books).
The Honor Books for Fiction are Saint
Monkey: A Novel by Jacinda Townsend (W.
W. Norton & Company); ‘Til the Well Runs
Dry: A Novel by Lauren Francis-Sharma
(Henry Holt & Company); and Ruby by
Cynthia Bond (Crown Publishing Group).
The winner in the Nonfiction category
is Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas by
Jeffrey B. Leak (University of Georgia Press).
Honor Books for Nonfiction are Life in
Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland (Touchstone); Dorothy Porter Wesley
at Howard University: Building a Legacy
of Black History by Janet Sims-Wood (The
History Press); and The Oxford Handbook
of African American Theology edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Katie G. Cannon (Oxford
University Press).
The winner for BCALA’s Best Poetry
Award is Books of Hours: Poems by Kevin
Young (Knopf ).
The BCALA Literary Awards Committee awarded the Outstanding Contribution
to Publishing Citation to Regina Anderson
Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by
Ethelene Whitmire (University of Illinois
Press) and gave a special citation for publishing to Virginia Stanley, director of library
marketing, HarperCollins Publishers.
2015 Amelia Bloomer List Highlights
Feminist Books for Young Readers
The Amelia Bloomer Project, a product
of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round
Table’s (SRRT) Feminist Taskforce, announced the 2015 Amelia Bloomer List
at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting.
The bibliography consists of well-written
and illustrated books with significant feminist content, intended for young readers
from birth to 18 years old. This year’s list
includes titles published between July 1,
2013, and December 31, 2014.
Named for Amelia Bloomer, a pioneering 19th century newspaper editor, feminist
thinker, public speaker, and suffragist, the
list features books about girls and women
that spur the imagination while confronting
traditional female stereotypes.
The bibliography is intended to aid
children and teens in selecting high-quality
books released over the past 18 months, and
may be used as a recommended reading list
for youth and those who interact with them
and as a collection development or reader’s
advisory tool for interested librarians. The
top 10 titles of the 2015 Amelia Bloomer
List include:
Cooper, Ilene. A Woman in the House (and
Senate): How Women Came to the United
States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and
Changed the Country
Hile, Lori. Rachel Carson: Environmental
Pioneer
Manning, Kate. My Notorious Life.
McCarney, Rosemary with Jen Albaugh
and Plan International. Because I Am a Girl:
I can change the world
McCarney Rosemary with Plan International. Every Day is Malala Day
Napoli, Donna Jo. Hidden
Prince, Liz. Tomboy
Sherr, Lynn. Sally Ride: America’s First
Woman in Space
Wilson, G. Willow. Ms. Marvel Volume
1: No Normal
To view the complete annotated list,
please visit the Amelia Bloomer Project blog,
http://www.ameliabloomer.wordpress.com.
2014 Over the
Rainbow List
Recognizes 78
Quality GLBT
Titles
The 2015 Over the Rainbow Project
book list, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round
Table (GLBTRT) was announced at
ALA’s Midwinter Meeting.
The bibliography features quality
fiction and nonfiction books for adults
that are recognized by the Over the
Rainbow Project, an ad hoc committee of GLBTRT, for their authentic
expression of gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgender experiences.
Each year, the Over the Rainbow
Project releases its annotated bibliography to aid librarians and patrons in
selecting quality books released over
the past 18 months. This year’s list
includes 78 titles published between
July 1, 2013, and December 31, 2014.
To view the 2015 bibliography,
please visit http://www.glbtrt.ala.org/
overtherainbow.
2015 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award Winners Announced
The Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL) announced the recipients
of the 2015 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award: Santa Fe College Lawrence W.
Tyree Library, Gainesville, Fla.; Amherst
College Frost Library, Amherst, Mass.; and
Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette, Ind. Sponsored by ACRL and YBP
Library Services, the award recognizes the
staffs of a college, university, and community college library for programs that deliver
exemplary services and resources to further
the educational mission of the institution.
“These three deserving recipients demonstrate the commitment to student
learning, digital scholarship, and data
research services, with a focus on continuous innovation and engagement with the
campus community that exemplifies today’s
best academic and research libraries,” said
ACRL Executive Director Mary Ellen K.
Davis. “Receiving an Excellence in Academic Libraries Award is a national tribute
to each library and its staff for outstanding
services, programs, and leadership.”
The Lawrence W. Tyree Library of Santa
Fe College, winner in the community college category, was chosen for emphasizing
its innovation and passion for distance
instruction, financial literacy and community.
“The Lawrence Tyree Library demonstrated how their staff brings creativity
and innovation to their community,” said
Steven Bell, chair of the 2015 Excellence
in Academic Libraries Committee and
associate university librarian for research
and instructional services at Temple Uni-
versity. “This is evidenced within their model
information literacy initiative that makes
use of strategies such as flipped instruction,
virtual learning for distance students, and
a commitment to use active learning techniques in the classroom. So passionate are the
Tyree librarians about extending high quality learning to distance students that several
librarians achieved certification as Quality
Matters online course reviewers, and their
own online library instruction course was the
first at Santa Fe to pass the rigorous Quality
Matters review.”
“Tyree Library also helps students become
financially literate, becoming only the second
community college since 2007 to receive a
$100,000 ‘Smart Investing @ Your Library’
grant from the FINRA Investor Education
Foundation,” Bell continued. “The committee
also took note of the commitment to delivering on-campus programming from mystery
nights, to relationship building with faculty
and a wonderful collaboration with their education program to deliver a STEM-focused
reading program to elementary education
students in their city.”
“We are humbled, thrilled, and very happy
for this recognition,” said Lawrence W. Tyree
Library Director Myra Sterrett. “The L.W.
Tyree Library has a great staff, and we all
constantly pull together to ensure the library
is part of the fabric of the college. This award
is a reflection on the tireless efforts and contributions of our entire library community.
Nothing beats recognition from one’s peers,
and we thank you so much!”
Frost Library of Amherst College, winner
of this year’s award in the college category, im-
pressed the committee with its transformation
to focus on its objectives of teaching students
research skills, promoting and enabling universal access to information, and creating a
new model of academic publishing.
“Amherst’s Frost Library emerged as a clear
example of what it means to hold oneself to
high standards and to set the bar even higher
for what it means to achieve excellence as a
college library,” noted Bell. “Frost Library
received considerable attention in 2013 when
it announced the establishment of the first
academic press in the United States dedicated
to the publication of scholarly monographs
solely under an open access model. While
that alone would qualify Frost Library for
distinction, there is much more to the impressive accomplishments found in their award
application. To vastly improve its delivery of
instruction, a new unit was created and five
positions were dedicated to integrating the
library into student learning. Members of this
unit played important roles in tutorials and
seminars made possible by a Mellon grant to
the college.”
“Our library has an extraordinary staff,”
said Bryn Geffert, librarian at Amherst
College. “They’re exceptional in every way –
smart, adaptable, selfless, creative, and tireless.
I take this award to be as much an ‘excellent
library staff’ award as an ‘excellence in academic libraries’ award.”
Purdue University Libraries, winner in
the university category, was selected for its
numerous outstanding initiatives.
“Purdue University Libraries succeeds by
being experimental, taking risks, innovating,
and leveraging collaboration with their faculty,
graduate, and undergraduate students to
push the boundaries of what research university libraries can accomplish for their
community, locally and globally,” said Bell.
“Whether it’s their information literacy
initiative that features their participation
in Purdue’s Instruction Matters: Purdue
Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) curriculum, a commitment to
renovate and create library spaces that are
highly intentional about student learning
and collaboration with faculty or engaging
in course redesign with their faculty, what
most impressed the committee was Purdue’s profession leading and cutting edge
work in the area of research data services.”
“Where Purdue excels among this year’s
strong pool of university applicants is in
their support of faculty research, through
their Library Scholars Grant program,
which provides faculty members with
grants for travel to special collections
at other institutions in support of their
growth as scholars,” Bell continued.
“The faculty and staff of the Purdue
University Libraries are proud of the progress that we have made to define the role
of the 21st century research library within
its university community,” said James L.
Mullins, dean of libraries and Esther Ellis
Norton Professor at Purdue University. “To
have our creativity, innovation, and dedication recognized through this important
award is a wonderful honor.”
Each winning library will receive $3,000
and a plaque, to be presented at an award
ceremony held on each recipient’s campus.
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MONday, februARY 2, 2015
RUSA Announces 2015 “Best of” Lists for Adult Readers
The Reference and User Services Association
(RUSA) announced the winners of its adult
reading and reference awards at the Book and
Media Awards Ceremony and Reception on
Sunday evening. Included in the ceremony
was the Dartmouth Medal for outstanding
reference publication; the Sophie Brody
Medal for achievement in Jewish literature;
the Listen List, recognizing outstanding
audiobook narration; the Reading List for
genre fiction; and the eagerly awaited Notable Books List, recognizing the year’s best
in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, a list that
will in part determine the longlist for the
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in
fiction and nonfiction along with Booklist’s
Editors’ Choice.
Listen List
The Bees by Laline Paull. Narrated
by Orlagh Cassidy. Blackstone Audio/
HarperAudio.
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World
That Made Him by David Henry and Joe
Henry. Narrated by Dion Graham. Tantor Media.
The Home Place by Carrie La Seur. Narrated by Andrus Nichols. Blackstone Audio/
HarperAudio.
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk
Kidd. Narrated by Jenna Lamia and Adepero Oduye. Penguin Audio/Recorded Books. Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. Narrated by Kate Reading. Blackstone Audio.
The Martian by Andy Weir. Narrated by
R.C. Bray. Brilliance Audio
Moonraker by Ian Fleming. Narrated by
Bill Nighy. Blackstone Audio. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Narrated by Ronald Pickup, Joe Marsh, Fenella Woolgar, Sam Dale, Jonathan Oliver, Jamie
Parker, Sean Barrett, David Timson, John
Foley, and Benjamin Soames. Naxos AudioBooks.
Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen.
Narrated by Katherine Kellgren. Blackstone
Audio. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith. Narrated by Robert Glenister. Blackstone Audio/
Hachette Audio. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
Narrated by Kirsten Potter. Books on Tape/
Random House Audio.
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.
Narrated by Bryan Cranston. Brilliance
Audio. Dartmouth Medal
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism.
Princeton University Press.
Reading List
Adrenaline
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes. Mulholland Books.
Fantasy
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. Tor.
Communities
have challenges.
Libraries can help.
Libraries Transforming Communities
(LTC) — an ALA initiative — seeks
to strengthen libraries’ roles as core
community leaders and help them
bring about positive change.
Historical Fiction
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth. Thomas
Dunne.
Horror
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman. Penguin.
Mystery
Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley
Weaver. Minotaur.
Romance
A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev. Kensington.
Science Fiction
The Martian by Andy Weir. Crown.
Women’s Fiction
My Real Children by Jo Walton. Tor.
Notable Books List
Fiction
All My Puny Sorrows by Miram Toews. McSweeneys.
All the Light We Cannot Sww by Anthony Doerr. Scribner.
The Bone Clocks: A Novel by David Mitchell. Random House.
The Children Act by Ian McEwan. Nan
A Talese.
The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness. Penguin.
The Enchanted: A Novel by Rene Denfield.
Harper.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A
Novel by Richard Flanagan. Alfred A. Knopf.
On Such a Full Sea: A Novel by Chang-Rae
Lee. Riverhead.
Orfeo: A Novel by Richard Powers. W.W.
Norton.
Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories by Ron Rash. Ecco.
Station Eleven: A Novel by Emily St.
John Mandel. Alfred A. Knopf.
Tigerman: A Novel by
Nick Harkaway. Alfred A. Knopf.
Nonfiction
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders
Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by
Jonathan Eig. W.W. Norton.
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris by Eric Jager. Little,
Brown and Company.
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany’s Secret
War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell
in America by Howard Blum. Harper.
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker
Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped
Save an American Town by Beth Macy. Little,
Brown and Company.
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and
Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by
Hampton Sides. Doubleday.
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick
Bragg. Harper.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau.
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for
James Joyce’s Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham.
Penguin Press.
» see page 11
Visit ala.org/LTC
to learn more
and get free
resources guides,
webinars and more.
Libraries Transforming Communities
is made possible by a grant from
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Cognotes  11
MONday, februARY 2, 2015
RUSA
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA,
» from page 10
and the U.S. Surveillance
State by Glenn Greenwald. Metropolitan Books.
Pandora’s DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer
Genes Through History, Science, and One
Family Tree by Lizzie Stark. Chicago Review
Press.
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by
Jill Lepore. Alfred A. Knopf.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. Henry Holt and
Company.
(left) Carolyn Berghoff,
Berghoff Catering & Restaurant
Group, demonstrates how to
make gluten-free creamed
spinach at the What’s
Cooking@ALA stage in the
Exhibits.
“Turning Outward to Lead
Change in Your Community”
participants hold roundtable
discussions.
Poetry
The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems
by B.H. Fairchild. W.W. Norton.
Gabriel: A Poem by Edward Hirsch. Alfred
A. Knopf.
Sophie Brody Medal
A Replacement Life: A Novel by Boris Fishman. HarperCollins.
Honorable mentions: The Mathematician’s Shiva: A Novel by Stuart Rojstaczer,
published by Penguin, and In the Courtyard
of the Kabbalist by Ruchama King Feuerman,
published by New York Review Books.
Visit http://www.literarytastes.com for
a comprehensive list of winners and more
information about these awards and other
literary events. Learn more about the division
at http://www.ala.org/rusa.
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MONday, februARY 2, 2015
Apply for Space, Earth Science, or Technology Exhibition at Your Public Library
ALA’s Public Programs Office,
in collaboration with the Space
Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive Learning, the
Lunar and Planetary Institute,
and the Afterschool Alliance,
invites public libraries to apply
to host one of three science- and
technology-focused traveling
exhibitions.
The interactive exhibitions
are designed to promote science,
technology, engineering, and
math (STEM) learning opportunities for all ages.
Full guidelines and an online application are available at
http://apply.ala.org/STARNet- Photo © NCIL © SSI, Courtesy Temple Memorial Library
Discover. The application deadline is April 7, 2015.
table on which visitors can play a variety of
Each exhibition will travel to eight sites astronomy simulation games; a collection of
in 2016 and 2017. Roughly 800 square feet meteorite specimens including a touchable,
of space is required for optimal display. Ap- 10-pound meteorite; and a solar monitoring
plicants should apply for one of the following station. A Tinkering Station will enable variexhibitions:
ous hands-on activities such as designing and
Discover Space will teach audiences how building robotic devices using Lego bricks.
stars and planetary systems form and the role
Discover Earth focuses on local earth scithat gravity plays in our universe. Visitors will ence topics such as weather, water cycle, and
learn the similarities and differences between ecosystem changes, as well as a global view
Earth and Mars and be introduced to the tools of our changing planet. Visitors will learn
scientists use to explore planets. The exhibit how the global environment changes – and
will examine asteroids and comets, look at the is changed by – the local environment of all
sun as a dynamic star, and reveal electric and exhibition hosts’ communities. Interactive,
magnetic changes that occur in space. Exhibit multimedia displays, such as an 18-inchcomponents will include a 42-inch touch diameter Magic PlanetTM globe and a 42-inch
touch table, will allow visitors to
interact with digital information
in a dynamic way, encouraging
new perspectives on our planet.
The exhibit components will
incorporate personal narratives,
stunning graphics, video, animations, weather artifacts, and animal specimens. A Tinkering Station will include various hands-on
activities such as puzzles and art
projects.
Discover Tech will help audiences understand the nature of
21st-century technology and engineering – both high- and low-tech
– and their potential for helping
to solve many of the world’s problems. Through interactive displays,
the exhibition will illustrate that engineers are
real people who, through a creative and collaborative design process, arrive at practical solutions to help solve society’s problems. Visitors
will learn about the fundamental principles of
energy, become aware of their own energy use,
and understand the impact of engineering on
communities worldwide. For example, using
a hand-crank generator, they can produce
electrical energy that can be used to power
various types of light bulbs and learn which
one uses the least energy to operate. Nearby,
the Solar Power station will demonstrate the
basic functioning of solar energy by allowing
visitors to experiment with a light source and
a large solar panel. A Tinkering Station will
include various hands-on building activities
along with learning how gears work.
All grantees will receive:
ƒƒ One exhibition for a 12-week display
period; shipping is free for grantees.
ƒƒ A cash grant of $1,000 to cover the cost
of public programming related to the
exhibition.
ƒƒ A Discover teacher guide, family guide
and hands-on activities for different
age groups to help libraries develop
programs and support classroom visits.
ƒƒ A two-day, in-person orientation for two
exhibition coordinators per site.
ƒƒ Periodic webinars on timely STEM topics to support programming in libraries.
ƒƒ Promotional materials to aid in local
outreach.
ƒƒ Access to a professional learning community and a national network of
STEM-oriented organizations.
Grantees will be required to plan public
programs related to the exhibition and
to participate in an online community of
practice throughout the exhibition period
and beyond.
For libraries that do not have the space to
display an 800-square-foot exhibition, ALA
and its partners will accept applications for
smaller versions of the Discover exhibitions
in summer 2015. Check http://www.ala.
org/programming/ in June 2015 for further
details.
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Kathleen T. Horning Receives ALSC Distinguished Service Award
Kathleen T. Horning is the 2015 recipient of
the Association for Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) Distinguished Service Award.
This prestigious award honors an individual
who has made significant contributions to
library service to children and to ALSC.
Horning is the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, and in her
work there has been a longtime advocate for
multiculturalism and diversity in literature
for children and teens.
She has served ALSC on an organizational level as president, member of the
board of directors; chair of the Caldecott
75th Anniversary Task Force; and co-chair
of the pre-conference celebrating 75 years
of Caldecott books. As president, she forged
strong ties with REFORMA, resulting in an
annual Pura Belpré Award and strengthening
the national Día celebrations. She has also
served on many media evaluation and award
committees including chairing the 1995
Newbery Committee, and the 1997 Batchelder Committee. She is currently serving on
the 2015 Laura Ingalls Wilder Committee.
Horning has extended her expertise
in children’s literature through service on
many book committees of ALA and other
organizations, including the Ezra Jack Keats
Award Committee, the Charlotte Zolotow
Award Committee, the ALA Coretta Scott
King Award Jury, the ALA Stonewall Book
Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen
Award Committee for USBBY.
She is both an author and a teacher. Her
title, From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and
Reviewing Children’s Books (HarperCollins,
rev. 2010) is a classic guide for all youth librarians. She has also authored Multicultural
Literature for Children and Young Adults,
(1980 – 1990), Volume 1, coauthored with
Ginny Moore Kruse, and Volume 2, coauthored with Kruse and Megan Schliesman.
Both titles were published by the Madison,
Wisc. Department of Public Instruction.
For ALSC, she has taught The Caldecott
Medal: Evaluating Distinguished Picture
Art in 2011 using Moodle. In addition, she
has also taught The Newbery Award, Past,
Present and Future, also using Moodle, in
2009, 2010, and 2011.
In 2010, Horning delivered the May
Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture entitled
“Can Children’s Books Save the World?
Advocates for Diversity in Children’s Books
and Libraries.”
“K.T.,” said chair Julie Cummins, “is a visionary leader, literary critic, brilliant scholar,
gentle teacher, and inspirational mentor who
lives by a high standard for children’s and
teen literature. She has been a passionate and
knowledgeable advocate for diversity and
multiculturalism in youth literature in all her
professional work. Through her professional
service to ALSC and through her service
on multiple award committees for ALSC,
ALA, and other organizations, she has fully
demonstrated her drive for excellence. She
is strongly committed to the membership of
ALSC, frequently engaging new members in
probing conversations. She is a consummate
professional who imbues every discussion
with incredible insight, grace, and wit.”
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The 2015 ALSC Distinguished Service
Award Committee includes: Chair Julie A.
Cummins, Canandaigua, N.Y.; Amy Kellman, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Marge Loch-Wouters,
La Crosse (Wisc.) Public Library; Penny S.
Markey, Manhattan Beach, Calif.; Susan J.
Pine, Forest Hills, N.Y.
BISG and ALA Announce Research Partnership
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG)
and the American Library Association announced a partnership today to produce
a major survey of public library patrons’
use of digital content. This is the first
time both organizations have engaged
in a joint research survey. The project,
Digital Content in Public Libraries, was
announced at the 2015 Midwinter Meeting.
“We are delighted to partner with ALA on
this study,” said BISG Executive Director
Len Vlahos. “With BISG’s research expertise
and ALA’s reach into the library community,
this survey will provide the publishing industry and library administrators alike with
invaluable insight into how readers interact
with ebooks in a library environment.”
Keith Fiels, executive director of ALA,
said, “ALA is particularly pleased to work
with BISG on this project. This will be
the first study to establish a benchmark
– and usage trends – related to the digital
reading experience of library patrons.”
The survey seeks to understand the behavior of library patrons, including their
use of digital resources and other services
offered by public libraries. It will examine
the impact of digital consumption behaviors, including the adoption of new
business models, on library usage across
America. In a comprehensive survey, library patrons will be asked about preferred
device usage, preferences for print or digital
formats, collection assessment, and other
issues that affect the use and distribution
of published content in public libraries.
The questions are being developed jointly by BISG and ALA. The survey will
be fielded by the research firm Nielsen,
with editorial and analysis provided by Jim Milliot of Publishers Weekly.
Results from the survey will be announced at
ALA’s Annual Conference in San Francisco,
June 25-30, 2015, and a printed report will
be published in September.
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MONday, februARY 2, 2015
AASL Offers New Learning with Four Online Courses
Registration is now open for four American
Association of School Librarians (AASL)
eAcademy online courses. These four-week,
self-paced courses cover the topics of projectbased learning, research, and the Common
Core State Standards, implementing an ebook collection, and personalized professional
development. Courses begin February 16
and AASL members save $50 on registration.
Registration and additional course information are available at http://www.ala.org/aasl/
eacademy.
Course offerings include:
AASL Planning Guide: Empowering
Infinite Options for Personalized Professional Growth.
In a course designed for school library
supervisors, instructor Mary Keeling will
provide an overview of A Planning Guide
for Empowering Learners with School Library
Assessment Rubric. Participants will learn
strategies for designing professional development, identify coaching questions to support
professional reflection and begin to plan a
year of professional development modules. A
one-year subscription to the online module
will be included with registration.
Common Core and New Standards: The
Basics and Beyond.
This two-part course, facilitated by Paige
Jaeger, will explain the basics of the Common
Core State Standards (CCSS) pedagogy shifts
and the importance of inquiry-based learning for research. During part one, participants will learn how to “repackage research”
projects for the CCSS as well as higher-level
thought. In part two, participants will learn
how to make classroom connections in
the CCSS and how close reading activities
should naturally lead to research.
From 0 to 60: Implement eBooks in Your
Library Program in 4 Weeks.
Facilitated by Richard Hasenyager, this
course focuses on implementing a campus or
school district ebook collection which meets
the needs of students and staff. Participants
will learn how to incorporate ebook resources
into lessons and units of study and create an
implementation plan for their own campus/
school district including advocating for
funds, marketing, and training.
From Basics to Beyond: Using, Promoting, & Teaching Project-Based Learning.
In this new online course, participants
will learn about the basics of project-based
learning, including relevant terminology,
best practices, curriculum integration, tools
and techniques, and assessment. Instructor
Rhonda Huisman will demonstrate how
school librarians can partner with teachers in
cross/multi-disciplinary units or even drive
the curriculum development at their school.
AASL eAcademy courses are designed
to give participants 12 hours of self-paced
learning led by experts in the school library
field. Courses are presented in Moodle, a
web-based online learning system that attendees access from their browsers. Detailed
descriptions of available courses and registration rates are available at http://www.ala.org/
aasl/eacademy.
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