ALA Announces Literary Award Winners

The American Library Association announced the top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults - including the Caldecott, King, Newbery, Schneider Family and Printz Award Winners - at the ALA MidWinter Meeting in Philadelphia.
John Newbery Medal - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Caldecott Medal - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Michael L. Printz Award - The White Darkness
Coretta Scott King Award - Elijah of Buxton
King Illustrator Book Winner - Let it Shine
Schneider Family Book Award - Kami and the Yaks

Make Your ALA Mark Vote in the 2008 Election

AASL members are encouraged to vote for J. Linda Williams for ALA President-Elect. Linda visited the NLA/NEMA Conference several years ago and would be a good voice for school library media programs.
ALA polls open online March 17-19 and close at ll:59 p.m. CST on April 24th.
Be sure and vote!!

Schools Libraries Count

The second annual AASL Longitudinal Survey will be conducted between January 22 and March 1, 2008. The brief survey's 20 questions cover the library media center's hours, staff and selected staff activities, collection, technology, usage, and expenditures. These basic statistics provide AASL and other advocates for school library media programs with critical data about the current and changing status of library media programs and library media specialist nationwide. Go to http://www.aaslsurvey.org to complete the survey. All K-12 schools, public and private, are invited to participate.