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Abe voting results!

The 2010 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Winners! Please share this with your high school and YA librarians.

1st place--City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
2nd place--Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
3rd place-- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Here is a breakdown of all the voting—

291--City of Bones -- Cassandra Clare
276--Nineteen Minutes -- Jodi Picoult
232--The Book Thief -- Markus Zusak

ALA 2010 Best Lists

The March 1st issue of Booklist Online has links to ALA's 2010 Best Lists.  Included are links to the 2010 selections for the following lists:
Notable Books
The Reading List: Best Adult Genre Fiction
Alex Awards
Best Books for Young Adults
Quick Picks
Rainbow List
Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Notable Children’s Books
Notable Children’s Recordings
Notable Children’s Videos
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
Notable Videos for Adults

Thousands of Children’s Books Available at Annual Book Sale

The Center for Children’s Books (CCB) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is hosting its annual book sale February 15 through February 17, 2010. Sale hours are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each of these days.

Thousands of brand-new children’s books will be available for youth ages birth through high school. The titles available represent the full spectrum of children’s publishing in fiction and nonfiction: board books, picture books, easy and transitional readers, chapter books, series fiction, novels, activity books and kits, nonfiction series, mass-market paperbacks, and more.

Paperback books are $1 or $2 each, hardcover books are $5 each, and individual items are priced as marked.

Center for Children's Books - Book Sale!

Thousands of inexpensive, brand new children's books will be available, including board books, picture books, easy and transitional readers, chapter books, series fiction, young adult novels, activity books and kits, nonfiction series, mass-market paperbacks, and more!

$1 for paperbacks that retail for $5 or less
$2 for ...paperbacks that retail for $5.01 or more
$5 for hardcovers
All proceeds support the Center for Children's Books, a reference and resource center for librarians, teachers, parents, scholars, and other educators.

Date:  Monday, February 15, 2010 through Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Start Time on Monday is 10:00 a.m.

Address:  501 East Daniel, Champaign, IL

DIY books recalled by Oxmoor House

On January 8, 2010, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Oxmoor House, Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., announced a voluntary recall of nine home improvement titles that contain errors in technical diagrams and wiring instructions that could cause users to incorrectly install or repair electrical wiring. CPSC states that no incidents or injuries have been reported.  For more information, including a list of the involved titles, see:

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10104.html

School library shifting to digital collection stimulates media interest

Recently, the Cushing Academy, a private boarding school in Massachusetts, attracted attention with its decision to discard all 20,000 books in the school’s library in favor of an entirely digital collection.

The issue stimulated media interest, and the American Library Association’s (ALA) Public Information Office (PIO) responded by recently coordinating two interviews addressing the future of school libraries with USA Today and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” ALA president Camila Alire and American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) president Cassandra Barnett participated in these interviews.

Alire appeared on a Nov. 9 segment on NPR. The segment and corresponding Web article, “Digital School Library Leaves Book Stacks Behind,” can be found at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120097876#commentBlock

USA Today, the newspaper with the second highest circulation in the country, with nearly 2 million daily readers, also ran an article on this issue entitled “School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history ‘books’?” In the Oct. 27 article, both  Alire and  Barnett say that the Cushing Academy’s move to get rid of all print books “is not necessarily a model for other school libraries.” The article can be found at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-10-26-kindle-school-library_N.htm.

New ACRL publication: 2008 Academic Library Trends and Statistics

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of “2008 Academic Library Trends and Statistics,” the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures and service activities of academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications. The three-volume set includes associate of arts institutions, master's colleges and universities/baccalaureate colleges and research/doctoral-granting institutions. The individual volumes for associates colleges, masters/baccalaureate and doctoral-granting institutions are also available for purchase.

Booklist launches free webinar series

Booklist is launching a free webinar series on Sept. 22, building on previous popular Booklist Online webinars.

The first in the new series, “The Scoop on Series Nonfiction: Best Uses, Best Practices, and Best New Titles for Fall,” will be useful to anyone involved in engaging reluctant readers, promoting reading success and keeping the library relevant in this era of accountability. Booklist youth editors will moderate as four top series nonfiction publishers—Lerner Publications, ABDO Publishing Company, Norwood House Press and Cherry Lake Publishing—share their expertise and introduce a selection of their fall titles. Webinar participants will also get a sneak peek at Booklist’s Oct. 1 Series Nonfiction Spotlight, including a focus on a new trend: series nonfiction for early primary children. You can sign up here or through Booklist Online.

Essential guide to novels in series is back

ALA Editions, the publishing imprint of the American Library Association, announces the release of the fourth edition of “Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series” by Janet G. Husband and Jonathan F. Husband. An ALA bestseller since its original release in 1982, this volume returns with greatly expanded series listings. Mysteries continue to be a mainstay, with fantasy, science fiction and romance listings, plus non–genre fiction selections from authors such as Edward Abbey and Lawrence Durrell. The authors have carefully sifted through a growing group of series to select those most likely to be available in a medium-sized public library, weeding out esoteric, obscure and less popular series. This classic reference includes hundreds of annotated series, title and subject indexes and suggestions for reading order. Library professionals will find:

New strategies for library public relations

ALA Editions, the publishing imprint of the American Library Association, just released “The Library PR Handbook” edited by Mark Gould, director of the ALA’s Public Information Office. Written by high-profile experts in the PR field, this new handbook aims to keep library personnel on top of this fast-paced, complex role with: