[LM_NET] MID & SEC: YALSA award winners announced next month

[Beth Yoke <byoke@ALA.ORG>]

Mark your calendars:   We're excited in the YALSA office, and with good
reason: in just 6 weeks YALSA will announce the winners of its 2006
Alex, Edwards and Printz awards as well as the final choices for its
2006 selected lists.  The awards announcement takes place at ALA's Youth
Media Awards Press Conference at 8 AM on Jan. 23rd in San Antonio at
ALA's Midwinter Meeting.  To learn more about these lists and awards go
to www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists.  If you can't make it to the Midwinter
Meeting to hear the announcements, we'll post the winners and new
selected lists on the YALSA web site on Jan. 23rd.     

Get Your Library Ready:    1. Create a display of prior Alex, Edwards
or Alex winners.   2. Join the discussion with other librarians and
educators on yalsa-bk about what titles are likely winners.  To
subscribe to yalsa-bk (it's free), go to www.ala.org/yalsa and click
on "Electronic Resources."    3. Hold a mock Printz election and let
your teens vote for which book they think will win in '06.   For help
planning this, post your question on the yalsa-bk discussion list.   4.
Plan a poster or bookmark contest.  Once the winners are announced, have
your teens design a poster or bookmark for the Alex, Edwards or Printz
winners.    

Make a shopping list:   Stock up on awards seals for your Edwards &
Printz books.  They're available for purchase from the ALA online store
at: www.alastore.ala.org (ALA members get a 10% discount).   

Read up:   In the fall issue of YALSA's journal, Young Adult Library
Services, you can read the awards speeches from the 2005 Printz winner
and honorees and from the 2005 Edwards winner.  Learn about the Selected
Audiobooks Committee in the latest issue of YAttitudes, YALSA's online
newsletter for members.  To access it, click on the For Members Only tab
at www.ala.org/yalsa.    

Thanks for all you do to get teens reading! 
-Beth 


Beth Yoke 
Executive Director 
Young Adult Library Services Association, 
fastest growing division of the American Library Association
50 E. Huron St. 
Chicago, IL 60611 
1 (800) 545-2433 x4391
(312) 280-5276 fax
byoke@ala.org 
www.ala.org/yalsa
Celebrate Teen Read Week Oct. 15-21, 2006!

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