Timeline: two decades ago.
There are legendary stories told about how word spread throughout the US about the winners of the Caldecott, Newbery and other awards announced at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference. Stories of people standing in the room, scribbling down the winners list, then rushing to a bank of phones to send word to those back home, to the press, to librarians throughout the country.
Technology has Changed the Way We Learn the Award Winners!
This year, the ALA has live webcasts, Twitters, Facebook and much more.
How did you learn about the Newbery & Caldecott & other awards today?
- ALA Webcast (36%, 4 Votes)
- ALA Twitter (18%, 2 Votes)
- ALA Facebook page (9%, 1 Votes)
- ALA website: ALSC and YALSA pages (9%, 1 Votes)
- Email from a friend (9%, 1 Votes)
- Forum posting (9%, 1 Votes)
- Other (9%, 1 Votes)
- A blog posting -- please note it in the comments (0%, 0 Votes)
- I was at the ALA conference! (1%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 11
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Wish I could have been there . . . I tried the webcast, but traffic was too heavy to get a steady feed. So I’ve been watching the news on the Facebook fan page. I’m about to post results on my own blog now!
I was blown away. I’d never heard of the winner, and I just gave up on Savvy yesterday as I didn’t enjoy the characters and found the voice almost absent. Here I was thinking Chains, or Waiting for Normal, or something I’d read. How about Shooting the Moon? I read The Underneath, but it was too fairy tale/spiritual for the kid I imagined would be reading it. The Newbery did not go the way I thought it would, dang.