{"id":10463,"date":"2015-03-28T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=10463"},"modified":"2015-03-25T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:01:51","slug":"apply-to-host-the-2016-arbuthnot-lecture-with-pat-mora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/apply-to-host-the-2016-arbuthnot-lecture-with-pat-mora\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply to Host the 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture with Pat Mora"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pat Mora will deliver the 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture (image courtesy of Pat Mora)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ALSC and the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Committee are proud to announce the opening of the application to host the 2016 event <\/a>featuring award-winning children\u2019s book author and pioneering literacy advocate Pat Mora.<\/p>\n

The Arbuthnot Lecture<\/a> is an annual event, announced at the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting, in which an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children\u2019s literature presents a paper that makes a significant contribution to the field. A library school, department of education in a college or university or a children\u2019s library system may be considered. The lecture is administered by ALSC.<\/p>\n

Applications are due Friday, May 15, 2015<\/strong>. Information about host site responsibilities is included in the application materials. The lecture traditionally is held in April or early May.<\/p>\n

In January, Pat Mora was selected by the Arbuthnot Lecture Committee to speak in 2016. \u201cMora\u2019s commitment to literacy for all children of all backgrounds motivated her to found El d\u00eda de los ni\u00f1os\/ El d\u00eda de los libros (Children\u2019s Day\/Book Day), or \u2018D\u00eda,\u2019 a celebration of children, families and reading. This flourishing family literacy initiative culminates annually on April 30,\u201d stated 2016 Arbuthnot Committee Chair Julie Corsaro.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Mora grew up bilingual and bicultural. With degrees in English and speech, she was a teacher and university administrator before writing children\u2019s books. Known for her lyrical style, Mora\u2019s poetry and prose have won numerous awards, including a 2005 Belpr\u00e9 Honor Medal for text for \u201cDo\u00f1a Flor: A Tall Tale of a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart,\u201d published by Knopf Books for Young Readers, and illustrated by Raul Col\u00f3n. Her generosity for sharing bookjoy, the phrase she coined for the power and pleasure of words, led Mora to launch \u201cD\u00eda,\u201d which will observe its 20th anniversary in 2016.<\/p>\n

ALSC established this lecture series in 1969, with sponsorship from Scott, Foresman and Company (now Pearson Scott Foresman) in honor of author May Hill Arbuthnot. The lectureship, now funded by the ALSC May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Endowment, has the distinction of featuring many notable authors, critics, librarians, historians, and teachers of children\u2019s literature from various countries. Past lecturers over the decades have included Mary \u00d8rvig, Leland B. Jacobs, Virginia Hamilton, Maurice Sendak, and Richard Jackson. Brian Selznick will deliver the 2015 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture<\/a> on Friday, May 8, 2015<\/strong> at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at the DC Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALSC and the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Committee are proud to announce the opening of the application to host the 2016 event featuring award-winning children\u2019s book author and pioneering literacy advocate Pat Mora. The Arbuthnot Lecture is an annual event, announced at the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting, in which an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children\u2019s literature presents a paper that makes a significant contribution to the field. A library school, department of education in a college or university or a children\u2019s library system may be considered. The lecture is administered by ALSC. Applications are due Friday, May 15, 2015. Information about host site responsibilities is included in the application materials. The lecture traditionally is held in April or early May. In January, Pat Mora was selected by the Arbuthnot Lecture Committee to speak in 2016. \u201cMora\u2019s commitment to literacy for all children of all backgrounds motivated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[186,92,61,23],"tags":[707,797,716],"class_list":["post-10463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-dan-rude","category-dia","category-diversity","category-news-of-interest","tag-arbuthnot-lecture","tag-dia","tag-pat-mora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}