{"id":12264,"date":"2016-01-10T08:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=12264"},"modified":"2016-01-07T22:34:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T03:34:18","slug":"are-you-ready-for-the-youth-media-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/are-you-ready-for-the-youth-media-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready for the Youth Media Awards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/YMA16_FacebookEvent_784x295.png\" alt=\"2016 ALA Youth Media Awards\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/YMA16_FacebookEvent_784x295.png 784w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/YMA16_FacebookEvent_784x295-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/>In less than 24 hours, the Youth Media Awards will be announced at #alamw16. Hundreds and hundreds of librarians will be at the press conference. They will be eagerly anticipating the announcement of the 2016 Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Printz, <span class=\"views-field views-field-body\"><span class=\"field-content\">Pura Belpr\u00e9<\/span><\/span>, Sibert, Geisel, Schneider Family, and more.\u00a0 The excitement is building in Boston as children&#8217;s librarians engage in animated discussions about titles they read and loved over the course of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited? Will you be participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovelibraries.org\/pjparty\">YMA Pajama Party<\/a> from your home? Do you have a title you are hoping, hoping, hoping will take home a medal? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, check out some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/mock-election-results\/\">results of Mock Elections<\/a> from around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than 24 hours, the Youth Media Awards will be announced at #alamw16. Hundreds and hundreds of librarians will be at the press conference. They will be eagerly anticipating the announcement of the 2016 Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Printz, Pura Belpr\u00e9, Sibert, Geisel, Schneider Family, and more.\u00a0 The excitement is building in Boston as children&#8217;s librarians engage in animated discussions about titles they read and loved over the course of the year. Are you excited? Will you be participating in the YMA Pajama Party from your home? Do you have a title you are hoping, hoping, hoping will take home a medal? Let us know in the comments below. Meanwhile, check out some of the results of Mock Elections from around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"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":[877,12,144,210,22,25,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2016","category-awards-scholarships","category-blogger-mary-r-voors","category-books-2","category-childrens-literature","category-evaluation-of-media","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}