{"id":21002,"date":"2019-05-03T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=21002"},"modified":"2019-05-02T22:11:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:11:31","slug":"arbuthnot20-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/arbuthnot20-neil-gaiman\/","title":{"rendered":"#Arbuthnot20 with Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know Neil Gaiman\u00a0will deliver the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/2020-may-hill-arbuthnot-honor-lecture\">2020 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Gaiman\u2019s work has been honored with many awards internationally, including the Newbery Medal. He is credited with being one of the creators of modern comics, as well as an author whose work crosses genres and reaches audiences of all ages. Gaiman is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama and a vocal defender of the freedom to read.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/arbuthnot\">Arbuthnot<\/a> lecturer, announced annually at the ALA Midwinter Meeting &amp; Exhibits, may be an author, illustrator, editor, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children\u2019s literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2020arbuthnoths\">host site application<\/a> is still open!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A library school, department of education in a college or university, or a public library system may be considered. <em>Applications will close on <strong>May 15<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know Neil Gaiman\u00a0will deliver the 2020 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture? Gaiman\u2019s work has been honored with many awards internationally, including the Newbery Medal. He is credited with being one of the creators of modern comics, as well as an author whose work crosses genres and reaches audiences of all ages. Gaiman is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama and a vocal defender of the freedom to read. The Arbuthnot lecturer, announced annually at the ALA Midwinter Meeting &amp; Exhibits, may be an author, illustrator, editor, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children\u2019s literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children\u2019s literature. The host site application is still open! A library school, department of education in a college or university, or a public library system may be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":21003,"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":[1],"tags":[1246],"class_list":["post-21002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arbuthnot-honor-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21002","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\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}