{"id":506,"date":"2008-07-14T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2008-08-01T08:27:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:27:10","slug":"jim-dales-thanks-to-the-odyssey-award-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/jim-dales-thanks-to-the-odyssey-award-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Dale&#8217;s thanks to the Odyssey Award committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&amp;gt;     Normal   0         false   false   false                             MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   --><!--[if gte mso 9]&amp;gt;     --> <!--  \/* Style Definitions *\/  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin:0in; \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink \t{color:blue; \ttext-decoration:underline; \ttext-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed \t{color:purple; \ttext-decoration:underline; \ttext-underline:single;} @page Section1 \t{size:8.5in 11.0in; \tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; \tmso-header-margin:.5in; \tmso-footer-margin:.5in; \tmso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 \t{page:Section1;} --> <!--[if gte mso 10]&amp;gt;   \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin:0in; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-ansi-language:#0400; \tmso-fareast-language:#0400; \tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}  --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/odyssey08_1-medium.jpg\" title=\"odyssey08_1-medium.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/odyssey08_1-medium.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"odyssey08_1-medium.jpg\" \/><\/a>Here\u2019s an update to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/\/?p=497\">information I posted<\/a> about the wonderful celebration of the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/alsc\/awardsscholarships\/literaryawds\/odysseyaward\/odysseyaward.cfm\">Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production<\/a> during ALA Annual in Anaheim. At the end of the Booklist Books for Youth Forum, we all watched a video appearance by Jim Dale, narrator of the Harry Potter audiobooks. Dale shares some thoughts about recording Harry Potter, honors the Potter production team, and gives special thanks to the Odyssey Award committee: Jerene D. Battisti, Francisca Goldsmith, Natalie Hoyle, Sharon B. Grover, Teri S. Lesesne, Merri Lindgren, Connie C. Rockman, Sylvia Vardell, Sue-Ellen Beauregard. Here\u2019s the link to that video \u2014 enjoy your visit to Dale\u2019s living room that looks straight out of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kpvideo.info\/LL\/Jim_Dale.html\">http:\/\/kpvideo.info\/LL\/Jim_Dale.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Burkey, Chair 2008 Odyssey Award committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an update to the information I posted about the wonderful celebration of the first Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production during ALA Annual in Anaheim. At the end of the Booklist Books for Youth Forum, we all watched a video appearance by Jim Dale, narrator of the Harry Potter audiobooks. Dale shares some thoughts about recording Harry Potter, honors the Potter production team, and gives special thanks to the Odyssey Award committee: Jerene D. Battisti, Francisca Goldsmith, Natalie Hoyle, Sharon B. Grover, Teri S. Lesesne, Merri Lindgren, Connie C. Rockman, Sylvia Vardell, Sue-Ellen Beauregard. Here\u2019s the link to that video \u2014 enjoy your visit to Dale\u2019s living room that looks straight out of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! http:\/\/kpvideo.info\/LL\/Jim_Dale.html Mary Burkey, Chair 2008 Odyssey Award committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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":[12,22,10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-childrens-literature","category-committees","category-evaluation-of-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}