{"id":9982,"date":"2015-01-05T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=9982"},"modified":"2015-01-04T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T17:39:06","slug":"rewarding-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/rewarding-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewarding Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is that time of year again. The upcoming Youth Media Awards<\/a>, announced at this year\u2019s Midwinter conference in Chicago, always generate a lot of excitement. Many of us in the world of children\u2019s books have been reading all year, along with our award committees. There is speculation, discussion, anticipation. We take pride in our Association\u2019s role in seeing the best in children\u2019s literature take its place in the cannon alongside the classics of our own childhoods. The Youth Media Award announcements are the highlight of the conference for many.<\/p>\n

While our role in media evaluation is critical to our mission and purpose, the recent terrific buzz generated from the NPR story<\/a> on EVERY CHILD READY TO READ was welcome and important. Libraries play a critical role in early education and in improving the literacy skills of young children. While this is widely known in library circles and is gaining visibility in educational fields, the public continues to leave the library out of the business of early literacy.<\/p>\n

Our colleagues in Carroll County, Maryland have been doing this great work in early literacy for years and many of us around the country are using the five literacy practices outlined in ECRR2<\/a> in our daily work. In collaboration with our PLA colleagues, we have created an easily incorporated set of important, useful practices that will provide the basis for early literacy in a variety of environments that fit all our communities we serve.<\/p>\n

The amazing EVERYDAY ADOVACY website<\/a> continues to help us all in putting our value front and center to our communities. Wonderful press like the NPR piece on ECRR2 brings our contributions the lives of our families to a national level. Our communities understand our value when we are able to articulate it succinctly and sincerely. Make sure all our families know that our work extends past the august awards we bestow and leave as legacy to children\u2019s literature. Equally important is our role in the lives of our youngest customers and ensuring that there are readers who will grow up to discover the wondrous treasures waiting for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is that time of year again. The upcoming Youth Media Awards, announced at this year\u2019s Midwinter conference in Chicago, always generate a lot of excitement. Many of us in the world of children\u2019s books have been reading all year, along with our award committees. There is speculation, discussion, anticipation. We take pride in our Association\u2019s role in seeing the best in children\u2019s literature take its place in the cannon alongside the classics of our own childhoods. The Youth Media Award announcements are the highlight of the conference for many. While our role in media evaluation is critical to our mission and purpose, the recent terrific buzz generated from the NPR story on EVERY CHILD READY TO READ was welcome and important. Libraries play a critical role in early education and in improving the literacy skills of young children. While this is widely known in library circles and is gaining…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"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":[653,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2015","category-early-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982","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\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}