Children's Literature Lecture Award Explained

Children's Literature Lecture Award
Awarded For:body of work in the field of children's literature
Presenter:Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association
Country:United States
Year:1970
Website:http://www.ala.org/alsc/arbuthnot

The Children's Literature Lecture Award (known as the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture from 1970-2020), is an annual event sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association. The organization counts selection as the lecturer among its "Book & Media Awards", for selection recognizes a career contribution to children's literature. At the same time, the lecturer "shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children's literature", to be delivered as the Children's Literature Lecture and to be published in the ALSC journal Children & Libraries.

The lecture was funded in 1969 to honor the educator May Hill Arbuthnot and first held in 1970. Arbuthnot was one creator of "Dick and Jane" readers and she wrote the first three editions of Children and Books (Scott, Foresman 1947, 1957, 1964). When informed of the new honorary lecture in her name, 'she recalled "that long stretch of years when I was dashing from one end of the country to the other, bringing children and books together by way of the spoken word."' It was renamed the "Children's Literature Lecture Award" in January 2020.[1]

The lecturer may be an "author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature, of any country". The Children's Literature Lecture Award Committee selects one from a list of nominations, a process currently completed in January 15 to 18 months before the event. Then institutions apply to be the host: any "library school, department of education in college or university, or a children's library system". Several months later the same committee selects the host institution from the applicants.

Lectures

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2024Rita Williams-Garcia“A Funny Thing About Memory”Carnegie Library of PittsburghPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2023 "Dreamwalker"[2]
2022 No lecturer selected due to delays in lectures caused by COVID-19[3]
2021 Due to "unforeseen circumstances," no lecture was given. Instead, a "virtual celebration of Dr. Bishop’s work and her impact on the field of children’s literature" was hosted by ALSC.[4] Hosted virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic
2020
2019
2018 "REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED - Our Lives of Reading & Writing"
2017 "What Gets Left Behind: Stories From The Great Migration"
2016 "Bookjoy! ¡Alegría en los libros"
2015 "Love Is a Dangerous Angel: Thoughts on Queerness and Family in Children's Books"
2014 "Rejoice the Legacy"
(YouTube recording. Pinkney appears 12:15 minutes in.)
2013 "War Boy to War Horse"
https://cloud.ensemblevideo.com/app/sites/index.aspx?destinationID=ySvquw-zt06uv7_nCRTNEQ&amp;searchString=morpurgo&amp;pageIndex=1&amp;pageSize=10
2012 "Reading in the Dark"
(MUOhio recording)
2011"Unleaving: The Staying Power of Gold"
http://loislowry.com/documents/speeches/arbuthnot.pdf (brief YouTube recording)
St. Louis County Library
2010"Can Children's Books Save the World? Advocates for Diversity in Children's Books and Libraries"Riverside County Library System
2009Langston Hughes Library at the Children's Defense Fund Alex Haley Farm
2008"Thirteen Studios"
(YouTube recording)
South Central Library System
2007"Books As Shelter: Going Home Again and Again"McConnell Center for the Study of Youth Literature, University of Kentucky SLIS
2006 Williamsburg Regional Library
The Library of Virginia
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
2005"Mutuality"Free Library of Philadelphia
Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School
2004"Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children's Literature"Maricopa County Library District
Arizona State University
Arizona Center for the Book
2003"Descent into Limbo" Cambridge Public Library
Children's Literature, Inc.
2002"So She Went Into the Garden" Le Frak Hall, Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
2001"Time and Again" Scottish Rite Center
Multnomah County Library
2000 Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut
1999"Editorial License: On Library Selection Connections"San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science
1998"Instead of a Lecture" Richland County Public Library
College of Library and Information Science at the university of South Carolina
1997"In Search of Wonder" Northern State University
1996Dallas Public Library
1995"Imaginings and Images" University of Wisconsin
1994"Across the Years, Across the Seas: Notes from an Errant Editor"Coronado Public Library
1993"Everything of Value: Moral Realism in the Literature for Children" Virginia Center for the Book
1992"Developing Lifetime Readers" Montana Library Association annual conference
1991 Library of Congress
1990 New Orleans Public Library
1989 University of Pittsburgh
1988"Pushing up the Sun a Little" University of Oklahoma
1987 Northern Illinois University
1986"All of a Tremble to See His Danger" University of Arkansas
1985"Stones into Pools" Indiana University
Stone Hills Area Library Services Authority
1984"Bell, Book and Candle" Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center
1983"Children and the Voices of Literature" Center for the Study of Literature for Young People at the University of Georgia
1982"From Books to Buttons: Reflections From the Thirties to the Eighties" Florida State University
1981"Information: A Necessity for Survival: Strategies for the Promotion of Children's Books in a Developing Country" Texas Woman's University
1980"German Children's Literature From Its Beginning to the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Perspective" University of Wisconsin
1979"Beyond the Garden Wall: Some Observations on Current Trends in Children's Literature" University of South Carolina
1978"Tom and Laura from Right to Left: American Children's Books Experienced by Young Hebrew Readers" Boston Public Library
1977"One of the Dozens" Boise State University
1976 Los Angeles Public Library
1975"Talent Is Not Enough" Drexel University
1974"Real Adventure Belongs To Us" University of Washington
1973"Fortunate Moments in Children's Books" University of Missouri
1972"One World in Children's Books" University of Chicago
1971"Standards of Criticism for Children's Literature" Atlanta Memorial Arts Center
1970"Rights and Wrongs" Case Western Reserve University

Repeat lectures

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee has hosted two lectures.

Two lecture titles allude to The Secret Garden, a 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/chll/about About the Children's Literature Lecture Award
  2. Web site: 2023-09-13 . Bryan Collier's Lecture "Dreamwalker" Is Now Available for Viewing . 2023-10-27 . ALSC Blog . en-US.
  3. https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/chll Children's Literature Lecture Award
  4. https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2021/11/registration-open-2021-children-s-literature-lecture-celebration-honoring-dr Registration open for 2021 Children’s Literature Lecture Celebration honoring Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop