Cognotesala Issue IV San Diego Monday—January 12, 2004 ALA Honors Top Authors and Illustrators Caldecott Honor Books Randolph Caldecott Newbery Honor Books Ella Sarah Gets Dressed Medal Olive’s Ocean Margaret Chodos-Irvine The Man Who Walked Kevin Henkes Between the Towers What Do You Do With An American Plague: The True and Mordicai Gerstein a Tail Like This? Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fe- Robin Page and ver Epidemic of 1793 Steve Jenkins Jim Murphy Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus John Newbery Medal Siebert Honor Book Mo Willems The Tale of Despereaux I Face the Wind Vicki Cobb, author Printz Honor Books Kate DiCamillo Candlewick Press A Northern Light Mildred L. Batchelder Award Jennifer Donnelly Michael L. Printz Award The First Part Last Walter Lorraine Books/ Keesha’s House Angela Johnson Houghton Mifflin Co. Robert F. Sibert Helen Frost Simon & Schuster’s Books Run, Boy, Run Award for Young Readers Uri Orlev Fat Kid Rules the World An American Plague: Batchelder Honor Book K.L. Going Coretta Scott King Author The True and Terrify- Chronicle Books Award ing Story of the Yellow The Earth, My Butt and The Man Who Went to the Far Side The First Last Part Fever Epidemic of 1793 Other Big Round Things of the Moon Angela Johnson Jim Murphy Carolyn Mackler Clarion Books Bea Uusma Schyffert King Author Honor Books Margaret A. Edwards Award Days of Jubilee: The End of Ursula K. LeGuin Slavery in the United States Patricia C. and Fredrick L. Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer McKissack Richard Jackson Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson Belpré Illustrator Honor Books The Battle of Jericho First Day in Grapes Sharon M. Draper Robert Casilla L. King Pérez, author King Illustrator Honor Books The Pot That Juan Built Almost to Freedom David Diaz Coretta Scott King Colin Bootman Carnegie Medal Pura Belpré Pura Belpré Illustrator Nancy Andrews-Goebel, author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Illustrator Award Giggle, Giggle, Author Award Award author Beautiful Blackbird Quack Before We Were Free Just A Minute: A Trickster Harvesting Hope: The Story Ashley Bryan Paul R. Gagne Julia Alvarez Tale and Counting Book of Cesar Chavez Thunder Rose Atheneum Books and Melissa Alfred A. 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TLC: where the future is happening. 1.800.325.7759 • www.TLCdelivers.com CARL•Solution® • Library•Solution™ • Acquisitions • Cataloging • RFID ALAPLA BoothBooth ##328 426 Page 2 Cognotes Monday, January 12, 2004 ALA Announces 2004 Stonewall APALA Announces Scholarship Book Award Winners The Asian/Pacific American Librar- ians Association (APALA) announces its The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, 2004/2005 scholarship awards for stu- Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of The Stonewall honor books in literature are: dents of Asian or Pacific background who the American Library Association Cutting Room, by Louise Welsh are enrolled or have been accepted in a (ALA) is pleased to announce the win- Keeping you a Secret by Julie Ann Peters master’s or doctoral degree program in ners of the 2004 Stonewall Book Lives of the Circus Animals: a Novel by Christopher Bram Library and/or Information Science at an Awards. Monique Truong, author of The Southland by Nina Revoyr ALA-accredited school. The $1000 schol- Book of Salt is the winner of the Barbara arship is designed to encourage quali- Gittings Book Award in Literature, and The Stonewall honor books in non-fiction are: fied Asian/Pacific students to enter the historian John D’Emilio, author of Lost Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson field. Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context Scholarship criteria, as well as appli- Rustin, is the winner of the Israel edited by Vern L. Bullough, R.N., Ph.D. cation forms and instructions are avail- Fishman Book Award for Nonfiction. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their Circle by Lois W. Banner able at the APALA website at The announcement was made Sun- Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman www.apalaweb.org/awards/ day at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in San scholarship.htm. Completed applica- Diego. The awards will be presented at tivist Bayard Rustin, whose homo- mosexual Minority in the United States, tions, including references and support- the 2004 ALA Annual Conference in sexuality shaped and almost de- 1940-1970. ing documentation must be received no Orlando, FL, June 24-30, 2004. stroyed his professional career in The Stonewall Award, formerly later than March 31, 2004. The Book of Salt masterly depicts the mid-20th century America. Rustin called the ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bi- Those interested in contributing to the life of gay, Vietnamese-émigré Bình and brought the Ghandian principles of sexual and Transgendered (GLBT) fund may send donations to Ling Hwey his years as a live-in cook for Gertrude nonviolent protest to the American Book Award, was established in Jeng, Executive Director, APALA, 3735 Stein and Alice B. Toklas in 1930s civil rights movement and was the 1971. It is the oldest literary award Palomar Centre Ste 150 PMB 26, Lexing- Paris. The narrative poignantly ad- architect of the historic 1963 March given for literature exploring the ton, KY 40513 or contact Jeng at dresses issues of identity, home and, on Washington. D’Emilio’s Lost GLBT experience. [email protected]. of course, cooking in a delectable Prophet reveals the poignant struggle mélange of storytelling. of a brilliant and unrecognized ac- Changed/Cancelled Meetings This is Truong’s first novel. A Viet- tivist. namese émigré who moved to the D’Emilio is a professor of history, • ACRL Harvard Leadership Advisory Board, today, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., United States at the age of six, Truong and of gender and women’s study at CANCELLED is now an attorney specializing in in- the University of Illinois at Chicago. • ALA Web Advisory Committee, today, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Moved to tellectual property. She currently re- This is his second literary award from Convention Center Room 29 sides in Brooklyn, N.Y. the GLBTRT. 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FDC Reports Macmillian Publishing Lowe's COPYRIGHT.COM Monday, January 12, 2004 Cognotes Page 3 2004 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award Winners Announced Seven libraries are winners of the ries — a program of scholars and John Cotton Dana Library Public Re- other luminaries that was devel- lations Award, which recognizes oped from a unique partnership with and honors outstanding achieve- the American Research Center in ment in library public relations. This Egypt. award, jointly sponsored by The H. • The Edmon Law Library, Okla- W. Wilson Company, Bronx, N.Y., homa State University (Stillwater, and the Library Administration and Okla.), for a stellar commerative cel- Management Association (LAMA), a ebration entitled “That was Then … division of the American Library This is Now,” focusing on the suc- Association (ALA), has been cesses and challenges marking 50 awarded continuously since 1946. years of building pride. “The quality of the applications • The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received this year represented the Library (San Jose, Calif.) for a build- full spectrum of library public rela- ing dedication campaign, highlight- tions activities, and, without excep- ing a groundbreaking partnership tion, the entrants deserve praise for between the San Jose State Univer- ALA President Carla Hayden with keynote speaker Omar Wasow, Executive their commitment of time and effort sity and the city’s public library.