K. T. Horning Nabs Scholastic Library Publishing Award
RSSBy Rocco Staino -- School Library Journal, 04/15/2009
K. T. Horning is having quite a year. First, the director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center was selected as the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). And now she’s the winner of the Scholastic Library Publishing Award for her extraordinary contribution to encouraging a lifelong love of reading and promoting access to books. .
As head of the CCBC, which was created in 1963 as a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Horning oversees a unique collection that supports teaching, learning, and research related to children’s and young adult literature. Its collections are available to students and faculty of the UW-Madison campus, as well as to librarians, teachers, child care providers, researchers and other adults throughout the state of Wisconsin. The CCBC’s noncirculating collections include current, retrospective and historical books published for children and young adults.
Selection committee chair Lynn Moses says she and her committee are very pleased to present this prestigious award to Horning, whose “contributions to young readers and to their librarians is so noteworthy.”
Horning, who received the 2006 Centennial Alumna Award from UW-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies, is also the author of From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books (HarperCollins, 1997). She also the immediate past-president of ALSC and a past president of the United States Board on Books for Young People.
Horning, who for nine years was a children’s librarian at Madison Public Library, frequently lectures to librarians on issues in evaluating literature for children and young adults. She has a B.A. in Linguistics and a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies, both from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The award, which comes with a $1,000 check, will be presented at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago this July.
The deadline for submission of applications for the 2010 Scholastic Library Publishing Award is December. 1. Guidelines and application forms are available on theALA Web site.
Members of the 2009 Scholastic Library Publishing Award Jury include Moses (Chair), Pennsylvania Department of Education, Harrisburg, PA.; Janet S. Fore, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN.; Anne Elizabeth Heidemann, Canton Public Library, Canton, MI.; Tracey Pearson, Methodist University, Fayetteville, N.C.; and Dr. Julie B. Todaro, Austin Community College, Austin, TX.
