BNA_Daily | January 19, 2010
While many of us were relaxing over the 3-day weekend, authors, librarians, and publishers were busy at ALA Midwinter, the American Library Association’s 4-day, nonstop bookfest filled with meetings, events, and awards. While the meetings were no doubt exciting, we’ll ignore those and focus on the major awards: the John Newbery Medal, the Randolph Caldecott [...]
BNA_Daily | October 5, 2009
What was the most frequently banned book from 1990-1999? Can classic literature, streaming video, and social networking team up to create a multimedia hybrid? And is there anything other than blind praise being said about A.S. Byatt’s Booker-nominated novel? Answers below…
The American Library Association (ALA) is hosting Banned Books Week, an annual event to bring [...]
BNA_Editor | July 11, 2009
Books & Authors’ first day at ALA Chicago – Mecca for anyone library-obsessed or even just library-curious – was a big success. Met tons of the most engaged, thoughtful book lovers you could ever imagine, watched crime icon James Ellroy give an adrenaline-soaked “declaration of war” against the digital age at the ALA auditorium speaker [...]
BNA_Editor | July 10, 2009
It’s our favorite time of the year, dear readers. Time to let our inner library-nerd loose as we get our Dewey Decimal on at the annual American Library Association conference! Some may scoff, but, for the uninitiated, ALA is simply one of the coolest, information-packed events of the year for ANYONE who loves books. Where [...]
