Tweet This: Library of Congress to Archive Tweets

Last April the Library of Congress announced plans to digitally archive all public tweets from the Twitter information network. Soon all your carefully crafted 140 character messages will have a permanent home in the world's largest and most prestigious library. Sure this announcement bought the Library of Congress (LOC) some street cred with young people and technophiles but why would the LOC do this?

Time Magazine blogger Graeme McMillan stated the potential importance of creating a  "kind of record [that] demonstrates a much more honest idea of what history was actually like for generations to come, much in the same way that pop culture ephemera like magazines, comic books and pop songs have done so in the past." Researchers could certainly benefit from the data-mining opportunities available within the archive. Soon analyzing Twitter feeds may be the go-to way to gauge real-time responses to current events and breaking news from 2006 to the present.


But there are still some answered questions. As it stands, tweets are automatically archived on all public accounts. What if you don't want your thoughts on the latest episode of Jersey Shore going down in history? Can you opt out of being part of the Twitter archive? Only time will tell how the LOC and Twitter handle privacy concerns. We'll continue to follow this story and keep you posted!

Nicole Tekulve
Instructional Services Librarian

KJV -- 400 Years And Counting

The LTL Blog cannot let 2011 pass without taking note of an important literary milestone—the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible (KJV), sometimes referred to as the Authorized Version (AV).  Work on this English translation of the Bible began in 1604 shortly after James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne as James I.  The work of translation was done by 47 scholars within the Church of England and was completed in 1611.  The KJV was not the first English translation of the Bible, nor was it the first sanctioned by the Church of England.  Nevertheless, its popularity for hundreds of years, particularly among Protestant Christians, as well as its effect on future Bible translations and its influence on the English language in general make it one of the most significant pieces of English literature.

Rice Library has many works on the Bible and Biblical topics in several of its collections.  For those interested in browsing these collections, the BS class is devoted to works related to the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Additionally, Rice library has dozens of works on the topic of the Bible as literature and at least three on the history of the King James Version, including:

Norton, David. King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.  BS186.N66 2011

Nicolson, Adam. God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.  BS186 .N53 2003

McGrath, Alister E. In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How it Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.  BS186 .M33 2002

For assistance with these or other library resources or services, stop by or contact the Rice Library reference desk (812/464-1907, 800/246-6173, libref@usi.edu).

PO

Philip Levine Named Poet Laureate

In August, Librarian of Congress James Billington announced Philip Levine as the new Poet Laureate for 2011-2012, making him the 18th recipient of this honor.  Levine officially began his duties on October 17, by opening the Library of Congress’s literary season with a reading of his work.

In appointing Levine to this position, Billington was recognizing a lifetime of the poet’s scholarly and creative contributions, stretching back to the early 1960s.  During that time he has written several books of poetry, translated collections of Spanish poetry, and authored works of literary criticism.  Additionally, Levine has taught poetry for a number of years at California State University. He has also taught at New York University, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, and Tufts universities, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Rice Library contains several of Levine’s works in its print, electronic, and audiovisual collections.  The CREDO reference database has multiple entries from various sources on Levine, the longest one coming from the Encyclopedia of American Poetry:  The Twentieth Century.  For additional biographical information, you might consult the Biography in Context database which will provide access to entries from reference works as well as journal, magazine, and news articles and audio pieces.  The Literature Online (LION) database contains many Levine resources including full-text copies of several of his poems, a biographical sketch, a complete bibliography, literary criticism, and links to multiple web sites, including the Poetry Archive where one can listen to Levine read a selection of his poems.

Finally, for an interesting interview conducted with Levine by American Libraries in which he discusses his role as Poet Laureate and his love/hate relationship with libraries, click here.

P.O.

National Gaming Day @ Your Library

Rice Library and thousands of libraries across the country will join the American Library Association (ALA) in celebrating the popularity and educational, recreational, and social value of games for National Gaming Day @ Your Library on Thursday, November 10, 2011 from 5-7pm in the 4th Floor Reading Room.

We'll be kicking it old school and playing a wide variety of board and card games including Scrabble, Risk, and Trivial Pursuit. Refreshments will also be served. Please join us!

Hoosiers and the Civil War: A Sesquicentennial Commemoration

2011 marks the beginning of the United States’ five-year commemoration of the Civil War, and the State of Indiana has been active in preparing for and observing this significant historical event.  According to the Indiana Historical Bureau’s website, “The Indiana Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee was appointed by the Indiana History Collaborative to encourage Hoosiers to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War (1861-1865), to provide online resources to help Hoosiers gain a better understanding of Indiana’s part in this most devastating conflict in the nation’s history, and to encourage communication among interested individuals, groups, and organizations.”

The sesquicentennial website itself features a wide range of materials that may be useful to students and educators, researchers, and private citizens in studying the Civil War and observing its 150^th anniversary.  The major categories of information include “Hoosier Voices Then” which “provides primary sources on the reactions of Indiana residents to major events” of the war through newspaper articles, letters, and journals.  A second section, “Hoosier Voices Now,” includes a series of new and original historical essays written by leading Civil War historians that “explore and interpret Indiana’s participation in the Civil War and its effects on Indiana’s people.”  The final two sections—“Links & Resources” and “Calendar of Events”—respectively provide users with links to related online resources and primary sources and a chronological listing of sesquicentennial observances throughout the state.

It is worth noting that one of the core essays in the “Hoosier Voices Now” section was contributed by Dr. Thomas Rodgers, a professor in USI’s History Department.  Dr. Rodgers’ essay is entitled “The Hoosier Soldier in the Civil War.” Drawing upon a number of contemporary records, Dr. Rodgers details many aspects of the life of Hoosier soldiers and sailors from enlistment and conscription to battle engagement and confinement as prisoners of war.  The essay concludes, as do all of those in the “Hoosier Voices Now” section with a bibliography of additional sources.

Rice Library contains many items related to the Civil War, and in particular Indiana’s participation in the war, first-person narratives, correspondence, and primary sources.  Why not check out and study one of these works as you commemorate this important event in U.S. history.  A great place to start for resource ideas would be the Civil War section of the American Wars Libguide.

P.O.

Nobel Prizes 2011

Earlier this month the Nobel Prize for each of six categories was announced by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.  With few exceptions, these prizes have been awarded annually since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.  Since 1968 an additional prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, has also been awarded.  The prizes, which include a medal, a personal diploma, and a monetary gift, were established with funds willed for this purpose by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, the creator of dynamite.  Nobelprize.org is the official web site for the award, and it contains a great deal of information.  There you can find a list of this year’s winners along with press releases announcing the awards, biographical information on Nobel, the names of winners from prior years, video interviews with previous recipients, and space in which to express congratulations to this year's winners.

Listed below are the recipients for each of the prizes for 2011 as well as some references to library materials related to their work:

10/3, Physics:
Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess “for the discovery of accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.”
RL has a number of works on the expansion of the universe and supernovae, including:
Gravity’s Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe by Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees.
 

10/5, Chemistry:

Dan Shechtman “for the discovery of quasicrystals.”

RL has at least two books which discuss quasicrystals, including:

Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World by Kenneth S. Deffeyes and Stephen E. Deffeyes.

 
10/3, Physiology or Medicine:
Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann “for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity.”
And
Ralph M. Steinman “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.”
RL has materials on all three of these topics (innate immunity, adaptive immunity, and dendritic cells), including:
Cellular Signaling and Innate Immune Responses to RNA Virus Infections edited by Allan R. Brasier, Adlolfo Garcia-Sastre, and Stanley M. Lemon.


10/6, Literature:
Tomas Tranströmer “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.”


10/7, Peace:
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leyman Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”
RL has:
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf


10/10, Economic Sciences:
Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.”

RL has many works on macroeconomics as well as some authored or edited by Sargent, including:

Robustness by Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas J. Sargent.

In addition to the works listed and linked above, Rice Library has many titles on the Nobel Prize itself. Among these are:

Words of Peace: Selections from the Speeches of the Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize edited by Irwin Abrams.

Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science by Peter C. Doherty.

Nobel Prize: The First 100 Years edited by Agneta Wallin Levinovitz and Nils Ringertz.

Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize by Judith Hicks Stiehm.

 

Two rather unique titles based on this subject are Prizes, a novel by Erich Segal and Oxygen: A Play in Two Acts by Carl Djarassi and Roald Hoffman.  Also, one cannot overlook the feature film A Beautiful Mind which tells the story of Nobel Laureate John Nash.  Finally, for more information on Alfred Nobel, consider the CREDO reference or Biography in Context databases.

 

PO

Indiana State Archive at Risk

The Indiana State Archive is presently being housed in an old warehouse on the west side of Indianapolis. According to a recent article in the Indianapolis Star, the archive was temporarily moved there ten years ago. The building has many problems and the collections have been at danger many times. The State Archivists, Jim Corridan speaking at a workshop to the Society of Indiana Archivists told two stories about how close the residents of Indiana came to losing important collections. One involved a recently discovered survey map of the road from Jeffersonville to Vincennes that was made in 1805. The map was encapsulated and just two days later the roof leaked right over the map. Had this map not been protected it would have been destroyed. The other was about new shelving that was installed and had not been loaded with materials yet when another section of the roof leaked and the entire unit was covered in water.

The building currently holding the archive’s material was built in 1968 and is essential a pole barn type building with inadequate heating and cooling, as well as a roof that has had many incidents of leaking. While in today’s the world researcher are always looking for online accessible material, which the state archives has many, this does not mean the physical documents, artifacts, and records should be sacrificed. Aside from housing both of Indiana’s original constitutions, the 1816 and the 1851 versions, and many documents about the development of the state, it also has many items related to the Northwest Territorial government. All these precious resources are at risk if not properly maintained and protected. There are funds being made available to put a new roof on the structure, and this would certainly be helpful considering the number leaks that have happen during its time at this location, but it does not address primary concerns of temperature and humidity controls not to mention space for adequately housing all of the materials presently at the facility as well as future growth.

Indiana is soon approaching its 200th anniversary in 2016 and it needs to address the concerns of how we protect and maintain the history of our state. Perhaps, as suggested by the writer of the article that appeared in the Indianapolis Star, Stephen Towne, a fitting tribute to our state would be to encourage the legislators and citizens to take an active role in building a proper facility for the archives as a monument to the state’s achievements.

Towne, Stephen. “Protect priceless papers with new home for archives.” Indianapolis Star, October 11, 2011: A11

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011110110316

Indiana State Archive

http://www.in.gov/icpr/2358.htm

Collections of the Indiana State Archive

http://www.in.gov/icpr/2722.htm

Indiana Digital Archives

http://www.indianadigitalarchives.org/default.aspx

Preservation at the Indiana State Archives

http://www.in.gov/icpr/2354.htm

Friends of the Indiana State Archive      

http://www.fisa-in.org/

By

Jennifer Greene

Reference & Archives Librarian



To Your Good Health, Women!

In February the Office of Women’s Health, a project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, published a 70-page book entitled A Lifetime of Good Health: Your Guide to Staying Healthy.

According to the publication’s Web site, this guide offers women “a plan for health at all stages of life.”  In addition to behaviors for preventing and managing many health conditions that affect women, it also addresses things that are important to them, including pregnancy, breastfeeding, menopause, and breast cancer.

The guide is available online in English, Spanish, and Chinese translations. Print copies of the English (RA564.85 .L54 2011) and Spanish (RA564.85 .L5418 2011) editions are also available in Rice Library’s General Collection at the call numbers given.

Check it out!

PO

JSTOR Announces Free Access to Early Journal Content

Earlier this month, JSTOR announced that it was making a significant portion of its journal content freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world.  This material, known as the Early Journal Content, will include journals published in the United States prior to 1923 and journals published elsewhere prior to 1870.  This development will allow independent scholars who are not affiliated with the more than 7,000 institutions in 153 countries worldwide which subscribe to JSTOR to have free access to a sizeable collection of scholarly resources.  JSTOR is encouraging "broad use of the Early Journal Content, including the ability to reuse it for non-commercial purposes."  They do ask, however, that users "acknowledge JSTOR as the source of the content and provide a link back to [their] site."

For the complete announcement, including a link to the Terms & Conditions of Use as well as a quick tutorial on how to access this content, click here.

P.O.

Steamboat Bicentennial

200th Anniversary of the First Steamboat down the Ohio River

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This fall marks the bicentennial of the first steamboat, the New Orleans, to travel down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Nicholas Roosevelt and his family started the journey at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1811 and arrived at New Orleans in January of 1812.

 

Do you know what else happen that eventful year?

 

•  It was the year of a great squirrel migration across the Ohio River from Indiana to Kentucky.
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•  There was the New Madrid Fault System earthquake of 1811 with a reading over 7.0
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•  The Battle of Tippecanoe began on November 7, 1811
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•  The Great Comet passed over North America

 

 

 

This year there will be numerous events about the steamboat and its impact on the Evansville and the Northwest Territory. You can read more about the history and the incredible journey of the Roosevelt family at the Hanover College River Institute, http://rivers.hanover.edu/ .

 

Here is a list of events happening in Evansville and surrounding areas.

 

Steamboat Bicentennial Celebration
Howard Steamboat Museum, Jeffersonville, IN September 23 - 25, 2011


University of Southern Indiana Colloquium
   River Colloquium  September 29, 2011

 

Historic Southern Indiana 

Indiana’s Historic Pathways Teacher’s Workshop 3rd and 4th grade teachers
   October 4, 2011

Steamboat Celebration at Madison, Indiana

   October 14-16, 2011

River Institute at Hanover College Steamboat Symposium
   October 21, 2011

Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library

“Steamboat a Comin’: The Legacy of the New Orleans" Exhibit
   October 25-November 30, 2011

Evansville Museum
"Evansville on the Ohio" Exhibit
   November 6, 2011-February 26, 2012

  

Belle of Cincinnati at Evansville
    Dinner Cruise -  November 8, 2011 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 

 

Sporting some winning resources!

Fall is nearly here, and that means football! High school, college, pro – wherever your loyalties lie, Rice Library can help you locate some hard-hitting resources         showcasing the game on the gridiron.

Here are just a handful of sources about football available to you in the Rice Library "playbook" (aka online catalog):

The Big Scrum : How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football by John J. Miller - 2011

Fifty Years of College Football: A Modern History of America’s Most Colorful Sport by Bob Boyles and Paul Guido - 2007

The games that changed the game : the evolution of the NFL in seven Sundays by Ron Jaworski, Greg Cosell, and David Plaut - 2010

How Football Explains America by Sal Paolantonio - 2008

Kicking Off the Week: A History of Monday Night Football on ABC Television, 1970-2005 by Wesley Hyatt - 2007

For the “armchair” researchers among you, Rice Library also has several electronic book titles, available to USI students, faculty, and staff with their MyUSI username and password. These books can be read right from your computer and in the comfort of your favorite comfy furniture (where you like to watch sports):

Integrating the Gridiron: Black Civil Rights and American College Football by Lane Demas - 2010

The Man Who Built the National Football League by Joe F. Carr and Chris Willis

Scoreboard, Baby A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong – 2010

How about a DVD?

Brian’s Song – Columbia Pictures - 1971

Jerry Maguire – TriStar Pictures - 1997

Remember the Titans – Walt Disney Pictures/ Jerry Bruckheimer Films – 2000

Rudy – TriStar Pictures -2000

You may also wish to try out the Rice Library databases to delve deeper into the glorifying (and sometimes not so glorifying) aspects of the game. Search such topics as: the positive effect of participation in football on teamwork, strength conditioning, and sportsmanship; the generous philanthropy of professional athletes; the positive/negative aspects of free agency and collective bargaining; commercialization/exploitation of college football; football-related concussions and other injuries, etc. We suggest the following databases to collect resources on these and many other aspects of football, or to grab some basic, background information on your favorite sporting event:

• SPORTDiscus with Full Text
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
• Academic Search Premier
• ProQuest Research Library
• Credo
• CQ Researcher
• Britannica Online

Team up with Rice Library to tackle all your football or sports-related topics.

BR

Hurrican Irene- In Pictures

The Boston Globe's excellent blog, The Big Picture, highlights high-quality, amazing imagery, with a focus on current events. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday the blog is updated with collections of photographs from some of the world's most important news sources including the Associated Press and Reuters.

The collection of images from Hurrican Irene is awe inspiring. Perhaps the most recongnizable image from this group of photos is of a deserted Grand Central Station. When Mayor Bloomberg shut down the MTA and ordered residents to stay indoors, the Station became eerily quiet.

Credit: Marjorie Anders/NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority/AP

The following photo of Billy and Erin Stinson sitting on the steps of their washed away cottage gives viewers a sense of the immense loss that many people suffered. Erin Stinson remarked, "We were pretending, just for a moment, that the cottage was still behind us and we were just sitting there watching the sunset".

Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

To subsribe to The Big Picture blog via RSS feed, visit this page and scroll down to "News Blogs". They also have Iphone and Android apps available via a link on their homepage.





Happy 40th Birthday, WorldCat!

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive online library database (and as I've told scores of USI students, my personal favorite).  In addition to the subscription version of WorldCat, which is available to all USI students, faculty, and staff, there is now a free version, known as WorldCat.org.  The database currently has in excess of 240,000,000 bibliographic records, representing 2 billion items of all types held by over 72,000 libraries worldwide.  (See the database's stats sheet.)  It's always fascinating to "Watch WorldCat Grow" in real time.  For the complete text of the press release announcing the anniversary, click here.

P.O.

Surviving the Summer Heat with Good Books (and Videos)

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

At least one of the topics that’s been a part of our conversations this past week (aside from Washington politics and investigations of British tabloids) has been the weather—more specifically, the temperature.  In the words of Porky Pig, “Gosh, I’m roastin’!”  With that in mind, the LTL Blog thought it might be interesting to look at some library resources related to heat and temperature.

We begin with Heat.  Searching this word as a subject term in the RL catalog uncovers over 80 items, including Heat and Thermodynamics:  A Historical Perspective and the Excessive Heat Events Guidebook.  The latter is a U.S. government document which defines excessive heat events (EHEs) and explains how best to respond to them.  A print copy of the document is available in RL’s General Collection, but it is also available online.  For those able to tackle physics, upper level mathematics, and probability, let me recommend Random Walk and the Heat Equation, a 2010 work by Gregory F. Lawler.  According to reviewer Miklos Bona, “This is a very readable introductory course resource on topics . . . that have more than their fair share of unreadable textbooks.  Even so, definitely not a beach read for most of us.  For those, like me, needing a simpler explanation of the scientific principles of heat, try Rob Moore’s children’s book Why Does Water Evaporate?: All About Heat and Temperature, a title from RL’s Curriculum Materials Collection (4^th floor). 

There is also a subject term for Body temperature.  With this search, I uncovered Mark Blumberg’s 2002 work entitled Body Heat:  Temperature and Life on Earth.  The book’s synopsis from the publisher (Harvard University Press) states, “Whether you're a polar bear giving birth to cubs in an Arctic winter, a camel going days without water in the desert heat, or merely a suburbanite without air conditioning in a heat wave, your comfort and even survival depend on how well you adapt to extreme temperatures.”

Next I searched the catalog using Global temperature changes and Global warming and received 32 results and 225 results respectively (as of 7/22).  Among the items found with these subject term searches were the books Life in the Hothouse: How a Living Planet Survives Climate Change by Melanie Lenart and How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate by Jeff Goodall.  Interestingly enough, at the top of the result list was Karen Dionne’s 2011 novel Boiling Point, available in RL’s Popular Reading Materials (1^st floor).  This ecothriller is definitely a beach read.  And for scores of other suggestions related to these topics, don’t overlook the Global Warming and Climate Change LibGuide. 

Finally, for those who would prefer to watch a video rather than read a book, let me recommend the Frontline/NOVA production, What’s Up With the Weather? (science), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (drama), or Some Like it Hot (comedy).

Oh, and the quote above?  Historically, many have attributed it to Mark Twain, but you might be interested in reading what the online source Quote Investigator has to say about its origin as well as Respectfully Quoted:  A Dictionary of Quotations, available in Rice Library's CREDO reference, a collection of electronic reference books.

Have fun reading (or viewing), everyone, and stay cool!

PO

Annual Awards for Best in Children's Literature

Each year during its Midwinter Conference, the American Library Association (ALA) announces winners for a number of awards for children’s literature and media, including the Newbery and Caldecott Medals.  The winners of these two highly sought-after awards are selected by separate committees made up of members of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA.

The John Newbery Medal is given for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature.  This year’s winner was Moon over Manifest, written by Clare Vanderpool and published by Delacorte Press.  Vanderpool’s fictional story, set in 1936, tells of twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker who is sent to Manifest, Kansas for the summer by her drifter father.  While seeking to learn more about her father’s past, Abilene becomes involved in “an honest-to-goodness spy hunt” and uncovers some of the secrets of the town’s past and her father’s life.  Other works recognized as Honor Books by the selection committee were:  Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House), Heart of a Samurai:  Based on the True Story of Manjiro Nakahama by Margi Preus (Amulet Books), Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children), and One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad).

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott and is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.  This year’s medal was presented to Erin E. Stead who illustrated A Sick Day for Amos McGee, written by her husband Philip C. Stead and published by Roaring Brook Press.  When zookeeper Amos McGee’s daily routines are suddenly interrupted by a bad cold, the animal friends he has made at the zoo pay him a visit which succeeds in cheering him up.  Stead’s illustrations are successful too.  In the words of Booklist reviewer Hazel Rochman, “Like the story, the quiet pictures, rendered in pencil and woodblock color prints, are both tender and hilarious.”  The 2011 Caldecott Honor Books included Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown and Company) and Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein (Candlewick Press).

Once the awards are announced, the medals are presented to the recipients during ALA’s annual conference held during the following summer. Each winner makes an acceptance speech, and the speeches are published annually in the summer/fall issue of Children and Libraries and the June/July issue of Horn Book. Rice Library has at least two books which include copies of some of these acceptance speeches. They are:

     Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books, 1956-1965: With Acceptance Papers, Biographies, and Related Material Chiefly From the Horn Book Magazine [GEN COL: Z1037 .A2 K5 1965]
     Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books, 1966-1975: With Acceptance Papers, Biographies, and Related Material Chiefly From the Horn Book Magazine [GEN COL: Z1037 .A2 N48]

Rice Library’s collections also include copies of most of the books which have received these prestigious awards over the years (since 1922 for the Newbery Medal and since 1938 for the Caldecott Medal) as well as many of the Honor Book selections. Additionally, the library has a number of resources for those interested in using the books in classroom settings. Among these are such works as:

     Teaching With Favorite Newbery Books [GEN COL: LB1575.5 .U5 L53 1999]

     Developing Better Readers and Writers Using Caldecott Books [GEN COL: LB1576 .M3934 2006]

     Newbery/Prinz Companion: Booktalk and Related Materials for Award Winners and Honor Books [Z1037 .A2 G56 2006]

     The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books [REF COL: PS374 .C454 N46 2006]

Finally, don’t overlook the Children’s and Young Adult Literature LibGuide as an excellent introduction to the topic and a gateway to the library’s many resources.

For assistance with these or other Rice Library resources or services, please contact the library’s Reference Desk at 812/464-1907.

 

PO