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ALA Midwinter Meeting Media Activity Report
Seattle is the 14th largest market in the country, and proved to be a very strong media market for the American Library Association’s (ALA) Midwinter Meeting. Such issues as teen literacy, the closure of EPA Libraries, technology and how libraries are modern institutions were key topics discussed.
ALA President Leslie Burger and Seattle Public Library Director Deborah L. Jacobs, co-authored an op-ed titled “Libraries thrive in all forms.” The opinion piece appeared in the January 18 edition of the Post Intelligencer, and discusses how libraries are changing in dynamics. The Seattle Times also ran an editorial on January 19.
Leslie Burger also participated in a lengthy live radio interview with CBS Radio Affiliate KIRO. The interview focused on the conference and the various issues that effect libraries today, like library funding and technology. Other radio coverage included KPLU Seattle’s National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate and KOMO radio.
The Midwinter Meeting’s Youth Media Awards received a flurry of national coverage. Ellen Fader, Association for Library Service to Children past president, appeared on the Today Show with Newbery Medal winner Susan Patron and Caldecott Medal winner David Wiesner. AP National Reporter Hillel Italie wrote about the awards, and his article was picked up by hundreds of papers from around the country. Highly circulated publications like USA Today, New York Times, Time for Kids, Red Book and Costco Connections also provided coverage.
More than 85 members of the media registered for advance media credentials. Registrants included library trade, bloggers and local media.
After a successful pilot, and months of planning, the PIO offered a live Webcast of the ALA Youth Awards. More than 5,000 logged on to view the award announcements. The Webcast took months of preparation and coordination with ALA’s ITTS department, on-site audio/video vendors, and our Web vendor Unikron.
Prior to the Webcast PIO received multiple calls from educators and librarians who planned to use the Webcast as a learning tool. Most held Newbery/Caldecott elections in their classrooms or libraries and wanted to compare their election results to today’s announcement.
TELEVISION
Today Show
Interviewed: Ellen Fader, past president, ALSC
Date: 1/23/07
"Q 13" Morning News KCPQ (Fox Affiliate)
Interviewed: Linda Ernst, local Caldecott committee member
Date: 1/23/07
"Author's Hour" TVW Washington State's Public Affairs Network
Columnist Joe Klein (TIME Magazine) speaks on "Islam, Iraq, and the War on Terror" at the American Library Association's Mid-winter Meeting.
Date: 1/20/07
RADIO
KPLU (NPR affiliate)
Interviewed: Judy Nelson
Date: 1/18/07 – Interview ran on 1/19/07
Topic: ALA Midwinter Meeting, teens and libraries
KIRO Radio (CBS Affiliate)
Interviewed Leslie Burger
Date: 1/20/07
Topic: ALA Midwinter Meeting and the importance of libraries
KOMO (ABC affiliate)
Interviewed conference attendees onsite
Date 1/19/07
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Local Coverage:
Seattle Times
Check it out! Video games, homework-help centers draw teens to the library
Friday, January 19, 2007 : Living
Immersed in digital entertainment at the Kingsgate Library, teens Aja Chinnell, 13; Andres Lorenzo, 13; and Lawrance Lorenzo, 15, take part in a drop-in "Game On!" program of the King...
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=libteen19&date=20070119&query=library+
Today's libraries: cauldrons of ideas - Editorial
Friday, January 19, 2007 : Editorials & Opinion
Some 15,000 librarians descend on Seattle today for the national convention of the American Library Association. We welcome them. This is a university town, a book-reading town, a film-festival...
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=libraryed19&date=20070119&query=library+
Ways libraries reach out to teens
Thursday, January 18, 2007 : Living
Linda Braun, author of "Teens.Library: Developing Internet Services for Young Adults." The library will be where the teen needs it to be." Experts say these tech options are increasingly...
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=libteenside19&date=20070118&query=library+
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Libraries thrive in all forms - op-ed
Leslie Burger and Deborah L. Jacobs, guest columnists: Some might think libraries are obsolete, a quaint vestige of our collective past. Far from being marginal, libraries are enjoying a Golden Age.
Last modified: January 17, 2007
URL: http://seattlepi.com/opinion/300062_lib18.html
Librarians to descend on Seattle
Don't look now, but more than 10,000 librarians and guests are converging on Seattle for the American Library Association's midwinter meeting, Friday through Wednesday at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.
Last modified: January 17, 2007
URL: http://seattlepi.com/books/300078_tf218.html
Tacoma News Tribune
Two local authors win awards
Two Puget Sound-area authors – Laura McGee Kvasnosky and Kirby Larson – won major children’s literature awards Monday at the American Library Association Midwinter meeting in Seattle. The awards were revealed to a cheering, whistling crowd of about 1,000 librarians, publishers’ representatives and other book professionals at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. The Theodor Seuss Geisel Beginning Reader Award went to Kvasnosky, a Seattle author-illustrator, for “Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways,” her fourth book about a funny and spunky pair of fox sisters. Larson, a Kenmore resident and author of “Hattie Big Sky,” won a Newbery Honor, one of three Newbery runners-up picked this year. As a thrilled Kvasnosky accepted hugs and signed books just after the announcements, she said it’s “not often winners get to be in the room when the awards are announced.” The awards are a matter of prestige for authors, and ALA awards help parents
Last modified: January 22, 2007
URL: http://www.thenewstribune.com/soundlife/youth/story/6336175p-5522302c.html
National Midwinter Media Coverage
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