Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award
New to the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards in 2010 is the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for lifetime achievement. In this video, award committee chair Barbara Clark discusses Virginia Hamilton’s contributions to literature, the award itself, and the inaugural winner, Walter Dean Myers. See more ALA videos at http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/al_focus/videos.
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I actually consider this library as a luxury, because you do not need it to live. People need to realize—especially in these economic times we’re in right now—if you don’t pay, you can’t play.
Prescott, Arizona, City Councilman John Hanna, defending a proposal to charge residents for library use, Prescott Daily Courier, Feb. 24