Travels

I'll be up in State College tomorrow for a Commonwealth Libraries Leadership Conference, "Strategies to Get Through Tough Times".

Yesterday was a day of travels of the mind. You know how you get to some point in your thinking and it's one way or the other and then again its maybe both? I had one of those conversations where you just keep thinking 'what's the solution here?' Well, today I hoping it has been resolved, yet, time will tell. Anyone remember 'thinking is the best way to travel' by the Moody Blues?

What I'm reading now --- Mockingjay -- yes, we have our copies! Kudoze to our CDTS department -- no problem here for acquisition. Sorry to read about all the angst out there for those who won't be getting them anytime soon.

The 2011 ALSC/Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Committee is asking the ALSC membership to submit titles for consideration. The Sibert Award is presented annually to the author, author/illustrator, co-authors or author and illustrator of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceeding year. Honor books may be named.

Informational books are defined as those written and illustrated to present, organize, and interpret documentable factual material for children from birth through age fourteen. (Poetry and traditional literature are not eligible. Authors and illustrators must be U.S. citizens or residents. Other terms and criteria can be found on the ALSC website:  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/sibertterms/sibertmedaltrms.cfm