ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting: Trigiani Wins Genre Award, Calls Mom (Video), Other RUSA Awards
ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting - American Library Association - Library Journal
By LJ Staff -- Library Journal, 01/18/2010
Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine (HarperCollins, 2009), won top honors in the RUSA Reading List for genre fiction in the women's fiction category. The announcement came Sunday night at the ALA Midwinter RUSA awards. Trigiani ("Big Stone Gap" series) jumped up on stage to call her mom, a librarian, and gave out a "big glASS ring" to a librarian who admired it. She thanked librarians for promoting her book and getting it out there to patrons. Check out additional Reading List awards in genre fiction, as well as the 2010 Notable Books List, and Outstanding Reference Sources. See below for other awards, too.In other good news, LJ's Heather McCormack (@hmccormack) won the Louis Shores/ABC-CLIO award, for excellence in reviewing for her baby, LJ BookSmack, a biweekly, free, outside-the-box e-newsletter on books. Previous winners of the prestigious Louis Shores award include LJ e-referenc reviewer Cheryl LaGuardia, LJ Book Review editor Barbara Hoffert, as well as Nancy Pearl of one book, one city fame and former editor of LJ's Reader's Shelf.
The coveted Dartmouth Medal for outstanding reference went to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights, published by Oxford. Noting what a good year it was for quality reference, the Dartmouth committee gave out two honorable mentions, to The Encyclopedia of Modern China (Gale) and The Encyclopedia of Journalism (Sage).
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