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Riverside County Library Hosts 2010 Arbuthnot Lecture
The Riverside County Library System, in cooperation with the University of California Riverside, will host the 2010 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture featuring Kathleen T. Horning, a nationally known expert on children's literature and director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Ms. Horning is well known to librarians and children's book experts as a very interesting a highly engaging speaker. "KT," as she is known to her many friends and admirers, is also the author of Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books. Her lecture will be titled "Can Children's Books Save the World?"
The lecture will be held on Thursday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Extension Center at 1200 University Avenue, adjacent to the UCR campus in Riverside.
The Arbuthnot Lecture is an annual event sponsored by the Association of Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association. Each year ALSC selects one library in the United States to host the event. Since its inception in 1970, the Arbuthnot lecture has only been hosted in California four times previously and never in the Inland area.
Ms. Horning is one of the most important voices in the area of library services to children and the advocacy of children's reading in the United States. In addition to her book, Cover to Cover, Ms. Horning also publishes the annual CCBC Choices bibliography, an annotated best-of-the-year list that many libraries use as a core collection development tool. She also serves on the United States Board on Books for Young People and is the recipient of the 2009 Scholastic Library Publishing Award from the American Library Association, sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing.
While in the Riverside area, Ms. Horning will also visit libraries and meet with informally with area librarians.
Anyone who is interested in children's literature, libraries, education or early childhood development, will find this lecture very interesting and rewarding. Registration for the lecture will open online March 1, 2010.
Submitted to California Libraries by:
Mark Smith
Riverside County Library System
CLA Board Member
The Riverside County Library System is an Institutional Member of CLA and directly supports our advocacy programs. Click here for more information on Institutional Membership.
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