Talk:ALA Notable lists

More ALA lists

Best Books for YA

Probably this is the place to cover Best Books too.

This year in two locations I have perpetrated solo discussion of ALA Best Books for Young Adults.

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Children's literature/Archive 3#BestBooks for Young Adults
• Talk:Young Adult Library Services Association#ALA Best Books for Young Adults

Are there other ALA "Best Books" lists? (One is Alex Awards, idiosyncratically named something else.) --P64 (talk) 18:46, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Well, I thought about adding the Best Books when creating this article but had decided against it. I think a new article ALA Best Books would pair well with ALA Notable Books. My thinking was these are different sorts of things, one is more like an award the other more like a recommendation list. Best Books might have the full list on Wikipedia, Notable Books just link externally since the lists are so long. To answer yes I believe there are other Best Books lists, for adults, and possibly others too. ALA has so many awards it's confusing and wouldn't make sense to try and put all on one page, though an index page would be great start to organizing. The biggest work is all the back-linking and finding the various naming schemes (take a look at the "what links here" for this article for example). Green Cardamom (talk) 19:46, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes there are scads of ALA lists --almost ten for YALSA alone, I learned soon after writing above. Some guide to all the lists might be useful. I wonder whether any reliable source has already produced a useful guide, or a good scholarly tome, on any class of book lists.

"Best Books for YA" grew from about 20 to about 90 titles before the introduction of "Top 10 Best Books for YA". I suppose you are thinking of the latter as a candidate for full listing here.

(BBYA poses a special problem in that it obscures its own top ten. I feel sure that most readers are more impressed (fooled) to read that some Title was a BBYA than that the Title was a Top Ten BBYA.)

--P64 (talk) 22:27, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Some guide to all the lists might be useful. Here is a master list of "ALA Book, Print & Media Awards", a sub-portion of which they classify as "ALA Recommended Print/Media List" and another sub-list called "ALA Youth Media Awards". Following their organization scheme, one idea is create a new article called List of ALA awards which contains multiple lists. One list would be for BP&M (Books, Print and Media), with a field called "category" so it can be sorted either Awards, Recommendations or Youth (the same scheme ALA is using in the three lists above). Other fields for type (B, P or M), division (RUSA, YALSA etc), date etc. Other lists in the article would cover fellowships, grants and scholarships; professional awards. Let me know what you think of this organization. Green Cardamom (talk) 00:45, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

By "field" do you refer to a sortable wikitable column heading? If so, maybe its structure can be drafted in Talk space, with very little cell content. --P64 (talk) 19:15, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

List of ALA awards has been created. I need time for substantial comment. --P64 (talk) 19:19, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Yeah I just went ahead with it. It's open to change if needed. The big jobs remain creating the articles, back linking and lists of winners. Green Cardamom (talk) 19:39, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Booklist Editor's Choice

Booklist is a periodical ALA publication. According to official information on the ALA Carnegie Medals, two book awards new in 2012[1], the Booklist Editor's Choice and the RUSA Notable Books List jointly constitute the candidates for these Medals (2012 shortlists[2]). --P64 (talk) 19:05, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

I made an article for this: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Can add the information there also. Green Cardamom (talk) 19:46, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

WP Literature

Just now (while replying above) I have replaced WP Lit with WP Libraries, rather than add the latter project banner. Lit requests such diffusion for articles on particular authors and books; I deem that it pertains to awards and organizations too. --P64 (talk) 19:15, 19 June 2012 (UTC)