Talk:List of American Library Association awards

Defunct awards

At the moment, only the end date distinguishes defunct Book/Print/Media awards. Is it sometimes blank for a defunct award?

At the moment we have no articles on awards with end dates listed here. ... for now I have unlinked their names. --P64 (talk) 22:12, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello P, yes those are the only ones defunct, the ALA website calls them "Historical", the rest still active. Green Cardamom (talk) 01:06, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

I added the defunct Aurianne Award to class Youth Media Awards and put some defunct awards in the new class Libraries and librarianship (see below). This helps reduce the unreadable mass of listings in no Class. --P64 (talk) 23:14, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Scope

Youth Media Awards. Moments ago, among other things (see edit summary), I added May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture and Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. With those two additions, we have 19 listings in category Youth Media Awards (including the doubly-cat. Alex Awards), which match the 19 officially listed 2013 Youth Media Awards. --P64 (talk) 22:13, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

The class Youth Media Awards now includes the defunct Aurianne Award which predates the Media moniker. Indeed, it's the only defunct award in the class. --P64 (talk) 23:14, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

One annual award?

I have appended notes such as "(set of 3 annual)" to four descriptions. One is Stonewall (set of 3), where only one of three is in category Youth Media. Are such notes appropriate here?

These notes are not complete. [First,] Schneider Family Book Award seems to be a variable annual number, or they may technically be category awards with frequent ties. [Second] some may not be annual(?). --P64 (talk) 22:48, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Wilder is now biennial, in odd years from 2001. That should be noted somewhere, perhaps using the mo./month field; in turn, perhaps by subscript and explanatory footnote.

It has never been annual. That should be fully explained in its own article Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. Here it should be the matter of a foot Note at best.

--P64 (talk) 17:46, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

These annotations --now including "(biennial)" for the Wilder Award-- are indented footnotes within the Description field.

--P64 (talk) 01:10, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Tabulated dates

Today I have revised column "First" (formerly "Date") and added column "Mo." at far right. I have also revised the Key --by covering the new field, and by some re-wording, but some re-format may also be warranted.

"First" gives the inaugural year of the honor (the year first awarded) and the terminal year for those honors that have been discontinued. So it gives the lifespan of the honor in years such as "1958 –> 1966" where the span is complete.

"Mo." gives the month that the honor was announced during the 2012 cycle (the Key now says, but it should be the latest relevant cycle, prior to 2012 for some less-than-annual honors). The data are not complete. Dash (—) indicates that the honor is known to be defunct and a blank cell represents missing data. At the moment "Mo." is missing for all WP:REDLINK honors except "Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults" (1=January).

For the Youth Media Awards that were announced this week,

• Mo.=Jan means that we have a webpage that does list winners but does not yet list 2013; even that most basic update is not yet done.
• Mo.=1 means that we do list the 2013 results or we do not maintain a list.

So the text and numeric Mo. values connote whether (I know that) we have the most basic 2013 update to do.

--P64 (talk) 22:32, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Best Books for Young Adults

• our exchange one year ago, Talk: ALA Notable lists#Best Books for YA
• official webpage Best Books for YA (to 2010
• official webpage Best Fiction for YA (from 2011

--P64 (talk) 02:07, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

I just created Best Fiction for Young Adults based on your notes and findings in previous threads. Open to change and discussion. The time consuming part will be adding the 100s of existing back links, integrating into Wikipedia as most of the references to it have no internal wikilink. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 05:59, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Started adding back-links and redirects as they are discovered. This is a huge project given how many books and authors have been included in the list over the past 83 years. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 08:11, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Libraries and librarianship

Today as I added or completed references for some of the awards not covered by articles (black and red rather than blue in the Award field), I put 17 previously unclassified listings in a new class, Libraries and librarianship. Where I visited "This Award's Homepage" or perhaps "Winner List - All Years" but did not write up a formal reference, I put the URL in a comment.

This leaves only 9 listings in no class with 17 to 20 listings in each of the three classes. --P64 (talk) 23:14, 6 May 2013 (UTC)