Selected Event Management & Travel Titles

Selected New Culinary Books

We have a new format for new book notices: Smore.com  Here's this quarter's installment of selected new culinary books. You can also read the announcement directly on Smore: https://www.smore.com/5wnwx

Crank Up the Music and Get Ready to Boogie

The Grammy Awards ceremony, which honors musicians, songwriters, and singers in a variety of categories, was held last night on CBS.

Some of last night's African-American winners included:

• Pharrell Williams for Best Pop Solo Performance for the song, “Happy.”
• Pharrell Williams also won Best Urban Contemporary Album, for his album Girl.
• Beyoncé won  Best R andB Performance for the song, “Drunk in Love,” featuring Jay-Z.
• “Drunk in Love” also won Best R and B Song
• The R and B group Robert Glasper Experiment won for Best Traditional R and B Performance for the song “Jesus Children,” that also features artists Lalah Hathaway and Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
• Lecrae won the Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance /Song for “Messengers,” which features the group for King and Country.

For a complete list of the nominees and winners go here:

Find out more about African American artists who have won several Grammys. 

(image credit: http://www.quincyjones.com/q-year-end-review-the-grammys-2/)

A history of the Grammy Awards and the Recording Academy can be found at one of the links that follow.

History of the GRAMMY Awards and the Recording Academy 

For a timeline of winners go here: 

Search for previous Grammy winners and nominees here. 

Did you know that there is also a Grammy Hall of Fame for recordings? The Hall of Fame includes full albums, “of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old.” 

Last but not least, check out this link to see an infographic on the Grammy nomination and voting process. 

   

Black History Month: The Springarn Medal

Have you heard of the Springarn Medal? Me neither. Well, let's correct this deficiency.

The Springarn Medal

The Springarn Medal was instituted in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939), who was the Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors at that time. Dr. Springarn funded the medal himself and awarded it annually until his death. He bequeathed funding for the medal in his will "in perpetuity". The Springarn Medal has been awarded annually ever since—except for 1938 when no award was given. The NAACP gives the Springarn Medal annually, “for the highest or most noble achievement by a black American” (Smith, J.C. p.475).

J. E. Springarn

The first Springarn Medal was awarded in 1915 to biologist Ernest Everett Just.  Dr. Just taught in the medical program at Howard University, and he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago (Smith, J.C. p.475).

Some of the notable men and women who have won the award are in the following list, and the library has materials on them. Please ask one of the librarians if you want to borrow any library materials about these honorees.

Marian Anderson, 1939
Thurgood Marshall, 1946
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957
Langston Hughes, 1960
Medgar Evers, 1963
Hank Aaron, 1976
Rosa Parks, 1979
Colin Powell, 1991
Maya Angelou, 1994
Oprah Winfrey, 2000

To see a complete list of winners go to this site: http://www.naacp.org/index.php/pages/spingarn-medal-winners, 

For more information on the award itself go here   http://www.naacp.org/pages/spingarn-medal

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Sources:

Smith, J.C. (2003). Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Detroit: Visible Ink Press.

http://www.naacp.org/pages/spingarn-medal

High Honors in the Children's Book World

The Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners were announced today by the American Library Association. The Newbery and Caldecott Awards are the highest honors children’s authors and illustrators can win in the United States, and this year’s winners are:

Newbery Medal:

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Newbery Honors:

• El Deafo by CeCe Bell  
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson; 811.54 W898b

Caldecott Medal:

The Adventures of Beekle written and illustrated by Dan Santat

Caldecott Honors:

• Nana in the City written and illustrated by Lauren Castillo
• The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art illustrated by Mary Grandpré
• The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant
• Sam and Dave Dig a Hole illustrated by Jon Klassen and written by Mac Barnett; JF B
• This One Summer illustrated by Jillian Tamaki and written by Mariko Tamaki

Because February is Black History Month, the library wants to share some Newbery and Caldecott trivia with you too.  

Leo Dillon was the first African American to receive the Caldecott Medal, and he received it for the illustrations he did with his wife for the book Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears. The couple won the medal again the next year for the book Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (Fox, 2012).

The first African American to win the Newbery Medal was Virginia Hamilton for M.C. Higgins the Great in 1975. The book also won the National Book Award and the Boston Globe- Horn Book Award (Virginia Hamilton, 2015). 

The Coretta Scott King Award is given to African American authors and illustrators in honor of Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Coretta Scott King winners were also announced today, and the winners are:

Coretta Scott King author award winner

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson; 811.54 W898b

Coretta Scott King illustrator winner

Firebird illustrated by Christopher Myers and written by Misty Copeland

The library has several Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King award winners. Please ask one of the librarians if you are interested in borrowing some of the highlighted titles below or any other books from the library. We will be glad to help you.

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis; JF C (Newbery winner and CSK winner)
• The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney; JF P (Caldecott winner)
• Roll of Thunder, HearMy Cry by Mildred Taylor; JF T (Newbery winner)
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz inPeople’s Ears by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; JF A (Caldecott winner)

Sources:

• Coretta Scott King Book Awards. (2015). http://www.ala.org/emiert/cskbookawards/
• Fox, M. (2012, May 20). Leo Dillon, Celebrated Illustrator of Children’s Books, Is Dead at 79. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/books/leo-dillon-illustrator-of-childrens-books-dies-at-79.html?_r=0
• Virginia Hamilton: Biography. (2015). Retrieved from: http://www.virginiahamilton.com/biography/2/
• Virginia Hamilton: M.C. Higgins the Great. (2015). Retrieved from:  http://www.virginiahamilton.com/virginia-hamilton-books/m-c-higgins-the-great/