ALA Announces “I Love My Librarian” Award Winners
Earlier this week, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the 10 winners of the 2022 I Love My Librarian Award. The annual award honors exceptional librarians from libraries of all types (academic, public, school) who have been nominated by the patrons in their community. This year, ALA officials say they received 1,300 nominations. The 10 winners will each receive a $5,000 cash prize, a $750 donation to their library, and complimentary registration to ALA’s LibLearnX. A virtual award ceremony stream live at 3:30 p.m. CT on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022.
Are Automatic 24 Hour Book Dispensers the Next Big Thing for 2022?
Book dispensers have taken Poland by storm and are set to become one of the big trends of 2022. The 24 hour book dispensers first appeared in Łódź’s Manufaktura complex in the summer of 2020. Since then, the idea has taken off and the dispensers can be found in cities across the country. The concept was born from an initiative by the City Library. Paweł Braun, the director of the City Library in Łódź, stated that the first dispenser, called Szuflandia, was created in response to the first lockdown: “We wanted to reach an even wider audience than before, and realized that Szuflandia would not limit readers by either its opening times nor the restrictions that had arisen because of the pandemic.” Jarosław Zalesiński, director of the Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Gdańsk, said the dispensers “are a new form of reaching readers and are a modern way to promote reading.”
Paramount Pictures Lands Rights to Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone
Paramount Pictures has landed the rights to Tomi Adeyemi’s best-selling YA series Children of Blood and Bone. Adeyemi announced on Instagram that she would be writing and executive producing the film adaptation. Furthermore, the author announced that she is nearly finished with the third book in the series. On Instagram, Adeyemi wrote, “i’m only a couple drafts away from finishing book 3 🙌🏿 i’m turning it into my publisher in a few months, and then it’s straight to print and in your hands in 2023. thank you again for being patient with me 🙏🏿 it’s a BIG finale and i am so excited about the final installment in this adventure. i can’t wait to take you all back to orïsha this is all more than a dream come true. i won’t stop till the work is done.”
Mariah Carey is Publishing Her First Book: The Christmas Princess
Mariah Carey, known as the Queen of Christmas for “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” is releasing a Christmas-themed picture book.