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Re: The Printz Award and Australian / NZ Authors
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From: janeyolen_at_aol.com
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:08:30 -0400 (EDT)
I wonder how much this would track with several other things: closing schoo l libraries, less and less money going into school libraries (when I began going to things like ALA and IRA, teacher and librarians would come with la rge purchase orders to buy books for the school, now the teachers and libra rians buy stuff with their own money as often as not, and if they leave, th e books go with them!) And simply more choices.
Jane
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From: Charles Bayless To: 'Kathleen Horning' ; 'CCBC-Net'
Sent: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:49 Subject: RE:
The Printz Award and Australian / NZ Authors
This discussion about awards made me wonder about relative impact of awards over time. Google has a tool , Google Books Ngram Viewer (http://books.google.com/ngrams/), which measures the frequency of words or phrases in the population of scanned books. If you haven't played with it, it is fascinating. Here is an article with background - s -through-books/. As with any tool there are limitations but it provides an easily accessible grounding in measured reality for what can often otherwis e be purely speculative discussions.
That said, when you enter Caldecott Award, Newberry Award, Coretta Scott King Award and Printz Award, you get the following Ngram Awa 08 &corpus=0&smoothing=3)
What it shows is that Caldecott, Newberry and King have all been in decline since their heyday circa, 1975-1995. In terms of the extent to which they are discussed, they are down some 60% from their peak. All awards have bee n in decline starting 2003. The data only goes to 2008. In terms of discussion generated (in books), the King award is now almost as much discussed as Newberry. The Printz Award now appears to have nearly as much circulation as the Caldecott.
It is interesting to see that the major decline begins in 1995, just at the advent of the widespread adoption of the internet. Have awards become less pertinent in a world of disaggregated information sharing via the internet, dedicated children's books websites, and blogs? Does this ngram correspond with anyone else's perception?
Charles
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From: Kathleen Horning
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:00 PM To: CCBC-Net Subject: RE:
The Printz Award and Australian / NZ Authors
Thanks, Angela and Todd, for the additions. Australia is very well represented!
Why do you think so many Printz Award winners originate in Australia?
KT
On 08/17/12, "Frederick, Angela (Library)" wrote: This year's honor author Craig Silvey is from Australia. I believe Christine Hinwood, also an honor author this year, is from Australia but no w resides in the UK.
-- Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608-263-3721 Fax: 608-262-4933 horning_at_education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:08:30 -0400 (EDT)
I wonder how much this would track with several other things: closing schoo l libraries, less and less money going into school libraries (when I began going to things like ALA and IRA, teacher and librarians would come with la rge purchase orders to buy books for the school, now the teachers and libra rians buy stuff with their own money as often as not, and if they leave, th e books go with them!) And simply more choices.
Jane
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From: Charles Bayless To: 'Kathleen Horning' ; 'CCBC-Net'
Sent: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:49 Subject: RE:
The Printz Award and Australian / NZ Authors
This discussion about awards made me wonder about relative impact of awards over time. Google has a tool , Google Books Ngram Viewer (http://books.google.com/ngrams/), which measures the frequency of words or phrases in the population of scanned books. If you haven't played with it, it is fascinating. Here is an article with background - s -through-books/. As with any tool there are limitations but it provides an easily accessible grounding in measured reality for what can often otherwis e be purely speculative discussions.
That said, when you enter Caldecott Award, Newberry Award, Coretta Scott King Award and Printz Award, you get the following Ngram Awa 08 &corpus=0&smoothing=3)
What it shows is that Caldecott, Newberry and King have all been in decline since their heyday circa, 1975-1995. In terms of the extent to which they are discussed, they are down some 60% from their peak. All awards have bee n in decline starting 2003. The data only goes to 2008. In terms of discussion generated (in books), the King award is now almost as much discussed as Newberry. The Printz Award now appears to have nearly as much circulation as the Caldecott.
It is interesting to see that the major decline begins in 1995, just at the advent of the widespread adoption of the internet. Have awards become less pertinent in a world of disaggregated information sharing via the internet, dedicated children's books websites, and blogs? Does this ngram correspond with anyone else's perception?
Charles
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From: Kathleen Horning
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:00 PM To: CCBC-Net Subject: RE:
The Printz Award and Australian / NZ Authors
Thanks, Angela and Todd, for the additions. Australia is very well represented!
Why do you think so many Printz Award winners originate in Australia?
KT
On 08/17/12, "Frederick, Angela (Library)" wrote: This year's honor author Craig Silvey is from Australia. I believe Christine Hinwood, also an honor author this year, is from Australia but no w resides in the UK.
-- Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608-263-3721 Fax: 608-262-4933 horning_at_education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
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