The 2017 ALA Youth Media Awards Press Conference

Are you ready to start counting down the days until the 2017 ALA Youth Media Awards press conference? I am! I am! I am! We only have to wait 103 days! w00t! w00t! 

Just in case you're planning a celebration in your school or library, I thought you might find the following information useful.

DATE: January 23, 2017

PLACE: Georgia World Congress Center

TIME: 8 a.m. ET


WEBCAST: Click here

HASHTAG: #ALAyma

2017 Youth Media Awards include: 

Alex Awards

Andrew Carnegie Medal

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

John Newbery Medal

(Laura Ingalls) Wilder Award 

Margaret A. Edwards Award

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture

Michael L. Printz Award

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Odyssey Award

Pura Belpré Awards

Randolph Caldecott Medal

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

Schneider Family Book Award

Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

Theodore Seuss Geisel Award

William C. Morris Award

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults