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<\/a>By Hilary Virgil, Library Director<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n(Hamilton, NY \u2013 Feb. 2015) The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book.\u00a0 The Caldecott Medal for 2015 has been awarded to The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, illustrated and written by Dan Santat.<\/p>\n
The John Newbery Medal is also awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.\u00a0 The 2015 recipient of the Newbery Medal is The Crossover, written by\u00a0Kwame Alexander.<\/p>\n
Would you like to find out more about these award winners and the other honor books? Save the date:\u00a0the Caldecott-Newbery Tea at the Hamilton Public Library is Saturday, April 18. In the meantime, these books may be borrowed through the Mid York Library System.<\/p>\n
The Hamilton Public Library is pleased to host a special reception honoring our local exceptional artists on Wednesday, March 18 at 10:30 a.m. Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Library. Many thanks to our friends from the following organizations for arranging this wonderful opportunity: Heritage Farm; The ARC, Oneida-Lewis Chapter; Madison-Cortland ARC; Central New York DSO; ARISE; Herkimer Area Resource Center; and the Resource Center for Independent Living. The Exceptional Art exhibit will be on display at the library from Feb. 14 to March 27.<\/p>\n
In observance of Presidents\u2019 Day, the Hamilton Public Library will be closed on Monday, Feb. 16.\u00a0 We will resume our regular business hours on Tuesday, Feb. 17.<\/p>\n
Remember, the book drop at the front of the building is always available for your convenience. You can also renew your items online, and access all of our digital materials from home.<\/p>\n
Additional information about library resources, programs and policies, as well as access to our online services, is available through the library website http:\/\/midyorklib.org\/hamilton\/<\/a>.\u00a0 From the website, you can also sign up for our listserv and Wowbrary notices to receive emails about general library news and newly added materials in our collections!\u00a0 Follow us on Facebook for up-to-date information about programs, special events, and other general library-related information:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HPL.books<\/a> .<\/p>\n The library is normally open Monday-Friday, 10am to 7pm, and Saturday, 10am to 1pm. Please visit or call the library (315) 824-3060 during these hours for assistance. The book drop at the front of the building is always available for your convenience.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hamilton Public Library News By Hilary Virgil, Library Director (Hamilton, NY \u2013 Feb. 2015) The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book.\u00a0 The Caldecott Medal for 2015 has been awarded to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hilary-Virgil-for-web.jpg?fit=226%2C238&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-fHC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}