How can someone participate on the Newbery and Caldecott awards committee?
Newbery and Caldecott Award Selection Committee members must be members of the American Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children. Each Newbery and Caldecott committee is made up of fifteen members. ALSC members elect the chair of each committee and seven other committee members on the ALA spring ballot. The ALSC President appoints the other seven members of each Newbery and Caldecott committee. Beginning with the 2009 ALA spring ballot, ALSC members will elect eight members to the committee and the ALSC President will appoint the chair and 6 remaining members to each Newbery and Caldecott committee.
