1. Virginia Haviland was an American librarian and writer who became an international authority in children's literature.
23 Facts About Virginia Haviland
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Virginia Haviland chaired the prestigious Newbery-Caldecott Award Committee, traveled and wrote extensively.
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Virginia Haviland was born in Rochester, New York, to William J Haviland and Bertha M Esten.
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Virginia Haviland held a BA in economics and mathematics from Cornell University.
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Virginia Haviland became a children's librarian in 1934 for the Boston Public Library, under the tutelage of Alice Jordan, founder of children's services there.
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Virginia Haviland was a branch librarian and children's librarian at Boston from 1948 to 1952, and a reader's adviser for children from 1952 to 1963.
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In 1949 Virginia Haviland gave the New England Library Association's Hewins Lecture for research in the history of children's literature about nineteenth-century travel books for children, and taught Library Service to Children and Reading Guidance for Children at Simmons University School of Library Science from 1957 to 1962.
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Virginia Haviland reviewed for The Horn Book Magazine for about thirty years.
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Virginia Haviland chaired the Children's Services Division of the American Library Association from 1954 to 1955, and as such attended conferences of the International Board on Books for Children, the International Federation of Library Associations, and the Institutions Roundtable for Children's Literature Documentation Centers.
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Virginia Haviland was chair of the Newbery-Caldecott Award Committee of the ALA from 1953 to 1954, and held positions of authority in other national and international professional organizations, including positions on many committees and juries that selected outstanding children's books.
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Virginia Haviland judged the New York Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book Festival Awards from 1955 to 1957, as well as the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Book World Children's Spring Book Festival Awards, and the National Book Awards.
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Virginia Haviland was instrumental in beginning the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award.
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In 1962 Virginia Haviland was invited to found the Center for Children's Literature at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
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Virginia Haviland became its first Head in 1963, and worked for the Library of Congress until her retirement in 1981.
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Virginia Haviland was funny, acerbic, brilliant, and did not suffer fools at all.
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Virginia Haviland was gracious, never condescending, and saw her calling as one of the highest callings of all.
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Virginia Haviland died of a stroke on January 6,1988, in Washington, DC Her commitment to literature for young people continues to be recognized by the Virginia Haviland Scholarship for students in the Master of Arts in Children's Literature programs in the Ifill College at Simmons University.
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Virginia Haviland was awarded the Regina Medal "for continuous distinguished contribution to children's literature" from the Catholic Library Association in 1976, and the Grolier Award for "unusual contributions to the stimulation and guidance of reading by children and young people" by the ALA that same year.
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Virginia Haviland left a worthy legacy for children's literature at the Library of Congress at the culmination of her career.
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Virginia Haviland traveled abroad frequently and was able to draw upon librarians, storytellers, and writers in countries as far away as Japan to help her make her selections.
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Virginia Haviland reviewed for The Horn Book Magazine for almost thirty years and in 1963 was named Head of the Children's Book Section of the Library of Congress.
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Virginia Haviland remained with the Library of Congress for nearly twenty years, and wrote and lectured about children's literature throughout her career.
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Virginia Haviland organized The Fairy Tale Treasury and The Mother Goose Treasury, both illustrated by Raymond Briggs and published by Hamish Hamilton.