The websites below list all medal winners by year.
If your author won a medal, his or her acceptance speech can be found in Horn Book Magazine. You can get a copy of the speech as long as you know the year the author was awarded the medal.
For issues from 1924-2003 use print:
Use the print version of the magazine, located on the 3rd floor of the Malpass Library. Search alphabetically for Horn Book. Locate the year your author won an award, and then find Issue 4 (July/August). You will see a list of articles in the Table of Contents.
For issues from 1998-2008:
Academic Search Complete database. Then follow the instructions below.
Here's how to use Academic Search Complete to find an acceptance speech by a person that received a writing award like the Caldecott or Newbery Awards.
First, you will need to know certain information. For my search I know that there is information about award recipients every year in the periodical "Horn Book Magazine. And I know that in 1997 the Caldecott award was won by David Wiesner for his book, The Three Pigs.
Next, to
set up the search I need to know how to tie together three concepts at once, the
title of the periodical, the name of the person, and the idea of making
an acceptance speech! Here's how to set up the search and execute it.
1. In the first search blank put the title of the periodical, in this case Horn Book Magazine. Then select the search from the pulldown menu that looks through the periodical title information or field in each record. In Academic Search Complete this would be "SO Journal Name." This blank shows the concept of searching for a specific periodical title.
2. In the second search blank put the last name of the person that won the award. In this case, put the last name "Wiesner" to search for the concept of the individual person's name. I am searching by KEYWORD for the person's name in the periodical and the person's name is probably not a frequent topic in the periodical, so the default keyword search should get me close enough to what I am looking for that I don't need to use the pulldown. BUT I could also search the Author field from the pulldown because the author of the winning book is also the author that wrote the speech.
3. In the third blank put "acceptance" to tie together the concepts of giving an acceptance speech with the author giving (writing) the speech, and the periodical where the article about the acceptance speech is contained.
The Result
Our search located the periodical title, and both keyword concepts giving a single focused result, the article containing the author's acceptance speech.
