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Gazette Volume 21, No GAZETTE Volume 21, No. 38 • October 8, 2010 • A weekly publication for Library staff Exquisite Corpse Adventure Closes With a Yolk … We Mean a Joke By Guy Lamolinara 10 a.m. in the National Book Festival Children’s Pavilion was the place to be for anyone who had been following “The Exquisite Corpse Adventure,” the exclu- sive episodic story on Read.gov. The standing-room-only crowd had come to hear the final episode of the story, which had launched a year ago, at the 2009 National Book Festival. National Ambassador for Young People’s Litera- ture Katherine Paterson wrote the final episode, and her predecessor as ambas- sador, Jon Scieszka, had written the first Jason Hendricks episode. Along the way this zany story Volunteer Lois Ireland happily answers questions from a festivalgoer. For a slideshow of took its unpredictable path across 26 epi- images from the book festival, visit www.loc.gov/bookfest/gallery. sodes, through 16 different authors (and five illustrators), finally landing on Sept. 25, where Episode 27 had been adapted Volunteers Spread Joy at National for a “Readers’ Theater” presentation by three of the Exquisite Corpse authors Book Festival Sept. 25 (Paterson, M.T. Anderson and Linda Sue hey were everywhere, in red T-shirts: festival. “It’s just that simple.” Park) and two illustrators (Timothy Basil 848 volunteers, trained to give Volunteers take training in the week Ering and James Ransome). T friendly aid and solid information before the festival, learning the layout Stephen Schneider of the Library’s to the estimated 150,000 people who of the grounds, what is offered, and the Web Services Division designed a special attended the 2010 National Book Festi- job descriptions they will be asked to poster for the program by taking pieces val. fill, from staffing information booths to of the 27 illustrations and turning them They came from the Library of Con- managing the massive pavilions where into a “weather-beaten” collage poster gress, the general public and the Junior authors speak. They are also given training that was given away throughout the fes- League of Washington, which has staffed in security concerns, from how to care for tival grounds. The entire Web Services the book-signing lines and the Pavilion children separated from their parents to team was responsible for the interactive of the States at the festival for several how to help evacuate the National Mall book presentation of the story on Read. years. in the event of a serious weather threat gov, which attracted hundreds of thou- “We couldn’t put on the National Book or other potential emergency. sands of kids (and adults) from across Festival without the volunteers,” said Jen- Maxie Phillips has been a volunteer the country and around the world who nifer Gavin, project manager for the 2010 VOLUNTEERS, continued on page 6 ECA, continued on page 11 2 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE OCTOBER 8, 2010 NOTICES Time Your Enemy? EAP can help. GAZETTE Feeling stuck when it comes to time management? The Library’s Employee www.loc.gov/staff/gazette Assistance Program can help. 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E-mail editorial copy and letters to the editor The display comprises more than 20 items dating from 770 A.D. to the present to [email protected]. in various formats – books, newspaper clippings, digital images – from the To promote events through the Library’s online calendar (www.loc.gov/loc/events) Library’s Japanese collection. and the Gazette Calendar, e-mail event and contact information to [email protected] by Curators will lead a tour through the display at 1 p.m. on Oct. 16. 9 a.m. Monday of the week of publication. Boxed announcements should be submitted electronically (text files) by 9 a.m. Monday Contact 7-2990. the week of publication to [email protected]. OCTOBER 8, 2010 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 3 NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2010 at McDonalds with Obama.” Obama “remains mysterious.” Remnick expressed dismay that so Though smears are not unusual in much misinformation about Obama is American political history, according being disseminated. The author said to Remnick, those against Obama take Obama was born in Hawaii and is on outsized importance and danger a Christian, although polls show 20 and are more pointed and electrifying percent of the American public believe because Obama is the first African he is a Muslim. According to Remnick, American in the White House. top-level Republican politicians con- Remnick said he had no desire to tinue to disseminate smears about the write about the Obama presidency and president’s background. Recently, Mis- ended the book at the White House sissippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a possible door. presidential candidate himself, said Barry Wheeler David Remnick “Mysterious” Pavilion of the States Obama Revealed in Remnick’s Biography By Donna Urschel David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, explained to the audience in the History & Biography Pavilion why he wanted to write a biography of Barack Obama when the U. S. presi- dent himself had already written a best-selling autobiography.“There still was a story to tell, a story that had not been told and a story with depth,” said Remnick, author of “The Bridge: The Pat Fisher Life and Rise of Barack Obama.” “My goal was to separate the wheat from Since it first appeared at the 2002 National Book Festival, the Center for the the chaff, the fact from the myth.” Book has organized and managed the Pavilion of the States.
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