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Monday Issue 4 V1.Indd Cognotes ALAIssue 4 Philadelphia, PA Monday, January 14, 2008 ALA Names the Best in Youth Media John Newbery Medal Alex Awards Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Bad Monkeys Medieval Village Matt Ruff Laura Amy Schlitz HarperCollins Candlewick Randolph Caldecott Medal Mister Pip The Invention of Hugo Cabret: Lloyd Jones A Novel in Words and Pictures Random/Dial Brian Selznick Scholastic Genghis: Birth of an Empire Conn Iggulden Robert F. Sibert Coretta Scott King Delacorte Informational Book Award Author Award The Wall: Growing Up Elijah of Buxton The Spellman Files Behind the Iron Curtain Christopher Paul Curtis Lisa Lutz Peter Sis Scholastic Coretta Scott King Simon & Schuster Farrar/Frances Foster Illustrator Award Let it Shine A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Ashley Bryan of a Boy Soldier Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Ishmael Beah Farrar/Sarah Crichton Pura Belpré Essex County Vol. 1: Illustrator Award Tales from the Farm Los Gatos Black Jeff Lemire on Halloween Top Shelf Yuyi Morales Pura Belpré Marisa Montes, author Author Award The Night Birds Theodor Seuss Holt The Poet Slave of Thomas Maltman Geisel Award Cuba: A Biography Soho There Is a Bird on Your Head of Juan Francisco Mo Willems Manzano The Name of the Wind Hyperion Margarita Engle Patrick Rothfuss Holt DAW American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and CSK/John Steptoe New Margaret A. Andrew Carnegie Medal the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Talent Award Edwards Award Kevin Lafferty and John Davis, Odyssey in the New China Brendan Buckley’s Universe Orson Scott Card producers Matthew Polly Jump In! and Everything in It Ender’s Game and Penguin/Gotham Sundee T. Frazier Ender’s Shadow Disney Channel Delacorte The Gods of Animals Aryn Kyle May Hill Arbuthnot Odyssey Award Mildred L. Batchelder Award Scribner Michael L. Printz Award Honor Lecture Award Live Oak Media VIZ Media The White Darkness Walter Dean Myers Jazz Brave Story Geraldine McCaughrean Miyuki Miyabe HarperTempest Schneider Family Book Schneider Family Book Schneider Family Award — Picture Book Award — Middle School Book Award — Teen Kami and the Yaks Reaching for Sun Hurt Go Happy Andrea Stenn Stryer, author Tracie Vaughn Zimmer Ginny Rorby Bert Dodson, illustrator Tom Doherty/Starscape Bay Otter Bloomsbury Introducing INDIGO Beautiful software. How will you Indigo? Invent. Design. Go. See Indigo in Booth 222. Solutions that Deliver Enter to win an iPod touch. seeindigo.com Monday, January 14, 2008 Cognotes • Page 3 ALA President’s Program Keynoted by Dr. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. of the Harlem Renaissance. After the The Library of Congress searing experience of witnessing riots that summer in Harlem, Jabbar left NBA all-time leading scorer Dr. Ka- for school at UCLA in the fall of 1965. reem Abdul-Jabbar was the keynote But he noted, “Harlem never left me.” speaker for the President’s Program on That is one reason why he returned to Sunday. President Loriene Roy intro- studying it in his book On the Shoul- duced him as someone who brings “his ders of Giants: My Journey Through convictions to education, history, and, the Harlem Renaissance. yes, to basketball.” He highlighted bas- Through his years of reading, re- ketball’s importance to Native Americans search, and publishing primarily in the in his book A Season on the Reservation: area of history, Jabbar learned many My Sojourn with the White Mountain truths, “It is not just enough to read his- Apache which was informed by his volun- tory, we must understand it and learn teer work on an Indian reservation. thereby to improve our lives.” He came “I am not standing here as a basket- to understand the value of educating ball player but as an author, an historian, himself both within and outside the and a book lover, all because of a library classroom and emphasized that librar- and librarians like you,” he began. ians and educators must develop a sense He asserted that he is an “old school” of curiosity and skepticism among young researcher who never works from the learners and promote financial literacy Internet . His father, a police officer and as well as reading literacy. a jazz musician, was a voracious reader Jabbar imparted four principles: who bought books by the pound. study your own people’s history to Born in Harlem, Jabbar’s fam- know what you are capable of; educate ily moved away physically from his yourself to think critically; dedicate cultural roots before he actually re- yourself to your community; and “sing, alized what they were. In 1964, the dance, laugh, and generally be joyful 17-year-old Jabbar joined the Harlem and steadfast.” He concluded his pre- Youth Action Program which first in- sentation with this summation: “pass- troduced him to the historical riches ing along the weight of words…we are part of a larger community that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and ALA extends beyond neighborhoods, beyond President Loriene Roy chat backstage borders, and, thanks to librarians and before the ALA President’s Program. libraries, beyond time.” ���������������������� ���������� ��������������������� ����������������������������� ����������������������������� ������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������ ���������������������������������������� ��������������������������� �������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ ��������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������ ��������������������������� �������������������� ������������������� ������������������� �������������������������������������������������������� ����������������� ������������� Page 4 • Cognotes Monday, January 14, 2008 Attendees Enjoy Storytelling and Yiddish at Sunrise Series By Ericka Patillo some Jews dismissed it as a radical of meager means who had a wealth he learned the stories of the owners Radford University departure from tradition. In one story of 500 books. Lansky was compelled and now he is sharing them as he did Lansky told of a yeshiva (Jewish school to hear the story of each one. Four during his presentation as well as in Introduced as the “Yiddish Indi- or institution) that threw 18,000 books hours later, he realized he would not his new book, Outwitting History. ana Jones,” Aaron Lansky displayed into the cellar. make his one-day timeline, and that Lansky talked about the future his storytelling skills Sunday at the Lansky was eager to rescue the he was in a 12-story building full of of the Yiddish Book Center, which second Philadelphia Sunrise Speaker “world that was sadly fading before older Jews with Yiddish books like the will add a new building soon, with Series event. Lansky, a 1989 recipient our eyes.” first gentleman. plans to establish the first Yiddish of a genius grant from the MacArthur At age 23, with a rental truck and “Everybody I was going to meet University. And, through participa- a one-day, mid-Atlantic itinerary, was going to have a story,” Lansky tion with OCA, about 20,000 discrete Lansky set out on what he thought opined. Calling Jews “intensely book- titles will become “instantly avail- would be a two-year hiatus from ish people,” he said that for them, able and searchable. From the brink graduate school to collect Yiddish books are “the portable homeland.” of destruction, [Yiddish] will become books from older Jews. The first stop Through his collection travels, Lan- the first universally accessible lit- was the small apartment of a man sky not only rescued the literature, erature.” What They Don’t Teach You in Library School By Kay Ikuta Participants shared their market- librarian learns. Examples given Inglewood Public Library ing ideas which included drop-in included: job shadowing; meeting classes, workshops, personalized experienced librarians at conferences; Aaron Lansky On Saturday morning Merinda one-on-one networking, attendance at and signing up for a mentor through Foundation, is the founder of the Na- Hensley, instruction librarian in ref- new student orientations, chat, formal groups, such as ALA’s New Members tional Yiddish Book Center, which has erence at the University of Illinois liaison with faculty, sitting in classes, Round Table. recovered almost 1.5 million volumes at Urbana-Champaign, convened recreation of instructional materials, Professional development is impor- and has 30,000 members. The entire the ACRL New Member Discussion referrals from tutors, and statistical tant to all librarians, especially recent collection is digitized, with plans to Group to address “What Do You Wish and anecdotal reports. graduates. There are many free op- make it accessible via the Open Con- You Had Learned in Library School?” One of the greatest challenges to portunities available such as vendor tent Alliance (OCA). An overflow crowd of recent library new librarians seems to be the lack of workshops, joining committees of local “Yiddish is the language in which school graduates and a few old-tim- collection development training. Lean- or national library associations, online Jews first encountered the modern ers gathered to learn and to inform. ing on colleagues or trial-and-error learning through Web 2.0, and various world,” said Lansky, and it began Hensley said that there are a lot of
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