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��Issue 4 ������������Seattle, WA Monday, January 22, 2007 ALA Honors Top Youth Authors and Illustrators John Newbery Medal Alex Awards The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron The Book of Lost Things Richard Jackson Books John Connolly Atria Books Randolph Caldecott Medal Flotsam The Whistling Season David Wiesner Ivan Doig Clarion Harcourt, Inc. Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and a High School Basketball Robert F. Siebert Season in Arctic Alaska Informational Book Coretta Scott King Michael D’Orso Award Illustrator Award Bloomsbury Team Moon: How Moses: When Harriet Tubman 400,000 People Landed Led Her People to Freedom Water for Elephants Apollo 11 on the Moon Kadir Nelson Sara Gruen Catherine Thimmesh Author Carole Boston Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Houghton Mifflin Weatherford Company Jump at the Sun Color of the Sea Coretta Scott King Author John Hamamura Award Thomas Dunne Books Copper Sun Sharon Draper Coretta Scott King/John The Floor of the Sky Atheneum Books for Young Steptoe New Talent Award Pamela Carter Joern Readers Standing Against the Wind University of Nebraska Press Traci L. Jones Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game Michael Lewis Mildred L. Batchelder Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal W.W. Norton Company Award James Marshall Delacorte Press Black Swan Green The Pull of the Ocean May Hill Arbuthnot David Mitchell Jean-Claude Mourlevat Lecture Random House, Inc. Theodor Seuss Geisel David Macaulay Beginning Reader Andrew Carnegie Medal The World Made Straight Award Knuffle Bunny Margaret A. Edwards Ron Rash Zelda and Ivy: The MaGik Studio Award Henry Holt and Company Runaways Mo Willems and Paul R. Lois Lowry Laura McGee Kvasnosky Gagne, Weston Woods Studios, The Giver The Thirteenth Tale Candlewick Press Michael L. Printz Award producers Diane Setterfield American Born Chinese Atria Books Gene Luen Yang First Second Schneider Family Schneider Family Schneider Family Book Award Book Award Book Award — Picture Book — Middle School — Teen The Deaf Musicians Rules Small Steps Authors Pete Seeger and Cynthia Lord Louis Sachar Paul DuBois Jacobs Scholastic Press Delacorte Press Illustrator R. Gregory Christie G.P. 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ISI Web of KnowledgeSM www.isiwebofknowledge.com SEATTLE Monday, January 22, 2007 Cognotes • Page 3 Candidates Espouse Monday Meeting Changes Their Views at Forum • ALA CLENERT Board Mtg., 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., MOVED to WCC By Kathlene Hanson depend upon. They, in turn, depend 605 California State University upon us!” • ALA CPCT 2008, 1:30-3:30 p.m., MOVED to WCC 605 He values a leader who looks to the • ALA ERT Member Mtg., in WCC 620, MOVED to 7:30-9:00 a.m. andidates for ALA President future and states that he will strive • ALA MAGERT Prog. Planning Com., 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., MOVED and Treasurer gave brief state- to bring together the many communi- to WCC 606 Cments and addressed questions ties in ALA, to advocate services and • ALCTS CCS Heads of Cataloging Disc. Grp., 8:00-10:00 a.m., MOVED from audience members Saturday. programming he will be inclusive, to Crowne Plaza Yosemite Candidates for ALA President are serving all those who work in librar- • ALCTS CCS Copy Cataloging Disc. Grp., 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Nancy A. Davenport (http://www. ies. He states that we cannot afford to MOVED to Crowne Plaza Yosemite nancydavenport.info) and James R. lose new librarians, whose attrition • RUSA RSS F2F, 8:30-10:00 a.m., MOVED to WCC 606 Retting (http://rettigforala.org). from ALA is higher than that of more Davenport emphasized the impor- experienced librarians and that we tance of the democratic process within need to work to make ALA a relevant ALA and thanked the nominating organization for new librarians. make financial information for mem- ties of the ALA.” committee for their confidence in her Candidates for Treasurer are Rod- bers clear and concise. He is looking She reminded members that she as a candidate. She values the mission ney Hersberger (http://rodhersberger. ahead to 2010 and knows that fiscal “has been central in working on ALA’s and vision of ALA and would represent org) and Jo Ann Pinder (http://www. decisions have significant impact on core values, has a divisional perspec- ALA by creating collections between joannpinder.info). national and local professional services tive, and has served ALA in numerous different types of libraries, encourag- Hersberger believes, “Energetic, and programs. Openness, frankness, ways.” She has organized large budgets ing diversity in the workplace and creative leadership results in excel- the ability to define financial terms in up to 20 million dollars, explained them within ALA. On her website Davenport lent library collections, services and everyday language, and a collaborative and worked within them. “As treasurer states, “Throughout my three decades programs that fully meet our clients’ leadership style are how he hopes to I would consider myself the liaison as an active ALA member, I have met needs. However, libraries are also serve ALA as Treasurer. between staff and membership.” She some of my closest colleagues, collected business organizations that need Pinder began by addressing the emphasized that budget in relation to invaluable knowledge to further my strong programmatic and financial audience as “distinguished” for com- mission and vision are key to action career, and have gained a thorough management. We must be fiscally ac- ing to the forum and informing them- and that she is the kind of leader who understanding of the workings of the countable to our funding agencies and selves about the candidates’ platforms. promotes democracy and will do her ALA, private institutions and govern- taxpayers.” He has worked in library She values collaborative engagement best to spend ALA dollars wisely. ment agencies. The American Library management for many years and within the ALA community and stated More information about the candi- Association is the driving force in our brings to the potential position a B.S. that if elected she will “be the voice of dates and their websites are available profession. It is my goal to solidify the in Accounting and an MBA. fiscal responsibility in ALA issues, will on the ALA 2007 voting page at www. position of the ALA as the leader in our Hersberger values transparency in provide easy-to-understand financial ala.org/ala/ourassociation/governanceb/ community.” the budgeting process and is able to reports, and make foremost the priori- electioninfo/alaelectioninfo.htm. Through understanding of the values of ALA and her experiences, she wants to promote and expand on the values Library Visionary Frederick Kilgour Honored of ALA and hopes to successfully an- By Stacy Voeller Throughout the presentation, video published paper on using coordinated ticipate questions about professionals’ Minnesota State University remembrances included many trib- title word searches contained the final needs for doing their jobs better. She Moorhead utes. Maurice Line, Director Gen- sentence, “Much remains to be done.” values education and wants to work eral, retired, The British Library, said Kilgour said it didn’t bother him if he on increasing interest in the profession everal hundred people gathered “Fred was responsible for the greatest didn’t actually do something, but just among college students. She also values Saturday to celebrate and honor changes of the 20th century library and that he was part of the change and that library staff and will advocate for more SFrederick G. Kilgour, for millions of dollars in sav- users would benefit. This is the legacy inclusion of staff in ALA. founder of OCLC. The event ings. Fred thought in terms of Frederick G. Kilgour. Davenport stated that she is com- was composed of Kilgour’s of what worked. Fred sowed mitted to creating educational oppor- accolades, accomplishments, the seeds and watered them. tunities and sharing best practices and and visionary insights. He will continue to be an es- Get Tickets Here for wants to establish an awards programs Items of note in Kilgour’s sential part of library service ‘Capitol Steps’ for students to travel to conferences. remarkable career include for the foreseeable future.” “Libraries create connections. We con- the creation of WorldCat and Nancy Eaton, Pennsylva- Scholarship Bash nect dreams and ideas,” she said. “I OCLC Online Interlibrary nia State University, remem- am happy to be nominated to be ALA’s he ALA/ProQuest Scholar- Loan, his library work at the bered a debate with Kilgour ship Bash will be held at voice and to propel its future advocacy Harvard College Library, about whether or not OCLC and programs.” TALA Annual Conference, Yale University, The Ohio should provide service di- Saturday, June 23 at 8:00 p.m., In his opening statement James State University, and the rectly to users. The fruition Retting emphasized that, if elected, which provides scholarships for University of North Carolina of that debate has become graduate students.