Info-to-Go. Friday, April 26, 2013. First Timers’ Get Together Volume 38. Issue 2. Thank you to the following for providing prizes for our First Timers:  3M  Book Publishers Association of Alberta  Canadian Library Services  CNIB Library  CrossCan Educational Services  Fifth Avenue Collection Keynote: Lev Grossman the New Yorker's best books of  Library Services Centre 2009. The sequel, The Magician  Proquest Lev Grossman is a senior writer King, picks up where The at Time Magazine as both the book  Provincial Archives of Magicians left off and has also Alberta critic and lead technology become a New York Times  Random House writer. He's also a bestselling bestseller. NPR called it author himself. Drawing on his "triumphant" -- "a spellbinding  Red Deer College own expertise and extensive stereograph, a literary adventure  SAIT conversations with major cultural novel that is also about a privilege,  Silpada Jewellry figures, Grossman brings a power and the limits of being  Banff Centre Press uniquely qualified, humanistic eye human." Congratulations to 1st Timers to the complex and unprecedented Grossman's award-winning Free ALC 2014 registration: ways in which technology and Allison Husband. culture are merging. journalism has also appeared in the Times, the Village Voice, Event sponsored by Alberta’s Lev Grossman has spoken in-depth Entertainment Weekly, Salon, Regional Library Systems with Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Wired, The Believer and the Wall Bill Gates, Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Street Journal, among many Collaborative Art Project Rowling, Jonathan Franzen, and others, and he is a frequent guest Presentation many others. His book, The on NPR. Grossman has degrees in Join us for the unveiling during Magicians earned a rare combina- comparative literature from Saturday night’s banquet tion of popular and critical acclaim Harvard and Yale. He lives in -- it debuted at #8 on the New York Brooklyn, NY.  Your name tag lists the Times bestseller list and was one of sessions in which you are registered. Info to Go: look for it online at http://www.albertalibraryconference.com/  You can find information about when and where in Congratulations Leighton McCarthy Conference at a Glance.  Boopsie ALC 2013 app of Carr McLean on your Retirement helps you plan your Registration Desk Hours Annual General Meetings conference. Today Thank you ULS! Friday: 8:00 AM to 8:30 AM The AGM’s of the Library 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM 25 years sponsoring the Association of Alberta (LAA) and Saturday: 8:00 AM to 8:30 AM Alberta Library Conference the Alberta Library Trustees’ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Association (ALTA) take place  There is a message board next to today at 3:00 PM. the Registration desk.  ALTA Tonquin  LAA Pyramid AB © Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum Unshelved.com

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