Cognotes Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits February 9–13, 2018 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11 | DENVER
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COGNOTES MIDWINTER MEETING & EXHIBITS February 9–13, 2018 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11 | DENVER DENVER, CO AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Eggers Steps Forward with Her Right Foot By Kacee Anderson/Northbrook Elementary n his latest children’s book Her Right Foot, Eggers investigates a seemingly small trait Iof America’s most emblematic statue, the Statue of Liberty. Sandra Farag, youth mate- rial selector at New York Public Libraries and Brooklyn Public libraries, sat down with Eggers to discuss his latest books and non- profit during Saturday morning’s Auditorium Speaker Session. The seeds for Her Right Foot were planted when Eggers visited Ellis Island with his fam- ily. He was struck by the fact that the statue of liberty was in mid-stride. Not long after their visit, anti-immigrant rhetoric come to the front in the public sphere. Eggers first wrote Hundreds of ALA attendees fill the floor during the ALA/ERT Exhibits Opening an op-ed about the topic, but decided to aim Reception in this “little planet” view captured with a 360-degree camera. his book at children. “We need to remind the youngest readers who we are. This is a message Year’s Best in Adult Reading and I hope we can impart to our younger readers.” Her Right Foot is illustrated by Shawn Harris, Author Dave Eggers signs books after Reference to be Unveiled Tonight his Auditorium Speaker presentation » see page 3 Saturday morning. ll ALA Midwinter Meeting attendees are invited to this free event to Acelebrate the year’s best in adult President’s Program Panel reading and reference at the Reference and User Services Association’s (RUSA) Book and to Address Library Neutrality Media Awards Ceremony. The event will take he question of neutrality in librarian- Has the time come to question neu- ship is an old one. ALA’s 1939 Code trality? RUSA Book and Media Awards Are libraries, through their practices, Books List, Reading List, and Listen of Ethics for Librarians calls for Carnegie Medals announcement T unbiased “recommendations.” This is seen » see page 10 Today, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. List selections. New this year, the Sophie Brody Medal and the Dartmouth Medal will be in the ALA Library Bill of Rights principles Hyatt Regency Centennial A-D that present the library as content neutral, awarded and celebrated later with the winners! 2018 ALA Midwinter open and accessible to all. We will explore The literary winners announced at this event President’s Program the following questions with the aim of chal- place tonight from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the Hy- will shape the author panel for RUSA’s Liter- Today, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. att Regency Centennial A–D, and is sponsored ary Tastes program at ALA’s 2018 Annual lenging our thinking and practices: CCC Mile High Ballroom 2&3 by NoveList. Selections are made by library Conference in New Orleans. More informa- Were libraries ever neutral? professionals who work closely with adult tion about the award winners and Literary readers, and offer an excellent guide to quality Tastes will be available on RUSA Update. reading and library collection enhancement. For those who cannot attend, informa- Opening Session For the third year, the much-anticipated tion about this year’s winners will be posted winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for on RUSA Update and Tweeted via @ala_ Lends Itself to Conversation Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction will be rusa during and immediately after the event announced during this conference highlight. using the hashtag #alabma. Readers are sure By Kacee Anderson/Northbrook Elementary She described an elementary teacher letting As always, RUSA will also unveil the Notable to leave with their “to read” lists full! her give short presentations to her class over atrisse Cullors and Marley Dias took the books she read. MIDWINTER QUICK LOOK the stage to open the 2018 Midwinter Dias was 11 years old when she started the PMeeting & Exhibits talking about the hashtag #1000blackgirlbooks. Dias’ move- importance of activism starting locally. Both ment to see more black female characters in Today Monday women brought about their own social move- literature has resulted in over 10,000 books ALA President’s Program CCC MLK Holiday Observance and ments with the use of hashtags and activist generated to date. Mile High Ballroom 2 & 3 Sunrise Celebration mindsets. In 2013 Cullors cofounded the Dias interviewed Cullors about what she is 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. CCC 203/205/207 Black Lives Matter movement, which has since doing as a mother in hopes of raising a feminist 6:30 – 7:30 a.m. grown into dozens of chapters and thousands son, and how boys can help girls succeed. Cul- RUSA Book and Media Awards of members worldwide. Cullors opened her lors noted that she feels a particular responsibil- Hyatt Regency Centennial A-D ALA Youth Media Awards time onstage with a reading from her new book ity to shape her son to be a change maker, but 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. CCC Mile High Ballroom 2 & 3 coauthored by Asha Bandele, When They Call 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. » see page 15 Is Your Library a Conduit of Community Connectivity? 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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2018 DENVER COGNOTES 3 Junot Díaz to Speak This Morning Junot Díaz is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. By self-admission, Junot Diaz Today, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. CCC Mile High Ballroom 2&3 Díaz is an agonizingly slow writer and a chronic procrastinator. He once spent five years working on a 15-page story. But he said, “In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.” The session will take place today from 10:00 Junot Díaz Liz Fitzgerald, administrator of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Culinary Literacy (Photo by Nina Subin) Center, delivers her Masters Series presentation, Every Bite of Food We Eat. – 11:00 a.m., CCC Mile High Ballroom 2&3. their respective cultures. Islandborn is Díaz’ first work of fiction Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Culinary Literacy for young readers, a picture book illustrated Republic and raised in New Jersey. He by Leo Espinosa, scheduled for release in serves on the board of advisers for Free- In the Library Space February 2018. Little Lola is asked to draw dom University, a volunteer organization a picture of her home country for school. in Georgia that provides post-secondary By Kacee Anderson/Northbrook Elementary Librarians can lead To help with her assignment, she asks her instruction to undocumented immigrants. classes for kids, but family, friends, and neighbors for their rec- An immigrant himself, this is a topic he is Conversations around food are often lively outside teachers such as ollections of the Island. What emerges is a very passionate about, and one he consid- and provide a window into the lives of others. dieticians, state university stunning portrait of a place that Lola once ers very timely. As part of the ALA Masters Series, Liz Fitzger- extension services, called home, and the magic that comes A graduate of Rutgers University, Díaz ald from the Free Library of Philadelphia’s when culture, tradition, and stories are is currently the fiction editor at Boston Culinary Literacy Center presented on the culinary school interns, and other nonprofits passed down and shared. The book offers Review, and the Rudge and Nancy Allen use of cooking and culinary programing, as a diverse portrait of characters who have Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts an invitation to connect to other people in the around food insecurity migrated to New York from all around the Institute of Technology. community and bring them into the library. may be brought in. world, and shows the importance of com- Díaz’s appearance at the meeting is The Culinary Literacy Center now has a munity as they support each other, and sponsored by Penguin Young Readers. commercial-grade kitchen classroom. The mis- and obesity is an issue for both adults and sion is to advance literacy through food and children. This programming has brought in cooking around a community table. Culinary many who are not typically library patrons. Eggers literacy includes learning about food, cooking, Public programing includes knife skills, » from page 1 and learning the literacy skills needed to cook vegan classes, cheese making classes, butcher- from a recipe. ing, and cookbook authors.