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Highlights Ethiopia Reads Founder to Keynote Saturday President’S Program Sunrise Speaker Series Ohannes Gebregeorgis, 8:00 – 9:00 A.M ALACognotes ALA BOSTON — 2010 MIDWINTER MEETING Saturday, January 16, 2010 Highlights Ethiopia Reads Founder to Keynote Saturday President’s Program Sunrise Speaker Series ohannes Gebregeorgis, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Y founder and execu- Boston Convention and tive director of Ethiopia Exhibition Center, Reads, will serve as key- Grand Ballroom note speaker for the ALA President’s Program 3:30 Exhibits Open p.m., Sunday at the Boston 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Convention and Exhibition Center. Arthur Curley Memorial Ethiopia Reads focuses Lecture on Gebregeorigis’ organiza- 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. tion’s literacy work. The ALA President Camila A. Alire and Gene Shimshock, chair, Boston Convention and organization encourages Exhibits Round Table, cut the ribbon to open the exhibits as a love of reading by es- Exhibition Center, ALA President-elect Roberta A Stevens and the ALA Executive tablishing children’s and Yohannes Gebregeorgis Grand Ballroom Board look on. youth libraries in Ethiopia, free distribution of books to speak to the nation’s Spotlight on Adult Literature to children and multilin- library leaders on the val- 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Toby Lester Analyzes the gual publishing. Gebre- ue of libraries,” said ALA Boston Convention and georgis was selected as one President Camila Alire. Exhibition Center Exhibit Birth Certificate of America of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes in “In a world where knowl- edge is power, libraries Floor By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. ing copy of the Waldseemuller 2008 for his work in estab- make communities more The Library of Congress map, which originally may lishing children’s libraries powerful. By motivating Sunday have been printed in as many in Ethiopia. “The ALA is thrilled children to read, librarians Sunrise Speaker Series art of a series of author as a thousand copies (although that Mr. Gebregeorgis has 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. lectures at the Boston Lester underlined that that Public Library Thurs- figure may only have meant a accepted our invitation » see page 24 Boston Convention and P day evening, focused on how large number), was rediscov- Exhibition Center, Grand the map drawn by Martin ered in the early twentieth Ballroom Waldseemuller, based on the century in a German castle. It discoveries of Amerigo Ves- was purchased in 2003 by the Exhibits Open pucci, changed the world’s Library of Congress, where it 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. view of itself. Toby Lester, is on display, for $10 million. contributing editor to The At- Its replacement by subsequent lantic Monthly and author of maps during the so-called Age ALA President’s Program The Fourth Part of the World of Discovery did not diminish 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. (Free Press, 2007), stated its importance for many firsts. Boston Convention and that he is a “real believer in The Waldseemuller map, Exhibition Center, Grand public libraries as institu- based on the voyages of Ves- Ballroom tions” and frequently used the pucci who sailed far to the Boston Public Library for his south of Columbus’s travels, magazine research when The as well as on Ptolemy’s designs Registration and Atlantic was located in Boston. and the charts of sailors, has Check-in He pointed out how maps help many significant features. It (Photo by Tipper Gore) people to imagine their place entirely separated the “new Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States and author Today in the world as well as guide world” (now the “fourth part of Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, An 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. them to where they actually Inconvenient Truth and The Assault on Reason, will deliver the want to go. 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Voeller the library “is the people’s park and think about your network in a differ- Location Changes, Minnesota State University, people need to be planted with infor- ent way in times of non-crisis so you Moorhead mation and opportunity.” can carefully consider all the options.” Time Changes “You need to assess your environ- She suggested that libraries develop a Today On Friday afternoon, ALA’s Of- ment and really figure out what is spreadsheet of all possible allies and LITA Marc Format Interest fice for Library Advocacy and the going on if you are faced with a bud- turn to social networking possibilities Group—SAT, JAN. 16 1:30 3:30 Massachusetts Library Association get cut,” according to Brey-Casiano. to get information out and to fully BECE Room 158 CANCELLED. co-sponsored an Advocacy Institute “You always need to ask if the cut is utilize all of their connections. Perseus Book Group Booth Workshop entitled, “Surviving in proportional to other cuts city-wide. If The Office for Library Advocacy 1345—SAT, JAN. 16, TIME a Tough Economy.” Carol A. Brey- the library is taking a disproportion- has a free “Advocating in a Tough CHANGE Frank Schaeffer will Casiano, Chair of ALA’s Committee Economy” toolkit posted on their web- sign copes of Patience with God on Library Advocacy and past ALA site at http://www.ala.org/toughecono- from 3 to 4 p.m. President delivered the welcoming mytoolkit. It contains resources and WA S H I N T O N O F F I C E address. “You need to assess your tools, including news clips, op-eds and Breakout Session II—SAT, JAN. Brey-Casiano helped develop the environment and really statistics to help library supporters 16 10:30 a.m. to Noon BLEC Rm Institute five years ago with her figure out what is going make the case for libraries in tough 157C CANCELLED. presidential advisory committee with economic times. “This is not about the goal of bringing people together on if you are faced with you and your staff, but the impact on Sunday to talk about advocacy. This institute a budget cut.” patrons and others to understand the FTRF/GLBTRT Author is the 37th to be offered since then. — Carol Brey-Casiano value of libraries,” said Merola. Event & Social—SUN., JAN. “The main goal of the institute is Brey-Casiano added that you need 17 MOVED to Countway Library for those attending to go home with to be clear about what budget cuts of Medicine at Harvard Medical solid ideas about what they want to will do to the library’s ability to offer School. accomplish in their own libraries,” services. Brey-Casiano includes infor- LLAMA-SASS/RUSA- said Brey-Casiano. ate hit, you need to act fast and make mation on library goals, satisfaction STARS—SUN., JAN. 17 10:30 She related a story about her own the case why that should not happen.” surveys, budget comparisons to past a.m. to Noon, WEST Paine CAN- library, El Paso Public Library, and She has seen over and over how lo- years, and demonstrates the impact CELLED. the Mayor of El Paso, Texas who cal politicians often think librarians the budget changes will have when RUSA-RSS Marketing and purports that “great cities have three won’t speak up and talk back and she presents to her city council Public Relations Commit- things: a great downtown, a great said, “It is not the job of the library to For those who have an interest in tee II—SUN., JAN. 17 10:30 to Metro system, and great parks.” She balance the overall budget of the city.” this topic, consider attending today’s Noon, INTER Rose Kennedy II wants this phrase to change to: “great Marci Merola, Director of the Office presentation by ALA President Cami- CANCELLED. cities have great libraries.” Ellen for Library Advocacy said, “One of the la Alire from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. entitled Rainville, Directory of J. V. Fletcher most important things to do is to get “Advocacy on the Front Lines: How Booth Change Library in Westford, Mass. suggested your network together, and Facebook to Make a Difference from Where TDNet Inc. moved to Booth that Brey-Casiano tell the mayor that is a great tool for doing that. Try to You Sit.” 1344. Cognotes Editor Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. The Library of Congress Reporters Brad Martin ABC News Stacy Voeller Minnesota State University, Moorhead Adrienne Chamberlin Simmons College Kristi Welch Forsyth County Library Publisher Deidre Irwin Ross, ALA Assistant Publisher Karee Williams, ALA Managing Editor Deb Nerud Vernon Photography Curtis Compton Production Tim Mercer Jenn Hess CustomNEWS, Inc. 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