ALAALAIssue 3 CognotesBOSTON Sunday, January 16, 2005 Today: President’s Program on President's Program Advocacy Today 3:00– 5:00 p.m. With libraries in almost ev- can be contagious in the same Westin, America North/ ery state facing funding cuts, way a virus is. In his new book, Central Ballroom American Library Association Blink: The Power of Thinking (ALA) President Carol Brey- Without Thinking, due out ALA Council Casiano will launch a nation- January 2005, Gladwell ana- 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. wide advocacy ‘epidemic’ for li- lyzes social intuition, or how we braries January 16, at 3:00 p.m. know what we know in social Hynes CC, Ballroom at the Westin Hotel, America situations. North/Center Ballroom. Patricia Glass Schuman, past Brey-Casiano welcomes key- president of ALA and founder of Monday: note speaker Malcolm ALA’s Library Advocacy Now Youth Media Awards Gladwell, best-selling author of (LAN) initiative, will moderate Press Conference The Tipping Point: How Little the panel discussion following the Things Can Make a Big Differ- keynote presentation. 8:15– 9:15 a.m. ence, and a panel of speakers The panel includes: Marga- Hynes CC, Ballroom The sixth annual Memorial Lecture sounds an entirely different note by featuring a presentation by the to discuss how to enhance the ret Blood, founder and president Cognotes will be Mendelssohn String Quartet. image of and increase support of Strategies for Children; available after the for libraries, and li- Nancy Talanian, director of the press conference brary workers. The panel also Bill of Rights Defense Commit- will discuss how to bring in- tee; and Sergio Troncoso, creased attention to critical na- award-winning author and li- tional issues such as literacy brary advocate, whose work Exhibit Bids the ALA and equity of access; and how includes The Last Tortilla and to expand the global reach of Other Stories and The Nature librarians. of Truth. ‘Welcome Back to Boston’ Gladwell’s The Tipping Gladwell appears courtesy of Exhibit Hours By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. Fred Perkins, and Thomas Point has become one of the Little, Brown and Company. The Bicknell. most influential social explora- The President’s Program Re- When attendees of the ALA According to the exhibit, ALA tions in recent times. The book ception is sponsored by Today: Midwinter Meeting pull them- previously met in Boston in 1879, is an examination of social epi- Shepley Bullfinch Richardson 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. selves away from the sessions and 1902, and 1941. Directors of the demics and suggests that ideas and Abbott. Monday: exhibits and wander into historic BPL who served as ALA Presi- 9:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m. in nearby dents were in Copley Square (as inevitably they 1897; in 1898 will), they should be certain to and 1903; Charles Putnam in Registration visit the small exhibit on ALA 1925; Milton Lord in 1949; and, Hours history set up especially for them. Arthur Curley in 1994. Four exhibit cases of scrapbooks, So stop by and pay homage Today: documents, and photographs are to Boston’s influence on ALA 7:30 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. located on the ground floor pas- when you are on your way to Monday: sageway between the Research either of the two eating estab- 7:30 a.m.– 1:00 p.m. Library (the McKim Building lishments in the Library (Novel from the 1890s) and the General Restaurant or Sebastian’s Café), ALA Store Library (the Johnson Building to the larger exhibit “Riot and extension from the 1970s) detail- the Rule of Law—The Boston Hours ing Boston’s connection to our Massacre—John Adams and the organization. Trial of 1770,” or just to tour the Today: From 1879 until 1909 ALA was facilities. 8:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. headquartered in Boston before it The Central Library in Copley Monday: moved to Chicago. The Charter Square is open Monday - Thurs- 8:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m. of 1879 on display lists founders day 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Fri- Justin Winsor, Charles Ammi day and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to ALA Presidential candidates Christine Lind Hage, left, and Cutter, , 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. , right, shake hands as they prepare to make James Whitney, , to 5:00 p.m. opening statements at the Presidential Candidates Forum.

Page 2 • Cognotes Sunday, January 16, 2005 Check Out the Boston History Exhibit at Boston Public Library “Riot and the Rule of Law” is a col- tral library at Copley Square, 700 laborative exhibition generously funded Boylston St., in the newly renovated by the Boston Public Library Founda- great exhibition hall of the BPL. It will tion, which brings together original ar- remain open to the public through March tifacts—manuscript documents, early 6, 2005, Monday – Thursdays, 9:00 a.m. printed books, historic maps, political – 9:00 p.m., Friday – Saturday, 9:00 a.m. cartoons and prints—from the BPL’s – 5:00 p.m., and Sundays 1:00 – 5:00 Department of Rare Books and Manu- p.m. Admission to the exhibition is free. scripts, the personal library of John Highlights of the exhibition include: Adams, the Department of Prints and • Paul Revere’s original manuscript the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. sketch of the Boston Massacre, docketed The exhibition also coincides with a and possibly used in the trial of the Brit- two-year project to catalogue, preserve, ish troops. Arthur Giannini, Lake County Public Library, Merrillville, In., checks digitize, and provide access to the John • Original manuscript depositions out the On The Run! basket filled with items for running with Adams Library, funded by the Institute taken by the Town of Boston from eye exhibitor Lisa Alent, left, at the ProQuest booth as he enters for his of Museum and Library Services by an witnesses to the Massacre. chance to win. Act of Congress. The exhibition is located in the cen- Schedule Updates Changes: •ACRL ANSS Conf. Prg Planning, Chicago 2005, Sun. 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. moved to MAR Grand BR A. • RUSA MARS Products and Ser- The LIBRARY of CONGRESS vices Disc. Forum, Sunday, 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. MOVED to MAR Grand BR C/D. • ALCTS CCS Copy Cataloging Disc. Visit us at In-Booth Presentations Group, Sunday, HIL- Jefferson, 9:30 – Sunday, January 16th Schedule 11:00 a.m. Booth #2827 • ACRL Information Literacy Advi- sory Com. Sunday, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. for a look at 10:00 am Digital Preservation at the Library of MOVED to HCC 101. Congress • ALSC Storytelling Disc. Group our latest 10:30 am Portals to the World Monday, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. MAR, 11:30 am Library of Congress Website from Wellesley Rm. Web services Your Point of View Addition •ALA GODORT Rare and Endan- www.loc.gov/ala/ 12:00 pm Cataloger’s Desktop gered Government Publications Com. 1:00 pm The Encyclopedia of the Library of Sunday 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Omni Congress Alcott BR B. 1:30 pm Classification Web: Now with LC/ Cancellations: Dewey Correlations •ALA - Ethics II, Monday, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. 2:00 pm Educator’s Tour of the Library’s •RUSA HS Biblio. and Indexes Com. Website Monday, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 2:30 pm Workforce Diversity at LC

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Company Booth # First Name Last Name Affiliation Brodart - CO Books 2118 Michael Abaray Evansville Public Library Abrams 920 Eileen Abramson Los Angeles Public Library DEMCO, INC. 118 Lisa Arm Boston Univ. Law Library The Donahue Group, Inc. 2141 Sally Baker Indiana State University CABI Publishing 2136 Sally Baker Indiana State University H.W. Wilson Company 1606 Amanda Bakken Northwestern University Lib. Chronicle Books 433 Paula Baratta Newmark Public Library Compass Point Books 1013 Chris Barlow Woodbury Middle School World Almanac Education 224 Chris Barlow Woodbury Middle School Random House Value Publishing 506 Ven Basco Univ. of Central Florida Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database 3 Mercedes Benitez-Sharpless Easton, PA Thomson PDR 2700 Harold Bright Farmington Public Library Random House 506 Beverly Brown Rockland Mem. Library Fitzhenry & Whiteside 301 Mary Cabral MIT Libraries Capstone Press - Graphic Library 1017 Barbara Camann Lynn, MA Dynix 2515 Sharon Castleberry DeSoto Public Library Tundra Books 517 David Chroust Texas Buckstaff 1123 Cindy Crawford Needham Free Public Library Highsmith Inc. 2436 J. Crisp State Library of NC The Library Corporation (TLC) 2218 Jeanne Crisp Raleigh, NC Office Movers, Inc. 1909 Isabel Danforth International College of Hosp. Copyright Clearance Center 2113 Mary Duffy Univ. of Texas Blackwells Publishers 2302 Laurie Duquette National Lib. Of Medicine Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing 418 Mary Etter S. Windsor Public Library Eustis Chair 714 Leslie Forsman Concord, IL Standard and Poor’s 236 Elinor Foster Univ. of North Carolina Friends of Libraries U.S.A. 2313 Christing Giannoni Field Middle School Scholastic 1418 Elspeth Goodin Sussex Cty. Library Coutts Library Services 1919 Cheryl Gowing Univ. of Miami Heinemann-Raintree Library 305 & 307 Janice Griffin Friends Acadamy Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing 418 Angela Groth Ardsley Public Library Perseus Books Group - Chris Wormel 815 Elizabeth Habich Noertheastern Univ. Highsmith Inc. 2436 Rebecca Henning Amherst College Library Baker & Taylor 323 Ruth Herzberg Jamaica, NY McGraw Hill Professional 2112 Tracy Hull Drexel University LexisNexis 2819 Kelly Janousek California State Univ. Bloomsbury Children’s books 531 Brenda Jarrell Montgomery Central High ProQuest 2506 Elliot Kanter Univ. of California New Market Press 2227 Sheil Kirren New Jersey City University innovative USA 2304 Lee Ann Lannom Vanderbilt Univ. Light-Beams Publishing 700 Jeanne Lauber Public Library of DC Bolinda Publishing 521 Amy Lennon Reading Public Library World Book, Inc. 106 Robin Lensing Pawtucket Public Library Marshall Cavendish 1916 Carol Lincoln Moharimet School Quality Books Inc. 2013 Betty Long Roswell Public Library Onset Computer 2305 Jessica MacPhail Racine Public Library MARCIVE Inc. 2017 Martha Mason Univ. of South Carolina Picture Window Books 1024 Brian McDonald Oswego Books on Tape/Listening Library 505 Tamyie Meehan Indian Trails Public Library North-South Books 431 Robbie Nickel Nevada Schedule3W/Medianet 923 Jill Ortner Buffalo, NY Chelsea House Publishers 229 Teri Padua NW Regional Middle School Blackstone Audiobooks 1114 Anne Reilly Sunbury, MA Perseus Books Group - Football Friday Night 815 Faye Robinson Rowan Univ. GIS Information Systems 1706 Beth Roll Smith West Bridgewater Public Library Holtzbrinck Publishers 609 Robert Schnare, Jr. Naval War College Lib. OCLC 2526 Susan Seiler Alvin Sherman Lib. August House Publishers, Inc. 814 Janet Sheets Jesse Jones Library Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. 2018 Grace Spindler Harvard Univ. Books on Tape/Listening Library 505 Nancy Strong Elington High School Watson Label Products 706 Linda Summers Morwich, CT Thomas Klise/Crimson Multimedia 334 Clover Taylor Western Albemarle High School Capstone Press - Fact Finders 1017 Tanya Tullos Houston, TX 3M Library Systems 2811 Johanna Tunon Nova Southeastern University Thomson Gale 2606 Julia Vande de Water Rockbridge County High School Marshall Cavendish 1916 Margaret Victoria Westerly Public Library Emerald 1224 Louis Vyhnanek Washington State Univ. Penguin Group Inc. 906 Andrew Wertheimer Univ. of Hawaii Blue Stores Films 10 Ann Williams Bloomsfield Township Public Lib. Lens to Lens, Inc. 6 J. Williamsen Brigham Young Univ. National Geographic 424 Eleanor Willis Wexler-Grant Communit School Brodart - Supplies 2118 Cassie Wilson Rowlett Public Library Books on Tape/Listening Library 505 Yannshya Wu Bloomington, IN Neal-Schuman Publishers 126 Yannshya Wu Bloomington, IN Bridging Boundaries

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Page 8 • Cognotes Sunday, January 16, 2005 Update on Patron-Focused Services By Alberta Davis Comer tional ILL has worked well for forty or purchase books that they are unable to ate a program. She also suggested ana- Indiana State University fifty years, some libraries are chang- borrow, because it is too new, for ex- lyzing purchased books to ascertain if The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Discus- ing to purchasing programs because ample. Others purchase the item im- there is a gap in the collection. sion Group sponsored a panel discus- these programs improve services and mediately if it meets their set criteria. Finally, Ward stated that purchase- sion about purchase-on-demand pro- patron satisfaction, allow ILL requests Ward acknowledged that the fewer on-demand programs are a win-win grams. Led by Suzanne Ward from to be filled that might not otherwise, people who review the purchase deci- situation. Patrons get their requested Purdue University, the panel looked at and enhance the collection based on sion the faster the process. In some li- books quickly, the material is usually collaboration among ILL, collection de- patrons’ expressed needs. braries the ILL technician makes that relevant to research, most of the books velopment, and acquisitions. Ward stated that each library par- decision, while in others subject librar- tend to have subsequent circulation, Under “traditional” ILL, when a pa- ticipating in purchase-on-demand pro- ians review requests before an order is and analyses by bibliographers after the tron requests a book the library does grams establishes its own criteria for initiated. Libraries also will need to con- fact have found that the books were rel- not own, the book is borrowed and then what triggers the decision to purchase sider whether to catalog the item be- evant to the collection. One drawback returned to the lending library. Pur- a book instead of borrowing. Often, cri- fore or after the patron who initiated to the program may be in purchasing chase-on-demand or just-in-time acqui- teria may include publication date, lan- the ILL request receives it. science or technical titles because, not sitions programs change the way the guage, whether it is popular or schol- Once a library has initiated a pur- only are they expensive, they may take book is procured. Instead of borrowing arly, fiction or nonfiction, as well as the chase-on-demand program, questions longer to purchase and receive since the book, the library purchases the book, cost, delivery time, and supplier choices may arise about how to evaluate the they are not readily available. often from a vendor, publisher, or local for the item. When to buy instead of program. Ward asserted that tracking bookstore. borrow is also a decision made by each subsequent circulation and soliciting Ward asserted that, although tradi- individual library. Some libraries only patron feedback are two ways to evalu- RUSA/STARS Raffle Hand-made Quilt! Win a beautiful, luxurious quilt of stars made by RUSA past president Cindy Kaag! The raffle will be held at the All- STARS Committee meeting on Monday, January 17 from 8:30 - 11:00 a.m. All STARS members are eligible for the raffle, whether they’re in the room, in the city, or on the other side of the world! STARS is the Sharing and Trans- forming Access to Resources Section of the Reference and User Services Asso- ciation (RUSA). STARS brings together librarians and library staff involved with interlibrary loan, document deliv- ery, remote circulation, access services, cooperative reference, cooperative col- lection development, remote storage, and other shared library services as well as publishers, producers, and suppli- ers of products and services which sup- port resource sharing activities. To learn more about STARS, check out the section’s website at http://www.ala.org/ ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/ stars/rusastars.htm Not a STARS member yet? Contact ALA to add STARS to your RUSA membership (http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/ membership/membership.htm). There is no extra fee for joining STARS! If you would like to volunteer on a STARS committee, you can find the online volunteer form at http:// www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/ rusavolunteers/volunteerstars.htm.

Meet Editors, Columnist Stop by the American Libraries maga- zine booth, #214, to meet editor and pub- lisher Leonard Kniffel, Associate Editor Pamela Goodes, and columnist Andrew Pace (“Technically Speaking”). Kniffel and Pace will be available today from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. and Goodes will be on hand today from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Friends of Bill W. All Friends of Bill W. are invited to attend a meeting today from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in Room 101, Hynes Convention Center. Sunday, January 16, 2005 Cognotes • Page 9 New ALCS Children’s Book Meet the Author Award Named For Dr. Seuss The Association for Library Service ians will be selecting the best of the best to Children (ALSC), a division of the in Dr. Seuss’ name.” Dr. Seuss would Tanya Stone American Library Association (ALA), is say, “A person’s a person no matter how will be signing her delighted to announce the creation of a small. Children want the same things new award for outstanding children’s we want: to laugh, to be challenged, to newest book literature. Named for the world-re- be entertained and delighted.” Brilliant, DK Biography: nowned children’s author, the “Theodor playful and always respectful of chil- Seuss ” joins ALSC’s pres- dren, Dr. Seuss charmed his way into Abraham Lincoln tigious family of awards recognizing the the consciousness of four generations most distinguished children’s literature of youngsters and parents. In the pro- th published each year. cess, he helped them to read. Sunday, January 16 The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award will The award committee is holding its be presented annually to both the inaugural meeting at the 2005 ALA author(s) and illustrator(s) of an out- Midwinter Meeting. Caroline Ward, 2:00 pm standing book for beginning readers Ferguson Public Library (Conn.), will Booth # 910 published in the past calendar year. The chair the committee, which also in- winning author(s) and illustrator(s) cludes: Carole D. Fiore, State Library must demonstrate great creativity to and Archives of Florida; Barbara Genco, engage children in reading. The first Brooklyn Public Library (N.Y.); Nancy winner(s) of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Green, Grand Canyon School (Ariz.); Abraham Lincoln is one of the Award will be announced on Monday. Leslie Holt, library consultant; Lynne newest titles in the acclaimed “There is a true magic to Geisel’s Russo, National City Public Library work, which is clear in the enduring (San Diego, Calif.); and Marilyn DK Biography series. Tanya power of such classics as The Cat in Sobotincic, Medina County District Li- Stone’s riveting and fully the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham,” brary (Ohio). said ALSC President Gretchen Wronka. illustrated biography retells “This new award honors that spirit and how the 16th president of the the authors and illustrators that delight RUSA/CODES Town Hall and engage children in reading.” Midwinter attendees are invited to United States went from a “This is such a wonderful tribute to participate in a “Town Hall with Refer- frontier farm boy to one of my husband,” said Audrey Geisel, ence Publishers” January 17 from 9:30 America’s most beloved leaders. president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises. “Li- – 11:00 a.m. in the Boston Park Plaza brarians are critical to instilling a love Hotel. Five panelists will answer ques- of reading in young people, and I’m so tions related to transitions in the refer- pleased the ALA and children’s librar- ence publishing model.

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Chris Bohjalian autographs his latest novel Before You Know Kindness at the Random House Booth 505.

ALA President Carol A. Brey-Casiano and President-Elect Michael Gorman cut the ribbon with the Executive Board to open the sold-out exhibition.

Huong Nguyen, ALA student member, Cambridge, Ma., snuggles her ProQuest teddy bear during the Opening Reception.

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Veronica Stevenson-Moudamane, Danbury Library, Danbury, Ct., casts a shadow as she finds a quiet spot to read by window light in the John B. Hynes Convention Center. Meeting attendees enter the exhibit hall for the Opening Reception Friday night. Sunday, January 16, 2005 Cognotes • Page 11 These listings are paid advertisements. Thomson Scientific (Booth 2805): To place an Exhibitor News item in a future Thomson Scientific offers in-booth presenta- issue of Cognotes, visit the Cognotes office, tions: 10:30 a.m. – Web of Science®; 12:15 p.m. inside the Conference Services office, Room Exhibitor News – Century of Science; 2:30 p.m. – Highly Cited 300, Hynes Convention Center, no later than Institutions Drawing for AmEx gift certificate; 2 p.m. the day before publication. 3:00 p.m. – Thomson ResearchSoft Tools. 3M Library Systems (Booth 2811): One bibliographic and full-text databases are avail- tags. Purchase now and upgrade anytime. 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