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TLJ Winter 2016 TexasLibraryJournal volume 92, number 4 • winter 2016 TLA 2017 Conference Edition SPEAKERS | PROGRAMS | EVENTS REGISTRATION DETAILS YOUR Profession CURIOSITY • PASSION • INNOVATION APRIL 19-22 SAN ANTONIO ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Keeping Up with a Changing Profession, Advocacy Made Simple, Bring a Teacher to TLA, and More Invites You to Meet Our Authors at TLA! TLA 2017 • San Antonio, TX • April 19–22 Stop by the Random House Children’s Books Booth, #2507, to meet our authors and illustrators, pick up promotional materials and advance reader’s copies of our most exciting titles, and meet our staff! THURSDAY, APRIL 20 JENNIFER NIVEN CHRISTIAN ROBINSON KIERSTEN WHITE Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. Signing: 3:00–4:00 p.m. Don’t miss Jennifer at the YART: Learning to Let Go: Don’t miss Christian at the Ultimate Children’s Don’t miss Kiersten’s YART panel, Working Through Grief in YA Literature Program on Picture Book Illustrators Sketch-Off on Stories That Make You Say Hmm: Wednesday, April 19, at 2:45 p.m.! Thursday, April 20, at 4:15 p.m.! Alternative Historical Fiction in YA on Thursday, April 20, at 1:45 p.m.! FRIDAY, APRIL 21ST SUSIN NIELSEN JEFF ZENTNER KARA THOMAS Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Don’t miss Susin on the YART: Lone Star Reading List Don’t miss Jeff on the YART: TAYSHAS Reading List Author Don’t miss Kara on the YART Panel Chilling Tales to Keep Author Panel on Friday, April 21, at 8:30 a.m.! Panel on Saturday, April 22, at 9:15 a.m.! You Up at Night: YA Horror and Dark Fantasy on Thursday, April 20, at 3:00 p.m.! Photo credits: Jennifer Niven © Louis Kapeleris; Christian Robinson© Robinson; Photo credits: Photography; Jeff Zentner © Jamie Hernandez; Tallulah White © Blue Lily; Susin Nieslen Kiersten MacHale © Gayle Goodrich; © Sonya Sones; D.J. Yoon Thomas © James Shaw; Nicola Kara Andrew Clements © George The Losers Club by Andrew Clements Coming in October COVER NOT 2017! FINAL NICOLA YOON MONICA BROWN D. J. MACHALE ANDREW CLEMENTS Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Signing: 12:00–1:00 p.m. Signing: 1:00–2:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. Don’t miss Nicola on the YART: TAYSHAS Reading List Don’t miss D.J. on the Middle Grade Greats panel on Don’t miss Andrew on the Middle Grade Greats panel on Author Panel on Saturday, April 22, at 9:15 a.m.! Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m.! Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m.! Art copyright © 2016 Dominique Falla Follow Us on Social Media! Visit RHTeachersLibrarians.com, your online destination @RHCBEducators @TheRandomSchoolHouse for all the resources you need for your school or library! TLA_2017_ProgramAd_6P.indd 1 12/13/16 9:43 AM TEXAS LIBRARY JOURNAL Conference Edition contents Volume 92, No 4 Winter 2016 Published by the TEXAS LIBRARY Invites You to Meet Our Authors at TLA! ASSOCIATION President’s Perspective: Ignite Your Passion .................... Walter Betts ...... 2 A Note from the Editor ........................................ Wendy Woodland ...... 4 TLA 2017 • San Antonio, TX • April 19–22 Guest Editorial: Own Who We Are .............................. Gloria Meraz ...... 6 Membership in TLA is open to any OWNING YOUR PROFESSION IN A CHANGING INDUSTRY Stop by the Random House Children’s Books Booth, #2507, to meet our authors and illustrators, pick up individual or institution interested promotional materials and advance reader’s copies of our most exciting titles, and meet our staff! in Texas libraries. What Is Your Clarion Call? ............................ Lorraine J. Haricombe ...... 8 Talents, Not Titles, Define Opportunity .......................Andrew Dillon .... 10 To find out more about TLA, order TLA THURSDAY, APRIL 20 publications, or place advertising in Demonstrating the Value of Libraries: Texas Library Journal, write to Advocacy Made Simple ...... Jennifer D. LaBoon & Rebecca Sullivan .... 12 Texas Library Association If You Take a Teacher to TLA ................Kathleen Cady & Linda Erwin .... 14 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401 Newsnotes .......................................................................................... 16 Austin, Texas 78746-6763; call 1-800-580-2TLA (2852); or visit 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE our website at www.txla.org. JENNIFER NIVEN CHRISTIAN ROBINSON KIERSTEN WHITE CURIOSITY Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. Signing: 3:00–4:00 p.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. A directory of TLA membership is PASSION Don’t miss Jennifer at the YART: Learning to Let Go: Don’t miss Christian at the Ultimate Children’s Don’t miss Kiersten’s YART panel, Working Through Grief in YA Literature Program on Picture Book Illustrators Sketch-Off on Stories That Make You Say Hmm: available in the “Members Only” section Thursday, April 20, at 4:15 p.m.! Wednesday, April 19, at 2:45 p.m.! Alternative Historical Fiction in YA on of the website. Thursday, April 20, at 1:45 p.m.! wnYourProfession Opinions expressed in Texas Library O FRIDAY, APRIL 21ST Journal are those of the authors and are texas library association not necessarily endorsed by TLA. INNOVATION 2017 annual conference Corporate Sponsors ............................................................................ 18 Featured Speakers .............................................................................. 19 Journal Staff Programs by Topic .............................................................................. 23 Exhibiting Companies ......................................................................... 30 SUSIN NIELSEN JEFF ZENTNER KARA THOMAS Editor....................Wendy Woodland SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Preconferences (Wednesday) ........................................................... 32 Assistant Editor ..................Sara Ortiz Don’t miss Susin on the YART: Lone Star Reading List Don’t miss Jeff on the YART: TAYSHAS Reading List Author Don’t miss Kara on the YART Panel Chilling Tales to Keep Tech Camp (Wednesday) ................................................................. 33 Author Panel on Friday, April 21, at 8:30 a.m.! Panel on Saturday, April 22, at 9:15 a.m.! You Up at Night: YA Horror and Dark Fantasy on Thursday, April 20, at 3:00 p.m.! Layout/Graphics . Mary Ann Emerson Wednesday, April 19 ....................................................................... 36 Photo credits: Jennifer Niven © Louis Kapeleris; Christian Robinson© Robinson; Photo credits: Photography; Jeff Zentner © Jamie Hernandez; Tallulah White © Blue Lily; Susin Nieslen Kiersten MacHale © Gayle Goodrich; © Sonya Sones; D.J. Yoon Thomas © James Shaw; Nicola Kara Andrew Clements © George Advertising Mgr. .............Kasey Hyde Thursday, April 20 .......................................................................... 41 Friday, April 21 ............................................................................... 52 The Losers Club Printer....................... Capital Printing Saturday, April 22 ........................................................................... 64 by Andrew Clements Coming INDEX of Events, Speakers, & Sponsoring Units ................................ 68 in October COVER NOT 2017! FINAL © Texas Library Association FORMS & INSTRUCTIONS Hands on Labs Schedule ................................................................. 71 NICOLA YOON MONICA BROWN D. J. MACHALE ANDREW CLEMENTS Texas Library Journal (ISSN 0040-4446) is Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Signing: 12:00–1:00 p.m. Signing: 1:00–2:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. published quarterly in spring, summer, fall, and Conference Preregistration Form ..................................................... 73 Don’t miss Nicola on the YART: TAYSHAS Reading List Don’t miss D.J. on the Middle Grade Greats panel on Don’t miss Andrew on the Middle Grade Greats panel on winter by the Texas Library Association, 3355 TLA Membership Form .................................................................... 75 Author Panel on Saturday, April 22, at 9:15 a.m.! Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m.! Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m.! Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, Austin, Texas 78746- Conference Committees ................................................Inside Back Cover 6763. Periodicals Postage Paid at Austin, Texas. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Texas Art copyright © 2016 Dominique Falla Library Journal, 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, CORRECTION: The list of authors of the Discovery & Making in the Library: Two Specialized Spaces in Austin Follow Us on Social Media! Austin, Texas 78746-6763. Subscription price: to Community College Libraries article which ran in the Texas Library Journal fall 2016 issue was not complete. members of TLA, 94 cents, included in annual We apologize for the mistake. The article was authored by the following Austin Community College librarians: Visit RHTeachersLibrarians.com, your online destination @RHCBEducators @TheRandomSchoolHouse dues; to nonmembers, $25 per year for domestic, Ashley Carr, faculty librarian; Molly Dahlstrom Ledbetter, faculty librarian; Carrie Gits, head librarian; Melinda for all the resources you need for your school or library! $30 out-of-country. Single issues: $7. Townsel, head librarian; and Betsy Young, faculty librarian. 1 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 TLA_2017_ProgramAd_6P.indd 1 12/13/16 9:43 AM President’s Perspective BY WALTER BETTS excites you.” You often see passion defined MEET our penguin IGNITE YOUR PASSION as a powerful feeling of love, hate, anger, Like many librarians, my path to or sexual attraction.
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