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ALAIssueALA 4 CognotesNew Orleans Tuesday, June 27, 2006 First Lady Champions Today ’s Highlights Library Support, Rebuilding By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. viewed, Tomas and the Library Closing Session The Library of Congress Lady, currently being staged Featuring Cokie Roberts at several libraries around the 8:00–9:00 a.m. ddressing an eagerly country, for underlining the Morial Convention waiting crowd on Mon- importance of such learning day, First Lady Laura centers in children’s lives. She Center Auditorium A Bush, a former librarian, el- stated that “schools are at the ementary school teacher, and heart of Gulf Coast recovery Exhibits Closing proponent of literacy eloquently ….For many children who have Reception set the theme for a Town Hall lost their homes their school is 9:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m. on the essential community- their only comfort left.” Noting Exhibit Halls H-J focused role of school libraries. that she visited the library at Scholastic Publishing sponsored Chalmette High School (St. Ber- ALA Awards Reception the event. nard’s Parish) which reopened 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Greg Worrell, President of through super-human efforts Hilton New Orleans Scholastic Publishing, in intro- soon after the disaster, Bush First Lady Laura Bush embraces Caitlyn A. Clarke, 18, 2005-2006 Grand Ballroom C ducing a video Rebuilding for observed that some students Learning noted that restoration returned before their parents High School Student of the Year for the Jefferson Parish Public after Hurricane Katrina offered did, so eager were they to use School System, La., as Clarke introduces her Monday afternoon. an opportunity “not just to re- their library. Elsewhere many Mark Your build, but to reform libraries.” students rescued their library Caitlyn Clarke, a recent gradu- books even as they lost many of Calendar ate of Grace King Senior High their own possessions, though All the News You Never Get: School in Louisiana declared “I some naively feared extended ALSC National cannot imagine a school without library use fines when they were Breaking the International Institute a library….School libraries are at last able to return the books News Blockade Pittsburgh, places where students can feel to their re-built libraries. safe” rather than just being sites The Laura Bush Foundation, Pennsylvania By Joseph Yue with higher body counts from for housing books. established in 2001 to expand University of Colorado the Iraq war, there may be September 14-16, 2006 Clarke bid welcome to the school library collections, had more interest in what is hap- First Lady who saluted librar- by 2005 appeared to have met ibraries are the guid- pening in foreign countries. ians for encouraging “lifelong its goal after giving out over “ Joint Conference ance of enlightenment Borjesson added that “there lovers of learning.” Bush recom- $3 million. But Bush initiated of Librarians of of this country,” ac- is still a lack of accurate news mended a play that she recently Continued on page 3 L Color (JCLC) cording to Kristina Borjes- sources that tell the truth,” Dallas, Texas son, who was the featured and emphasized that we need October 11-15, 2006 speaker at “All the News perspectives not just from You Never Get: Breaking the embedded journalists but also International News Block- viewpoints from the general LITA National ade” sponsored by the Social population in Iraq. Forum Responsibilities Round Table Borjesson used interviews Nashville, Tennessee International Responsibili- included in her books to il- October 26-29, 2006 ties Task Force (SRRT) on lustrate the lack of freedom of Sunday. the press and the consequent 2007 Midwinter Borjesson is an experi- less than free flow of informa- enced investigative journalist, tion. She not only pointed out Meeting a producer for major news the disjuncture between what Seattle, Washington networks including CBS and the administration presents January 19-24, 2007 CNN and a book editor. She and “how the press responds said that international news to the disconnect” but how 2007 Annual is too expensive to cover and current and past administra- Conference that for some time there has tions of both political parties not been enough interest for worked the press. When jour- Washington, DC Anderson Cooper is greeted by PLA President Daniel Walters as he this type of news, especially in nalists or news organizations June 21-27, 2007 arrives for his keynote address at the PLA President’s Program & the “fly-over” states. However, Continued on page 3 Awards Presentation Monday afternoon. Reinvent the search experience for your patrons. AquaBrowser Library can be used with any integrated automation system. 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Many print commentators have index cards, both Gor- introduced his guest, the University gravitated to television once they have man and Starr ad- of Southern California professor, Cali- made their reputations which is where dressed how sound fornia State Librarian Emeritus, and they earn most of their incomes. We bites and blogs have much published historian Dr. Kevin have apparently run out of reclusive b o t h c r y s t a l l i z e d Starr. In his prefacing remarks Gorman writers and instead expect ours to go ideas and yet limited stated that we too often view reading as out on the talk circuit whether virtually broader discussion. a hurdle to surmount —you either are or in person. And yet dialog seems to be There should be more or are not literate. Instead he suggested disappearing from the movies. graduate-level courses that “literacy is a continuous process of Librarians should realize that our that emphasize read- being able to interact with more and profession is at least as much about ing books and com- more complex texts.” Literacy provides wisdom and value as about access and menting on them to us with an inner life and ideally should retrieval. Reading aloud contributes impart meaningful lend enlightenment to politics. “In order to the mental and psychological devel- summarization, an Kenneth Starr prepares to deliver his keynote during the to engage with life you need to be fully opment of children as well as to their important career skill. ALA President’s Program Sunday. literate.” Books are not essential to physical health. Relating to our mem- Starr contended that literacy because they constitute only bership in social networks, “printing “plagiarism is like tribalization” ning would be the real tragedy. Both one method to make texts manifest to authenticates writing” by increasing capturing something independently concurred that the Bible is one of the readers. Computer screens can also be its value through circulation. Starr produced and returning it to the com- essential works of literature, history, conveyors of the word. closed his formal presentation by re- mons. He emphasized the importance and moral thought. Starr attested to Starr opined that it almost requires flecting that cities encode themselves of maintaining intellectual property the transforming power of sweeping a PhD in electronics in order to under- and express something distinctive just rights for both authors and artists so novels such as War and Peace, Anthony stand a computer manual—unless you as do books. New Orleans in particu- that the well of this cultural source Adverse, and Les Miserables. Even are under 30, in which case it seems lar conveys the Mississippi River and does not run dry. lesser literary works such as Gone with intuitive. The age of the preponderant the bracing challenge of ethnic and Gorman agreed with Starr’s assess- the Wind have the capacity to broaden position of electronic-over-print media cultural diversity. The Crescent City ment of the value of exposing children one’s outlook by transporting one ef- has led to many contradictory changes. could be read as a text, one whose to reading at an early age because even fectively to another time and place. Paradoxically, according to Starr, the flow has only been temporarily inter- if they leave it in their teens they usu- Gorman noted that after July the text text of newspapers and news maga- rupted by Hurricane Katrina. Starr ally return to it. 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