ALAIssueALA 2 CognotesNew Orleans Sunday, June 25, 2006 Today's Yellow Swarm Invades New Orleans By Caroline Labbe, Project sites on Friday includ- One of the pleasures of the astated ninth ward, Holy Cross Highlights Student Volunteer,Catholic ed the Algiers, Alvar, Hubbell, day was seeing what a difference High School in Orleans Parish, University of America and Nix branches of the New a few hours and a group of mo- 15 ALA volunteers, along with Bookcart Drill Team Orleans Public Library, the Chil- tivated volunteers could make. a few community volunteers, World Championship! ive hundred eager librar- dren’s Resource Center, Delgado At one project site in the dev- Continued on page 3 1:30-3:30 p.m. ians dressed in bright Community College, Common Morial Convention Fyellow t-shirts poured Ground, Habitat for Humanity, Center Hall F out of the convention center Operation Helping Hands, Jef- Friday morning to board 14 ferson Parish West, Jefferson ALA President’s busses bound for 19 project Parish East, Resurrection, Sec- sites throughout the New Or- ond Harvest, Ben Franklin High Program Reading: The leans area. These “Libraries School, Southern University, St. Essential Skill Build Community” participants Mary’s, Holy Cross High School, 3:30-5:30 p.m. volunteered their time, skills, and Prompt Succor Church. Morial Convention and labor to New Orleans area Tasks varied by site, ranging Center Auditorium libraries and community orga- from construction, painting, and nizations needing help recover- gardening to shelving, weeding, Sneak Peek of a New ing from Katrina. and packing books. Documentary – The Hollywood Scholar Kevin Starr Discusses Librarian: Librarians in Cinema and Society “Reading: The Essential Skill” 9:00 p.m. Morial Convention at President’s Program Today New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, left, and Louisiana Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu greet Madeleine Albright before the Opening Center Auditorium oted scholar and li- Dr. Starr is a self-described brarian Kevin Starr evangelist for the central General Session yesterday. Nwill discuss the en- importance of reading and during importance of reading literacy to society and the life Two Campaign For America’s Monday's and literacy at the American of the mind. The author of nu- Library Association (ALA) merous newspaper and maga- Libraries Programs Today Highlights President’s Program today zine articles, he has written he Campaign for Ameri- The program is geared to- from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the 10 books, seven of which are ca’s Libraries is pleased ward library public relations School Libraries Morial Convention Center part of his Americans and Tto offer two programs, and marketing professionals Work: Rebuilding for Auditorium. Continued on page 14 “Shades of Glory: The Negro but is open to any ALA mem- Learning:A National Leagues and the Story of Af- ber wishing to attend. This Town Hall Meeting rican-American Baseball” and can’t-miss event will feature Featuring Keynote “PR Forum: Marketing is Ev- an expert panel offering tips Address by eryone’s Job @ your library®.” and strategies for making the Mrs. Laura Bush “The PR Forum: Market- most out of your word-of-mouth 12:30-3:30 p.m. ing is Everyone’s Job @ your efforts. It will also include an ® (Doors will open at library ,” will take place today update on The Campaign for 11:30 a.m. - no entry from 8:00-10:00 a.m. in the Mo- America’s Libraries and recog- rial Convention Center, Room nition of the Maricopa County after 12:30 p.m.) 352. Library District, winner of the Morial Convention “Word-of-mouth marketing” 2006 Scholastic Library Pub- Center Auditorium is the latest buzz word when it lishing National Library Week comes to promoting your library, Grant. PLA President’s but what does it really mean? The “word-of-mouth market- Plan to attend the annual PR ing” panelists include: Peggy Program & Awards FORUM during the ALA Annual Barber and Linda Wallace, Prin- Presentation Conference in New Orleans, and cipals, Library Communication Featuring you will learn what it is, why it Strategies, Inc.; Camila Alire, Anderson Cooper Jared de Seife, left, and other members of Boy Scouts of America works and how you can use it Dean, University Libraries, Uni- 5:00-6:30 p.m. Troop 33, Dekalb, Illinois, present ALA President Michael Gorman to engage every staff member, versity of New Mexico; ACRL Morial Convention a $3,000 check for the ALA Hurricane Katrina Library Relief Fund trustee, Friend, faculty member President; Donna Dziedzic, Center Auditorium at the Exhibits Ribbon Cutting. The scouts rode bicycles from and student in spreading your Executive Director, Naperville Memphis, Tenn., to New Orleans to raise the funds. library’s message. Continued on page 3

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Solutions that Deliver 1.800.325.7759 • www.TLCdelivers.com Page 2 • Cognotes Sunday, June 25, 2006 NEW ORLEANS Futurists Challenge Opening OCLC Symposium Participants By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. using a non-linear systems-based ap- comfort in discomfort.” Humans use information. Schultz said futures are The Library of Congress proach, engaged the audience. all their senses at once rather than multiple in nature—there are the pos- Derek Woodgate, President of the singularly, a pattern increasingly evi- sible, the probable, and the preferable CLC’s traditional commence- Futures Lab, is at home in seven lan- dent in newer technology. Librarians varieties. Futures-based people rely ment symposium “Preserving guages and was equally so at this fo- should recognize this as the preferred on sources in libraries to work toward OLibrary Core Value and Envi- rum. He described the future as being method of searching for and receiving their desired goals and the custodians sioning the Future” was anything but about “accelerated and discontinuous information among newer users. Fu- of those institutions are tasked to as- ordinary. It was instead a passageway change, uncertainties and emerging ture “books” will encompass even more sist them. to further grappling with the issue issues.” Woodgate and his colleagues interactive electronic experiences. Schultz distinguished between that all librarians confront—how best focus on these incipient topics even A copy of Woodgate’s presentation “mediacy” (adeptness with the new to serve and engage changing clien- before they become trends. He offered can be accessed at www.futures-lab. non-linear media) and literacy (more teles in an increasingly technology- the Disney Company as an example of com/ala.pdf. traditional, print-based, linear learn- enhanced world. Individual “audience a futurist organization that success- Wendy Schultz, Director of Infinite ing). The new media is “adaptive, open- response pads” allowing attendees to fully anticipates change. Futurists Futures, described future studies sourced, co-created, and immersive.” choose answers to questions posed work with chaos and the unknown; as “about coping with uncertainty.” The future is about transformation about the future and libraries facili- create new visions and contexts; sub- Three possible methods of doing this rather than the creation of something tated participation. Futurists, those vert assumptions; knit together data are: to ignore it and gamble; to invoke new. Many current library users have trained to discern what will happen using pattern recognition; and “find faith or pray; and to look for strategic “layered identities” and “nomadic careers” being representatives of a “participative generation.” They have shown a preference for “folksonomies” or open communities creating their own taxonomies. Stacey Aldrich, Assistant Director of the Omaha Public Library, stated that when it comes to the future there are those who let it happen, make it happen, and wonder what happened. She asserted that knowledge-vend- ing organizations such as libraries should foster passionate creative problem-solving and formalized team learning characterized by the sharing of experiences by those “scouting” at non-library, computer and technology oriented conferences. Aldrich agreed that folksonomies allowing users to have a voice in how information is organized are in the near future, if not already here.

Dynamic Posters, Great Gifts, and Dazzling Digital Product @ the ALA Store ALA Graphics has the newest posters and gifts for you, your staff and your library. Special sale prices throughout the store mean great sav- ings as you peruse the newest and best in library-themed products from the ALA. Be sure to check out the cam- paign materials for Teen Read Week™ 2006 including the official poster, mini poster, bookmark, and various incen- tives. Also available, the latest celeb- rity READ poster featuring Danica Patrick and the new Superman poster and bookmark just in time for the big summer movie release. Check out the READ CD 2, the fol- low-up to the popular READ CD, and learn how to use both CDs at the READ Studio located in the ALA Store. Free tutorials will be held today. Check the ALA Store for times. All digital prod- ucts will be available at the ALA Store at deeply discounted prices. The ALA Store is open today and Monday from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., and Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. NEW ORLEANS Sunday, June 25, 2006 Cognotes • Page 3

Marriott Hotel, Ile de France I. Part @ your library of the national Step Up to the Plate @ ALA President-Elect Seeks Continued from page 1 your library® initiative, the program will (Ill.) Public Library feature James L. Gates, library director Transformation Stories The PR FORUM will be moderated at the National Baseball Hall of Fame would like to enlist your help for send in your transformation stories by Kathleen Imhoff, Executive Direc- and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. a very exciting and interactive and photographs. Explain briefly how tor, Lexington (Ky.) Public Library The presentation will provide a re- I project that will help transform your library been changed. How have and chair of the PR Assembly, which view of African-American baseball his- libraries! your library users and community sponsors the PR FORUM. The PR As- tory from 1860 to date, with a focus on "Libraries Transform Communi- been transformed? The stories and sembly is a subcommittee of the ALA the just completed, major multi-year ties" is the theme I have chosen for photographs that you submit will Public Awareness Committee. research program undertaken by the my presidential initiative. We know be featured on my website, http:// “Shades of Glory: The Negro Baseball Hall of Fame that involved that when libraries are transformed lb.princetonlibrary.org. Leagues and the Story of African- libraries nationwide and produced a either by new service programs, Send all materials to Romina Guti- American Baseball” will take place new book by Lawrence Hogan called renovations, or new buildings that the errez at rgutierrez@princetonlibrary. today from 1:30-3:00 p.m. at the JW Shades of Glory. Published by Na- communities they serve are in turn org as soon as possible. tional Geographic Society, the book transformed. Part of the initiative is I hope you share your transforma- was just released in February. to create a Transformation Tool Kit, tion stories with me and with the Communities The session also will cover the pas- which will have tips and ideas for library community! sionate connection between our Nation- how to transform your library, and Thank you in advance for your Continued from page 1 al Pastime and the African-American stories from libraries that have been participation. braved the heat and humidity to help community, which existed for so many transformed. Leslie Burger Holy Cross librarian Beth Patin pre- years before Jackie Robinson broke This is where I need your help, ALA President-Elect pare for the school’s upcoming move to the color barrier. Photographic images a new location. Everyone was amazed will be used to tell this story and a bib- by the stacks of boxes filled with books liographic handout will be distributed Meeting Changes and the nearly empty shelves by the to all program attendees. All program BCALA Advocacy Information Exchange, today, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., end of the day. attendees will receive a Jackie Robin- CANCELLED. The second day of “Libraries Build son poster from ALA Graphics. There Community” will be on Tuesday from also will be a raffle of an autographed RUSA-RSS Performance Issues for Reference and Information Librarians, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The projects baseball from Ozzie Smith, Hogan’s today, 8:00-10:00 a.m., CANCELLED. have 400 volunteers already, but it book, @ your library® baseball hats and may be possible to squeeze in a few a variety of baseball titles donated by ALA-MAGERT GIS Discussion Group & Geo. Tech Committee Meeting, more. If you are interested in joining Harcourt Children’s Books. scheduled for Monday, 1:30-3:30 p.m., has been MOVED to today, 1:30-3:30 the yellow swarm, be in the lobby of Step Up to the Plate @ your library® p.m., in the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Trafalgar Hall J at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday. is a new partnership of The Campaign Several ALA exhibitors are support- for America’s Libraries and the Hall University of Illinois Alumni Reception, today, 5:30-7:30 p.m. will take ing this effort, such as Highsmith and of Fame, promoting the importance of place at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Bienville Suite at 300 Bourbon St., not at Bretford, which provided furnishings, 21st century literacy. For more infor- the Astor Crowne Plaza. equipment and supplies. mation, visit www.ala.org/baseball.

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Artists Robert Sabuda, left, and Matthew Reinhart draw a crowd of librarians as they autograph copies of their books Castle and Mommy? at the Scholastic booth, #2039.

Jaden Harris, 6, grandson of New Orleans Public Library assistant director Geraldine Harris, is all smiles as he sports his READ hat while stopping by the READ studio to have a poster made at the ALA Store.

Student members Deborah Luchenbill, front, Daniel Boone Regional Library, Columbia, Missouri, and Sophronia Bruno, 23, University of Texas, Austin, sort books at the Children's ALA President Michael Gorman and President-elect Leslie Burger, along with the ALA Resource Center during 'Librarians Build Communities.' Executive Board, cut the ribbon to open the Exhibition.

ALA volunteers helped to sort books and perform renovations at the New Orleans Public Library Children's Resource Center during 'Librarians Build Communities' on Friday. Hundreds of librarians and exhibitors pitched in to help rebuild libraries and communities around New Orleans. A second event takes place on Tuesday.

Page 6 • Cognotes Sunday, June 25, 2006 NEW ORLEANS

Stonewall Book Awards Brunch on Monday The Latest Early he 2006 Stonewall Book Awards of a Lambda Literary Award for 2005. this extraordinary singer who defined will be held Monday, at the The novel was also named one of the an age, but it portrays the arc of gay Literacy Education TOmni Royal Orleans Hotel East/ ten best books of fiction for 2005 by culture in San Francisco. Center Salon from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 the Boston Phoenix. That Summer in Gamson’s research and teaching Research p.m. This year’s event marks the 35th Paris is Dawesar’s latest novel. focus on the sociology of culture, What is the most up-to-date and presentation of the Stonewall Book Dawesar’s debut novel Miniplanner with an emphasis on contemporary influential research on early litera- Awards. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, was chosen as a “Season’s best pick” by Western commercial culture and mass cy education? How might it impact and Transgendered Round Table of the NY publication LGNY. New York’s media; social movements, especially the daily work of librarians and the ALA will recognize the authors of the weekly magazine Time Out listed on cultural aspects of contemporary ALSC/PLA 'Every Child Ready to 2006 Stonewall Book Award – Bar- Dawesar as one of twenty-five people movements; on participant-observa- Read @ your library®' project? Dr. bara Gittings Literature Award, Abha who will make their mark in 2005. tion methodology and techniques, Timothy Shanahan, president of Dawesar (Babyji) and the 2006 Stone- Femina magazine in India named her particularly as applied in urban set- the International Reading Associa- wall Book Award – Israel Fishman one of India’s 12 remarkable women. tings; and on the history, theory, and tion and chair of the National Early Non-Fiction Award, Joshua Gamson In 2003, Dawesar was named the “Fun sociology of sexuality. He is the author Literacy Panel, will report on the (The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, Fearless Female” of the month by Cos- of Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Con- panel’s recently released synthesis the Music, the 70’s in San Francisco). mopolitan India. The New York Foun- temporary America and Freaks Talk of early literacy research at the Dawesar and Gamson are the featured dation of the Arts awarded Dawesar a Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Association for Library Service speakers for the 35th anniversary Fiction Fellowship in 2000. Nonconformity. His published work to Children’s (ALSC) Charlemae brunch. Joshua Gamson depicts the life also includes studies of sex scandals, Rollins President’s Program, “Rais- Babyji, Abha Dawesar’s second and times of Sylvester James in The popular culture and gay and lesbian ing Readers: The National Early novel, is the winner of the Ameri- Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the people, sexualities and qualitative Literacy Panel Report,” Monday, can Library Association’s Stonewall Music, the 70s in San Francisco. The research, the political pitfalls in the 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Morial Award for 2006 as well as the winner book not only traces the rise and fall of pursuit of media visibility, exclusion Convention Center (MCC), Rooms processes in sex/gender movements, 283-285. A reactor panel of Every organizational aspects of collective Child national trainers will connect identity construction, and dilemmas the research to library-based early Find Some “Jazzy” PR Ideas at Swap & Shop in identity-based movements. He literacy work. LAMA’s PRMS’ event today from Winners for “Best of Show” will be has also written for magazines such The National Early Literacy 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Conven- cited. The PRDoctors (professional as The Nation and The American Panel is made up of researchers tion Center Exhibit Hall Special consultants) will have the results of Prospect. from around the country with Events Area, located behind Aisle their PR Makeovers and answer ques- Join the GLBTRT in celebrating the backgrounds in developmental 3700, is a showcase of “jazzy” public tions. Another highlight will be the finest in Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Litera- psychology, reading education, relations materials (annual reports, John Cotton Dana Award winner and ture. Tickets are required, and is at the family literacy, English language newsletters, reading promotions the selection committee. Onsite Registration Counter. Tickets learning, phonological awareness, and more) produced by libraries in Shopping bags will be provided to are $50 and may not be purchased at early literacy, language disorders, 2005. visitors. the event, so plan ahead. neurological development, reading disabilities, parenting education, language, cognition, and social and emotional development in children. The panel, working under the aus- pices of The Partnership for Read- Visit H.W. Wilson ing, a collaborative effort by the Na- tional Institute for Literacy (NIFL), the National Institute of Child Booth #2016 New Databases Health and Human Development • Art Museum Image Gallery (NICHD), and the U.S. Department of Education, reviewed research • Play Index literature on language, literacy, $BUDI
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Page 8 • Cognotes Sunday, June 25, 2006 NEW ORLEANS Join COPE for a Conversation Let’s Talk About It: Jewish on the Code of Ethics Literature Grants Available In recent years, the Committee on the ALA Code of Ethics,” to take place Attend Today's Info Session To learn more about the grant Professional Ethics (COPE) has grap- today at 1:30 p.m. in the Morial Con- The ALA Public Programs Office application guidelines and selec- pled with several pressing questions vention Center Room 295-296. (PPO) is pleased to announce that tion criteria and hear from current concerning the ALA Code of Ethics: This is the third program in a series two new rounds of grants for "Let’s project participants, join PPO and • Is the content/wording of the to explore whether revision and expan- Talk About It: Jewish Literature Nextbook for an information session Code sufficient to deal with the many sion of the ALA Code of Ethics may be – Identity & Imagination," funded today from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m., in issues of recent years, such as the desired in light of increasing profes- by Nextbook, are now available. the Hilton New Orleans Riverside USA PATRIOT Act, Internet privacy, sional concerns. Our speakers will in- Libraries interested in applying for Magnolia Room. new workplace disclosure and anti- clude representatives from ALA units a grant can download an application "Let’s Talk About It" is a reading discrimination laws? with different perspectives on codes and guidelines found at www.ala. and book discussion program model • Should the list of “core values” of ethics, including ALA President- org/publicprograms. The application developed by the American Library passed by Council be explicitly merged Elect Leslie Burger, ALA Executive deadline for the first round of new Association (ALA) in 1984. The pro- into the Code? Board member June Pinnell-Stephens, grants is December 1, 2006. gram focuses on reading a common • Should ALA adopt a more active Elaine Harger from the Social Respon- In addition to upcoming applica- series of books, chosen by a nation- stance in its “enforcement” of the Code, sibilities Roundtable, Candace Morgan tion deadlines, PPO and Nextbook ally known scholar, and discussing through more active professional edu- from the Intellectual Freedom Com- are pleased to announce two new them in the context of a larger theme. cation requirements or the adoption of mittee, and Frances Maloy from the themes for this reading and discus- Over the past 20 years, the model enforcement measures? Association of College and Research sion program exploring Jewish lit- has been adopted - and adapted - by These questions will be addressed Libraries (ACRL). Please plan to erature: “Neighbors: The World Next hundreds of libraries throughout the at the Committee’s program, “Ethics join COPE for a lively and productive Door” and “Modern Marvels: Jewish country. and Librarianship: Perspectives on conversation. Adventures in the Graphic Novel.” For more information or an appli- Participating libraries are eligible cation, visit www.ala.org/publicpro- to receive an increased programming grams or stop by the Public Programs grant of $2,500 - $5,000. Office booth #231. Belpré Award Celebrates 10 Years The Pura Belpré Award, sponsored first Belpré Awards event in 1996 by the Association for Library Service in Austin, Texas. A DVD, created by to Children (ALSC) and REFORMA, Scholastic and Weston Woods Stu- the National Association to Promote dios, highlighting the significance of Library and Information Services to the Belpré Award and featuring past Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, award winners and founders, also will turned ten this year. The anniversary be presented. This event is free and will be commemorated with an extra open to the public. special Belpré Celebration program In honor of this anniversary event, today from 1:00-4:00 p.m., at the Em- attendees will receive a complimen- bassy Suites Hotel, Lafitte Ballroom. tary copy of the Belpré Award DVD, This year’s Belpré Medal winners, courtesy of Scholastic and Weston Viola Canales (The Tequila Worm) and Woods, and a leather bookmark. Raúl Colón (Doña Flor: A Tall Tale Don’t miss the opportunity to meet About a Giant Woman with a Great your favorite Latino authors and il- Ann Dutton Ewbank, left, Chair, AASL Task Force on Instructional Big Heart), and honor winners, Car- lustrators at the book signing that Classification, and Kay Boies, right, Executive Director, Oklahoma Library men T. Bernier-Grand, Pat Mora, Pam immediately follows the program. Assn., make their presentations at the ALA-PIO Advocacy Institute. Ewbank Muñoz Ryan, Lulu Delacre, David The Pura Belpré Awards are pre- discussed the 65% Rule & TABOR (Tax Payer Bill of Rights) Laws. Diaz, and Rafael López, will receive sented to Latino/Latina writers and their awards and deliver their accep- illustrators whose work best portrays, tance speeches. Past Belpré winners, affirms, and celebrates the Latino Debate on Tenets of Information Lucía González, Floyd Martinez, and cultural experience in an outstanding Amada Irma Pérez, will also be there work of literature for children and Literacy at ACRL President’s Program to join in the celebration. youth. It is named for Pura Belpré, The event also features songwriter the first Latina librarian at the New Is information literacy a concept (ACRL reception follows program). and performing artist José-Luis York Public Library. Belpré was also created by academic librarians to Moderated by James Neal, Vice Orozco, who performed at the very an author, storyteller, and puppeteer. make themselves more relevant to President for Information Services the curriculum or is it one of our most and University Librarian, Columbia Orca Book Publishers and Scholastic to Give important roles? Is information lit- University, two teams composed of eracy critical thinking in disguise or Stanley Wilder, Associate Dean in Away Books to New Regular YALSA Members is there a real body of knowledge to the Library, University of Rochester, The Young Adult Library Services our profession.” be communicated? Does civil society’s Jeff Rutenbeck, Associate Professor Association (YALSA), the fastest grow- In addition to the intangible ben- dependence on life-long learners re- and Director Digital Media Studies, ing division of the American Library efits, members of YALSA will have quire the acquisition of information University of Denver, Julie B. Todaro, Association (ALA), is looking for new access to a Member’s Only Web Site literacy skills? Can libraries justify the Dean, Library Services, Austin Com- regular members who want to ‘Get with lists of annotated recommended expenditures they’ve made on teaching munity College, and Gary P. Radford, Active! @ your library’®. Join YALSA books and films, access to a quarterly information literacy or do the data sug- Professor of Communication Studies, between now and September 15th to newsletter, YAttitudes, as well as print gest otherwise? This debate will test Fairleigh Dickinson University, will receive titles from Scholastic, Inc., and versions of speeches by the authors our assumptions and beliefs about a debate the relevance of information the Orca Soundings series of teen nov- who have won the Michael L. Printz core element of the academic librar- literacy as we know it. els for reluctant readers and the Orca Award and the Margaret A. Edwards ians’ role in the educational process. Immediately following the ACRL Currents series of novels for reluctant Award. A free subscription to YALSA’s A live debate will be held to dis- President’s Program, Ray English of middle school readers. quarterly journal Young Adult Library cuss these issues during the ACRL Oberlin College will be presented with “Some of the greatest rewards of Services is also included with member- President’s Program on "The Emperor the 2006 Academic/Research Librarian being a YALSA member are the in- ship, and members receive discounts Has No Clothes: Be It Resolved That of the Year Award at a ceremony and tangible ones,” said YALSA President for ALA products and conferences. Information Literacy is a Fad and reception in room Mardi Gras F-H of Pam Spencer Holley. “Being a member Another benefit of membership is Waste of Librarian Time and Talent," the New Orleans Marriott. 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Library Media Program of the Year tended hours provide additional time users of ideas and information, as well The AASL National School Library Award (NSLMPY) from the Ameri- for student research. as exemplify implementation of Infor- Media Program of the Year Awards can Association of School Librarians Kapolei High School in Kapolei, mation Power: Building Partnerships will be presented at a ceremony and (AASL), a division of the American Hawaii, also has been named a winner for Learning, the publication of AASL’s luncheon held on Monday during the Library Association (ALA). The honor in the Single School Category. Kapolei standards and guidelines for dynamic, 2006 ALA Annual Conference in New will be presented at the AASL Awards High School, serving 2,333 students, student-centered school library media Orleans. Special guest speakers for Luncheon. was designed with learning academies, programs. Sponsored by Follett Li- the event are young adult non-fiction The 2006 School District award goes teaming, and problem-based learn- brary Resources, the award, comprised authors Ann Bausum and Sue Macy. to Hilliard City School District in Hill- ing (PBL) as the focus for 9-12 grade of two categories: school district and For more information about the event, iard, Ohio, with 20 schools serving over education. The library media program single school, recognizes exemplary please visit the AASL web site http:// 14,000 students. School library media implements problem-based learning school library media programs that www.ala.org/aasl/annual. centers district-wide provide flexible school-wide through a “Curriculum access to resources and are open to all Construction Cookbook.” Lessons center students throughout the school day. around essential questions grounded in Navigating Test and Measurement Resources The Hilliard School District school a standards based curriculum. ACRL EBSS/Psychology and Psy- fiche Collection. library media programs are central to “In each of the schools and districts, chiatry Committee is offering a panel • Debralee Krahmer, University of teaching and learning as evidenced by a the school library media specialists discussion entitled Testing, 1, 2, 3… Nebraska, Lincoln. The Buros Insti- strong budget and support from district are acknowledged as curriculum Navigating the Complex Maze of tute and what the MMY and Buros administrators. The long-range plan leaders,” said Gail Dickinson, chair of Test and Measurement Resources, website can do for you and your us- for the library media program, aptly the NSLMPY Award Subcommittee. today, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. in the Hilton ers. named “Powerful Partnerships,” is a “Administration, fellow teachers, and Riverside Grand Ballroom D. This session is ideal for reference, guiding focus for the district. students acknowledge that role, and This panel discussion will feature: instruction and collection manage- Biblioteca Las Americas in Mer- provided examples of ways in which • Nancy O’Brien, University of ment librarians and features a panel cedes, Texas, has been named one of they depend on the school library Illinois. The test maze: Problem for discussion with experts in the field two Single School Category winners media program as the central focus of users, problem for librarians. of measurement from the publish- for 2006. Biblioteca Las Americas teaching and learning in the school.” • Helen Hough, University of ing, vendor, professional and library (BLA) is a 33,000 square foot facility The committee also includes Betsy Texas, Arlington. Creator of Tests and communities. This program is useful serving over 1,300 students from two Davis, Granby High School, Norfolk, Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests for librarians assisting undergrads, magnet schools in the South Texas In- Va., Donna Helvering, Millard Public available in compilation volumes. graduates and faculty in locating dependent School District. Although a Schools, Omaha, Neb., and Sara Kelly • Karen McQuillen, ETS. Present- measurement instruments and for freestanding facility, the library media Johns, Lake Placid (N.Y.) Middle/ ing the NEW online Tests in Micro- those who are planning or have a test collection in their library.

Meet American Libraries Editors, Columnists Annual Conference participants are invited to meet American Libraries magazine editors and columnists at Exhibit Booth 1660 at various times during the meeting. Andrew K. Pace, who writes the pop- ular “Technically Speaking” column, will be on hand today and Monday from 10:00-11:00 a.m. to chat with vendors and members. He will also discuss his Hectic Pace technology blog that is be- ing launched during the conference. Visitors to the Exhibits Closing reception Tuesday, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., will have an opportunity to talk with AL Editor-in-Chief Leonard Kniffel, Managing Editor Gordon Flagg, Senior Editor George M. Eb- erhart, Associate Editor Pamela A. Goodes, and “Working Knowledge” columnist Mary Pergander. They will be on hand at the booth from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Eberhart will also sign copies of The Whole Library Handbook 4 in the ALA Store today at 10:00 a.m. Friends of Bill W. Space is available for Friends of Bill W. to meet at the following dates and times: today, 6:30–7:30 p.m., in the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Chequers Room. Bowker Booth #1716

Daily Booth Presentations Include:

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Write to [email protected] for more information about the above topics. Page 12 • Cognotes Sunday, June 25, 2006 NEW ORLEANS Virginia H. Mathews, ALA “icon,” in New Orleans irginia H. Mathews once intro- annual Library Outreach lecture. She duced herself as an ALA icon, will offer her perspective of OLOS’s be- Vand to many, she’s telling the ginning and its role in ALA at “Jazz in truth. For more than 55 years she the Morning: OLOS’ 35th Anniversary, has been a vocal advocate for literacy Monday at 7:30 a.m. and many of the missions of libraries. The 2006 Jean E. Coleman Library In 1994 she received the coveted ALA Outreach Lecturer is Dr. Carla J. Honorary Membership. Hayden, director of the Enoch Pratt So it is not surprising that she is at Free Library, Baltimore (MD), and ALA’s 2006 annual conference in New ALA past president 2003-4. Hayden’s Orleans being honored in multiple presidential focus on equity of access arenas, and presenting at others. Her made her a natural selection as the 2006 messages will be strongly presented and lecturer. Her theme, “An Access Agenda passionately received. She is familiar to for ALL Libraries,” offers a comprehen- many by face, and through her numer- sive “agenda” that incorporates many ous publications and presentations. aspects of library operation and policy to Mathews continued her advocacy with outline the steps necessary to help reach the Center for the Book today, a relation- the goal of equal access in any setting. ship that has lasted 28 years. Her many This is a topic of long-term interest for awards, medals and citations span doz- Mathews, who will be listening and ens of years and continues through this supporting this effort for the office she week in New Orleans. envisioned 38 years before. The ALA Office for Literacy and Mathews was recognized for her Outreach Services pays tribute to advocacy at ALTA’s Washington Office Mathews’s vision for the office in 1967, Update Session, and later at ALTA’s as chair of the ALA Committee on the Opening Session yesterday. Disadvantaged. She lobbied for a per- Immediately following the OLOS manent office in the Association to for- anniversary event on Monday, mally address the concerns of library Mathews will speak on family literacy communities where people needing at the Committee on Literacy discus- John Wood, founder of Room to Read, emphasizes the special services could be found. She sion group, Morial Convention Center importance of books to developing nations during his became lifelong friends with Dr. Jean Room 349. Auditorium Speaker Series presentation yesterday. Ellen Coleman, who became OLOS’s Her last event is the ALSC board first director, and the namesake for an meeting on Tuesday morning, and the 81-year-old will have, once again, made her mark on the membership. We will all have been better for it too. President’s Program 2006 Two Literacy Events to Information Overload Take Place Monday Committee on Literacy Discus- & the Quality of Your Life sion Group takes place Monday, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Belle Chasse. Can a New Environmental Movement The discussion will focus on family literacy @ your library® and in the Restore community. Virginia Mathews, a fam- ily literacy pioneer, and John Cole, Director of the Center for the Book at Both the accelerating pace of life and the amount of the Library of Congress will lead the information we are expected to process trouble many of us. discussion. Monday, June 26 Reaching into the Commu- 10:30 am–12 pm Th e keynote speaker will develop the notion of information nity and Discovering Services, Morial Convention environmentalism as a response to the torrent of 24/7 media Strengths, and Stories: An After- and information that is upsetting the balance of our lives. noon at The Lindy Boggs National Center Center for Community Literacy, Rooms 353–355 Coping strategies, including preservation of space and time sponsored by ALA’s Committee on for reading, contemplation, and refl ection, will be discussed. Literacy, will be held Monday from 1:30-3:30 p.m., at the Lindy Boggs Na- Speakers tional Center for Community Literacy, Rosann V. Bazirjian, Monroe Library of Loyola University. University Librarian, Th e University of Join ALA’s Committee on Literacy North Carolina-Greensboro and ALCTS President at The Boggs Center for an afternoon of Joyce Ogburn, Director of the J. Willard Marriott Library, lively library literacy conversation and gracious New Orleans hospitality. The University of Utah Boggs Center staff and representatives Keynote Speaker from the Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans will share organizational Dr. David Levy, Professor, University of Washington and personal literacy experiences, Information School and author of Scrolling Forward: pre- and post-Katrina. The Boggs Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age. Center, located in the Monroe Library of Loyola University New Orleans, is More information about Dr. Levy and his research can be found on dedicated to promoting adult literacy the school’s Web site: www.ischool.washington.du/iql/. as a vehicle for personal, economic, and community empowerment. NEW ORLEANS Sunday, June 25, 2006 Cognotes • Page 13 Prudence Adler Wins 2006 Patterson Copyright Award rudence S. Adler is the 2006 and intellectual property are unri- been influential. She has contributed domain. The award is named after L. recipient of the L. Ray Patterson valed. I cannot imagine a more ap- to amicus briefs in copyright-related Ray Patterson, a key legal figure who PCopyright Award: In Support of propriate or deserving recipient of the court cases ranging from Eldred v. explained and justified the importance Users’ Rights. Adler is Associate Ex- Patterson Copyright Award,” noted Ashcroft (copyright term extension) of the public domain and fair use. He ecutive Director, Federal Relations and Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University to The New York Times v. Tasini helped articulate that copyright law Information Policy for the Association Librarian at the University of Califor- (electronic re-publication of works by was negatively shifting from its original of Research Libraries. For more than 17 nia at San Diego and President of the freelance authors). purpose and overly favoring rights of years, Adler has worked the gamut of Association of Research Libraries. The Patterson Copyright Award rec- copyright holders. His book, The Nature information policy issues important to Adler is a founder of the Library ognizes contributions of an individual of Copyright: A Law of Users’ Rights is libraries and higher education includ- Copyright Alliance (LCA), a coali- or group that pursues and supports the definitive book on the constitutional ing intellectual property, telecommu- tion of five major library associations the Constitutional purpose of the U.S. underpinnings of copyright and the criti- nications, and issues relating to access (www.librarycopyrightalliance.org) Copyright Law, fair use and the public cal importance of the public domain. to government information. The Ray that collectively influence federal Patterson Copyright Award: In Support copyright legislation. Since its incep- Kids! Campaign Tool Kit Available Online of Users’ Rights Award Ceremony and tion last year, the LCA has taken a The Association for Library Service to can promote their library to school-age Reception will be held Monday, 4:00- leading role in successfully blocking Children (ALSC) officially launches its children, their parents and caregivers 5:30 p.m. Hilton New Orleans Riverside more than a dozen legislative propos- Kids! @ your library® public awareness using the tool kit materials,” said Kids! Rosedown Room. Sponsored by the als that would have been damaging to campaign with a program today, 10:30 Campaign Task Force chair Stephanie ALA Office for Information Technology the public interest, such as database a.m.-12:30 p.m., in the Morial Conven- Bange. “Everyone—from novice to ex- Policy (OITP) and the OITP Copyright legislation and the broadcast flag. tion Center, Rooms 338-339. The Kids! perienced librarian, in libraries large Advisory Committee, the Patterson “As a lobbyist for libraries and initiative provides materials and tools and small—will find something here award is a crystal trophy. their users, Ms. Adler is recognized to help local libraries reach out to kids, that she can use.” Adler’s outstanding contributions throughout the library profession for their parents and caregivers. The Kids! program also features on copyright issues have had a unique her leadership in mobilizing alliances of A complete tool kit of resources, singer/songwriter and storyteller Bill impact on libraries and library users. like-minded constituencies, and for her available at www.ala.org/kids, in- Harley, sharing special stories and Her communications on legislative effective collaboration with groups such cludes a communication plan; pub- performing “@ your library,” a song he developments concerning copyright as the Digital Future Coalition, Home licity, programming, and promotion wrote especially for ALSC’s campaign. keep countless librarians informed, Recording Rights Coalition, the Center ideas; sample communication materi- After Annual Conference, Harley’s song helping them decipher and manage for Democracy & Technology, Americans als (news release, public service an- will be added to the online campaign the copyright challenges at their home for Fair Electronic Commerce Transac- nouncement, letter to youth-serving toolkit for librarians to download and institutions, in addition to preparing tions (AFFECT), and others, to promote agencies); a calendar of promotional use in their community. Available ver- them for library advocacy. and protect access to information re- opportunities; facts about children, sions of the song will include an instru- “Prue Adler’s efforts on behalf of sources.” said Janice T. Pilch, chair of reading, and libraries; downloadable mental and a PSA-length format. academic and research libraries to the Patterson Award committee. logo and artwork; and much more. For more information about ALSC’s monitor and influence federal and In the area of copyright and intellec- “Sunday’s Kids! @ your library® pro- Kids! @ your library® campaign, visit state legislation related to copyright tual property litigation, Adler has also gram will demonstrate how librarians www.ala.org/kids. New User-Friendly Format for “Copyright 101” Have a copyright question but don’t You Can Win have the time to sit through an entire program? Do you need extra time to really delve into a copyright situation with knowledgeable colleagues? Or World Book! are you stuck here for one last com- mittee meeting and have time on your Simply stated...the most up-to-date, accurate, authoritative, hands? If you answered yes to any of these questions, drop by for this useful and easy-to-use encyclopedia in print and online. program! Copyright 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About but Were Afraid to Ask will be held Monday, 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the Hilton New Or- leans Riverside Belle Chasse Room. The Office for Information Technol- ogy Policy (OITP) Copyright Advisory Committee will offer an “open house” Enter our drawings poster session on several copyright topics including electronic and media reserves, for your chance to win The international copyright law, fair use, World Book Encyclopedia 2006, or interlibrary loan, and more! Copyright a subscription to the World Book experts will be on hand to discuss your Online Reference Center! individual copyright concerns. “Knowledge of copyright is increas- ingly integral to the work of librar- ians. With the emergence of digital technologies, library users, students Bring this ad to the World Book booth (#2032) and instructors are using information and enter our drawings! in new ways, and this has created new responsibilities for understanding the copyright law,” said Janice Pilch, Chair of the OITP Copyright Advisory Com- mittee. “Our hope is that the poster ses- sion format will draw librarians new to For additional information, please contact your World Book representative. the topic, and if we are successful, we 1-800-975-3250 www.worldbook.com/products hope to offer this program at annual conferences in the future.” Page 14 • Cognotes Sunday, June 25, 2006 NEW ORLEANS

YALSA Announces Teen Tech Week “Reading—specifically the ability The Young Adult Library Services Teen use of nonprint resources Starr to interact with complex texts—is Association (YALSA), the fastest has increased dramatically in recent Continued from page 1 the skill that is indispensable to the growing division of the American years, yet more and more teens are the California Dream series. His life of the mind,” Gorman said “We Library Association (ALA), is pleased doing this from home instead of the writing has won him a Guggenheim are dealing with a society in which to announce Teen Tech Week, a new library. According to a recent study Fellowship, membership in the Soci- literacy is undervalued and decreas- YALSA celebration aimed at getting by Harris Interactive, in 2005, 86% ety of American Historians, and the ing yet is more important than ever. teens to use their libraries for the of youth aged 8-18 have a computer Gold Medal of the Commonwealth This program will reinforce the im- different technologies that are of- in their home, and 74% have Internet Club of California. Dr. Starr also is portance of true literacy and stress fered there, such as DVDs, databases, access in their home. On average, a university professor at the Uni- the joys of lifelong reading.” audiobooks, video games and more. 8-18 year olds spend 6 hours and 21 versity of Southern California in Dr. Starr was the seventh state Teen Tech Week will be celebrated for minutes per day using media (includ- Los Angeles. librarian of California since the the first time March 4-10, 2007. More ing TV, video/DVDs/movies, video A First Look at the Literacy of beginning of the 20th century, a information can be found at www.ala. games, audio media, computers and America’s Adults in the 21st Century position from which he retired in org/teentechweek. print media). According to Pew Inter- (December 2005), published by the 2004. He has served as Allston “By developing Teen Tech Week, net Research, 71% of teens reported National Center for Education Sta- Burr Senior Tutor in Eliot House YALSA demonstrates the important that the Internet is their primary tistics, found that 30 million adults at Harvard; executive assistant to role technology plays in teen life and source for completing school projects. in America lack basic literacy skills, the Mayor of San Francisco; City the need for librarians to integrate the Yet multiple studies have shown that including seven million who are con- Librarian of San Francisco; and a ways teens use technology into their the majority of teens lack the critical sidered to be illiterate. Other studies daily columnist for the San Fran- programs and services,” said Teen Tech thinking skills and technical expertise paint an even more dire picture. cisco Examiner. Week Chair Linda Braun. to use the Internet and other electronic resources effectively. Commemorative Postmark “Teens need to know that the library Small Press Reading During Free Makes Great Souvenir is a trusted resource for accessing in- formation and that librarians are the Speech Buffet on Monday Attendees can stop by the ALA experts who can help them develop Three librarian zinesters and one or fame. A selection of the topics in Post Office, located on the exhibit the skills they need to use electronic New Orleans zine writer will read from the zines featured at the Emergency floor in Hall J, to get the confer- resources effectively and efficiently,” those photocopied, cut and paste publi- Reading are: ence's Commemorative Postmark. remarked YALSA President Pam cations many people know and love as • Punk life and polyamorous love Attendees can purchase a 39 cent Spencer Holley. “zines” during the Free Speech Buffet in New Orleans before and after Hur- stamp at the Post Office, affix it to For more information about YALSA on Monday, at 7:00 pm in the Grand ricane Katrina an envelope or to a Program Guide, or for lists of recommended reading, Ballroom of the Omni Royal Orleans, • a highly critical behind the scenes and the Post Office will Postmark viewing and listening, go to www. 621 St. Louis Street. The reading will look at public libraries with the Commemorative Postmark ala.org/yalsa/booklists, or contact the reveal the inner lives of librarians that • unanswerable questions as a souvenir keepsake of the ALA YALSA office by phone, 800-545-2433, give lie to the stereotype of the re- • library worker activism in NYC dur- New Orleans Event. ext. 4390; or e-mail: [email protected]. pressed bun-wearing, Dewey Decimal ing the Republican National Convention obsessed shusher. Readers from the • road trips and moving to a small north, south, east, and west include town Ammi Emergency (NOLA), Jenna • baseball poetry Freedman (NYC), Elaine Harger (ru- • thwarted censorship at a high King County Library System ral WA), and Alycia Sellie (Madison, school library WI). A $10 cover charge includes din- • an abecedary (look it up!) in Washington State is one of the ner, and there will be a cash bar. The Free Speech Buffet is organized largest circulating library systems in Self-published with limited press by the Alternatives in Publication Task runs, zines (not to be confused with Force of the Social Responsibilities the U.S. and we invite you to meet blogs or e-zines) are among the small- Round Table of the American Library with us at the ALA Conference in est of small presses. Zines are low Association. Its purpose is to provide budget and tend to be far outside the an affordable alternative to the ALA New Orleans, Louisiana from June mainstream, and their authors are conference exhibit hall for small and 23 - 27. Join us at the Communities motivated by the desire to commu- local presses where they can show nicate, rather than to attract money their wares to progressive librarians. of Color in the Exhibition Hall, booth #956 or the Placement SORT Celebrates 70th Anniversary in 2007 Center for an on-site employment 2007 is the 70th Anniversary of ing January, 2007, is required for the interview. Visit our website ALA’s SORT, Staff Organizations SORT walks and anniversary dinner. Round Table, founded 1937. Special Contact SORT’s Chair, Leon at www.kcls.org for more activities will be held at the ALA An- Bey, for further information at employment information. EOE nual Conference in Washington, D.C., [email protected]. June, 2007, to celebrate SORT’s 70th Anniversary: PLA’s First Podcast Currently recruiting for the Librarian I Employment • Gala SORT 70th Anniversary Din- Visit the PLA Blog (www.plablog. ner on June 23, 2007 org) to hear PLA’s first experimental Pool • Gala SORT 70th Anniversary foray into podcasting. Digital audio “Meet and Greet” Reception for SORT recorder in hand, PLA blog manager, members and prospective members, Andrea Mercado, conducted a brief Turn to us. The choices will surprise you June 22, 2007. interview with the proprietors of the • SORT’s 70th Anniversary Lun- lemonade stand set up in front of the cheon/Workshop on “Building Skills convention center. The McGuire fam- King County Library System for Staff Organization Leadership” for ily have set up the lemonade stand 960 Newport Way NW 20 attendees by advance application to raise money for their library, The for June 24, 2007 Smith Library, part of the New Or- Issaquah, WA 98027 • SORT 12th Annual Walking Tours leans Public Library System. 425-369-3224 visiting embassies/historic sites near PLA’s blog (thanks to our intrepid Dupont Circle, June 22 and 25, 2007. team of bloggers) also will provide Check the SORT website, www.ala. more podcasts, play-by-play descrip- org/sort, for information on the Lun- tions of programs, author events, cheon/Workshop and “Meet and Greet” social events, and more. Check it out Reception in 2007. Registration start- at www.plablog.org. NEW ORLEANS Sunday, June 25, 2006 Cognotes • Page 15

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Join Google at the American Library Association Annual Conference for an overview of the history of Google Book Search and Google Scholar. We will discuss how the programs started, how they were designed and how they can be used in a library setting for maximum effectiveness. In addition, we will give you an update on the progress made in Google’s library outreach program and how you can have input into making Google work better for you and your library patrons. This session will include Q & A and information about signing up for Google’s free Librarian Newsletter. We hope you can join us!

Speaker: Ben Bunnell, Manager Library Partnership Team When & Where: Saturday, June 24th, 2006 Morial Convention Center Room 386-387 12:00pm – 1:00pm OR

Sunday, June 25th, 2006 New Orleans Marriott @ 555 Canal Street Room Carondelet 12:00pm – 1:00pm

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