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2017 Wrap-Up P. 12 July/August 2017 THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEWSMAKER Reshma Saujani p. 10 Library Card Civic Connections p. 24 PLUS: Exhibit Hall Roundup and Conference Candids 2017Annual Conference Wrap-Up p. 12 July/August 2017 American Libraries | Volume 48 #7/8 | ISSN 0002-9769 COVER STORY 12 2017 Annual Conference Wrap-Up Libraryland writ large in the Windy City BY Anne Ford FEATURES UP FRONT TRENDS 20 Tech Power 2 From the Publisher NEWSMAKER 10 Reshma Saujani Products for efficiency and Annual Conference from Near and Far CEO gets up every morning engagement in the Annual BY Laurie D. Borman “to close the poverty gap” Conference exhibit hall 11 Noted & Quoted BY Marshall Breeding 5 From Our Readers 24 It Starts with ALA SOLUTIONS a Library Card 30 Save Staff Time 4 From the President New labor-saving services Sharing our cities, Leaders in the Library towns, and BY Jim Neal PEOPLE natural places 6 Update 32 Announcements BY Jeffrey T. Davis What’s happening at ALA THE BOOKEND 34 Conference Candids ON THE COVER: Photo by Cognotes American Security Cabinets 9 | Crowley 8 | GEICO 29 | Modern Language Association 19 | OverDrive Cover 2 | American Library Association American Libraries 9, 28 eLearning Solutions Cover 3 | Graphics Cover 4 | Resource Description and Access 3 from the PUBLISHER THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Address: 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611 Annual Conference Website: americanlibrariesmagazine.org Email: [email protected] Phone: 800-545-2433 plus extension from Near and Far Career Ads: JobLIST.ala.org PUBLISHER The Shark Club Laurie D. Borman by Ann Kidd Taylor he ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition What’s [email protected] | x4213 always delivers inspiration, amazing programs your beach ACTING EDITOR and speakers, and exciting new products and rea d? Sanhita SinhaRoy Manhattan Beach [email protected] | x4219 books. That’s why the event is the highlight by Jennifer Egan T SENIOR EDITORS of my year. Everyone on the American Libraries team, Amy Carlton including me, gets right in the middle of the action, [email protected] | x5105 The Essential George M. Eberhart reporting and photographing what’s happening. This W. P. Kinsella [email protected] | x4212 by W. P. Kinsella Exit Strategy year, however, I was #alaleftbehind—for good reason. ASSOCIATE EDITORS by Steve Hamilton My oldest son got married in Boca Raton, Florida, on Terra Dankowski [email protected] | x5282 the same weekend as the conference. Phil Morehart Laurie D. Borman [email protected] | x4218 As soon as I returned home, I started reading all The Time the Scoop posts about the speakers and programs and EDITOR-AT-LARGE Anne Ford Traveler’s Wife, seeing it from afar, as many members do when they [email protected] | x2157 by Audrey Niffenegger can’t attend the conference. It makes me very proud EDITORIAL INTERN Hanako Maki to see how extensive that coverage is, and I encourage [email protected] | x2157 you to visit americanlibrariesmagazine.org to catch EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING ASSISTANT up on any events you didn’t get to see or do, whether Carrie Smith you were also #alaleftbehind or lucky enough to be at The Power [email protected] | x4216 of Habit Octopus Pie ART DIRECTOR by Meredith Gran #alaac17. by Charles Rebecca Lomax Hillary Rodham Clinton’s powerful message ended Duhigg [email protected] | x4217 the conference: “As librarians, you have to be on the ADVERTISING Michael Stack [email protected] | 847-367-7120 front lines of one of the most important fights we have Acceptance of advertising does not constitute endorsement. faced in the history of our country: the fight to defend ALA reserves the right to refuse advertising. truth and reason and evidence and facts. You have to PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT Catch up Mary Mackay, Associate Executive Director help us wage that fight one book at a time, one library Mary Jo Bolduc, Rights, Permissions, Reprints | x5416 on events at a time, one person at a time.” MEMBERSHIP We’re also including a wrap-up of the conference Ron Jankowski, Director in this issue by Editor-at-Large Anne Ford, starting ADVISORY COMMITTEE you didn’t Joseph M. Eagan (Chair), Lee A. Cummings, Christine on page 12, as well as our regular feature by Marshall Korytnyk Dulaney, Mary L. Hastler, Ben Allen Hunter, Jasmina get to Breeding on interesting exhibit floor products, on Jusic, Susan H. Polos. Intern: Lucy Kelly, Lisa Anne Romano Editorial policy: ALA Policy Manual, section A.8.2 page 20, so you’ll have even more details on the see or do INDEXED Chicago conference. Available full text from ProQuest, EBSCO Publishing, with our With this issue, we also welcome new ALA President H. W. Wilson, LexisNexis, Information Access, JSTOR. Jim Neal to American Libraries. His column is on page 4. SUBSCRIBE Libraries and other institutions: $70/year, 6 issues, US, Canada, extensive Our Newsmaker, Reshma Saujani, was the confer- and Mexico; foreign: $80. Subscription price for individuals in- ence opening session speaker. The founder of the non- cluded in ALA membership dues. 800-545-2433 x5108, email coverage [email protected], or visit ala.org. Claim missing issues: profit Girls Who Code, Saujani talked about closing ALA Member and Customer Service. Allow six weeks. of the the gender gap in the technology field by teaching girls PUBLISHED that coding is cool. The interview is on page 10. American Libraries (ISSN 0002-9769) is published 6 times yearly with occasional supplements by the American Library conference. Here’s to happy summer reading. Association (ALA). Printed in USA. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, Illinois, and additional mailing offices. POSTMAS- TER: Personal members: Send address changes to American Libraries, c/o Membership Records, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chi- cago, IL 60611. ©2017 American Library Association. All rights reserved. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced or republished without written permission from the publisher. 2 July/August 2017 | americanlibrariesmagazine.org TRANSFORMING RDA The RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign Project, also known as the 3R project, will bring about a major transformation to both RDA and RDA Toolkit. The project aims to significantly improve the functionality and utility of RDA Toolkit and will include the implementation of the IFLA Library Reference Model. The new Toolkit is expected to roll out in late Spring 2018 with . • a responsive design, • improved site accessibility, • an integrated display of Toolkit documents, • enhanced search and navigation, • and a whole lot more. FOLLOW THE PROJECT AT RDATOOLKIT.ORG/3RPROJECT from the PRESIDENT Leaders in the Library Building on the Libraries Transform campaign he recent ALA Annual Conference in There are important internal and external Chicago was an outstanding oppor- priorities in the works. tunity for more than 22,000 library Internally, we will recruit, appoint, and workers, exhibitors, and students from develop a new ALA executive director and work across the US and the world to come with the new director of our Washington Office. Ttogether to network, learn, and share. We will implement a unified and coordinated In addition to the many remarkable speakers presentation of our professional education pro- and presentations that made the conference a grams. We will improve our technology infra- rich educational experience, the work of the structure and systems. We will focus on member Association is also noteworthy: engagement and participation. We will improve Jim Neal ■ The Conference Accessibility Task Force issued communication and working relationships among recommendations for accessibility improve- ALA and its chapters, divisions, and round tables. ments at upcoming conferences. External issues will also be a priority. We ■ The Chapter Relations Communications Task will develop a strategy for expanded outreach Force issued a report to help improve chapter to promote librarianship as a career choice for engagement with ALA. students of color. We will develop a cohort of ■ A new Task Force on Sustainability was library workers and trustees with deep infor- launched to help increase implementation of mation policy knowledge and the skills to work sustainable practices by the Association, the in the policy arena. We will build collaborative profession, libraries, and their communities. relationships between ALA and national librar- ■ The new class of 60 Spectrum Scholarship ies, associations, technology organizations, First recipients and the 10th anniversary of the Amendment supporters, social justice communi- Emerging Leaders program were celebrated. ties, and publishers. We will focus on the vitality We made important progress on our four stra- of school libraries as fundamental to our work in tegic directions: advocacy; information policy; all types of libraries. And we will engage the jour- professional and leadership development; and nalism community in a partnership on fighting The equity, diversity, and inclusion. fake news and promoting our shared interest in campaign And at the core of our deliberations was the knowledge literacy. continued strong work of political activism at the The Libraries Transform campaign is our com- celebrates local, state, and national levels to preserve library pelling and consistent message to communicate programs and funding and to advance informa- and celebrate the value and impact of libraries and the value tion policies that support the work of our users. library workers on people’s lives and communi- and impact As I assume the responsibilities of ALA pres- ties. Transformation for me also means rethink- ident for 2017–2018, I want to emphasize my ing what we are, what we are doing, and how we of libraries core vision. We must dare to be bold, courageous, do it. I will focus on the Leader in the Library, the and challenging. We are virtual: engaged with our influence, innovation, and solutions we provide. and library users and with our communities in ever more rig- Libraries make leaders, both those who work orous and effective ways.
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