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GAZETTE Volume 25, No. 1 • January 10, 2014 • A weekly publication for Library staff Inside Book Festival to Leave Mall The National Book Festival this year will become a “one long day” event with eve- ning activities and move from the Mall to the Washington Convention Center. Page 3 Best Practices in Literacy Promotion The Library of Congress Literacy Awards program publishes a best-practices review of the work in the field of literacy being done by the awards’ 26 semifinalists. Page 5 Michaela McNichol Kate DiCamillo is the author of best-selling books such as “Because of Winn-Dixie.” Library Names DiCamillo Update on Smoking Policy Ambassador to Young Readers Following a ruling by an arbitrator, the Library this month will make changes to for young people’s literature. the areas in which smoking is prohibited By Mark Hartsell on its grounds. DiCamillo, who succeeds Walter Dean Page 6 Myers, will be inaugurated at 11 a.m. he inner voice of Kate DiCamillo today in a ceremony in room 119 of the belongs to a 10-year-old girl from Jefferson Building. T a small Florida town who learned “Kate DiCamillo is not only one of our to navigate the world through books she finest writers for young people but also an checked out at the local library. outstanding advocate for the importance “That connection to the 10-year-old of reading,” Billington said. “The Library kid, I’ve come to believe through the of Congress is pleased to welcome Kate as years, is more immediate for me than a worthy successor to our three previous other people,” said DiCamillo, the best- national ambassadors.” selling author of “Because of Winn-Dixie” The ambassadorship was established and “The Tale of Despereaux.” “Maybe in 2008 by the Library’s Center for the that’s why I write for kids. That 10-year-old Book, the Children’s Book Council and ‘Mickey One,’ Jan. 17 in the Pickford is front and center all the time for me.” Every Child a Reader to raise awareness Theater. That innate ability to empathize with of the importance of literature to chil- On Tap young readers makes DiCamillo a natu- dren’s literacy. Lectures, films, concerts, classes and ral for her new role: On Jan. 2, she was The ambassador serves a two-year other events at the Library of Congress term, appearing at events around the in the coming week. named by Librarian of Congress James Page 8 H. Billington the national ambassador AMBASSADOR, continued on page 4 2 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE JANUARY 10, 2014 EVENTS Upcoming GAZETTE ‘Daggers Drawn’: 35 Years of Cutting Cartoons www.loc.gov/staff/gazette GAYLE OSTERBERG ‘Daggers Drawn’ Executive Editor MARK HARTSELL Jan. 14, noon Editor Pickford Theater, Madison Building Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; essays discussing his time with The Lisa Davis, Donated Leave Proofreader: George Thuronyi Economist. In this book, Kallaugher Design and Production: Ashley Jones has pointed his keen eye and sharp PETER BRAESTRUP GAIL FINEBERG JAMES W. McCLUNG pen at important world events of the Founder Founding Editor Founding Publisher (1990 – 1997) (1990 – 2009) (1990 – 1994) past 35 years. There are cartoons sati- rizing leaders from Ronald Reagan and An official publication of the Library of Congress,The Gazette Margaret Thatcher to Barack Obama encourages Library managers and staff to submit articles and In his celebrated career with The and Angela Merkel. photographs of general interest. Submissions will be edited to convey the most necessary information. Economist, Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher In addition to his longtime work Deadline for submission of articles is 5 p.m. Wednesday, one has created more than 4,000 editorial for The Economist, Kallaugher is also week prior to publication date. Please submit text in digital form via e-mail ([email protected]) preferably as an attached cartoons and 140 covers. His work a cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun. He Microsoft Word file. has lampooned international leaders also spent 10 years in London, drawing Back issues of The Gazette in print are available in the Public Affairs Office, LM 105. across the liberal-to-conservative spec- cartoons for The Observer, The Sunday Electronic archived issues and the a color PDF file of the current trum, and his distinctive renderings are Telegraph, Today and The Mail on issue are available online at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette. immediately recognizable as the work Sunday. His work has been exhibited of this multitalented artist. at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Library of Congress Gazette Kallaugher will discuss and sign his The Tate Gallery in London and the Washington, DC 20540-1620 Editorial: Mark Hartsell, 7-9194, [email protected] new book, “Daggers Drawn: 35 Years Library of Congress. Design and production: Ashley Jones, of Kal Cartoons in The Economist” on This Books & Beyond event, co- 7-9193, [email protected] Jan. 14 in the Pickford Theater. sponsored by the Library’s Center for ISSN 1049-8184 Printed on paper that contains recycled paper by the This 196-page large-format book the Book and its Prints and Photo- Printing Management Section, Office Systems Services contains more than 300 of Kallaugh- graphs Division, is free and open to the er’s award-winning works along with public; no tickets are required. Gazette Welcomes Letters from Staff Staff is invited to use the Forum pages for lively and thoughtful debate relevant to Library issues. However, just as other newspa- per editors exercise discretion over which letters to publish and how to edit them, so do we. 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JANUARY 10, 2014 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 3 NEWS Book Festival to Move to Convention Center By Mark Hartsell The Library of Congress National Book Festival this year will move from the National Mall to an indoor location in Washington, D.C., and become a single- day event with evening hours, the Library announced on Wednesday. The 14th annual festival will be held Aug. 30 at the Walter E. Washington Con- vention Center in the District of Columbia and, for the first time, will feature pro- grams after dark. Event organizers said the move to the convention center will provide more seats for festival-goers, offer protection from heat and rain, and allow the addi- tion of new features to the festival, such Kimberly Powell as a pavilion focused on international The book festival has been staged on the Mall since 2003. authors. “In addition to a new International Park Service project to restore the green Billington said the new venue, sched- Pavilion featuring authors from around spaces on the Mall. ule and features offer new opportunities the world, festival-goers will be able to The five-year project, begun in 2011, for festival-goers. stay up late, with new evening activi- calls for the installation of more durable “We are very excited about the Inter- ties between the hours of 6 p.m. and 10 turf as well as granite borders for the national Pavilion,” Billington said. “In p.m.,” Librarian of Congress James H. lawns, subsurface drains and cisterns prior years, when we have offered authors Billington said. that collect rainwater for use in irrigation. from other nations – including the Nobel Another new pavilion will serve as The park service completed the first Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa – we the central feature of the evening hours. phase of that project in late 2012 and last have packed the house. “Great Books to Great Movies” will year announced new rules for Mall use “The Library offers books and other offer an evening panel discussion with designed to protect the restored grounds collections in more than 470 languages, experts and film-industry figures, fol- from damage. and our World Digital Library is pre- lowed by the screening of a film adapted The festival expanded to two days in sented in seven languages – Spanish is from a classic book.