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FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE! Click ALAhere and see inside... Cognotes SAN DIEGO — 2011 MIDWINTER MEETING MIDWINTER HIGHLIGHTS Ted Danson: A Love of Acting and Oceans By Brad Martin to help solve this environmen- on the vitality of the world’s LAC Group tal problem. oceans.” Since the 1950s, according “At the current rate, the ed Danson, in a free- to Danson, about 90 percent of oceans will be fished out in ranging interview Janu- the tuna, swordfish, shark and forty or fifty years,” he said, T ary 9 conducted by ALA king mackerel populations have adding that there is good news President Roberta Stevens, been depleted. Despite improve- however, “because fish popu- spoke on everything from his ments in the fishing industry lations are able to rebound first experience on the stage such as more advanced boats quickly, given the chance.” in college to his most recent and higher tech techniques at When asked how librar- work on HBO’s “Bored to finding fish, catches have been ians can help, Danson sug- Death” TV series, but repeat- declining. In addition, Danson gested that librarians are in edly returned to something he said that impact on the ocean’s the position to “point people has cared about for the past 25 floors from modern bottom to information” by suggesting years, which is his love for the trawlers is damaging the areas materials they can read on the world’s oceans and his concern – calling them the “nurseries’ topic. “In the end, we are all for their state and that of the – that young fish need to grow literally in this together,” he fish that live there. and thrive. Danson said this said. “You have to ask yourself Danson told of his love of attack from the top and bottom if this is the kind of world you acting and of becoming wildly is literally “putting the squeeze want in the future.” famous after the television show “Cheers” went into broad syndication. He also shined a light on what this fame has meant to him. “I am grateful for my career as an actor,” Danson said. “One the great things about being successful is that it has given Midwinter attendees get Mardi Gras beads from a stilt walker me access to some amazing kicking off the Wrap Up–Rev Up Closing Event. Click here for people and has provided the more information on the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. ability for me to talk about things I care about.” Danson told of his book An Afternoon with Neil Oceana, in which he details the crisis the world faces as a Gaiman and Nancy Pearl result of overfishing the oceans Actor, environmental activist and author Ted Danson is interviewed By Stacy L. Voeller, the case of The Graveyard and what needs to be done now by ALA President Roberta Stevens during the President’s Program. Minnesota State Book, I actually know where University Moorhead it started. It was about 1986, ALA Honors Top Youth Authors and Illustrators and I lived in a very, very old, n Sunday afternoon very tall, very, very spindly LA announced the top young adults – including the ten by Joyce Sidman, illustrat- January 9, author Neil books, video and audio- Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, ed by Rick Allen and published Gaiman and librar- » see page 9 A books for children and Newbery and Printz awards – by Houghton Mifflin Books for O at the Midwinter Meeting. A Children, Houghton Mifflin ian Nancy Pearl discussed Gaiman’s award winning book list of the 2011 winners follows: Harcourt; and One Crazy Sum- The Graveyard Book, the first- John Newbery Medal for mer by Rita Williams-Garcia ever book to win both the the most outstanding contribu- and published by Amistad, Newbery and Carnegie Med- tion to children’s literature an imprint of HarperCollins als. Other books by Gaiman Moon over Manifest, writ- Publishers. include Coraline, American ten by Clare Vanderpool, is Randolph Caldecott Gods, Stardust, and Never- the 2011 Newbery Medal win- Medal for the most distin- where. ner. The book is published by guished American picture book Pearl started the conversa- Delacorte Press, an imprint for children tion by asking Gaiman, “When of Random House Children’s A Sick Day for Amos Mc- you are writing, your books Books, a division of Random Gee, illustrated by Erin E. are so wonderfully character House, Inc. Stead, is the 2011 Caldecott driven and I wonder if what Four Newbery Honor Books Medal winner. The book was also were named: Turtle in comes to you first is the char- » see page 8 acter or the story?” Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm Gaiman replied, “As an and published by Random author I tend to be less driven House Children’s Books, a di- by the story than I feel I ought vision of Random House, Inc.; Inn vative to be. What I tend to begin Heart of a Samurai written by i n t e r f a c e s plotting by is character and Margi Preus and published by Amulet Books, an imprint of Click here to see place, and place for me is so Newbery Medal winner and best-selling author Neil Gaiman ABRAMS; Dark Emperor and our ad on page 3. huge and important and very gives librarian, best-selling author, and literary critic Nancy Pearl Other Poems of the Night writ- often the starting point. In a hug backstage. Page 2 • San Diego Midwinter Highlights Cognotes Stonewall Book Awards Announced he 2011 Stonewall Book Awards the Dress, written by David Walliams were announced at the Midwin- and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Tter Meeting in San Diego by the The Barbara Gittings Literature Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgen- Award was given to More of This World dered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the of Maybe Another by Barb Johnson. 2011 Midwinter Meeting SAN DIEGO American Library Association. The Three Barbara Gittings Literature Stonewall Book Awards are given Award Honor Books were named: Pro- annually to English-language works bation by Tom Mendicino; The More I of exceptional merit relating to the Owe You by Michael Sledge; and Hold- gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgen- ing Still for As Long as Possible by Zoe der experience. The awards will be Whittall. presented to the winning authors or The Israel Fishman Non-Fiction editors at the American Library As- Award was given to Inseparable: De- sociation Annual Conference in New sire between Women in Literature by Orleans in June. Emma Donoghue. Four Israel Fish- “The list of books we had up for man Non-Fiction Award Honor Books consideration for the 2011 Stonewall were named: A Great Unrecorded Book awards was an embarrassment of History: A New Life of E.M. Forster ALA President Roberta Stevens and Chair of the Exhibits Roundtable Gene Shimshock riches to say the least,” said Committee by Wendy Moffatt; Just Kids by Patti open the Exhibits on Friday, January 7 as the ALA Executive Board looks on. Chair, Lisa Johnston. Smith; The Right To Be Out: Sexual The Children’s and Young Adult Lit- Orientation and Gender Identity in erature Award was presented to Almost America’s Public Schools by Stuart Perfect written by Brian Katcher. Beigel; and The Secret Historian: The Rhodes Presents Librarians with a Reverie Four Stonewall Children’s and Life and Times of Samuel Steward, on the Effect of Technological Innovations Young Adult Award Honor Books were Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual named: will grayson, will grayson, writ- Renegade by Justin Spring. on Words and Thought Processes ten by John Green and David Levithan; For more information about the By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. social rather than a solitary, meditative Love Drugged, written by James Klise; Stonewall Book Awards, please visit The Library of Congress experience. Students in ancient times Freaks and Revelations, written by http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glb- recited passages of works they wished Davida Wills Hurwin; and The Boy in trt/stonewall/index.cfm. wentieth-century historian to remember near particular buildings Richard Rhodes, the author or and conjured up images of those struc- AASL Announces Preconference Lineup Teditor of 22 books including the tures when they sought to remember Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, those passages. Socrates and many of he American Association of even get a sneak peek at the newest and National Book Critics Circle his contemporaries feared that learn- School Librarians (AASL) top 25 websites! Award winning The Making of the ing to write would foster forgetfulness Twill offer two preconferences Terry Young and Nancy Teger Atomic Bomb (1986); Dark Sun: The because, in their opinion, writing was in New Orleans during the ALA will lead a panel of school librar- Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995); a lazy way to remember. The great Annual Conference. The preconfer- ians in a discussion on disaster and his latest The philosopher consid- ences will be held Friday, June 24. preparedness at the preconfer- Twilight of the Bombs ered writing to be like The full-day interactive precon- ence, “Disaster Preparedness for (2010), delivered the painting, that is, only ference, “AASL’s Top 25 Websites School Librarians.” Attendees will 12th annual Arthur an approximation of for Teaching and Learning: Cat- gain valuable insight to disaster Curley Memorial reality. egories, Criteria, and Collaborative planning as experts share their Lecture on Saturday, The introduction of Strategies,” will offer an in-depth experiences, successes and lessons January 8. the printed book creat- look at the 2010 Best Websites for learned. Learn the ups and downs Rhodes paid hom- ed even more turmoil Teaching and Learning. During this of disaster recovery as they apply to age to our profession. than writing. Some fast-paced, hands-on, collaborative the school librarian and the library. While going through argued that books workshop attendees will learn which Discover the subtle differences of a difficult childhood should still be copied websites best support the Standards planning and recovery as they ap- in Kansas City, Mis- by hand, despite the for the 21st-Century Learner, inquiry ply to public and private schools. souri, during which introduction of print- learning and the curriculum. The Use the knowledge and experience he often had to live ing, allegedly because presenters will keep attendees ac- of this panel to devise a plan in the on the street, Rhodes parchment would last tively involved as they Skype, tweet, event of a disaster. recalled that “the li- longer than paper but survey, organize, create, click, video AASL’s preconferences will not brary for me was a also because “copy- and have fun learning about the Web only benefit school library media refuge – literally, for ing by hand involved 2.0 tools. Laptops are essential to specialists, but all librarians that safety and security” more diligence and get the most out of the session. Be work with children and young and also a place pro- Richard Rhodes industry.” prepared to leave energized with adults. For more information, in- viding possibilities to Rhodes queried resources to implement these excit- cluding registration fees, visit www. reach out to the world. He learned to why reality writing – “a narrative ing tools in your school. You might ala.org/aasl/annual. read at the age of four, instructed by prose that requires external facts for the landlady of a rooming house. Not authentification” is called “non-fiction,” at all convinced that authorship can be a term defined by what it is not. He taught in specifically-designed classes, disclosed (and deplored) that this term Cognotes he instead is a self-taught scribe who was invented by a librarian in 1867 in Published five times annually in conjunction with the ALA Midwinter Meeting, and learned to write from reading. Good the annual report of the Boston Public six times annually in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference ISBN: 0738-4319 libraries, as well as bad ones, have Library. He prefers to call this category Volume 2011, Issue 5 served the purpose of conveying the art of writing “verity,” a term taken from the Reporters of writing to many authors. Although French, which only sounds odd because Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. – The Library of Congress he today taps into online historical it is new. Rhodes considers himself pri- Brad Martin – LAC Group, New York, NY sources, according to Rhodes , “there is marily to be a verity writer, although Stacy Voeller – Minnesota State University, Moorhead no substitute for working in libraries.” he has also written four books of fiction. William Risser The author took his audience back With ever newer methods of convey- Managing Editor to what reading was like and what it ing information, he stated that “the last Deb Nerud Vernon had meant in earlier centuries. 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Inn vative www.iii.com i n t e r f a c e s Page 4 • San Diego Midwinter Highlights Cognotes BCALA Announces 2011 Literary Awards Winners he Black Caucus of the Amer- selected: In the Place of Justice: A ican Library Association, Inc. Story of Punishment and Deliver 2011- Midwinter Meeting SAN DIEGO Tannounced the winners of ance by Wilbert Rideau (Alfred A. the 2011 BCALA Literary Awards Knopf) and John Oliver Killens: A during the Midwinter Meeting of Life of Black Literary Activism by the American Library Association. Keith Gilyard (University of Geor- The awards recognize excellence in gia Press). adult fiction and nonfiction by Af- The recipient of the First Novelist rican American authors published Award is Dolen Perkins-Valdez for in 2010. Wench (HarperCollins). The winner in the Fiction cat- For excellence in scholarship, egory is Glorious by Bernice L. the BCALA Literary Awards Com- McFadden (Akashic Books). mittee presents the Outstanding ALA Midwinter Meeting attendees observe the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday The winner in the Non-fiction Contribution to Publishing Citation with “An American Celebration – Libraries Lead the Way” sunrise service. category is The Other Wes Moore: to Unfinished Blues: Memories of a One Name, Two Fates by Wes New Orleans Music Man by Harold Everybody Can Be Great Moore (Random House). Honor Battiste Jr. and Karen Celestan (The Books for Non-fiction were also Historic New Orleans Collection). By Stacy L. Voeller lot and went to the library a lot. Any- Minnesota State one growing up in this period had to University Moorhead be affected by what was happening.” “I’ve always kept King’s teaching in Share, Talk and Write: his year’s theme for the 2011 Dr. my mind, simple thoughts that I can Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunrise remember like an eye for an eye and a Free Online Collaboration Tools TCelebration on January 10 was tooth for a tooth leaves everyone sight- “Everybody Can Be Great.” This less and blind, and that it’s important By William Risser is good to know that free software com- theme was chosen because Dr. King to help somebody who is in need of panies can be sold or go out of business encouraged his congregation to seek help even if it means putting yourself he Library Instruction Round without notice so be careful about what greatness, but to do so through service in danger,” Honey continued. Table (LIRT) Web Advisory Com- type of information is being kept there. and love. Throughout the morning’s Honey said that he really started Tmittee held a demonstration of Robin Kear the Reference/Instruc- moving celebration, ALA members studying the roots of racism, poverty, free online products designed to en- tion Librarian at the University of quoted Dr. King’s Drum Major Instinct and injustice. He went back and traced hance communication, management Pittsburgh talked about the benefits sermon which he delivered on Febru- the roots and became very interested and organization in the workplace on of free social document creation sites ary 4, 1968. in the labor movement. In collecting January 9. like GoogleDocs, which is a web-based The featured speaker for the cel- the speeches for his latest book, he Billie Peterson-Lugo, Assistant Di- program with file storage a single pint ebration was Dr. Michael K. Honey. found the title of King’s speech to the rector of the Electronic Library at Bay- of entry. She uses the free program Honey has authored several books sanitation workers in Memphis. “The lor University discussed the benefits of for a number of things including peer about Dr. King including Southern sanitation workers’ strike for union a free online project management tool review, facilitate collaboration and Labor and Black Civil Rights: Or- rights threatened the racial pattern of called BaseCamp. BaseCamp is a col- presentations, but it also can also do ganizing Memphis Workers, Black white supremacy as well as a low-wage laborative tools that provides commu- word processing, spreadsheets, chat Workers Remember: An Oral history system based on cheap black labor. nications services like message boards and forms. of Segregation, Unionism, and the It was a classic civil rights strike, and a real time chat program called “GoogleDoc forms are so easy to get Freedom Struggle, and Going Down bringing together many of the issues ‘camp fire’, document management their information from because they Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, King sought to address in the poor such as file sharing and project details are right there,” said Kear, “I use it Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign. People’s Campaign. King’s ability to like to-do lists and apps for android, for ALA committee work, evaluating His newest book, All Labor Has Dig- merge moral and religious philosophy blackberry etc. and reviewing applications and group nity, contains two types of documents with labor and human rights issues A 30-day free trial is offered on all projects at work”. – “speeches transcribed from tape illustrated once again why people accounts, but is limited to one project ALA Connect is another free online recordings by people associated with constantly called on him to join their and does not offer file sharing. The program, which supports live docu- King during his life-time or shortly struggles.” basic plan is $24 a month and allows ments, chat and other features. It can after his death, and typed or partially King said, “Everybody can be great 15 projects, 5 GB storage and unlimited be used internally or externally and handwritten text of a speech as King because anybody can serve. You don’t users, while the max program is $149 streamlines collaborative work. Ad- planned to deliver it.” The book also have to have a college degree to serve. a month and has 75 GB of storage and ditionally, it’s paperless and offers an includes a CD of two rare speeches You don’t have to make your subject allows for unlimited projects. archives feature up to storage capacity. delivered by Dr. King. and your verb agree to serve.... You Carrie Forbes, the Instruction and While there are pros and cons to the “There is so much to learn from don’t have to know the second theory Reference Librarian at the University different programs and applications King,” said Honey. “I grew up as a fol- of thermodynamics in physics to serve. of Denver discussed and demonstrated Peterson-Lugo finds the free options lower of King, in an all-white farming You only need a heart full of grace. A free online conferencing and meeting are just easier. “Even if your institution area, and I was somebody who read a soul generated by love.” programs, which virtually allows for has a paid subscription to a service, it multiple users in different locations to can be easier to use the free software meet face-to-face. A primary drawback because you can do it yourself with of these programs, which are cloud out having to set anything up or call Save the Date: International Relations based, can be security. Additionally, it someone to help you,” she said. Roundtable Pre-Conference Plan to attend the International Relations Roundtable (IRRT) Pre- Cognotes Looking Conference to be held Friday June 24, 2011 at the ALA Annual Confer- ence in New Orleans. The theme is “Outreach through New Partnership: for Reporters CLICK HERE TO Strategies and Successes.” The half-day program will feature presentations Cognotes is looking for dedi- REGISTER FOR with practical information useful to a cross-section of international and cated individuals who will be domestic libraries.The pre-conference is from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. with attending Annual Conference to THE ANNUAL lunch immediately following. join the Cognotes reporting staff. CONFERENCE IN Join us for this opportunity to learn about creative, practical solutions If interested please send your to outreach services and collaborations. We look forward to seeing you! name and a writing sample to NEW ORLEANS For more information about IRRT, please visit www.ala.org/irrt. Managing Editor, Deb Nerud Vernon at [email protected]. Cognotes San Diego Midwinter Highlights • Page 5 AASL Members Encouraged to Apply for Awards and Grants n 2011, the American Association be accessed on the AASL Awards and for planning and implementing leader- Pathfinder Award, $1,000 to the school of School Librarians’ (AASL) pres- Grants pages at http://www.ala.org/ ship programs at the state, regional or librarian and $500 to the library, spon- Itigious awards program will offer aasl/awards. The deadline to apply is local levels. sored by Follett Software Company, more than $40,000 in awards to AASL February 7. Winners will be honored • The Collaborative School Library recognizes and honors a school librar- 2011 Midwinter Meetingmembers. SAN DIEGO at the ALA 2011 Annual Conference. Award, $2,500, sponsored by High- ian who demonstrates vision and lead- AASL’s awards recognize excellence Applications are being accepted for: smith Inc., recognizes and encour- ership through the use of information and showcase best practices in the • The ABC-CLIO Leadership ages collaboration and partnerships technology to build lifelong learners. school library field in categories that Grant, up to $1,750, sponsored by between school librarians and teachers There are two categories: Elementary include research, collaboration, leader- ABC-CLIO, is given to school library in meeting goals outlined in “Empow- and Secondary. ship and innovation. Applications can associations that are AASL affiliates ering Learners: Guidelines for School • The Innovative Reading Grant, Library Programs.” $2,500, sponsored by Capstone Pub- • The Distinguished School Ad- lishers (Capstone Press, Compass ministrator Award, $2,000, sponsored Books, Children’s Library Resources, by ProQuest, is given to a school Picture Window Books, Stone Arch administrator who has made worthy Books and Red Brick Learning), is contributions to the operations of an designed to fund literacy projects for exemplary school library and to ad- grades K-9 that promote the impor- vancing the role of the school library tance of reading and facilitate literacy in the educational program. development by supporting current • The Distinguished Service Award, reading research, practice and policy. $3,000, sponsored by Baker & Taylor, • The Intellectual Freedom Award, recognizes an individual member of the $2,000 to the winner and $1,000 to the library profession who has, over a signifi- school library of the winner’s choice, cant period of time, made an outstanding sponsored by ProQuest, is given for up- national contribution to school librarian- holding the principles of intellectual free- ship and school library development. dom as set forth by AASL and the ALA. • The Frances Henne Award, • The AASL Research Grant, $1,250, sponsored by Greenwood $2,500, sponsored by Heinemann- Publishing Group, enables a school li- Raintree, is given to up to two school brarian with five or fewer years in the librarians, library educators, library field to attend an American Library information science, or education pro- Association (ALA) Annual Conference fessors to conduct innovative research or AASL National Conference for the aimed at measuring and evaluating ALA President Roberta Stevens uses one of the kiosks to register for the ALA Annual first time. the impact of school library programs Conference in New Orleans. Visit www.alaannual.org to register today! • The Information Technology on learning and education. Page 6 • San Diego Midwinter Highlights Cognotes Top Technology Trends By Brad Martin tion that libraries need more robust LAC Group networks to be able to handle some of the projects they become involved in. ITA’s The Top Technology Trends Monique Sendze, Associate Director session January 8 featured ideas of Information Technology, Douglas 2011 Midwinter Meeting SAN DIEGO Lranging from data silos to Wiki- County (CO) Libraries, began her leaks, as panelists noted emerging remarks by talking about what she trends they are seeing and how they termed the “consumerizing of enter- are impacting libraries. prise IT.” Sendze explained that the Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President consumer market has resulted in us- and Chief Strategist, OCLC led off ers coming into libraries with various the panel by talking about an emerg- kinds of mobile devices and e-reader de- ing trend he is seeing concerning the vices and that this presents challenges personal archiving of information and and opportunities. She noted that it will how this is beginning to change how impact public access computing and is the personal papers of individuals are also having an impact on the digital being collected and archived. Dempsey literacy knowledge of librarians and cited the example of Emory University even how to think about the design of Midwinter Meeting attendees crowd the exhibit floor January 7. being granted access to Salman Rush- library spaces. die’s hard drives. Whereas in the past, Dempsey agreed about the impact of this was usually done by collecting the the consumer market, saying that the ALSC Announces Winners of physical papers, Dempsey said this will old assumption has been reversed and increasingly be done in a more digital that “it is the consumer stuff that sets El día de los niños/El día del los way and that aiding this is the fact that the standard now.” people are starting to store this infor- Jeffrey Trzeciak, University Librar- Libros Mini-grants mation in a much more organized way. ian, Manchester University, predicted Rachel Frick, Program Director, a “revival in self-publishing” because of he Association for Library Library in Holbrook, New York. Digital Library Federation, talked advances in technology. Trzeciak told of Service to Children (ALSC) is The libraries winning $4,000 each about improving access to library data Canadian novelist Terry Fallis, whose Tpleased to announce the winners are: Forest Hill Public Library in For- (stored in various “data silos”) in order novel The Best Laid Plans was rejected of the El dia de los ninos/El dia de los est Hill, Texas; Fremont Public Library to promote and improve what she called by several traditional publisher, but libros mini-grants. Eight libraries District in Mundelein, Illinois; Nacog- “data-driven decision making.” By won the Stephen Leacock Medal after serving a population of 75,000 or less doches Public Library in Nacogdoches, investing more in personnel and tools, being self-published. “Self-publishing have won mini-grants worth $4,000 Texas; Paramus Public Library in Frick pointed out that libraries would tools have become easier to access and each and seven libraries serving a Paramus, New Jersey; Paul E. Grif- be in a better position to make compel- use,” according to Trzeciak, and with population of more than 75,000 have fin Library in Camden, Mississippi; ling cases for the services they provide.” increased collaboration with faculty won mini-grants worth $6,000 each. Poughkeepsie Public Library District Erik Mitchell, Assistant Director for and their connections to other authors, The mini-grants are part of ALSC’s in Poughkeepsie, New York; Rachel Technology Services, Wake Forest Uni- he foresees the library “essentially be- Everyone Reads @ your library grant, Kohl Community Library in Glen Mills, versity, mentioned the Google Books coming a digital press.” generously funded by the Dollar Gen- Pennsylvania; and Saginaw Chippewa Ngram Viewer (a project Google created Trzeciak then shifted gears and eral Literacy Foundation. Indian Tribal Library in Mount Pleas- by collaborating with the Encyclopedia commented on Wikileaks and said that Intended as an expansion of El día ant, Michigan. Britannica and scientists from Harvard one of its impacts may be that some de los niños/El día de los libros (Día), Día is an every day celebration of and MIT) as another way that technol- people in government and business may the mini-grants have been awarded to children, families, and reading that ogy is enabling new ways to use digital now be more fearful of future leaks and libraries that demonstrated a need to emphasizes the importance of literacy information. Mitchell also spoke about become more secretive in their commu- better address the diverse backgrounds for children of all linguistic and cultural a growing trend where he sees librar- nication. He also said that this raises within their communities. backgrounds. Día was founded in 1996 ies providing space in “the cloud” and questions about personal privacy. “If “These mini-grants will provide chil- by children’s book author Pat Mora, who that he believes libraries need to take the federal government can’t protect its dren and families with an opportunity proposed conceptually linking the exist- a fresh look at how they allocate their information, can we expect that health to explore the diverse cultures of their ing Children’s Day with literacy. Día’s IT resources. One audience audience care providers can protect our private community,” said Julie Corsaro, Presi- primary goals are to honor children and member also made a related observa- information?,” he wondered. dent of ALSC. “Libraries are an ideal their diverse backgrounds; to encourage family destination, offering parents and reading and literacy; and to promote children a venue for exploring the world library collections and programs that through diverse cultural programs and reflect our plurality, in a daily basis. multicultural book collections.” The founding partner of Día is The libraries winning $6,000 each REFORMA, the National Association are: Bloomington Public Library in to Promote Literacy and Information Bloomington, Illinois; Brevard County Services to Latinos and the Spanish- Forensic Library System in Cocoa, Florida; Hall Speaking. anthro- County Library System in Gainesville, The mini-grants are part of the pologist Georgia; Jefferson Parish Library in activities leading up to Dia’s 15th anni- and crime Metairie, Louisiana; Longmont Public versary, culminating on April 30, 2011: writer Library in Longmont, Colorado; Rich- Dia! Many Children, Many Cultures, Kathy land County Public Library in Colum- Many Books. For more information, Reichs bia, South Carolina; and Sachem Public visit http://www.ala.org/dia. speaks during the Register for National Library Legislative Day Sunrise Speaker It’s that time again! The 2011 National Library Legislative Day (NLLD) Series is quickly approaching and will be held on Monday, May 9, and Tuesday, January 8. May 10, at the Liaison Hotel in Washington, D.C. The 112th Congress will bring new challenges and opportunities for libraries, making next year a critical and exciting time for us to get our message out to Congress. On the first day of the event, participants will attend briefings to prepare for their meetings with members of Congress and their staffs, taking place on the second day. The ALA also holds a reception on the Hill for NLLD participants and members of Congress and their staff on May 9. For more information, go to www.ala.org/nlld. Cognotes San Diego Midwinter Highlights • Page 7 ALA to Release “Our Authors, Our Advocates” Advocacy Tools n January 7, the American support of literacy, value of libraries Library Association (ALA) un- and much more. Authors also shared 2011 Midwinter MeetingO veiled video SAN PSAs DIEGO produced by personal stories on their love for li- ALA’s “Our Authors, Our Advocates,” braries which also will be available a national library advocacy public for download. awareness campaign. Library advo- Dr. Sharon M. Draper is a profes- cates will be able to download audio sional educator as well as an accom- and video PSAs from ilovelibraries. plished writer. She has been honored org, from such best-selling authors as as the National Teacher of the Year, Sharon Draper, Brad Meltzer, Sarah is a five-time winner of the Coretta Paretsky and Scott Turow. The web- Scott King Literary Award, and is a site will also offer statics, customiz- New York Times best-selling author. able English and Spanish PSA scripts, Author Brad Meltzer has topped to assist advocates with making the the New York Times’ bestseller list on case for libraries. numerous occasions. Meltzer is the Through “Our Authors, Our Advo- host of “Brad Meltzer’s Decoded” on cates,” one of ALA President Roberta the History Channel and his newest Novelist and writer of short stories Andre Dubus III delivers his Sunrise Stevens’ key presidential initiatives, thriller, The Inner Circle, will be re- Speaker Series presentation January 9. authors will lend their support for leased January 11, 2011. libraries through media interviews, Mystery author Sara Paretsky is podcasts, public service announce- the winner of the Mystery Writers of ments and other marketing materials. America’s 2011 Grand Master Award Amelia Bloomer Project 2011 – The materials will be free and made and credited with transforming the available to ALA membership for use mystery genre through the creation Top 10 Selections at the local level to assist with advo- of her female private eye, V I War- he Amelia Bloomer Project, part 0374371156). K-Gr.3. cacy efforts. shawski, Paretsky has written 12 of ALA’s Feminist Task Force Cossi, Olga. Pemba Sherpa. Illus. “Authors understand the key roles best-selling Warshawski novels and T– Social Responsibilities Round- by Gary Bernard. (978-0976865582). libraries play and are natural allies is an international bestselling author table, is an annual list that presents PreSchool-Gr.3. in these challenging times,” said ALA with works appearing in almost thirty well-written and illustrated books Crysdale, Joy. Fearless Female Jour- President Roberta Stevens. “‘Our Au- languages. with strong feminist messages that nalists. (978-1897187715). Gr. 4-10. thors, Our Advocates’ will highlight Scott Turow is a writer and at- are recommended for young people Engle, Margarita. The Firefly Let- well-known and passionate authors torney. He is the author of nine best- from birth through eighteen years of ters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba. that will speak out on the value of selling works of fiction, including his age. It is a list of quality fiction and (978-0805090826). Gr. 5 and up. and importance of sustaining library first novel Presumed Innocent”(1987) nonfiction titles that affirm positive George-Warren, Holly. The Cowgirl service.” and its sequel, Innocent (May 4, 2010). roles for girls and women, published Way: Hats Off To America’s Women Of Participating authors taped :15, :20 His works of non-fiction include One L within the last 18 months (July 2009 The West. (978-0618737383). Gr.4-6. and :30 second video PSAs on such (1977) about his experience as a law to December 2010). Marck, Bernard. Women Aviators: issues as library funding, libraries student. This year’s “Top Ten” titles: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Ali, Nujood. I am Nujood, Age 10 Making History in Air and Space. (978- and Divorced. (978-0307589676). Gr. 2080301086). Gr. 6 and up. 4-8. Martin, Courtney E. and J. Courtney Annino, Jan Godown. She Sang Sullivan, eds. Click: When We Knew We Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Were Feminists. (978-1580052856). Gr. Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader. Illus. 9-12. by Lisa Desimini. (978-1426305924). Rosenstock, Barbara. Fearless: Gr. 4-6. the story of racing legend Louise Brown, Tami Lewis. Soar, Eli- Smith. Illus. by Scott Dawson. (978- nor! Illus. by François Roca. (978- 0525421734). K-Gr.2. John Grisham Named Honorary Chair of National Library Week ohn Grisham is widely recog- Week theme, Create your own story nized as the world’s most popular @ your library. Tools are available at Jstoryteller, with more than 250 www.ala.org/nlw. million books in print worldwide. In ALA Graphics products supporting addition to writing numerous adult National Library Week are also bestsellers, John has recently writ- available, including a poster, ten his first book for young readers, bookmark, mini poster and web Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (www. files. All Graphics products can be theodoreboone.com). purchased through the ALA Store at As Honorary Chair, Grisham will www.alastore.ala.org/nlw. Librarian Kimberly Wells, Denton Public Library, Denton, Texas, picks up some appear in a print announcement National Library Week is a national free books at the W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., booth during the Adult Literature promoting National Library Week. observance sponsored by the American Spotlight in the Exhibits. The PSA, developed by the American Library Association and libraries Library Association’s Campaign for across the country each April. It is a America’s Libraries, will be placed time to celebrate the contributions of CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE in magazines and online throughout our nation’s libraries and librarians the spring. ALA also offers free and to promote library use. EARLY BIRD PROGRAM FOR customization of the PSA for libraries. The Campaign for America’s THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE Libraries (www.ala.org/@yourlibrary) Customized Tools is ALA’s public awareness campaign IN NEW ORLEANS Other promotional materials include that promotes the value of libraries a proclamation, sample press release and librarians. The Campaign is Register by March 4 to save! and scripts for use in radio ads. All made possible by ALA’s Library incorporate the 2011 National Library Champions. Page 8 • San Diego Midwinter Highlights Cognotes Company, a division of Hachette Book Youth Awards Group, Inc. One King Illustrator Honor » from page 1 Book was selected: Jimi Sounds Like written by Philip C. Stead, and is a a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Neal Porter Book, published by Roar- Hendrix, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, ing Brook Press, a division of Holtz- written by Gary Golio and published by brinck Publishing. Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Two Caldecott Honor Books also Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 2011 Midwinter Meeting SAN DIEGO were named: Dave the Potter: Artist, Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, New Talent (Author) Award written by Laban Carrick Hill and pub- Zora and Me, written by Victoria lished by Little, Brown and Company, a Bond and T. R. Simon, is the 2011 division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.; Steptoe author winner. The book is and Interrupting Chicken, written and published by Candlewick Press. illustrated by David Ezra Stein and Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe published by Candlewick Press. New Talent (Illustrator) Award Michael L. Printz Award for ex- Seeds of Change, illustrated by So- cellence in literature written for young nia Lynn Sadler, is the 2011 Steptoe il- adults lustrator winner. The book is written by Ship Breaker, written by Paolo Jen Cullerton Johnson and published Bacigalupi, is the 2011 Printz Award by Lee & Low Books Inc. winner. The book is published by Little, Coretta Scott King – Virginia YALSA President Kimberly Patton, from left to right, ALSC President Julie Corsaro, Brown and Company, a division of Ha- Hamilton Award for Lifetime ALA President Roberta Stevens, Coretta Scott King Committee Chair Crystal Carr chette Book Group, Inc. Achievement Jeter, and REFORMA President Lucia Gonzalez at the ALA Youth Media Awards. Four Printz Honor Books also were Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith is the named: Stolen by Lucy Christopher winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King – A Novel, by Helen Grant, published by May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lec- and published by Chicken House, an Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Delacorte, an imprint of The Random ture Award recognizing an author, imprint of Scholastic Inc.; Please Ignore achievement. The award pays tribute to House Publishing Group, a division of critic, librarian, historian or teacher of Vera Dietz by A.S. King and published the quality and magnitude of beloved Random House, Inc.; The Radleys, by children’s literature, who then presents by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Ran- children’s author Virginia Hamilton’s Matt Haig, published by Free Press, a a lecture at a winning host site dom House Children’s Books, a division contributions through her literature division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Peter Sís will deliver the 2012 lec- of Random House, Inc.; Revolver by and advocacy for children and youth. Also, The Lock Artist, by Steve ture. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Marcus Sedgwick and published by Schneider Family Book Award Hamilton, published by Thomas Dunne in 1949, Sís attended the Academy of Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of for books that embody an artistic ex- Books for Minotaur Books, an imprint of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal the Macmillan Children’s Publishing pression of the disability experience. St. Martin’s Press; Girl in Translation, College of Art in London. He has lived Group; and Nothing by Janne Teller The Pirate of Kindergarten, written by Jean Kwok, published by Riverhead in the United States since 1982. Sís and published by Atheneum Books for by George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Books, an imprint of the Penguin Group; was awarded the 2008 Robert F. Si- Young Readers, an imprint of Simon Lynne Avril and published by Ath- Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgive- bert Medal and has illustrated three & Schuster Children’s Publishing eneum Books for Young Readers, an ness, Survival, and My Journey from Caldecott Honor books. Peter’s work is Division. imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Homeless to Harvard, by Liz Murray, admired throughout the world, and in Coretta Scott King (Author) Publishing Division, wins the award published by Hyperion; and The Boy 2003 he was named MacArthur Fellow, Book Award recognizing an African for children ages 0 to 10. After Ever Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To, an honor bestowed by the John D. and American author and illustrator of After, written by Jordan Sonnenblick by DC Pierson, published by Vintage Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. outstanding books for children and and published by Scholastic Press, an Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Mildred L. Batchelder Award young adults. imprint of Scholastic Inc., is the winner Andrew Carnegie Medal for ex- for an outstanding children’s book One Crazy Summer, written by of the middle-school (ages 11-13) The cellence in children’s video. translated from a foreign language and Rita Williams-Garcia is the 2011 teen (ages 13-18) award winner is Five Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly subsequently published in the United King Author Book winner. The book Flavors of Dumb, written by Antony Ellard of Weston Woods, producers of States is published by Amistad, an imprint of John and published by Dial Books, an The Curious Garden, are the Carnegie A Time of Miracles is the 2011 Batch- HarperCollins Publishers. Three King imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Medal winners. The video is based on elder Award winner. Originally pub- Author Honor Books were selected: Alex Awards for the 10 best the book of the same name, written lished in French in 2009 as Le Temps Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers and adult books that appeal to teen and illustrated by Peter Brown, and is des Miracles, the book was written by published by Amistad, an imprint of audiences narrated by Katherine Kellgren, with Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by HarperCollins Publishers; Ninth Ward The Reapers Are the Angels: A music by David Mansfield. Y. Maudet, and published by Delacorte by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published Novel, by Alden Bell, published by Holt Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Press, an imprint of Random House by Little, Brown and Company, a divi- Paperbacks, a division of Henry Holt honors an author or illustrator whose Children’s Books, a division of Random sion of Hachette Book Group, Inc.; and and Company, LLC; The Particular books, published in the United States, House, Inc. Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel, by have made, over a period of years, a Two Batchelder Honor Books also Shorty, written by G. Neri, illustrated Aimee Bender, published by Doubleday, substantial and lasting contribution were selected: Departure Time pub- by Randy DuBurke and published by a division of Random House, Inc.; The to literature for children. The 2011 lished by Namelos, written by Truus Lee & Low Books Inc. House of Tomorrow, by Peter Bognanni, winner is Tomie dePaola, author and Matti and translated by Nancy Forest- Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) published by Amy Einhorn Books, an illustrator of over 200 books, including: Flier; and Nothing published by Ath- Book Award imprint of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a divi- 26 Fairmont Avenue (Putnam, 1999), eneum Books for Young Readers, an Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, sion of the Penguin Group; Room: A The Legend of the Poinsettia (Putnam, imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s illustrated by Bryan Collier, is the 2011 Novel, by Emma Donoghue, published 1994), Oliver Button Is a Sissy (Har- Publishing Division, written by Janne King Illustrator Book winner. The book by Little, Brown and Company a divi- court, 1979) and Strega Nona (Prentice- Teller and translated by Martin Aitken. was written by Laban Carrick Hill sion of Hatchette Book Group, Inc.; Hall, 1975). Odyssey Award for best audiobook and published by Little, Brown and The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: Margaret A. Edwards Award produced for children and/or young honors an author, as well as a specific adults, available in English in the body of his or her work, for significant United States PLA’s First-ever Virtual Spring Symposium and lasting contribution to young adult The True Meaning of Smekday, pro- PLA will host a Virtual Spring rich programming with multiple literature. duced by Listening Library, an imprint Symposium on March 30, 2011 program tracks, a lunchtime author Sir Terry Pratchett is the 2011 of Random House Audio Publishing from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CST. interview, and keynote speakers. Edwards Award winner. His books Group, is the 2011 Odyssey Award win- This new online event will offer the Program tracks will include: Tech- include: Amazing Maurice and His ner. The book is written by Adam Rex premier professional education that nology, Administration/Leadership, Educated Rodents, The Wee Free Men, and narrated by Bahni Turpin. PLA’s Spring Symposium is known Youth Services, and Adult Services. and A Hat Full of Sky published by Four Odyssey Honor Recordings for, but will be more affordable and Registration for individuals and HarperCollins Children’s Books; and also were selected: Alchemy and Meggy convenient for attendees. groups will open in mid-January. The Color of Magic, Guards! Guards!, Swann, produced by Listening Library, PLA will present a full day of Click here for more information. Equal Rites, Going Postal, Small Gods, an imprint of the Random House Audio and Mort all published by HarperCol- lins Publishers. » see page 12 Cognotes San Diego Midwinter Highlights • Page 9 Confronting the Relevance and Applicability of Generalizations of Academic and Other Library Users 2011 Midwinter MeetingBy Frederick J. SAN Augustyn, DIEGO Jr. stifled, for they have been instructed The Library of Congress to find the one right answer quickly. Furthermore, they tend not to want to amela Mann, Saint Mary’s Col- take the time to re-evaluate their find- lege of Maryland, Vice-Chair of ings. Librarians in both academic and Pthe Association of College and public venues have to teach younger Research Libraries, Women’s Studies students the complexity of the research Section (ACRL/WSS), presided over the world—that there is not necessarily topic “Digital Natives and the Myth of one right answer. Critical thinking is the Millennial Student” on January 10. the key. There are also different “mo- “Digital native,” like “millennial dalities of information,” not all being student,” is a simplified, stereotyped in digital form. marketing term that discomforted Students need to be apprised of of- many in the group. Digital natives are fline indexes as well as online search Librarian Cheryl Bryan, Massachusetts Library System, Orleans, MA, takes presumably those who are intrinsically engines and learn that library catalogs, advantage of the warm weather to snap a photo of San Diego Bay outside the San technologically savvy before they enter some with hot links to textual materi- Diego Convention Center. today’s libraries. The assumption is als, also offer means to find answers. that most of the younger generation In a continuity from the past, patrons fit into this category, although nearly often want librarians to find them Gaiman Once Coraline had been written, ubiquitous cell phone use does not the answers rather than to learn how Gaiman knew The Graveyard Book necessarily translate into the skilled to uncover the solutions themselves. » from page 1 had to be the next thing he did. In 2004 employment of other electronic equip- Some students may think that they do house, and it was next to a tiny lane he said to himself, “I’m not getting ment. The digital divide is, in fact, still not need to use computer manuals, but and across the lane was the churchyard any better. I have to start writing this present and those from lower socio- that may only be because they think that I had been terrified of. I had a thing. The real reason I couldn’t write economic strata often do not have the that they should not have to or do not son that was about two-and-a-half at that book when I was 25 is that it’s writ- opportunities that others do of growing wish to do so. that point and what he loved the most ten in two perspectives. I actually had up with computers at home or even in Many international students arrive in the whole world was his tricycle. We to experience that the glorious tragedy their schools. The digital generation from countries where copyright is not would go downstairs every day and he of being a parent is that if you do your is assumed to be “connected,” but that an important consideration, presum- would tricycle around the graveyard. job right, they go away.” may actually mean being economically ably just as it was, and for many of One day I thought how amazing and Pearl asked Gaiman why the first as well as electronically privileged. the same reasons, of lesser concern in absolutely at home a two year old looks chapter of the book is so scary, and Librarians need to be aware of the the United States before the twentieth in a graveyard.” Gaiman answered, “I was definitely diversity of the needs of their clientele. century. The fastest growing group This daily outing for his son soon uncertain if that scene was going to With the current unsettled econo- of library users demographically in- turned into “little catenations of go in. Those first three pages were my, many students in college are “just clude those from lower-income ethnic thought,” according to Gaiman. “I written before anything else I wrote in out of a job rather than just out of high groups. Many of them are the first in thought you could do a book about a kid The Graveyard Book. When the whole school.” Often depending on the type their families to go to college and they being raised in a graveyard, like the chapter was done, I realized that one of of work that they did, their older de- may not have grown up with digitized way Mowgli is raised by wild. I was a the things I’d done was not use the word mographic status does not necessarily materials readily at hand. Since terms 25 year-old journalist who at that point kill, and not use the word blood. There’s mean that they are less familiar with are important, for these students had maybe sold four short stories, and I a level at which the reader is doing it computerized materials than are their “introductory” courses in electronic wrote two pages about a baby running all by themselves. It’s very interesting younger classmates. Students who use use are necessary, while for the more into a graveyard.” for an author when you’re making the library resources on campus and off, privileged students, “reminder” rather At that point, Gaiman stopped reader collaborate with you.” and rural and urban users, also have than “remedial” classes might be more working on the idea because he said to Gaiman continued, “I think it’s one different requirements. attractive. himself, “This is a better idea than I am of the glories of prose is that it forces Some in the group mentioned that The conclusion was that monolithic a writer, I need to not write this yet.” you to use your imagination. A book is statistics indicate that there probably expressions create problems because Over the next twenty years he would go nothing, it is a dead thing that comes should be a reasonable expectation that they make assumptions that are not back to it and try to write a couple of to life the moment someone picks it up. most students know (or think that they always true. The challenge is how to pages. “I’d always write just the baby You want to give people room to create.” know) about technology. With current make sense of the generalizations and wandering into the graveyard. A few Gaiman recalled his first memory methods of “teaching to the test,” the of the myths that may contain some things that were hugely important of being in a library, “The first li- creativity of K-12 students is often facet of the truth. along the way, watching a documentary brary I remember was when I was about South American death squads six. Librarians tell me not to tell this and an interview with a woman who story, but I would get my parents to as a girl had hidden in a graveyard, drop me off on their way to work, and it was the only safe place for her I would be there when the library to hide. That was part of my story, that opened. Sometimes they persuaded the world outside has to be dangerous, me to take sandwiches, and I thought and I have to be honest.” they were embarrassing, so I almost Gaiman revealed that in writing never took the sandwiches. The fiction, “You are lying. I’m doing the children’s library had a subject card equivalent of hold my hand, trust me, index because I could look up ghosts, and then I lie to you. I wanted to be kind or history, or giants, or time travel, of telling true things in the graveyard. whatever book I was interested in.” One of the rules is that dead things “When I discovered InterLibrary don’t hurt you. I would have loved for Loan, I was like a mad scientist who someone to tell me when I was seven discovered a way to end the world. I that I didn’t have to be afraid walking could get any book in the world. That through that graveyard.” for me was glorious.”

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION Author Toyomi Igus is all smiles as she signs copies of her book I See the Rhythm of Gospel at the HarperCollins Booth. Igus wrote the text while Michele Wood created ON THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE the paintings for the book. Page 10 • San Diego Midwinter Highlights Cognotes Four Authors of Literary Fiction are Showcased at Author Forum By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. ment that “most librarians would agree The Library of Congress that we are currently in a renaissance of historical fiction.” Much historical rad Hooper, moderator and Adult fiction being written now is not just Books Editor at Booklist, at the about “kings and queens,” but also 2011 Midwinter Meeting SAN DIEGO Bfirst such forum formally co- concerns regular people, “common foot sponsored by both Booklist and ALA’s soldiers,” who were often connected to Exhibits Roundtable (ERT), introduced the famous. She further ascribed its fiction writers SusanVreeland (Ran- popularity to the fact that it “gives voice dom House); David Levithan (Macmil- to the inner soldier or other person.” lan); Stewart O’Nan (Penguin); and Historical fiction and history have dif- Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins) on ferent purposes, however, and she does January 7. Comfortably seated in so- not uniformly favor one over the other. fas on the stage, the wordsmiths were Levithan, who has authored mostly queried by Hooper on the nature and young adult novels, such as Nick & distinctions among types of fiction and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (which was on their own experiences in writing. made into a movie), addressed in this Vreeland, a retired San Diego forum his first adult novel, The Lover’s schoolteacher who began as an author Dictionary, in which he describes a re- while she was still a teacher, gener- lationship entirely through dictionary ally writes about artists. The genre entries. Selected passages were alterna- The ALA/ERT Booklist Author Forum authors, from left to right, Armistead Maupin, of fiction permits her to paint in the tively beautifully lyrical, such as for “al Susan Vreeland, David Levithan, and Stewart O’Nan, gather backstage prior to background that history, often lacking fresco” – “wine set the tone of our con- their January 7 presentations. the necessary documentary evidence, versation – languid, tipsy, earthy” – or cannot do. Although she has produced a amusingly brief, as for “antsy” – “I told ful (with Stephen King.) He talked some of his female characters. Contrary great many works, Hooper asked her in you I would never take you to the opera in particular about The Circus Fire, to what many believe, he does not see particular about Girl in Hyacinth Blue again.” In reply to Hooper’s question, describing the 1944 Hartford, Con- himself as only found in the Michael (about an unknown Vermeer painting); Levithan found there to be virtually no necticut cataclysm in which 168 per- Tolliver character. He disclosed that Life Stories (a 2005 collection of short difference between writing for young sons died. While researching that book Anna Madrigal, the “den mother” of historical fiction); and, her latest, Clara adults and for older readers. He asserted through interviews with survivors or Barbary Lane, after all has the same and Mr. Tiffany. Vreeland based this that there have always been younger relatives of those who did not survive, initials as he does. Now many of his last work on a collection of recently readers who have gravitated to adult O’Nan found out that people talked avid readers are fearful of “losing” discovered letters that had survived literature. Moreover, he did not care extensively about their lives subsequent their beloved Anna. Maupin came out a fire. Although in his lifetime Louis much for the largely artificial distinc- to the event. This prepared him to paint to his own family through his fiction Comfort Tiffany did not disclose the tion made by gatekeepers and editors a wide contextual portrait of a fictional and recounted how, during the 1970s, names of his designers, whether they between literary and popular fiction. 70-something woman and her dog in his editors told him that he could not were male or female, this trove revealed In this he found agreement among the Emily Alone: A Novel. He talked as write mostly about gay people. He is that Clara Driscoll was responsible for other authors present on the stage. well about the importance of setting now exploring the “taboo topic of gay the leaded lamp produced by the Tif- O’Nan, the author of a dozen nov- and place in his novels, having grown aging,” once again tapping his own fany firm. Vreeland maintained that els including A Prayer for the Dying, up in Pittsburgh, an evocative location experience. she aims to reveal the good women (and The Night Country, and The Good that has too often been overlooked. Regarding reviews, the authors paid the good men) who are often behind Wife (about a woman whose husband Definitely not a minimalist, O’Nan has what they variously viewed as proper great people. Vreeland posited several endured long-term incarceration), has been described as “the king of detail.” attention. Vreeland said that she pays reasons in response to Hooper’s state- also written non-fiction such as Faith- He admitted that he too often does closer heed to professional critiques, what he warns his students against, and lesser to those posted on Amazon. employing the “one-person scene.” Re- Levithan appreciates different kinds AASL Announces Travel Grants for First-time garding the distinction between liter- of reviews since they tend to balance ary and popular fiction, he opined that themselves out. O’Nan averred that National Conference Attendees things once considered popular, such as even the negative reviews. “if smart,” he American Association of ence dedicated solely to the needs of Shakespeare, are now deemed literary. are helpful. And Maupin admitted School Librarians (AASL) is school librarians and their roles as Maupin, a former naval officer and that he often accords them inordinate Toffering grants for travel to educational leaders. AASL National the author of nine novels including attention, but that one must consider its 15th National Conference & Ex- Conference will feature twelve pre- Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, both the good and the bad reviews. In hibition in Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. conferences, numerous concurrent and Michael Tolliver Lives, is probably general, the authors did not like labels 27-30, 2011. The grants for first- sessions, more than 200 exhibiting most famous for his sketches of gay such as literary, commercial or popular time attendees of the conference are companies, educational and school life in San Francisco in the initially fiction, but realize that marketers often sponsored by Bound To Stay Bound tours, a storytelling festival and newspaper-serialized Tales of the City. use these demarcations. The writer Books. Those interested in applying special appearances by award-win- Maupin said that he took heart when must fight not to limit his or her au- can download the application on the ning authors. For more information he remembered that many estimable dience. Adaptation of one’s work into National Conference pages at www. on AASL’s 15th National Conference 19th-century authors also had written another format such as movies or plays ala.org/aasl/awards. & Exhibition, visit aasl11.org. Reg- in serial form. Maupin often puts him- can be challenging, but also provides AASL President Nancy Everhart istration is already open. self into his fiction, which also includes methods to reach a larger public. said, “AASL values Bound To Stay The American Association of Bound Books’ leadership in offering School Librarians, www.aasl.org, school librarians the opportunity to a division of the American Library attend their first AASL National Association (ALA), promotes the im- REFORMA Outreach Project Conference. I encourage all school provement and extension of library n February 2010 a major earth- Those on the East Coast can librarians that have never been to media services in elementary and quake devastated parts of Chile. mail books to: Miguel García Colón, an AASL National Conference to secondary schools as a means of IMany libraries were affected and Byram Shubert Library, 21 Mead take advantage of this incredible strengthening the total education REFORMA is collecting donations of Avenue, Greenwich, CT, 06830. West opportunity.” program. Its mission is to advocate new children’s books in Spanish to Coast donations should be sent to: The AASL 15th National Confer- excellence, facilitate change and be sent to Chile in order to replenish Priscila Leni, Dr. Alum Rock Li- ence & Exhibition, “Turning the develop leaders in the school library materials lost in the earthquake. brary, 3090 Alum Rock Avenue, San Page,” is the only national confer- media field. This campaign will continue Jose, CA, 95127. through until the ALA Annual Con- Those attending Annual Confer- ference in New Orleans. A donation ence can bring their items to the CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR of even a single book is appreciated REFORMA fundraiser or at the and will help to rebuild the libraries International Relations Office Table THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE of Chile. in the ALA office area. Cognotes San Diego Midwinter Highlights • Page 11

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In ad- Books for Teens’ mission is to raising funds through the Facebook The honor has been awarded con- dition to coverage in many national empower the nation’s at-risk teens to Causes application and Jumo. Librar- tinuously since 1946 and is sponsored newspapers and magazines from achieve more by providing them with ians can help get the word out and by the H.W. Wilson Co., the H.W. the Wall Street Journal to Rolling free high quality, new, age-appropri- raise funds by: Wilson Foundation and the Library Stone, the library’s Facebook page ate books. Research shows that the • “Liking” Books for Teens on Leadership and Management Asso- for this archive has more than 48,000 biggest factor in determining the level Facebook ciation (LLAMA), a division of the friends - second only to the Grateful of education a young person attains • Using the Support Books for American Library Association. It is Dead’s own Web page - and they have is the number of books in the home. Teens Twibbon considered the most prestigious of all received $1.5 million in donations. However, multiple studies also have • Telling friends and family library awards in the field of public The Edmonton Public Library, shown that thousands of families in about it relations. Edmonton, Alberta, for “Rebrand- poverty-stricken parts of the country • Adding Books for Teens on your The following five libraries were ing the Edmonton Public Library,” a have few or no books in the home. Wish List for the holidays or your honored: masterful blending of the work of pro- As an age-group, teens receive the birthday, so friends and family can Loudoun County Public Library, fessional designers and library staff least financial support from govern- make a donation to the project in Leesburg, Va., for “Try Poetry” – a that let each do what they do best. The ment, philanthropic and non-profit your honor. year of building community through simple, stylish logo and the slogan agencies. Books for Teens seeks to • Telling library patrons about it the borderless conversation of poetry. “Spread the words” were taken by reverse this trend by raising funds • Holding a fundraiser with your The program developed a long part- library staff and customers and used to help teens have a brighter future. Teen Advisory Board or Library nership with the public school system, in a guerilla marketing strategy that Funds raised through Books for Friends Group and donate proceeds created a unique relationship with the was impossible to ignore and hard to Teens will be distributed to libraries to the project. juvenile detention center and offered resist. The success of this campaign in communities with a high level of • Linking to it from blogs, web- a variety of captivating presentations was built on a strong foundation of poverty, where teen services librar- pages, etc. to the community. Extensive media shared values, clear assessment, stra- coverage in the Washington Post tegic marketing and a committed and and other outlets, as well as highly enthusiastic library staff. respected authors, poets and actors Worthington Libraries, Worthing- History Librarians Address helped to inform and excite all ages ton, Ohio for the “Find Yourself Here” of the community. rebranding campaign, a unique, in- Electronic Books and Sources Anythink Libraries of Adams formative and fun way to position the By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. commendable in accessing open source County, Colo., built a “library of library as an information source and The Library of Congress information in the public domain and the future,” responding to a voter- inviting destination. Beginning with purchasing propriety material, appear approved funding increase. A new staff communications guidelines and he History Librarians Discus- not to have been designed to work in customer service philosophy and expanding to service provision, the li- sion Group, a unit of the Refer- venues such as libraries where people branding increased population aware- brary was positioned as a place where Tence and User Services Asso- share information. ness and use in all areas, including everyone belongs and is accepted. The ciation (RUSA), opened on January 9 The source Google Books is benefi- a 42 percent increase in cardholders net result was a 35 percent increase with general announcements before cial for accessing quotations. E books and 66 percent increase in visitors. in online homework usage and a 36 moving on to a consideration of elec- can be difficult to navigate, often being The district Anythink name and or- increase in the circulation of down- tronic sources. It was noted that the designed for one format and transferred ange swirl has become a nationally loadable books. section has a new Facebook page and to another. They are helpful for finding that the search continues for a web- discrete items, less useful for studying master. Careful thought was given to lengthy monographs, and often bet- conducting future virtual gatherings ter for reading novels than annotated using GoToMeeting software, which historical works. The Google News has an electronic chat component. Archive is good for overcoming what There is a dispute among many his- for many libraries is a gap in mid-20th torians whether “traditional cultural century newspapers, especially from expressions” or TCEs, such as perfor- different geographical areas. The mances, belong by law to the people Internet Archive which features the from whom they emanate. If they do, Wayback Machine also can tap into perhaps field notes and other infor- newspapers. For genealogical materi- mation captures of them would need als, members cited several electronic personal releases before they can be sources: Heritage Quest, Ancestry. properly used. Members were advised com (which contains many yearbooks); to look for and study online arguments Latter-Day Saints’ Family History pro and con addressing this subject Centers; and Footnote.com (good for before possible further discourse. Elec- images and providing much free, as tronic books such as Kindle, although well as fee-based, material). 52nd Annual RBMS Preconference n the last several years special Manuscripts Section from June 21- collections and archives have as- 24, 2011, in Baton Rouge LA for the Rosemary Harris, left, asks author Joanne Fluke a question on the PopTop Isumed a new and more prominent 52nd Annual RBMS Preconference, Stage during the Brown Bag Lunchtime Interview. role within academic institutions as “In the Hurricane’s Eye: Challenges well as in the wider library commu- of Collecting in the 21st Century.” nity. Once perceived as peripheral The preconference will explore ways to core library services, special col- to continue building and providing CLICK HERE FOR MORE lections are now viewed as central. effective access to collections that Despite, or perhaps because of, this will remain central in the future in INFORMATION ON THE centrality, special collections face a the current economic climate. Regis- perfect storm of increasing needs in tration opens in February 2011. GRASS ROOTS PROGRAM. a time of decreasing support. Complete details will be available Join the ACRL Rare Books & at www.rbms.info. Page 12 • San Diego Midwinter Highlights Cognotes

imprint of ABRAMS. and published by Hyperion Books for print of Simon & Schuster Children’s Youth Awards Robert F. Sibert Medal for most Children, an imprint of Disney Book Publishing Division. » from page 8 distinguished informational book for Group. YALSA Award for Excellence in Publishing Group, written by Karen children William C. Morris Award for a Nonfiction for Young Adults Cushman and narrated by Katherine Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s debut book published by a first-time Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, writ- Kellgren; The Knife of Never Letting Strangest Parrot, written by Sy Mont- author writing for teens ten by Ann Angel, is the 2011 Excel- Go, produced by Candlewick on Bril- gomery, is the 2011 Sibert Award win- The Freak Observer, written by lence winner. The book is published by liance Audio, an imprint of Brilliance ner. The book features photographs by Blythe Woolston is the 2011 Morris Amulet/Abrams. 2011 Midwinter Meeting SAN DIEGO Audio, written by Patrick Ness and Nic Bishop and is published by Hough- Award winner. The book is published Four other books were finalists for narrated by Nick Podehl; Revolution, ton Mifflin Books for Children, an by Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Car- the award: They Called Themselves produced by Listening Library, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt olrhoda Books, a division of Lerner the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Company. Publishing Group. Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Publishing Group, written by Jennifer Two Sibert Honor Book were named: Four other books were finalists for Bartoletti and published by Houghton Donnelly and narrated by Emily Jan- Ballet for Martha: Making Appala- the award: Hush by Eishes Chayil and Mifflin Harcourt; Spies of Mississippi: ice Card and Emma Bering; and will chian Spring, written by Jan Green- published by Walker Publishing Com- The True Story of the Spy Network that grayson, will grayson, produced by Bril- berg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated pany, a division of Bloomsbury Pub- Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Move- liance Audio, written by John Green by Brian Floca, a Neal Porter Book, lishing, Inc.; Guardian of the Dead by ment by Rick Bowers and published by and David Levithan, and narrated by published by Flash Point, an imprint Karen Healey and published by Little, National Geographic Society; The Dark MacLeod Andrews and Nick Podehl. of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Brown and Company/Hachette Book Game: True Spy Stories by Paul Janec- Pura Belpré (Author) Award hon- Holtzbrinck Publishing; Lafayette and Group; Hold Me Closer, Necromancer zko and published by Candlewick Press; oring a Latino writer whose children’s the American Revolution written by by Lish McBride and published by and Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin books best portray, affirm and celebrate Russell Freedman and published by Henry Holt; and Crossing the Tracks Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates by the Latino cultural experience Holiday House. by Barbara Stuber and published by Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw The Dreamer, written by Pam Mu- Stonewall Children’s and Young Margaret McElderry Books, an im- and published by Charlesbridge. ñoz Ryan, is the 2011 Belpré Author Adult Literature Award Award winner. The book is illustrated Almost Perfect, written by Brian by Peter Sís and published by Scholas- Katcher, is the winner of the 2011 tic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Three Belpré Author Honor Books Literature Award. The award is given were named: ¡Olé! Flamenco written annually to English-language chil- and illustrated by George Ancona and dren’s and young adult books of ex- published by Lee & Low Books Inc.; The ceptional merit relating to the gay, Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered to Cuba, written by Margarita Engle experience. and published by Henry Holt and Com- Four honor books were selected: pany, LLC; and 90 Miles to Havana, will grayson, will grayson, written by written by Enrique Flores-Galbis and John Green and David Levithan and published by Roaring Brook Press, a published by Dutton Books, a member division of Holtzbrinck Publishing. of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.; Love Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award Drugged, written by James Klise honoring a Latino illustrator whose and published by Flux, an imprint of children’s books best portray, affirm Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.; Freaks and and celebrate the Latino cultural ex- Revelations, written by Davida Willis perience Hurwin and published by Little, Brown Grandma’s Gift, illustrated and and company, a division of Hachette written by Eric Velasquez, is the 2011 Book Group, Inc.; and The Boy in the Michael Mok, AWE, Inc., center, presents AWE’s first-ever Literacy Success Belpré Illustrator Award winner. The Dress, written by David Walliams, illus- Award to Elizabeth Dailey, executive director of the Onondaga County Public book is published by Walker Publishing trated by Quentin Blake and published Library System, accepting for the Beauchamp Branch Library, Syracuse, NY. Company, Inc., a division of Blooms- by Penguin Young Readers Group. Their winning program, called “Cooking Up Literacy,” helps children ages five bury Publishing, Inc. Theodor Seuss Geisel Award through 12 improve their reading, writing, math and healthy eating skills. Three Belpré Illustrator Honor for the most distinguished beginning Books for illustration were selected: reader book Fiesta Babies, illustrated by Amy Cór- Bink and Gollie, written by Kate AASL Launches Video Contest for Students dova, written by Carmen Tafolla and DiCamillo and Alison McGhee and published by Tricycle Press, an imprint illustrated by Tony Fucile is the 2011 he American Association of & Exhibition. of the Crown Publishing Group, a divi- Seuss Award winner. The book is pub- School Librarians (AASL), col- Macklin, also a sponsoring, will be sion of Random House, Inc.; Me, Frida, lished by Candlewick Press. Tlaborating with SchoolTube and providing $500 in books to the school illustrated by David Diaz, written by Two Geisel Honor Books were Cisco, has announced the launch of the libraries of the winners. Amy Novesky and published by Abrams named: Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the “Learning4Life in My School Library” School librarians are encouraged Books for Young Readers, an imprint Same! written and illustrated by Grace Student Video Contest. Video submis- to share this contest with students of ABRAMS; Dear Primo: A Letter to Lin and published by Little, Brown and sions will be accepted detailing how in their school community. Although My Cousin, illustrated and written by Company, a division of Hachette Book school libraries and the technology educator support is encouraged, school Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Group, Inc.; and We Are in a Book! used within the school library program librarians are asked to limit their help Abrams Books for Young Readers, an written and illustrated by Mo Willems empower students to be Learners4Life. in the production of videos. Student More information can be found at www. collaboration is also encouraged, how- ala.org/aasl/l4lvideocontest. ever winning entries are limited to a Exhibitor News Submissions for the video contest prize of only one Flip™ video camera. will be accepted until March 18, after The “Learning4Life in My School These listings are the MAX and MAXine. Now see which online voters will help choose Library” Student Video Contest is a paid advertisements. LAT-Stena, our newest LOW COST the best student video. Winners will part of AASL’s national campaign, solution for behind-the-circ-desk disc be announced as the kick-off to School Leaning4Life. The Learning4Life, e-ImageData Corp.: Learn about security. Zero theft and increased Library Month on April 1. www.ala.org/aasl/learning4life, na- ScanPro 2000. ScanPro 2000 is productivity makes happy libraries. The contest will choose one student tional implementation plan supports considered the fastest, most easy to http://www.latcorp.com winner from an elementary, middle, states, school systems, and individ- use microfilm equipment available, Project MUSE: Project MUSE and high school. Winners will receive a ual schools preparing to implement chosen by prestigious libraries world- e-Book Collections, is a new initiative Flip™ video camera, donated by Cisco, the Standards for the 21st-Century wide. See video and testimonials at to incorporate frontlist humanities and a prize for their school library. Learner and “Empowering Learners: http://www.e-imagedata.com. and social science monographs from Additionally, winning entries will be Guidelines for School Library Pro- Library Automation Technolo- university presses into our platform, featured on the AASL, SchoolTube, grams.” The plan will also increase gies, Inc.: San Diego Public Library fully integrated with our successful and Cisco websites and social network- awareness and understanding of the processes millions of transaction scholarly journal collections. http:// ing platforms, and will be featured at essential role school librarians play in through 50 of LAT’s self checkouts, muse.jhu.edu. the AASL 15th National Conference a student’s education. Cognotes San Diego Midwinter Highlights • Page 13

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