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ALACognotes BOSTON — 2010 MIDWINTER MEETING Sunday, January 17, 2010 Al Gore Delivers Solutions to Climate Change Highlights By Brad Martin Gore then discussed the ideas he ABC News presents in Our Choice, which he described as an effort to focus on the Sunday l Gore began the Arthur solutions to the climate crisis, un- Sunrise Speaker Series Curley Memorial Lecture like An Inconvenient Truth, which 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. A Saturday by joking that he was mostly an exploration about the was “formerly the next President problem. He said that three years of Boston Convention and of the United States,” but then set a research for the book gave him some Exhibition Center, Grand serious tone as he gave the audience hopeful signs, but one big obstacle. Ballroom a tour of his latest book Our Choice, “The good and hopeful news is that which he later signed. we have enough solutions to solve Exhibits Open Gore, whose audience included three or four crises like this. But 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. children and grandchildren of Ar- we have everything except the will thur Curley, acknowledged the hu- to act.” manitarian crisis unfolding in Haiti Gore spoke briefly about how ALA President’s Program as a result of the recent earthquake, our distant ancestors affect how we 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. and said, “one of the secrets of the respond to threats and that this is Boston Convention and human condition is that suffering part of the problem. “The kinds of Exhibition Center, Grand binds us together.” threats our ancestors experienced— Ballroom Moving to the topic of climate things like attacks from spiders, big change and its global effects, Gore cats and other humans—demanded Monday said, “one of the things the current an immediate, visceral response.” crisis does is to cause us to consider He added that when a much more Youth Media Awards those who will come after us,” add- serious threat like global climate Press Conference ing that “the scientific community change comes along, it requires 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. has reached a consensus that is as more use of our reasoning capacity. Boston Convention and strong as any you will find.” » see page 10 Exhibition Center, Grand Ballroom Sunrise Speaker Series Shines with Elizabeth Gilbert By Stacy L. Voeller knew what the others were doing. I Sunrise Speaker Series Minnesota State University admire librarians very much and am 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Moorhead honored to be here,” she said. Boston Convention and She relayed a story about miss- lizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, ing a flight to Santa Barbara for Exhibition Center, Room 253 Pray, Love, opened the Sunrise a speaking engagement because A-C ESpeaker Series on Saturday she was in heavy contemplation morning. Eat, Pray, Love was num- about purchasing Nerf Guns for her Technology Showcase ber one on the New York Times best nephews and wondering if “gun ac- 10:00 – 1:10 p.m. seller list for over a year and was also tion” would be acceptable in their Boston Convention and named to the American Booksellers Quaker household. Upon missing her Association Acclaimed Best Seller flight, she called her contact, made Exhibition Center Exhibit Floor list. In 2008, Gilbert was named one alternate arrangements, and barely of Time magazine’s 100 most influ- made the event. Arriving late at the ential people. venue, Gilbert was “adrenalized and Exhibit Hours Gilbert began by thanking the au- shamed because I had put someone Sunday dience for what they do. “I learned to out. I was shoved out of the car and 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. read in a library. I had my first kiss thrown up on stage with nothing pre- in a library, and hopefully my last pared. Here I was giving a speech to Monday will be, too.” She went on to say that a large group of people who had paid 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. she wrote her first two books in the a lot of money to hear about how I got New York Public Library. “I felt that my life together. Eat, Pray, Love is everyone there was in a silent com- munion together even though no one » see page 8

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and let it become whatever it’s going As the days went on and the due Gilbert to become. Eat, Pray, Love is no longer date was closer, she got sicker and Advocacy » from page 1 my baby. It has its own trajectory.” sicker. Gilbert said, “My body is a fabu- » from page 6 Gilbert is excited the book has lous barometer of my emotional being. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) about this idea that one can get their been made into a movie, “It’s nice to When you can’t speak out your body requests. life together.” imagine my life being portrayed by will act it out for you. One night I had Corey Williams, Associate Director Another precursor to writing Eat, someone with perfect skin. I’m excited a terrible nightmare, a dream so bad of the Washington Office, provided an Pray, Love was when a woman ap- to see the movie, and I took the money. it wouldn’t let me sleep. I was in my update on the Google book search set- proached her at a book signing wear- The money was a godsend and is tak- publisher’s office begging and pleading tlement (new ALA task force meeting ing a “crazy face,” and said “I only ing care of me. I also believe movies with them not to take this book. At at Midwinter and ALA encouraging have 30 seconds and I don’t want to bring people to read the books and that point I knew I couldn’t turn the department of Justice to “vigorously waste your time, but should I leave can have a positive effect.” book in. I didn’t know how to cope with oversee” the agreement), and then my husband?” Gilbert grabbed her Gilbert also discussed her difficulty this. I thought that maybe my whole introduced the topic of open access to hands and said, “If you purpose was to write Eat, government-funded research. think about this for even Pray, Love and now I could Jessica McGilvary, Assistant Direc- one minute, you will know just do something else with tor of the OGR, said that the impetus “It’s nice to imagine my life being why I can’t answer that her life.” behind increasing public access to question.” portrayed by someone with perfect After this realization, government information began with “This woman,” said Gil- skin. I’m excited to see the movie, and Gilbert spent six months a memo President Barack Obama bert, “so dearly wanted to I took the money. The money was a with her hands in the dirt signed on his first day in office, which encounter someone who godsend and is taking care of me. I also every day gardening. She called for all federal agencies to com- would give her the answer, believe movies bring people to read the was out in the cold wind, ply with making the process easier. It and hoped I was the person. and all of a sudden the called for agencies to use new technolo- books and can have a positive effect.” I told her to circle a date two first sentence of her new gies to make information accessible years from now on her calen- —Elizabeth Gilbert book, Committed, came to the public online and also to solicit dar, and she would see her to her. During the writ- feedback from the public about what pain will have eased by then. ing process, according to information they find most useful. That was all I could say.” Gilbert, you need to “ask On the FOIA front, Miriam Nisbet, With Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert had with writing a book after the huge the first sentence what the second Director of the newly established Office to decide to let it go. She said, “So success of Eat, Pray, Love. “It was one should be. If I had succumbed of Government Information Services early on, Eat, Pray, Love stopped hav- a very daunting. I put a lot of work to my failure in the first draft after (OGIS) talked about this new office and ing anything to do with me. The book into my next book, and did a couple Eat, Pray, Love, Committed would not how it will provide “mediation between has its own life. It took directions I of years of research. It was a 500 have happened.” requestors and the agencies involved.” would have never imagined.” Gilbert page first draft, and when I went to “I feel like I just finished the big- She added that it will also review com- remembers thinking, “Oh, you want the copy shop to have it printed out, gest homework assignment of my pliance with FOIA requests and make to be a mega best seller? You want I opened it up and realized it was all life. I have gotten past writing that recommendations of ways to improve to be a movie? Go ahead, you’re old wrong. The voice was so flawed. It was first book after Eat, Pray, Love,” the process, with the goal being the enough. I was willing to cut it loose so clearly, awfully wrong.” she said. creation of “a spirit of cooperation.” Visit Swets Booth 2146 for SwetsWise Presentations!

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ERM as a Service 7:15 pm 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 1:00 pm Page 10 • Cognotes BOSTON • Sunday, January 17, 2010 Curley Lecture » from page 1 Members “We have the capacity. We have to awaken it, and of Arthur we have to respond.” Curley’s Gore praised librarians by calling them “the family stewards of that great institution that was created including during the Enlightenment, a time when the printing grandsons press helped spawn what he called a democratiza- Matt Clancy, tion of information, a “new information ecosystem.” from left to Unfortunately, according to Gore, the rise of right, Tim broadcasting has ushered in period that has seen a Clancy, and “refeudalization” of the information ecosystem. He daughters Ellen Curley, and Susan Curley Clancy Gore pointed out that the climate applaud Vice crisis, the economic crisis and President Al the national security crisis are Gore as he all intertwined. He said this was presents the Arthur Curley because we have “an absurd, Memorial dangerous, ridiculous overdepen- Lecture. dence on fossil fuels.”

this was because we have “an absurd, dangerous, Citing an African proverb that says “if you want ridiculous overdependence on fossil fuels.” Gore even to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go to- cited this as tipping the balance in the decision to gether,” Gore stressed that “we have to go far and cited the example of big tobacco’s public relations invade Iraq in 2003 and for causing a distraction quickly.” offensives having delayed action against the harm- at a time when Osama bin Laden was trapped in Gore closed by recalling President Kennedy’s ful effects of smoking, and said that similar forces Afghanistan. “As long as we remain dependent on goal of putting a man on the moon and how he had are at work in the climate change debate “to oppose carbon-based fuels, we are going to be vulnerable to inspired a young generation to do just that. anything that might call for government response taking our eye off the ball,” he said. “The day will come when, depending on what and to sow confusion.” Gore praised individual efforts at reducing carbon we do, people will ask one of two questions. Either, While describing many of the solutions (solar, emissions, but said government action is needed what were you thinking — were you watching Danc- wind, geothermal, biofuels), Gore also pointed out more. “It is important to change light bulbs and ing with the Stars? Or, how did you find the moral that the climate crisis, the economic crisis and the windows, but it is far more important to change courage to rise and solve a crisis that so many said national security crisis are all intertwined. He said laws and policies.” was impossible?”

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