COGNOTES MIDWINTER MEETING & EXHIBITS February 9–13, 2018 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | DENVER
DENVER, CO AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ALA Masters Series Provides Food for Thought oin Liz Fitzgerald, administrator of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Culinary ALA Masters Series: Every Bite of Literacy Center (freelibrary.org/cook), Food We Eat J Saturday, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. to learn how their library is revolutionizing CCC 405/407 the way Philadelphians think about food, nutrition, and literacy. The Culinary Literacy Center is a dynamic education space where students learn math demonstrations from top chefs and cooking through measuring, reading through recipes, classes with new immigrants, Philadelphians and science through the process of cooking. from all walks of life meet each other around Attendees explore multiple literacies in this a communal table. In a city that loves food kitchen classroom, including nutrition for and the people who make it, the Free Library disease prevention and consumer skills that of Philadelphia is proud to be the first library help people on a budget access the health in the country to have a dedicated kitchen benefits of cooking from scratch. At cooking classroom space.
Activists Patrisse Cullors and Marley Dias open the ALA Denver Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits Friday afternoon.
Inspiring Innovation – An Awesome Ideas Pitch for Libraries he Awesome Foundation’s Librar- wacky, fun, experimental, or artistic with ies Chapter is hosting its first ever no strings attached. Attendees will hear a TAwesome Ideas Pitch for Libraries range of ideas including enhancing STEM during the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting education by bringing AR technology to in Denver. Chapter organizers reached out underprivileged schools, documenting the to the profession looking for great ideas Sacramento punk scene, improving the for small projects that could impact our discoverability and usability of ebooks, communities, demonstrate a new idea, or creating a series of wellness-related activi- improve a tool or service. Eight individuals ties to support students and practitioners will share their proposed projects with the of health professions, funding a storytell- ALA community today and the audience ing festival for kids, empowering college and judges will choose their favorite. The students in the design of accessible and The ALA/ERT Exhibits Opening Reception draws a crowd to the Exhibit winner will walk out of the pitch event inclusive library maker programming, and Floor. with $1,000. creating a community of rabid book fans. The goal is to support a great idea that The Awesome Libraries micro-grant just needs a little funding to get started. initiative is an international community- This is a chance for librarians to share ideas, Author and Poet Elizabeth move a project along, or do something » see page 8 Acevedo is Arthur Curley Lecture Speaker MIDWINTER QUICK LOOK lizabeth Ace- experience, Acevedo has been a featured per- Today’s Hours Registration – Lobby A vedo was former on BET and Mun2, and has delivered 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eborn as the several TEDTalks. She has graced renowned ALA JobLIST Placement Center – youngest child of Do- venues, such as Madison Square Garden, Exhibit Hall A Entrance ALA Store – Lobby B minican immigrants. the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Raised in New York South Africa’s State Theatre, The Bozar in City, her poetry is Brussels, and the National Library of Kosovo. Exhibits Hours First Aid is located in Lobby E, end of 500’s hallway next to restroom. infused with Domini- The session will take place today from 4:00 – 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. can bolero and her 5:00 p.m., CCC Mile High Ballroom 2 & 3. beloved city’s tough Her passion for poetry has manifested in Post Office – Behind booth 503 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. grit. With over 12 years of performance Elizabeth Acevedo » see page 3 A Children’s Book in Somali
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Visit Spotlight on Book Clubs in the Exhibit Hall Sponsored by Book Club Central, United Girl Running from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m., and Workman – Booth 1005 Stewart (What You Don’t Know About Charlie for Libraries, Booklist, and ALA Conference Spencer Wise will sign ARCs of The Em- Joanna Luloff will sign her debut novel, Outlaw Putnam). Services peror of Shoes from 3:00 – 3:45 p.m. Har- Remind Me Again What Happened, until 2:30 lequin will have Book Clubbish tote bags, p.m. Giveaways will include The Optimistic Macmillan – Booth 1741 Visit these participating publishers today as well as a galley giveaway and Polaroid Decade by Heather Abel and Lawn Boy by ARC giveaways of After Anna by Lisa Scot- from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. on the Exhibit floor camera/film raffle for We Own the Sky by Jonathan Evison. toline, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, to find new titles perfect for your book club, Luke Allnut. Camp Austen by Ted Scheinman, and The and for information about ALA’s Book Club Simon & Schuster – Booth 1022 Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth. Book Central (www.bookclubcentral.org), a place W.W. Norton & Company – Booth 822 Giveaways of Then She Was Gone by Lisa giveaways of The Ninth Hour by Alice McDer- for engaging content and information for ARC giveaways of Adjustment Day: A Novel Jewell, Every Note Played by Lisa Genova, The mott, Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides, book clubs designed in consultation with by Chuck Palahniuk, The Devoted: A Novel Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll, The Mars Room Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser, Marlena by expert librarians. by Blair Hurley, The Overstory: A Novel by by Rachel Kushner, and Tragedy Plus Time by Julie Buntin, Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Richard Powers, The Honey Farm: A Novelby Adam Cayton-Holland. Ward, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise HarperCollins Publishers – Booth 806 Harriet Alida Lye, Come West and See: Stories by Wolas, The Vengeance of Mothersby Jim Fergus, Debut author Christine Mangan will sign Maxim Loskutoff, and Fight No More: Stories, Hachette Book Group – Booth 1108 All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn copies of her book Tangerine from 1:30 – 2:30 by Lydia Millet. Hachette Book Group will be on hand to Greenwood, and The Sellout by Paul Beatty p.m. HarperCollins will also be giving away talk book clubs! Collectively the booth staff galleys of Charles Frazier’s Varina and Light- Booklist Publications – Booth 916 is in six book clubs, and we talk books, books, Grove –Booth 1822A house Beach by Shelley Noble. Join Booklist for author signings from 2:00 books (and sometimes food). We’ll be featur- Giveaways of Happiness by Aminatta Forna, – 4:00 p.m. and for resources for your book ing galley giveaways of a handful of novels and The Red Word by Sarah Henstra, and Mercy Seat Harlequin – Booth 813 club from ALA’s Book Club Central (www. narrative nonfiction that are just right for book by Elizabeth H. Winthrop. Christina Dodd will sign ARCs of Dead bookclubcentral.org). clubs and librarians and Saturday afternoons. Giveaways will include The Husband Hourby House of Anansi – Booth 1823 Jamie Brenner, Shadow Child by Rahna Reiko Giveaways of Shrewed by Elizabeth Renzetti Rizzuto, The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for and The Breakby Katherine Vermette. Freedom in Modern Iran by Masih Alinejad, and Can’t Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions ECW – Booth 1824A from a Modern Advice Columnist by Meredith Giveaways of The Very Marrow of Our Bones Goldstein. by Christine Higdon and Land Mammals and Sea Creatures by Jen Neale. Books on Tape – Booth 1707 Boost book club involvement at your li- Crooked Lane Books/BlueBridgeBooks– brary with audiobooks! Stop by BOT’s booth Booth 1826 for (audio)book club ideas, and browse our Margaret Mizushima will sign Hunting collection of popular and award-winning Hour from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Giveaways of book club picks on audio, including top Li- Gift of Years and Two Dogs and a Parrot by braryReads titles that make great listens! Plus, Joan Chittister. sign up for our newsletter and be entered to win a collection of audiobooks for your library. Dundurn – Booth 1908A Giveaways of When the Flood Falls by J.E Penguin Random House – Booth 1722 Barnard. Penguin Random House will raffle off five Sarah Jessica Parker limited-edition library Skyhorse – Booth 1916 totes filled with free copies of her Book Club ARC giveaways of What Comes with the Dust Central picks Exit West and Stay with Me. Gal- by Gharbi M. Mustafa and Master Assassins by Retired librarian Virginia Moore picks up her registration materials Friday ley signings at 2:30 p.m. with Liam Callanan Robert V.S. Redick from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. afternoon. (Paris by the Book Dutton), Paula McLain (Love and Ruin Ballantine Books), and Leah
Curley Lecture » from page 1 an increasing body of popular poetry videos, most of which have gone viral and been Booth1557 picked up by PBS, Latina magazine, Cosmo- politan magazine, and Upworthy magazine. She said, “I commit wholeheartedly to the mission that my mother's stories will not XR libraries We’ve built an XR maze with characters Come to VARLIBRARIES booth to die with her. I believe wholeheartedly telling Once in the purview of science fiction, virtual, augmented and mixed realities are showing up revealing secrets while paying homage pick up a tablet to discover how XR my own story is an act of love and survival.” to the sc-fi classic Ready, Player, One can bring content alive. Look for Many of her poems have been published, or as immersive experiences in libraries with XR becoming an all-encompassing descriptor. these characters spread throughout are forthcoming in Puerto Del Sol, the Cal- the show floor. Collect all ten clues laloo journal, Poet Lore, Notre Dame Review, and return to our booth to claim an and others. XR prize for your library. Acevedo is a National Slam Champion, Beltway Grand Slam Champion, a Cave Canem Fellow, Cantomundo Fellow, and par- ticipant of the Callaloo Writer's Workshop. She is the author of two poetry collections: Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths and Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm, winner of the 2016 Berkshire Prize. A novel, The Poet X is sched- uled for release in early 2018. Acevedo’s appearance is sponsored by HarperCollins Children’s Books 4 COGNOTES DENVER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2018
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Kirstin Flachshart picks up some new Libraries Transform bookmarks at the ALA Lounge. Ali Ayres (left) and Kyra Hahn point out one of the dozens Libraries Transform signs posted on the doors of the Colorado Convention Center.
Participants view a presentation on climate change as they learn how to moderate and organize forums about the topic during “Libraries Transforming Communities: National Issues Forums Workshop for Academic Libraries.”
Jonathan Clark (from left), Amber Moller, and Ariel Birdoff discuss the Libraries Transform public awareness campaign in the ALA Lounge.
Shoshannah Turgel adds her thoughts to the idea exchange at the ALA Attendees greet one another as they gather near the Exhibits Networking Uncommons. escalator Friday afternoon. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2018 DENVER COGNOTES 7
Leaders of Change Share a Vision for the Future at Attendees look at the Diversity & Equity Session special Elizabeth Martinez and Binnie Tate Wilkin, sessions two of the profession’s leading advocates for offered equitable library services, will lead the “Librar- during the Midwinter ies Transform – Diversity & Equity” plenary Meeting & session, Sunday morning from 8:30 – 10:00 Exhibits. a.m. in CCC 405/407. As part of the Sympo- sium on the Future of Libraries, the diversity and equity session offers attendees a chance Elizabeth Martinez Binnie Tate Wilkin to consider our future roles in supporting a diverse and equitable society. ing donor relations, sponsorships, fundraising Featured speakers Elizabeth Martinez and events, and social media for the Foundation. Binnie Tate Wilkin have worked together since Soto-Luna’s passion is driven by a belief in meeting in Los Angeles and cochaired the first social justice and responsibility to community ALA policy on diversity, “Equity at Issue,” in and to each other. 1986 for ALA President E. J. Josey. Martinez and Tate Wilkin will be joined by 2017-2018 ALA Spectrum Scholar Isabel Soto-Luna, devel- opment specialist at Pikes Peak Library District. Martinez served as the executive director of ALA, overseeing the creation of the Spec- trum Scholarship Program and the Office for Information Technology Policy, and securing $200 million in funding from Bill and Melinda Gates for the Libraries Online millennium initiative that brought information technology and training to public libraries in urban and BAKER & TAYLOR rural locations. In Los Angeles, as library direc- tor, she opened the Richard J. Riordan Central Library and established the Foundation of the LAPL. She built nine community libraries for Orange County (Calif.) Public Library; SOLUTIONS established the African American, American Indian, Asian Pacific, and Chicano Resource Proudly serving public Centers for the County of Los Angeles Public Library; and led the revitalization of the Salinas libraries with the industry’s (Calif.) Public Library, including overseeing the development of the Cesar Chavez Library. best solutions and services. With Dr. Amulfo Trejo, she founded and orga- nized REFORMA, The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, which now awards the Elizabeth Martinez Lifetime Achievement Award. During her multifaceted career, Tate Wilkin TO LEARN MORE has been a writer, lecturer, librarian, and pro- COME VISIT US AT fessional storyteller. As children’s specialist for the Los Angeles Public Library, she received BOOTH #1238 national attention for her creative participa- tion in that library’s federally funded outreach project. Tate Wilkin was one of the group who met with Josey to form the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and submitted the Caucus’ first council resolution to be passed. Her expertise regarding inner-city CLS - Technical service solution services was sought by many ALA committees and city libraries. At the request of then ALA CATS - Children’s & Teen Services Executive Director Martinez, Wilkin evaluated the ALA Office of Library Outreach Services, Axis 360 - Digital media library providing guidance for its future growth. Wilkin has been a full- and part-time lecturer at library schools around the nation including Title Source 360 - Comprehensive selection/ordering tool UCLA, UC Berkley, and Columbia University and was the Los Angeles County Library Sys- collectionHQ - Library collection improvement tem’s Minority Services Coordinator. She has written numerous books and articles on the art VIP - Extended inventory title access of storytelling and the themes and depictions in children’s literature. Wilkin continues to use her creative talents as a speaker and storyteller ESP - Evidence-based Selection Planning sharing African American history and culture with the public. www.baker-taylor.com Soto-Luna is the development specialist for the Pikes Peak Library District, support- 8 COGNOTES DENVER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2018
Innovation issues and innovations.These include funding » from page 1 a digitization project for children’s textbooks in Chad, a one-day conference on community Seattle will welcome attendees funded effort that follows on the Awesome social justice in Austin, a teen empowerment to Midwinter 2019, January 25 – Foundation’s model: the grant brings to- project in Illinois, a collection of gadgets gether a group of trustees who make or direct and equipment for special needs patrons in 29! Stop by the desk in Lobby B a personal contribution to collectively fund Michigan, a set of high quality materials for to learn about free giveaways. one project per quarter. check out to pre-K teachers in India, and a Be inspired by the awesome ideas brewing collection of materials in Pashto, Farsi, and in the field! Come to the pitch at 4:30 p.m. Arabic languages for a Migrant and Refugee in CCC 405/407. Library in Serbia. Awesome Foundation’s Libraries Chapter To help support this event and future believes that transformative innovation is often awesome projects by being a trustee, donat- Application Deadline for driven by small scale projects and experiments. ing, or to be kept up to date on quarterly 2018 ALA Leadership Institute During its first six months the chapter sup- winners and where projects have gone, join ported projects from around the world that the newsletter. More information is available Quickly Approaching reflect the potential of citizen- and library- at http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/ The application process for the 2018 “Lead- nuanced situations, participants explore top- driven collaborations to address community chapters/libraries. ing to the Future” ALA Leadership Institute ics related to the greatest challenges and pos- (August 6 – 9, Eaglewood Resort, Itasca, Ill.) is sibilities of leading into a future marked by underway, with applications accepted through turbulence and ambiguity. March 9. Building on the success of the past Participants in past institutes highlighted ALA Leadership Institutes, the four-day im- a wide range of benefits, describing it as the mersive leadership development program for 40 “best professional development…related to mid-career librarians will be led again by ALA leadership,” with a “wonderful atmosphere and Past-President Maureen Sullivan and library congeniality among participants and between and leadership consultant Kathryn Deiss. participants and facilitators.” The majority of at- The Coretta Scott King Book Awards Turn 50 in 2019! Now in its sixth year, the institute helps tendees have given the ALA Leadership Institute 50 Years Strong future library leaders develop and practice their the top rating possible in the post-event survey. leadership skills in areas critical to the future The application form, as well as details of the libraries they lead. Through reflective and guidelines, are at http://www.ala.org/ and active learning, it offers participants an transforminglibraries/ala-leadership-institute. Stay tuned for announcements about year-long activities opportunity to delve into leadership practices, Applicants may nominate themselves or be concepts, and frameworks, shape their own nominated by their employer. Participation and how to get involved. sustainable leadership vision and ethos, while includes a free one-year membership in the http://olos.ala.org/csk/ building a learning community and network. Library Leadership and Management As- Questions: Dr. Claudette McLinn, [email protected] With content based on real-world cases and sociation.
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ALA to Support Multicultural Last Chance for School Literature for Youth with Enhanced Librarians to Win Free 2019 Youth Media Awards Subscriptions to Booklist and Librarians and library staff work to trans- To bring awareness about and encourage Book Links form lives by connecting youth with materials the creation of more books that depict diverse that celebrate diversity, abolish cultural invis- cultures, or by authors of color, ALA will Librarians hoping to win a free yearlong collection development constraints they ibility, and foster understanding. The Ameri- highlight titles selected by the American In- subscription of ALA publication Booklist face and why a Booklist subscription would can Library Association and its professional dian Library Association (AILA), Asian/Pacific and Book Links for their K–12 schools have help them serve their students. (Selected affiliates will highlight the best of the best in American Librarians Association (APALA), only days to enter before the “Schools in responses have already been published on multicultural literature for youth by adding and the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) Need Giveaway” closes on Wednesday, The Booklist Reader at www.booklistreader. additional announcements to its 2019 ALA during the upcoming 2019 ALA Youth Media February 14. Entries can be accepted com.) From these submissions, 500 schools Youth Media Awards. Awards. In the meantime, ALA encourages online at http://www.booklistonline.com/ will be granted one free year of Booklist, The United States is becoming more di- readers of all ages to visit the affiliate websites free-school-subscription or on the Exhibits Book Links, and Booklist Online. Winners verse. Demographics predict that by the year to learn more about the 2018 award winners. show floor at the Booklist booth (916). will be announced by March 1, 2018, with 2050, African Americans, Asian Pacific Island- Recognized worldwide for the high quality This unique, first-of-its kind initiative, a the subscriptions starting in April 2018 to ers, Latino/Hispanics, and Native Americans they represent, the ALA Youth Media Awards, partnership between Booklist Publications support librarians throughout the 2018–19 will constitute most Americans, yet multi- including the prestigious Coretta Scott King and the American Association of School Li- school year. cultural literature for youth is at a low point. Book, Caldecott, Newbery, and Printz Awards, brarians (AASL), is sponsored by Scholastic During the program’s November 2017 According to the University of Wisconsin’s guide parents, educators, librarians, and oth- and aims to provide expert book-and-media launch, AASL President Steven Yates Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), ers in selecting the best materials for youth. buying assistance to school librarians facing noted, “School librarians rely on high- only a third of the 3,400 books received by the Award winners rarely go out of print and stay budgetary constraints. quality reviews to build dynamic collec- CCBC written for children in 2016 were by on library shelves for decades to come. “At every conference we attend, we tions of resources for their communities. and/or about people of color. For more information regarding the ALA hear from school librarians that they love The generosity of Scholastic will provide “Often children in the United States are Youth Media Awards, please visit ILoveLibrar- Booklist and Book Links but can’t afford to a lasting, positive impact on 500 school not exposed to print or digital materials that ies.org/yma. subscribe,” said Booklist Executive Editor libraries as these libraries implement the reflect themselves or their culture,” said ALA Keir Graff. “By donating 500 subscrip- National School Library Standards. Book- President Jim Neal. “A child’s lack of exposure tions, we can help them spend more money list has long been recognized as a standard to other cultures paves the way to bigotry and directly on books and media.” of quality, and AASL is thrilled to be able cultural invisibility. The addition of profes- Entrants are encouraged to submit short to share this resource opportunity with sional affiliate awards can only assist with our essays (150 words or less) explaining the our members.” efforts to encourage understanding and abolish cultural invisibility.” Today’s Schedule
9:00 – 9:50 a.m. The New Immigrant Experience: Provid- ing a Platform for Refugee and Asylum Seekers’ Voices to be Heard
10:00 – 10:50 a.m. TOON’s 10th Anniversary: Françoise Mouly, Ivan Brunetti and Nadja Spiegel- man celebrate the new comics that get kids to “TOON into reading!” in schools and libraries.
11:00 – 11:50 a.m. Women’s Fiction for Every Reader
12:00 – 12:50 p.m. Chef Gino’s Taste Test Challenge: 100+ Winning Recipes That Any Kid Can Cook, presented by Chef Gino Campagna and Rodale Kids
1:00 – 1:50 p.m. Stranger than fiction. Real life. Fodder for fiction. Three Harlequin trade authors ex- plode onto the Winter/Spring 2018 scene with a trio of terrifically telling books.
2:00 – 2:50 p.m. DC Entertainment launches DC Books for Young Readers! Featuring Shea Fontana and more all-star special guest authors!
3:00 – 3:50 p.m. Cultivating Mindful, Compassionate, and Empowered Children in an Overwhelm- ing World.
MEET THE AUTHORS
Gold! The Bomb Maker Hunting Hour The Unmade World Ian Neligh Thomas Perry Margaret Mizushima Steve Yarbrough
February 10th @ 10 a.m. February 10th @ 11:30 a.m. February 10th @ 2 p.m. February 10th @ 2 p.m. Booth 1908B Booth 1822A Booth 1826 Booth 1826 Westwinds Press The Mysterious Press Crooked Lane Books Unbridled Books
All Out of Pretty Chainbreaker Surface Tension The Summer of Jordi Perez Ingrid Palmer Tara Sim Mike Mullin Amy Spalding
th th February 10 @ 10 a.m. February 10th @ 11 a.m February 10th @ 1:30 p.m. February 10 @ 4 p.m. Booth 1822A Booth 1916 February 11th @ 12:30 p.m. Booth 1916 Creston Books Skyhorse / Sky Pony Press Booth 1831 Skyhorse/ Sky Pony Press Tanglewood Publishing
The Whirlpool Musnet: The Mouse of Monet The Outlaw Laurel Croza Kickliy Nancy Vo
th th February 10 @ 9 a.m. February 10th @ 10:30 a.m. February 10 @ 11 a.m. Booth 1821 Booth 1816B Booth 1821 Groundwood Uncivilized Books Groundwood
Beautiful Hands The Funeral Animal Talk Kathryn Otoshi Matt James Cynthia Weill Booth 1830A February 10th @ 1 p.m. February 10th @ 1 p.m. KO Booth 1821 Booth 1807A Groundwood Cinco Puntos Press 12 COGNOTES DENVER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2018
2017-2018 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Winners Selected The Asian/Pacific American Librarians As- (Grove Press), 2017 tion and internment during WWII focus on Children’s Literature sociation (APALA), an affiliate of the American Pulitzer Prize and last year’s APALA Adult the events directly after the war, but in The Winner: Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh Library Association, has selected the winners Fiction Literature Award winner Viet Thanh Long Afterlife, Karen Inouye describes the by Uma Krishnaswami (Tu Books, imprint of of the 2017-2018 Asian/Pacific American Nguyen demonstrates his literary prowess with long-term effects of wartime incarceration on Lee and Low), 2017 Awards for Literature (APAAL). The awards The Refugees, a debut collection of eight short the lives of those who were imprisoned and Maria Singh just wants to play softball (and promote Asian/Pacific American culture and stories exploring the Vietnamese American on generations to come, and the activism that wear shorts while doing it) but her Mexican heritage and are awarded to titles published diaspora. Traversing thematic landscapes of ensued as a result. Inouye’s book is carefully Mamá and old-fashioned Punjabi Papi don’t from October 2016 to September 2017 based displacement, immigration, memory, family, researched, thoroughly documented, well writ- believe that girls should play ball. Set in 1945 on their literary and artistic merit. home, and the American experience, Nguyen ten, and highly engaging. Yuba City, Calif., Step Up to the Plate, Maria There are five categories for the awards. The crafts stories infused with compelling narrative Singh does what good historical fiction is sup- winners of the 2017 awards: power and honesty. Young Adult Literature posed to do – it provides rich details of the Winner: It’s Not Like It’s A Secret by Misa characters’ daily lives, such as the reality of Adult Fiction Adult Nonfiction Sugiura (HarperTeens), 2017 living through a time of rationing and gender Winner: The Leavers by Lisa Ko (Algonquin Winner: Asianfail: Narratives of Disen- Secrets complicate 16-year-old Sana Kiyo- inequality, the unfathomability of the intern- Books of Chapel Hill), 2017 chantment and the Model Minority by Eleanor hara’s life – she suspects her dad is having an ment of Japanese Americans, and the shared The Leavers is a complex, original, and wel- Ty (University of Illinois Press), 2017 affair and she has a crush on her best friend. meals of chicken curry and tortillas between come addition to the body of literature about Using literary and film criticism, as well Sana thinks her family’s move across the the extended Indian and Mexican community. the immigrant experience. In her debut novel, as social media, Eleanor Ty makes compel- country is an opportunity for a fresh start but Lisa Ko addresses undocumented immigration, ling arguments about the representation is confronted with the complexities of race, Honor: Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author single motherhood, transracial adoption, addic- of Asian Americans and Asian Canadians sexuality, and relationships. Extraordinaire by Susan Tan, illustrated by tion, identity, and forgiveness through the lives in popular culture. She posits that emerg- Dana Wulfekotte (Roaring Book Press), 2017 of an estranged mother and son forced apart by ing narratives reveal a generation that has Honor: Saints & Misfitsby S.K. Ali (Salaam Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraor- circumstances beyond their control. Writing begun to reject their forebears’ preoccupa- Reads/Simon & Schuster Books for Young dinaire is a charming and humorous novel with clarity, precision, and elegance, Ko deftly tion with professional status and money, Readers), 2017 written as journal entries that tell the stories captures the voices of an alienated young man focusing instead on relationships, personal For Janna Yusuf, there are Saints – the and struggles of a spunky biracial girl. The who can see colors when he hears music, as well growth, and cultural success. This is an people who help you out – and Monsters – committee particularly enjoyed that Cilla as that of a fiercely independent woman from essential addition to the small but grow- like the boy who everyone thinks is a Saint, Lee-Jenkins explored the themes of family China determined to be more than what both ing canon of nonfiction that addresses the but Janna knows otherwise. Janna, a self- and identity through a unique focus on the Chinese and American society prescribe for “model minority” myth. identified misfit, examines what is important protagonist’s grandparents. her. Narrated from dual points of view, Ko un- to her and whether she has the strength to sparingly portrays the difficult and sometimes Honor: The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime confront the monster in her life. S.K. Ali Picture Book unflattering decisions her characters make. Incarceration by Karen M. Inouye (Stanford delivers her debut novel with a well-developed Winner: A Different Pondby Bao Phi, University Press), 2016 and much-needed representation of a multi- illustrated by Thi Bui (Captstone Young Honor: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen Many books on Japanese American reloca- cultural Muslim family. Readers), 2017 A young boy is wakened early by his father to go fishing. The story reveals this morning is more than an average father-son trip when we hear the young boy ask his father, “If you got another job, why do we still have to fish for food?” The two meet other characters in the early morning, but soon we are left with the young boy and father where we discover stories of the father’s past at a different pond in his homeland of Vietnam.
Honor: The Nian Monster by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Alina Chau (Albert Whitman & Develop the credentials you need to Company), 2016 succeed in the growing field of information Xingling and her grandmother Po Po come services with an ALA-accredited Master face to face with the legendary Nian monster of Science in Library and Information who is known to have eaten whole villages. Studies. Learn the skills associated When he makes an unwelcome appearance to eat the city, Xingling decides to take matters with information management, working into her own hands. She devises ingenious with youth services, digital storytelling, ways to outwit Nian with his own voracious and innovative media and social justice appetite. Clever onomatopoeia accompanied projects for schools, libraries and by charming illustrations makes the Chinese New Year theme, rarely told from a young corporations. girl’s perspective, accessible to children. The Nian Monster is a masterpiece, highlighting You can work full time while earning Chinese New Year, one of the most important your masters degree online. Visit holidays in Asia. BamaByDistance.ua.edu/cognotes for Each winner will receive an award plaque more information or call 800-467-0227. at the APALA Award Ceremony on Saturday, June 23, 2018 during the ALA Annual Confer- ence in New Orleans. Publishers interested in submitting books for the 2018-2019 awards should contact Dora Ho, Jury Cochair, at [email protected].
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Today’s Schedule National Library Week 2018
9:30 – 10:15 a.m. Will Feature Honorary Chair From Russian Spies to Kid Scientists & Everything in Between! Misty Copeland 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Bestselling author and American Ballet ganizations by giving her time and influence Albert Whitman & Company and IPG Theatre Principal Dancer Misty Copeland to support the greater good. Her generosity Spring 2018 Book Buzz! will lend her support to advocate for our na- and support has extended to libraries by tion’s libraries as honorary chair of National means of print PSAs, social media artwork, 11:10 – 11:40 a.m. Library Week, April 8 – 14, 2018. Like librar- and other materials that feature Copeland. Boos-Boos, Clara Breed, and Bears in Space: 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. ians and library workers, Copeland’s efforts Free downloadable tools are available now A Sneak Peek at Charlesbridge’s Spring List Comical-Explosive-Exciting-Funny-Fan- to lead social change through her writing at ala.org/nlw. 11:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. tastical & Fiction titles from Independent and teaching fuel the transformation of lives Misty Copeland also joins the celebrity Book talking with Mr. Schu: Scholastic Publishers! through cultural understanding, education, READ® campaign. Her poster is available 2018 Titles to Delight! 2:40 – 3:10 p.m. and lifelong learning. now at alastore.ala.org. “Libraries Transform: Libraries Lead” is the “I’m thrilled to join leaders from the 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. New Spring 2018 Titles from Random theme for this year’s 60th anniversary celebra- library community in celebrating National Buzz about Children’s Books with Blooms- House Children’s Books tion of National Library Week, reminding the Library Week,” Copeland said. “Libraries help bury Children’s Books, Disney Book Group, 3:20 – 3:50 p.m. public that libraries of all types serve as com- people of all backgrounds access the services HarperCollins Children’s Books, and Mac- Hachette Book Group and Ingram Book munity compasses that lead users to endless and resources they need to discover their pas- millan Children’s Publishing Group Buzz opportunities for community engagement, sions and achieve their goals.” 1:20 – 1:50 p.m. 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. enrichment, and development. Copeland is the author of Ballerina Harlequin, Tor Teen, Starscape Book Buzz DC Comics Has a Major Announcement “We are honored that Misty Copeland has Body, an instant New York Times bestseller, Theater for Libraries! agreed to join us as National Library Week published in March 2017. She is the author honorary chair,” stated American Library of the New York Times bestselling memoir Association President Jim Neal. “Copeland’s Life in Motion, published March 2014. Make the Connection with ACRL efforts to lead youth to pursue their dreams, Copeland is also the author of the Coretta regardless of what challenges they may Scott King Illustrator Book Award-winning Discussion and Interest Groups encounter, mirrors the efforts of librarians 2014 book Firebird, an inspiring children’s Looking to connect with other academic and research librarians who share your interests and library workers as they work to inspire, book that shows that through hard work and while in Denver? ACRL discussion and interest groups offer a variety of opportunities to educate, and lead users to resources that dedication any young dancer can become a learn, share, and network with peers. Topics at this year’s ALA Midwinter Meeting include improve lives.” Firebird. assessment, public services in academic libraries, and many more. Copeland’s passion is giving back to com- More information about the campaign can Check your program book for complete details and join the conversation. munities. She supports many charitable or- be found at ala.org/nlw.
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News You Can Use Sunday Schedule 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. A Research Agenda for 21st Century Libraries CCC 503/504
Incorporating the “Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff “ into LIS Curricula CCC 501/502
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Implementing YALSA’s “Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff” in Your Thanks to Our Sponsors Library CCC 501/502 ALA is proud to acknowledge the following organizations for their generous support of the Midwinter Meeting. 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. LITA Top Technology Trends Platinum Sponsor CCC 503/504 Gale, a Cengage Company – Shuttle Buses Update on Value of Academic Libraries Initiative Diamond Sponsor CCC 501/502 ProQuest - Spectrum Scholarships 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Connected Learning in Libraries – New Research and Resources to Help Develop, Ruby Sponsors Implement, and Evaluate Bluubeam- iBeacon Technology CCC 501/502 My Book Tote mobile app - Powered by Combined Book Exhibit Oxford University Press - Conference Lanyards Shaping the Landscape of Open Access Speaker Sponsors Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS Publishing: Individually, Locally, Collectively Chronicle Books With the acquisition and creation of schol- of librarians and other information profession- HarperCollins Children’s Books arly communication platforms/infrastructure als. Panelists will focus on: Macmillan by major commercial entities, the balance • individual action: ‘what can one person do?’ Penguin Young Readers of influence continues to shift. The ACRL/ • local coordinated action: ‘how can one Scholastic SPARC Forum at the 2018 Midwinter Meet- group or institution effect change?’ ing & Exhibits will bring together library • collective action: ‘how can libraries work stakeholders for a conversation about how the together to provide sustainable alternatives?’ For information on sponsorship opportunities at future events, contact library community can reassert its influence to Paul Graller at [email protected] or (312) 280-3219. shape the open access publishing landscape. The forum will be held from 3:00 – 4:00 This session is designed to reach a broad range p.m. today, CCC 503/504.
Symposium on the Future of Libraries Sunday Schedule Advocating for Ourselves: Does Our Profession’s Survival Depend on Public Service Sponsored by ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries, the Symposium on the Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program Policy Support? Future of Libraries explores future trends for academic, public, school, and special CCC 402 libraries that will help us adapt to the needs of our communities. Plenary sessions feature the civic, education, and social innovators who are creat- Libraries in the Age of Extended Reality: Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality ing what’s next for cities, campuses, and communities. Concurrent sessions offer (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) insights from the library professionals introducing new services, spaces, collections, CCC 401 and partnerships and discussions with experts and innovative thinkers from allied professions and disciplines sharing their visions for the future, helping us think Road Signs to the Future: What Trends Will Affect Your Library? beyond our current work. CCC 405/407 The Symposium integrates and builds on the Midwinter Meeting’s popular ALA Masters Series and News You Can Use updates which highlight innovations and The Future of Learning in Public Libraries advances in libraries. CCC 403
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Transforming Event & Collection Discoverability Libraries Transform – Diversity and Equity CCC 404 CCC 405/407 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. A New Generation In Charge: How Millennial Leadership is Changing Library Staffing Blockchain, Open Civic Data, and TV WhiteSpace – Three New Projects CCC 401 CCC 403 Alexa, What Does Library AI Look Like in the Future? It’s Your Future – Get Ready for It Now! CCC 402 CCC 405/407 One-Stop Shop for the Research Lifecycle: Effects of High-Impact Educational Prac- Library Island tices on Library Spaces and Services in the Near- and Long-term CCC 401 CCC 403
The Library’s Evolution into Centers of Innovation and Learning Virtual Teen Dream: Embedding Virtual Reality into Teen Programming CCC 402 CCC 405/407 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. DON’T MISS OUR AMAZING AUTHORS AND GIVEAWAYS IN BOOTH 1005!
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The AASL Standards – Personas, Standards, and Your Communities (News You Can Use) Learn how research data was used to segments, informing messaging, materials, develop National School Library Standards and products. and an agile implementation plan. Today, Through the lens of these personas in pub- from 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. in CCC 503/504, lic, academic, and other kinds of libraries, we an AASL panel will provide a broad overview will look at how the AASL Standards support of three interrelated standards frameworks, projects like engineering design challenges, community research findings, and the pro- culturally responsive programming, and col- cess to develop personas representing user laboration with community partners.
Meet your favorite author on the Exhibit Floor today from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Authors will be signing their books in multiple booths. Check the online scheduler to find which booth numbers and times of individual author signings.
The iSchool at Illinois Visit Library COMIC at Booth #714 Susan Wiggs Among the Authors at United for Libraries Gala Author Tea, Sponsored by ReferenceUSA Susan Wiggs, Silas House, Elisabeth Hyde, Read. Her fourth novel, The Abortionist’s Ariel Lawhon, Molly Tanzer, and Spencer Daughter, became a bestseller in Great Britain. Wise will be among the featured authors at Ariel Lawhon (I Was Anastasia: A Novel the United for Libraries Gala Author Tea, Doubleday/Penguin Random House) is co- sponsored by ReferenceUSA, from 2:00 – 4:00 founder of the popular website SheReads.org. p.m. on Monday in CCC 203/205/207. A novelist, blogger, and lifelong reader, she lives A light offering of tea, finger sandwiches, in the rolling hills outside Nashville, Tenn., with Shaping the future of information and a variety of sweet treats will be served. A her husband, four sons, and black lab – who is, book signing will follow. United for Librar- thankfully, a girl. Recognized as one of the best destinations for graduate studies in the ies will recognize the winners of the 2017 Molly Tanzer (Creatures of Will and National Friends of Libraries Week Awards Temper, John Joseph Adams/Houghton information sciences, our School leads the way in shaping the future of during the program. Mifflin Harcourt) is the Sydney J. Bounds information through innovative programs, groundbreaking research, and Susan Wiggs (Between You and Me, Wil- and Wonderland Book Award-nominated meaningful social engagement. liam Morrow/HarperCollins) is the #1 New author of Vermilion (an NPR and io9 Best York Times bestselling author of more than 50 Book of 2015), A Pretty Mouth, the histori- Please join us for the novels, with her books in print in 30 countries. cal crime novel The Pleasure Merchant, and Downs Intellectual Freedom Award Reception A native of a small town in upstate New York, other works. honoring 2017 recipient she now lives with her husband at the water’s Spencer Wise (The Emperor of Shoes,Ha - edge on an island in Puget Sound. nover Square Press/Harlequin) is a graduate of Kansas City Public Library Silas House (Southernmost, Algonquin) is Tufts University and the University of Texas at Saturday, February 10, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. the author of five novels, including the New Austin. He recently won the 2017 Gulf Coast Crowne Plaza Downtown Denver, Ellingwood Room A & B York Times bestseller A Parchment of Leaves. Prize in nonfiction. He teaches at Florida State This annual award and reception are cosponsored by the He is a frequent contributor to the New York University. iSchool at Illinois and Libraries Unlimited. Times and a former commentator for NPR’s Onsite tickets cost $65, if available. Event All Things Considered. code: UNI1. Elisabeth Hyde (Go Ask Fannie, Putnam/ For more information on purchasing tick- Penguin Random House) is the author of five ets and other United for Libraries events and critically acclaimed novels, most recently In meetings at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, ischool.illinois.edu The Heart of The Canyon, a New York Times visit www.ala.org/united/events_conferences/ Editor’s Choice and a People magazine Great midwinter. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2018 DENVER COGNOTES 19
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Today Sunday 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Extraordinary Ordinary People 84 minutes 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Black Girl in Suburbia 54 Minutes 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Powered Libraries: 7 Success Stories 24 minutes 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Ohero:kon – Under the Husk 27 minutes 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 44 PAGES 90 minutes 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Quest 95 minutes 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. My Friend Dahmer 107 minutes 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. GEEK GIRLS 83 minutes 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS 67 minutes
Sunday’s Film Descriptions scientists who have shaped grassroots groups Quest and (no longer) middle to lower classes, vot- like ACT-UP, and who fought to open access This documentary touches all of the hot ing rights, and the rise of an angry right-wing Black Girl in Suburbia to prevention and treatment while facing their points of American Society today – politics faction, as seen through the eyes of one family For many black girls raised in the suburbs, fears and everyday struggles. and race, gender, and equality, the economy over the course of a decade. A Sundance film the experiences of going to school, playing on and the growing distance between the upper that resonates on so many levels. the playground, and living day-to-day life can be uniquely alienating. “Black Girl In Subur- bia” looks at the suburbs of America from the perspective of women of color. Filmmaker Melissa Lowery shares her own childhood memories of navigating racial expectations both subtle and overt.
Oheró:kon – Under the Husk “Under The Husk” follows two Mohawk girls on their journey to become Mohawk women. Friends since childhood, Kaienkwine- htha and Kasennakohe are members of the traditional community of Akwesasne on the U.S./Canada border. Together, they undertake a four-year rite of passage for adolescents, called Oheró:kon, or “under the husk.” The ceremony had been nearly extinct, a casualty of colonialism and intergenerational trauma; revived in the past decade by two traditional leaders, it has since flourished. Filmmaker Shuttle Service to the Colorado Convention Center (CCC) Katsitsionni Fox has served as a mentor, or Complimentary shuttle service is provided between the CCC and the o icial ALA hotels listed. “auntie,” to many youth going through the For the most up-to-date information, please check the shuttle information signs posted in each hotel lobby. passage rites. In “Under The Husk,” Fox shares two girls’ journey through adolescence, as Hotels & Boarding Shuttle Schedule they rise to the tasks of Oheró:kon, learning Locations Shuttle Schedule to Colorado Convention Center traditional practices such as basket making and survival skills as well as contemporary All routes board at Welton Street Lobby at the Friday, February 9 teachings about sexual health and drug and Colorado Convention Center 7:00am – 3:00pm Service every 20-25 minutes alcohol prevention. Route 1 Boarding Location 3:00pm – 7:30pm * Service every 10-15 minutes Grand Hyatt Denver Curbside on Welton St. Saturday, February 10 GEEK GIRLS Hilton Denver City Center Curbside on California St. 7:00am – 11:00am Service every 10-15 minutes Nerdy women – the “hidden half” of fan Magnolia Hotel Denver At Hilton Denver City Center 11:00am – 2:00pm Service every 20-25 minutes culture – open up about their lives in the Route 2 Boarding Location 2:00pm – 6:00pm * Service every 10-15 minutes world of conventions, video games, and other Holiday Inn Express Denver Downtown Curbside on Tremont Sunday, February 11 rife-with-misogyny pop culture touchstones. Sheraton Denver Downtown – CO HQ Curbside on Court Pl. 7:00am – 11:00am Service every 10-15 minutes While geek communities have recently risen to 11:00am – 2:00pm Service every 20-25 minutes prominence, very little attention is paid to geek Hyatt Regency Denver Convention Center – HQ, Crowne 2:00pm – 6:00pm * Service every 10-15 minutes women. Filmmaker Gina Hara, struggling Plaza Denver, The Curtis, Embassy Suites Denver Downtown with her own geek identity, explores the issue Convention Center, Hilton Garden Inn Denver, Hyatt House Denver Monday, February 12 Downtown, and Hyatt Place Denver Downtown are adjacent to the 7:00am – 11:00am Service every 10-15 minutes with a cast of women who live geek life up to CCC. Shuttle service is not provided. the hilt: feminist geek blogger, a convention- 11:00am – 5:30pm * Service every 20-25 minutes * Indicates last time shuttle departs CCC returning to hotels. Last shuttle departs trotting cosplayer, a professional gamer, a Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Observation and Sunrise Celebration hotels coming to the CCC approximately 45 minutes prior to this time. video-game designer, and a NASA engineer. Shuttle Service Tuesday, February 13 Through their personal experiences in the rich 7:30am – 1:00pm Limited service between hotels and CCC cultural explosion of nerdom, “GEEK GIRLS” Monday, February 12 • 6:00am – 7:00am Limited Service provided by reservation only. Please call (310) 425-2443 for details. shows both the exhilaration of newfound Colorado Convention Center community and the ennui of being ostracized. Shuttle service will be provided beginning at 6:00am. Regular shuttle service will resume for return service back to hotels following the event. Nothing Without Us: The Women Visit Gale Booth #1508 If you have questions about the shuttle or if you need to make At Gale, we’re on a mission to empower Who Will End AIDS learning. We believe the single most a reservation for a wheelchair-accessible vehicle, please see important thing we can do to improve This is the story of the women of color who the shuttle supervisor at the CCC or call/text outcomes is to empower the people who share our same level of commitment and passion KUSHNER & ASSOCIATES at (310) 425-2443 during for discovery of knowledge and learning - people like you. That’s why our entire lineup have saved countless lives – including their of products are designed to help you support users, with the ability to discover unique own – through their work at the forefront of shuttle hours. insights through advanced learning and research. the global AIDS movement; it’s the first and only documentary about this missing chapter in HIV/AIDS activism. Combining archival footage with contemporary interviews, the film shines a light on the activists, scholars, and Friday’s PopTop Stage Schedule 5:45 – 6:35 p.m. Author Sue Macy presents Motor Girls
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