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Saturday, July 11, 2009 Cognotes 2009ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE — ISSUE 1 SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2009 Hefner to Speak at Opening Session Highlights passionate advocate of contributed significantly to the freedom of expression, effort to protect and enhance Auditorium Speaker Series A social justice and equal those rights for Americans. Featuring Gregory Maguire rights and oppor- Since then, more 8:00 – 9:00 am tunities for women, than 125 advocates Christie Hefner for First Amend- McCormick Place West will speak at the ment freedoms have W375 ALA Annual Con- been recognized Auditorium Speaker Series ference’s Opening with the award. General Session to- I n 1 9 9 3 , t h e Featuring James Ellroy day, 5:30 – 7:00 pm Playboy Founda- 10:30 – 11:30 am at McCormick Place tion established McCormick Place West West, W375. Hefner the Freedom of Ex- W375 is a director of the pression Award at Center for American the Sundance Film Cooking Pavilion Progress, a think Festival to honor Christie Hefner Featuring Ari Weinzweig ALA volunteers gather for their assignments to kickoff “Libraries tank dedicated to documentary films 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Build Communities” before boarding buses from McCormick Place improving the lives of Ameri- that best educate the public on Exhibit Demonstration on Friday morning. Volunteers rolled up their sleeves for projects at cans through ideas and actions issues of social concern. Hefner Stage Chicago school libraries, including processing, cataloging, cleaning, by combining bold policy ideas has promoted equal rights and technology, shelving new library books, and gardening. The event is with a modern communications opportunities for women in Auditorium Speaker Series coordinated by the ALA Chapter Relations Office. platform. Previously, Hefner both the political and corpo- Featuring served as chairman and CEO rate realms. She was the first James Van Praagh of Playboy Enterprises, over- woman elected to the Chicago Cokie Roberts, Michael Connelly, seeing policy, management and chapter of the Young Presidents’ 1:30 – 2:30 pm strategy in all areas of the com- Organization and has worked McCormick Place West James Van Praagh among Auditorium pany for more than two decades. hard to increase the number W375 Speakers Series Presenters As an advocate for First of women serving on corporate Amendment rights, she cre- boards nationwide. In 1991, Cooking Pavilion he ALA Auditorium tailed messages. Van Praagh’s ated the Hugh M. Hefner First Hefner was inducted into the Speaker Series welcomes unique paranormal experiences Featuring Gary Wiviott and Amendment Awards in 1979 Women’s Business Development 10 distinguished speak- during the past 25 years have Colleen Rush T to honor individuals who have » see page 8 ers who double been recorded in his New York 2:30 – 3:30 pm a s a u t h o r s , Times best-selling books includ- Exhibit Demonstration activists and ing Talking to Heaven, Reaching ALA Keeps Attendees Updated Stage national news- to Heaven, Healing Grief and makers. Speak- Heaven and Earth. He has also Opening General Session With Mobile, Accessible Technology ers include ABC produced a number of television ttending Annual ing the way to give you more Featuring Christie Hefner News commen- programs, including a hit prime- seems to include a information — electronically 5:30 – 7:00 pm t a t o r C o k i e time series, “Ghost Whisperer,” time-honored ritual of — with a minimum of effort. McCormick Place West Roberts, best- starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. A wading through lots and lots W375 selling mystery This presentation is sponsored Van Praagh of paper: from program books, Boopsie author Michael by HarperCol- TM to course descriptions — even Boopsie has partnered ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Connelly and medium James lins Publish- all the free stuff we ship back with ALA to bring you ALA Bash Van Praagh. ers. home afterwards. Mobile...the fastest, easiest Writer/producer James Van On Sunday, Chicago Art Institute And while print and paper way to access important and Praagh, recognized as one of July 12 from 7:00 – 11:00 pm are sometimes the best way useful information directly the foremost mediums, will 8:00 – 9:00 to communicate, finding spe- on your cell phone. ALA Mo- appear today from 1:30 – 2:30 am, Michael Registration and cific pieces of information in bile requires access to the pm. 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Navigate Your Way to Our Seminars Saturday, July 11, 2009 Sunday, July 12, 2009 Continuing the Conversation: bX: Users Who Looked At This Article Also A Further Exploration of the Looked At… Brave New World of Metadata 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Chicago Hilton, Northwest 3 Oren Beit-Arie, Ex Libris 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Chicago Hilton, Northwest 3 Robert Gerrity, Boston College John Larson, Ex Libris Barbara Tillett, Library of Congress You’ve used it with Amazon, you’ve used it with NetFlix — now there is a recommender service for scholarly articles. bX, the first of its kind service, builds Authority control has historically been one of the on many years’ worth of aggregated usage data from SFX libraries. Bob Gerrity of chief strengths of library data. By consistently Boston College, an early bX subscriber, joins us for this session. identifying people and concepts, such control has been indispensable in fulfilling the objectives of the catalog. But today’s catalog Ex Libris Primo: Redefining What it Means to be has grown in scope, and we’re faced with the “At the Library” challenge of providing that controlled data 1:30–3:00 p.m., Chicago Hilton, Northwest 3 in a broader context. This panel will discuss the Gilad Gal, Ex Libris synergies between the concepts of authority Richard Madaus, College Center for Library Automation control and linked data, and how they can be Jørgen Madsen, Royal Library of Denmark combined to enrich and expose library data. Serving today’s library users requires being where they are — from a course management system to Facebook® to a mobile device — customizing the experience Construction Ahead: Building for them, and offering them the ability to discover and access the content they the Next-Generation Library want. Only Primo by Ex Libris offers you the capability to meet all these needs Services Framework today. This seminar will show you how Primo goes beyond the standard OPAC to plug the search box into a variety of user portals and provide customized access 1:30–3:00 p.m., Chicago Hilton, Northwest 3 for users. Kathryn Harnish, Ex Libris Robert Gerrity, Boston College Janet Lute, Princeton University Monday, July 13, 2009 “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks Cook Up Some Code — and Have a Taste of the together.” (Mies van der Rohe) Library You Always Wanted And so too does the process of building a next- generation library services platform. In this 8:30–10:00 a.m., Hyatt Regency McCormick, Conf. Center 12A-C interactive session, Ex Libris and representatives Tamar Sadeh, Ex Libris from its Unified Resource Management (URM) Mark Dehmlow, University of Notre Dame Daniel Forsman, development partners will explore the process Jonkoping University, Sweden of defining and building a framework to serve Launched one year ago, the Ex Libris open-platform program provides a robust current and future library management needs. infrastructure enabling the customer community to easily customize, integrate, and How do we put “bricks together” to build a extend Ex Libris products. This session shows the program’s practical side, its tools and strong foundation? ingredients. We will share code recipes with you and cook up an example together. Refreshments will be served. Enter the drawing to win an Amazon Kindle 2™. Visit us at booth #1015 to learn how Ex Libris can be your bridge to the future! Ex Libris Group Toll Free: 1-800-762-6300 . Email: [email protected] . www.exlibrisgroup.com Saturday, July 11, 2009 • CHICAGO CHICAGO • Saturday, July 11, 2009 Cognotes • Page 3 10th Anniversary Scholarship Bash Tonight Changes and Cancellations Today ALA will rock the Art Institute of mailed with badges and expo cards. 7:30 am – 7:30 pm today. Remember, • ALSC 2010 Notable Children’s Videos 1:30 Chicago for the 10th Anniversary Schol- Ticket purchases onsite may be made at proceeds go towards MLS scholarships. – 5:30 pm moved from PALM-Montrose 1 to arship Bash, tonight at 7:00 pm. This the Bash Booth in the main registration PALM-Grant Park. is your chance to discover new works area at McCormick Place West for $45. 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