Highlights Issue 2010

ALACognotes WASHINGTON — 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010 Annual Conference Highlights Librarians Rally on Capitol Hill By Karen E. Brown, University of Hawaii

amila Alire, ALA President 2009-2010 was the enthusiastic CMaster of Ceremonies for a rally on Capitol Hill June 29, leading the activities for Library Advocacy Day. More than 1,600 ALA members and advocates of all ages braved the 90-de- gree heat to take part in the largest federal advocacy event in ALA history, with chants of “We’re gonna tell ‘em” and “What do we want? Money! When do we want it? Now!” Holding up signs designating their state, the crowd with red shirts bear- ing the slogan “Vote for Libraries” didn’t just include librarians and information specialists, but also LIS students, members of YALSA and (1) Hundreds of librarians cheer for library support in Upper Senate Park on the ALISE, friends of libraries and even U.S. Capitol grounds during Library Advocacy Day. (2) Author Lauren Myracle makes her case for more financial support for libraries. Acclaimed songwriter and performer folks from as far away as Hawaii, Natalie Merchant performs selections Alaska and Qatar. Speakers included Alire emphasized the main themes Secondary Education Act (ESEA). from her newly-released Leave Your Lauren Myracle, author of beloved of the advocacy day including increas- Pumping up the crowd for their meet- Sleep, a two-CD set of songs adapted and contended books ttyl, ttfn, and l8r, ing Library Services and Technology ings on the Hill following the rally, she from the works of classic and g8r, Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Act (LSTA) funding to $300 million led the group with the rally cry, “We’re contemporary poets for the Exhibits Director of ALA, Senator Jack Reed, for FY2011 and including support going to tell them!” Closing Program June 28. Rhode Island, and Representative for school librarians in the upcoming Sen. Reed spoke eloquently about Vern Ehlers, Michigan. reauthorization of the Elementary » see page 4 Amy Sedaris Exhibitors Add International Flair Regales By Deb Nerud Vernon sell books at ALA, we are here to Audience make contacts between librarians he ALA Annual Conference and publishers.” At ALA Annual is a great place to gather all Scherer said that his association 2010 Closer T the items you need for your helps American librarians obtain library. The vendors and exhibitors German books easier…“so librar- By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. offer everything one could want or ians can order directly from U.S. The Library of Congress need that is library related, includ- companies, call a toll free number ing items to meet the needs of cul- and have an easier time with the olly Raphael, Pres- Amy Sedaris makes a bookmark during an tural awareness or a diverse patron payment.” He continued, “It’s a ident-Elect of ALA, entertaining Q&A with attendees at the Closing population. benefit to the Mintroduced Amy Se- Session June 29. I spoke with librarian that daris, television and film three exhibitors “[This] is the main has a foreign actor, author, and comedian on the it. She said she enjoys using the library at this year ’s library show and we plan language sec- morning of June 29. In a well-attended near her home in New York City. The conference, that to come for many years.” tion. For the appearance sponsored by Grand Cen- building used to be a women’s prison, r e p r e s e n t e d librarian look- tral Publishing, Sedaris, younger sister where she claims that she sometimes Germany, Spain ing to find a of humorist David Sedaris, followed hears the voices of “screaming dead and Asia who ex- certain book a few brief remarks of her own with women.” Sedaris asserted that “librar- plained the symbiotic relationships we have German Books in Print to an extensive, question-and-answer ies are so great because they are free.” they hope to form with American find that specific book or publisher.” session centered on the topic of her While Sedaris was answering fan mail librarians. “America Reads Spanish” is a forthcoming book slated to appear in (“all of seven letters”) one day, a friend Looking for German books and promotional campaign launched November—Simple Times: Crafts for of hers told her that she loves working periodicals? The Association of to promote books in Spanish and Poor People. She is also the author of: in a library because “she gets big hugs.” Publishers and Booksellers in Spanish language. Organizational I Like You: Hospitality under the Influ- She hoped that many of those present Baden-Württemberg, Germany representative Francisco Vives and ence and co-authored The Book of Liz » see page 15 exhibited for the 25th time this Alina San Juan, Trade Officer of and Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That year at ALA. Johannes M. Scherer, the Embassy of Spain were at the Just May Not. Executive Director, said that the conference to facilitate a way for Sedaris joked that she assumed that Inn vative publishers have the option to send librarians to buy books in Spanish, this was one of the quietest conventions i n t e r f a c e s a representative to be in the booth said San Juan. “[The ALA Annual around. The rapid interchange with the and meet attendees personally, or Conference] is important as this audience that soon followed proved her Click here to see send only their books. “We do not » see page 8 wrong, a result that she undoubtedly our ad on page 3. expected, reserving most of her time for Page 2 • Cognotes 2010 Annual Conference Highlights • WASHINGTON, D.C. John Grisham Thanks Libraries Best-selling By Kathryn Shields by numerous agents and publishers authors High Point University (NC) and was eventually picked up in 1989 David Small by Windwood Press. They published and Audrey “I have a long, wonderful history 5000 copies, and he bought 1000 of Niffenegger with libraries and librarians. From them. So, he went to the local library shared their a purely selfish view I want to say and asked if he could have a book experiences thanks,” said John Grisham as he party there. His librarian called other that led began his talk in front of a large libraries around Mississippi, and he them to crowd of librarians who gathered to took his show on the road, selling write graphic hear him as part of the Auditorium books from the trunk of his car for the novels Speaker Series sponsored by Penguin, rest of the summer of 1989. When he during the on Monday, June 28. Grisham, who published his second book, The Firm, Auditorium will serve as the Honorary Chair of in 1991 “most of the encouragement Speaker 2011 National Library Week, is an came from independent booksellers Series on internationally best-selling author. He and librarians.” June 28. recently introduced his first-ever series of children’s books for 8-12 year olds, the first of which is entitled Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer and fol- lows the adventures of a 13-year-old Junot Diaz: His Life a Canvas boy who is an amateur lawyer and By Kathryn Shields things we fall in love with as a kid, in unwittingly becomes involved in a High Point University (NC) many ways, become our lives. He also high-profile murder trial. said that as a child of two illegal im- As a child, John Grisham’s family Junot Diaz exploded onto the liter- migrants, living in bitter poverty, “that moved a lot for his father’s job, and ary scene in 1996 with Drowned, a kind of a childhood leads you to think he lived in various small towns in collection of short stories and one of about how often young people are vul- Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisi- the first books to illuminate the lives of nerable, asked to endure tremendously ana. “When we moved we did two Dominican-Americans. His first novel, challenging lives.” He felt, however things immediately—joined the John Grisham The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, that was a great canvas to build his art. local Baptist church… and went to won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Diaz Figueroa also asked Diaz what he the local library. The crucial point,” grew up in New Jersey and received felt it said about American life that his he said “was always how many books He got the idea to write Theodore a BA from Rutgers and an MFA from book won the Pulitzer Prize, which is you could check out in a week.” Their Boone from his daughter, who is Cornell. He currently teaches creative given to an American author presum- house was always filled with the an elementary teacher. She told writing at MIT. Diaz was interviewed ably writing about American life. Diaz stacks of books that he and his three him about the kinds of books her by Miguel Figueroa of the ALA Diver- said when we talk about an American siblings checked out from the library, students were reading, and none of sity Office as part of the Auditorium nation, it is always better to talk about and he remembers grabbing a book them were reading books about the Speakers Series sponsored by Penguin a collective than an individual. “Just and going to hide to “get lost” for a law. He came up with the idea of a on Monday June 28. because the Pulitzer committee nomi- few hours in a story. He also said 13-year-old kid who is an only child, Diaz said that of the institutions nated one book by a Dominican writer “you wouldn’t be caught dead reading whose parents are both lawyers and that shaped his life, “I would say the doesn’t mean that Latino writers are Nancy Drew [because it was a girls’ practice together. “Theo doesn’t want military, one [because his father and being acknowledged in the way they series]…so you just didn’t get caught.” to go to ballgames, he wants to go to should be.” He noted that only two He thanked libraries for “creating trials.” Theo wants to be a famous Latino writers have won the Pulitzer, places where little boys can go to trial lawyer or a judge. He knows and they are both male. discover books and a love of reading.” every judge in town, every lawyer, Diaz spoke about an organization Grisham said he also owes much every policeman, every court clerk, that he works with called Voices of Our of his early success as an author to and can hack into anything which, Nation’s Arts. As an MFA student at libraries and librarians. He was in- Grisham said, means that “Theo Cornell, Diaz felt that he couldn’t talk spired to write his first book, A Time is going to be in a lot of trouble for openly about a lot of the issues that to Kill, by something he saw in a many episodes to come.” The book he was interested in writing about, courtroom. The book took three years came out in May of this year, and such as gender, race, and sexuality. to write, and his wife read each chap- Grisham looks forward to writing Through this organization, Diaz cre- ter as he finished it. It was rejected more Theo books in the future. ated the Voices Writers’ Workshop, Junot Diaz a summer program that serves “as a place where young writers of color can much of his family are in the military] come together and for two weeks talk and the library, two.” His first love was about their writing, and if they want to reading, and “I think my greatest love discuss these issues, they can.” would still be reading.” When he first Of the footnotes in his novel, Diaz saw the library at his grammar school, said that, in large part, they had to he said he felt what is often described do with “my own love of the footnote.” as an “electric thrill of destiny … I Before he became a writer, he said was home.” I knew that this “utopian that he wanted to be a historian. concept of books available to citizens He did a lot of standard research for for free, I knew that it was going to be the footnotes, spending time in the my future, I knew that it was going to archives, the stacks, interviewing define me.” people, and he also just sat around Figueroa asked Diaz how his own and waited for people to say some- youth and childhood influenced his thing he could use. writing. Diaz responded that the great Diaz said that many people think it thing about youth is that youth feels is incongruous for an artist to be teach- “strangely eternal—when you are a ing creative writing at MIT. Diaz said young person, an adolescent, time feels that “promoting the arts in a culture, astonishingly slow.” His mother always in a society when the artist is the first told him to “be careful of the decisions person they think about throwing off Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan shares a laugh with AASL Executive you make, because they could be your the Titanic is a struggle. “I don’t mind Director Julie Walker, left, and AASL President Cassandra G. Barnett, right, life” and he didn’t understand what she being considered irrelevant; it’s a fight during an informal meeting on June 28 with the AASL board of directors and meant. Now he sees that a lot of the for me that I think is worth it,” he said. representatives from state-level school library organizations affiliated with AASL.

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and Technology Act (LSTA) and the as a young boy because Advocacy Day Improving Literacy Through School severe asthma made it » from page 1 Libraries (ILTSL) program from the impossible for him to at- U.S. Department of Education. Sen. tend school. He learned a community’s consistent reliance on Reed cautioned that every member from home, surrounded the library to learn about tools to help of Congress is “looking at the cost of by library books. Ehlers, enter the work force and to access everything, but the cost of libraries who has a PhD in nucle- the Internet, which is critical in all shouldn’t be an afterthought,” and ar physics, said, “I do communities, especially rural areas he has been a vocal supporter of both everything I can for you where costs are high and bandwidth LSTA and ILTSL. but it’s amazing how low. He said libraries are “essential little support there is for to our civic life and progress as a na- Surrounded by Books libraries,” and suggested tion” and encouraged the audience to Rep. Ehlers told a touching story that librarians be more be vocal about the Library Services about his extensive use of the library involved in their communities, become politically astute and get to know one’s local and state government in order for the money to roll in. Ehlers U.S. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, encourages said, “in retirement I librarians to actively support the LSTA and ILTSL want to build my own during Library Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill. airplane and fly it and read every book in the local library. I the supporters took the time to visit hope I achieve both.” their congressional representatives in “No Child Left Behind should their offices to remind them of the im- be called Every Child Left Behind, portance of libraries, not just during because it’s been terrible for school the good times, but especially the bad. libraries,” exclaimed Fiels. Before Video of the rally will be made leaving the rally to go speak with available on the ALA Washington Of- representatives and Senators on The fice blog, District Dispatch at www. Hill, Fiels reminded the crowd that wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/. that they were there not on behalf of themselves, but on behalf of the communities and thousands of people who use the library every day that we, like Cognotes our Congress, represent. At the end of the rally, Alire said, ISBN: 0738-4319 The Stacks draw a crowd during the Opening Reception as ALA attendees “Now that we’re warmed up, the real Volume 2010 Issue 13 take in hundreds of exhibits. work can begin.” With that, many of Editor Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. The Library of Congress

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Page 6 • Cognotes 2010 Annual Conference Highlights • WASHINGTON, D.C. Authors Recognized for Contributions to Children’s Literature at Newbery Caldecott Awards Banquet By Megan Hodge him of a child who had read The Lion University of North Texas and the Mouse twice—each time with a different interpretation. “This was Jerry Pinkney and Rebecca Stead exactly what I was going for: a child were presented with the Caldecott taking ownership… Here is the heart and Newbery Medals, respectively, of the book: what the reader discovers at Sunday night’s Newbery Caldecott outside the vision of the artist.” Awards Banquet. ALSC President Stead confided that When You Reach Thom Barthelmess, who presided over Me, the book for which she won the the evening gala, said in his open- Newbery, developed out of her own in- ing remarks that librarians, and the securities as a child. She said, “when I award committee members in particu- read books, I wasn’t alone in the room lar, “do what we do for the inestimable of my own mind… the people in books The New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR’s “Puzzlemaster” Will value of providing children with good told me things that the people in my life Shortz keynotes the PLA President’s Program. books.” Over 1,400 guests, including wouldn’t admit.” She wanted to provide ALA President Camila Alire, were in the same sort of light bulb moment to Will Shortz Tests attendance at the event. other children, but, “like many people In his acceptance speech, Pinkney— who secretly want to write, [I] became who won for his nearly wordless inter- a lawyer.” The book took shape over Librarians’ Puzzle Skills pretation of Aesop’s fable The Lion and several years, suffering a setback at By Kathryn Shields puzzles every day from people across the Mouse, related that Mo Willems one point when Stead wondered if she High Point University (NC) the country and files them away. (author of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive “really wanted to put all of [my] weird- Puzzles need editing for various rea- the Bus) suggested that since Pinkney’s ness into this book.” She persevered, Can you tell what’s special about sons—the clue is wrong, the clue and book was wordless, so should his speech however, and thanked the committee this sentence? “Dad planted a peach answer are different parts of speech, be. Pinkney did not take this advice, for providing her with “knee-locking orchard in Georgia.” If you look closely, the clue is too difficult for the day or however, and related a story told to happiness; a lightning bolt of joy.” you can see a U.S. President’s name the clue is too confusing. Shortz said —Harding. This is just one of the that although some see crossword puzzles that Will Shortz presented puzzles as an older person’s activity, to the attendees at the PLA Presi- he has published five puzzles from dent’s Program on June 27. Shortz is teenagers in the past year. The oldest perhaps most well known for his role person to have a crossword published as crossword editor for the New York in the New York Times is 95. Times and puzzle master for NPR’s If you are an aspiring puzzler, “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Sari Feld- Shortz gave some of the basic rules man, PLA President, said she chose of American crossword puzzles: grids Shortz as the keynote speaker for the must be symmetrical, no checked let- program because “I start every single ters (every letter must appear in two morning with Will Shortz, and on answers), no two-letter words, no re- Friday and Saturday I often end the peated words, and “every word in the day with Will Shortz.” grid has to be a real word or phrase, Shortz said that he grew up in you can’t make stuff up.” libraries in Crawfordsville, Ind. He On the pen versus pencil debate, “read twice as many books as any Shortz says, “the only difference is other kid my age.” He briefly consid- pencil you can erase, pen you can ered majoring in library science at write over.” He also said that, sadly, Indiana University until he discovered libraries don’t often buy his books that he needed to be fluent in a second because they don’t like to purchase The “Night of the Living Librarians” team from the University of Pittsburgh language. He then went on to create books that you are supposed to write takes the Gold Cart, winning the Sixth Annual Library Book Cart Drill Team his own unique major in Enigmatology in and that the Times will not allow Championship, sponsored by DEMCO. and is, to date, the only academically books that are meant to be written in accredited puzzle master in the world. appear on the best-seller list. His own reference library is probably Shortz says that the internet has had NBA Star Dwyane Wade Honorary larger than the collection in many “mostly all positive effects” on cross- library buildings. “Well-edited books word puzzles. There are now internet Chair of Library Card Sign-up Month are more reliable than information on groups for puzzlers to connect with one This September, Olympic gold effective tools that many Americans the internet,” he said. another and also at least six daily blogs medalist and 2008-2009 NBA top need to succeed. As crossword editor, Shortz gets on the New York Times puzzle. scoring player Dwyane Wade wants In addition to the PSA Library Card Americans to know that a library card Sign-up sample media tools are now is the “smartest card” in every wallet. available to remind the public of all the As Honorary Chair of Library Card resources available for free with a li- New York Sign-up Month, Wade has donated brary card. Tools include a sample press Times best- his time and image to the creation of release, newsletter article, proclamation selling author a print public service announcement and public service announcement Dennis Lehane (PSA). ALA will place the PSA in mag- To download free promotional discusses his azines during the month of September. materials visit www.ala.org/library- soon to be Librarians can download the PSA at cardsignup. released book www.ala.org/librarycardsignup. Library Card Sign-up Month was Moonlight During Library Card Sign-up launched in 1987. Library Card Sign- Mile at the Month 2009, Wade donated $25,000 up Month is a time to remind parents Auditorium through his Wade’s World Foundation that a library card is the most impor- Speaker Series. to help save the struggling William tant school supply of all. Since then, Leonard Public Library in Robbins, Ill. thousands of public and school librar- In these tough economic times ies join each fall in a national effort to libraries are on the forefront of pro- ensure every child signs up for their viding their communities with cost- own library card. WASHINGTON, D.C. • 2010 Annual Conference Highlights Cognotes • Page 7

ALA Ambassador David Dowell, right, Morro Bay, Calif., answers a question Nancy Pearl, left, interviews Mary McDonagh Murphy, right, on the 50th for James Kennedy, left, Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa, at the ALA anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird. Membership Pavilion in The Stacks.

Skinny Bitch author Kim Barnouin autographs copies of her book Ultimate Everyday ALA President Camila A. Alire and Exhibits Secretary John Ison cut the ribbon to Cookbook after cooking up some treats for librarians at the Cooking Pavilion. open The Stacks on June 25 as the ALA Executive Board watches.

Jerry Pinkney is all smiles signing copies of his book The Lion & The Mouse at Little, Brown and Company booth.

Warren Brown bakes cakes in the Cooking Pavilion before signing copies of his book United Cakes of America. Page 8 • Cognotes 2010 Annual Conference Highlights • WASHINGTON, D.C. “We provide cultural and language APALA Celebrates Its History, International Flair materials that are difficult to find or » from page 1 are not readily available.” Accomplishments, Current Programs, is the main library show and we “Any time there in unrest in a plan to come for many years,” she country or some new group moves to and Members at 30th Anniversary Gala remarked. the U.S., that group wants to learn By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. Surbodh Sen; a keynote address by Dr, The Essential Guide to Spanish English,” continued Yoon. “We have The Library of Congress Franklin Odo; cultural dances by the Reading for Children and Young 100-plus languages that we publish locally-based Lao American Association; Adults (a free give-away book at and distribute.” Products are dem- The Asian Pacific American Library APALA Literature Awards; and the conference) is also available on their onstrated and catalogs are provided Association (APALA, searchable at honoring of past presidents and the cur- web page and is updated monthly from which to order. www.apalaweb.org) marked its third de- rent executive director Gary Colmenar (www.americareadsspanish.org). The company located in Cincin- cade with a retrospective on its history by current president Sherise Kimura. Vives said that there are many nati, has been in business for 15 and future plans at a fund raising din- APALA’s first president (1980-82) resources available on the web site years to help schools or libraries ner the evening of June 27 at the China Sharad Karkhanis shared with those in that librarians would find useful supplement curriculum, help people Garden Restaurant in Rosslyn, Va. attendance the organization’s pioneer- including an online TV channel fea- learn a foreign language or just pro- Featured among the festivities, hosted ing days including how he contacted turing Spanish authors and events vide enjoyable viewing and reading. by Master of Ceremonies and past presi- and invited former U.S. Senator and and many useful links. Yoon said that Chinese language dent (2006-2007) Ben Wakashige, were: linguist S. I. Hayakawa to the first Asia for Kids provides multicul- materials are “hot” right now. “We recognition of the evening’s sponsors APALA assembly, held in conjunction tural and bilingual resources for a have a DVD about Cuba coming out (with DEMCO, the platinum sponsor, with ALA’s annual meeting. When the variety of languages including, but soon as well as one about families providing souvenir tote bags; Patty ALA President heard about his initia- not limited to, Albanian, Chinese, of Afghanistan. When we exhibit, Wong, the silver sponsor; ALA President tive, Karkhanis wound up introducing Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Japanese and many librarians stop by and tell us Camila Alire, the gold sponsor; and Lee Dr. Hayakawa at ALA’s opening ses- Korean. “Librarians can travel the what language they need in their & Low, Betty Tsai, and REFORMA as sion in New York, thereby advertising world at our booth,” said Selina collection and we listen. We are here bronze sponsors); a welcome by Bue- APALA’s role as a catalyst in its first Yoon, Master of Communication. to address their needs.” naventura “Ven” Basco, anniversary year. Past president (1996-1997) and organizing chair; Bollywood singing by unofficial organization historian Ken 64 129TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2010 PROGRAM & EXHIBIT DIRECTORY Yamashita recounted additional tales of the early days as well as APALA’s more recent partnering activities such as helping to organize the first Joint LIBRARY CHAMPIONS Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) in 2006. ALA President Alire appeared in a videotaped welcome in which she praised APALA’s past and current ven- tures, most recently its partnering with the American Indian Library Associa- tion on “Talk Story: Sharing Culture, Sharing History” as part of her family literacy focus project. President-elect Companies and foundations listed below are corporate sponsors Florante Peter Ibanez introduced Dr. committed to increasing public awareness of libraries and Odo, Hawaii-born Japanese-American l i b r a r i a n s h i p i n A m e r i c a . author, scholar, teacher, activist, histo- f o r i n f o r m a t i o n o n h o w y o u r o r g a n i z a t i o n c a n b e c o m e rian, and recently retired director of the a Library Champion, please contact the ALA development office Asian Pacific American Program at the at 312-280-5050. Smithsonian. Odo provided perspective and context for the current situation of Asian Pacific Americans, now spread throughout the nation rather than 3m LIBrAry systems gALe CengAge LeArnIng sAge puBLICAtIons contained in isolated segments. Odo said that we need to help lead ABC-CLIo gAyLord Brothers, InC. sChoLAstIC the way to critical thinking. According to Odo, when the U.S. Census first BAker & tAyLor, InC. h.w. wILson CompAny severn house recognized this ethnic category in Bound to stAy Bound hIghsmIth sIrsIdynIx 1970, Japanese were the most numer- Books ous among them. Because of changes InfousA/referenCe sprInger and diversification within the Asian Bowker group American community, that ethnic- stAndArd & poor’s ity is now only the sixth largest. Odo BrodArt CompAny IngrAm CorporAtIon mentioned the completion of his most BwI/foLLett LIBrAry JAnwAy CompAny swets recent project, a book on Japanese resourCes immigrant folksongs from Hawaiian LexIsnexIs the ComBIned Book sugar plantations, which relate to gen- CAndLewICk press exhIBIt der as well as labor history, since many mArquIs who’s who of these anonymous compositions are demCo InCorporAted the LIBrAry CorporAtIon mArshALL CAvendIsh the work of women. He also told of his doLLAr generAL thomson reuters own personal journey, preceded by the mergent Hawaii-vacationing FDR granting per- eBsCo InformAtIon verIzon foundAtIon mission for a boat carrying Japanese- servICes mornIngstAr, InC. Americans (including Odo’s mother) vtLs, InC. to land. Odo went on to studies at eLsevIer, InC. neAL-sChumAn wIzArds of the CoAst Princeton and Harvard, interspersed ex LIBrIs oCLC onLIne Computer Books for young by an undergraduate “experiment in international living” in Italy. LIBrAry Center reAders fInrA Investor eduCA- Dora Ho, Chair of APALA’s Litera- tIon foundAtIon poLArIs LIBrAry systems worLd Book ture Awards Committee, followed with presentations for honorable mentions proquest and winners in the categories of: picture books, adult fiction and non- fiction, and youth literature. WASHINGTON, D.C. • 2010 Annual Conference Highlights Cognotes • Page 9 Librarians Can Change Society By Amy Pace involved in this evolution, Malone also Kathleen de la Peña McCook urged camps who could not have library High Point University (NC) told the history of the Houston Public attendees to consider the stories of services during World War II. McCook Library’s slow process of desegrega- some courageous librarians over the quipped of the redeeming quality of How can librarians become more tion. This process began before such years. McCook is a Distinguished Uni- libraries, saying “Every President of engaged in social movements? On Sun- historic events as the Greensboro, NC versity Professor at the School of Li- the United States… spends the rest day morning, June 27, activists, his- sit-ins. Malone reminded attendees brary and Information Science for the of their career building their library.” torians, librarians and other creative that social change is not always a big University of South Florida. She told McCook warns “You always have thinkers discussed their research and dramatic change, but sometimes a se- about Agnes Ingles in 1924, Stanley to be on the watch as librarians; you work to promote civic engagements to ries of slow and incremental changes. Kunitz in 1938 and 1939 who inspired never know who is going to be the cen- help provoke this question. Speaking on the subject of libraries the Library Bill of Rights, standing sor in your community.” The question Cheryl Knott Malone, Associate and the art of Balkan Identity was Jon up for The Grapes of Wrath when it occurs: what would this world be like Professor at the School of Informa- Feffer, the co-director of Foreign Policy was banned. Jacqueline Greed vis- without the stands these librarians tion Resources and Library Science in Focus project Institute for Policy ited Japanese children in internment have taken for what they believe in. at the University of Arizona, spoke Studies in Washington, D.C. He de- first, suggesting librarians today scribed a series of presentations given consider the history of the desegrega- by artists and activists in Germany in tion of southern public libraries, and 2006 and 2007 on the subject of war to DEMCO/AILA 2010 Scholarship Awards the roles librarians played therein. create the Dictionary of War. This idea The American Indian Library As- Grant provided financial assistance “Both segregation and desegregation led to the creation of the Balkans Proj- sociation is pleased to announce the to three tribal librarians to attend the were processes that moved back and ect, “a collection of material, an organi- recipients of the 2010 DEMCO/AILA American Library Association Annual forth,” she said. “Most southern cities zation of material and a presentation scholarship awards. Thanks to the Conference in Washington, D.C. This and towns that built public libraries… of material from several trips to the generosity of DEMCO, AILA was able year’s recipients are Teresa Mares, restricted their use to whites.” Excep- region.” It is an “attempt to break down to fund the DEMCO/AILA Library Librarian at Noli Indian School; San- tions to this were rare, she stated. the barriers between art, activism, and School Scholarship in the amount dra Tharp, Tribal Librarian for the However, Malone then described a academia.” The Balkans Project con- of $2000, and three DEMCO/AILA Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; and Melanie number of articles and books that sisted of a series of 70 interviews in the Travel Grants of $500 each. Toledo, Library Manager at Ak-Chin began to pop up before the passing of Balkans; transcripts of the interviews The 2010 DEMCO/AILA Library Indian Community Library. Thanks Brown v. Board of Education, which are available at balkansproject.ips-dc. School Scholarship recipient is Mary to this opportunity, these tribal librar- spoke of the more practical and fair org. Feffer hoped to discover where Gibson. Mary is an enrolled member ians will be able to take what they desegregation of their public libraries. the Balkans were headed in terms of of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western learned at the ALA conference back She told the stories of two librari- identity, shared stories of various art- Shoshone, and she will be pursuing to their communities. ans: Ruth Brown and Juliette Morgan, ists of the Balkans, including the story her Master of Science in Library and The American Indian Library As- early vocal proponents of civil rights of Violetta, the first gypsy TV anchor Information Science at the Simmons sociation would like to extend its in their libraries, whose careers ended in her region and Andre, who works on Graduate School of Library and Infor- congratulations to all four awardees, with dismissal and suicide, respec- gay and lesbian issues in a homophobic mation Science. and to thank DEMCO for its generous tively. Among the numerous stories society. 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Years was set up in Grand Central Termi- later, he recalled how he learned that nal in New York to record interviews the librarians actually had known that would later be preserved for he was doing this, and had encour- future generations to hear. Studs aged his reading by going to great Terkel cut the ribbon and made a lengths to buy more books by the remark about people knowing who same author. He said he could not designed the famous railroad ter- understand why every time he re- minal, but that that we didn’t know turned a book, there was a different that much about the everyday people title by the same author magically who built it. on the shelf for him. Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, Isay played several other ex- Marlo Thomas spoke to ALA attendees about this cerpts, including a couple of sani- ongoing project and shared many tation workers recalling being in Marlo Thomas examples of the recordings. Accord- Dave Isay Memphis at the time Martin Luther ing to Isay, these recordings, which some excerpts from several record- Jr. was killed and a retired librarian Cultivates Seeds are being preserved at the Ameri- ings they made over the years and telling her husband about how she can Folklife Center at the Library which have been featured on NPR. originally prepared for her career of Laughter of Congress, “exemplify “eloquence One recording was broadcast just by cataloging her comic books as a By Stacy L. Voeller and grace and wisdom in the voices days before Danny, a retired OTB little girl. Minnesota State University of everyday people.” worker, died of cancer, and the origi- StoryCorps will be coming to tele- Moorhead Isay explained that “part of the nal StoryCorps booth was renamed vision this summer with animated power of listening to these record- in his honor. cartoons accompanying the record- The Sunday, June 27 Auditori- ings is that you are walking in their “This is about the real America,” ings, and Isay played one example of um Speaker Series featured Marlo footsteps and you learn that there is Isay said, “not the celebrities, the a young boy named Joshua Littman Thomas, whose new book and memoir, more that unites us than divides us.” Lady Gagas, the sludge that comes interviewing and being interviewed Growing Up Laughing: My Story and Danny and Annie Perasa, from in over TV so often.” by his mother Sarah. the Story of Funny, will be published Brooklyn, NY, came to the Story- Isay also played a recording of an He closed by saying, “these are the in September. In writing her new book, Corps booth at Grand Central Ter- interview between Olly Neal and his people we should be building statues Thomas told the audience, “About two minal in the first or second week it daughter Karama. Neal, a retired of in this country... at its core, every years ago I decided to write my own was inPRO2935 operation, CognotesPRINT and Isay 5/27/10shared 1:48judge, PM told Page of 1 being a teenager and life matters equally.” story, and what it was like to grow up the daughter of an actor and about becoming a comedic actress myself. It was like a treasure hunt looking for and remembering these little golden pieces of my life.” Thomas recalled her earliest memo- ries of comedy. “I remember at the age of eight listening to my father rewind and Open the Door to Inspiration. rewind his tapes. He really always tried to make his act the best for his audience. 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www.ala.org • www.foreverneworleans.com Page 14 • Cognotes 2010 Annual Conference Highlights • WASHINGTON, D.C. Kidd and Taylor: On Memoirs, Relationships By Amy Pace together. Kidd said that “writing this High Point University (NC) book together has deepened our relationship.” In the book, Kidd wrote Sue Monk Kidd, author of The about the demands of motherhood Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid saying “the mother-daughter relation- Chair and her daughter, Ann Kidd ship is one of the most emotionally Taylor, who together have recently intense… bonds on earth.” The period published a new book: Traveling with written about in the book, between Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter 1998 and 2001, was from both mother Story, spoke June 26 about their mem- and daughter’s point of view. oir. Family photographs—vacations, Taylor had the idea to write the celebrations, and candid pictures— book with her mother in 2003. She had flashed on the screens before the two been writing it by herself for a long took the stage. time, but came to feel that her mother Kidd described the photographs should be included in the story. This Dozens of Libraries Build Communities volunteers gather as they prepare to spend that were shown as a visual collage of was her first major publication and the day at area libraries, schools, the Capital Area Food Bank, and Habitat for their book: a memoir of their changing she stated that it can be terrifying Humanity of Washington, D.C.; restoring books, coordinating food donations and relationship and travel experiences to put yourself out there due to the building homes. revelatory nature of memoirs. Taylor described it as daunting to write about her depression and other difficult pe- riods of her life. It took about three years to com- plete the memoir of their travels. The book is told in chapters alter- nating between Kidd and Taylor’s voices, carefully edited and collabo- rated to make the story seamless. THANK YOU To our SponSorS They kept journals, recorded notes, and kept in touch via email during their 40 days of travel. Taylor said through the generosIty of our sponsors, ConferenCe servICes Is proud the biggest difference they had dur- to BrIng you yet Another speCtACuLAr AnnuAL ConferenCe! ing the writing process was that of writing styles. Taylor read a passage from the DIAMOND SPONSORS book about the transitions the pair were facing, she into womanhood and gALe, A CengAge LeArnIng CompAny her mother into older womanhood, Shuttle Buses and the difficulty she had in sharing her depression with her mother. Kidd proquest CsA then read a passage from her part of Scholarship Bash the book dealing with her difficulty adjusting to the aging process and verIzon watching the young woman leave. She Opening General Session said, “aging is about the process of letting go of what is leaving anyway and saying a proper goodbye to this, which RUBY SPONSORS is gracious and appropriate, and at the same time, letting something new be demCo reAdhowyouwAnt sprInger born in us.” Book Cart Drill Team Accessible Final Program Conference Bags Championship sChooL LIBrAry JournAL/ eLsevIer LIBrAry JournAL BOOPSIE Internet Café Action Ad Coupon Book ALA Mobile

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And she recommended because: they hate reading; “libraries Under the stretching before engaging in certain smell like bad hair”; the lines there Influence, with activities in order to forestall craft- are too long; and they do not care for her “Martha induced injuries. overdue notices. Stewart scissors” As to any plans for fun, Sedaris of- Sedaris unabashedly queried how during her fered that she was going to rehabilitate much librarians make an hour. When Closing Session her apartment after having almost someone responded $26 an hour, she presentation trashed it while working on the craft retorted “Oh, you must be an adminis- June 29. book and then visit as many libraries trator.” For the rest of her program she as she could. In her new book, she was addressed craft making: admonishing inspired by some older craft books that the audience not to confuse scissors were pertinent, but claimed that many meant for paper with those intended for companion. She discovered that she in competition with her brother David, of them are “visually disappointing.” Re- fabric; showing how one can decorate had a flair for humor while growing since her humor is primarily visual garding her previous frequent comedy a cloth napkin with markers rather up in a large family with six siblings while his is more verbal and textual. collaborator and co-star Stephen Col- than by the more laborious method of who all had to scramble to get a word Ever an enterpriser, she observed bert, she said “[he] is the smartest per- using a needle and thread; and demon- in. But she also averred that she is not that shells from dead turtles when son I know—a real reference person.” strating how to craft a bookmark from plastic tape. 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Toni Morrison and Libraries: An Intimate Relationship By Jeanna Vahling she shelved in the stacks. University of Kentucky “What led me to writing was my hunger for reading” she told the Nobel Prize winning author, Pu- audience as she began to talk about litzer Prize winner, charming and herself as an author. She was hun- witty are all words to describe Toni gry for a certain kind of story. One Morrison, this year’s Opening Ses- she couldn’t find, “so I wrote it, ” sion Keynote Speaker at ALA Annual she humbly stated. It was only by Conference. More importantly she accident that she began to write chil- is a library advocate with a genuine dren’s books. She explained that her love for our profession. “I suspect son provokes the questions while she that every single author that speaks “pumps them up and develops them” to librarians can tell you about his into stories. “He’s the one who sort or her intimate, steady, and vital of gives me the laughter and joy that relationships to libraries” she said I think I can move along with this, in her opening remarks. with his help.” Morrison recalled stories of her She has recently written Peeny youth and her first glimpse of the Butter Fudge, a story for her grand- power of words. “I don’t even remem- children and her way of passing down ber my life, my sentient life, before I a third generation peanut butter was able to read.” fudge recipe. Morrison is pleased with ALA President Camila A. Alire shares a laugh backstage with Nobel Prize and Morrison spoke about her inti- the outcome of this book. “Language Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor Toni Morrison at the mate relationship with libraries. She is magic for them [grandchildren]. Opening General Session sponsored by Verizon. served as a library page after her They like rhyme and they like repeti- with their adjacent coffee shops to expressed her desire to secure our sister became secretary to the head tion. They invent words. They invent the libraries of yesteryear still post- future, “because that future is mine librarian in the town where they people. It’s very creative for them.” ing “no talking” signs. In closing she as well.” grew up. As Morrison puts it, she Morrison stressed that every was a “very slow page”, taking time library has its purpose—from the to read or at least peruse the books newer, community-centered libraries Eppo van Nispen Inspires Librarians to Finish Strong Sir Salman Rushdie By Stacy L. Voeller use it. In the digital era there is no Minnesota State University second hand. Going to the library to Putting Messages in a Bottle Moorhead ask a question will be outdated.” He said that there are almost no mobile By Brad Martin est work, calling him “the best editor On Sunday afternoon June 27, the apps for libraries, only about 17. But LAC Group I ever had.” He said that after his son ALA President’s Program fea- read an early draft he said he liked the tured inspirational speaker, During the writing of The Satanic Eppo van Nispen tot Seven- Verses, Sir Salman Rushdie’s son aer. He greeted the crowd by asked, “why don’t you write books saying, “Hello, I’m a librar- I can read?” Rushdie made him a ian. Ever since I’ve become a promise – his next book would be just librarian, I don’t get invited that, and the result was Haroun and to parties.” the Sea of Stories. With Luka and the He noted that the “number Fire of Life, Rushdie’s forthcoming one company in information book, Rushdie again returns to the in the world is you, the li- same genre—this time responding to brary. I realized that so many his other son’s challenge of “where’s people are using libraries and MY book?” that was interesting because Rushdie, spoke on Saturday, June nobody knows that.” a library, should connect to social net- 25 at ALA Conference about the writ- He started the DOK Library Con- works. “A lot of libraries don’t allow ing of both books. cept Center in Delft with the idea that them, and we need to stop doing that.” He told how both his books involve they “would always be ahead.” Accord- He continued by saying, “In li- fathers and sons, but that “beyond ing to van Nispen, “Architects are the braries we don’t talk about the most that, they are very different.” They worst for libraries because most of the popular things. Most librarians are differ as a result of what he described time libraries are publically funded text-based learners. In this time there as the shifting perspectives we experi- story, but “some people might find it and then the mayors start to call their is so much video coming to your eyes, ence in life. In Haroun and the Sea of boring.” Rushdie went back to work, friends the architects, and architects and your brains like it more. Text is Stories, he explained how it was about and with some changes Luka and the think in terms of forms, not of people. difficult, and that’s why there are so storytelling being threatened, and Fire of Life was completed to the son’s They miss the point of really design- many illiterate people. If you have to that Luka and the Fire of Life was a satisfaction. ing a library that’s useful. The Delft choose between reading a book and response to a different kind of danger The question and answer period library’s mission is to become the most watching television, your brain will —the mortality of the storyteller. that followed prompted Rushdie to modern library in the world, and a choose watching television.” For a long time, Rushdie said he speak about a range of topics, from better friend than Google.” He suggested getting partners into has wanted to “demolish the bound- his depiction of historical events like At DOK, when they think of a new the library. “Do things that are born ary between adult literature and the Bangladesh War in Midnight’s service, “it has to be [about] having digital. When it comes to things of local children’s literature,” and that movies Children, to whether the fatwa calling more. Life is all about having fun. Not importance, no one is faster or more such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for his death still affects his life. about trying, not about nagging, but important than the library. You have Avatar and many others have done With regard to the former, Rushdie it’s about fun. We’ve done an incred- to make a place where people want to this. He describes this kind of book as quoted author Milan Kundera, who ibly bad job in libraries of not having come; where gaming is normal.” a kind of message in a bottle—a book once said that “the struggle of man fun, it doesn’t have to be 24/7 serious.” “There is no other institution that that can be read as a child and then against power is the struggle of memo- van Nispen asked, “Would a library has so much traffic and connects so re-read as an adult, with the reader ry against forgetting.” On the threats to even be invented today? The electronic many people. You are obligated to discovering different meanings as his life, Rushdie said that for about the book is the library of the future. A li- your country to make something of the they grow up. past 11 years, it has not affected him brary is a second hand business model. library. It’s not about how you start, Rushdie also gave credit to his son that much, adding that “the Ayatollah We buy books and we lend them out. starting is not the issue, but it’s how who challenged him to write his lat- is dead, and I am still here.” We buy one book and a lot of people you finish. Finish strong,” he advised. WASHINGTON, D.C. • 2010 Annual Conference Highlights Cognotes • Page 17 Technology Titans Reach Out to Libraries in ALA Technology Pavilion

By Deb Nerud Vernon to any book ever published. “BookPrep Bing Health service, making it a more tertainment section with click-to-play is a tool to take scanned books, clean direct competitor with HealthLine music, television shows, movies and Bill Gates once said, “Never before them up, perform color correction, and and WebMD as well as adding an en- casual games. in history has innovation offered prom- get them ready for print on demand,” ise of so much to so many in so short a said Shawn Collins, Manager IPG Re- time.” The same can be said about the search Alliance. Technology Pavilion that was in the “This provides an excellent alterna- ALA Exhibits at this year’s Annual tive for storage and archiving those old Conference. Booths that couldn’t be books,” added Collins. “If you have an missed included the Eastman Kodak old out-of-print or rare book, you can booth. Long known as the industry’s still get a physical copy out for circula- leader of innovative document capture tion.” Collins had many examples of products, software and services, Kodak books done with the BookPrep system has developed a photo scanning system in his booth and added that if a copy which allows auto batch feeding. “It’s of the book sells the library shares in the only one on the market,” said Barry the revenue from the sale of that book. Symonds, Business Development Man- Over six million hours of film and ager of Photo Scanning. video from the 1920’s to current events Symonds said that the new photo will help engage your students and scanning system is extremely relevant develop 21st century learning skills. to libraries. “First, libraries are able That is what NBCLearn was showing to scan their own archived photos and off in their booth 805. They have de- share them with the community in veloped an educational resource that a digitized format. And libraries can never goes out-of-date and is aligned offer that same service to their com- with K-12 learning standards in all 50 Rosemary Harris (Dead Head) moderates a panel discussion with fellow mystery munities. People can bring in photos states and tackles over 28 subject areas authors Donna Andrews (Swan for the Money), Ellen Crosby (The Riesling or libraries can offer workshops on the in higher education and is integrated Retribution) and J.B. Stanley (Path of the Wicked) at the PopTop stage. process and do some fund raising.” He with Blackboard. added that it is a way for the library “You can enliven the classroom to offer services to businesses and that material you have and add real world Archivists and Librarians Working there is no ongoing supply cost. context and relevance,” said Michael Another booth that got a lot of atten- Levin, Directory of Technology. “The tion was the HP BookPrep booth. Book- student can watch, see, hear, and feel with Legislative Records Display Prep is a web service that makes it what it is like to be there.” The pat- possible to provide readers with access ented cue card media player displays Synergy at GODORT Session full-text transcripts and primary By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. continues to do for legislative records source documents on the ‘back’ of the The Library of Congress although no longer for those issued Upcoming Dates for media card as well as providing biblio- by the executive branch. The Library graphic citation information and links. ALA’s Government Documents of Congress web harvest project often Midwinter & Annual The robust search feature allows one Roundtable, Collections Manage- relates to Members as well on such 2011 Midwinter Meeting to perform Boolean, date or collection ment & Technical Services, on June topics as campaign literature. January 7–11, 2011 searches. “You can even search by state 28 featured a panel suggesting how Hartnett suggested two recent San Diego, CA standards to find all the videos that librarians and archivists can benefit archivist-produced publications for help support them,” said Levin. each other for they bring distinctive librarians who work with government 2011 Annual Conference At the Bing booth attendees discov- strengths to their tasks. Presenters documents: Managing Congressional June 23–28, 2011 ered how searching is not the just the included: Robin Reeder, Archivist, Collections by Cynthia Pease Miller New Orleans, LA same old thing any more. Microsoft Office of History and Preservation, (SAA, 2008) and An American Political designed Bing as a decision engine to Office of the Clerk, House of Rep- Archives Reader (SAA, 2009.) More 2012 Midwinter Meeting provide people with intelligent search resentatives; Cass Hartnett, U.S. people, even those who work with January 20–24, 2012 tools to help them simplify tasks and Government Documents Librarian, government documents, know about Dallas, TX make more informed decisions. The University of Washington Libraries; the location of presidential libraries Bing search engine has upgraded its and Linda Whitaker, Librarian, Ari- than of Congressional collections. zona Historical Foundation. She regretted that in the early 1980s, Reeder detailed how the Clerk many libraries withdrew their printed oversees the records of the House, congressional materials when the which primarily come from commit- same arrived on microforms. Many are tees, as well as presiding over the again searching for paper copies for House floor. House records are closed the easier teaching possibilities that to the public for 30 years after their they provide. Even with digitization, Newly creation, for 50 years if they contain congressional committees still issue installed sensitive information. their documents in paper form. Hart- ALA The National Archives and Records nett noted that Members’ own copies President Administration’s Center for Legisla- of hearings and other documents are Roberta tive Records at Archives I in Wash- different in color and have marbled A. Stevens ington D.C. houses these materials edges. Within Congressional papers, presents although, unlike executive branch constituent correspondence often re- her records, they remain the property veals the passions of the day and offer Inaugural of the issuing body. Reeder’s office opportunities for popular cultural re- Banquet also advises House Members how search. Librarians and archivists can address to prepare for the archiving of their also gain by the insight that cultural June 29. personal records. heritage experts can provide. The various forms of electronic Whitaker, who maintained that records have presented one of the big- a course in government documents gest challenges to archivists working should be mandatory in all library with legislative materials and there science programs, asserted that gov- now are streaming video websites of ernment documents librarians and some committee records. NARA began archivists share similar “high-end” harvesting websites in 2002 (www. users such as graduate students and webharvest.gov/collections) which it tenure-seeking professors. Educational rEsourcEs from “alBErt EinstEin” to “zEus.” all for frEE.

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