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Please visit us at booth 3549 to learn more about SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO), the essential tool for researchers. www.sagepub.com/srmo Cognotes Page 18 See an AccessScience Demo Do you know why volcanic ash can get into a plane’s en- gine and what can happen if it does? “…volcanic ash clouds are not detectable by the aircraft’s onboard radar instrumentation… adher- ence of melted ash to criti- cal engine parts and openings, combine to de- grade engine perfor - mance and, at worst, can cause engine flameout and videos, animations, dictionary defini- power loss. tions, Q&As, and even customizable —From the AccessScience article: pages in between—AccessScience, the “Volcanology” McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science National Have you wondered exactly how & Technology Online serves up richly Library they try to “kill a well” once it starts illustrated, constantly updated, and gushing oil? fully searchable information. This Advocacy Day “[One] ...option ...is to force a hollow peer-reviewed subscription reference tapered tube known as a stinger into will keep students, faculty, profession- June 29 – U.S. Capitol the gushing oil. Heavy mud can then als, and general researchers up-to- be pumped into the well to offset the date. But don’t take our word for it, natural pressures.” visit McGraw-Hill in booth 2103 to —From the AccessScience article: see a live demo and get a gift to boot! Visit Gale Booths “Oil and gas well drilling” Did you know that world famous # and # ornithologist, John James Audubon, Libraries and 3703 2214 was born in Haiti to a Creole mother and sea captain father or that the Workforce Agencies largest group of venomous verte- Partner to Help PRO2935 CognotesPRINT 5/27/10 1:48 PM Page 1 brates is not snakes, but fish? 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Take a closer look — and win a $1,000 travel voucher Visit booth #1711 and let us know how your library is helping Attend any of our in-booth presentations and you’ll be entered students and researchers achieve their goals. into the grand prize drawing for a $1,000 travel voucher — One library’s story will be featured on the Thomson Reuters good for any library conference. Visit booth #1711 for your building in Times Square. chance to win. Friday • “Picture This” Trivia – 6:00 PM Saturday Step into our fun photo booth to capture • “Picture This” Trivia – 9:00 AM, 11:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 3:30 PM your memories from ALA. • Promoting Your Researchers and Assisting Your Faculty Outreach Programs: ResearcherID.com – 10:00 AM • Life Sciences with Cited References: Biosis Citation index® – 12:00 PM • Collaborative Bibliographies with EndNote® – 3:00 PM FOCUSED ON ______________ Let us know your focus at booth #1711. ©2010 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. Thomson Reuters and the Kinesis logo are trademarks of Thomson Reuters. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Denis Balibouse. ALA_Cognotes2010.indd 1 6/4/10 11:38 AM 21328.Cognotes conference ad.qxp:Layout 2 5/21/10 10:38 AM Page 1 Random House, Inc. Booth #2903: Your Destination for Authors, Giveaways, and more! Sophie Brody Honor Book ALA ALA Notable Notable MARY BLAYNEY SALMAN RUSHDIE TONI MORRISON DAN CHAON MELVIN KONNER JOAN NATHAN JOHN GRISHAM PAULA POUNDSTONE STEPHANIE DOLGOFF MITCHELL KAPLAN ISABEL WILKERSON CAROLYN PARKHURST FRIDAY, JUNE 25TH 5:30pm – 7:30pm Featured ARE Giveaways: ALTAFF The Laugh’s On Us featuring PAULA 3:30pm – 5:00pm POUNDSTONE, There’s Nothing In This Book I Meant to AAP Editors’ Book Buzz featuring Random House Senior Say (Three Rivers Press) & STEPHANIE DOLGOFF, VP and Editor in Chief SUSAN KAMIL. Among her most My Formerly Hot Life (Ballantine) Grand Hyatt. recent bestselling titles are The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Society and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. MONDAY, JUNE 28TH SATURDAY, JUNE 26TH 10:30am – 12:00pm ALTAFF First Author, First Book featuring 10:30am – 12:00pm MITCHELL KAPLAN, By Fire, By Water (Other Press) ALTAFF Isn’t It Romantic Program featuring & ISABEL WILKERSON, The Warmth of Other Suns MARY BLAYNEY, Courtesan’s Kiss (Bantam) (Random House) Convention Center room 142. Convention Center room 142. 1:30pm – 2:30pm 1:30pm – 2:30pm ALA Auditorium Speaker JOHN GRISHAM, ALA Auditorium Speaker SALMAN RUSHDIE, The Confession (Doubleday) Luka and the Fire of Life (Random House) 2:00pm – 4:00pm Promise Me by Nancy G. Brinker (Broadway) 5:30pm – 7:30pm ALTAFF Gala Author Tea featuring CAROLYN PARKHURST, At Home by Bill Bryson (Doubleday) Opening General Session featuring TONI MORRISON, The Nobodies Album (Doubleday) Mayflower Renaissance. Thrive by Dan Buettner (National Geographic) A Mercy (Vintage) Ape House by Sara Gruen (Spiegel & Grau) *Limited quantities. Available while supplies last. SUNDAY, JUNE 27TH 8:00am – 10:30am TH RUSA Literary Tastes Breakfast featuring DAN CHAON, The Random House, Inc. BOOK BUZZ: Sunday, June 27 Await Your Reply (Ballantine) & MELVIN KONNER, Washington Convention Center, Room 152A The Jewish Body (Schocken) Join us for a slideshow of the big Fall 2010 books you MUST have and the 2:30pm important mid-list books you don’t want to miss! All attending will receive a ALA Cookbook Pavilion Demonstration featuring selection of FREE, hot advance reader’s copies! Refreshments will be served. JOAN NATHAN, Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous (Knopf) Children’s Titles: 10:00am – 11:00am | Adult Titles: 11:15am – 12:15pm Please check the conference program for ticket info and updates | www.randomhouse.com/library WASHINGTON, D.C. • Friday, June 25, 2010 Cognotes • Page 21 AASL President’s Program Speaker ALA Inaugural Banquet Site for Launch Calls School Librarians to Action of “Our Authors, Our Advocates” Allison Zmuda will be the keynote Litchfield, Conn. as a staff consultant, The ALA Inaugural Banquet, the ing at the local level—creating a speaker at the American Association of and independently through her own closing event for the ALA Conference snowball effect that impacts millions School Librarian’s (AASL) President’s consulting firm. She has presented at to be held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, of people for whom library service is Program. Her presentation, “Leading workshops and conferences across the June 29, at the Renaissance Wash- vital to their lives. the Transformation of Education for United States as well as in Canada, ington, Grand Ballroom, will set Through “Our Authors, Our Ad- the 21st Century,” is a call to action Japan, and Russia. Her first book, the stage for the launch of the new vocates,” one of Stevens’ key presi- for school librarians to position them- The Competent Classroom, launched national advocacy public aware- dential initiatives, authors will lend selves at the forefront of the push to her work as a national education ness campaign, “Our Authors, Our their support for libraries through transform American education into consultant. Her second book, High Advocates.” media interviews, podcasts, public the 21st century. The President’s Pro- Stakes High School: A Guide for the “Authors are the natural allies of service announcements and other gram will be held Saturday, June 26, Perplexed Parents, welcomes parents libraries in these challenging times,” marketing materials.