ALACognotes WASHINGTON — 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Saturday, June 26, 2010 Technology Titans Reach Highlights Out to Libraries in ALA Auditorium Technology Pavilion By Deb Nerud Vernon tremely relevant to libraries. Speaker Series “First, libraries are able to ill Gates once said, “Never scan their own archived photos Nancy Pearl with Mary before in history has inno- and share them with the com- vation offered promise of munity in a digitized format. McDonagh Murphy B so much to so many in so short And libraries can offer that Saturday, June 26, a time.” The same can be said same service to their communi- 8:00 -9:00 am about the Technology Pavilion ties. People can bring in photos in the ALA Exhibits at this or libraries can offer work- year’s Annual Conference. You shops on the process and do Sue Monk Kidd and won’t want to cruise through some fund raising.” He added Ann Kidd Taylor the exhibits without stopping that it is a way for the library Saturday, June 26, by some of these booths. to offer services to businesses 10:30 -11:30 am As you make your way and that there is no ongoing through the area, take a mo- supply cost. ment to see what Eastman Another booth that is sure Sir Salman Rushdie Attendees are eager to enter The Stacks on Friday evening. Kodak (booth 712) has to offer. to get your attention is HP Saturday, June 26, Long known as the industry’s BookPrep (booth 905). Book- 1:30 - 2:30 pm Will Shortz to Keynote leader of innovative document Prep is a web service that capture products, software and makes it possible to provide services, Kodak has developed readers with access to any book Opening PLA President’s Program a photo scanning system which ever published. “BookPrep is General he Public Library Asso- allows auto batch feeding. “It’s a tool to take scanned books, ciation (PLA) and PLA Session the only one on the market,” clean them up, perform color T President, Sari Feld- said Barry Symonds, Busi- correction, and get them ready man, are pleased to welcome ness Development Manager of for print on demand,” said Featuring Toni Morrison famed puzzle master, Will Photo Scanning. Shawn Collins, Manager IPG Shortz, as keynote speaker for Symonds said that the new Research Alliance. Saturday, June 26, PLA’s President’s Program and photo scanning system is ex- Continued on page 30 5:30- 7:00 pm Awards Presentation at ALA Washington Convention Annual. The program is part of Center, Hall D the ALA Auditorium Speaker Series and will take place from 1:00–2:30 p.m., Sunday, June ALA/ProQuest 27 at the Washington Conven- tion Center—Ballroom C. Scholarship Listeners to NPR’s “Week- Will Shortz Bash end Sunday Edition” and read- master for NPR’s “Weekend ers of the New York Times are Sunday Edition,” crossword familiar with challenging style editor for The New York Times, Newseum of Will Shortz, the world’s only editor of Games magazine for Saturday, June 26, 2010, academically accredited enig- 15 years and the founder and 7:00 - 11:00 p.m. matologist, a 14-letter word director of the American Cross- meaning “someone involved in word Puzzle Tournament. His the science of puzzles.” puzzling skills have even taken Shortz sold his first puzzle him to Hollywood as the sub- when he was 14 and became ject of a feature documentary a regular contributor to Dell film, “Wordplay,” in 2006 and Thrilled to build, a group of Libraries Build Communities puzzle publications at 16. as the riddle writer for “Bat- volunteers head to Habitat for Humanity of Washington, He has since become puzzle man Forever.” D.C., with a cheer to literally help build homes. Win an iPad! Come try The Library Corporation’s automation products on the touchscreen computers at Booth #3213. For your chance to win one of two iPads, attend one of TLC’s ve-minute product demos on the hour. TLCdelivers.com • 800.325.7759 Solutions that Deliver Library Automation • Authority Control • Cataloging WASHINGTON, D.C. • Saturday, June 26, 2010 Cognotes • Page 3 Auditorium Speaker Series Kicks Off Today with Five Speakers he ALA Auditorium Speaker ments on books regularly on NPR’s explores themes of midlife marriage The Jaguar Smile, Series kicks off three days of Morning Edition. Pearl is the author and self-awakening, and was a #1 New Imaginary Home- Tpresentations, with 12 dis- of Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: York Times bestseller and winner of lands, The Wizard tinguished speakers who double as Recommended Reading for Every the 2005 Quill Award for General Fic- of Oz, Mirrorwork, authors, activists and national news- Mood, Moment, and Interest; Book tion. Her newest book, Traveling with and Step Across makers. All Speaker Series presenta- Lust: Recommended Reading for Ev- Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter This Line. He is the tions will take place in the Washington ery Mood, Moment, and Reason; and Story, co-authored with her daughter former president of Convention Center, Ballroom B./C. More Book Lust: 1,000 New Reading Ann Kidd Taylor, is a dual memoir set American PEN. His Today’s agenda includes: Recommendations for Every Mood, against the backdrops of Greece and newest work of fic- Moment, and Reason, all published by France, chronicling Sue and Ann’s tion, Luka and the NANCY PEARL WITH Sasquatch Books. travels together, as they undertake Fire of Life will be MARY MC DONAGH Sponsored by HarperCollins a journey to redefine themselves and published by Ran- Sir Salman MURPHY rediscover each other. dom House in No- Rushdie (Photo Saturday, June 26 Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of vember 2010. By Rossano B. 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Columbia College in South Carolina. Sponsored by Maniscalchi) In celebration of the 50th anniver- She has published articles and essays Random House sary of To Kill a Mockingbird (July in Skirt! magazine in Charleston, SC, 11, 2010), an American classic, Nancy where she worked for two years after Pearl will interview Mary McDonagh college as an editorial assistant. Meeting Changes Murphy, Emmy award-winning film- Sponsored by Penguin Group USA Saturday maker and author of the upcoming YALSA 2011 Excellence in Non- book, Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Cel- Sir Salman Rushdie fiction for Young Adults session ebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Saturday, June 26 1:30-5:30 p.m. moved to JW- Mockingbird. 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Ann Kidd Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd Commerce. Pearl speaks about the pleasures Sir Salman Rushdie is the author (photo by Scott Taylor) of reading to library and community of ten previous novels — Grimus, Is It Safe to Go Outside? Health groups throughout the world and com- Midnight’s Children (for which he Effects of Climate Change and Sue MonK Kidd and won the Booker Prize and, recently, Global Warming 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Ann Kidd Taylor the Booker of Bookers), Shame, The is cancelled. Saturday, June 26 Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Exhibitor Booth Cognotes Sue Monk Kidd grew up in the tiny Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shali- Changes town of Sylvester, Georgia, a place mar the Clown, and The Enchantress India for Everyone is now in ISBN: 0738-4319 that deeply influenced the writing of Florence — and one collection of Booth 1633. Volume 2010 Issue 9 of her first novel The Secret Life of short stories, East, West. He has also Bees.PRO2935 Her novel, CognotesPRINT The Mermaid 5/27/10 Chair , 1:48published PM Page five 1 works of nonfiction: Editor Frederick J. 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(Above) The ALA Store, open from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. today in the lobby of the convention center, draws a big crowd as attendees arrive Friday afternoon.