Special Events
Special Events- What's Included With Your Registration
Details on Special Events, Speakers and other events occurring during the Annual Conference will be added as they are confirmed. All events below are included in a full conference registration unless the description indicates that additional registration is required.
ALA Awards Ceremony and Inaugural Banquet
Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 5:30 p.m. - midnight
All ALA recognition awards will be presented at a special awards ceremony (5:30 - 7:00 p.m.) immediately preceding the Inaugural Banquet (6:30 p.m.- midnight). (Tickets not required for Awards Ceremony).
The awards being presented include:
Beta Phi Mu, W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Library Literature, Marshall Cavendish Excellence in Library Programming Award, Melvil Dewey, Equality, Gale Cengage Learning Financial Development Award, Greenwood Publishing Group Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship, Paul Howard Award for Courage, ALA Information Today Library of the Future, Joseph W. Lippincott Award, Schneider Family Book Award, Scholastic Library Publisher, Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children, HW Wilson Library Staff Development Award, World Book/ALA Information Literacy Goal Award.
ALA/ ProQuest Scholarship Bash
Saturday, June 26, 2010, 7:00 - 11:00 p.m.
The ALA/Proquest Scholarship Bash will make headlines in Washington, DC at the new Newseum on Saturday, June 26, 2010, 7:00 - 11:00 pm. The Newseum will offer attendees an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. Don't delay and get your tickets early! Remember, tickets are tax-deductible, advance $40 and onsite $45, as applicable by law, and proceeds go towards ALA MLS's scholarships...including Spectrum!Register online, fax or by mail for ALA/Proquest Scholarship Bash.
Opening General Session and Closing Session
Opening General Session
Featuring Toni Morrison
Saturday, June 26, 5:30- 7:00 pm
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize winning American author, editor and professor. Her contributions to the modern canon are numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Her newest books for children are Peeny Butter Fudge and Little Cloud and Lady Wind.
Sponsored by Simon and Schuster
ALA Auditorium Speaker Series
Nancy Pearl with Mary McDonagh Murphy
Saturday, June 26, 8:00 -9:00 am
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird, an American classic, Nancy Pearl will interview Mary McDonagh Murphy, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and author of the upcoming book, Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Nancy Pearl speaks about the pleasures of reading to library and community groups throughout the world and comments on books regularly on NPR's Morning Edition. She's the author of Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Interest; Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason; and More Book Lust: 1,000 New Reading Recommendations for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason, all published by Sasquatch Books. In 2004, she was awarded the Women's National Book Association Award, given to " a living American woman who... has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond the duties or responsibilities of her profession or occupation." In 1998, Library Journal named her Fiction Reviewer of the Year. She is the model for the Librarian Action Figure. On her monthly television show, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl, she has interviewed authors as diverse as E.L. Doctorow, Ann Patchett and Terry Pratchett.
Sponsored by HarperCollins
Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
Saturday, June 26, 10:30 -11:30 am
Sue Monk Kidd grew up in the tiny town of Sylvester, GA, a place that deeply influences the writing of her first novel, The Secret Life of Bees. Kidds's first book, God's Joyful Surprise describes the beginnings of her spiritual search. Her second book, When the Heart Waits recounts her vivid spiritual transformation at mid life. Turning her explorations to feminist theology, she published The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, a memoir that had a ground breaking effect within religious circles. Sue's novel, The Mermaid Chair, explores the themes of midlife marriage and self-awakening, and was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2005 Quill Award for General Fiction. Her newest book, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story, co-authored with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor is a dual memoir set against the backdrops of Greece and France, chronicling Sue and Ann's travels together, as they undertake a journey to redefine themselves and rediscover each other.
Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College in South Carolina. She has published articles and essays in Skirt magazine in Charleston, SC, where she worked for two years after college as an editorial assistant. She left to pursue a career in writing, working on a book about her travels, which evolved into Traveling with Pomegranates, a memoir she co-authored with her mother, Sue Monk Kidd.
Sponsored by Penguin Group USA
Sarah, Duchess of York
Sunday, June 27, 8:00 - 9:00 am
This August, The Duchess will launch a new children’s book series with Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. called Helping Hand books. The series addresses a variety of experiences that children may encounter as they grow up and offers helpful tips for parents and kids. The Duchess is the author of many children’s books, including the New York Times bestselling Tea for Ruby, a five book children’s series about the adventures of Little Red and the Budgie, The Little Helicopter series. She has also written books for adults, including What I Know Now: Lessons Learned The Hard Way, Travels with Queen Victoria and Victoria and Albert: Family Life at Osborne House.
In 1993 the Duchess founded ‘Children in Crisis’ to provide education and support for children in the world’s poorest and most conflicted countries. To date, $29.6 million has been raised, supporting 1 million children and training 16,000 teachers.
The Duchess is the co-producer of the film, The Young Victoria, which was released in the US in December 2009. She has been a special correspondent on NBC’s Today Show and has appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live and ABC’s The View.
As a passionate wellness advocate and proponent for healthy weight-loss and weight management, she served as U.S. spokesperson for Weight Watchers International Inc. and wrote several books with them, including Dining with The Duchess: How to Make Everyday Meals a Special Occasion, Dieting With The Duchess: Secrets and Sensible Advice for a Great Body and Win the Weight Game: Successful Strategies for Living Well. The Duchess was also a founding supporter of The American Cancer Society’s “Great American Weigh In,” an annual campaign aimed at raising awareness of the link between excess weight and cancer. She was also a voluntary spokesperson for the American Heart Association.
Sponsored by Sterling Publishing
Dave Isay
Sunday, June 27, 10:30 -11:30 am
Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps, a nonprofit oral history project that honors and celebrates the lives of everyday people through listening. In spirit and in scope, StoryCorps models itself after the Works in Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, which recorded oral history interviews across the country. To date, more than 50,000 people have participated in StoryCorps, many of whom have come as a part of special initiatives to reach underrepresented voices. StoryCorps was honored with a rare institutional award at the 66th Annual Peabody Awards in 2007.
Established in 2003 and based in Brooklyn, StoryCorps hopes to build upon that work and break new ground to create a new American oral history archive. StoryCorps interviews air weekly on NPR and can also be heard at the StoryCorps website. Copies of all interviews are placed in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Winner of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, Dave Isay is also the author or editor of four books that grew out of his public radio documentary work, including Listening Is an Act of Love, a New York Times bestseller. His new book, Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps, will be published by Penguin in April 2010.
Sponsored by American Libraries
PLA President's Program
Featuring Will Shortz, Enigmatologist-New York Times Puzzle Master
Sunday, June 27, 1:00 -2:30 pm
What's an enigmatologist? It's Will Shortz, the only academically accredited puzzle master in the world. He designed his own major program at Indiana University, which in 1974 led to his one-of-a-kind degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles.
Shortz has been the puzzle master for NPR's “Weekend Edition Sunday,” since the program's start in 1987, crossword editor of The New York Times, editor of Games magazine for 15 years, and the founder and director of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He sold his first puzzle professionally when he was 14 to Venture, a denominational youth magazine. At 16 he became a regular contributor to Dell puzzle publications. Shortz received a law degree from the University of Virginia. He originally entered law school with the intention of practicing law for 10 years in order to make a lot of money before retiring do what he really wanted -- create puzzles. However, law was not creative enough for him, and following graduation he skipped the bar exam and began his career in puzzles immediately.
Today, Shortz relishes his position at the Times because he believes the paper garners the most intelligent,
best-educated group of solvers in the country. This allows him to presume a level of culture and solving skill
that he couldn't anyplace else.
Upon starting at the Times, Shortz made modest modifications to the crosswords. Constructor bylines were added
to the daily puzzles; previously the contributors had labored anonymously. He had the puzzles become increasingly harder each day of the week to provide something for every skill level. Additionally, the cultural references were broadened to include movies, television, and rock music.
Shortz’s puzzle that has elicited the most response appeared on Election Day, 1996. The clue to the middle answer
across the grid was "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper." The answer appeared to be CLINTON ELECTED. Because of intentional ambiguity in the crossing clues, however, the answer could also have been BOB DOLE ELECTED. Either
answer fit. Shortz is the founder of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the founder and director of the
World Puzzle Championship and the co-founder of the World Puzzle Federation. Shortz was also the riddle writer
for Batman Forever.
In addition to editing the weekday and Sunday puzzles for the Times, Shortz is the author or editor of over 200
puzzle books. Recently, Shortz was the subject of the feature documentary film Wordplay in 2006.
Graphic Novel Panel
Monday, June 28, 10:30 -11:30 am
(please check back as more authors are added)
David Small was born and raised in Detroit. In school he became known as “the kid who could draw good,” but David never considered a career in art because it was so easy for him. At 21, after many years of writing plays, David took the advice of a friend who informed him that the doodles he made on the telephone pad were better than anything he had ever written. He switched his major to Art and never looked back.
After getting his MFA at the Yale Graduate School of Art, David taught art for many years on the college level, ran a film series and made satirical sketches for campus newspapers. Approaching tenure, he wrote and illustrated a picture book, Eulalie and the Hopping Head, which he took to New York, pounding the pavements and collecting rejections for a month in the dead of winter. Eulalie was published in 1981. Although tenure at the college did not follow, many more picture books did, as well as extensive work for national magazines and newspapers. His drawings appeared regularly in The New Yorker and The New York Times.
A learn-as-you-go illustrator, David’s books have been translated into several languages, made into animated films and musicals, and have won many of the top awards accorded to illustration, including the 1997 Caldecott Honor and The Christopher Medal for The Gardener written by his wife, Sarah Stewart, and the 2001 Caldecott Medal for So, You Want To Be President? by Judith St. George.
“At the Caldecott ceremony in San Francisco,” said David, “facing that veritable sea of smiling faces — of librarians, of friends in publishing, of my family and other well-wishers— I was so overcome that I lost my voice and croaked my way through the speech. Having been turned from a frog into a prince by the American Library Association, before their eyes that night, I turned back into a frog.” To date he has illustrated over 40 picture books. At an average of 40 pages per book, that makes around 1,840 illustrations, though someone ought to check that math. Most recently David wrote the memoir STITCHES which was nominated for a National Book Award.
Sponsored by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Dennis Lehane
Monday, June 28, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Dennis Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He is the author of eight novels--including the New York Times bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone; The Given Day; Mystic River; and Shutter Island--as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He lives with his wife and daughter in Boston and West Central Florida.
Mystic River was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel as well as the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction given by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Mr. Lehane worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. His one regret is that no one ever gave him a chance to tend bar.
Sponsored by HarperCollins
Junot Diaz
Monday, June 28, 3:00 -4:00 pm
Junot Diaz exploded into the literary scene in 1996 with Drown, a collection of short stories that was one of the first books to illuminate the lives of Dominican-American immigrants. Diaz’s first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Moving from the hardscrabble inner-city neighborhoods of New Jersey to the barrios of Santo Domingo, and from the fear-plagued Trujillo dictatorship to the multicultural campuses of the contemporary United States, Diaz both redefines the immigrant experience and transcends it.
His fiction has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and four times in The Best American Short Stories. The New Yorker placed him on a list of the 20 top writers for the 21st century. Born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, and raised there and in New Jersey, Diaz graduated from Rutgers and received an MFA from Cornell. He lives in New York City and Boston, and is a tenured professor at MIT.
Sponsored by Penguin Group
ALA President’s Program
Sunday, June 27, 2010, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Libraries Wanted: Dead or Alive
Featuring Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer
The story Eppo van Nispen will tell is inspiring for anyone who is interested in the future of libraries. During his talk he will take you on an inspirational trip through the universe and the future onto a new horizon. Eppo will give an enormous positive boost to your mindset on how to cope with that future. High paced, smart, funny and touching, he will reach you where people should reach each other; in your heart.
An inspirational speaker, Eppo van Nispen’s vision on the future of media and libraries is highly acclaimed by
world leaders and visionaries. After a successful career in broadcasting, where he was among the first to work
on interactive formats, he decided to dedicate his knowledge of media and how people use media to work on the future for libraries. Eppo started the DOK Library Concept Center in Delft, a small city near Amsterdam (the Netherlands) with one of the best technical universities in the world. DOK’s mission is to build the world’s most modern library. In 2008, DOK was designated by international experts as the worldwide number one library in innovation. In 2009, they were appointed as the best library of the Netherlands.
This summer, Eppo will become the CEO of the national board for the (Dutch) book, known as the CPNB. The CPNB
is funded by publishers, booksellers, government and libraries and is lauded all over the world for its clever,
carefully targeted programs for young people and adults.
Council and Membership Meetings
The following schedule is preliminary and may be subject to change.
Opening General Session
Saturday, June 26, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
ALA Council/Executive Board/
Membership Information Session
Sunday, June 27, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
ALA-APA Information & Council
Sunday, June 27, 12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Membership Meetings
ALA Membership Meeting I
Saturday, June 26, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ALA Membership Meeting II
Monday, June 28, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
ALA Council
Council Orientation Session
Saturday, June 26, 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
ALA Council I
Sunday, June 27, 10:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
ALA Council II
Monday, June 28, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
ALA Council III
Tuesday, June 29, 7:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
ALA Council Forum
Sunday, June 27, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
ALA Council Forum
Monday, June 28, 8:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
2010 ALA Membership Meetings
Forming Strong Alliances: Non-library partnerships
Saturday, June 26, 3:30-5:00 p.m. and Monday, June 28, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Join us in open forums to discuss the importance and relevance of forming strong partnerships
with non-library organizations within our communities. In addition to the program topic, ALA Membership Meetings are your opportunity to share opinions and concerns with the ALA member-leaders and bring forward resolutions.
Sixth Annual Book Cart Drill Team World Championships
Sunday, June 27, 2010, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Washington Convention Center
Back by Popular Demand!! Win Trophies, Accolades and the Admiration of your peers!
Download a registration form to enter the Sixth Annual Book Cart Drill Team.
Get your registration form in as soon as possible so you don't miss out on the fun, deadline is May 14, 2010.
Download the 2010 ALA Bookcart Drill Team Rules and Regulations
See a video of the Fifth Annual Book Cart Drill Team in Chicago, July 9-15, 2009
Library Advocacy Day
Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 11:00 a.m
Upper Senate Park
For this year only, Library Advocacy Day will replace National Library Legislative Day (NLLD).
On June 29, 2010, library advocates from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. will meet at Upper Senate Park on the U.S. Capitol grounds. ALA will host a rally to begin at 11:00 a.m. and feature guest speakers, photo ops, and a chance to cheer on libraries! After the rally, participants will meet with their elected officials and their staffs in their Capitol Hill offices. This is an exciting way to get involved and see how much fun legislative advocacy can be! If you have any questions, contact Kristin Murphy in the ALA Washington Office. Register for this free event, when you register for the 2010 Annual Conference. This free rally from the Washington Office is made possible by your ALA dues.
Registration is free both in advance and onsite
Event Code: ALA5
ALA 2010 Washington Tours
Tours are provided by ACCENT on Arrangements and advance registration is highly suggested.
The deadline for advance registration is Friday, June 4, 2010. You may find out more about the tours
here and you have the option of registering online or sending in the registration form.
Onsite registration will only be available on a space-available basis.
Please contact ACCENT on Arrangements if you have any questions- 504-524-0188.
Libraries Build Communities
Friday, June 25, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Register to participate in this day-long service effort to help local libraries and the community!
All participants will be notified in advance of the various projects and be able to pick the one in which they wish to participate. Your registration fee will be contributed to local library funds. Lunch, transportation, and a participation T-shirt are included. Tickets: Advance: $10 Onsite: $10 Event Code: ALA3
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