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ALA Cognotes

2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
June 2013 Issue

Dan Cohen, Digital Public Library of America, to Speak at ALA President’s Program

Featured Speaker
Dan Cohen
Sunday, June 30
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
McCormick Place, S100

Dan Cohen, Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will be the featured speaker in the ALA President’s Program & Awards Presentation at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference on Sunday, June 30, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Cohen will focus on the role and contribution of the DPLA to ALA President Maureen Sullivan’s ongoing initiative, “The Promise of Libraries Transforming Communities.”

Cohen will offer an introduction and overview of the recently launched DPLA – called by Nicholas Carr “the Library of Utopia” in MIT Technology Review – how it came to be and what it offers to librarians and the communities they serve. The ambitious enterprise offers great promise to libraries of all types, enabling open access to millions of books, articles, photographs, historical documents, objects and artifacts. Its goal is “to real-

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Exhibits Open Friday, Events and Stages Set

Ribbon Cutting & Exhibits Opening Reception

The Exhibit Hall opens on Friday evening, June 28, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring a brief welcome by ALA. The Exhibits Opening includes food, drink, and entertainment through the exhibit hall, giving exhibitors and attendees their first chance to network as the exhibits kick off.

Exhibits Closing & Wrap Up/Rev Up Celebration

Join us Monday afternoon, July 1, to close the exhibits and rev up for the Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Start in the Exhibit Hall where exhibitors will offer discounts and special giveaways in their booths. The Exhibits Closing will be followed by the Wrap Up/Rev Up party, which will feature raffle prizes and fun.

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Opening General Session Sets the Stage for Conference

Keynote Speaker
Steven D. Levitt
Friday, June 28
4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Hall B1

Steven D. Levitt

Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of the upcoming Think Like A Freak and of the smash #1 international bestseller Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, promises to turn your brain inside out before the conference even starts. He’s likely get your problem-solving juices flowing to the benefit of you and your library, showing how applying counterintuitive approaches to everyday problems can bear surprising results.

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask, but Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life – from cheating and crime to parenting and sports – and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head.

Think Like A Freak (October 2013), a “must-have handbook for decision making,” intends to radically transform the way you look at every aspect of your life. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner analyze the decisions we make, the plans we create, and the morals we choose and show

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