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JANUARY 2017 PREVIEW COGNOTES 15
Celebrate YA novels’ 50th Anniversary with Booklist
Always an important destination and resource for librarians, fans, and publishers of young adult books, Booklist will be even more indispensable in 2017 as it offers a year-long print, online, and in-person celebration of the 50th anniversary of YA novels. (The novel commonly considered the first proper young-adult novel, The Outsiders, was the debut novel of 19-year-old S.E. Hinton, published in 1967 by Viking. It is still widely read).
Celebrations in the magazine itself will include special features and spotlights such as Booklist’s Top 50 YA Novels Ever, monthly guest appearances by top YA authors to share their insights and favorite titles, a decade-by-decade retrospective with Michael Cart in his popular “Cart Blanche” column, love letters to YA from librarians and publishers, a Librarians’ Top 50, a fresh look at past YA reviews, and features from Booklist (“YA Flashbacks”), and best YA audiobook coverage. The special June 2017 double-issue of the magazine will focus on YA books.
Online, content related to YA and the anniversary will be posted regularly on the Booklist Reader, and Booklist will host a free “50 Years of YA” webinar. Other interactive opportunities will be announced throughout the year. The face-to-face celebrations at ALA’s 2017 Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta in January and the Annual Conference in Chicago in June will include presentations and a special panel discussion, cake, fun giveaways, author interviews, contests, and more.
“It’s a pretty exciting time to be at Booklist. The anniversary gives us a chance to talk about all these great books we grew up reading as well as the best of what’s happening right now,” said Booklist Books for Youth Editor Daniel Kraus, himself an award-winning YA author. “It’s also a chance to take a step back and look at the YA movement as a whole – what it has done well, what it still needs to work on, all that.”
Readers are invited to stay updated and join in at #50YearsofYA @BooklistYA.
Booklist Celebrates 50 Years of YA is generously sponsored by HarperCollins Children’s Books, Little Brown, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, and many other YA publishers and supporters to be announced.
Meet and talk with Booklist editors at booth #1925 in the exhibits. Find out more about the book review magazine of the American Library Association, considered an essential collection development and readers› advisory tool for more than 100 years. And try out Booklist Online, with its growing archive of 170,000+ reviews available to subscribers as well as a wealth of free content offering the latest news and views on books and media.
Cornucopia of New Books, Products, Special Events at the ALA Store During Midwinter Meeting
Longer hours and easy access near the onsite Registration area make it convenient to shop and browse at the ALA Store at Midwinter Meeting. The ALA Store offers products that meet the widest range of your promotional and continuing education/professional development needs – as well as fun gift items. Make sure to carve out some time in your schedule to stop by and examine the many new and bestselling items available!
ALA Store hours:
Friday, January 20
12:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 21
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 22
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Monday, January 23
8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
ALA Graphics will feature a range of new and best-selling products, plus special conference-only items. Posters making their conference debut include Finding Winnie, by 2015 Caldecott Medal-winner Sophie Blackall, LEGO Batman and Batgirl, and Rainbow Fish. Other popular posters and bookmarks like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, DC Super Hero Girls, and Fantastic Beasts will also be available. Shop new gift items including the Baby Bear Read to Me T-shirt featuring art by Eric Carle.
Come check out all the new materials on hand for 2017 National Library Week including posters, bookmarks, mini-posters, and clings.
Remember to stop by early to get your pick of conference t-shirts – they sell out fast!
ALA Publishing is excited to offer several new titles hot off the press, such as the new second edition of Winning Grants: A How-To-Do-It Manual For Librarians by Stephanie K. Gerding and Pamela H. MacKellar; Capturing Our Stories: An Oral History of Librarianship in Transition by A. Arro Smith, PhD; and Becoming a Media Mentor: A Guide for Working with Children and Families by Claudia Haines, Cen Campbell, and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). Remember that you can find titles from ALA Editions, ALA Neal-Schuman, Facet Publishing, UK, and the ALA Divisions in the ALA Store, and get free shipping on all book orders placed in the ALA Store during the Midwinter Meeting (posters, bookmarks, and other gift-type items are not eligible for this offer).
Meet high-profile authors and pick up an autographed book or two: use the Conference Scheduler to plan your time at Midwinter Meeting, including the author signing taking place at the ALA Store:
Edmund A. Rossman III, author of 40+ New Revenue Sources for Libraries and Nonprofits
Saturday January 21, 1:00 p.m.
Prices at the ALA Store automatically reflect the ALA Member discount, so there is no need to dig out your member number. And remember that every dollar you spend at the ALA Store helps support library advocacy, awareness, and other key programs and initiatives!
Action-oriented Research and the Value of Academic Libraries
Learn about continued progress on ACRL’s forthcoming “Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success” at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta. A team from OCLC Research – which ACRL selected to design, develop, and deliver the new action-oriented agenda – has been working since August and circulated a first draft in November. Join ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries committee chair and OCLC Research’s project director and team members from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 22, to learn more about the project. The panelists will answer questions and take feedback on the second draft of the project report, to be posted online a few weeks prior to the update session at www.oclc.org/research/themes/user-studies/acrl-agenda.html. The session will be held in room B407 of the Georgia World Congress Center.
ASCLA/COSLA Happy Hour
Join us for ASCLA/COSLA Happy Hour where members can socialize with colleagues and network. Students and Librarians at all levels are also welcome to attend this event. The event will take place at the Omni Hotel and Resort’s Latitudes Lounge at 100 CNN Center on Friday, January 20 from 7:00–8:00 p.m.
Celebrate Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the ALCTS Midwinter Symposium
On Friday, January 20, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) presents its Midwinter Symposium “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Creating a New Future for Library Collections” at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta. Organized by Charles Wilt, Chair, ALCTS President’s Program Committee, co-hosted by the Georgia State University Library and Director Jeff Steely, and sponsored by OCLC, this symposium addresses the need for action relating to equity, diversity, and inclusion in libraries.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion are ideals librarians espouse. Whether in acquisitions, access, management, or preservation, library collections are evolving to support these ideals. Furthering discussions on metadata, open access, and preserving diverse voices in collections are critical as libraries face challenges in a changing society. This symposium explores work underway and what the future brings, and librarians in academic, public, and special libraries will benefit from attending this symposium.
Courtney Young, ALA President 2014-2015 and Head Librarian and Professor of Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Greater Allegheny campus, opens the symposium with the keynote address. Speakers Hannah Buckland, Charlotte Roh, Harrison Inefuke, Paolo Gujilde, Emily Drabinski, Ann Marie Willer, and Miriam Centeno will discuss topics including equitable access to collections, scholarly communication and diversity, diversity and visibility in collection development and management, inclusion and advocacy in cataloging and description/knowledge organization, and diversity and inclusion in preservation. Mark Puente, Director of Diversity and Leadership Programs, Association of Research Libraries, will provide closing remarks.
Online registration is available through the ALA 2017 Midwinter Meeting website. Include this event in your conference registration or register for it alone. The cost of this full-day ALCTS symposium is $219 for ALCTS members, $269 for ALA members, $319 for non-members and $99 for ALA student members and retired members. The registration event code is ALC1, and attendance at the ALA Midwinter Meeting is not required to register for this event. Space is limited so register early.
A complete listing of ALCTS events at Midwinter is available, and you can follow ALCTS on social media using #alctsmw17 to get the latest details about ALCTS Midwinter programming.
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