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Page 6 • Cognotes 2010 Midwinter Meeting Preview • BOSTON President’s Program to Feature Yohannes Gebregeorgis Sunday, January 17 3:30 – 5:30 pm Literacy in Ethiopia: The Key to Development and Informed Citizenship iteracy and the love of reading should start with children. Yohannes Gebregeorgis, Founder and Executive Director of Ethiopia Reads, focuses on the literacy work of his organization that encourages a love of reading through establishing children’s and youth libraries in Ethiopia, free distribution of books to children, and multilingual publishing. Gebregeorgis was selected to be one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes in 2008 for his work in establishing children’s libraries in Ethiopia. Sunrise » from page 1 L Yohannes Gebregeorgis BoopsieTM Returns to Midwinter oopsieTM has partnered with ALA to bring you ALA Mobile the fastest, easiest way to access important and useful information about the Midwinter Meeting in Boston, directly from your cell phone. ALA Mobile requires access to the data network on your phone (make sure you monitor your data use if you do not have an unlimited data plan). To get ALA Mobile on your cell phone, go to http://ala.boopsie.com from your mobile phone’s browser; or, simply text the word “MW2010” to 41411. You will receive a text message back with a link to download and install the small application to your phone. Just follow the simple steps. It only takes a few seconds. Then click on the ALA Logo and select “MW2010 Exhibitors” or “MW2010 Sessions.” To find an exhibitor, select the “MW2010 Exhibitors” channel and start typing an exhibitor name. For example, to find “Ingram Library Services, Inc.”, all you have to type is ‘ing l s’. ALA Mobile is powered by Boopsie’s SmartPrefix search, so you only have to type the first few letters of each word of the company name — that should save you some time. To view a list of the sessions at the show, select the “MW2010 Sessions” channel. You will see a list of sessions. To find the “Catalog Management Interest Group” session, just type ‘cat man i g’ — it will pop right up to the top. If you want to see all sessions on Wednesday, just type ‘wed’ and the list of all sessions on Wednesday will appear. Clicking on a session will transfer you to your mobile phone’s browser and give you an overview of the session. You can also find local restaurants, hotels and even taxi services through the ALA Mobile. Just click on one of the other channels, and search the same way you did for “Exhibitors” or “Sessions”. It’s easy and fun. Enjoy! Feel free to send feedback to support@ boopsie.com. received the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second book, Stern Men, a novel about lobster fishing territory wars off the coast of Maine, was also a New York Times Notable Book. The Last American Man, her biography of Eustace Conway, an eclectic modern day woodsman, was a finalist in 2002 for both The National Book Award and The National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Her most recent book, a New York Times number one bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love, is about the year she spent traveling the world alone after a difficult divorce. It was named one of the 100 most notable books of 2006. In 2008, Gilbert was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine. Much of her writing has been optioned by Hollywood. Her memoir about her bartending years became the Disney movie, “Coyote Ugly.” Her new book, Committed A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, will be published January 2010. Sponsored by Penguin School of Public Health and the Research Director for the BWH Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is the director of the Wo r l d H e a l t h Organization’s Global Challenge for Safer Atul Gawande, M.D. Surgical Care. In 2006, he received the MacArthur Award for his research and writing. Gawande has written a new book, The Checklist Manifesto (Metropolitan Books), due to be released in January 2010. Sponsored by Macmillan Adriana Trigiani Monday, January 18 9:00 – 10:00 am (new time!) Atul Gawande, M.D. Sunday, January 17 8:00 – 9:00 am Join us on Sunday morning to hear Atul Gawande, writer and surgeon, talk about his book, the New York Times best seller, Better, A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. His previous book, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002. Gawande is a staff member of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton presidential campaign and White House from 1992 to 1993. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning playwright, television writer and documentary filmmaker.The author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series and the New York Times bestselling novels Lucia, Lucia, The Queen of the Big Time, Rococo, and, most recently, Very Valentine, has been published in Adriana Trigiani 33 countries around the world. Her next book, Brava Valentine, which is the sequel to Very Valentine, will debut in February 2010. Trigiani has written the screenplay for the film version of Big Stone Gap, which she will also direct, and Viola in Reel Life, the first title in her young adult series, which debuted in September. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Sponsored by HarperCollins Free Airport Shuttle! Proof of Hotel Reservation in AL A Hotel Block and Sign Up Required) New Days! New Times! new exhibit schedule will be launched at the Annual Conference in June 2010 in Washington, DC. The new schedule will allow for more unstructured time for conference attendees to spend time in the exhibits. ALA is also planning special events for the exhibit floor to expand the educational offerings at Annual (and have some fun). Friday night, June 25, will open the exhibits with an opening reception…food, drinks and fun all throughout the exhibits. The exhibit floor will close on Monday afternoon, June 28, with fantastic in-booth specials from exhibitors and prize drawings from ALA. Throughout the weekend, special events and author autographing on multiple stages will give conference attendees a look at the present and future of some of libraries favorite titles and topics. ALA Goes Digital n addition to this digital interactive issue of Cognotes, ALA is looking to provide conference attendees with more functional print products at the Annual Conference. This will include re-formatting the conference program and other materials attendees receive. Our goal is to provide you with the tools necessary to make your annual conference experience more products and make the whole conference easier to navigate. Watch your inbox in Spring 2010 for more information. Y ou will receive a free airport shuttle ticket from the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center to Logan International Airport on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010 if you reserve a room in the ALA hotel block though Experient (our registration company). You must sign up for the ride at the shuttle supervisor table located at the shuttle drop-off location at the convention center. You must keep your ticket to present to the bus driver when boarding for the airport. Tickets are not transferable. Exhibitors are included. 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