ALA Cognotes May 2017 Preview - 12

MAY 2017 PREVIEW

COGNOTES

AASL Awards Ceremony and
President's Program Set for June 24

he AASL Awards Ceremony, Saturday, June 24, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00
p.m., highlights best practices in
school librarianship through collaboration, leadership, innovative programming,
national involvement, and upholding the
principles of the profession. The program is
a public acknowledgment and celebration of
school librarians who have made a significant contribution and modeled excellence
within the profession. Also recognize, the
2017 AASL Best Websites and Best Apps for
Teaching and Learning, and a new recognition this year, the 2017 AASL Social Media
Superstars.

AASL President Audrey Church will present the final award during the AASL President's Program. The Crystal Apple Award is
given at the discretion of the AASL President
to an individual or group who has had significant impact on school libraries and students.
The program will then conclude with Dr.
Scott Beck, Ph.D., head principal at Norman High School (Okla.), who will speak
about how a 21st Century school librarian
contributes to student outcomes. This will
be an amazing advocacy opportunity for any
librarian to hear what administrators expect
from their school librarians and how you can
make yourself indispensable.

We are the Sum of our Stories:
LITA's President's Program
with Kameron Hurley

ITA President Aimee Fifarek
welcomes Kameron Hurley, author of the essay collection The
Geek Feminist Revolution, as well as the
award-winning God's War Trilogy, and The
Worldbreaker Saga, for LITA's President's
Program, Sunday, June 25, 3:00 - 4:00
p.m.
Hurley has won the Hugo Award,
Kitschy Award, and Sydney J. Bounds
Award for Best Newcomer. She was also
a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award,
the Nebula Award, and the Gemmell
Morningstar Award. Her short fiction has
appeared in Popular Science Magazine,
Lightspeed Magazine, and many anthologies. Hurley has written for The Atlantic,
Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice,
Bitch Magazine, and Locus Magazine. She
posts regularly at KameronHurley.com.
In this thought-provoking talk, essayist

and author Kameron Hurley will discuss
how curated content is shaping not only
the stories we tell about ourselves, but the
realities we live in, and how librarians and
other information professionals can help
shape these narratives. She will discuss propaganda ("fake news"), the rise of far-right
internet culture into the mainstream, and
how cyber wars now rely more on hacking
our narratives than our computers.
Hurley holds a Master's Degree in
historical studies, in which she analyzed
the role of propaganda in the recruitment
of women fighters in South Africa. She is
also an award-winning advertising copywriter with over a decade of experience in
digital and content marketing. In addition,
Hurley has written an essay collection on
geek culture, The Geek Feminist Revolution;
as well as six science fiction and fantasy
novels and numerous short stories.

SRRT, SustainRT, AILA, APALA Welcome
Bill McKibben to ALA Annual Conference

cclaimed environmentalist, activist,
and author Bill McKibben will be
speaking at the American Library
Association 2017 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Chicago on Saturday, June 24 from
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in an event co-sponsored
by ALA's Social Responsibilities (SRRT) and
Sustainability (SustainRT) Round Tables, the
Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
(APALA), and the American Indian Library
Association (AILA). The title of McKibben's
talk will be "Imagining a World That Works
- In Time to Prevent a World that Doesn't."
Named by the Boston Globe as "probably
America's most important environmentalist,"
McKibben has written over a dozen books
including his 1989 book, The End of Nature,
which is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. It has
appeared in 24 languages. He is a founder
of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots
climate change movement, which has organized 20,000 rallies around the world in
every country save North Korea, spearheaded
the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and
launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.

ACRL and PLA Welcome
Leadership Expert Bernie Banks

LA President Felton Thomas, Jr.
and Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) President
Irene Herold will cohost a joint presidents'
program on Saturday, June 24. The featured speaker will be leadership expert
Bernie Banks, associate dean for leadership development and clinical professor of
management at Northwestern University's
Kellogg School of Management. Banks

will offer key leadership development
advice for all levels of academic, research,
and public librarians who are faced with
complex problems. This event is a can'tmiss for those interested in increasing their
leadership responsibilities, as well as those
looking to expand their ability to understand and assess multi-faceted challenges.
The PLA/ACRL joint presidents' program
is open to all conference attendees.

ALCTS and LLAMA Present
Joint Presidents' Program on the
Business of Social Impact

orri McWhorter, CEO of the
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, is
the featured speaker at the Presidents' Program of the Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
and the Library Leadership and Management
Association (LLAMA). The Presidents' Program "The Business of Social Impact: Creating a World Where Everyone Has Value"
will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, June
26 during the American Library Association
(ALA) Annual Conference & Exhibition in
Chicago.
Businesses and their role in society are
often defined by an organization's tax status
as a "for profit" or "non-profit." However,
every business is a social enterprise, whether
they know it or not, and has a role to advance
society. With social entrepreneurship on the
rise, the convergence of for profit and nonprofit business models is imminent. In her
presentation, McWhorter explores how we
can create social impact and a world where
everyone has value.
McWhorter became the CEO of the
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago in March
2013. She has embarked upon a journey
to transform the 140-year-old social service
agency to a 21st century social enterprise.
McWhorter is moving the agency into the
digital age by re-launching the TechGYRLS
program, which focuses on developing
STEM awareness for girls ages 9 through
14 and introducing 3D: Developing Digital
Diversity, which provides web and mobile
application development training to adult

women. McWhorter was included in the
inaugural list of "The Blue Network," which
comprise the top 100 innovators in Chicago
by Chicago Tribune's Blue Sky Innovation.
In Spring 2015, the YWCA launched its own
e-commerce site called the YShop, which
provides carefully curated goods and services
from businesses that support the mission
of the YWCA. McWhorter received her
bachelors in business administration from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
her masters in business administration from
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of
Management.
A proven leader in the corporate and
social change sectors, McWhorter prides
herself on being a socially-conscious business
leader. McWhorter is an active member of
Chicago's civic, business, and philanthropic
communities. Currently, she serves on the
board of directors for several organizations,
including Chicago Finance Exchange,
Chicago Child Care Society, and Search
Inc. McWhorter is also a member of the
executive council of Ms. Tech, advancing
women businesses in technology and a board
member of the Chicago Center for Arts
and Technology. As an engaged community
leader, McWhorter is a member of the
Mayor's Commission on a Safer Chicago
and served as a member of Mayor Emanuel's
second term transition team.
To learn more and add the ALCTS
and LLAMA Presidents' Program to your
conference scheduler, visit www.ala.org/alcts/
events/ac/2017/programs.

PLA Preconference Programs Include Disaster
Preparedness, Outcomes Measurement Focus
Bill McKibben (photo by Nancie Battaglia)

The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in
Environmental Studies at Middlebury College
and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, McKibben was the 2013 winner
of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton
Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named
him to their inaugural list of the world's 100
most important global thinkers.
This event is free and open to all attendees
of ALA Annual Conference. To learn more,
please visit www.alaannual.org.

LA will offer two full-day preconference educational workshops on Friday, June 23. The Librarian's Disaster
Preparedness and Community Resiliency
Toolkit: Librarians Fulfilling Their Role as
Information 1st Responders will equip librarians to deliver high-volume/high-quality support services while being inundated by large
numbers of distressed people during confusing times. Separate registration is required.
You can register for this PLA Preconference
(event code: PLA2) with or without an ALA
Annual Conference registration.
Project Outcome Workshop: Simple
Tools to Measure Our True Impact on the
People We Serve will teach participants how

to use PLA's Project Outcome to deploy outcome measures in their library, collect and
use resulting data, and leverage the project's
support network to ensure successful adoption. Registration is available by application
only. Click here to apply.

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