ALA Cognotes Midwinter Seattle Wrap-Up - (Page 17)
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Seattle — ALA Midwinter Meeting Highlights
Attendees Get Wrapped Up in Paper Folding at Final Event
By Brad Martin
LAC Group
C
onference attendees folded up
their own origami versions of
Boba Fett helmets and Yoda
characters, as part of the Wrap Up/Rev
Up closing session of the ALA Midwinter Meeting on January 28 featuring
Chris Alexander and Tom Angleberger.
Alexander, a well-known origami
expert and author of Star Wars Origami: 36 Amazing Paper-folding Projects
from a Galaxy Far, Far Away and Angleberger, author of The Strange Case
of Origami Yoda and several other
similar books, related their common
love for both the “Star Wars” movies
and for the art of origami.
Alexander, who started doing origami when he was four and fell in love
with “Star Wars” from its inception,
said he (and several helpers) actually
made a life-size Jabba the Hut character from a 20 foot by 20 foot piece of
paper. He walked the audience through
making their own – much smaller –
versions of a Boba Fett helmet and
gave a few pointers in the making of
successful origami figures. He said
one needs be make sure the folds are
accurate and creased sharply in order
that subsequent folds work out well.
Melissa Cavender, elementary school
librarian, The American School of the
Hague, Netherlands, hangs out with
Star Wars character R2-D2 at the
ABRAMS booth in the Exhibits Hall.
Angleberger told of how his books
have generated legion of what he calls
“superfolders,” young people who followed the instructions in his books and
then shared their origami characters
with him. He was passionately told of
how gratified he was that this happened
Best-selling authors Chris Alexander (right) and Tom Angleberger host a Star
Wars-themed Wrap Up/Rev Up Party teaching librarians how to make origami
storm troopers, as moderator Chris Baker looks on.
and also shared how much libraries and
librarians have meant to him over the
years. On a very personal note, Angleberger related that he has struggled with
Asperger’s, but that he always considered the condition to be a superpower.
He pointed out that the only problem was that “school was like kryptonite.” The saving grace for him was
that “the library was the batcave.”
Angleberger led the audience
through a quick lesson in making an
miniature origami version of Yoda, and
was noticeably moved as a sea of new
“superfolders” – clearly revved up as
a result of their experience – put little
paper Yodas on their fingers and waved
them at him at the end.
YALSA’s Virtual Town Halls on Teens and Libraries to Continue in March
T
he Young Adult Library Services
Association (YALSA) held a
Teens & Libraries Summit January 23 – 24, 2013 featuring speakers,
panels and small group discussion
examining the current state of library
services for and with young adults,
and explored how library services may
need to evolve to better meet the needs
of teens.
The Summit is part of the yearlong National Forum on Libraries and
Teens effort, which brings together key
stakeholders from the areas of libraries, education, technology, adolescent
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guidelines for staff members to follow
will help to stay on track for success.
Taking advantage of Facebook’s
advertising options, Bizzle along with
six other public libraries conducted a
case study with a budget of $10 per
month with effective results – most
of the participants increased their following by 150 percent or more. Using
Facebook’s analytics can also be useful
in understanding more about how your
communications are being received.
On creating humorous and compelling content for Facebook Bizzle said,
“There’s a line that you need to get
close to in humor and you need to get
close to it, but not go over it. If you’re
not close enough, you’re just not funny – you’re lame. If you go over it, you
have to do damage control. So, it’s just
about knowing where that line is.”
development and the for-profit and
nonprofit sectors to examine the world
of young adults and library services to
this population.
Beginning on Tuesday, March 19,
2013, YALSA invites you to join the
discussion in a series of Virtual Town
Halls on Teens and Libraries, facilitated by Linda W. Braun, a YALSA
Past-President and Editor of Young
Adults Library Services (YALS). Issues
to be raised during the virtual town
halls will be directly based on what was
discovered during the Summit. Virtual
town halls will also be held on April 16
and May 21, 2013.
The goal of the Forum is to produce
a white paper which will provide direction on how libraries need to adapt
and potentially change to better meet
the needs of 21st century teens. This
year-long project is being funded by
the Institute of Museum and Library
Services.
Please save the dates to participate
in the virtual town halls and visit
http://www.ala.org/yaforum/ for more
information. To keep up via Twitter
about the year-long project, follow
#yalsaforum.
The IMLS is the primary source
of federal support for the nation’s
123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Through grant making, policy
development, and research, IMLS
helps communities and individuals
thrive through broad public access
to knowledge, cultural heritage, and
lifelong learning.
Smitty Miller discusses taking the library to the street.
http://www.ala.org/yaforum/
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