Auditorium Speakers Include Noted Authors, Youth Leaders

One of the many highlights of attending an ALA Annual Conference is the chance to hear nationally-acclaimed authors, speakers and other dignitaries. Plan on attending one or more of these Auditorium Speaker Series presentations, as ALA brings leading authors and authorities from the fields of adult and youth fiction, technology, and popular culture to general sessions at key points in the Annual Conference Schedule.

JOHN IRVING
Saturday, June 23
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

The World According to Garp, which won the National Book Award i n 1980, was John Irving's fourth novel and his first international bestseller;it also became a George Roy Hill film. Tony Richardson wrote and directed the adaptation for the screen of The Hotel New Hampshire(1984).Irving's novels are now translated into thirty-five languages, and he has had nine international bestsellers. Worldwide, the Irving novel most often called "an American classic"is A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), the portrayal of an enduring friendship at that time when the Vietnam War had its most divisive effect on the United States. In 1992, John Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. (He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, until he was thirty-four, and coached the sport until he was forty-seven.) In 2000, Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Cider House Rules," a Lasse Hallström film that earned seven Academy Award nominations. Tod Williams wrote and directed "The Door in the Floor," the 2004 film adapted from Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year. In One Person is John Irving's thirteenth novel.

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John Irving

DAVID WEINBERGER
Saturday, June 23
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

David Weinberger is a senior researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, and is co-director of the Har-vard Library Innovation Lab. He is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything is Miscellaneous,and a co-author of The Clue train Manifesto. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Smithsonian, The Guardian, USA Today,TV Guide,Information Week, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe, and he has been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio. He has been a strategic marketing advisor to high tech companies, an Internet advisor to presidential campaigns, and has a Ph.D. in philosophy. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Teens Making a Difference
Saturday, June 23
1:30 -2:3 0 p.m.

This presentation includes three courageous and creative young adults who have already changed things for the better within their communities, cultures, and societies.

William Kamkwamba grew up in Malawi believing that magic ruled the world and hardship dominated life. The story of how he achieved his dream of bringing electricity, light, and the promise of a better life to his family and his village—despite financial obstacles, technical difficulties,needing to teach himself physics, and overcome local superstitions—is told in the New York Times bestseller (co authored with Bryan Mealer),

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope. Kamkwamba shares his vision for "a new kind of Africa, a place of leaders instead of victims, a home of innovation rather than charity." He has appeared on Comedy Central's

The Daily Show, ABC's Good Morning America, CSPAN Book-TV, and NPR, and has addressed audiences at the 2008 World Economic Forum, multiple times at TED, and at schools and universities across the globe. A 2007 TED Global Fellow, he was a student in the inaugural class of the Pan-African Leadership Academy in South Africa.

Talia Leman has orchestrated the philanthropic efforts of 12 million children on four continents. At the age of 12, she raised over $10 million for the victims of Hurricane

Katrina, ranking in the top three of all fundraisers, including major international organizations and corporations. She has since raised money for water projects on three continents, built schools

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William Kamkwamba
David Weinberger
Talia Leman

President's Program, Awards on Sunday

Join ALA President Molly Raphael for the President's Program, featuring Jodi Picoult and Samatha Van Leer, and an expanded and enhanced afternoon celebrating ALA award winners.

JODI PICOULT & SAMANTHAVAN LEER
Sunday, June 24,
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Jodi Picoult is the author of eighteen novels, including the number-one New York Times bestsellers House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister's Keeper.

Her new book, Lone Wolf, comes out in February 2012, and her first YAnovel, Between the Lines, written with her daughter Samantha Van Leer, comes out in June 2012. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at www.jodipicoult.com.

Samantha Van Leer is a junior in high school, who conceived the idea for Between the Lines and pitched it to her mom while she was in the middle of a book tour. In her spare time, she can be found playing softball, performing contemporary dance, acting and singing in musicals, and cuddling on the ground with her two dogs, Dudley and Oliver—for whom the prince in this fairytale was named.

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President's Program and
ALA Awards Presentations
Sunday, June 24
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Join ALA in Welcoming the Rock Bottom Remainders

The Rock Bottom Remainders is a band that includes some of today's most shining literary lights. Between them, they've published more than 150 titles, sold more than 150 million books, and been translated into more than 25 languages.

But on June 23rd, they're rock stars! Scheduled to appear are Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson,Amy Tan, Scott Turow, MitchAlbom, James McBride, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Stephen King, Kathi Goldmark and Greg Iles.

The money raised from this year's Bash will provide scholarships for graduate students in library and information studies, including Spectrum.

ALA/ProQuest
Scholarship Bash
Saturday, June 23
8:00 p.m.

Tickets $25

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