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4 COGNOTES DENVER DECEMBER PREVIEW
Bill Nye and Gregory Mone to Speak at Closing Session
Science educator, mechanical engineer, television host, and New York Times bestselling author, William Sanford “Bill” Nye, and co-author Gregory Mone, a novelist, science journalist, speaker, and children’s book author will close the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits. The session will take place on Monday, February 12, from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. at the ALA Midwinter Meeting.
“Bill” Nye and Gregory Mone
Monday 2/12, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
CCC Mile High Ballroom 2&3
As creator of the Emmy award-winning, syndicated television show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” Nye first became a household name while introducing the millennial generation to science and engineering. He now appears in his much-anticipated return to the screen, in the Netflix series, “Bill Nye Saves the World.” Nye, who is on a mission to help foster a scientifically literate society and help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “CNN New Day,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” and “Real Time with Bill Maher,” as a trusted science source.
Mone has covered artificial intelligence, robots, physics, and biology as a magazine writer. “I’m always busy writing about strange people building strange contraptions,” he said. His award-winning children’s books include Fish, Dangerous Waters, and The Truth About Santa: Wormholes, Robots, and What Really Happens on Christmas Eve, which at its heart is about the power of science and technology and which was picked by USA Today as one of its “top five holiday books for geeks.”
In Jack and the Geniuses, Nye and Mone take middle-grade readers on a scientific adventure that features real-world science and scientific facts along with action and a mystery that will leave kids guessing until the end, making the books ideal for STEM education. The first book in their new middle-grade series from Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS, Jack and the Geniuses, was published this Spring and a second book will be out Fall 2017.
Bill Nye and Gregory Mone’s appearance at the meeting is sponsored by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS. Get details and add to your schedule now.
Carnegie Medals for Excellence Shortlist Announced
Congratulations to the six titles, three fiction and three nonfiction, that made the 2018 Carnegie Medals for Excellence Shortlist. The two medal winners will be announced at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards event, sponsored by NoveList, at American Library Association Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition in Denver on Sunday, February 11 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Fiction
Jennifer Egan
Manhattan Beach
(Scribner)
From New York mobsters to the first woman diver at the Brooklyn Naval Station during WWII to the archetypally motley crew of a merchant-marine ship in U-boat-infested waters, Egan’s insightful and propulsive saga portrays complex and intriguing individuals navigating the rising tides of war.
George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo
(Random House)
Saunders’ boldly imagined, exquisitely sensitive, and sharply funny historical and metaphysical drama pivots on President Lincoln’s grief over the death of his young son, Willie, as the cemetery’s dead tell their stories in a wild and wily improvisation on the afterlife.
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Scribner)
In telling the story of a Mississippi family – brother and sister Jojo and Kayla and their troubled mother, Leonie, and their legacy of grief and spiritual gifts, Ward explores unresolved racial tensions and the many ways humans create cruelty and suffering. A novel that is, at once, down-to-earth and magical.
RUSA Book and Media Awards Carnegie Medals announcement
Sunday 2/11, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Hyatt Centennial A-D
Nonfiction
Sherman Alexie
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
(Little, Brown)
Alexie presents a courageous, enlightening, anguished, and funny memoir told in prose and poetry that pays tribute to his Spokane Indian mother and reveals many complex traumas and tragedies of reservation life, as well as his own struggles.
Daniel Ellsberg
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
(Bloomsbury)
In a gripping mix of memoir and exposé, Ellsberg recounts with searing specificity long-hidden facts about the U.S. government’s perilously inadequate control of nuclear weapons – an arsenal that endangers all life on Earth – and calls for the dismantling of this Doomsday Machine.
David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
(Doubleday)
Grann’s true-crime history takes readers to early-1920s Oklahoma, where oil was discovered beneath the Osage territory and where members of the Osage Indian Nation were murdered. A riveting story that includes the accruing of power by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.
Symposium on the Future of Libraries
Included in your 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits full registration, three days of exploring the many futures for academic, public, school, and special libraries – Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of Midwinter.
Sponsored by ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries, the Symposium will consider the near-term trends already inspiring innovation in libraries and the longer-term trends that will help us adapt to the needs of our communities.
Plenary sessions feature the civic, education, and social innovators who are creating what’s next for cities, campuses, and communities.
Concurrent sessions offer insights from the library professionals introducing new services, spaces, collections, and partnerships and discussions with experts and innovative thinkers from allied professions and disciplines sharing their visions for the future, helping us think beyond our current work.
The Symposium integrates and builds on the Midwinter Meeting’s popular ALA Masters Series and News You Can Use updates which highlight innovations and advances in libraries.
Here are a list of Symposium sessions to be held during the meeting in Denver. Get session descriptions here.
Saturday, February 10
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Plenary Session
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 405/407
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Do Space: Technology for Everyone
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 401
Libraries Ready to Code from Research to Practice
Location TBD
Symposium on the Future of Libraries
Saturday-Sunday-Monday 2/10-11-12 See sessions for locations
A Collaborative Future for Libraries, Museums, and More: Chicago Collections and Lifelong Learning Across the Community
Location TBD
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Library Security Trends: The Opioid Epidemic and Libraries
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 401
The Health Needs of Your Community are Increasing, How Will You Meet Them?
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 402
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Every Day Literacy: South Carolina’s Toolbox for Library Resources
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 401
F3: Fine-Free Future
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 402
Immersive and Interactive Virtual Reality in Academic and Medical Libraries
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 403
Sunday, February 11
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Plenary Session
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 405/407
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
It’s Your Future – Get Ready for It Now!
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 405/407
Library Island
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 401
The Library’s Evolution into Centers of Innovation and Learning
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 402
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Advocating for Ourselves: Does Our Profession’s Survival Depend on Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program Policy Support?
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 402
Libraries in the Age of Extended Reality: Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR)
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 401
Road Signs to the Future: What Trends Will Affect Your Library?
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 405/407
The Future of Learning in Public Libraries
Location TBD
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
One-Stop Shop for the Research Lifecycle: Effects of High-Impact Educational Practices on Library Spaces and Services in the Near- and Long-term
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 403
A New Generation In Charge: How Millennial Leadership is Changing Library Staffing
Location TBD
Virtual Teen Dream: Embedding Virtual Reality into Teen Programming
Location TBD
Monday, February 12
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Plenary Session
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 405/407
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Equity-Driven Services and Programs: Exploring Alternative Information Services at the Library
Colorado Convention Center, Rm 401
Libraries as Community Partners in the Workforce Development System
Location TBD
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