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ALCTS President's Program Speaker Uncovers Southern Food and Family
Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking
Gene (Harper Collins 2017), is the featured

PLA, LITA Offer
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Women in the technology field face
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discuss shared challenges. Participants
will collectively examine barriers to
success, salary negotiation, creating and
maintaining inclusion, and more.
AvramCamp will be presented as a
full-day preconference workshop prior
to the 2018 ALA Annual Conference
& Exhibition in New Orleans. It will
be held on Friday, June 22, from 9:00
a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at a cost of only $25 per
person. The precise location and registration instructions are coming soon. Please
monitor the ALA Conference scheduler
for updates and details.

speaker at the President's Program of the Association for Library Collections & Technical
Services (ALCTS). The President's Program
"Dining from a Haunted Plate" will be held
at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, June 25, 2018
during the American Library Association
(ALA) Annual Conference & Exhibition in
New Orleans.
Join Twitty as he discusses his journey to
uncover the history of Southern food in his
own family. This talk focuses on his search
through the lens of extensive research at
libraries and archives and plantations across
the South and how he translated that journey
into food through museum education and
historic interpretation. In tracing his family
roots through food from enslavement to

emancipation, from West and Central Africa
to the Old South, his work invites Southerners of all backgrounds to a complicated, uncomfortable groaning table rich in heritage
and tradition in which new conversations
and connections emerge.
Twitty is a noted culinary and cultural
historian and the creator of Afroculinaria,
the first blog devoted to African American
historic foodways and their legacies. He has
been honored by FirstWeFeast.com as one
of the 20 greatest food bloggers of all time
and named one of the "Fifty People Who
Are Changing the South" by Southern Living
and one of the "Five Cheftavists to Watch"
by TakePart.com. Twitty has appeared
throughout the media, including on NPR's

"The Splendid Table," and has given more
than 250 talks in the United States and
abroad. His work has appeared in Ebony,
the Guardian, and on NPR.org. He is also
a Smith fellow with the Southern Foodways
Alliance, a TED fellow and speaker, and
the first Revolutionary in Residence at the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Twitty
lives in Silver Spring, Md.
The 2018 ALCTS President's Program
is sponsored by the University of Kentucky
Libraries.
For more information about the ALCTS
President's Program and other ALCTS
events at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition, visit www.ala.org/alcts/
events/ac.

ACRL PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM

'Beyond Resilience: Crafting a Caring Organization'
Join ACRL President Cheryl A. Middleton for the ACRL President's Program at the
2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
in New Orleans. A well-attended program
at the ACRL 2017 Conference challenged
academic librarians to think critically about
how the term resilience is used to shift
responsibility for success and survival to
individuals, while silencing conversations
about structural inequalities. For some, this
sparked overdue conversations and provided
an opportunity to talk about something
they had long understood. For others, it

introduced a new way of understanding
the term and how workplace resilience can
have negative effects. For many, this led to
another question: if asking employees to
"be resilient" isn't enough, what can we do
instead - as individuals or as organizations
- to create caring and healthy workplaces
in our libraries?
In this follow up session, "Beyond Resilience: Crafting a Caring Organization," panelists will share stories describing how they
have dealt with major change and challenges
and discuss steps to shape responsive and

caring organizations. Moderated by Eamon
Tewell of Long Island University Brooklyn,
speakers include Chris Bourg (director of
libraries, MIT),
Fobazi M. Ettarh (student success librarian, California State Dominguez Hills),
Derrick Jefferson (communication Librarian, American University), and
Karen Schneider (dean of the university ulibrary, Sonoma State University).
The ACRL President's Program will be held
from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. on Saturday,
June 23.

What is the Impact of Library Programming? ALA Shares NILPPA Research Results
Last fall, ALA surveyed more than 1,200
library programming staff about their
professional experience. They came from
all around the country and from all types
of libraries.
The overwhelming majority had benefited from informal training - and less
than half of them thought their formal
training was relevant to the everyday work

of planning programs. For many, experience
outside of libraries was also essential to their
ability to run public programs. "Working in
a very high-scale restaurant as a server and
working in a public museum on the visitor
services side of things helped me gain skills
in good customer services and event planning," said one respondent.
This research is part of ALA's National
Ron Chernow, one of the most
distinguished commentators
on politics, business, and
finance delivers the 2017 ALA
President's Program keynote
address in Chicago.

Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment (NILPPA), a two-year initiative to
understand and document the characteristics, audience, outcomes and value of U.S.
library programming. Join the NILPPA
research team at the 2018 ALA Annual
Conference to hear some of their latest
findings and share your feedback.
The session, "The National Impact of
Library Public Programs Assessment," will
be held from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. on Sunday,
June 24. The location will be announced in
the coming weeks.
Researchers will also host several focus
groups for library workers at the Annual

Conference. To find out if you are eligible to
participate, please email publicprograms@
ala.org.
Conducted with the nonprofit New
Knowledge Organization think tank,
NILPPA brings together a network of
researchers, practitioner-researchers and
advisors to answer two research questions:
How can we characterize and categorize
public programs offered by libraries today?
And what competencies and training are
required for professionals working with
library programming?
For more information and to read more
NILPPA findings, visit http://nilppa.org/.

ALSC Events Include Banquet, Awards, Programs
2018 ALSC Awards Presentation
Monday, June 25
8:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Celebrate the best in Children's literature
and media at the annual presentation of the
Batchelder, Geisel, and Sibert Awards. Join
us at 8:00 a.m. for a continental breakfast
and a chance to mingle with your favorite
authors and illustrators. The awards presentation will promptly start 8:30 a.m. and is
open to all registered attendees.
Odyssey Award Presentation and Program
Monday, June 25
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Celebrate the spoken word at the 2018
Odyssey Award Presentation featuring clips
from the 2018 winners. The Odyssey Award
is presented annually to the best audiobook
production for youth and is co-administered
by YALSA and ALSC and is sponsored by

Booklist magazine.
Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder Banquet
Sunday, June 24
6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Join us for this gala occasion celebrating
Newbery, Caldecot,t and Wilder medalists
and honorees, authors, and illustrators of
the year's most distinguished books for
children! Cocktails (cash bar) available at
6:00 p.m. prior to dinner. Doors to banquet
hall will open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets will be
sold at the door and a limited number of
tickets will be available at onsite registration
until 12:00 p.m. Friday. Pre-registration is
required.
Tickets are $94 for individual tickets
(non-assigned seating). Reserved table seating for 10 seats is available. Table reservations
must be made directly with the ALSC office.

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