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Register Your Library to Win a Free One-Year Subscription to the Virtual Career Library!
Do your library patrons need job search and career exploration support in today’s tough economy? Then head on over to the ALA Membership Pavilion at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim to register your library to win a free one year subscription ($950.00 value) to the Virtual Career Library. This innovative career information service is changing the way forward-thinking libraries are providing career guidance and job search information for their library patrons. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to win a subscription that will expand your library services and help library patrons who count on you for job search and career guidance support.

Entry forms will be available on Saturday and Sunday of Conference in the ALA JobLIST Placement Center located in Hall A of the Anaheim Convention Center and in the Membership Pavilion located in the exhibits hall. The drawing will take place on Sunday, June 24th at 4:00 p.m. in the Membership Pavilion.

Libraries no longer need to look at far off international destinations to find a sister library. In-state partnerships are proving to be a successful, innovative, and inspiring way to strengthen services provided by participating libraries. Learn more about the Kentucky Sister Library Project, the first formalized program of its kind. Is your library ready to embrace this new model of collaboration and be a trendsetter in your state?

Booth # 2449 - Kazu Kibuishi, Author/Illustrator - Explorer: The Mystery Boxes

Booth # 2448 - Rafael Lopez, Illustrator - The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred

Booth # 2310 - Marc Aronson, Author - Sugar Changed the World

Booth # 2310 - Susan Campbell - Bartoletti , Author - They Called Themselves the K.K.K.

Booth # 2310 - Marina Budhos, Author - Sugar Changed the World

Booth # 2534 - Margarita Engle, Author - Hurricane Dancers

Booth # 2610 - Carlos Kotkin, Author - Please God, Let it be Herpes

Booth # 2610 - Lizz Winstead, Author - Lizz Free or Die

Booth # 2511 - James Dashner, Author - The Maze Runner

Booth # 2634 - Pat Carman, Author - Floors #2: 3 Below

Booth # 2634 - Garth Nix, Author - Troubletwisters

Fan created works, from fan fiction to fan comics, are an increasingly visible and a richly rewarding way for fans to interact with their favorite stories from books, movies, and TV shows. At the same time, fan works raise a variety of sticky questions concerning copyright, the place of transformative work in literature, authorship, and what it means to be a writer and a reader. The ability to rewrite, recast, or redo a story or character has dramatically shifted the way readers process, share, and connect with works, authors, and other fans.

Writers, artists, and editors who have started out in the fandom world are making the transition to more traditional publishing. Is fan culture a boon to creators? A transgression against the original author’s intent and intellectual ownership? Is it hovering somewhere in between? Join a panel of authors, artists, librarians, and yes, fans, to explore the impact participatory fan culture has had and will continue to have on reading, literature, and how we encounter stories.

Presented by the Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries MIG

PLA's Nominating Committee 2013. Volunteer online for committee positions at http://www.pla.org

"Opening Access for a New Era of Scholarly Publishing"

The ALCTS Access to Continuing Resources Interest Group invites you to hear a panel of speakers present on three timely scholarly communication topics. Scholarly communication is going through enormous transformation due to the strong foothold of open access publishing and the desire of authors to retain more control over their copyrights and their works. Open access (OA) mandates are becoming more widespread amongst academic and research institutions, enabling authors to deposit their articles in an open access repository. The University of Kansas (KU) was the first U.S. public university to adopt an OA policy for scholarly articles, and KU led the formation of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) was founded by scholars over fifteen years ago as an open access, continually-updated, authoritative online encyclopedia funded through grants and institutional members. And, responding to the demand for more open access options, many publishers have expanded their open access journal offerings. SAGE Open is one such journal, representing a broad-based open-access option for the social & behavioral sciences and the humanities. Q&A discussion will follow.

Did you attend this Interest Group meeting? Take our post-conference survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/alctsevents2012

Join ALA President Molly Raphael for her President's program featuring Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer. Jodi Picoult is the author of eighteen novels, including the 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 YA novel, Between the Lines, written with her daughter Samantha Van Leer comes out in June 2012. 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.