Below is my schedule; I’ll annotate the entries as time allows (the ones there come mainly from the program summaries). Great conference, great speakers!
Ithaca to NOLA Expedia Delta Air Lines Friday, 06/24/2011 – 6:15am – 10:15am
Holiday Inn French Quarter Friday, 06/24/2011 – 11:00am – 11:30am 124 Royal Street, New Orleans LA
Intellectual Freedom 101 (ALA) Friday, 06/24/2011 – 1:00pm – 2:00pm Convention Center – Rm 243
Presentation/Session
At this one-hour fast-paced session you will meet some of the leaders of the various intellectual freedom groups, get all the details on the IF programs planned for this conference and upcoming events, and find out how you can get involved in the intellectual freedom workings of the Association. This is a definite must-do for those new to the professions, ALA, Conference, and/or intellectual freedom!
Opening General Session featuring Dan Savage Friday, 06/24/2011 – 4:00pm – 5:15pm Convention Center – Auditorium, Opening/Closing session, Speaker series
Last summer the nation was rocked by a spate of gay teen suicides: youths who took their own lives because of bullying. Determined to do something, Dan Savage realized that the era of social media gave him the means to speak to them directly as never before. On September 22, 2010, Dan and his husband Terry Miller uploaded a video to YouTube, where they spoke openly about the bullying they suffered as teenagers‚Äîand how they both went on to lead rewarding adult lives, filled with joy, family, and love. They encouraged friends and colleagues to speak out and upload their own videos. 24 hours later, the second video was uploaded. By end of the week, they‚Äôd received over 1,000 videos. Less than a month later, Dan received a call from the White House: President Obama himself had made a video., Six months later, www.itgetsbetter.org has evolved into a nonprofit organization and a national movement, with over 10,000 videos and growing, from people all over the country, including The Salt Lake City Library, Free Philadelphia Public Library, politicians such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and celebrities like Tim Gunn, Ellen DeGeneres, and many more. , The book IT GETS BETTER: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller. , , , DAN SAVAGE is the author of the syndicated column, ‚ÄúSavage Love,‚Äù and the Editorial Director of The Stranger, Seattle‚Äôs weekly newspaper. In addition to his frequent appearances on CNN, MSNBC, Real Time With Bill Maher, and The Colbert Report, Savage is a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life. He is the author of Savage Love; The Kid: What Happened When My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant; Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America; and The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family. Savage is writing a new book, tentatively titled The Sex Life of Others (Dutton, 2012). Dan has recently attended a White House press conference on bullying and is currently working on a pilot with MTV. , TERRY MILLER (left) is an event promoter, musician, and DJ. He has produced events for artists as varied as the satirical LA pop duo Garfunkel & Oates, J.D. Twitch, and NPR’s Ira Glass. Terry grew up in Spokane, Washington; he and Dan Savage have been together for sixteen years. They were married in Canada, and live in Seattle with their son, DJ. , , , Dan Savage and Terry Miller will sign copies of It Gets Better at the conclusion of the Opening General Session., , Sponsored by Dutton Books
Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) / Anthropology and Sociology Section (ANSS) Social Friday, 06/24/2011 Р6:00pm Р8:00pm Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar and Restaurant 701 Tchoupitoulas Street
Competing in the Information Marketplace II: Strategic PR Partnerships – Journalists and Libraries Saturday, 06/25/2011 – 8:00am – 10:00am Convention Center – Rm 383-385
Speaker: Bill Densmore, Beyond Books; Media Giraffe Project; New England News Forum; Journalism That Matters [Mr. Densmore sadly had travel woes and could not attend]
Speaker: Mike Fancher, University of Nevada, Reno; Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy
Speaker: Nancy Kranich, Beyond Books; The ALA Center for Public Life
Information seekers turn to the Web and social media for instant access, but often lack the critical skills to evaluate their findings. Nonetheless, speed and convenience too often trump accuracy. Three key communities share a common interest in quality information: libraries, journalists, and educators. What if these sectors work together in informal networks to raise awareness of libraries as sources of reliable information? Through collaboration, can these communities raise information literacy, enhance critical thinking skills, and make fact-finding an engaging, transformative, learning adventure? Explore the possibilities with Bill Densmore (career journalist and organizer of Beyond Books), Mike Fancher (Reynolds Chair in the Ethics of Entrepreneurial and Innovative Journalism at the University of Nevada), and Nancy Kranich (past president of ALA and organizer of Beyond Books). Co-sponsored by The ALA Center for Public Life.
Communication Studies Committee (part of Consolidated) (ACRL EBSS) Saturday, 06/25/2011 – 8:00am – 12:00pm Marriott New Orleans – Mardi Gras D Tbl 1 Committee meeting
Consolidated Meeting (ACRL EBSS) Saturday, 06/25/2011 – 8:00am – 12:00pm Marriott New Orleans – Mardi Gras D Committee meeting Meeting of nearly all EBSS Committees. Please see Complete EBSS Schedule for specifics, or check the EBSS website for more information.
2012 EBSS Program Planning Committee with VRT Saturday, 06/25/2011 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm Marriott New Orleans Mardi Gras D
Millennials and Beyond: Student and Faculty Voices (ACRL EBSS) Saturday, 06/25/2011 – 1:30pm – 3:30pm Convention Center – Rm 392 Award presentation, Presentation/Session, Tracked Programs
Do you wish you could understand your students more fully? Millennials continue to challenge how we view research, technology, and communication. Join EBSS for a presentation on student and faculty experiences, expectations, and perceptions of the libraries in the 21st century. Speakers include Jennifer T. Edwards from Tarleton State University (“A Millennial Professor’s View of Higher Education”) and Gene Roche, the Director of Academic Information Services at the College of William and Mary.
SPEAKER SERIES – Siva Vaidhyanathan Saturday, 06/25/2011 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm Convention Center – Auditorium B Presentation/Session, Speaker series
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. In his newest book, The Googlization of Everything (and why we should worry), Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the ways we have used and embraced Google—and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe.
Alexander Street Customer Appreciation Breakfast Sunday, 06/26/2011 – 7:30am – 9:00am Hilton Riverside – Napoleon BR
SPEAKER SERIES – Brooke Gladstone Sunday, 06/26/2011 – 10:30am – 11:30am Convention Center – Auditorium B Author event, Presentation/Session, Speaker series
Brooke Gladstone is co-host and managing editor of NPR’s award-winning On The Media. A former senior editor at Weekend Edition and All Things Considered, Gladstone has won a Peabody Award, two Murrow Awards, the National Press Club’s press criticism award, and has been the recipient of a Peabody and a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. Her first book, The Influencing Machine, will be published by W. W. Norton & Company in May.
Electronic Resources in Communication Studies (ACRL EBSS) Sunday, 06/26/2011 – 1:30pm – 3:30pm Marriott New Orleans – Lafayette Committee meeting
VRT Gala Sunday, 06/26/2011 – 7:00pm – 9:30pm Zeitgeist multi-disciplinary arts center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. 7-8 hours d’oeuvres and cash bar; 8-9:30 pm program
ProQuest CIS Breakfast Monday, 06/27/2011 – 8:00am – 10:00am Hilton Riverside – Napoleon BR
ProQuest will honor the following award recepients at this breakfast event. , , 1. ProQuest/GODORT award, 2. ProQuest/ACRL/IS innovation award, 3. ProQuest/GODORT/Readex award (it was added last year)
When it Leaks it Pours: WikiLeaks, National Declassification System, and Access to Government Information Monday, 06/27/2011 – 10:30am – 12:00p Monteleone – Queen Anne BR
Presentation/Session
WikiLeaks’ recent release of classified information has caused a great deal of interest and some consternation in the library world, including the Library of Congress. This program will follow up on the Midwinter talk by Patrice McDermott, Director of openthegovernment.org. At Midwinter, Council passed a resolution demanding faster action from the newly established National Declassification Center. We will discuss the state of classification system and librarians’ role as defenders of access to information.
Lunch with Bobray Monday, 06/27/2011 – 12:00pm – 1:30pm French Quarter.† Bobray at the Omni Royal Crescent
Tour WWOZ an Independent Jazz Radio Station Monday, 06/27/2011 Р2:00pm Р4:00pm WWOZ 90.7 FM is the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Station, a community radio station currently operating out of the French Market Corporation Offices in New Orleans, Louisiana. Our governance board is appointed by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation. We are a listener-supported, volunteer-programmed radio station. WWOZ covers many events live in and around the city and across the United States. We also broadcast live from the famed New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival annually.” (from Web site), We may try to create a taxi-pool if there is enough interest. Please let us know in your email if you are interested in group transportation to the station, or if you plan to meet us there. As we get a sense closer to the day of the event of the best meeting location, we will email out meeting times and places to those who have responded. The tour will begin at WWOZ at 2:30pm, so any meeting for group transportation will probably be at about 2pm., RSVP to Jodie Borgerding, jborgerding80@webster.edu, Here is a link to a Google map with walking directions and the address of the station: http://tinyurl.com/3qldeo9, Up to 25 participants sponsored by the ACRL РEBSS Communication Studies Committee (Education and Behavioral Sciences Section), To view this Event in Connect, go to http://connect.ala.org/node/142604., Jodie BorgerdingACRL/EBSS Communication Studies Committee
Veg Libs Monday, 06/27/2011 – 4:30pm – 6:00pm 1100 N Peters St (at Ursuline St)
Closing General Session featuring Molly Shannon Tuesday, 06/28/2011 – 9:00am – 10:00am Convention Center – Auditorium B Opening/Closing session, Speaker series ALA Annual 2011 Closing Session
NOLA to Ithaca Expedia Itinerary Number: 135268274254 Delta Air Lines Tuesday, 06/28/2011 – 5:00pm – 11:45pm
