[Publib] ALA Conference Schedule - Summer 2006

[Diedre Conkling]

I have been working on a schedule of programs that may be of interest to members of the SRRT Feminist Task Force.  I thought I would share it with you as well.  It is a rough draft so if you have any suggestions for additions please let me know.

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Feminist Task Force
ALA Conference 2006, New Orleans

These are some of the programs you may find of interest.  We encourage you to attend the Feminist Task Force Meetings.  We have many opportunities for you including serving as an officer (coordinator, treasurer, secretary, etc.), edit the newsletter Women in Libraries, help plan programs, share ideas about things you would like FTF to do.



Friday, June 23, 2006


Women’s Night Out – Sponsored by FTF
Date:  6/23/06  7:00 PM - ?
Location:  True Brew Café
	     200 Julia St.
     (two blocks from Convention 
    Center)
Come connect with old friends at the first of the Conference.  If you are new to the ALA Conference, this is a good time to connect with people from FTF, WSS, COSWL, & GLBTRT and informally learn more about what is happening during the conference.


1.	ALA -DIVERSITY Many Voices, One Nation: New Orleans Date: 6/23/2006 Time: 7:30 PM- 11:00 PM Registration required.
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside room: Napoleon BR Meeting 
Type: Open 
Description: Don't miss this amazing program celebrating the literary diversity and creativity that enriches our nation. On this special night commemorating the tragedy and the courage witnessed in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricanes, some of our most talented authors join voices to weave a rich, literary tapestry bearing testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. If you experienced MVON: Chicago, you already know that this is an unforgettable way to kick off conference. 

Tickets are free and available on a first come basis.
Registration required. Registration is available using the online form.



Saturday, June 24, 2006

1.	COSWL Committee Meeting
Date: 6/24/2006 8:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Rm. 348
Meeting Type: Open

2.	Feminist Task Force (with SRRT All Task Force Meeting)
Date: 6/24/2006 8:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Royal Sonesta room: Evangeline Suite
Meeting Type: Open

3.	GLBTRT Steering Committee I / All Committee Meeting
Date: 6/24/2006 8:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: JW Marriott room: Orleans/Rosalie/St. Claude
Meeting Type: Open

4.	SRRT All Task Force Meeting
Date: 6/24/2006 8:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Royal Sonesta room: Evangeline Suite
Meeting Type: Open

5.	GLBTRT Steering Committee I / All Committee Meeting
Date: 6/24/2006 10:30 AM -- 12:00 PM
Location: JW Marriott room: Conde & Frontenac
Meeting Type: Open

6.	SRRT Action Council I
Date: 6/24/2006 10:30 AM -- 12:00 PM
Location: Royal Sonesta room: Evangeline Suite
Meeting Type: Open

7.	WSS/ACRL Leadership Orientation
Date: 6/24/2006 10:30 AM -- 12:00 PM
Location: Marriott New Orleans Conv. Ctr. room: Julia
Meeting Type: Open

8.	GLBTRT Book Awards Committee
Date: 6/24/2006 1:30 PM -- 5:30 PM
Location: Hotel Intercontinental room: Fulton
Meeting Type: Closed

9.	Introduction to Women's Issues
Date: 6/24/2006 1:30 PM -- 3:30 PM
Location: Marriott New Orleans Conv. Ctr. room: Julia
Meeting Type: Open

10.	ALA MEMBERSHIP MEETING I
Date: 6/24/2006 4:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: La Nouvelle Orleans BR
Meeting Type: Open

11.	WSS/ACRL General Membership Meeting
Date: 6/24/2006 4:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
Location: Marriott New Orleans Conv. Ctr. room: Julia
Meeting Type: Open

12.	ALA OPENING GENERAL SESSION Featuring Madeleine Albright
Date: 6/24/2006 5:30 PM -- 7:00 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Hall F
Meeting Type: Open
Description: ALA is thrilled to welcome former Secretary of State and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, Madeleine Albright as the keynote speaker for the Opening General Session. With her new book, The Mighty And The Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs, she offers a provocative and personal look at the role of religion in America’ s foreign policy. In this illuminating first-hand account, one of the most renowned figures in American politics argues that understanding the place and power of religion - and knowing how best to respond to it - is essential if America is to lead successfully around the world.

Madeleine Albright served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001, the first woman ever to hold the position. Her distinguished career in government includes positions in the National Security Council, as an U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and on Capitol Hill. She is currently the founder of The Albright Group LLC, chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and the Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She lives in Washington, D.C., and Virginia.

Sponsored by HarperCollins

13.	WSS/ACRL Social Hour
Date: 6/24/2006 6:00 PM -- 8:00 PM
Location: Off Site room: Off Site
Meeting Type: Open


14.	ALA/ProQuest Scholarship and Library Relief Event
Featuring
Mary Chapin Carpenter!
Saturday, June 24, 2006, 8:00 - 11:00 pm
Convention Center Auditorium
Tickets are $35 

Over the course of a 10-album recording career to date, Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five GRAMMY® Awards and sold well over 12 million records.

The Boston Globe recently said, “slowly but surely, Mary Chapin Carpenter has built a repertoire that ranks with the best of her generation.” That repertoire includes twelve top ten singles, including “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” which was nominated for a Record of the Year GRAMMY®.

Carpenter has achieved the same success as a live performer, having toured nationally and internationally for nearly two decades and won two Pollstar Country Tour of the Year awards. She has remained immersed in humanitarian work throughout her career, performing in support of cancer and AIDS research, U.S. troops overseas, the Campaign for a Landmine Free World and hunger relief efforts, among other causes. Her most recent album is Between Here and Gone (2004).

The Scholarship Event is held to provide scholarships for graduate students in library and information studies. This year, we will also be donating proceeds to the 'ALA Hurricane Katrina Library Relief Fund.' Buy your tickets early! 

Tickets are $35 and can be purchased using the online registration form. If you have already registered for the Annual Conference, and would like to purchase Bash tickets, you can do so using the registration change/update form (this form works whether or not you originally registered online).
VIP Seating is available!



Sunday, June 25, 2006


1.	FTF Amelia Bloomer Group
Date: 6/25/2006 8:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel room: Salon 816/820
Meeting Type: Open

2.	WSS/ACRL Conference Program Planning--New Orleans, 2006
Date: 6/25/2006 8:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel room: Rampart
Meeting Type: Open

3.	ALA COUNCIL/EXECUTIVE BD./MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION SESSION
Date: 6/25/2006 9:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: La Nouvelle Orleans BR
Meeting Type: Open

4.	ALA-APA INFORMATION SESSION
Date: 6/25/2006 10:00 AM -- 10:30 AM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: La Nouvelle Orleans BR
Meeting Type: Open

5.	LAMA Women Administrators Discussion Group
Date: 6/25/2006 10:30 AM -- 12:00 PM
Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel room: Salon 816/820
Meeting Type: Open

6.	WSS/ACRL  All Committees
Date: 6/25/2006 10:30 AM -- 12:30 PM
Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel room: Napoleon BR B3
Meeting Type: Open

7.	ALA COUNCIL I
Date: 6/25/2006 10:45 AM -- 12:15 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: La Nouvelle Orleans BR
Meeting Type: Open

8.	Feminist Task Force (FTF) Mtg.
Date: 6/25/2006 1:30 PM -- 3:30 PM
Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel room: Salon 816/820
Meeting Type: Open

9.	COSWL at 30 Years: Celebrating Our Roots and Visioning Our Future
Date: 6/25/2006 1:30 PM -- 3:30 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Rm. 346-347
Meeting Type: Open
Description: COSWL is 30 years old this year! Approved by Council in July 1976, COSWL represents the diversity of women's interest within ALA and ensures that the Association considers the rights of the majority (women) in the library field. This anniversary program celebrates our roots in the women’s movement with a multigenerational panel of COSWL activists from the 1970s to the present, including Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Sarah Watstein and Shinjoung Yeo.

10.	ALA- Diversity  I Don't Know Any Gay People!: GLBT concerns across diverse communities
Date: 6/25/2006 1:30 PM -- 3:30 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Rm. 297
Meeting Type: Open
Description: This interactive session will explore GLBT informational and social concerns which affect the diverse ethnic and cultural communities we serve. Vignettes will explore prejudice, denial, anger, ignorance, and disservice which can affect collections, services, and interactions in the public spaces we maintain. Sponsored by the Diversity Council and moderated by Michael Miller.

11.	GLBTRT Drag Kings of New Orleans: Documenting Cultural History
Date: 6/25/2006 1:30 PM -- 3:30 PM
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside room: Jasperwood
Meeting Type: Open
Description: In this session, you will discover the world of Drag Kings in New Orleans, and across the U.S. Our presenters, from the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, will discuss their project to document the history and to develop a bibliography of resources to support scholarship on the performance of masculinity.

12.	GLBTRT Book Awards Committee II
Date: 6/25/2006 1:30 PM -- 3:30 PM
Location: Marriott New Orleans Conv. Ctr. room: Magnolia
Meeting Type: Closed

13.	ALA PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM: Reading: The Essential Skill
Date: 6/25/2006 3:30 PM -- 5:30 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Auditorium
Meeting Type: Open
Description: You are cordially invited to join President Michael Gorman as he welcomes Kevin Starr to talk about the enduring importance of reading and literacy. Kevin Starr is a noted scholar, librarian, and self-described evangelist for the central importance of reading and literacy to society and the life of the mind. Dr. Starr was the seventh State Librarian of California since the beginning of the 20th century, a position from which he retired in 2004. He has also served as Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Eliot House at Harvard; executive assistant to the Mayor of San Francisco; City Librarian of San Francisco; and a daily columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. He was born in San Francisco in 1940. He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1962, and holds an MA degree (1965) and PhD (1969) from Harvard. He has an MLS from UC Berkeley and has done post-doctoral work at the Graduate Theological Union. He currently holds the rank of University Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The author of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, Starr has written ten books, seven of which are part of his Americans and the California Dream series. His writing has won him a Guggenheim Fellowship, membership in the Society of American Historians, and the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California. 

Dr. Starr is an entertaining and engaging speaker who is sure to provide stimulating food for thought.

14.	GLBTRT Read Aloud in New Orleans
Date: 6/25/2006 4:00 PM -- 5:30 PM
Location: Off Site - New Orleans Public Library Latter Branch
Meeting Type: Open
Description: Join us to share the works of your favorite GLBT authors. Bring a text to read, or share your own works of fiction, poetry, or non-fiction.

15.	WSS/ACRL Executive
Date: 6/25/2006 4:00 PM -- 6:00 PM
Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel room: Southdown
Meeting Type: Open

16.	GLBTRT Social
Date: 6/25/2006 6:00 PM -- 8:00 PM
Location: Off Site - New Orleans Public Library Latter Branch
Meeting Type: Open
Description: Join us to network with friends and colleagues, and to learn more about the GLBTRT.


Monday, June 26, 2006


1.	COSWL Committee Meeting
Date: 6/26/2006 8:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Rm. 348
Meeting Type: Open

2.	GLBTRT Steering Committee II
Date: 6/26/2006 8:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside room: Trafalgar
Meeting Type: Open

3.	WSS/ACRL Doing Information Literacy Differently: The View from Interdisciplinary Studies
Date: 6/26/2006 8:00 AM -- 12:00 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Rm. 271-72
Meeting Type: Open
Description: Interdisciplinary areas like women's studies, African-American studies, Chicana/o studies, and American Indian studies present unique opportunities and challenges for using and adapting the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards. Panelists will discuss using and adapting the standards in interdisciplinary areas focusing on undergraduate credit bearing courses, online modules, and work with graduate students. Following the panel, break-out groups will discuss and share further ideas for using and adapting the standards in interdisciplinary areas.

4.	ALA-APA COUNCIL
Date: 6/26/2006 10:15 AM -- 11:15 AM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: La Nouvelle Orleans BR
Meeting Type: Open

5.	GLBTRT Annual Stonewall Book Awards
Date: 6/26/2006 10:30 AM -- 1:00 PM
Location: Omni Royal Orleans room: East/Center Salon
Meeting Type: Open
Description: Come and join us as we award Stonewall Book Awards, the Barbara Gittings Literature Award to Abha Dawesar for Babiji and the Israel Fishman Non Fiction Award to Joshua Gamson for The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70's in San Francisco. We are pleased that Joshua Gamson will be joining us as our speaker this year. Join us as we celebrate 35 years of recognizing the finest in Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans literature. 
Registration required. Registration is available using the online form. Tickets are $50 and will be available at the Registration Desk onsite, but WILL NOT be available at the door.

6.	ALA MEMBERSHIP MEETING II
Date: 6/26/2006 11:30 AM -- 12:30 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: La Nouvelle Orleans BR
Meeting Type: Open

7.	SRRT Action Council II
Date: 6/26/2006 1:30 PM -- 4:30 PM
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside room: Oak Alley
Meeting Type: Open


Tuesday, June 27, 2006

1.	CLOSING SESSION Caroline Kennedy
Date: 6/27/2006 8:00 AM -- 9:00 AM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Auditorium
Meeting Type: Open
Author Caroline Kennedy, who is the president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, will be the featured speaker at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference's closing session on Tuesday, June 27 in New Orleans.

Kennedy has published several books over the past five years, including "A Patriot's Handbook" and "Profiles in Courage for Our Time," and is the co-author of "The Right to Privacy" and "In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action."

She also has been highly praised for "The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis," a national best seller.

"The most unexpected part of publishing that book," she said, "was how many people spoke and wrote to me about sharing the same poems in their own families."

That response inspired Caroline Kennedy to create a poetry anthology for families, drawing from the poems her own family cherished. "A Family of Poems" includes 100 poems, from all five continents, illustrated with watercolors by Jon J. Muth. "A Family of Poems" is a 2006 ALA Notable Children's Book.

Hyperion Press will sponsor Kennedy's appearance.


2.	ALA COUNCIL II
Date: 6/27/2006 9:15 AM -- 12:45 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: La Nouvelle Orleans BR
Meeting Type: Open

3.	GLBTRT Steering Committee II
Date: 6/27/2006 10:30 AM -- 12:00 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: Rm. 290
Meeting Type: Open


Wednesday. June 28, 2006

1.	ALA COUNCIL III
Date: 6/28/2006 8:00 AM -- 12:30 PM
Location: Morial Convention Center room: La Nouvelle Orleans BR
Meeting Type: Open




Acronymns

ALA – American Library Association

ALA-APA – ALA-Allied Professional Association

ACRL – Association of College and Research Libraries

COSWL – Committee on the Status of Women in Libraries

FTF – Feminist Task Force

GLBTRT – Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table

LAMA – Library Administration and Management Association

SRRT – Social Responsibilities Round Table

WSS – Women’s Studies Section


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