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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 Mid"Bill" Nye and Gregory Mone
Monday 2/12, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
CCC Mile High Ballroom 2&3

winter Meeting & Exhibits. The session will
take place on Monday, February 12, from
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. at the ALA Midwinter
Meeting. 
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   Ja c k a n d t h e Ge n i u s e s ,   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

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

RUSA Book and Media Awards
Carnegie Medals announcement
Sunday 2/11, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Hyatt Centennial A-D

and suffering. A novel that is, at once,
down-to-earth and magical.
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.

"Bill" Nye

Gregory Mone

(Photo by Jesse DeFlorio)

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.

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

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
see page 8

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

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