ALA Cognotes January Preview - 18

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COGNOTES

Saturday, February 10
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Extraordinary Ordinary People
10:30 a.m. - Noon
Powered Libraries: 7 Success Stories
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
44 PAGES
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
My Friend Dahmer

84 minutes
24 minutes
90 minutes
107 minutes

Extraordinary
Ordinary People
This documentary spans the history and
importance of the various heritages celebrated
and maintained by Americans as part of their
own history, lives and personal expressions. It
is indeed a celebration of extraordinary, but
seemingly ordinary, people.

Johnson answers to the "family council" - a
group of more than 300 descendants of the
founders who are all stakeholders focused on
the stewardship of the founding philosophies.
The magazine has been innovative from the
start - putting it in doctors offices with one
subscription card ripped out so people aren't
uncomfortable being the first one to rip it out."

Powered Libraries:
7 Success Stories
"Powered Libraries: 7 Success Stories"
highlights the forward-thinking innovation
happening in seven unique libraries - from
a private tribal library striving to retain a
dying language to an out-of-this world informational outpost perched high in the Davis
Mountains. Meet the members of a tiny
community with big hearts at Texas' secondsmallest public library and climb aboard a
book bus that measures success in smiles per
gallon. "Powered Libraries" shines a light on
the future-ready leaders who have successfully implemented public-facing practices
to enrich, engage, and empower the diverse
members of their communities. Librarians
will be inspired and walk away with fresh
ideas. This documentary, in its entirety, will
premiere at ALA Midwinter.

My Friend Dahmer
In 2013, "My Friend Dahmer" won an
Alex Award, and was honored as a Great
Graphic Novels for Teens Top Ten and Quick
Picks for Reluctant Readers Top Ten. Nature
versus nurture is one of our most fundamental
debates. And while the graphic novel or the
film adaptation don't provide the answers, it
is both the author's and director's hope that
audiences will ask themselves the tough questions: What are those forces in life that sculpt
and define us? How do we become who we
are? Why does one teenage find promise, while
his friend enters adulthood broken? How well
do we know our friends? And in the future,
one might look at a troubled teen through a
more empathetic lens. It's a story of its time,
but it is also sadly relevant today.

44 Pages
Highlights has been a staple in the children's
literature and teaching and learning world
for decades and the magazine's relationship
with librarians throughout the country (and
world) has always been strong. "44 Pages"
explores the state of print media, the history of
magazine publishing, children's book authoring and illustration, teaching and learning,
among others.
Highlights has been family-owned
since its inception in 1946. Kent Johnson, the great grandson of the magazine
founders, a Harvard educated physicist,
made a huge life change when he took over the
company and credits his successes at the helm
to his naïveté about the publishing industry
and state of education.

Black Girl in Suburbia
"For many black girls raised in the suburbs,
the experiences of going to school, playing on
the playground, and living day-to-day life can
be uniquely alienating. "Black Girl In Suburbia" looks at the suburbs of America from the
perspective of women of color. Filmmaker
Melissa Lowery shares her own childhood
memories of navigating racial expectations
both subtle and overt.
Through conversations with her own
daughters, with teachers and scholars who
are experts in the personal impacts of growing
up a person of color in a predominately white
place, this film explores the conflicts that
many black girls in homogeneous hometowns
have in relating to both white and black communities. "Black Girl In Suburbia" is a great
discussion starter for Freshman orientation
week and can be used in a wide variety of

The ALA JobLIST Placement & Career Development Center will be located
in the Colorado Convention Center on Saturday and Sunday, February 10 and 11.
* Orientation - Saturday February 10, 8:30 a.m.
* Career Counseling - Saturday February 10, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday

February 11, 1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
* Mentoring-on-the-Fly - Saturday February 10, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
and Sunday, February 11, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
* Open House/Job Fair - Sunday February 11, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
* Photography Service - Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Walk-ins
Welcome.
* Resume Review - Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
For more information, visit the ALA JobLIST Placement and Career
DevelopmentCenter's web page.

JANUARY PREVIEW

Sunday, February 11
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Black Girl in Suburbia
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Ohero:kon - Under the Husk
10:30 a.m. - Noon
Quest
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
GEEK GIRLS
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Nothing Without Us: The Women

Who Will End AIDS

educational settings including classes in sociology, race relations, African American Studies,
Women's Studies, and American Studies."
Oheró:kon - Under the
Husk
"Under The Husk" follows two Mohawk
girls on their journey to become Mohawk
women. Friends since childhood, Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are members
of the traditional community of Akwesasne
on the U.S./Canada border. Together, they
undertake a four-year rite of passage for
adolescents, called Oheró:kon, or "under
the husk." The ceremony had been nearly
extinct, a casualty of colonialism and intergenerational trauma; revived in the past
decade by two traditional leaders, it has
since flourished. Filmmaker Katsitsionni
Fox has served as a mentor, or "auntie," to
many youth going through the passage rites.
In "Under The Husk," Fox shares two girls'
journey through adolescence, as they rise to
the tasks of Oheró:kon, learning traditional
practices such as basket making and survival
skills as well as contemporary teachings about
sexual health and drug and alcohol prevention. "Under The Husk" is a personal story
of a traditional practice challenging young
girls spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and
physically, shaping the women they become.
Quest
This documentary touches all of the hot
points of American Society today - politics
and race, gender and equality, the economy
and the growing distance between the upper
and (no longer) middle to lower classes, voting rights and the rise of an angry right wing
faction, as seen through the eyes of one family over the course of a decade. A Sundance
film that resonates on so many levels.
Geek Girls
Nerdy women - the "hidden half" of fan

YALSA
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and community engagement? Learn how a
simple app matches HH music and YA lit,
and how HH culture is interpreted through
today's social media. Audience questions
and discussion will follow the presentation.
Hosted by YALSA Past Presidents. Learn
more about YALSA's full list of programs and
events at https://tinyurl.com/YALSAMW18.
Implementing YALSA's "Teen Services
Competencies for Library Staff" in Your
Library
Sunday February 11, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

54 Minutes
27 minutes
95 minutes
83 minutes
67 minutes

culture - open up about their lives in the
world of conventions, video games, and other
rife-with-misogyny pop culture touchstones.
While geek communities have recently risen to
prominence, very little attention is paid to geek
women. Filmmaker Gina Hara, struggling with
her own geek identity, explores the issue with a
cast of women who live geek life up to the hilt:
A feminist geek blogger, a convention-trotting
cosplayer, a professional gamer, a video-game
designer, and a NASA engineer. Through their
personal experiences in the rich cultural explosion of nerdom, "Geek Girls" shows both the
exhilaration of newfound community and the
ennui of being ostracized. These women, striving in their respective professions and passions,
face the cyberbullying, harassment, and sexism
that permeate the culture and the industry at
large. A rich conversation-starter for any class
on Pop Culture and Feminism.
Nothing Without Us: The
Women Who Will End AIDS
This is the story of the women of color who
have saved countless lives - including their
own - through their work at the forefront of
the global AIDS movement; it's the first and
only documentary about this missing chapter
in HIV/AIDS activism. Combining archival
footage with contemporary interviews, the
film shines a light on the activists, scholars,
and scientists who have shaped grassroots
groups like ACT-UP, and who fought to open
access to prevention and treatment while facing their fears and everyday struggles. From
beauty parlors in Baton Rouge to the first
HIV clinic in Burundi to the set of a television show in Nigeria, this film looks boldly at
the unaddressed dynamics that keep women
at high-risk for HIV, while introducing the
remarkable women who have the answers to
ending this 30-year-old pandemic.

Get details and add to your schedule now.

YALSA's new Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff (www.ala.org/yalsa/
guidelines/yacompetencies) outlines the
skills all library staff need to effectively
serve teens - from interaction with teens
and families to learning environments and
experiences, community and family engagement, cultural competency, and outcomes
and assessment. This interactive session will
help library staff more effectively use and
communicate these competencies in their
libraries, and provide feedback to YALSA
on support libraries need to implement
them. Learn more about YALSA's full list
of programs and events at https://tinyurl.
com/YALSAMW18.

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