The Scoop
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Gates Foundaton Contributes $1.5 Million to IFLA Advocacy
August 25, 2009 -
IFLA Opening Session Spotlights Italian Art, Theater, History
August 23, 2009 -
Americans Kick Off IFLA in Milan with Caucus
August 22, 2009 -
Deadline Looms for Broadband Grant Applications
August 3, 2009 -
2009 ALA Annual Conference Overview
Our grand overview of the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, including sights and sounds from the ALSC Charlemae Rollins President's Program, Laurie Halse Anderson, the Bookcart Drill Team World Championships, the Exhibit Hall, the ALA Presidential Inauguration, Cokie Roberts, and more. More ALA videos available at alfocus.ala.org.
July 28, 2009 -
Fifth Annual Bookcart Drill Team World Championships
A photo essay from the Bookcart Drill Team World Championships, held at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, set to "Ride of the Valkyries," the winning team's music (available under public domain Creative Commons license via http://www.archive.org/details/EDIS-SRP-0197-06). More ALA videos available at alfocus.ala.org.
July 28, 2009 -
Annual Videopalooza
July 28, 2009 -
Paula Poundstone at Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!
AL Focus visited ALTAFF Spokesperson Paula Poundstone July 9 before a taping of National Public Radio's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! attended by 500 librarians. The conversation covered Poundstone's role as ALTAFF spokesperson, her kids' reading habits, The Three Stooges, the dreaded acronym game, and the horrors of math. Transcript to come.
July 27, 2009 -
Christie Hefner Interview
Before her Opening General Session speech at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, American Libraries spoke with former Playboy Enterprises CEO Christie Hefner about her message to librarians, her memories of Judith Krug and the important First Amendment battles they fought, and what helped her to succeed in what some would call a man's job. Transcript to come.
July 27, 2009 -
Tracy Kidder Interview
AL Focus catches up with author Tracy Kidder before his Auditorium Speaker Series presentation at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. Kidder discusses his new book, Strength in What Remains, as well as his ideal vision for libraries--and you will want to hear what he calls libraries and librarians. Transcript to come
July 27, 2009 -
Cokie Roberts Interview
Before her PLA President's Program speech at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, journalist Cokie Roberts spoke with AL Focus about the new revised and expanded edition of her book We Are Our Mother's Daughters, as well as the state of libraries and the future of journalism. Transcript to come.
July 27, 2009 -
Cokie Roberts Interview
Before her PLA President's Program speech at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, journalist Cokie Roberts spoke with AL Focus about the new revised and expanded edition of her book We Are Our Mother's Daughters, as well as the state of libraries and the future of journalism. More ALA videos at alfocus.ala.org.
July 27, 2009
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