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Banned Books Week - Celebrating the Freedom to Read materials available 3. Francis Joseph Campbell Award recipient named 4. Gale Research Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services winner named 5. LAMA announces 1994-95 Institute of the Year 6. LAMA announces upcoming programs at 1994 ALA Annual Conference 7. Library services to youth topic of ALA President's Program 8. Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award recipient named 9. New ACRL publication provides guidance on conference proceedings searching 10. The tastes and sounds of South Florida to be highlighted at President's Party 1. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALA Annual Conference Opening Session speakers to address teen violence Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a renowned expert on teen violence, will join American Library Association (ALA) President Hardy R. Franklin at the ALA Annual Conference Opening General Session on Saturday, June 25, from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m., in the Miami Beach Convention Center, Hall D. Edelman and Prothrow-Stith will discuss society's urgent need to shield the nation's children from the devastating effects of poverty and violence. Edelman, a Yale Law School graduate and civil rights lawyer, founded CDF in 1973 to ensure enforcement of laws protecting poor children and minorities. As the undisputed leader in the youth movement, the CDF focuses on "core issues" such as health care, adolescent pregnancy and prevention, early education, child care and family supports. As the first African-American woman admitted to the Mississippi bar, Edelman directed the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Jackson, Miss. She has also successfully led a national campaign aimed at getting every child in America immunized. Edelman is the author of "Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change" (Harvard University Press, 1987) and "The Measure of Success: A Legacy to my Children and Yours (Beacon Press, 1992). She is currently developing a parenting guide for African-American families that Beacon Press will publish in the fall of 1994. Dr. Prothrow-Stith is assistant dean for Government and Community Programs at the Harvard University School of Public Health. Her work is based upon experiences gained as a medical student while treating young victims of violence. While she was treating these victims, they would often tell her of their plans for revenge and more violence. She explores adolescence and violence as a public health issue and offers solutions for addressing one of society's major problems in her book "Deadly Consequences: How Violence is Destroying Our Teenage Population and a Plan to Begin Solving the Problem." At 33, Dr. Prothrow-Stith became the first woman and the youngest person to serves as Commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She has been featured on MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, CBS Evening News, The Today Show and quoted in The New York Times. - END - 2. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Banned Books Week - Celebrating the Freedom to Read materials available The 1994 Banned Books Week -- Celebrating the Freedom to Read Resource Kits are now available. Banned Books Week will be celebrated September 24 - October 1. The kit includes four posters, 100 bookmarks and a Resource Book. The Resource Book includes ideas on how to create displays and organize events to commemorate Banned Books Week, annotated lists of books challenged or banned, quotes, puzzles and camera-ready art for publicity. The kit is $23. Reprints of the 1993-94 Challenged or Banned Books list (100 per packet) are $15 each and bookmarks (100 per packet) are $5 each. For orders up to $19.99, add $4 for shipping and handling; add $6 for orders $20 and over. To order, contact: ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 4223, or 312-280-4223. Fax: 312-440-9374. Banned Books Week is an annual event which calls attention to the dangers of censorship and encourages support for the freedom to read. It is cosponsored by the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Association of College Stores. Banned Books Week is endorsed by The Center for the Book of The Library of Congress. - END - 3. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Francis Joseph Campbell Award recipient named Richard C. Peel, retired director of the Arizona Braille & Talking Book Library in Mesa, is the 1994 recipient of the Francis Joseph Campbell Award presented by the Libraries Serving Special Population Section of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA). The award, a citation and medallion, is given for contribution of recognized importance to library service for the blind and physically handicapped. "Richard was selected from an outstanding group of nominees for his leadership, vision and inspiration for more than 25 years to all his colleagues who serve persons with special needs," said H. Neil Kelley, chair of the Francis Joseph Campbell Award Jury. Peel has served as assistant director and special consultant for the Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped at the Arizona State Library; coordinator of Specialized Library Services at Montana State Library, and director of education at both the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and the Episcopal Diocese of Montana. He received the 1975 Montana Association of the Blind Bridgman Award for "Outstanding Service to the Blind of Montana" and the 1989 Outreach Services Award from the Arizona State Library Association. Peel has a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University, a master's degree in theology from the Episcopal Divinity School of Philadelphia and a master's degree in library science from the University of British Columbia. The award will be presented at the ASCLA Awards Reception on Monday, June 27, 5 to 7:30 p.m.. during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. Tickets for the reception are $20 per person and are available from: ASCLA Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 4398, or 312-280-4398. The deadline is June 1. Tickets will also be available from the meal ticket booth at the Miami Beach Convention Center. ASCLA is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 4. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Gale Research Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services winner named The Wichita (Kan.) Public Library is the 1994 recipient of the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) Gale Research Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services. The award, $1,000 and a citation donated by Gale Research, Inc., is given to a library or library system for developing an imaginative and unique library resource to meet patrons' reference needs. The library received the award for a program called The Legal Connection, a series of brochures and public programs which provide Wichita residents with information on available low cost legal assistance. The backbone of The Legal Connection is a brochure, "Finding Legal Assistance in Sedgwick County," which lists the agencies providing low cost, professional legal assistance or information in Sedgwick County. The brochure is supplemented by subject brochures on popular topics such as wills and probate and landlord/tenant law written by members of the Wichita Bar Association. A series of public programs, presented by members of the Wichita Bar Association Speakers Bureau, have been held at the library once a month since September 1993 when The Legal Connection was officially announced. "The Legal Connection is an excellent example of a project which is a collaboration between agencies and the community," said Marsha Spyros, chair of the Gale Research Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services Committee. "The committee felt that this project, which has a strong library component, can serve as a model for other libraries. It serves a public which may not have a high level of library skills and shows the library as a pro-active force in the community." The award will be presented on Monday, June 27, at 4:30 p.m., during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. RASD is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 5. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LAMA announces 1994-95 Institute of the Year "Redefining Libraries and Librarianship: Strategies, Structures and Roles for the New Millennium" will be the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) 1994-95 Institute of the Year. The one-day institute will focus on identifying and evaluating social, economic, political and technological trends that will shape the direction of libraries and the profession of librarianship in the years to come. The goal of the institute is to enable participants to define a set of paths for professional and organizational change to maximize the impact and increase the effectiveness of libraries in our communities. Presentations and discussions will focus on a new strategic vision for librarianship; human resource and workforce planning issues; management of new technologies; restructuring the organization to meet tomorrow's challenges; quality service strategies, and influencing public policy issues affecting information products, distribution and use. The session has been developed as a highly interactive experience that will result in a set of strategies that can be distributed and discussed within the profession at- large. Jim Neal, dean of University Libraries at Indiana University, Bloomington, will serve as workshop leader. Neal has held administration positions in libraries at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Notre Dame and the City University of New York. He has served as LAMA president, representative to the Coalition of Networked Information (CNI) and as head of the Indiana delegation at the 1991 White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services. A frequent conference speaker, consultant and published researcher, Neal received the Outstanding Librarian Award from the Indiana Library Federation in 1993. The LAMA Institutes of the Year are regional institutes designed to explore broad issues of current importance to librarianship. The institutes are developed by the LAMA Special Conferences and Programs Committee in conjunction with designated presenters. For more information or to schedule an institute presentation, contact: Elizabeth Dreazen, LAMA Deputy Executive Director, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 5030, or 312-280-5030. - END - 6. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LAMA announces upcoming programs at 1994 ALA Annual Conference The Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) will present programs on management, collection development and information issues during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. "Access and Holdings: Integrating Issues of Access and Collection Development" will be offered on Saturday, June 25, from 2 to 4 p.m., sponsored by the LAMA Systems and Services Section (SASS) Conference Program Committee. The program will discuss the rapidly changing environment of heightened expectations and diminished budgets, identify key management issues, address options for increasing access, explore the organizational and budgetary implications of new strategies and reexamine the possibilities of resource sharing. "The Clear Picture: Using Census Data for Library Planning in a Geographic Information System (GIS) Environment" will be presented on Sunday, June 26, from 2 to 5:30 p.m, sponsored by the LAMA Statistics Section (SS) Using Statistics for Library Presentations and Communications Committee. Christie Koontz and Dean Jue of Florida State University's Resources and Environmental Analysis Center will demonstrate how GIS can effectively support the planning and decision-making process. "MTV, the Sequel: More Management Training Videos" will be held on Sunday, June 26, from 7 to 10 p.m., sponsored by the LAMA Personnel Administration Section (PAS) Supervisory Skills Committee. The program is cosponsored by the LAMA PAS Staff Development Committee, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group. Videos on various topics of supervision will be presented. Topics will include general supervisory skills, organized approaches to paperwork, managing differences and coping with change. Information on obtaining videos and using them in training as well as a videography will be provided. "Let's Negotiate: Creating and Communicating Acquisitions Management Information," will be held on Monday, June 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., sponsored by the LAMA SASS Automated Acquisitions Committee. The program is cosponsored by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Serials Section Acquisitions Committee. The program, designed for administrators on various levels within an organization and in different kinds of organizations, will offer information on creating useful acquisitions management information reports and communicating that information effectively. "Get a Grip: Harnessing External Forces to Promote Change" will be offered on Tuesday, June 28, from 8:30 to 10 a.m., sponsored by the LAMA Library Organization and Management Section (LOMS) Comparative Library Organization Committee. The program will offer new perspectives on current management and societal issues affecting libraries. Vicki LaFarge and Carole Congram, management professors at Bentley College, Waltman, Mass., will present a mini-session on what is hot and what is not in management theory. For more information, contact: ALA/LAMA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 5038, or 312-280-5032. Fax: 312-280- 3257. LAMA, ACRL and ALCTS are divisions of the American Library Association. 7. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Library services to youths topic of ALA President's Program Library services to young adults will be the focus of the American Library Association President's Program on Sunday, June 26, from 2 to 4 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami Beach. ALA President Hardy R. Franklin will be joined by a panel of young adult authors and teens themselves as they explore the needs and wants of this group of library customers. The authors will discuss where they get their story ideas; how they, as adults, can believably translate the teen experience, and the problems they encounter with publishers in presenting issues of concern to today's teens. Teen volunteers, recruited by the staff of the Miami-Dade Public Library, will discuss whether the library adequately serves their needs. They will also comment on the kinds of services the library should provide and how well the library responds to their concerns. The panel discussion will be moderated by award-winning author Walter Dean Myers and Mary Somerville, interim director of the Miami-Dade Public Library System. Myers, the recipient the 1994 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing books for young adults, has a reputation as a versatile writer of fiction for children and young adults. He is best known as the author of young adult novels that focus on the experience of African- American teenagers living in the New York City district of Harlem. His books include "Fast Same, Cool Clyde, and Stuff" (ALA Notable Book, 1975); "The Young Landlords (ALA Notable Book, 1975, Coretta Scott King Award, 1980), and "Motown and Didi" (Coretta Scott King Award, 1988). Somerville has worked with children and young adults for nearly 20 years. She has been youth services administrator for the Miami-Dade Public Library System and the Broward County (Fla.) Library. She served as manager of Children's Services at the Louisville (Ky.) Free Public Library and was the young people's coordinator at the Lincoln (Neb.) City Libraries. Somerville is a member of the ALA Executive Board and has served as president of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the ALA. Panelists will be authors Russell Freedman, Latoya Hunter, Marilyn Kaye, Patricia McKissack and Laurence Yep. Freedman is the author of more than 35 nonfiction books written for children and young adults. In 1988, he received the Newbery Medal for "Lincoln: A Photobiography," making him the first nonfiction author in 32 years to win the Newbery and one of a handful of nonfiction authors to be honored with the medal since it was first presented in 1922. Hunter is the 16-year-old author of "The Diary of Latoya Hunter." At the age of 14, she was offered a book contract to prepare a journal on her first year at Junior High School 80 in West Bronx, N.Y., after an editor read an article about Latoya and her class in the New York Times. She is now a sophomore in high school and plans to be a journalist or psychologist. Hunter speaks clearly about teens and what they have on their minds Kaye began her writing career as the author of teenage romances. She has since written a series, "Out of this World," middle-grade stories of contemporary family life, and books for the "Couples" and "Sweet Valley" series. Kaye's "Will You Cross Me?" was selected one of the Child Study Association of America's Children's Books of the Year in 1985. Her book, "Wrong Kind of Boy" was a 1986 Children's Choice from the International Reading Association. McKissack, with her husband Frederick McKissack, has written nearly 100 books for children - biographies and historical fiction. She received the 1990 Coretta Scott King Award for "A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter" and the 1993 Newbery Honor Award and Coretta Scott King Award for "The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural." As a Chinese-American growing up in an African-American neighborhood in San Francisco, Yep found the issue of identify difficult. He has continued to explore cultural identify in his award-winning novels about children from multicultural backgrounds. Yep has earned Newbery Medal Honors in 1976 for "Dragonwings" and in 1994 for "Dragon's Gate." - END - 8. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award recipient named Elizabeth Ann Funk, library development advisor II for the State Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, is the 1994 recipient of the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award. The award, a citation, is given to a librarian for impact on library service to adults. Funk is being recognized for her work as a member of the Pennsylvania statewide committee conducting an institute project over a three-year period that is preparing librarians to offer services to older adults. She is responsible for monitoring 28 Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) grants awarded to District Library Centers. Commissioner Sara Parker of the Pennsylvania Department of Education has credited Funk and her Library Development staff for their efforts to bring quality service to Pennsylvania's aging population. "The committee strongly believes that service to older adults is needed and should be recognized," said Patricia M. Hogan, chair of the Monroe Award Jury. "Elizabeth Ann Funk, through her work with the Older Adults Task Force, has provided guidance to significant grants and projects in service to older adults. The committee believes her efforts are a significant contribution to library adult services and this service population. Miss Funk's efforts certainly fulfill the criteria of this award." Funk has held a number of positions on the Pennsylvania Library Development staff since 1968. Her work to obtain federal funding to support activities for older adults prompted the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) to give its first Excellence Award for Library Service for Older Adults to the Commonwealth Libraries. She is a member of the American Library Association (ALA), the Pennsylvania Library Association, the Correctional Education Association and the Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education. Funk has a bachelor's degree from Juniata College in Huntington, Pa., and a master's degree in library science from Drexel University in Philadelphia The award will be presented on Monday, June 27, at 4:30 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami Beach. RASD is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 9. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 New ACRL publication provides guidance on conference proceedings searching "A Guide to Searching the Bibliographic Utilities for Conference Proceedings" is now available from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The guide, edited by Nirmala S. Bangalore and Judith A. Carter of the ACRL Science and Technology Section, is designed to assist librarians in searching for conference proceedings in the three major bibliographic utilities: RLIN, OCLC/PRISM and WIN. It begins with an overview of the two files provided by all three utilities: the authority file and the bibliographic file. After first describing how to verify the name of a conference with the authority file, the guide moves on to provide detailed information for conducting a search. Examples of specific commands and formatting are included for a derived, keyword or scan search that will provide the desired MARC record. "A Guide to Searching the Bibliographic Utilities for Conference Proceedings" (ISBN 0-8389-7734-0) is $7.95 ($6.95 for ACRL members) and is available from: ALA Order Fulfillment, 520 N. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60610. Telephone: 800-545-2433, press 7. Fax: 312-836-9958. ACRL is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 10. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 The tastes and sounds of South Florida to be highlighted at President's Party The tastes and Sounds of South Florida will he highlighted at the President's Party on Sunday, June 26, from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., at the Metro Dade Cultural Plaza, 101 W. Flagler St., during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. Proceeds from the event will benefit the ALA Scholarship Fund. Sponsored by Data Research Associates, the evening will feature African- American, Caribbean and Latin cuisine, drinks, music and entertainment, including the Motown sound, steele drums, jazz, reggae and more. Guests will also be able to participate in complimentary tours of the Miami-Dade Public Library, the Historical Museum of Southern Florida or the Center for Fine Arts. Shuttle buses will transport conference participants. No parking is available at the site for this event. Tickets are $20 in advance and are available by mail from: President's Party, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Tickets will be $25 at the door. - END -