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What's included in your Registration?
Friday, January 23, 5:30- 7:30 p.m.
Several special events will occur during the Midwinter Meeting, and are included with a full registration. These events include:
ALA/ERT Exhibits Opening Reception
Friday, January 23, 5:30- 7:30 p.m.
The Exhibits Opening Reception, sponsored by ALA and ERT will feature food, entertainment, prizes, and will allow attendees to meet and greet with vendors and colleagues. Exhibitors will be raffling off unique prize baskets, worth over $75 each which will be awarded during the Reception, so make sure to visit our participating exhibitors and register to win!
ALA/ERT Author Forum
Friday, January 23, 4:00- 5:15 p.m.
Women of Mystery:
The art of revealing "who did it?"
with bestselling female authors
 Erica Spindler
The New York Times bestselling author has written 28 novels, including Last Known Victim, Copycat, Killer Takes All, See Jane Die, Dead Run and Bone Cold.
Sponsored by Macmillan
 Francine Mathews
Stephanie Barron is the author of nine Jane Austen mysteries as well as a work of historical fiction, A Flaw In The Blood. Barron is also the penname for Francine Mathews, and her latest book under her real name is The Alibi Club.
Sponsored by Random House
 Mary Jane Clark
Mary Jane Clark is the bestselling author of ten novels, including Do You Want To Know A Secret, Do You Promise Not To Tell, Let Me Whisper In Your Ear,and Close To You.
Sponsored by Harper Collins
 Nancy Atherton
Atherton is the author of thirteen previous Aunt Dimity mysteries. The first, Aunt Dimity’s Death, was voted “one of the century’s 100 favorite mysteries” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.
Sponsored by Penguin Group USA
Denver Sunrise Speaker Series
January 24-26, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
sponsored by HW Wilson
Each morning of the Midwinter Meeting, Saturday, Sunday and Monday-January 24-26 get up early and attend a lively, educational and innovative speaker session, which will run from 8:00 am- 9:00 a.m. The Sunrise Speaker Series is included in the cost of a full Midwinter Meeting Registration and the Exhibits Supreme Badge.
 Leigh Rubin - Saturday, January 24
Maybe you could call Leigh Rubin a sit-down comedian. But whatever you call him, he’s just gratified to have the opportunity to make other people laugh. With his cartoon panel, Rubes, in hundreds of newspapers across the country and gracing millions of greeting cards, mugs,T shirts and calendars, Rubin has plenty of opportunities. Originally self-syndicated, Rubes is now distributed by Creators Syndicate to more than 400 newspapers worldwide.His most recent series of cartoon collections include The Wild Life of Dogs, Pets, Cows, Farm Animals and the award winning Wild Life of Love and Wild Life of Cats.
Dom Testa and Kevin J Anderson
together on Sunday, January 25
Dom Testa is the co-host of the top-rated radio morning show in Denver, the “Dom and Jane Show” (KIMN-FM on MIX 100). Dom founded The Big Brain Club to encourage students to overcome peer pressure and to provide a forum to help them explore their writing talents. His Galahad series has quickly become a smash hit, winning numerous awards, including “Best Young Adult Book” from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. Galahad 1” The Comet’s Curse also claimed a Grand Prize award from Writer’s Digest Magazine, a first for a Colorado author. Sponsored by Tor
 Kevin J. Anderson has published over 80 novels, including twenty-nine national bestsellers. His critically acclaimed original novels include Captain Nemo, Hopscotch, and Hidden Empire. He has collaborated on any number of franchise series, including Star Wars, XFiles and Dune. In his spare time, he also writes comic books.
Sponsored by HarperCollins and Orbit
Richard North Patterson - Monday, January 26
Patterson is the New York Times bestselling author of Exile, The Race, and thirteen other critically acclaimed novels. Formerly a trial lawyer, he was the SEC liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor and has served on the boards of several Washington advocacy groups.
Sponsored by Henry Holt & Co.
Tenth Annual Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture
Saturday, January 24, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck have found themselves thrown into a mission they never trained for: casualty notification. Marines are trained to kill, to break down doors, but the mission of a casualty assistance calls officer is one without weapons. For Beck, the mission meant learning each dead Marine’s name and nickname, touching the toys he grew up with and reading the letters he wrote home. Beck has held grieving mothers in long embraces, absorbing their muffled cries into the dark blue shoulder of his uniform. He stitched himself into the fabric of their lives, in the simple hope that his compassion might help alleviate at least the smallest piece of their pain.
In Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives, Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen and of the broken homes they have left behind. It is also the story of Major Steve Beck and his unflagging efforts to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. Above all, it is a moving tribute to our troops, putting faces to the mostly anonymous names of our courageous heroes, and to the brave families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country.
Jim Sheeler specialized in covering the impact of the war at home for the Rocky Mountain News since the first Colorado casualty of the war in Iraq. He won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his story, Final Salute, and has won numerous other local and national writing awards. Born in Houston, Texas, he graduated with a degree in journalism from Colorado State University in 1990, and earned a Masters degree in journalism from the University of Colorado in 2007. He will begin teaching journalism full-time at the University of Colorado in the fall of 2008. His book of collected obituaries, Obit: Inspirational Stories of Everyday People Who Led Extraordinary Lives, was published in May by Penguin Books. He lives near Boulder, Colorado with his wife and son.
Adult Literature Spotlight
Saturday, January 24. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Join adult authors in the exhibit floor for book signings and free galleys.
ALA President’s Program featuring
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Sunday, January 25, 2009, 3:30- 5:30 p.m.
 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus will speak at the President’s Program on Sunday, January 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Four Seasons Ballroom at the Colorado Convention Center. Dr. Yunus is the author of Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty and Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. Dr. Yunus received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his groundbreaking work to help the poorest of the poor in Third World countries break the cycle of poverty. He founded the Grameen Bank to make microloans to entrepreneurial individuals. These loans help them transform their lives, improve their wellbeing, and literally develop their local economies. Similarly, libraries make microloans—gifts actually—of knowledge. These help people transform their lives, improve their wellbeing, and contribute to our knowledge-based economy. Institutions such as the Grameen Bank and libraries transform lives and build communities. They succeed because both address what Dr. Yunus calls “people-centered problems.”
Dr. Yunus was born in 1940 in British India in what is now Bangladesh. Education has always been important to him. He and his brother, he writes, “devoured any books and magazines we could get our hands on… it was not easy to keep our thirst for reading satiated. To meet our needs, Salam and I learned to improvise, buy, borrow, and steal.” That love of learning served him well throughout his formal education, culminating in a Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University in 1971. He has applied his economic knowledge to the seemingly intractable problem of poverty. He demonstrated the viability of microloans with $27 of his own money in 1976. Today the Grameen Bank makes loans to more than six million families. Additional Grameen initiatives bring telephone service, Internet access, and renewable energy to poor areas. Come hear how institutions such as the Grameen Bank and libraries transform lives and build communities.
Technology Showcase
Monday, January 26, 10:00 a.m. -1:15 p.m.
The Technology Showcase is back again this year. Join us for presentations on the latest trends in Library Technology. Presentations There will be two Technology Showcase Theaters running concurrently from 10:00 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. Monday, January 26th, 2009. The theaters are located on the show floor, Pueblo Theatre at the end of the 800 aisle and Mesa Theatre at the end of the 2200 aisle. Complimentary refreshments will be served on the exhibits floor during the presentations.
ALA Youth Media Awards
The ALA will announce its Youth Media Awards on Jan. 26, 7:45 a.m., Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom. Recognized worldwide for the high-quality they represent, ALA awards guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for youth.
How can you track results?
*Limited Web seats, first-come, first served.
Discussion Groups
Monday, January 26, 10:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Over 200 discussion groups, featuring a variety of speakers and hot topics, will be held throughout the Midwinter Meeting.
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