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Registration for Special Events is now available. You can register for the Annual Conference, for preconferences and for other events using the online registration form. Special Conference Events and Exhibition The events listed below are included with a full Conference Registration, and do not require a ticket or reservations. Please join us for these exciting events! Opening General Session With Representative Bernie Sanders Saturday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm On January 3, 1991, when Bernie Sanders was sworn in as Vermont's at-large member in the House of Representatives, history was made. Sanders became the first Independent elected to Congress in 40 years. He has since been re-elected five times. He is the longest-serving Independent in the history of the House of Representatives. Closing Session Double Header! Featuring Lynn Johnston and Naomi Klein ALA President's Program Featuring Ralph Nader Sunday, June 22, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Metro Toronto Convention Centre Auditorium To generate community, political, private and foundation support to improve the DC library system to a world class standard. Ralph Nader established the DC Library Renaissance Project in December 2002 to help raise awareness of the steady decline of the DC Library System due to systematic budget cuts. CLA President's Program The CLA President's Program will take place Sunday from 9:00 - 11:00 am in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre Auditorium. For information on the speakers, please visit the CLA Conference website. Auditorium Speaker Series A Morning with Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal In December 2001, feminist authors and activists Gloria Steinem (co-founder of Ms. Magazine), and Eleanor Smeal (President of the Feminist Majority Foundation) and Ms. magazine joined forces and the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) became the sole publisher of Ms. magazine. Through this combination, Ms. will continue to be a forum for challenging conventional ideas and a springboard for the development and dissemination of feminist ideas throughout the world. Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972 and was one of its editors for 15 years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor and columnist. In 1968, she helped to found New York magazine, and her books include Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions and Moving Beyond Words. In 1993, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Steinem is one of the most influential writers, editors and activists of our time. She travels worldwide as a lecturer and feminist organizer, and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. As a writer and an activist, she remains particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous people, and in organization across national boundaries for peace and justice. One of the architects of the modern drive for women's equality, Eleanor Smeal is known as a political analyst, strategist, and grassroots organizer. She has played a pivotal role in defining the debate, developing the strategies, and charting the direction of the modern day women's movement. For over two decades, she has played a leading role in both national and state campaigns to win women's rights legislation and in a number of landmark state and federal court cases for women's rights. For over 30 years, Smeal has been on the frontlines fighting for women's equality. She has been at the forefront of almost every major women's rights victory - from the integration of Little League, newspaper help-wanted ads, and police departments to the passage of landmark legislation, such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Equal Credit Act, Civil Rights Restoration Act, Violence Against Women Act, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, and Civil Rights Act of 1991. She has campaigned to close the wage gap and to achieve pay equity for the vast majority of women who are segregated in low-paying jobs. Don't miss this pair of dynamic speakers for a fantastic session! Songs and Stories from Clyde Edgerton and the Rank Strangers Band Enjoy an afternoon of Americana music and literature from beloved North Carolina novelist Clyde Edgerton and fellow band members, Jack King and Matt Kendrick. The author of Raney and Walking Across Egypt, Edgerton will read (and sing!) from his forthcoming novel, due out in September 2003. It's vintage Edgerton - a story about a musician/awning installer's escapades with his elderly, irrepressible Aunt Lil. Edgerton is a former member of The Tarwater Band and currently a professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. King, the band's guitar player, plays professionally in North Carolina. He's a member of the group Brice Street. Kendrick, an adjunct professor of music at Wake Forest University also teaches and plays professionally in North Carolina. He plays the upright bass for the Rank Strangers. One Conference, One Book: Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" Join us in the first conference-wide reading and discussion series featuring Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale." All conference attendees are invited to read "The Handmaid's Tale" before attending conference and then participate in a group discussion of the book and experience a reading by Margaret Atwood at the Public Library Association (PLA) President's Program. Be sure to pick up your "One Conference, One Book" button and wear it proudly at conference. Buttons will be available for all conference attendees at Registration and at the ALA Public Programs Office booth (#4544) in the South Exhibition Hall. "The Handmaid's Tale" Discussion Sessions
PLA President's Program featuring Margaret Atwood The highlight of the "One Conference, One Book" initiative is Margaret Atwood's appearance at the PLA President's Program. "One Conference, One Book" is presented by the ALA Public Programs Office in cooperation with the Public Library Association (PLA), and with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds, and additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 2003 ALA/CLA Annual Conference Exhibition Visit over 1600 booths with products and services designed to help you manage the library of the Millennium. With the ALA and CLA joining forces, you have the opportunity to visit the largest and most comphrensive library exhibition in the world! Over 1600 exhibits (booth, table and professional) will be located in the Metro Toronto Convention Center. After the official opening, Saturday, June 21 (ribbon cutting ceremony at 8:45 am), the exhibits will be open from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Saturday, June 21 through Monday, June 23 and 9:00 am - 1:00 pm, Tuesday, June 24. Special Exhibit Events
LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage Adjacent to the LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage is the Literary Aisle, which is home to a host of exhibitors including cultural organizations, literary presses, book distributors, trade publishers of books for adults and organizations promoting library cultural programming including the ALA Public Programs Office, Poets House, National Video Resources, National Endowment for the Humanities and WNET/Thirteen's Cyberchase. The LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage is presented by the ALA Public Programs Office and Poets House with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds, and additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. See www.ala.org/publicprograms/events for a schedule of readings, updated listings, and additional author information. |