Meetings and workshops were held for every ALA section, affiliate and round table. In addition, ALA-presented programs included important addresses by Richard Clarke (former White House terrorism adviser), and Taylor Branch (1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963); a special pre-release screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 wowed a large crowd.
A panel discussion in commemmoration of the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision included Taylor Branch, Cheryl Brown Henderson (whose father filed the suit), Ray Suarez (senior correspondent for PBS’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer and NPR presenter) and E.J. Josey (past president of the ALA and founder of the Black Caucus of the ALA).
Authors were well-represented, some being presented by ALA and some by their publishers. Miami Herald columnist and popular novelist Carl Hiaasen was presented by the Public Library Association; Ragtime author E.L. Doctorow spoke, as did Amy Goodman, author of The Exception to the Rulers. Nancy Pearl, everone's favorite action-figure, was represented, and noted British author Sir Arthur C. Clarke was interviewed via live link from his home in Sri Lanka. A presentation by Scholastic Press celebrated Sharon Robinson's new book Promises to Keep (her story of her relationship with her father, Jackie Robinson).
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Teddy Bear at closed FAO Schwarz
Exterior
Orange County Convention Center
Interior
Orange County Convention Center
ALA Bookstore
Orange County Convention Center
Interior
Orange County Convention Center
Assistant Dean Em Claire Knowles
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Simmons Breakfast
Renaissance Orlando Sea World Hotel
Scholastic Publishing Breakfast
Peabody Orlando Hotel
Adjunct Professor Shelley Quezada and sister
Peabody Orlando Hotel
ALA President Carla Hayden
ALA President's Program
Equity of Access: Are We There Yet?
ALA President Carla Hayden and
Albanian librarian Bujar Kocani
ALA President's Reception
The Stacks: ALA Library Exhibition
Orange County Convention Center
ALCTS Program:
Training for Effective Name and Title Authority Work
ALCTS Program:
Training for Effective Name and Title Authority Work
The Stacks: ALA Library Exhibition
Orange County Convention Center
Orlando
The Stacks: ALA Library Exhibition
Orange County Convention Center
The Stacks: ALA Library Exhibition
Orange County Convention Center
The Stacks: ALA Library Exhibition
Orange County Convention Center
Carolyn Rosenblum (librarian, Orange County Library System) and
author Carl Hiaasen
The end of a long week
Orange County Convention Center
Orlando
Orlando
