OASL Announces Annual Conference
The Oregon Association of School Libraries is “Branching Out’ and sending an open invitation to all educators to join them for the annual Fall Conference, October 11-12. We’re thrilled that the conference is moving to Portland for 2013, hosted by Jesuit High School in southwest Portland. This year’s conference features A.S. King, Kadir Nelson, Carmen Bernier-Grand, Suzie Boss, Peter Pappas, and more! Highlights include:
- Author A. S. King Friday, October 11th at 6:30 pm, Sponsored by the Oregon Association of School Libraries. Jesuit High School, 9000 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, Portland, Author Dessert tickets $20.00.
Growing up in Pennsylvania, Amy Sarig King (who writes under the name A. S. King) was an avid reader and thought about being a writer. What motivated her to sit down and start typing on her Swedish typewriter was reading one book a day for six months, with Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses physically moving her into the writer’s chair. Along her circuitous career path, she has been a rare poultry breeder, photographer, master printer, contractor, summer camp counselor, adult literacy teacher, and pizza delivery driver. After writing seven novels over a fifteen year time span, King’s first book, The Dust of 100 Dogs, was published in 2009. Her subsequent writing has won numerous awards. Please Ignore Vera Dietz was a 2011 Printz Award Honor Book, as well as an Edgar Award nominee, while Everybody Sees the Ants was one of YALSA’s 2012 Top Ten Books for Young Adults and an Andre Norton Award finalist. Her last YA novel, Ask the Passengers, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young adult literature, a Lambda Literary Award, and a spot on School Library Journal’s Best Books 2012 list. Three new books will be published in 2013 with King’s work in them (two anthologies and a novel, Reality Boy), which we certainly won’t want to miss.
- Author/ illustrator Kadir Nelson lecture, Saturday, October 12th at 7 pm, Sponsored by the Oregon Association of School Libraries. Jesuit High School, 9000 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, Portland, Lecture tickets, available to the public, $20.00.
Portland is excited to enjoy the work and words of Kadir Nelson, most recently author-illustrator of the children’s biography Nelson Mandela, as well as Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, and the award-winning We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. In addition, his gorgeous oil paintings have illuminated other authors’ work, including Martin Luther King, Jr.’s illustrated I Have A Dream, Matt de la Pena’s A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis, and Carol Boston Weatherford’s Moses and Ellen Levine’s Henry’s Freedom Box, for which he won a Caldecott Honor Medal. Nelson has garnered both the Coretta Scott King Illustrator and Author awards, a Sibert medal, the NAACP Image Award, the CASEY award for best baseball book, as well as having his fine art collected by major public and private institutions worldwide.
PLD Board Officer Election Reminder
Thank you to all that have already voted for your 2013 PLD Board Officers, for those that have not, please take a minute to do so. Election closes at midnight on Friday, August 16.
Your current Public Library Division Board would like to invite you to vote on the open positions we have this coming year (2013-14). Follow this link and check out the great roster of candidates.
We have been happy to serve you this year and many of us are looking forward to doing so in the coming year as well. If you have any problems or questions, please contact me, Su Liudahl, at pldsu.ola@gmail. – Su Liudahl, PLD Chair (2012-2013)
2014 Oregon Library Association Conference – SAVE THE DATE
The 2014 Oregon Library Association conference will be held April 16-18 at the Salem Conference Center. -Suzanne Sager
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