ALA MW 2011 - Greetings from San Diego

Kickin' Off 2011 with ALA Midwinter!

We had a wonderful start to 2011 with our presence at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference in San Diego. Our booth was hopping with author signings, database presentations, and book buyers! Take a look at some highlights, brought to you straight from the show floor by our very own Elizabeth Millar, Senior Marketing Coordinator.

ABC-CLIO's Vice President of Editorial Vince Burns and Andrew P. Jackson, African American Experience Advisory Board Member (Click the link above for a video of Jackson discussing Black History Month.)

Sales Director Ed Lott Presenting ABC-CLIO's New Databases for Higher Education

Author Filming (featuring Pam Berger, author of Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World). For more author videos, please visit ABC-CLIO's YouTube channel.

         

ALA Midwinter 2011 - Author Signing Schedule

With American Library Association's 2011 Midwinter Conference fast approaching (January 7-11, 2011), we want to make planning your visit to San Diego a bit easier. Below is our Author Signing schedule for the conference — make sure you swing by the ABC-CLIO Booth to meet your favorite authors!

Janice Gilmore-See, Simply Indispensable, Saturday, January 8, 2011, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

• A structured approach to advocacy for K-12 school librarians focuses their energy on an active path that showcases library programs and resources and expresses the essential role librarians serve in school and student success.

Megan Perez, The New Graduate Experience, Saturday, January 8, 2011, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

• This book contains invaluable feedback from residency program coordinators and current and former library residents that will benefit program managers, recent graduates and early career librarians, and students of library and information science.

Megan Honig, Urban Grit, Sunday, January 9, 2011, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

• This guide to more than 44 street-lit titles aids readers' advisors and other librarians to better understand the genre and collect and recommend titles ranging from romance and coming-of-age stories to action stories and erotica.