All Sessions

Meeting of the committee members and others interested in learning about the Readers' Advisory Committee.

Join us for the 5th Newbie & Veteran Librarian Tweet-up! Learn and discuss all things that librarians are interested in over great music and drinks! Make the Saturday night a TRIFECTA of great social events!!

The Anvil Pub (2638 Elm Street) is considered one of the coolest bars in the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas. They have a green kitchen that is greaseless with a very low carbon imprint, bike-friendly (can bring bicycles in the bar to park), and they also have vegan options on the menu. There is a large selection of beers, and also Texas beers specifically. Please be sure to RSVP at http://twtvite.com/alamw12-tweetup . More info is available at https://www.facebook.com/events/188808927870633/ .

The ALA Facebookers After-Hours event returns to Midwinter in Dallas (10:00 pm - 2:00 am, LaGrange: 2704 Elm St.)!

As usual, this will be the best-attended social event at the conference, so invite all your friends so they don't miss out!

There's a cover charge BUT we don't have to pay it. Librarians go straight through the silver doors to a separate room and NOT into the line where they will be asking for a cover.

It's only a few doors down from the Tweet-up at the Anvil Pub (which runs 7:30-10pm)! View the FB event at http://www.facebook.com/events/315294991825219/.

John Green, wildly popular among librarians, is well-known for his thoughtful, entertaining presentations. He'll address how social networking relates to literature and how librarians can reach patrons through fun and inventive social networking. An unparalleled social networker himself, Green has more than 1,125,000 Twitter followers while has vlogbrothers YouTube channel has 500,000 subscribers and almost 125 million downloads (http://youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers). It is in the Top 100 most subscribed channels of all time on YouTube and is consistently in the Top 100 most viewed daily videos. Green's appearance at Midwinter, sponsored by Penguin Young Readers, kicks off the tour for his upcoming book, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton/January 2012), which has already received wide attention following his YouTube announcement that he would personally sign the entire first print run.

Come meet the #makeithappen crowd at the first ever joint Hacklibschool / Library Boing Boing Meetup at Adairs Saloon (2624 Commerce St., http://www.adairssaloon.com/) on Sunday evening.

Hacklibschool: http://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/
Library Boing Boing: http://connect.ala.org/libraryboingboing