Yours truly, the RAT Queen, will be presenting at the upcoming state library conference, KLA/MLA 2015 Libraries Without Borders, being held in Kansas City, MO Wednesday, September 20 - Friday, October 2. It is a joint meeting for members of the Missouri Library Association (MLA) and the Kansas Library Association (KLA) which means double the fun and plenty of programs!
Not sure I was thinking clearly when I submitted them but had two proposals of my own* accepted, a general session program and a poster session and then volunteered (Yes, volunteered!) to be a presenter in two others, the Readers' Advisory pre-conference and a 4-speaker panel presentation about YA Lit. It's going to be a busy conference!
If you are coming to Kansas City, look for me at the following:
50 Shades of Quit Judging: Readers' Advisory, Intellectual Freedom, & Personal Taste (Pre-conference)
Developing RA Skills & Moral: Genre Studies & Team Building (general session) *
Six Degrees of Reading (poster session) *
So Your Youth Has Become Historical Fiction: Talk Up Your Era with Today's Readers (general session)
The full conference schedule is available at Libraries Without Borders. Follow the conference on Facebook and also on Twitter with @KLAMLA2015. You can even track all the readers' advisory programs by using hashtag #raBlitz15
Follow-up posts with additional information about each of the sessions listed above are forthcoming, so keep checking back for more! :-)
On Saturday evening, August 22nd, the 2015 Hugo Award Winners were announced during the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, Sasquan, in Spokane, Washington. The Best Novel award went to The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu.
The 2015 Hugo Award Winners Announced post includes a statement related to the giving of 'No Award' in a number of categories. "The members of the World Science Fiction Society rejected the slate of
finalists in five categories, giving No Award in Best Novella, Short
Story, Related Work, Editor Short Form, and Editor Long Form. This equals the total number of times that WSFS members have presented
No Award in the entire history of the Hugo Awards, most recently in
1977."
Voting statistics, along with a list of all the finalists, showing the winners highlighted in Red, can be found at 2015 Hugo Awards
And if your from the Midwest and were not aware, MidAmericaCon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, will be held in Kansas City, Missouri in 2016 from August 17-21!
