Today's Topics: 1. Maryanne Wolf to Keynote ALCTS President's Program (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Forwarded to CLA TSIG list by Elaine Franco, Chair, ALCTS Affiliate Relations Committee, and Member, CLA TSIG Steering Committee. President's Program Three Short Stories about Deep Reading in the Digital Age You?re probably reading this message on a screen?a phone, a tablet, perhaps a laptop. [http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/events/ala/ac/Wo lf_maryanne_.jpg] Our burgeoning digital culture has all kinds of effects on us?especially on our brains and how we think and read. Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of the Reading Brain, will share three stories to consider: * the transition from a literary to a digital culture?with its concomitant effects on the changing reading brain * the beauty and the threats of the digital milieu on the next generation of readers * the stewardship role played by the library in the preservation of "deep reading" in our culture Join ALCTS President Mary Page in welcoming Professor Wolf as she shares her stories. Don?t miss this program! Date: Monday, June 29 Time: 10:30 a.m.?12:30 p.m. Location: Moscone Convention Center, 3014-3016 West Add to my schedule<http://iz4.me/NE9X2zqJr0V1> Visit the Facebook Event page<http://iz4.me/PE9X2zqJr0V1> to find out more. Follow the conversation on Twitter: #alctsac15 About ALCTS ALCTS is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services such as acquisitions, cataloging, metadata, collection management, preservation, and electronic and continuing resources. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association. End of Tsig Digest, Vol 37, Issue 10 ************************************
