ALA 2010 Annual Conference Program and Exhibit Directory

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bibliographic instruction. Co-sponsored by ACRL
RBMS and the Chinese American Librarians
Association.
Speakers: Mary Jane Deeb, Library of Congress,
Chief, African and Middle Eastern Division; David
Easterbrook, Northwestern University, George and
Mary LeCron Foster Curator, Melville J Herskovits
Library of African Studies; Shuyong Jiang,
University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Associate
Professor and Chinese Studies Librarian/Cataloging
Coordinator; Triveni Kuchi, Rutgers University,
South Asia and Sociology Librarian
How We Memorialize: The Art and
Politics of Public Memorialization
ACRL - ARTS
Renaissance Washington -Congressional Hall A/B
Current Issues & Hot Topics
The program will examine emotional, spiritual and
intellectual responses to public memorials and
consider political issues involved in their creation.
In addition, the program will examine, within the
context of the nature of the public memorial, how
the act of memorializing is evolving. What is the
definition of a memorial? Is this definition being