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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHT

Mo Rocca prefers a little bit of everything. “I like the variety pack cereals more than the big box. Let’s hear it for variety pack!” he joked at the Closing Session of the American Library Association’s 2019 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 25. Which is why it’s no surprise that...

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After American Library Association President Loida Garcia-Febo called the meeting to order, memorials were read for Donald B. Cleveland, Nicolette Warisse Sosulski, Anne J. Hoffman, Patricia Meyer Battin, Catherine Patricia Riesenman, and Lucille Cole Thomas.

 

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