Dr. Loriene Roy is Professor in the School of Information, the University
of Texas at Austin. She is Anishinabe, enrolled on the White Earth
Reservation, a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She was elected to
serve as the 2007-2008 President of the American Library Association. She is the general editor of the American Indian Experience where she maintains a blog at http://aie.greenwood.com/blog.
ALA President Elect. http://www.ala.org
Presidential Initiatives Focus on Libraries: Celebrating Community, Collaboration,
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ALA-Allied Professional Association President-Elect.
http://www.ala-apa.org
Professor
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station D7000 Austin, TX 78712-0390
Professor
Center for Women's and Gender Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Phone: (512) 471-3959; Fax: (512) 471-3971; E-mail: loriene@ischool.utexas.edu
Faculty website: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene
ALA, ALA-APA President-Elect website: http://www.lorieneroy.com
Blog: http://lorieneroy.blogspot.com
Project Director, "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything", a national reading
club for Native children: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ifican
Principal Investigator: "Honoring Generations": Developing the Next
Generation of Native Librarians. Funded by the U.S. Institute of
Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that fosters innovation
Jack Horner, who was raised in Shelby, Montana, Montana State University Regents' Professor of Paleontology. Dr. Horner's research covers a wide range of topics about dinosaurs, including their behavior, physiology, ecology and evolution. As one of the premier paleontologists in the United States, he was the first to discover dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, and find evidence that dinosaurs were colonial nesters and that some dinosaurs cared for their young. In addition to his many paleontological discoveries, Horner served as the technical advisor for all of the Jurassic Park films, and even served as partial inspiration for the movie's lead character, Dr. Alan Grant.
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Saturday Luncheon Speaker
Christopher Paolini grew up in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he and his younger sister were home schooled. His abiding love of fantasy inspired him to write the Inheritance cycle. He began writing Eragon when he was just 15, after graduating from the accredited distance-learning high school the American School. Paolini’s family self-published the novel in 2002, and it was soon discovered by Knopf. The company acquired the series and published Eragon in hardcover in 2003, when Paolini was just nineteen years old. It quickly went from self-publishing obscurity to worldwide publishing phenomenon. Eldest, Book Two in the Inheritance cycle released in August 2005. When it released in September 2008, Christopher’s third novel, Brisingr, sold 550,000 hardcover copies, making it the greatest one-day sale ever recorded for a Random House Children’s Books title, hardcover or paperback.
