“DIY @ your library” for Teen Tech Week, materials for National Library Week among gems in new ALA Graphics catalog

CHICAGO — Dozens of exciting new products that are bound to inspire and excite readers in schools and libraries across the nation are spotlighted in the new ALA Graphics Winter 2013 catalog. Featured on the cover is YALSA’s 2014 Teen Tech Week™ theme — DIY @ your library®. From makerspaces and coding classes to online knitting clubs, you can use the new poster and bookmark to show that libraries can connect in meaningful ways with the teens in your community. The Teen Tech Week™ DIY CD, which includes the layered poster and bookmark files, along with easy-to-print PDFs, program ideas and Web files, allows you to take it to the next level. With some design experience, you can customize your posters and bookmarks, create new promotional materials and brand your entire TTW program.

Lives Change @ your library® is the theme of National Library Week, April 13-19, 2014. The Lives Change CD, which includes options for both National Library Week and School Library Month, allows all types of libraries — school, public, academic and special — to customize materials to fit their specific demographics. If you’re less design-savvy or simply in need of quick and easy promotions, you can order printed posters, mini-posters and bookmarks. ALA President Barbara Stripling’s “Declaration for the Right to Libraries,” featured on a new poster, serves as a strong public statement of the value of libraries. Libraries and library supporters can use the newly available Declaration Signing Poster to hold signing ceremonies where community members, organizations and officials can visibly sign and stand up for their right to have vibrant public, school, academic and special libraries in their communities.

Two characterful new posters with accompanying bookmarks are also launching. Stephan Pastis’ Timmy Failure and Total, his 1,200-pound polar bear/business partner, appear front and center exclaiming “Reading Leads the Way to Greatness!” On another, Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Lunch Lady — and her sidekick Betty — invite readers to feed their imagination.

Find all the new products at the ALA Store, where your purchases fund advocacy, awareness and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide.

ALA Graphics supports the mission of the American Library Association through the creation and distribution of quality products promoting libraries, literacy, and reading.

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Science Policy Podcast - National Science Academies (1 Mar 2013)

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NASA-JPL Scientist Elected to National Academy of Engineering

JPL's Moustafa Chahine. Image credit: NASA/JPL February 06, 2009

PASADENA, Calif. – In one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to engineers and scientists, the National Academy of Engineering has elected Moustafa T. Chahine, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as a member of its organization.

The academy elected Chahine based on his leadership in determining the structure and composition of Earth's atmosphere from space. The organization awards those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education" and for pioneering new fields of technology, advancing the engineering field, and "implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."

Chahine, the founder of JPL's Earth and space sciences division and the lab's chief scientist from 1984 to 2001, is one of 65 members and nine foreign associates newly elected to the Washington-based academy. He is the principal investigator for NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, which was launched onboard the Aqua spacecraft in 2002. Aqua is part of NASA's Earth Observing System, which studies Earth's water cycle and energy fluxes.

Chahine's primary interests are in the remote sensing of planetary atmospheres and surfaces, and in climate change processes. Among the remote-sensing methods he has developed is one that enables infrared remote sensing through clouds. This has been applied to the remote sensing of Earth, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. His current research activities are in transport studies of Earth's hydrological cycle.

Chahine served as a member of NASA's Earth system sciences committee and as chair of the World Meteorological Organization's science steering group for the organization's global energy and water cycle experiment from 1989 to 1999. His many honors include the William T. Pecora Award from NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior, the American Meteorological Society's Jule G. Charney Award, and in 2007, the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievements.

Chahine received his Ph.D. in 1960 from the University of California at Berkeley, the same year he joined JPL. He and his wife, Marina, live in La Canada-Flintridge and have two sons.

In addition to being a new member of the National Academy of Engineering, Chahine is a fellow in the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union and the American and British Meteorological Societies.

JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

More information on JPL is at www.jpl.nasa.gov . More information on the National Academy of Engineering is at www.nae.edu .

Media contact: Rhea R. Borja 818-354-0850
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Rhea.R.Borja@jpl.nasa.gov

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