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Please make plans to join us at Leadership & ALSC during the ALA Midwinter Meeting on Saturday, January 25th from 8:30-11:30 am in Room 122 AB of the Philadelphia Convention Center. We are delighted to host a special presentation by Dr. Donna C. Celano, co-author with Dr. Susan B. Neuman of Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance: Poverty, Literacy and the Development of Information Capital. (Teachers College Press, Columbia University: 2012.) This powerful book was brought to my attention last summer by fellow ALSC member Cen Campbell. The authors observed and analyzed the effects of improvements in library services and resources in two very different communities within close geographic proximity. Dr. Celano notes that the research explores the “ecology of inequality” emerging in our country, showing how environment influences reading, knowledge gain, and information capital development. Using two divergent Philadelphia neighborhoods as a backdrop, it examines a growing disparity as children...