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8 • COGNOTES 2015 ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS ISSUE

Illustrator Christian Robinson and author Patricia Hruby Powell, who worked on the book Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, show off their dance moves after Robinson received a Coretta Scott King Book Award for illustrating the book.

Annual Conference & Exhibition attendees pass by a display for the book Furiously Happy on the Exhibits floor.

Antonia Ruiz Koffman, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, adds her thoughts to the Idea Exchange Board in the Networking Uncommons.

Librarians crowd the exhibit floor during the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition's Exhibits Opening Reception June 26. More than 900 companies offered librarians the latest in technologies, products, and services.

Teen librarian Andrea Mullarkey, Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, Calif., participates in a game of Word Winder puzzle play by David L. Hoyt, using clues to help find ALA-related words on a grid at ALAplay.

A young girl participates in the SF Pride Parade June 28 and smiles as she makes her way past the cheering crowd on Market Street, just a few blocks from Moscone Center. This year's theme was “Equality Without Exception.” Librarians participated in the parade, other Pride events, and programs that covered a wide range of diversity and equality issues, and celebrations during the Annual Conference.