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The Silver Birch and Red Maple List of Nominations Released Outstanding authors create great excitement across Super Conference 199 schedule YOU CAN SEE THEM the authors in sessions or meet them at the OLA booth on the exhibit floor or talk to them over autographing at the OLA Store. Every day, new authors are being confirmed for Super appearance at Conference '99. Besides those already announced in the advance registration brochure, the following have agreed to participate: House, share the platform at Session #615. The books are all nominated for the 1999 Silver Birch Award in NonFiction to be voted on by the children of Ontario on May 1(1. Sheree will also read at La Ronde Friday night. D WILLIAM Bell, author of Zack, Norah McClintock, author of Sins of the Father and Gayle Friesen, author of Janey's Girl Norah are confirmed McClintock for the Red Maple Award Session #720. 0 RICHARD Scrimger, author of The Nose from Jupiter, and Andrea Spalding, author of An Island of My Own are confirmed so far for Session #321. Scrimger is also expected to read at Friday night's La Ronde . Peter Sis Gayle Friesen 0 0 PETER SIS, author/ illustrator of 1997 Caldecott Honour Book, Starry Messenger, and award-winning filmmaker (Berlin Film Festival), will talk about his writing in Session #813, about his illustration at the Children's Award Luncheon on Saturday. His filmwork will be one of ten things going on at Friday night 's La Ronde at the University of Toronto. DARLENE Chan, author of Moon Festival, D a v i d Bouchard, author of If Sarah Will Take Me, and Sheree Fitch, popular children's poet, author of There's a Mouse in My JANET LUNN, author of The Hollow Tree, and Kady MacDonald Denton, illustrator of A Child's Treasurer of Nursery Rhymes, are 1998 winners of Governor-General's Awards and have been invited to appear at Session #417. Red Maple Award winner Carol Matas has a scheduling conflict and must withdraw. Adult authors appearing at La Ronde are still to be confirmed by the University of Toronto Book Store. Watch the Super Conference web site for developments. Continued from page 1 Extra tickets for Hart House Dinner now available groups have been engaged. One comes from the Faculty of Music and the other is a delightful Argentinian group called Soul of the Andes, featuring Giovanni Ruiz. Master puppeteer Don Mills is working on a new puppet, Madame Ola, who will be delighting you with an evening of fortunetelling. Although there are no charges for the evening at the University of Toronto (other than dinner), Don is hoping delegates will donate a toonie to the Canadian Children's Book Centre as part of their enjoyment of his mad fortune teller. Children's author Richard Scrimger, will read from his very funny works, as will young people's poet Sheree Fitch . Peter Sfs ' award-winning films will be on view - a very different side of this creator. An adult author is still to be identified by the University of Toronto Book Store, the source of some of Toronto's greatest reading evenings. The tours of the extraordinary Information Commons at the Robarts Library and of the new electronic library, Inforum, at the Faculty of Information Studies, will go on throughout the evening. The Faculty of Information Studies will be demonstrating ITER, a new web site for medieval studies. The Adaptive Technologies Centre will show you the latest state-of-the-art equipment for library patrons with handicaps. You can attend a presentation or come just to try things for yourself. Guides will help. Given the evening 's success, closing dessert receptions are planned for both the Fisher Rare Book Library and FIS . Developed as part of the educational event OLA Store has new professional literature as well as materials by speakers MATERIAL IS being collected from professional library publishers across North America for inclusion in the OLA Store, a major educational highlight of Super Conference. "The sheer cost of professional literature means that it needs to be seen and not ordered from a catalog," says OLA President Brian Bell. "This is a great service that everyone should use." The Super Conference planning team also highlights work by authors and speakers appearing at this year's program.The choice is quite extraordinary.