CHICAGO - In the United States today, there are 36 million adults who lack adequate literacy skills. To address this urgent need, the American Library Association (ALA) and ProLiteracy have joined forces to launch a free online course to help libraries across the country address the...
Press Releases
Apr 05:
SRRT, SustainRT, AILA, APALA welcome Bill McKibben to ALA Annual Conference
CHICAGO – Acclaimed environmentalist, activist and author Bill McKibben will be speaking at the American Library Association (ALA) 2017 Annual Meeting and Exhibits in Chicago from 1 - 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 24 in an event co-sponsored by ALA’s Social Responsibilities (SRRT) and...
Apr 05:
Global education evangelist Jaime Casap to present AASL national conference opening keynote
CHICAGO – Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist at Google, Inc., will keynote the opening general session of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) National Conference & Exhibition. The conference, themed “Beyond the Horizon,” will be held Nov. 9-11, in...
Apr 05:
New AASL standards take the stage at national conference
CHICAGO – The Friday general session during the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) National Conference & Exhibition will herald the launch of AASL’s new “National School Library Standards.” The conference, themed “Beyond the Horizon...
Apr 05:
Barbara A. B. Gubbin winner of the Ernest A. DiMattia Award for Innovation and Service to Community and Profession
CHICAGO — Barbara A. B. Gubbin, director, Jacksonville Public Library (Jacksonville, Florida), has been named the 2017 winner of ALA’s Ernest A. DiMattia Award for Innovation and Service to Community and Profession. The award, supported by the DiMattia Family, recognizes a public...
Apr 05:
Register now for YALSA’s 2017 YA Services Symposium
CHICAGO — Registration for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) 2017 Young Adult Services Symposium, which takes place Nov. 3-5 in Louisville, KY, is now open. Any...
Apr 05:
PLA to offer free webinar on measuring outcomes for better summer library programs
This April, the Public Library Association (PLA) will offer a free webinar to help libraries measure the success of their summer reading and learning programs. The webinar, Using Project Outcome to Measure &...
Apr 05:
Public libraries play vital role in advancing health literacy
During National Public Health Week (April 3-9, 2017), the Public Library Association is highlighting the work public libraries do in advancing the health and health literacy of Americans. A 2014 Digital Inclusion Survey conducted by the...
Apr 04:
ACRL 2017 continues record breaking paid attendance trend
CHICAGO – ACRL 2017 lived up to its tagline as a premier professional development event for academic libraries. More than 5,200 library professionals, exhibitors, speakers and guests from around the world met from March 22 – 25, in Baltimore, Maryland, and online for the conference....
Apr 04:
Applications close next week for 2017 ALA Leadership Institute
CHICAGO – Applications for the 2017 “Leading to the Future” ALA Leadership Institute (August 7-10, Q Center, St. Charles, Illinois) will be accepted through...
Apr 04:
2017 Carnegie-Whitney Grant winners announced
CHICAGO — The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries in the United States...
Apr 04:
Kippur wins United for Libraries/SAGE Academic Friend Conference Grant
BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania -- United for Libraries has awarded the 2017 United for Libraries/SAGE Academic Friend Conference Grants to Lisa Kippur, executive assistant to the deans at University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. ...
Apr 04:
Winners of the 2017 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries announced
CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) and the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation will honor the two winners of the 2017 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries Saturday onsite at the ALA 2017 Annual Conference in Chicago. The grants, funded by the Will and Ann Eisner...
Apr 04:
DC’s Teen Titans to champion Library Card Sign-up Month
CHICAGO – This September, crimefighting DC Super Heroes, the Teen Titans, will team up with the American Library Association (ALA) to promote the value of a library card as Library Card Sign-up Month Honorary Chairs. As honorary chairs, DC’s Teen Titans will remind parents,...
Apr 03:
RUSA Spring Online Learning
CHICAGO - The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association, offers multiple online professional...
Apr 03:
Timothy Cole Wins 2017 LITA/OCLC Kilgour Research Award
Timothy Cole, Head of the Mathematics Library and Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and...
Mar 31:
Take Action for Libraries Day to launch during National Library Week
ALA, library community, advocates, call on nation’s leaders to safeguard IMLS funding
CHICAGO – Libraries of all types are part of a delicate ecosystem that supports the transformation of communities and lives through education and lifelong...
Mar 31:
School Library Research volume 20 opens with two new studies
CHICAGO – Two new articles covering the topics of research methodology and school library supervisors are now available in volume 20 of the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) peer-reviewed online journal, School Library...
Mar 30:
ALA and ACRL join higher education, library groups to urge FCC and Congress to uphold net neutrality
WASHINGTON, DC — The American Library Association (ALA) and Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) continue the fight for an open Internet for all. ALA and ACRL joined 8 other higher education and library organizations representing over a hundred thousand colleges,...
Mar 29:
ALA elections close April 5
CHICAGO — The 2017 ALA elections will close at 11:59 p.m. Central time on Wednesday, April 5. If you have not yet cast your vote, please do so! If you have “parked” your ballot (started but not yet completed), please return to complete the process. In the event you cannot...
Mar 29:
2017 ACRL STS Oberly Award goes to Scholze and Witt
CHICAGO – Frank Scholze, library director at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Michael Witt, associate professor of library science at Purdue University, have been selected as the 2017 recipients of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Science and Technology...
Mar 29:
Apply now for the 2017 Teens’ Top Ten Book Giveaway
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has opened up the application period for its 2017 Teens’ Top Ten Book Giveaway.
In celebration of the upcoming announcement of the...
Mar 29:
Gene Luen Yang, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is Auditorium Speaker at 2017 ALA Annual Conference
Gene Luen Yang, teacher, cartoonist and author, began drawing comic books in the fifth grade and in 1997 received a Xeric Grant for his first comic, Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks. A MacArthur Fellow, Yang has produced full-length graphic novels, short stories, and...
Mar 28:
Dr. Em Claire Knowles receives 2017 Beta Phi Mu Award
CHICAGO — Dr. Em Claire Knowles, assistant dean for student and alumni affairs at Simmons College's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the American Library Association's Beta Phi Mu Award. This award is given in recognition...
Mar 28:
H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant Award recipient named
CHICAGO — The 13 Things in Blackboard: A Self-Paced Online Learning Professional Development Program at George Mason University Libraries is the 2017 winner of the prestigious H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant. The award is presented annually to a library organization whose...
Mar 28:
United for Libraries to host April 25 webinar on working effectively with Friends groups
BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania — United for Libraries will present a webinar on working with Friends of the Library groups, “With Friends Like These,” at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, April 25.
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Mar 28:
Lesson plans and printable resources for literacy-based children’s programming
CHICAGO — The all-in-one resource you’ve been clamoring for, R. Lynn Baker’s “Creating Literacy-Based Programs for Children: Lesson Plans and Printable Resources for K–5,” published by...
Mar 27:
Collecting, curating, and crunching data
CHICAGO — Many librarians and information professionals are finding their working life is pulling them toward data support or research data management but lack the skills required. Written by Robin Rice and John Southall, two data librarians with over 30 years’ combined experience,...
Mar 24:
New workshop: Building Great Programs for Seniors
CHICAGO—ALA Publishing eLearning Solutions announces an exciting new workshop, Building Great Programs for Seniors with Amy Alessio. This workshop will last 90 minutes and take place Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at 2:30pm...
Mar 24:
AASL introduces the Inspire Disaster Recovery Grant
CHICAGO – Through the generous donation of Marina “Marney” Welmers, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is pleased to offer the Inspire Disaster Recovery Grant, a grant to support public, middle or high school libraries that have incurred damage or...