CHICAGO — ALA Editions announces an exciting new workshop,Word-of-Mouth Marketing: The Most Powerful Marketing Strategy and You Can Afford It! with Peggy Barber. This workshop will last 90 minutes and...

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CHICAGO — ALA Editions announces an exciting new workshop, Ask an RDA Expert: Bibliographic Description with Adam Baron, May Chan and Marcia Salmon. This workshop is formatted as an open forum that will last three hours and...
CHICAGO – Dr. Sylvia Vardell, professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University, has been selected to receive the 2014 American Library Association Scholastic Library Publishing Award. This special recognition is given annually to a...
PHILADELPHIA — Laurie R. King, Jean Kwok, James Rollins and Heather Gudenkauf will be among the featured authors at United for Libraries’ Gala Author Tea, sponsored by ReferenceUSA, at 2 p.m. on Monday, June 30 at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas.
Authors will...
PHILADELPHIA — Applications for cycle two of the Citizens-Save-Libraries grants from United for Libraries, made possible by a grant from the Neal-Schuman Foundation, are due May 5.
The 10 libraries that are selected will receive two days of onsite consultation by advocacy experts,...
CHICAGO — Faced with planning a one-shot library instruction session, librarians can feel hard-pressed to squeeze in all their library has to offer along with tips on the research process. Authentic learning with student interaction may seem unattainable in only an hour. But it’s not...
CHICAGO — The changing higher education environment requires a new kind of relationship among faculty, academic liaisons and students. Written in a straightforward way that lends itself to easy application, “Fundamentals for...
CHICAGO – Recordings of a select group of sessions from 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting are being made freely available to allow ALA members and others to enjoy, learn, discover or revisit speakers and other events from the Philadelphia meeting. No login is required to...
Middletown, Conn. – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)-CHOICE webinar program connecting academic and research librarians with a host of content and service providers, publishers and other experts who serve their market is back with an exciting new roster of...
Today the American Library Association (ALA) called on (PDF) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy newly identified E-rate program funding to boost library broadband access...
CHICAGO – Tubman in Minneapolis, Hope House in Washington, D.C. and Abode Services in Fremont, Calif. have been selected to receive the 2014 Coretta Scott King Book Donation Grants.
Awarded each spring by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee, the grant program donates books...
CHICAGO — Seven hundred libraries, of all types, will be helping people become money smart next week, April 5–12. Money Smart Week @ your library is a partnership initiative between the American Library...
CHICAGO — The American Library Association is hosting an invitational Summit, Libraries From Now On: Imagining the Future, May 2 and 3 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
The Summit will bring together thought leaders from the library community, from a...
CHICAGO — Did you know that you can vote in the 2014 ALA elections on your smartphone and other mobile devices? You are don't have to be tied to your desktop to cast your vote; you can vote virtually anywhere – in line at the grocery store, on the...
CHICAGO — Featuring contributions by active librarians from around the country, “Popular Picks for Young Readers,” published by ALA Editions for the...
CHICAGO – The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is giving away 40 sets of the 2014 Teens’ Top Ten nominees to libraries in need.
Qualified libraries can apply now through May 1 for a chance to win a set of...
CHICAGO – Make your library’s virtual presence as welcoming as its physical one with the new webinar, “What Makes a Great Library Website,” to be presented by the Public Library Association (...
CHICAGO – Who sets the narrative and how they set it impacts who cares about an issue, what they hear and what they are willing to do. Communicators will receive insights and tips from Eric Friedenwald-Fishman, creative...
CHICAGO — The Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library has been named the 2014 winner of the ALA Excellence in Library Programming Award. The award, supported by ALA’s Cultural Communities Fund, recognizes a library that demonstrates excellence by providing programs that have community...
CHICAGO, /IPSWICH, Mass. — In co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA), EBSCO has awarded seven librarians $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Annual Meeting in Las...
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is accepting applications from prospective new presenters for the workshop “Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement.” The day-long...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a new budget released today from Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), the House Budget Committee Chairman denounces the critical role that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) plays in supporting civic engagement, literacy and lifelong learning in more than...
CHICAGO — Exploring how an understanding of organizational information culture provides the insight necessary for the development and promotion of sound recordkeeping practices, “Records Management and Information Culture:...
CHICAGO – Many exciting new products that are bound to inspire and excite readers in schools and libraries across the nation are included in the ALA Graphics Summer 2014 catalog. Spotlighted on the cover is a new...
CHICAGO — Twenty-five libraries across the country will host the traveling exhibition “Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry,” the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office and National Endowment for the...
CHICAGO — The new third edition of “Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management,” published by ALA Editions, is a sweeping revision of a text that has become an...
CHICAGO – Ann K. Symons, school librarian and international library consultant, is the 2014 recipient of the American Library Association Equality Award. The annual award, $1,000 and a framed citation of achievement donated by Scarecrow Press, a member of the Rowman & Littlefield...
CHICAGO – Two new video PSAs featuring Jeff Kinney, New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, are now available from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). Kinney is the national spokesperson for the 2014 observance of School...
CHICAGO -- B.J. Novak adds book author to an impressive résumé that has long included actor, writer, stand-up comedian, TV and film star, executive producer and Screen Actors Guild and Writers’ Guild of America award winner. Attendees at 2014 ALA Annual Conference will be...