Press Releases

Mar 22: 2023 RUSA Achievement Award Winners

CHICAGO- The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Achievement Awards Program honors the best in reference librarians and its many specialties. These awards recognize and honor the outstanding professional contributions and achievements of your RUSA peers.

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Mar 22: RUSA Journal RUSQ set to relaunch in January 2024

CHICAGO- The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is delighted to announce that the formal work of relaunching the RUSA journal RUSQ has begun, and the next issue is scheduled to be published in January 2024. 

The RUSQ journal has been on hiatus since the last issue,...

Mar 22: Carnegie-Whitney Grant 2023 award winners

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.

The...

Mar 21: Intellectual Freedom Round Table announces Emily J.M. Knox as the recipient of the 2023 Eli M. Oboler Award

CHICAGO - The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce Emily J.M. Knox, PhD, MSLIS as the recipient of the 2023 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award ⁠— which recognizes...

Mar 21: AASL Opens Call For Knowledge Quest and School Library Research Editorial Board Members

CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) seeks a dynamic group of school library professionals to serve on the Knowledge Quest (KQ) and School Library Research (SLR) Editorial Boards. These publications move the...

Mar 20: Dr. Alexandra "Alex" Schultz named winner of the 2023 Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award

CHICAGO — The Library History Round Table (LHRT) is pleased to announce that this year’s Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award winner is Dr. Alexandra "Alex" Schultz for her dissertation, “Imagined Histories:...

Mar 20: Amanda Jones receives AASL Intellectual Freedom Award

CHICAGO – Amanda Jones, school librarian and president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, is the recipient of the 2023 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Intellectual Freedom Award. Established in 1982 and sponsored by ProQuest, the award...

Mar 17: Revision of the Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies

The Committee on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Library Association (ALA) announces release of a proposed revision of the Standards...

Mar 16: ALA 2023 Annual Conference & Exhibition Preliminary Program showcases education programs, exhibitors, and other conference highlights

CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) has launched the Preliminary Program, listing agenda items that will take place at the ALA 2023 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Chicago, June 22-27, 2023. Prospective and...

Mar 16: Acclaimed authors Nikki Grimes, Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, and award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney announced as featured speakers at the ALA 2023 Annual Conference & Exhibition

CHICAGO – The American Library Association today announced that celebrated children’s book author and poet Nikki Grimes and award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney will present at the ALA 2023 Annual Conference & Exhibition, June 22-27...

Mar 16: Missouri Association of School Librarians receives AASL Chapter of the Year Award

CHICAGO – The Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) is the recipient of the 2023 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Chapter of the Year Award. The $1,000 award recognizes the AASL Chapter most active and dynamic in achieving the goals of AASL at the state and local...

Mar 15: South Carolina Association of School Librarians Awarded AASL ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant

CHICAGO – The South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL) is the recipient of the 2023 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant. Sponsored by ABC-CLIO, the $1,750 grant is given to an AASL Chapter for planning and implementing leadership programs at...

Mar 14: PLA now accepting proposals for PLA 2024 Conference

CHICAGO — Today, the Public Library Association (PLA) opened the Call for Proposals for educational sessions to be presented at its next biennial conference, to be held April 3-5, 2024, in Columbus,...

Mar 13: ALA launches FY 2024 #FundLibraries campaign under tight deadline to gain House support

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA) kicked off the annual #FundLibraries campaign on March 13, 2023, calling on library...

Mar 08: ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ traveling exhibition tour from ALA and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum extended to 50 additional communities

The American Library Association (ALA), in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, announce an extension of Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition to U.S....

Mar 07: COSWL Celebrates Women’s History Month

During the entire month of March, the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL) will recognize and celebrate women’s achievements with National Women’s History Month.

 

National...

Mar 07: Jessica Lorentz Smith receives YALSA’s Joann Sweetland Lum Memorial Grant

CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has named Jessica Lorentz Smith, teacher librarian from Bend Senior High School, Bend, Oregon as the recipient of this year's Joann...

Mar 06: American Library Association adds LiteracyNation, Inc. to professional affiliate roster

CHICAGO – The American Library Association is pleased to announce that the ALA Council approved LiteracyNation, Inc. as an affiliate. The action took place Jan. 29 during LibLearnX: The Library Experience in New Orleans. In 2022, the ALA Executive Board vetted the application to ensure...

Mar 06: Actionable guidance on serving patrons with disabilities

CHICAGO — Ensuring accessibility is more important than ever; however, answering questions of what needs to be done and why to make a library accessible can be an uncomfortable and daunting hurdle to true inclusion. “Serving Patrons with Disabilities:...

Mar 02: PLA to host virtual forum featuring 2023 presidential candidates March 21

CHICAGO — Members of the Public Library Association (PLA) are invited to participate in a free, virtual forum on Tuesday, March 21, at 1 p.m. Central to get to know the candidates standing for president in the 2023 PLA election. The forum will be facilitated by PLA President Dr. Maria McCauley...