Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures (CORE)
Core Webinar: Anti-Trans Bias and the New Federal Paradigm
CHICAGO — Join Core for the webinar "Anti-Trans Bias and the New Federal Paradigm" on August 26, 2026, at 1 p.m. CDT. Anti-transgender rhetoric has been spreading for many years, but the inauguration on January 20, 2025 marked a sea-change in the...
Core Webinar: Empowering Intergenerational Digital Literacy
CHICAGO — Join Core for the webinar "Empowering Intergenerational Digital Literacy" on August 25, 2026, at 1 p.m. CDT. A lack of access, confidence, and skills keeps many older adults from connecting digitally. This webinar focuses on how public libraries...
Anti-Trans Bias and the New Federal Paradigm
Anti-transgender rhetoric has been spreading for many years, but the inauguration on January 20, 2025 marked a sea-change in the sociopolitical situation and information ecosystem around trans Americans. This session will offer a comprehensive rundown of our new federal paradigm and discuss its impacts on trans people as well as on libraries, library workers, patrons, services, and librarianship as a profession.
Announcing the 2026 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists
Core presents the 2026 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists. The lists are composed of notable children’s and young adult science fiction published between November 2024 and March 2026 and organized into three age...
2026 John Cotton Dana Awards Announced
IPSWICH, Mass. — June 26, 2026 — The 2026 John Cotton Dana (JCD) Award recipients have been selected, celebrating library marketing and communications through strategic and creative campaigns. Administered by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Core...
Announcing the Awardees of the 2026 Core Presidential Citations
CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to announce the 2026 awardees of Core Presidential Citations. The Core Presidential Citations recognize distinguished achievements by Core members who make significant contributions to the...
Core President's Program: Healing the Modern Brain with Dr. Drew Ramsey
CHICAGO—Join Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures on Saturday, June 27 from 2:30 – 3:30pm CDT during ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, for the Core President's Program featuring Drew Ramsey, MD.
Empowering Intergenerational Digital Literacy
A lack of access, confidence, and skills keeps many older adults from connecting digitally. This webinar focuses on how public libraries—while offering approaches that are also adaptable to academic and other institutional settings—can strengthen community impact and library operations with digital literacy programs using a combination of instruction, outreach, and volunteer engagement. The session highlights how these programs can also serve as a vehicle for developing staff leadership and management skills through program design, coordination, and evaluation.
Best of Core Forum: Power of a Community The Colorado Chicano Movement
CHICAGO — Join Core for the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Power of a Community The Colorado Chicano Movement" on July 15, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT. Engaging with their community through active, collaborative memory work, archivists can provide a voice and build...
IIDA Announces Winners of the 2026 Library Interior Design Awards
CHICAGO — The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards. This biennial competition, celebrating its 10th edition...
Building Equitable, Actionable Feedback Cultures
Teams are an increasingly important workplace construct, allowing libraries to tap into staff potential to tackle complex work in our current, dynamic library environment.
Core Classroom: Making Training Stick: A Playful Approach to Learning
A three-week Core Classroom, each weekly Zoom session lasting 60 minutes (recommended but not mandatory) combined with 3 - 4 hours coursework each week. Tired of “one-and-done” trainings that fizzle out the moment everyone logs off? You know the scene: staff leave a workshop buzzing with great ideas…and then nothing changes back at the desk.
Empowerment Through Intergenerational Digital Lite
This webinar focuses on how public libraries—while offering approaches that are also adaptable to academic and other institutional settings—can strengthen community impact and library operations with digital literacy programs using a combination of instruction, outreach, and volunteer engagement. The session highlights how these programs can also serve as a vehicle for developing staff leadership and management skills through program design, coordination, and evaluation.
The Quiet Revolution Is Loud: Are Libraries Ready?
For most libraries, door counts have reached or surpassed pre-pandemic levels. Demand for quiet study spaces has increased significantly, with people seeking cozy nooks that shield them from distractions.
Presidential Citations - 2025
2025 Winners Miranda Bennett Core Board Member (2023-2025) Core extends its heartfelt appreciation to Miranda Bennett for her exceptional service as a Core Board Member since 2023. We extend our sincere gratitude for her thoughtful leadership, strategic insight, and unwavering commitment to Core’s mission and growth. During her time on the Board, Miranda served as Board Liaison to several key committees, including the Core Budget and Finance Committee, Leadership Development and Mentoring Committee, Member Engagement Coordination Committee, Publications Coordination Committee, and the...
Presidential Citations - 2024
2024 Winners Don Allgeier Organization and Bylaws Chair The inaugural chair for the Organization and Bylaws Committee, Don took on the massive task of reworking the minimal Core bylaws and structure written in the transitional period from the former divisions to Core. Working through the process to revise the bylaws and handbook is a lengthy and highly collaborative process, and involves a lot of careful consideration. The precedence he has set with the Organization and Bylaws committee’s work will continue to make Core a nimble and flexible organization with an open attitude to change. In...
Presidential Citations - 2023
2023 Winners Debra Andreadis LibGuides Project Team Chair When Core put out the call for a volunteer to chair our LibGuides Project Team, Debra answered. The previous ALCTS and LLAMA divisions had a wide variety of resources hosted in multiple LibGuides installations. Debra led a group of volunteers that inventoried the content on the various sites, created a new structure for the Core LibGuides site, migrated the content, and designed a user-friendly interface. The Team’s work will allow Core’s committees, interest groups, and sections to easily add and maintain information and resources for...
Max Mendez Awarded the 2026 Core Christian Larew Memorial Scholarship in Library and Information Technology
CHICAGO—Max Mendez has been selected to receive the 2026 Christian Larew Memorial Scholarship in Library and Information Technology , sponsored by Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures and the American Library Association. This $3,000 scholarship is...
Winners Announced: 2026 PR Xchange Awards Competition
The Core PR Xchange Committee is delighted to announce the winners of this year's PR Xchange Awards Competition. This year, we have awarded 28 print winners and 26 electronic winners. Congratulations to those libraries! The PR Xchange Committee is charged...
Congratulations to the 2026 Core Career LIFT Award Recipients!
CHICAGO-- Congratulations to the 2026 recipients of the Core Career LIFT Award. The recipients are: Irina Stanishevskaya LIFT Award Sponsored by OCLC Irina is an Associate Professor, Head of the Collection Management Services, Metadata Librarian for...