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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...

CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has released its annual list of Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning. The Best Digital Tools provide opportunities for school librarians to enhance learning, engage learners, and...

The Association for Library Service to Children has awarded the 2026 Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award to Sam Bischof, Lake Region (ND) Public Library; and Aparajita Ghosh, Broward County (FL) Library.

The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce the Public Library Directors Association of Alabama as the recipient of the 2026 Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award...

The American Library Association’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table and the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation are pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries. These grants, funded by the Will and Ann...

CHICAGO — Join public library workers from around the country at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, to explore how Yiddish literature can provide a springboard for powerful conversations about religion, assimilation, identity, and...

The Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table announced María Emerson, assistant professor and student success librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2026 David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award.

CHICAGO — “ Thinking Critically About What Matters: A Punk Rock Guide,” published by ALA Editions, lays out an original perspective on critical thinking, defined as the values-based decision-making process of (i) making up our own minds about what matters...

Nominations open for ALA honorary membership

The Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association, is pleased to announce that Dewey will serve as the new sponsor of the BRASS Research Grant Award...

CHICAGO – Vernon Hills High School, located in Vernon Hills, Illinois, is the recipient of the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) 2026 National School Library of the Year (NSLY) Award. Sponsored by Follett Content, the NSLY Award annually...

Icelandic-Chinese composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey has been named honorary chair of Library Card Sign-up Month.