WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ-12) has introduced a bill to amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to integrate public libraries into state and local workforce investment boards.
The bill, the Workforce Investments Through Local Libraries (WILL) Act...
CHICAGO - The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is offering a wide variety of online learning opportunities in spring 2011 to meet the demands of your schedule and budget. Full details and registration information are available on the ACRL website at...
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of “Using Qualitative Methods in Action Research: How Librarians Can Get to the Why of Data,”...
CHICAGO – Preservation Week marks its second anniversary April 24-30. Recognizing the critical role libraries play in preservation, the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), in partnership with the Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – H.R. 1473, the budget bill that will fund the government through September 2011, includes across-the-board cuts that may deeply affect libraries of all kinds.
The bill, which cleared Congress Thursday night, includes a $28 million cut to the Institute of...
CHICAGO — Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, is the latest star to join the Celebrity READ Campaign. Developed in anticipation of the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in New Orleans in June, the...
CHICAGO - Preservation Week (www.ala.org/preservationweek) is pleased to announce the addition of a new webinar. Registration is now open. The...
CHICAGO — Promote YALSA’s Teen Read Week™ at your library with new products from ALA Graphics, including both...
CHICAGO — “Many Children, Many Cultures, Many Books” —the the new slogan celebrating the 15th anniversary of El día de los niños/El día de los libros — adorns a just-released ALA Graphics poster and bookmark. The...
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), launched its Teen Read Week 2011 website at...
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announced the winners of its 20 Summer Reading Program Grants. The grants give each winning library $1,000 to offer inventive summer reading programs. The grants are...
CHICAGO — Nominations for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) annual Teens’ Top Ten are now available at www.ala.org/teenstopten.
YALSA encourages teens to read the 25 nominees before the national Teens...
PSAs feature best-selling authors Neil Gaiman, Kathy Reichs, Pam Muñoz Ryan and Carmen Agra Deedy
CHICAGO - Four new author public service announcements (PSAs) will be available to library advocates on April 13, through the ALA “Our...
CHICAGO — Danielle Salomon, graduate student of Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and intern at the Crocker Business Library, University of Sothern California, is the 2011 winner of the Reference and User Services Association’s (RUSA)...
CHICAGO — Public librarians, academic librarians and library support staff are encouraged to sign up for the next offerings of Business Reference 101 and The Reference Interview, two popular online classes offered by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), the home for reference...
CHICAGO — Ed Rivenburgh, information delivery services (IDS) project director at the State University of New York Geneseo, has been selected the winner of the 2011 Virginia Boucher/OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award.
The award, administered by the...
CHICAGO—The 2011 ABC-CLIO Online History Award winning resource is "Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930", assembled by Associate Professor...
PHILADELPHIA – Virtual Library Legislative Day is part of the American Library Association’s (ALA) National Library Legislative Day on May 10, when hundreds of library advocates will descend on Capitol Hill to meet with members of Congress and their staffs. Library advocates who...
CHICAGO – With Preservation Week just around the corner, the American Library Association (ALA) is offering online resources to help public, academic and school libraries publicize their activities.
The promotional effort for this year’s Preservation Week, held Apr. 24-30...
CHICAGO - Librarians all across the country are encouraged to participate in Support Teen Literature Day on April 14, 2011.
The event is celebrated every Thursday of National Library Week, by the Young...
CHICAGO - The Public Library Association (PLA), in partnership with the Houston Area Library System, is offering a Budget and Finance Management Workshop taught by Sandra Nelson, May 17-18, 2011 at the...
CHICAGO - The Public Library Association (PLA), in partnership with the Washington State Library, is offering a Fundraising Management Workshop taught by June Garcia, May 24–25, 2011 at the Seattle (...
CHICAGO - More than 5,300 library staff, exhibitors, speakers and guests from around the world met from March 30 – April 2 in Philadelphia and online for the Association of College and Research Libraries’ ACRL 2011 Conference. Combined with the more than 440 people participating...
CHICAGO – The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office announced a new online resource for librarians who present cultural and community programs and events: the Programming Librarian’s Guide to Annual Conference (...
PHOENIX – Eric Jose, Marinna Vela and Brandy Eggleston were crowned national champions in the WrestleMania® XXVII Reading Challenge on April 2, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, and WWE...
CHICAGO — Change is essential but can be stressful, especially when it upsets established routines and patterns. In their new ALA Editions book “The Challenge of Library...
CHICAGO – Dr. Mimi Ito, international expert on mobile technologies and using new digital media in everyday life, will headline the closing session at the American Association of School Librarian’s (AASL) 15th National Conference and Exhibition in Minneapolis. Dr. Ito will...
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), seeks a member manager for The Hub, its teen literature-focused blog. The Hub provides a one-stop-shop for teens and librarians to help them locate high quality audio,...
CHICAGO - At the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2011 Annual Conference in New Orleans, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) will be hosting the Charlemae Rollins President’s Program at 8 am. CDT on Monday, June 27.
The program is entitled “How...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jessie Mannisto, a graduate student at the University of Michigan pursuing her master’s degree in Information, will serve as the 2011 Google Policy Fellow...