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-- 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...
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...
CHICAGO — Lisa Wells, Executive Director of the Pioneer Library System (PLS) in Oklahoma, has been honored with the 2026 ALA Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship
CHICAGO - The 2026 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity is awarded to Mary Anne Antonellis, Director of the Shutesbury Public Library in Massachusetts.
Dr. Laura Saunders, Associate Dean and Professor of the Simmons University’s School of Library and Information Science in Boston and Director of the Simmons Center for Information Literacy has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Beta Phi Mu Award.
CHICAGO —The American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce that the 2026 ALA EBSCO Information Services Library Staff Development Award has been awarded to the Washington Library Association (WLA) for the Olympic Library Leadership Incubator (OLLI) program
CHICAGO — Sara Kelly Johns is the recipient of the 2026 Joseph W. Lippincott Award. This award is sponsored by Joseph W. Lippincott III and presented by the American Library Association (ALA) for distinguished service in the profession of librarianship.
CHICAGO – Jessie Commerce, assistant librarian at Salem Church Middle School in Richmond, Virginia, is the recipient of the 2026 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Frances Henne Award. Sponsored by Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, the $1,250...
CHICAGO – The American Library Association (ALA) Information Today Library of the Future Award Jury is delighted to announce that Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar Library has been selected as the winner of the 2026 Library of the Future Award for its innovative AI2@CMU-Q program.
CHICAGO — Chelsea Foust won the 2026 Ernest A. DiMattia, Jr. Award for Innovation and Service to Community and Profession by the American Library Association.
CHICAGO — Amy Mikel, Senior Director of Customer Experience of the Brooklyn Public Library, is the 2026 American Library Association (ALA) Medal of Excellence Award winner.
Danny Joudrey has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Margaret Mann Citation, sponsored by OCLC and Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. Joudrey is currently the Professor and Director of Libraries and Librarianship Concentration at Simmons...
