NEWS For Immediate Release April 2, 2013 Contact: Megan McFarlane CHICAGO – Looking for ideas on how you can promote Communities matter @ your library this National Library Week (April 14-20)? Then check out the National Library Week promotional ideas …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 2, 2013 Contact: Steve Zalusky CHICAGO - April is School Library Month – and to commemorate the annual celebration, atyourlibrary.org, the public website for the American Library Association’s public awareness campaign, …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 2, 2013 Contact: Deborah Ann Caldwell-Stone CHICAGO - Are you preparing for Choose Privacy Week? Join ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and librarians across the country next week for a free webinar to discuss how your …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 2, 2013 Contact: Cheryl Malden Birmingham, Ala. / Ipswich, Mass/Chicago — In co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA), EBSCO has awarded seven librarians $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Annual …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 2, 2013 Contact: JoAnne Kempf CHICAGO - Did you know that you can vote in the 2013 ALA elections on your Smartphone and other mobile devices? You are no longer tied to your desktop to cast your vote; you can vote virtually …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 2, 2013 Contact: John Amundsen CHICAGO – The Jefferson County Library in Fayette, Miss., Talahi Elementary School in St. Cloud, Minn. and Tap In Leadership Academy in Champaign, Ill. have been selected as recipients of …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 2, 2013 Contact: Jennifer Habley CHICAGO – Educational tours during the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) 16th National Conference Exhibition will give attendees a special look at the unique history of …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 1, 2013 Contact: Amy Sargent CHICAGO – From 1-2:30 p.m., June 30, the Public Library Association (PLA) and PLA president Eva Poole, chief of staff, District of Columbia Public Library, will host the PLA President’s Program …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 1, 2013 Contact: Jennifer Habley CHICAGO – School tours planned during the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) 16th National Conference Exhibition will put on display the best and brightest school library …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 1, 2013 Contact: David Free CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is currently accepting applications, and nominations are invited, for the positions of editor of RBM, a biannual research …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 1, 2013 Contact: David Free CHICAGO – The Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2), based in the Research Department of the Purdue University Libraries, has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the Association of College …
NEWS For Immediate Release April 1, 2013 Contact: Rob Christopher CHICAGO — Since its original publication more than two decades ago, “Staff Development: A Practical Guide” from the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) has remained a …
NEWS For Immediate Release March 29, 2013 Contact: Mary Mackay CHICAGO - “I’m a novelist with a day job making YouTube videos. I used to be a novelist with a day job being an editorial assistant and then a production editor at Booklist Magazine,” says John …
NEWS For Immediate Release March 29, 2013 Contact: Jennifer Habley CHICAGO - The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) seeks two individuals to recommend for service on the Board of Examiners (BOE) of the National Council for Accreditation of …
NEWS For Immediate Release March 29, 2013 Contact: Cheryl Malden CHICAGO - Beacher J.E. Wiggins, director for acquisitions and bibliographic access at the Library of Congress, is the winner of the 2013 Melvil Dewey Medal Award, sponsored by OCLC. The …
CHICAGO - Change has become a way of life for librarians due to technology and the ever-changing information needs of our users. How do we as library managers and leaders handle change effectively and efficiently for ourselves and those we lead, while …
NEWS For Immediate Release March 27, 2013 Contact: Rob Christopher CHICAGO — How do you get children excited and engaged with books? Get them onstage! Readers Theatre is a staged reading of literature with participants reading from scripts, conveying the …
NEWS For Immediate Release March 26, 2013 Contact: Jennifer Habley CHICAGO — The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is seeking a volunteer editor for its peer-reviewed online research journal, School Library Research (SLR). The …
NEWS For Immediate Release March 26, 2013 Contact: Elizabeth Markel CHICAGO — Michael Margolis, CEO of Get Storied, will offer strategies for crafting powerful stories about the value of libraries at “Storytelling Mojo: Creating the 21st Century Library …
NEWS For Immediate Release March 26, 2013 Contact: Jaclyn Finneke CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, seeks proposals for its Trends Impacting Young Adult Services Paper …
