Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures (CORE)
LITA Webinars: IT Buying Strategies 101 and Top Tech Trends offerings
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Reserve your spot and learn new skills to enhance your career with virtual continuing education offerings from LITA. Buying Strategies 101 for Information Technology Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 1:00-2:30 pm Central Time Presenter: Michael Rodriguez...
Celebrate 10 years of preservation this Preservation Week, April 26-May 2
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CHICAGO — This month marks the 10th anniversary of Preservation Week®, a public awareness initiative that aims to promote preservation and conservation in communities with the help of libraries, institutions and museums. Although we are in the midst of a...
LLAMA webinars while you work from home
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CHICAGO — The Library Leadership and Management Association is offering webinars you can enjoy while working from home. Free Webinar Wednesday, April 29, 1:30-3 p.m. Central: "Managing Remote Library Teams: a webinar to help you work from home" With many...
Samantha Grabus Wins 2020 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award
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Samantha Grabus has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Student Writing Award sponsored by Ex Libris Group and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) for her paper titled “Evaluating the Impact of the Long S upon 18 th-Century...
LLAMA webinar offers a more effective way to give employee feedback
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LLAMA webinar offers a more effective way to give employee feedback *A note on COVID-19: We know many of our members are working virtually, and LLAMA will continue to support you with continuing education opportunities. For the remainder of the pandemic...
LITA to host a free webinar on "A Crash Course in Protecting Library Data While Working From Home"
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The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) will present a free webinar "A Crash Course in Protecting Library Data While Working From Home," on Thursday, April 9, at 1:00 - 2:00 pm CT. Libraries across the U.S. rapidly closed their doors to...
ALCTS presents a guide to graphic novels
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CHICAGO — The circ stats say it all: graphic novels’ popularity among library users keeps growing, with more being published (and acquired by libraries) each year. The unique challenges of developing and managing a graphics novels collection have led the...
Alison Macrina receives the 2020 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award
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The LITA/Library Hi Tech Awards Committee is pleased to select Alison Macrina as the 2020 recipient of the LITA/Library Hi-Tech Award. Macrina led the Tor Relay Initiative in New Hampshire, is the founder and executive director of the Library Freedom...
ALCTS, LITA and LLAMA will hold first joint President's Program featuring Meredith Clark
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CHICAGO—Join the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) and the Library Information Technology Association (LITA) on Sunday, June 28 at 4 p.m. for a joint President’s Program...
Learn how to Build your own Digital Scholarship/Humanities Curriculum with this LITA webinar
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The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) will present " Digital Inception: Building a digital scholarship/humanities curriculum as a subject librarian," on Wednesday, April 22, from 1:00 - 2:30 pm CST. Digital scholarship is gaining...
Hebah Emara named 2019-20 LITA/OCLC Spectrum Scholar
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The Library and Information Technology Association and OCLC are funding Hebah Emara's participation in the 91´«Ã½ Spectrum Scholars program as part of their commitment to help diversify the library technology field. Emara is a second year distance student at...
Sol MarÃa López awarded 2020 Lois Mai Chan Professional Development Grant
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CHICAGO—The 2020 Lois Mai Chan Professional Development Grant has been awarded to Sol María López, Media Cataloging Coordinator at the Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder. López holds an MSLS from the University of North Texas and a BA in...
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries leaders receive 2020 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial award
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CHICAGO — Beth Denker, George Machovec, and Rose Nelson of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries have been named the 2020 recipients of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. Denker is the e-resource licensing and administrative manager, Machovec is...
LLAMA webinars help new supervisors hit the ground running
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LLAMA webinars help new supervisors hit the ground running If you are a new supervisor, it helps to be prepared for the challenges your staff may present to you. Whether you were promoted from within or hired from the outside, you can expect to face...
Boards of ALCTS, LITA and LLAMA put Core on March 2020 ballot
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CHICAGO—The Boards of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), Library Information Technology Association (LITA) and the Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA) have all voted unanimously to send to members their...
Magda El-Sherbini receives 2020 Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award
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CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is pleased to name Magda El-Sherbini, Professor/Middle East & Islamic Studies Librarian at The Ohio State University, as the 2020 recipient of the Ross Atkinson Lifetime...
Alex Valencia, Lynn Whittenberger and Meredith Wynn receive ProQuest Award for Innovation
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CHICAGO—The Association of Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Collection Management Section (CMS) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 ProQuest Award for Innovation. Alex Valencia, Lynn Whittenberger and Meredith Wynn are...
Maria Savova, Jason S. Price awarded 2020 Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award
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CHICAGO—Maria Savova, director of Collections and Technical Services at The Claremont Colleges Library, and Jason S. Price, Ph.D., director of Licensing Services, SCELC Library Consortium, have been awarded the 2020 Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS...
Julie Renee Moore selected for Margaret Mann Citation
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CHICAGO— Julie Renee Moore, Special Collections Catalog Librarian at California State University, Fresno has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Margaret Mann Citation. The award will be presented on Saturday, June 27 during the Association for...
Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker receive ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
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CHICAGO—Rachel Ivy Clarke and Sayward Schoonmaker are the recipients of the 2020 Association of Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Publication Award for their article “ Metadata for diversity: Identification and implications of...