Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures (CORE)
Submissions Now Open for the 2018 John Cotton Dana Awards
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$10,000 Development Awards will go to up to Eight Winners The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) is now accepting submissions for the 2018 John Cotton Dana Awards. The awards are managed by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) and...
ALCTS appoints 91´«Ã½ representatives to NARDAC
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CHICAGO—The Board of Directors of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has appointed Kathy Glennan, head of Original and Special Collections Cataloging, University of Maryland Libraries, and Dominique Bourassa, catalog...
HARRASSOWITZ award to Lauren Corbett
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CHICAGO—The Acquisitions Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has selected Lauren Corbett, Director, Resource Services at Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library, to receive the 2018 HARRASSOWITZ...
Ross Atkinson award given to Mary Case
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CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is pleased to name Mary Case, university librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as the 2018 recipient of the Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award. The award...
ALCTS kicks off second year of mentoring program
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CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is now accepting applications for the second cohort of the ALCTS Mentoring Program. Established last year as an initiative between the ALCTS New Members Interest Group and the...
ALCTS Speaker Uncovers Southern Food and Family
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CHICAGO—Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene (HarperCollins, 2017), is the featured speaker at the President’s Program of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The President’s Program “Dining from a Haunted Plate”...
December 2017 ITAL Issue Published
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Chicago -- The December issue (volume 36, number 4) of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is now available. Reviewed Articles and Communications Mobile Website Use and Advanced Researchers - Findings showed that mobile devices are not the primary...
Samantha Quiñon named a 2018 LITA Emerging Leader
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Samantha Quiñon, Assistant Director and Head of Research & Instruction at Lesley University Libraries in Cambridge (MA), has been selected as one of two LITA-sponsored Emerging Leaders for 2018. 91´«Ã½’s Emerging Leaders program enables newer library workers...
Aisha Conner-Gaten named a 2018 LITA Emerging Leader
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Aisha Conner-Gaten, intersectional librarian, activist, and tech enthusiast working at the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has been selected as one of two LITA-sponsored Emerging Leaders for 2018. 91´«Ã½’s Emerging...
2018 ALCTS Fundamentals Web Course Schedule Now Available
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CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is pleased to announce the release of the 2018 ALCTS Fundamentals Web Course schedule. Focusing on the fundamentals of acquisitions, cataloging, collection assessment, collection...
Netanel Ganin named 2018 ALCTS Emerging Leader
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CHICAGO—Netanel Ganin, librarian (cataloger) at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus, has been selected as the ALCTS-sponsored Emerging Leader for 2017-2018. Each year, the Association for Library Collections &...
Applications Open for the 2018 LITA/Christian Larew Memorial Scholarship
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The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) and Baker & Taylor are accepting applications for the LITA/Christian (Chris) Larew Memorial Scholarship for those who plan to follow a career in library and information technology, demonstrate...
Digital Lives and Makerspaces – LITA Webinars
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Chicago -- There’s still time to sign up for LITA’s last two Fall 2017 webinars exploring first makerspaces and then digital life. December 6, 2017, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Central time Diversity, Inclusion, and Empowerment in Library Makerspaces Instructors...
ALCTS awards registration grants for 2018 Midwinter Symposium
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CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has awarded six registration grants to allow library support staff and library school students to participate in the ALCTS 2018 Midwinter Symposium. The grant award winners are...
Get Your Digital Life Decoded – a LITA webinar
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Chicago -- The current technological and political landscapes have re-ignited conversations and concerns around digital security, privacy, and media literacy. Staff at NCSU developed a project branded as “Digital Life Decoded,” and grounded in substantial...
Hear How We’re All Makers – a LITA webinar
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Chicago -- One oft-overlooked aspect of making and makerspaces is its potential for empowerment, especially among populations that are otherwise marginalized or underrepresented. This 90 minute webinar will discuss why making is important for these...
Expose your data with Schema.org and JSON-LD – a LITA webinar
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Chicago -- In this LITA webinar learn how to use Schema.org and JSON-LC to expose your data on the internet. Web search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo are integral to making information more discoverable on the open web. How can you expose data...
LITA's 50th Anniversary Fundraising Sends 6 Scholarship Winners to LITA Forum
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Concluding the celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) is proud to sponsor six scholarship recipients to attend this week's LITA Forum in Denver, Colorado: Nicholas Agaba – Electronic Resource...
ALCTS Midwinter Symposium Explores Library Access and Accessibility
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CHICAGO—On Friday, Feb. 9, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) will hold the Midwinter Symposium “ Empowering Access and Ensuring Accessibility: Connecting People to Information and Collections” during the 2018 91´«Ã½...
LIS Students: Apply for the LITA/Ex Libris Writing Award
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The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), is pleased to offer an award for the best unpublished manuscript submitted by a student or students enrolled in an 91´«Ã½-accredited graduate...