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January 25, 2021

Murray-Rust's seven action steps for reinventing the library

CHICAGO — After a career of more than 40 years, Catherine Murray-Rust, former Dean of Libraries at Georgia Tech and a self-proclaimed library disrupter, sees our profession’s central challenge as simply this: how to turn the library outward in order to...

January 19, 2021

RSC publishes glossary for RDA

CHICAGO — The four-year RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign Project included a major expansion of the standard to align RDA: Resource Description and Access with the IFLA Library Reference Model, which is the conceptual basis of RDA. This expansion...

December 9, 2020

YALSA announces 2021 William C. Morris finalists

CHICAGO – The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the 91��ý (91��ý), selected five books as finalists for the 202 1 William C. Morris Award, which honors the year’s best books written for young adults by a...

December 3, 2020

Baby Yoda stars in new READ® poster and bookmark from the 91��ý

CHICAGO – Star Wars fans, book lovers, and collectors from around the universe can use their powers to help libraries this holiday season. The Child (a.k.a. Grogu or Baby Yoda), the breakout star of Disney+'s hit series The Mandalorian, is featured in...