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91´«Ã½ awards additional 21 Library Census Equity Fund grantees
WASHINGTON — The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) and the LOR Foundation announced that 21 additional libraries will receive Library Census Equity Fund mini-grants of $2,000 to bolster their service to hard-to-count communities and help achieve a...
Andrea Trudeau receives AASL Frances Henne Award
CHICAGO – Andrea Trudeau, school librarian at Alan B. Shepard Middle School in Deerfield, Illinois, is the recipient of the 2020 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Frances Henne Award. Sponsored by Libraries Unlimited, the $1,250 award...
Mona Kerby receives AASL Distinguished Service Award
CHICAGO – Dr. Mona Kerby, professor of education at McDaniel College, is the recipient of the 2020 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Distinguished Service Award. Sponsored by The Rosen Publishing Group, the $3,000 award recognizes an...
Kristen Anderson receives AASL Ruth Toor Grant for Strong Public School Libraries
CHICAGO – Kristen Anderson, school librarian at Kingsley Elementary School in Evanston, Illinois, is the recipient of the 2020 American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) Ruth Toor Grant for Strong Public School Libraries. Sponsored by Jay Toor, the...
Tennessee Association of School Librarians receives AASL Chapter of the Year Award
CHICAGO – The Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL) is the recipient of the 2020 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Chapter of the Year Award. The $1,000 award recognizes the AASL Chapter most active and dynamic in achieving the...
Carnegie Whitney Grant 2020 Award winners
CHICAGO — The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types...
Henry Reichman Receives IFRT Oboler Memorial Award
The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) announced Henry Reichman as the recipient of the 2020 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award — which recognizes the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom — for his book " The Future of Academic Freedom...
Public Library Association announces 2020 award winners
CHICAGO — The Public Library Association (PLA) has announced the winners of its 2020 awards and grants, honoring the best in public library service, innovation and outreach. Award and grant recipients are chosen by member volunteers who serve on PLA’s...
Sarah Schroeder awarded Bogle Pratt International Library Travel Fund Award
CHICAGO – Sarah Schroeder is the 2020 recipient of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) International Relations Committee's "Bogle-Pratt International Library Travel Fund" award. An award of $1,000 is given to an 91´«Ã½ member to attend their first...
EXTON, Pennsylvania — United for Libraries will designate Tulare Historical Museum in California as a Literary Landmark™ in honor of Tulare County Bicentennial Poet and Poet Laureate Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel. The designation will mark the first woman to...
2020 ACRL section award recipients announced
CHICAGO - The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2020 section awards. Made possible by generous corporate support, the annual presentation of ACRL’s awards and grants enables ACRL to honor the...
[Call for Nominations] 2020 Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship
CHICAGO — Are you interested in Intellectual Freedom? Would you like to attend the 91´«Ã½’s (91´«Ã½) Annual Conference in June and learn how the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and other groups in 91´«Ã½ are working to protect access to...
Sol MarÃa López awarded 2020 Lois Mai Chan Professional Development Grant
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...
Libraries Ready to Code Awards Microfunding on Digital Learning Day
Today the 91´«Ã½’s (91´«Ã½) Libraries Ready to Code initiative, sponsored by Google, awarded more than 100 academic, school and public libraries with $700 mini-grants to encourage digital skills education in honor of Digital Learning...
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries leaders receive 2020 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial award
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...
