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CHICAGO — A group of high-school-aged interns and their library mentors will travel to Washington, D.C. this month for the Inclusive Internship Initiative kickoff event. This initiative, which seeks to introduce young people from diverse backgrounds to...
Inclusive Internship Initiative to launch at Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. - This summer 50 teens from diverse backgrounds and from 25 states will participate in the first-ever national Inclusive Internship Initiative, set to kick off at 9:30 a.m. on June 16, in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress...
Celebrate Outreach at 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference
CHICAGO – Every day, libraries across the country deliver vital library services across the communities they serve. To showcase the work outreach library professionals do on a daily basis, the 91´«Ã½ Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services and...
CHICAGO — “ The Silence of the Archive,” published by 91´«Ã½ Neal-Schuman, provides a groundbreaking discussion of a major but little considered issue: Why do archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do...
91´«Ã½ awards 2017 Diversity Research Grants
CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services has announced the recipients of the Diversity Research Grant for 2017-2018. The grants consist of a one-time $2,500 award for original research. Recipients...
2017 91´«Ã½ Diversity & Outreach Fair to celebrate inclusive outreach, diversity-in-action ideas
CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½ Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services has selected 33 presentations for the 2017 Diversity and Outreach Fair, to be held from 3 – 5 p .m. on Saturday, June 24 in the Special Events area in the Exhibits Hall at McCormick...
Celebrate the best in children’s literature at the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Breakfast
CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½ Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) and the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee will celebrate the best in children’s and young adult literature representing the African-American experience at the 2017...
Mountain Plains Library Association supports ACRL Diversity Alliance
CHICAGO - The executive board of the Mountain Plains Library Association (MPLA) has voted to formally support the goals of the ACRL Diversity Alliance. MPLA will encourage academic institutions in its twelve member states (Arizona, Colorado, Kansas...
Libraries fuel cultural understanding and acceptance through DÃa, April 30
CHICAGO – On April 30, hundreds of libraries across the country will celebrate Día, a national library program that fosters literacy for all children from all backgrounds. Demographic projections show more than half of the country’s children will be part...
Public Library Association awarded grant to sponsor summer library internships
CHICAGO — The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), announced today that it will pilot a diversity-focused library internship program this summer. PLA received funding from the Institute of Museum and...
Dr. Carla Hayden to kick off Spectrum 20th Anniversary celebration at 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference
CHICAGO - 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to lead the national library, will headline a special kick-off celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Spectrum...
PLA releases digital literacy tutorials in Spanish
CHICAGO — Spanish speakers will now have access to digital literacy training resources thanks to recent efforts by the Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the 91´«Ã½. PLA announced today that all learning content on its...
91´«Ã½ seeks proposals for 2017-2018 Diversity Research Grants through April 15
The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services seeks proposals for the Diversity Research Grant program. Applications may address any diversity-related topic which addresses critical gaps in the knowledge of...
CHICAGO – To help libraries meet the information needs of their communities during these challenging times, the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services (ODLOS) has created Libraries Respond ( www.ala.org...
91´«Ã½ strongly protests rollback of protections for our nation’s transgender students
CHICAGO – Today 91´«Ã½ President Julie Todaro released the following statement strongly protesting the rollback of protections for transgender students in our nation’s public schools. “The Trump administration’s decision to revoke...
