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BOSTON — The annual list of the most Outstanding Business Reference Sources was announced by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Book and Media Awards Ceremony at the 91´«Ã½’s Midwinter Meeting. Each year, the Business...
2016 Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration for Adult Listeners revealed
BOSTON — The Listen List Council of the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has announced the 2016 selections of the Listen List Committee. The list was announced Sunday during the...
RUSA’s Emerging Technologies Section selects annual list of Best Free Reference Websites
BOSTON —The annual Best Free Reference Websites list was announced at the Reference and User Services Association’s (RUSA) Book and Media Awards Ceremony at the 91´«Ã½’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston on Sunday. The list made its first...
Annual list of Best Historical Materials selected by RUSA’s History Section experts
BOSTON — The annual list of Best Historical Materials was announced at the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Book and Media Awards Ceremony at the 91´«Ã½’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston on Sunday. The list recognizes the...
Business reference experts select annual list of Best of the Best Business Reference Websites
BOSTON — The annual Best of the Best Business Reference Websites list is hereby announced. The list made its first debut in 2009 in Reference and User Services Quarterly (RUSQ), RUSA’s research journal, and recognizes three websites highly relevant to...
2016 Morris Award finalists announced
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), selected five books as finalists for the 2016 William C. Morris Award, which honors the year’s best books written for young adults by a...
2016 Nonfiction Award finalists announced
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), selected five books as finalists for the 2016 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award, which honors the best nonfiction books...
Thousands to join free 91´«Ã½ Youth Media Awards webcast
CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) will unveil the next classics in children’s and young adult literature and media during the 91´«Ã½ Youth Media Awards at 8 a.m. ET on Jan. 11, 20l6, from the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Unlimited...
IFRT accepting nominations for 2016 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award
CHICAGO — The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) is seeking nominations for its 2016 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award. The biennial award is presented for the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom and consists of $500 and a citation...
91´«Ã½ unveils shortlist for 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
CHICAGO-The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) today announced the six books shortlisted for the esteemed Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year's best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult...
Longlist for 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced
CHICAGO — Forty books (20 fiction, 20 nonfiction) comprising the longlist for the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction have been selected. The list is now available on the awards’ website. The six-title shortlist—three each...
Santa Barbara Public Library System chosen as site for 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) announced that the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Committee has selected the Santa Barbara Public Library System (California) as the site of the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture featuring Pat...
SAN FRANCISCO —The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, funded, in part, by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. “All the Light...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, keynote speaker at Andrew Carnegie Medals announcements and celebration
CHICAGO -- In what’s shaping up to be an exciting literary event at 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference in San Francisco, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been announced as keynote speaker at the celebratory 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence award ceremony. The event...
2015 RBMS Leab Exhibition award winners
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) has selected five winners and two honorable mentions for the 2015 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition...
