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The 91´«Ã½ honors Camila Alire with Equality Award
CHICAGO — 91´«Ã½ past-President Camila Alire is the 2015 recipient of the 91´«Ã½ Equality Award. The annual award, $1,000 and a framed citation of achievement donated by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, is given to an individual...
2015 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees to be announced during National Library Week
CHICAGO — To celebrate National Library Week, the Young Adult Library Services (YALSA), a division of the 91´«Ã½, will officially announce the 24 nominations for its 2015 Teens’ Top Ten on April 16, the Thursday of National Library...
The 2015 guide to the Newbery and Caldecott awards
CHICAGO — Updated to include the 2015 award and honor books, “ The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, 2015 Edition,” published by 91´«Ã½ Editions, gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children's...
ALSC Invites E-book Submissions for the 2016 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Pilot Program
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) announces that e-books, including a book published in both the country of origin and the United States exclusively as e-books or a book published in both countries as an e-book and print...
91´«Ã½ unveils shortlist for 2015 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...
IFRT accepting nominations for 2016 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award
CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) 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...
CHICAGO — Cathy Langer, lead buyer for the independent Tattered Cover Bookstores in Denver, Colorado, joins the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction selection committee. She was chosen by the American Booksellers...
2015 Carnegie Whitney Grant winners announced
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...
Berger’s Rare Books and Special Collections wins 2015 ABC-CLIO Publishing Award
CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) proudly acknowledges Sidney E. Berger as winner of the 2015 ABC-CLIO Award for the Best Book in Library Literature for "Rare Books and Special Collections," published by 91´«Ã½ Neal-Schuman. This award...
Swanson Best of LRTS Award to Christine Turner
CHICAGO—Christine N. Turner, electronic resources librarian at University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded the 2015 Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award for the article, "E-Resource Acquisitions in Academic Library Consortia," published in...
ALSC invites applications for 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture with Pat Mora
CHICAGO - The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Committee are proud to announce the opening of the application to host the 2016 event featuring award-winning children’s book author and pioneering...
Maxwell's 'Handbook' wins ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
CHICAGO — The recipient of the 2015 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Publication Award is Robert L. Maxwell for his book Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA: Explaining and Illustrating RDA: Resource Description and...
ALSC names 2015 Notable Children's Books
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), has selected its 2015 list of Notable Children’s Books. The list of titles includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and picture books of...
ALSC announces 2015 Notable Children's Recordings
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), has selected its 2015 list of Notable Children’s Recordings. The list includes recordings for children 14 years of age and younger of...
ALSC announces 2015 Notable Children's Videos
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), has selected its 2015 list of Notable Children’s Videos. The list includes videos for children 14 years of age and younger that exhibit...
