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October 16, 2024
91´«Ã½ opens registration and launches Preliminary Program for 2025 LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience in Phoenix, AZ
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LibLearnX is a four-day learning conference that invites 91´«Ã½ members and non-members to participate in collaborative and engaging education, networking, and celebrations.
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October 1, 2024
Freedom to Read Community Day of Action rallies support for America’s libraries on October 19
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The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) and the 91´«Ã½-founded Unite Against Book Bans campaign are joining some of the nation’s largest and smallest library systems to in a Freedom to Read Community Day of Action on October 19, 2024.
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September 23, 2024
91´«Ã½ reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges
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Between January 1 and August 31, 2024, 91´«Ã½’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 414 attempts to censor library materials and services.
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September 19, 2024
ALSC, 91´«Ã½ unveil 'Inspiring Future Voters' booklist for young readers
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As part of the 91´«Ã½’s Reader Voter Ready civic engagement campaign, the Association for Library Service to Children has released “Inspiring Future Voters,” a new booklist for young readers.
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September 17, 2024
On National Voter Registration Day 2024, 91´«Ã½ President urges library professionals to get Reader Voter Ready
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WASHINGTON – On National Voter Registration Day, also Constitution Day, 91´«Ã½ President Cindy Hohl issued the following letter to library professionals: Dear colleagues, Today is National Voter Registration Day. As president of the American Library...
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July 25, 2024
Sam Helmick chosen 2024-2025 91´«Ã½ president-elect
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The 91´«Ã½ Council decided on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, that Sam Helmick will be the 2024-2025 president-elect effective immediately.
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91´«Ã½ in the News
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In observance of Banned Books Week, the 91´«Ã½ and PEN America released reports on book censorship across the country.
91´«Ã½ celebrates National Library Week 2024
The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) is thrilled to celebrate National Library Week from April 7 to11. This year’s theme is "Ready, Set, Library!" which illustrates the idea that in an always-online world, libraries give the community a green light to connect with others, learn new skills, and focus on what matters most.
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: Evaluating Your Library Assessment Program
Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: Evaluating Your Library Assessment Program" on April 9, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This presentation describes how to use an information maturity model to assess the current internal data culture of each library. The information maturity model establishes the baseline levels of an organization’s data culture across three categories: people, processes, and tools. By understanding the library’s information maturity, we can surface issues related to data management, communication, and technical skills, and discuss the consequences of these issues on productivity and decision-making.
Core Classroom: Your Supported Job Search
Join Core from May 20 to June 14, 2024, for the Core Classroom “Your Supported Job Search.” This course should help you clarify what you are looking for, sharpen your application documents (e.g. CV, resume, cover letter), find a process that works for you, and maintain your mental and physical health. Four sessions will provide a thorough foundation to both the practical and psychological elements of finding a LIS job.
Wendy Gassaway receives AASL Innovative Reading Grant
Wendy Gassaway, school librarian at Alder Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, is the recipient of the 2024 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Innovative Reading Grant. Sponsored by Capstone, the $2,500 grant supports the planning and implementation of a unique and innovative program for children that motivates and encourages reading, especially with struggling readers.
PLA announces new opening speaker for 2024 conference: Shola Richards
The Public Library Association (PLA) is pleased to announce Shola Richards, founder and CEO of “Go Together” and best-selling author will open the PLA 2024 Conference, taking place April 3—5, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. Richards replaces Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who will no longer be able to keynote due to unforeseen circumstances.
Garza de Cortés named recipient of ALSC's 2024 Distinguished Service Award
Oralia Garza de Cortés is the 2024 recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) Distinguished Service Award. This prestigious award honors an individual who has made significant contributions to library service to children and to ALSC. Oralia Garza de Cortés is a children’s librarian, family literacy expert, writer, and Latino children’s literacy advocate whose career spans over forty years in the field.
91´«Ã½ welcomes passage of FY 2024 federal budget, braces for FY 2025
The FY 2024 federal budget signed into law by President Biden on Saturday, March 23, contained level funding for the two dedicated federal funding programs for America’s libraries, LSTA and IAL. Other library programs remain aligned with FY 2023 levels, with the exception of the Library of Congress and National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, which received modest increases.
Hutchinson Memorial Library awarded 2024 Baker & Taylor Summer Reading Program Grant
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has awarded the 2024 ALSC/Baker & Taylor Summer Reading Program Grant to the Hutchinson Memorial Library in Randolph, Wisconsin. The grant encourages outstanding summer reading programs by providing financial assistance while recognizing ALSC members for outstanding program development.
Announcing the 2024 Core Fundamentals Web Course Schedule
Core is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Core Fundamentals Web Course schedule. This series of related online courses covers basic topics that enhance skills in various areas of library work.
Rose Brock to receive Scholastic Library Publishing Award
Rose Brock, Ph.D. has been named the 2024 winner of 91´«Ã½’s Scholastic Library Publishing Award. This award of $1,000 and certificate of achievement, sponsored by the Scholastic Library Publishing Company, recognizes a librarian whose unusual contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by children and young people exemplifies outstanding achievement in the profession.
Susan Spicer, Early Learning Program Manager for the Salt Lake County Library in Utah, has been selected to receive the 2024 Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children. This award, sponsored by the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), annually recognizes an individual who has shown exceptional understanding and support of public library service to children while maintaining administrative responsibilities.
How does librarianship help people to be free? How is library capacity and expertise used to increase freedom, justice, and community? “Liberatory Librarianship: Stories of Community, Connection, and Justice,” published by 91´«Ã½ Editions in collaboration with Core, unpacks these questions, and many others, to reveal ways that library workers and their institutions are applying skills, knowledge, abilities, professional ethics, and personal commitment to practice liberatory librarianship.
The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) announced today that 91´«Ã½ President Emily Drabinski will host the 91´«Ã½ President’s Program, featuring an esteemed panel of library practitioners, at the 91´«Ã½ 2024 Annual Conference & Exhibition. The conference will be held at the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding hotels in San Diego, California, June 27-July 2, 2024.
The new free guide from the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), developed with a team of national advisors, will help library workers assist adults in understanding how the internet works and how it impacts their lives.
Reference Interview Course from RUSA
Register today for the upcoming Six-week asynchronous course Reference Interview 101 starting on April 1, 2024.
