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2023 Core PR Xchange Award Winners Announced
The Core PR Xchange Committee is delighted to announce the winners of this year's PR Xchange Awards Competition. This year, we have awarded 27 print winners and 34 electronic winners. Congratulations to those libraries! The PR Xchange Committee is charged...
Acclaimed Author Ibram X. Kendi to headline Rally for the Right to Read before ¾«¶«´«Ã½Conference
CHICAGO – The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) and Unite Against Book Bans will host a Rally for the Right to Read: Uniting for Libraries & Intellectual Freedom at the Chicago Hilton on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Part of the 2023 ¾«¶«´«Ã½Annual Conference &...
CHICAGO — The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) has awarded its 2023 Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award to Hawthorne Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky for the Growing Readers, Growing Leaders program. The $5,000 Jaffarian Award...
Freedom to Read Foundation Files Amicus Brief in Support of Llano County Texans’ Lawsuit Challenging County’s Library Book Censorship The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) today filed an amicus curiae brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Leila...
Suit Challenges Arkansas Act 372, a Bill That Would Restrict Access to Books in State Book Stores and Public Libraries The Freedom to Read Foundation, the First Amendment legal defense arm of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½, today joined a broad...
Rainbow and Government Documents Round Tables announce Larry Romans Mentorship Award
CHICAGO - The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) Rainbow and Government Documents Round Tables (RRT and GODORT) are proud to announce Debbie Rabina as the 2023 recipient of the Larry Romans Mentorship Award. The award's namesake, Larry Romans, mentored...
2023 AASL STEM Special Event Grants Awarded
CHICAGO – Eleven STEM Special Event Grants have been awarded by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). Supported by the Danaher Foundation, the STEM Special Event Grant Program supports a special event to increase student engagement by...
95 Great Stories Club Grants to be Awarded by the ¾«¶«´«Ã½
CHICAGO – The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) has selected 58 U.S. libraries to receive implementation grants for the Great Stories Club (GSC), a thematic reading and discussion program that engages teens who are facing difficult challenges through...
Carrie Russell's updated copyright guidance for K–12 librarians and educators
CHICAGO — Previously awarded The ABC-CLIO Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, Carrie Russell’s new second edition of “ Complete Copyright for K–12 Librarians and Educators,” published by ¾«¶«´«Ã½Editions, will encourage readers to stop...
Meet the 2023 Class of Emerging Leaders at Poster Session during ¾«¶«´«Ã½2023 Annual Conference
We are excited and pleased to invite attendees of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½’s (ALA) 2023 Annual Conference to meet the 2023 class of Emerging Leaders (EL) at a celebratory poster session Friday, June 23, 2023, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., in the...
ALA, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Invite Libraries to Request Free DiY Exhibition
CHICAGO — The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA), in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s (NMNH) Human Origins Program and Office of Exhibits, invites libraries to apply to download the Do-It-Yourself (DiY) Exhibit...
AASL’s Community of Scholars Presents Review of Research in School Library Research Journal
CHICAGO – Newly published research from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) peer-reviewed online journal, School Library Research (SLR) presents a study undertaken by AASL’s Community of Scholars to pilot an annual aggregation and...
Intellectual Freedom Round Table announces 2023 John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award
CHICAGO – The ¾«¶«´«Ã½Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) is pleased to announce Amanda Jones, as the recipient of the 2023 John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award for notable contributions to intellectual freedom and demonstrations of personal courage in...
Sheila Michaels named YALSA’s 2023 MAE Award winner
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has awarded Sheila Michaels, Library Media Specialist at Nixa High School in Nixa Missouri, its’ 2023 Margaret A. Edwards (MAE) Award for Best Literature Program for Teens for her Program...
CHICAGO - Evelyn Shimazu Yee, Associate Professor, Research & Instruction Librarian, Head of Library Community Relations, and Curator in Special Collections at Azusa Pacific University Marshburn Memorial Library, is the recipient of the 2023 American...
