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Molly Dettmann receives AASL Frances Henne Award
CHICAGO – Molly Dettmann, teacher librarian at Norman North High School in Norman, Oklahoma, is the recipient of the 2023 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Frances Henne Award. Sponsored by Libraries Unlimited, the $1,250 award recognizes...
Charlotte Chung receives AASL Innovative Reading Grant
CHICAGO – Charlotte Chung, media specialist at Suncrest Elementary School in Morgantown, West Virginia, is the recipient of the 2023 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Innovative Reading Grant. Sponsored by Capstone, the $2,500 grant...
Chicago – Deborah Anderson has been selected to receive the 2023 Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children. This award, sponsored by the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA), annually recognizes an individual who has...
Denise Neujahr wins the 2023 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity
CHICAGO – Denise Neujahr, Teen Youth Services Specialist for the Community Library Network in northern Idaho, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity. Daniel Handler, also known as...
¾«¶«´«Ã½ Condemns Ongoing Threats Against Libraries
CHICAGO - The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) condemns—in the strongest terms possible—the violence, threats of violence and other acts of intimidation that are increasingly taking place in America’s libraries, including last week’s bomb threats to...
ACRL acquires Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL)
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has acquired the Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL), an online information literacy assessment instrument developed by Carrick Enterprises, Inc. Based on the 2017...
Core Webinar: User Engagement: New Approach and Tools
CHICAGO –Join Core on May 10, 2023, at 1 p.m. CT for the webinar “User Engagement: New Approach and Tools.” Public libraries face challenges and opportunities in reshaping their community profile, especially post COVID. This webinar, taking an...
¾«¶«´«Ã½ reports record number of demands to censor library books and materials in 2022
Book Challenges Nearly Doubled From 2021 CHICAGO — The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) today released new data documenting* 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022, the highest number of attempted book bans since ¾«¶«´«Ã½began compiling...
2023 RUSA Achievement Award Winners
CHICAGO- The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Achievement Awards Program honors the best in reference librarians and its many specialties. These awards recognize and honor the outstanding professional contributions and achievements of your...
RUSA Journal RUSQ set to relaunch in January 2024
CHICAGO- The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is delighted to announce that the formal work of relaunching the RUSA journal RUSQ has begun, and the next issue is scheduled to be published in January 2024. The RUSQ journal has been on hiatus...
Carnegie-Whitney Grant 2023 award winners
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 of...
CHICAGO - The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) is pleased to announce Emily J.M. Knox, PhD, MSLIS as the recipient of the 2023 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award — which recognizes the best published work in the...
AASL Opens Call For Knowledge Quest and School Library Research Editorial Board Members
CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) seeks a dynamic group of school library professionals to serve on the Knowledge Quest ( KQ) and School Library Research ( SLR) Editorial Boards. These publications move the profession forward...
CHICAGO — The Library History Round Table (LHRT) is pleased to announce that this year’s Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award winner is Dr. Alexandra "Alex" Schultz for her dissertation, “Imagined Histories: Hellenistic Libraries and the Idea...
Amanda Jones receives AASL Intellectual Freedom Award
CHICAGO – Amanda Jones, school librarian and president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, is the recipient of the 2023 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Intellectual Freedom Award. Established in 1982 and sponsored by...
