Advocacy
Core Forum Preconference: Building Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) Capacity
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CHICAGO —Join Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures on Thursday, October 13, 2022 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm during Core Forum 2022 in Salt Lake City for the preconference "Building Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) Capacity." Leading organizational...
Core Classroom: Designed with You in Mind: Welcoming Patrons and Staff with Disabilities in Your Library Spaces
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CHICAGO —Join Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures this September for the Core Classroom "Designed with You in Mind: Welcoming Patrons and Staff with Disabilities to Your Library." This four-week virtual workshop with videos, discussion forums...
Senate FY 2023 Appropriations Bill Would Provide First Funding for Library Facilities in Decades
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The fiscal year (FY) 2023 funding bills released by the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 28 would, for the first time in 26 years, provide federal funding to modernize library buildings nationwide. If enacted, the bills would...
Core Event: 2022 Online AvramCamp
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CHICAGO —Core is pleased to once again sponsor AvramCamp, an AdaCamp-inspired event that is named in honor of library innovator Henriette D. Avram. This half-day, online event allows women and non-binary technology workers a safe space to explore the...
¾«¶«´«Ã½Annual Conference Advisory
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WASHINGTON, DC -- ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) members and staff are continuing to monitor the situation related to today’s Supreme Court decision. While we grapple with the implications of this decision, our immediate priority is the safety of...
IMLS and FCC Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Help Close Digital Divide
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WASHINGTON, DC -- The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) has issued the below statement on the memorandum of understanding between the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), announced on June 24...
Authors Jason Reynolds, Nancy Pearl join high schoolers to Unite Against Book Bans at world’s biggest library event in Washington, D.C., June 25
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Award-winning young adult author Jason Reynolds, Book Lust author Nancy Pearl and ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) intellectual freedom advocate Deborah Caldwell-Stone will join Bell Multicultural High School (Washington, D.C.)...
2022 John Cotton Dana Awards Announced
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The 2022 John Cotton Dana (JCD) Award winners, recognized for their strategic communications efforts, have been selected. The John Cotton Dana Awards provide up to eight grants for libraries that demonstrate outstanding library public relations. The award...
Library, author, bookseller groups condemn legal action attempting to censor books in Virginia
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The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) joined with Virginia librarians and booksellers, publishers and civil liberties organizations to issue a statement on June 1 condemning a Virginia political candidate’s legal action that seeks to halt distribution of...
2022 PR Xchange Award Winners Announced
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The PR Xchange Committee is delighted to announce the winners of this year's PR Xchange Awards Competition. This year, we have awarded 20 print winners and 24 electronic winners. Congratulations to those libraries! The PR Xchange Committee is charged with...
Sourcebooks and ¾«¶«´«Ã½present 17-month weekly planner for book lovers
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CHICAGO — Sourcebooks, a leading independent publisher based in Chicago, and the ¾«¶«´«Ã½’s (ALA) book publishing imprint, ¾«¶«´«Ã½Editions | ¾«¶«´«Ã½Neal-Schuman, announce publication of The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ Recommended Reads and...
Five projects receive 2022 AIA/¾«¶«´«Ã½Library Building Award
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) are awarding five libraries with the 2022 AIA/¾«¶«´«Ã½Library Building Award for excellence in architectural design. Award recipients must demonstrate design achievement...
Idina Menzel and Cara Mentzel get loud for libraries as honorary chairs of Library Card Sign-up Month 2022
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CHICAGO — Tony Award-winning performer, actress, singer-songwriter, and philanthropist Idina Menzel and her sister, author and educator Cara Mentzel, have been named honorary chairs of Library Card Sign-Up Month. This September, Idina and Cara will join...
More than 25 organizations join forces with the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ to Unite Against Book Bans
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Campaign urges decisionmakers to oppose book bans, protect the freedom to read The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) and a coalition of more than 25 groups are banding together to empower individuals and communities to fight censorship and protect the...
New book spotlights ways to advance entrepreneurship in public libraries
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CHICAGO — Libraries have a distinctive role to play in the small business ecosystem and can effectively partner to complement existing business services in the community. A nationwide initiative that launched in 2020, Libraries Build Business (LBB) aims...
Core President's Program features Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty
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CHICAGO —Join Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures on Saturday, June 25 at 4 pm ET during ¾«¶«´«Ã½Annual for the Core President's Program featuring Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. The recently integrated...
New Banned Books Week materials and more debut in spring/summer ¾«¶«´«Ã½Graphics catalog
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CHICAGO – The Spring/Summer 2022 ¾«¶«´«Ã½Graphics catalog delivers a range of exciting posters and bookmarks to inspire and encourage readers of all ages. The cover displays the new Banned Books Week poster which offers the important and timely message that...
IFRT awards 2022 Hodges Award to two Tennessee Organizations
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The Intellectual Freedom Round Table's Coalition Building Committee will award the 2022 Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award to the Tennessee Library Association (TLA) and the Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL). For...
Announcing the 2022 Core Election Results
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CHICAGO—Wendy Tressler, Director of Capital Projects and Project Management at the Columbus Metropolitan Library, has been elected President-Elect of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. Her three-year term begins at the conclusion of the 2022 ALA...
¾«¶«´«Ã½partners with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to share trusted vaccine information
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Campaign provides expert-verified outreach tools for libraries Washington, D.C. -- The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) is partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ We Can Do This campaign to share trusted information about COVID...