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The article announces the 2024 American Library Association (ALA) award winners including Jennie Pu for innovation and service to community and profession, Danielle Maurici-Pollock for service to education in librarianship, and Felton Thomas Jr. for promoting equality in the library profession.

The article offers information on the American Library Association's (ALA) 2024 Annual Conference and Exhibition, to be held from June 27-July 2, 2024 at the San Diego Convention Center in California.

More than $300,000 in ALA scholarships are available to students earning their master's degree in library science or school library media programs. Scholarships range from $2,500 to $8,000 per student [...]

The article explains the top five copyright myths and misconceptions. These include the misconceptions on the existence of copyright law to ensure that authors and other creators are compensated monetarily for the works they create, copyright-protected works as the property of their creators or rights holders, and the difficulty of fair use to understand and apply.

The article features five solo staffers from public, school and community college libraries about the ways they have bridged gaps in services, weathered devastating budget losses, and stood up for their patrons' right to read. These include Aaron Lafromboise of Blackfeet Community College's Medicine Sprint Library in Browning, Montana, Vicki Selander of Castle Rock Public Library in Washington, and Chelsea Price of Meservey Public Library in Iowa.

The article features individuals and institutions recognized during the American Library Association's (ALA) 2023 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, Illinois. They include Carla Hayden, librarian at the Library of Congress (LC) in Washington, D.C., Lance Werner, executive director of Kent District Library in Michigan, and Denise Neujahr, teen youth services specialist at the Community Library Network in northern Idaho.

In her professional life, coauthor Lauren Stara has worked for three architectural firms, one zoo, one multinational corporation, two museums, five universities, three public libraries, and one state library agency. [...]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). 'BCALA comes out of an unflagging commitment to equity,' says Tracie D. Hall, executive [...]

The article offers American Library Association-(ALA) related news briefs as of March 1,2023. The ALA has selected "The Swimmers" by Julie Otsuka as winner of the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. The 2023 American Association of School Librarians (AASL) National Conference is now open for registration. The ALA will launch a banned book club series in collaboration with NBC Chicago's midday program "Chicago Today."

The author reflects on her experience of attending the 2024 Annual Conference of the American Library Association in San Diego, California. She talks about the strong attendance number at the conference, the Unite Against Book Bans rally at the conference, and the challenge for access to libraries in rural areas.

Librarianship is ever changing, and some of the people leading that change are newer members of the profession. They're the fresh faces greeting patrons at reference desks, helping students with [...]

The article announces recipients of the 2022 American Library Association (ALA) Award which includes Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada, Marie Jarry, and Kenneth A. Yamashita.

An introduction to a series of reports about how the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has made an impact on different aspects of the library profession is presented including conversations with library workers about using generative AI, examples of how AI is being implemented in library work, and common forms of generative AI and their footprint.

The article announces that the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is accepting proposals for the ACRL 2025 Conference, to be held from April 2-5, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota and virtually.

The article enumerates concepts and questions to consider when assessing supervisory strengths and gaps in the library. These include physical and emotional safety from the foundation of a trauma-responsive library, having freedom of choice, and building cross-departmental partnerships which can help generate awareness for important projects while equalizing the power differential between staffers and their managers.

The article reports on the Toni Morrison Achievement Award received by the American Library Association (ALA) from the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) at a ceremony on March 21, 2024.

The article reports on the release of the Top 10 Book List of 2003's best queer literature for adults by the Over the Rainbow Book List Committee of the American Library Association's (ALA's) Rainbow on February 7, 2023.

The article discusses how to prevent disputes between trustees and librarianship tenets amidst the growing political partisanship in public libraries in the U.S. Also cited are the trustee candidates whose goals are changing the core values of librarianship like intellectual freedom and community service, and the support shown by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee to the candidacy of Vanessa Robinson and Rachelle Ottosen in the Community Library Network's (CLN) board in Idaho.

The article announces the winners of the 2021 American Library Association Awards, including the Joint Council of Librarians of Color which received the Equality Award, Buffalo and Erie County, New York Public Library which received the Penguin Random House Library Award for Innovation, and Steven Yates who received the Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship.

The article explores the employment landscape for librarians and how it has become challenging and unstable for entry-level candidates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered include a comparison of the impact of the pandemic to the library information system (LIS) employment market with the Great Recession of 2007-2009, new geographic considerations as one of the factors being considered by job hunters, and booming nonlibrary opportunities for people with LIS degrees.

The author talks about the membership at the American Library Association (ALA), which she considers as the oldest, largest and most influential library association of the world. She recognizes that leadership is about listening, learning, and linking people with opportunities. She stresses the need to continue to navigate historic transitions as an Association through inclusion, equity, diversion, and resolve. She mentions her commitment to their professional values and to the mission of ALA.

The article reports on the American Library Association's (ALA) partnership with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) to create a strategic plan, called the National Climate Action Strategy, to help library workers address climate change issues.

The article discusses the implicit or unconscious bias of librarians in the U.S. and how to address them through diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Also cited are the efforts by libraries, including health sciences libraries, to develop materials addressing implicit biases, as well as the continuing education classes offered by groups like the American Library Association to recognize and resolve biases in interpersonal relationships.

Given that the 2015 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition, held June 25-30 in San Francisco, coincided with the San Francisco Pride celebration and parade, it's hardly surprising that matters of [...]

ALA's Committee on Accreditation (COA) announced in an August 13 statement accreditation actions taken at its meeting during the 2020 Virtual Event. Continued Accreditation status was granted to the following [...]

The article announces the American Library Association recognizes the achievements many individuals and institutions with an array of awards and in 2020 winners, chosen by juries of their colleagues, embody the best of the profession's leadership, and service has continued commitment to diversity.

The article offers information on the thriving refugee-run library system in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp. It mentions that Zaatari Camp established in 2012, with a few refugees crossed the border into Jordan's desert to seek refuge from the Syrian Civil War. It discusses that Norwegian Refugee Council's (NRC) library stands out for its services to support children's early literacy and education.

The article features the American Library Association's (ALA) Emerging Leaders, launched in 1997 as a one-year program under former ALA President Mary R. Somerville and revived in 2006 under former ALA President Leslie Burger. They include Jamie Becker for the American Association of School Librarians, Jessica Agudelo for the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, and Shayla Boyce for the International Relations Round Table.

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) invites library workers and academics in the field of library and information science to apply for the ALSC Research Agenda Grant, a [...]

The article announces that the application for the American Library Association scholarship available to library science students and those taking a master's degree in school library media programs is open as of January 2023.

The article reviews exhibitions from the 2019 American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition held June 20-25 in Washington, D.C.

John N. Berry III 87, editor in chief of Library Journal 1969-2006, died October 10. Berry won the American Library Association's (ALA) Joseph W. Lippincott Award in 1992 and the [...]

ALA's Committee on Accreditation has announced accreditation actions taken at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. Continued accreditation status was granted to the following programs, with [...]

When I started at the American Library Association in 1987, I was given a copy of Rosabeth Moss Ranter's The Change Masters: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation (Free [...]

Bestselling author Jenn McKinlay often sets stories in her Library Lover's Mysteries series during "crafternoons," weekly library potluck luncheons that combine crafting and book discussion. It sounds like a wonderful [...]

A towering figure in both librarianship and the civil rights movement, E. J. Josey (1924-2009) cofounded the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and served as ALA president [...]

A fundamental transformation is now under-way in libraries of all types throughout the United States--the deprofessionalization of librarianship. Consider the following textbook cases of the process theories of professionalism, which [...]

The article discusses the similarities between the professional standards and practices librarianship and journalism and ways in which the two can collaborate.

The article presents comments from several members of a panel discussion at the 2018 Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits of the American Library Association (ALA) on the topic of librarianship as a profession that should maintain cultural and political neutrality in its decision-making.

Amplifying Diverse Voices in Jewish Librarianship The Association of Jewish Librarians Digital Conference focused on the importance of representation in collections, voices, and scholarship. [...]

ALA's Committee on Accreditation announced accreditation actions taken at the 2020 Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. The next comprehensive review visits will take place in fall 2026. Continued accreditation status was [...]

Nancy 'Nan' Ellen Chase, 72, a librarian at West Bend (Wis.) Public Library from 1997 until her 2012 retirement, died November 5. She had previously worked at Lake Superior State [...]

ALA's Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services (ODLOS) seeks proposals for its annual Diversity Research Grant program, a one-time award of $2,500 to fund original, one-year research projects on [...]

New research published in AASL's peer-reviewed online journal School Library Research examines how to define a high-quality school librarian (ala.org/aasl/slr). An eight-member team researched how studies of high-quality teachers can [...]

I was disappointed with 'Contract Concerns' (Nov./Dec., p. 58), particularly the author's attitude toward the deprofessionalization of librarianship. A common complaint for administrators and management is the lack of flexibility [...]

As we move forward into 2020, it is worthwhile to stop, take a deep breath, and ask ourselves those perennial questions about why we exist, what we are meant to [...]

Gerald Holmes, associate professor and diversity coordinator at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro Libraries, received the UNC Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science Distinguished Alumni [...]