ALA News for April 2, 2019
ALA
President speaks at U.S. Census Bureau Press Conference
On April 1, 2019, ALA President Loida Garcia-Febo delivered remarks at a public briefing held by the U.S. Census Bureau to mark the one year out milestone
from the 2020 Census.
“The Census results will have a tremendous impact on funding and representation for our communities,” said Garcia-Febo. “ALA is committed to helping our communities achieve a complete count because libraries serve everyone.” Read more
To kick off April as Financial Literacy Month, the American Library Association (ALA), in partnership with the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, today announced 50 U.S. public libraries selected to be part of a national tour of the traveling exhibition Thinking Money for Kids. Read more
ALA,
Library Copyright Alliance applauds appointment of Karyn A. Temple as Register of Copyrights
The American Library Association, a member of the Library Copyright Alliance, congratulates Karyn Temple on her appointment to Register of Copyrights
by Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. Read
more
ALA
names James Neal senior policy fellow
The American Library Association (ALA) has appointed Immediate Past President James G. (Jim) Neal as a senior policy fellow. Neal will advise the ALA
Public Policy & Advocacy Unit (Washington Office) on copyright and licensing matters and provide leadership on selected priority initiatives, including the ALA Policy Corps established in 2017 as one of his presidential initiatives.
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Wayne
and Shirley Wiegand receive 2019 Gleason Book Award for history of integration of Southern public libraries
The Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award Committee of the American Library Association (ALA) Library History Round Table (LHRT) is pleased to present the
2019 Gleason Book Award to Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus and professor of American Studies at Florida State University, and Shirley A. Wiegand, professor Emerita of Law at Marquette University, for
The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism (Louisiana State University Press, 2018).
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more
Humble
Bundle and No Starch Press launch charity promotion to benefit the Freedom to Read Foundation
No Starch Press, an independent tech publishing company, has partnered with Humble Bundle to launch a Coder’s Bookshelf promotion to benefit the Freedom
to Read Foundation. The bookshelf features the ebooks “The Rust Programming Language,” “The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript,” “Python Playground,” and more. The Humble Bundle: Coder’s Bookshelf will be available for purchase until April 8, 2019.
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Applications
now open for ‘AASL District Kits for the National School Library Standards’
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), with the support of Bound To Stay Bound Books, will create and distribute 100 “AASL District Kits
for the National School Library Standards” to support nationwide implementation of the association’s National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries. Fifty kits will be available in 2019 and fifty kits will be distributed
in 2020 through an application process. Read
more
ALA 2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
LITA
AvramCamp 2019, an ALA Annual Preconference
ALCTS preconference focuses on managing change in libraries
ALCTS preconference explores networking as a tool for disaster response and recovery
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Carolyn Foote receives AASL Collaborative School Library Award
Kruse wins 2019 ACRL WGSS Career Achievement Award
Chou and Pho win 2019 ACRL WGSS Significant Achievement Award
NCSU Libraries receives 2019 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award
Judi Moreillon wins the Scholastic Library Publishing Award
ALA PUBLISHING
A
guide to successful community technology projects
Reboot your book club with the help of ALA’s Public Programs Office
Focus on improvement, not punishment, with Hakala-Ausperk’s ‘Dynamic Discipline’
WEBINARS
Free
webinar on mid-career options in April
Multimedia Instruction: Connecting through Course Integration – a LITA web course
ALA CopyTalk webinar with Ty Turley Trejo to focus on film copyright and libraries