ALA News for October 3, 2017 NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ALA appoints Jessica Hughes ASCLA/RUSA executive director The American Library Association (ALA) has appointed Jessica Hughes executive director of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) and the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), divisions of ALA. She will start Oct. 9. She currently serves as chief operating officer for the Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association. She had been the association's director of development (2010), as well as its director of strategic initiatives (2011). Before joining the Florida association, she was director of development for Community Christian School. http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/ala-appoints-jessica-hughes-a... Longlist for 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced Forty-six books, 25 fiction, 21 nonfiction, have been selected for the longlist<http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult/longlists> for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The list is now available<http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult/longlists> on the awards’ website. http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/longlist-2018-andrew-carnegie... Ken Varnum Appointed New ITAL Editor Ken Varnum, Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Library Analytics at the University of Michigan Library, has been appointed as the new editor of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), the Library and Information Technology Association's refereed, open access journal. His term will run through June 30, 2020. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/09/ken-varnum-appointed-new-ital-ed... Run for office by filing an electronic petition Interested in running for ALA President-elect or Councilor-at-Large but weren’t approached by the Nominating Committee? You can still get your name on the 2018 spring ballot by completing a petition form and obtaining the signatures of no fewer than 200 ALA current personal members for president-elect and 25 signatures for councilor-at-large. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/run-office-filing-electronic-pet... ALA, Center for News Literacy announce Media Literacy @ Your Library cohort Five public libraries have been selected to participate in Media Literacy @ Your Library, a pilot program that will train library workers to help their adult patrons become better news consumers, The American Library Association (ALA) and the Center for News Literacy @ Stony Brook University announced. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/ala-center-news-literacy-announc... Public libraries highlight cyber security awareness in October Earlier this month the credit reporting agency Equifax disclosed that it had suffered a cyber-attack that endangered the personal information of 143 million U.S. users. Even before the Equifax hack, 64 percent of Americans had been personally affected by a major data breach or data theft incident, according to a 2016 study by the Pew Research Center. As the need for cyber security awareness grows, public libraries are stepping up efforts to provide critical digital literacy training and information. http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/public-libraries-highlight-cy... Get ready to celebrate International Games Week 2017 – Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 2017 Each year libraries are encouraged to participate by creating fun, educational and innovative programs encouraging gaming in their communities, in order to reconnect those communities around the educational, recreational and social value of all types of games. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/get-ready-celebrate-internationa... GRANTS AND AWARDS ALSC now accepting applications for 2018 Maureen Hayes Author/Illustrator Award http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/alsc-now-accepting-applicatio... ALSC now accepting applications for 2018 Baker & Taylor Summer Reading Grant http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/alsc-now-accepting-applicatio... PLA now accepting nominations for 10 service awards and grants for 2018 http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/pla-now-accepting-nominations... ALA, EBSCO provide opportunity for five librarians to attend ALA Midwinter Meeting http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/ala-ebsco-provide-opportunity... Library Instruction Round Table Accepting Nominations for Two Awards http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/library-instruction-round-table-... Small/rural public libraries invited to apply for stipends for dialogue and deliberation workshop at 2018 ALA Annual Conference http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/smallrural-public-libraries-invi... FROM THE ALA STORE ‘Friend Your Library’ materials now available at no cost to United for Libraries statewide group members http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/friend-your-library-materials... WEBINARS United for Libraries and PLA to host Oct. 17 webinar on ‘Troubled Library Boards’ http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/united-libraries-and-pla-host... October webinar highlights the many uses of outcomes data http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/october-webinar-highlights-many-... The MOU: Your Blueprint for Managing Collaborative Projects http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/llama-webinar-mou-your-blueprint...