ALA News for May 29, 2018 NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Retired ALA Finance Director continues to go the extra mile for Spectrum Gregory Calloway, retired associate executive director of finance of the American Library Association (ALA) will once again be raising funds in support of the ALA’s Spectrum Scholarship Program by participating in the Ricky Byrdsong Memorial Race Against Hate in Evanston, Illinois on June 17. Calloway said, "Our society really needs to develop a better understanding of our individual differences and similarities. Understanding to me is a quest for accurate information and using information to gain knowledge. Supporting the Spectrum Library Scholarship enables a graduate student financial resources to pursue a career as an accredited information specialist thereby guiding knowledge seekers to reputable and factual data." The Race Against Hate was founded in memory of Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern University basketball coach, vice president of community affairs at Aon Corporation and Skokie, Illinois, resident who was murdered by a white supremacist in 1999. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/retired-ala-finance-director-con... LITA @ ALA Annual 2018 – President’s Program focuses on 'The Silences of (Big) Data Join LITA President Andromeda Yelton and welcome Kendra Albert, a technology lawyer and an affiliate research associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, during the 2018 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. As data becomes the substrate for human and algorithmic decision-making and funding, it speaks louder and louder. But what can we infer when there is no or limited data, that is, when the data is effectively silent? Like all records, the data that libraries collect about their patrons and services contain presence and absence, resistance and compliance, exclusion and overrepresentation. In this provocative talk, lawyer and critical legal scholar Kendra Albert will reflect upon how the rise of data collection in libraries can be informed by the silences of data. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/lita-ala-annual-2018-president-s... Learn to conquer the digital world at PR Forum 2018 In today’s world, it’s not a matter of whether or not you engage in social media and digital marketing but how well you do it. At the 2018 PR Forum, being held 2:30-3:30 p.m., Sunday, June 24, at ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, learn how to determine which social platform is best for your library, how to develop compelling content and how to discover conversations you can become a part of. New Orleans’ own Olivia Parker, digital associate account executive at local marketing firm DEVENEY, will discuss how to figure out where your library belongs in the digital space and the strategies to become an active voice in your community by understanding whom you’re talking to, who is listening and what they want to hear. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/learn-conquer-digital-world-pr-f... ALCTS endorses acquisitions core competencies The Board of Directors of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has endorsed the “Core Competencies for Acquisitions Professionals.” The Education Committee of the ALCTS Acquisitions Section (AS) was asked to define core competencies for professionals in the acquisitions field. The Committee was chaired by Dr. Susan Rathbun-Grubb, assistant professor, School of Library and Information Science, College of Information and Communications, University of South Carolina. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/alcts-endorses-acquisitions-core... ALA 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Comedian Tom Papa to appear at United for Libraries’ The Laugh’s On Us sponsored by Ingram Content Group http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/comedian-tom-papa-appear-unit... AWARDS The Library History Round Table (LHRT) announces the presentation of the 2018 Donald G. Davis Article Award http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/library-history-round-table-l... ALA PUBLISHING A no-nonsense guide to born-digital content http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/no-nonsense-guide-born-digital-c... WEBINARS AND WORKSHOPS Sensory Storytime Programs http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/new-workshop-sensory-storytime-p... How to Respond to a Security Incident in Your Library http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/new-session-how-respond-security... Free webinar on Integrating STEM and Coding into Makerspaces http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/free-webinar-integrating-stem...