ALA News for August 15, 2017 NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ALA condemns racism and violence in Charlottesville Today American Library Association President Jim Neal released a statement regarding the weekend’s tragic violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/08/ala-condemns-racism-and-viole... New PLA digital literacy pilot project A new digital literacy pilot project made possible by the Public Library Association (PLA) and Cox Communications (Cox) is hitting a critical milestone this summer as participating libraries kick off training events in their communities. The goal of this national collaboration, which includes local libraries and local Cox affiliates in three communities, is to expand the reach of libraries’ resources and services—empowering more families to compete in the knowledge economy. East Baton Rouge Parish (Louisiana) Library, Pima County (Arizona) Public Library, and Topeka and Shawnee County (Kansas) Public Library are piloting the deployment of enhanced digital literacy training and resources in their libraries and online through the yearlong pilot. http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/08/new-tools-support-advance-dig... YALSA’s 2017 Top Ten Summer Learning Programs announced The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has announced its list of 2017 Top Ten Summer Learning Programs from its Teen Programming HQ<http://hq.yalsa.net/index.html> contest. http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/08/yalsa-s-2017-top-ten-summer-l... Teens can now vote for the 2017 Teens’ Top Ten Teens all around the world can start casting their votes<https://www.dogobooks.com/voting/2017-teens-top-reads> for their favorite titles for the 2017 Teens’ Top Ten (TTT) now through October 14 at www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten<http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten>. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/teens-can-now-vote-2017-teens-to... DOGObooks and YALSA partner for 2017 Teens’ Top Ten voting For the fifth year in a row, DOGObooks is the host site where teens will go to vote for the Teens’ Top Ten<http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten>. Voting by teens has grown significantly over the last couple of years and YALSA expects a record number of votes this year. http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/dogobooks-and-yalsa-partner-2017... 2018 MIDWINTER MEETING Kumasi selected to present paper for YALSA’s Trends Impacting YA Services session http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/kumasi-selected-present-paper-ya... ALA PUBLISHING ECOURSES Creating a Culture of Usability in Your Library http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/new-ecourse-creating-culture-usa... Using and Understanding Library of Congress Classification eCourse http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/new-iteration-using-and-understa... Rethinking Social Media to Organize Information and Communities eCourse http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/new-iteration-rethinking-social-... Cataloging with RDA http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/new-iteration-cataloging-rda-eco... ACRL Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Educators, Second Edition http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/08/acrl-releases-zotero-guide-libra...