The Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table announced María Emerson, assistant professor and student success librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the ...

CHICAGO - Due to a dramatic uptick in book challenges and outright removal of books from libraries, ALA's Executive Board and the Boards of Directors for all of ALA's eight divisions have released the ...

The Council of the American Library Association (ALA) bestows upon Robert Newlen, Honorary Membership. Honorary membership is the highest honor given by the Association. It is conferred upon a living ...

Links to proceedings from the ACRL 2023 conference in PDF format ...

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table honors the legacy of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by promoting distinguished award-winning children's & young adults’ literature by African American authors & ...

Library assistants help librarians, and library technicians organize library resources and make them available to users. At the circulation desk, library assistants lend and collect books, periodicals ...

The American Library Association (ALA), the voice of America's libraries, is the oldest, largest and most influential library association in the world. Its more than 50,000 members are primarily ...

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Since June of 2014, Immigrant Heritage Month has given people across the United States an opportunity to annually explore their own heritage and celebrate the shared diversity that forms the unique ...

As a high school library media specialist, I have the good fortune to work with, and sometimes mold, young people. If I’m lucky, I discover what they do after graduation. Recently, one of my favorite ...

You can pursue a wide variety of career paths within library organizations. Depending on your interests and background, it is possible to plan your career from entry level to top level management.

Download the slides (as PDF) of PLA's Finding and Keeping Public Library Jobs webcast (PDF, 32 pgs.), originally presented March 30, 2010, by Diane Kovacs. Forget what you think you know about public ...