Nicole Pagowsky interviews Emerging Leader Erica Findley about how the EL experience is going so far and what project she's working on. Erica was also at Midwinter as a correspondent photographer for the popular blog Librarian Wardrob More>>
9 hours 49 min ago
The email below was sent January 27 to all ALA members with email addresses. The goal is a mere 6,344 signatures away from reaching the 25,000 goal: the magic number that allows the petition to reach the desk of President Obama. I hope More>>
By Pamela Goodes
12 hours 52 sec ago
In this video, Members Andromeda Yelton and Shana McDanold talk about how the Code Year discussion progressed and about the Interest Group they are forming through LITA - they were able to collect all  of the signatures needed that afternoon. More>>
By Tina Coleman
13 hours 11 min ago
David J. Bromer (far left) and Anne C. Bromer join Bromer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts Stanley Ellis Cushing in the announcement of a $2 million gift to endow the Anne C. and More>>
By Pamela Goodes
15 hours 46 min ago
Loudoun County (Va.)Public Library Director Chang Liu takes a moment to enjoy the unseasonable weather, while relaxing in a comfortable chair with her favorite ebook. Liu says&nb More>>
By Pamela Goodes
16 hours 22 min ago
AASL President Carl Harvey discusses the petition before the Obama administration to to ensure that every child in America has access to an effective school library program by providing dedicated funding as part of the reauthorization of the Elementary and More>>
By Greg Landgraf
16 hours 29 min ago
As reported to ALA Council and at other venues during the 2012 Midwinter Meeting, I will be leading an ALA delegation next week to meet separately with Penguin, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. I am now pleased to announce that Random House has invited More>>
1 day 13 hours ago
Photo of cattle sculptures from rear.
After getting home from the conference, I had posted on Facebook yesterday that for anyone else having conference withdrawal, #libchat was about to start on Twitter (libchat is a weekly, informal discussion on Wednesdays from 8–9:30pm More>>
1 day 15 hours ago
If you missed the fair-use panel presented by the ALA Washington Office at Midwinter, you may want to check out ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy and get access to policy briefs, webinars, and more. Also, the Association of Research More>>
By Laurie Borman
1 day 16 hours ago
We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
I urge each of you to send this message to your own student chapter e-list, encouraging everyone not only to sign the White House petition Ensure that every child in America has access to an effective school library program but also to broa More>>
By Don Wood
2 days 10 hours ago