Two items discussed during the ALA Executive Board Spring Meeting, held April 20–22 at the Association’s Chicago headquarters, illustrate the wide range of issues and activities affecting our members and their libraries. The board approved
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By Keith Michael Fiels
15 hours 3 min ago
After several months of beta testing, 3M has launched the 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service. It is available to patrons at beta locations across the country and will be available at ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim to share the Cloud
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The May issue of Library Worklife: HR E-news for Today’s Leaders(a publication of the ALA-APA) is now available.
This issue is full of resources. Highlights Include:
Certification– Financial assistance available to library
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As part of the work of ALA’s Digital Content and Libraries Working Group of ALA (which is tackling our many ebook-related issues), we are seeking some focused feedback before the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim next month. If you are experimenting
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Jamie LaRue
5 days 18 hours ago
Columbus, Indiana, resident Elizabeth Dwyer, age 11, along with her dad, David (left) and brother, James (right), load 30 banker boxes of books—each weighing 30–50 pounds—for a trip to Henryville, Indiana, April 30. Henryv
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Joey Maddock, age 4, performs ribbon-cutting duties at the dedication of Big Blue Bus or "Big Blue" April 25—the second bookmobile owned by Rochester Hills (Mich.) Public Library. The rolling library was purchas
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At the Massachusetts Library Association annual conference in Worcester this morning, Ruth Liebmann, director of account marketing at Random House, stated emphatically that libraries own the ebooks they purchase from Random House.
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Rob Maier
6 days 17 hours ago
A 46-foot mural in tribute to Maurice Sendak enhances the garden area and two freestanding scenes that greet children of all ages as they enter the children’s room at Richland County (S.C.) Public Library’s (RCPL) main branch. S
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Megan Blount creates a fairy house from natural materials during the Spring Jubilee at Middle Country Public Library's Centereach, New York, branch. The occasion was the annual opening of the 5,
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Centennial celebrations run through June for Hennepin County (Minn.) Library's Hopkins branch—first opened in 1912 at City Hall in the village of West Minneapolis, as the city of Hopkins w
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