As you might have heard there was a Photo Scavenger Hunt running during the recent ALA Annual Conference. From the sights of our beautiful host city of New Orleans to some tucked away corners of the...
CHICAGO — The Committee on Accreditation (COA) of the American Library Association (ALA) announces accreditation actions taken at the 2011 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans.
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ED note: For several years, Jim Casey has been providing this blog with his thoughts on ALA Council actions - until recently as a Councilor and now as an interested member-observer - as well as...
Beginning in August 2010, the Membership Development Office and the Office for Research and Statistics initiated an ongoing survey of member satisfaction. This report provides an analysis of the...
CHICAGO - In 2006, the American Library Association (ALA) held its Annual Conference in New Orleans. It was the first major convention in the city since Hurricane Katrina.
The one-hour PBS documentary special Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness screened Monday during ALA in New Orleans, in advance of its September 21 national broadcast.
As tabulated Monday, June 27, attendance figures for ALA in New Orleans totaled 20,186, which exceeded projections. Advance registration totaled 11,273 and on-site came to 3,696. Exhibit personnel...
At the invitation of the vendors, I spent a chunk of time Monday at three booths in the exhibit hall in New Orleans during ALA to hear the lowdown on the new Springer Reference Database, Centurion...
A report by the Presidential Task Force for Improving the Effectiveness of ALA’s Council (Council Document #45), chaired by past ALA president Jim Retting, was the hot topic on the agenda of...
Pamela Goodes, American Libraries associate editor, joins DEMCO representative John Ison after being awarded the 2011 Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s (BCALA)/DEMCO Award...
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