Newport News (Va.) Public Library System Director Izabela M. Cieszynski (left) accepts an award for Outstanding Youth Program from Virginia Public Library Directors Association President Carol Vincent. The
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Elementary students from public, parochial, and charter schools wait for autographs from children’s author Dan Gutman at the grand opening of the new Camden County (N.J.) Library System (CCLS) branch within
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Teen volunteers from seven locations get autographs from author Rachel Coker (seated) during the first Virginia Beach (Va.) Public Library Teen Advisory Group conference. The event took place at the library’s Meyera E. Oberndorf
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Young library patrons try out a variety of eReaders and electronic tablets at the Tech Zoo table provided by the Library of Virginia at Tech It Out 2, a free technology fair at Newport News (Va.) Public Library's Main
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If you give something away for free, why then would anyone buy it? And yet people pay for free every single day. We go to restaurants and order bottled water, or drive our cars instead of riding public transportation. People are willing to
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ALA President Molly Raphael and Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels invite you to the 2012 Virtual Membership Meeting (VMM) on Wednesday, June 6 from 3 pm – 4:30 pm CDT, online. Members are invited to hear from ALA leadership
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More than 350 librarians and library supporters from across the country converged on Washington, D.C., from April 23–24, to meet with members of Congress to discuss key library issues during ALA’s 38th annual National
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Maurice Sendak, illustrator and author of nearly 100 books and winner of ALA’s 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where The Wild Things Are, died May 8. He was 83. Creator of amazing nightmares, as the New York Times called Sendak, the
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) met in Chicago May 2–4 for its 160th Membership Meeting. The group meets twice a year in the spring and fall to review its finances, activities, projects, and priorities, and to allow its
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Last year, more than 12 million people visited the Los Angeles Public Library. With nearly 20,000 programs a year, a collection of more than 6 million books in many languages, electronic databases, and downloadable books, music, and
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Heritage Preservation’s Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel is now available free of charge on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad as the ERS: Emergency Response and Salvage app. The wheel has been used by museums, libraries, and
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“As we know, some of the most fruitful discussions can take place in the hallway during a conference,” writes Alan S. Inouye, program manager of ALA’s Digital Content and Libraries Initiative, over at the District
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