Author Archive: Heather Cho

Top 10 Tweets—Tuesday Edition

By Heather Cho | June 26, 2018

You wore your nice socks. dressed up fancy in my @OutofPrintTees banned books #socks for the last day of #alaac18 pic.twitter.com/QABM6rzfZu — Louisa Lebwohl (@llebwohl) June 26, 2018 You made it to the Closing General Session. https://twitter.com/kjanek/status/1011629531881525248 And you’re happy you did. Almost in tears listening to @violadavis tell us how libraries provide access to … Continue reading Top 10 Tweets—Tuesday Edition →

Top 10 Tweets—Monday Edition

By Heather Cho | June 25, 2018

You on a Monday. https://twitter.com/teach_research/status/1011262636711972865 You asking an important question. With 36 hours of conferencing left, I just shipped 30 lbs. of books to myself. How did this happen? 🤦🏾‍♀️ #ALAac18 #ocpsreads #SummerReading — Ms. Garner (@GarnerDP) June 25, 2018 You making a big realization. First day of #alaac18 not working on, practicing … Continue reading Top 10 Tweets—Monday Edition →

Top 10 Tweets—Sunday Edition

By Heather Cho | June 24, 2018

You can squeeze a lot into a morning when you start at 4 a.m. Good coffee, great colleagues, and ALA Council make for a memorable #alaac18! pic.twitter.com/906c3lBkuL — SamHelmick (@GeometricRabbit) June 24, 2018 You talked to a conference newbie. Conference newbie: I’ve never seen so much rainbow hair before!Me: Just wait until you get to … Continue reading Top 10 Tweets—Sunday Edition →

Top 10 Tweets—Saturday Edition

By Heather Cho | June 23, 2018

You’ve gotten used to the New Orleans weather. New Orleans has me like #alaac18 pic.twitter.com/JXLI56qqdn — Matthew Noe is at #ALAAC18 (@NoetheMatt) June 23, 2018 You brought your fashion game. #librarianfashion #alaac18 pic.twitter.com/4ktvbPhVC6 — Erin Schramm (@PaperPickles) June 23, 2018 You ate a good breakfast. Praline bacon? Oh good lord, New Orleans, and yes please! … Continue reading Top 10 Tweets—Saturday Edition →

Top 10 Tweets—Friday Edition

By Heather Cho | June 22, 2018

You’re ready for Annual to start. Or maybe you feel like this. This is my OMG-I-won-the-Newbery-Medal-and-now-I’m-on-my-way-to-#ALAAC18-WTH-is-happening-right-now face. #ALA18 pic.twitter.com/C3pl90vr0v — Erin Entrada Kelly (@erinkellytweets) June 22, 2018 You are psyched for all the sessions. Awwww yyeeaaahh #alaac18 pic.twitter.com/qFs7FE0vCM — Tasha Nins (@TashaCMN) June 22, 2018 It's begun! #alaac18 #diversity #equity #inclusion pic.twitter.com/YRfFPsVukH — J ChaCha … Continue reading Top 10 Tweets—Friday Edition →

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The Library History Round Table announced that this year’s Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award winner is Julie Park for her paper “Infrastructure Story: The Los Angeles Central Library’s Architectural History.” Park is assistant curator and faculty fellow at the Special Collections Center, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library in New York. Her essay uses written contracts, board meeting minutes, floor plans and renovation reports to show “how, as infrastructure, the library’s architecture and its spatial priorities were deeply ‘relational’ [which] required adaptation to changing contingencies over time, despite features that seemed permanent and immovable.”
LHRT, June 30
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ProQuest announced the first winner of a scholarship presented in collaboration with the ALA Film and Media Roundtable and the Association of Moving Image Archivists. Valeria Estefanía Dávila Gronros, a master’s candidate at University of Alabama, was selected to receive the deg farrelly Scholarship from a group of online applicants by a panel of FMRT and AMIA members. The scholarship has two parts—a $1,000 education grant for tuition and books and another $1,000 cash award to be used for other education-related expenses like workshops and conference fees.
FMRT, June 30
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Denice Adkins, associate professor; Jenny Bossaller, associate professor; and Heather Moulaison Sandy, associate professor and director of graduate studies, all at the University of Missouri’s School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, are the recipients of the 2020 ALA Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award for their article “Exploring Reader-Generated Language to Describe Multicultural Literature.” The David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award recognizes recent articles that include significant new research related to the understanding and promotion of multiculturalism in libraries in North America.
ODLOS, June 30
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The American Association of School Librarians has released equity, diversity, and inclusion resources created by the 2019–2020 Presidential Initiative Task Force. Advised by AASL President Mary Keeling, the committee hosted office hours, designed informative bookmarks, and presented a webinar on EDI in the school library. The resources can be found at www.ala.org/aasl/all/EDI.
AASL, June 30
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Mirela Roncevic writes: “With the COVID-19 crisis forcing a rapid shift to remote and distance learning around the world, the issue of the accessibility of digital resources becomes even more prominent. This year, however, marks a turning point in what is required of universities and colleges across the US on the matter of accessibility. All institutions of learning that receive federal aid are now legally required to make their digital learning materials accessible to students, including those with disabilities.”
No Shelf Required, June 24
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Starting July 8, AL Direct, the e-newsletter of American Libraries magazine, will change to a weekly schedule and showcase an updated design. The newsletter, which is currently mailed on Tuesdays and Fridays, will mail every Wednesday. AL Direct, created in January 2006, is sent to personal members of the American Library Association. It provides summaries and links to news, announcements, and other information of interest to library and information science professionals. The newsletter is supplemented daily by other news on the American Libraries website widget, Latest Library Links, and the AL news blog, The Scoop.
American Libraries, June 30
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Wendi Maloney writes: “People chatting in the sun beside a taco truck in Oakland, California. A woman peering warily over a surgical mask in a Newark, New Jersey, bus line. A sign reading ‘no gloves, no mask, no service’ taped on the entrance to a Royal Chicken and Biscuit restaurant in Newark. What do these images have in common? They’re all by Camilo José Vergara, noted for photographing urban communities where life is often hard. They are also among the very first items the library acquired documenting the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. And they will be far from the last: The library anticipates a collecting effort that exceeds its coverage of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”
Library of Congress Blog, June 24

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