Poster submissions for 2020 Annual now open | American Libraries Magazine

The 2020 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition Poster Session Committee invites everyone to share their best ideas and work with the library community by presenting a Poster Session in Chicago. Submissions are invited from all types of libraries and on any topic relevant to librarianship and may include a description of an innovative library program, an analysis of a solution to a problem, a report of a research study, or any other presentation that would benefit the larger library community. The application deadline is January 31. Applicants will be notified in early April.

ALA Conference Services, Dec. 2

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A suspect was arrested in connection with a stabbing that left three people injured at the Auburn branch of the Placer County (Calif.) Library at 1:40 p.m. on December 10. Two people have been hospitalized, one with critical wounds; a third victim was treated and released at the scene. Police have not identified the suspect, but said he will be booked into the Placer County jail on two counts of attempted murder and one count of assault with a deadly weapon.

Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, Dec. 11
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The 2020 Gale Cengage Learning Financial Development Award call for nominations is now open through February 1. The award, managed by an independent jury of the ALA Awards Committee, is presented to a library organization to recognize an innovative, creative, well-organized project that successfully developed income from alternative sources. The winner receives a $2,500 grant and a framed citation.

Office of ALA Governance, Dec. 10
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David Nicholls, Lily King, Judy Batalion, Janelle Brown, Sam Lansky, and Amy Engel will be among the featured authors at the United for Libraries Gala Author Tea, sponsored by ReferenceUSA, on January 26 at the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Nicholls is the bestselling author of Us, One Day, and The Understudy and Starter for Ten. Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing, and he recently won a BAFTA for the Showtime miniseries Patrick Melrose. A light offering of tea, finger sandwiches, and a variety of sweet treats will be served at the tea.

United for Libraries, Dec. 10
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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced December 11 the selection of 25 of America’s most influential motion pictures to the National Film Registry. Selected because of their cultural, historic, and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage, the films in the class of 2019 range from Prince’s 1984 autobiographical hit Purple Rain and Spike Lee’s 1986 breakout movie She’s Gotta Have It to Kevin Smith’s 1994 Clerks. An unprecedented seven motion pictures directed by women are on this year’s list, the most in a single year ever, among them Before Stonewall, directed by Greta Schiller, and Elaine May’s A New Leaf.

Library of Congress, Dec. 11
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ALSC has awarded its 2020 Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award to Amalia Butler, Maplewood (N.J.) Memorial Library; Carla Davis, Multnomah County (Oreg.) Library; and Jennifer Minehardt, New York Public Library. The $600 stipend enables up to four children’s librarians to attend their first ALA Annual Conference. Applicants must demonstrate an involvement with ALSC as well as with other professional and educational associations.

ALSC, Dec. 10
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The Edwardsville (Ill.) Public Library is trying to address homelessness in its community and recently took a big first step. On December 3, the library hosted the first meeting of a community resource advisory group to help identify a network of assistance and support for library patrons whose needs are not being met. About 25 people attended, including representatives from libraries, government agencies, churches, and health services. The group is part of the library’s multi-prong approach to the issue, which includes applying to serve as an internship site for a student from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Social Work.

Edwardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer, Dec. 6
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Aaron Mak writes: “In October, Yahoo announced plans to shut down its 18-year-old platform for forums and email lists, Yahoo Groups, and delete all of its contents on December 14. After that, Yahoo will only maintain the service’s mailing list functions. While Yahoo Groups’ popularity has been dwindling for a while now, the announcement sent the tens of thousands of users who still use the service in a frenzy to save the nearly two decades of old messages, photos, polls, databases, and other material. But it appears that Yahoo and its parent company, Verizon, are making it exceedingly difficult for these archivists to even access the platform.”

Slate, Dec. 9

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