Do You Remember the Card Catalogue?
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ALA Strips 'Laura Ingalls Wilder' Name from Children's Book Award
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work. more...
ALA 2018: Librarian of Congress, National Archivist Trade Quips
Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, and David S. Ferriero, U.S. Archivist, touched on the challenges of public outreach, preservation, and POTUS. more...and more.
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LibrariesThe Week in Libraries: July 13, 2018
Among this week's headlines: The FCC continues to generate controversy; Should "hate groups" get to use the library meeting rooms?; And you know all those new books piling up on your shelves? The Japanese have a word for that.
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Libraries
Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Thinks Net Neutrality Was Unconstitutional
Kavanaugh, in a 2017 dissent, likened ISPs to bookstores, and calls the FCC’s net neutrality rules “half-baked” and “foreign” to the First Amendment.
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Libraries
The Week in Libraries: June 29, 2018
PW rounds up the news and issues making headlines in the library world this week, including good news for libraries from Capitol Hill, and the swearing in of ALA's next president, Loida Garcia Febo.
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Libraries
ALA 2018: A Headline Grabbing ALA Annual Conference Wraps Up in New Orleans
A star-studded slate of authors and speakers energized and inspired librarians from the show’s main stages.
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Libraries
B&T, Penn Foster Team to Provide Education, Training Via Public Libraries
The partnership will make Penn Foster’s extensive library of courses, degree, and certificate programs available to public library patrons nationwide through Baker & Taylor’s Axis 360 platform.
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Libraries
ALA Strips 'Laura Ingalls Wilder' Name from Children's Book Award
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work.
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Libraries
ALA 2018: Librarian of Congress, National Archivist Trade Quips
Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, and David S. Ferriero, U.S. Archivist, touched on the challenges of public outreach, preservation, and POTUS.
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Libraries
ALA 2018: In ‘Turbulent’ Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin Offers a Ray of Hope
The award-winning historian, whose new book, 'Leadership: In Turbulent Times' will be published this fall, told librarians that America has faced and overcome great struggles in our past.
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Libraries
ALA 2018: Penguin Random House Honors 'Library Awards for Innovation' Grant Recipients
The awards recognize the nation’s “most innovative public libraries and librarians for community-based library programs that engage citizens in reading and strengthen the social and cultural fabric of their community.”
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Libraries
ALA 2018: In Opening Session, Michelle Obama Gets Personal
In her highly anticipated appearance, the former First Lady reflected on her life as a woman, parent, First Lady—and the time a kid named Lin-Manuel Miranda first rapped about Alexander Hamilton in the East Room.
