National Library Week is right around the corner (April 8 – 14) and here to discuss it in a video podcast is ALA President Molly Raphael. National Library Week is a time when communities across the U.S. celebrate the valuable contributions of our nation’s libraries. This year’s National Library Week theme is “You belong @ your [...]
The 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans received extensive coverage from a variety of media. Particularly noteworthy was the attention of radio broadcast outlets, both locally and throughout the country. They included • KOBW-FM’s “Community Focus” program with Ray Romero, which aired on Sunday, June 26. • WRBH-FM “Writer’s Forum.” • Oregon [...]
Charles Wilt, executive director of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the ALA, discusses Preservation Week @ your library (April 24 – 30) in this podcast. Preservation Week @ your library is a time when libraries across the country will provide programs, information and expertise on how to preserve [...]
Michael Dowling, director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Chapter Relations Office, discusses the first-ever Money Smart Week @ your library (April 2 – 9, 2011) in a podcast on the American Library Association (ALA) Public Information Office (PIO) blog, Visibility @ your library. Money Smart Week was initiated by the Federal Reserve Bank of [...]
In the wake of deep library budget cuts taking place in communities across the country, Scott Turow, author of “Presumed Innocent” and its sequel, “Innocent,” and president of the Authors Guild, expressed his views regarding the value of our nation’s libraries in an opinion piece posted today in the Huffington Post. Though the efforts of [...]
Video PSAs featuring Sharon Draper, Brad Meltzer, Sara Paretsky and Scott Turow; other advocacy tools available Friday, Jan. 7 On Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 the American Library Association (ALA) will unveil video PSAs produced by ALA’s “Our Authors, Our Advocates,” a national library advocacy public awareness campaign. Library advocates will be able to download audio [...]
