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<p><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA News for October 3, 2017</span></b><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA appoints Jessica Hughes ASCLA/RUSA executive director<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The American Library Association (ALA) has appointed Jessica Hughes executive director of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)
and the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), divisions of ALA. She will start Oct. 9.<br>
She currently serves as chief operating officer for the Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association. She had been the association's director of development (2010), as well as its director of strategic initiatives (2011). Before joining the Florida association,
she was director of development for Community Christian School.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/ala-appoints-jessica-hughes-asclarusa-executive-director" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/ala-appoints-jessica-hughes-asclarusa-executive-director</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Longlist for 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#303030; background:white">Forty-six books, 25 fiction, 21 nonfiction, have been selected for the </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult/longlists" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0055A5; background:white">longlist</span></a>
<span style="color:#303030; background:white">for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The list is </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult/longlists" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0055A5; background:white">now
available</span></a><span style="color:#303030; background:white"> on the awards’ website. <br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/longlist-2018-andrew-carnegie-medals-excellence-fiction-and-nonfiction" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/longlist-2018-andrew-carnegie-medals-excellence-fiction-and-nonfiction</a></span></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ken Varnum Appointed New ITAL Editor<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ken Varnum, Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Library Analytics at the University of Michigan Library, has been appointed as the new editor of
Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), the Library and Information Technology Association's refereed, open access journal. His term will run through June 30, 2020.<br>
<b><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/09/ken-varnum-appointed-new-ital-editor" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/09/ken-varnum-appointed-new-ital-editor</span></a></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Run for office by filing an electronic petition<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interested in running for ALA President-elect or Councilor-at-Large but weren’t approached by the Nominating Committee? You can still get your name on the 2018
spring ballot by completing a petition form and obtaining the signatures of no fewer than 200 ALA current personal members for president-elect and 25 signatures for councilor-at-large.<br>
<b><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/run-office-filing-electronic-petition" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/run-office-filing-electronic-petition</span></a></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA, Center for News Literacy announce Media Literacy @ Your Library cohort<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Five public libraries have been selected to participate in Media Literacy @ Your Library, a pilot program that will train library workers to help their adult patrons
become better news consumers, The American Library Association (ALA) and the Center for News Literacy @ Stony Brook University announced.<br>
<b><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/ala-center-news-literacy-announce-media-literacy-your-library-cohort" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/ala-center-news-literacy-announce-media-literacy-your-library-cohort</span></a></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Public libraries highlight cyber security awareness in October<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Earlier this month the credit reporting agency Equifax disclosed that it had suffered a cyber-attack that endangered the personal information of 143 million U.S.
users. Even before the Equifax hack, 64 percent of Americans had been personally affected by a major data breach or data theft incident, according to a 2016 study by the Pew Research Center.<br>
As the need for cyber security awareness grows, public libraries are stepping up efforts to provide critical digital literacy training and information.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/public-libraries-highlight-cyber-security-awareness-october" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/public-libraries-highlight-cyber-security-awareness-october</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Get ready to celebrate International Games Week 2017 – Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 2017<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Each year libraries are encouraged to participate by creating fun, educational and innovative programs encouraging gaming in their communities, in order to reconnect
those communities around the educational, recreational and social value of all types of games.<br>
<b><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/get-ready-celebrate-international-games-week-2017-october-29-november-4-2017" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/get-ready-celebrate-international-games-week-2017-october-29-november-4-2017</span></a></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GRANTS AND AWARDS<br>
ALSC now accepting applications for 2018 Maureen Hayes Author/Illustrator Award<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/alsc-now-accepting-applications-2018-maureen-hayes-authorillustrator-award" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/alsc-now-accepting-applications-2018-maureen-hayes-authorillustrator-award</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALSC now accepting applications for 2018 Baker & Taylor Summer Reading Grant<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/alsc-now-accepting-applications-2018-baker-taylor-summer-reading-grant" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/alsc-now-accepting-applications-2018-baker-taylor-summer-reading-grant</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PLA now accepting nominations for 10 service awards and grants for 2018<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/pla-now-accepting-nominations-10-service-awards-and-grants-2018" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/09/pla-now-accepting-nominations-10-service-awards-and-grants-2018</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA, EBSCO provide opportunity for five librarians to attend ALA Midwinter Meeting<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/ala-ebsco-provide-opportunity-five-librarians-attend-ala-midwinter-meeting" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/ala-ebsco-provide-opportunity-five-librarians-attend-ala-midwinter-meeting</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Library Instruction Round Table Accepting Nominations for Two Awards<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/library-instruction-round-table-accepting-nominations-two-awards" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/library-instruction-round-table-accepting-nominations-two-awards</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Small/rural public libraries invited to apply for stipends for dialogue and deliberation workshop at 2018 ALA Annual Conference<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/smallrural-public-libraries-invited-apply-stipends-dialogue-and-deliberation" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/smallrural-public-libraries-invited-apply-stipends-dialogue-and-deliberation</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">FROM THE ALA STORE<br>
‘Friend Your Library’ materials now available at no cost to United for Libraries statewide group members<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/friend-your-library-materials-now-available-no-cost-united-libraries" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/friend-your-library-materials-now-available-no-cost-united-libraries</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WEBINARS<br>
United for Libraries and PLA to host Oct. 17 webinar on ‘Troubled Library Boards’<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/united-libraries-and-pla-host-oct-17-webinar-troubled-library-boards" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/united-libraries-and-pla-host-oct-17-webinar-troubled-library-boards</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">October webinar highlights the many uses of outcomes data<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/october-webinar-highlights-many-uses-outcomes-data" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/october-webinar-highlights-many-uses-outcomes-data</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The MOU: Your Blueprint for Managing Collaborative Projects<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/llama-webinar-mou-your-blueprint-managing-collaborative-projects" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/10/llama-webinar-mou-your-blueprint-managing-collaborative-projects</span></a></span></b></p>
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