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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA News for January 2, 2018</span></b><br>
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2018 Intellectual Freedom Bloggers comment, report on censorship around the country</span></b>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Intellectual Freedom Blog is a tool sponsored by the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) for use within ALA membership and for outreach beyond OIF. Writers comment and
report on censorship around the country. They opine about national news and events that impact intellectual freedom and privacy. They remark on expertise and research around academic freedom, Net Neutrality, and the First Amendment. They espouse professional
ethics and principles. And most importantly, they engage readers, with creative content and original prose, to defend the freedom to read and right to think critically.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/meet-2018-intellectual-freedom-bloggers">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/meet-2018-intellectual-freedom-bloggers</a></span>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Winter edition of RUSQ features RUSA president looking at challenge of working in reference in a world where people dismiss facts as "fake news"<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This issue of Reference and User Services Quarterly (RUSQ) offers a number of starting points for reflective practitioners. RUSA president Chris LeBeau looks at
the challenge of working in reference in a world where the cry of “fake news” is used to conveniently set aside any facts that someone does not agree with. His column also serves as an introduction to the next issue, which is a special one devoted to “Trusted
Information in an Age of Uncertainty.”<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/reference-and-user-services-quarterly-rusq-journal-winter-edition-now-available">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/reference-and-user-services-quarterly-rusq-journal-winter-edition-now-available</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EMERGING LEADERS<br>
NEW MEMBERS ROUND TABLE<br>
Jewel Davis<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/jewel-davis-selected-2018-nmrt-emerging-leader">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/jewel-davis-selected-2018-nmrt-emerging-leader</a></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AWARDS AND GRANTS<br>
Call for Submissions 2018 PR Xchange Awards Competition<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/call-submissions-2018-pr-xchange-awards-competition">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/call-submissions-2018-pr-xchange-awards-competition</a><br>
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<b>2018 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards Entries Due Jan. 12</b><br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/2018-aiaala-library-building-awards-entries-due-january-12">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/2018-aiaala-library-building-awards-entries-due-january-12</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Accepting Applications for the 2018 Pat Carterette Professional Development Grant<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/accepting-applications-2018-pat-carterette-professional-development-grant">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/accepting-applications-2018-pat-carterette-professional-development-grant</a></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA PUBLISHING<br>
Practical, research-based solutions for the dysfunctional library<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/practical-research-based-solutions-dysfunctional-library">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/practical-research-based-solutions-dysfunctional-library</a></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ECOURSES<br>
Creating Early Literacy Programs: Connecting with Early Childhood Development<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/new-iteration-creating-early-literacy-programs-connecting-early-childhood">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/12/new-iteration-creating-early-literacy-programs-connecting-early-childhood</a></span></p>
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