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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 16, 2018</span></b><br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sally Yates announced as opening session speaker at PLA 2018 Conference<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates will join the lineup of speakers at the PLA 2018 Conference, the Public Library Association announced today.
She will headline the conference's Opening Session, taking place on Wednesday, March 21.
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Yates served as deputy attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Barack Obama from January 2015 through January 2017, and then briefly as acting attorney general.
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<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/01/sally-yates-announced-opening-session-speaker-pla-2018-conference">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/01/sally-yates-announced-opening-session-speaker-pla-2018-conference</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abron to serve as new Teen HQ member manager<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has selected Dawn Abron, creative space/teen services coordinator at the Zion-Benton Public Library in Zion,
Illinois, as the new member manager for its teen programming database, Teen Programming HQ.<br>
Abron will serve a one-year term now through January 2019.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/abron-serve-new-teen-hq-member-manager">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/abron-serve-new-teen-hq-member-manager</a><br>
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<b>YALSA names 2018 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults</b><br>
The 2018 Amazing Audiobooks list, comprised of fiction and nonfiction titles, features recordings that cover a wide range of interests for young adults from historical fiction, to fantasy, to realistic fiction.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/yalsa-names-2018-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/yalsa-names-2018-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Join ASCLA for literary and history tour of Ireland<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) is hosting a tour of Ireland on May 10-17.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/grand-literary-history-tour-ireland-book-now">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/grand-literary-history-tour-ireland-book-now</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">PLA 2018 Conference<br>
Member discount for PLA 2018 Conference expires Jan. 19<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/member-discount-pla-2018-conference-expires-jan-19">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/member-discount-pla-2018-conference-expires-jan-19</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PLA & NNLM award stipends for public library workers to attend March workshop<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/pla-nnlm-award-stipends-public-library-workers-attend-march-workshop">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/pla-nnlm-award-stipends-public-library-workers-attend-march-workshop</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>
YALSA’s 2018 Volunteer of the Year Award<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/recipients-yalsa-s-2018-volunteer-year-award-announced">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/recipients-yalsa-s-2018-volunteer-year-award-announced</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Nominations open for the Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award<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/press-releases/2018/01/nominations-open-elizabeth-futas-catalyst-change-award">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/01/nominations-open-elizabeth-futas-catalyst-change-award</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA recognizes public library administrators with Ernest A. DiMattia, Jr. Award<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/press-releases/2018/01/ala-recognizes-public-library-administrators-ernest-dimattia-jr-award">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/01/ala-recognizes-public-library-administrators-ernest-dimattia-jr-award</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>
Homelessness and the library: an empathy-drive approach<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/homelessness-and-library-empathy-drive-approach">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/homelessness-and-library-empathy-drive-approach</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>
Online Privacy & Security: Best Practices for Librarians<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/new-ecourse-online-privacy-security-best-practices-librarians">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/new-ecourse-online-privacy-security-best-practices-librarians</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Introduction to Critical Information Literacy: Promoting Social Justice through Librarianship<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/new-iteration-introduction-critical-information-literacy-promoting-social">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/new-iteration-introduction-critical-information-literacy-promoting-social</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Basic Reference Skills for Non-Reference Librarians<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/new-iteration-basic-reference-skills-non-reference-librarians-ecourse">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/new-iteration-basic-reference-skills-non-reference-librarians-ecourse</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Adult Programming: Planning for Success<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/new-iteration-adult-programming-planning-success-ecour">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/01/new-iteration-adult-programming-planning-success-ecour</a></span></p>
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