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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jim Neal, president of the American Library Association, announces that Former First Lady Michelle Obama will open 2018 ALA Annual Conference<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is a lawyer, author, and the wife of the 44th President, Barack Obama. Through her initiatives as First Lady, she has become a
role model for women and girls, and an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls’ education. She will appear at the opening general session of the 2018 American Library Association
(ALA) Annual Conference and Exhibition from 4 - 5:30 p.m. on Friday, June 22, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Her appearance at the conference is sponsored by Penguin Random House.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/jim-neal-president-american-library-association-has-announced-former-first-lady">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/jim-neal-president-american-library-association-has-announced-former-first-lady</a><b></b></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">Register now to be heard at ALA’s Virtual Membership Meeting (VMM18) – May 17, 2018<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Members who participate in ALA’s VMM18 gain an opportunity to share ideas and opinions about ALA's strategic directions and priorities.
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“We want to hear what our members have to say,” said ALA President Jim Neal. “VMM18 is a terrific opportunity for members to connect, contribute, and engage with their professional association, its leaders, and their own colleagues. ALA wants to know the issues
members care about — and how we can be of service.” <br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/register-now-be-heard-ala-s-virtual-membership-meeting-vmm18-may-17-2018">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/register-now-be-heard-ala-s-virtual-membership-meeting-vmm18-may-17-2018</a><b></b></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">2018 John Cotton Dana Award Winners announced<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Eight winners have been chosen for the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Awards recognizing marketing and public relations excellence. Each winning library
will receive a $10,000 award from the H.W. Wilson Foundation and will be celebrated June 24 at a reception sponsored by EBSCO Information Services during the American Library Association’s 2018 annual conference in New Orleans.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/2018-john-cotton-dana-award-winners-announced">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/2018-john-cotton-dana-award-winners-announced</a><b></b></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">Todd Krueger elected for 2019-2020 YALSA presidency<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Members of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), elected Todd Krueger as the division’s next
president-elect. Krueger will begin his term as president-elect in June 2018, becoming president for one year starting June 2019.<br>
Krueger is currently a Selector in the Collection Development Department at the Baltimore County Public Library, in Towson, Maryland.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/todd-krueger-elected-2019-2020-yalsa-presidency">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/todd-krueger-elected-2019-2020-yalsa-presidency</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">Apply now for the Great Stories Club, a reading and discussion programs for underserved teens<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The American Library Association (ALA) is now accepting applications for the Great Stories Club, a grant program in which library workers lead reading and discussion
programs with underserved teens in their communities.<br>
Working with small groups of approximately 10 teens, grantees will host reading and discussion programs for up to four thematically related books. The titles — selected in consultation with librarian advisors and humanities scholars — are chosen to resonate
with reluctant readers struggling with complex issues like academic probation, detention, incarceration, violence and poverty.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/apply-now-great-stories-club-reading-and-discussion-programs-underserved">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/apply-now-great-stories-club-reading-and-discussion-programs-underserved</a><b></b></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">Fifty public libraries selected for 'The Great American Read' programming grants from PBS and ALA<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The American Library Association (ALA) and PBS have selected 50 public libraries to receive programming grants for “The Great American Read,” an eight-part television
series and multi-platform initiative that celebrates the joy of reading and the books we love.<br>
Hosted by television personality and journalist Meredith Vieira, “The Great American Read” will engage audiences with a list of 100 diverse books, encouraging audiences to read the books, vote from the list of 100, and share their personal connections to the
titles.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/fifty-public-libraries-selected-great-american-read-programming-grants-pbs">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/fifty-public-libraries-selected-great-american-read-programming-grants-pbs</a><b></b></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">The Incredibles and more arrive in the new ALA Graphics catalog<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The ALA Graphics summer 2018 catalog has arrived, featuring new products that will excite and inspire readers of all ages. The catalog cover highlights Disney·Pixar’s
“The Incredibles” on a poster promoting Library Card Sign-up Month. Additional Incredibles products include a bookmark pack and sticker roll. The Incredibles will serve as Honorary Chairs for Library Card Sign-up Month this September.<br>
The new catalog also launched with new themes and art for Banned Books Week and Teen Read Week. This year’s Banned Books Week theme encourages everyone to raise their megaphones and speak out for banned books. New digital products, including a customizable
poster file, field report, and mini posters are available in addition to a new poster, bookmark, sticker, and more. Print and digital products in preparation for Teen Read Week are also available, featuring the theme “It’s Written in the Stars…READ.”<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/incredibles-and-more-arrive-new-ala-graphics-catalog">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/incredibles-and-more-arrive-new-ala-graphics-catalog</a><b></b></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">ACRL releases Framing Information Literacy six-volume set<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of the six-volume “Framing Information Literacy: Teaching Grounded in Theory,
Pedagogy, and Practice,” book number 73 in ACRL’s Publications in Librarianship series. Edited by Mary K. Oberlies and Janna Mattson, these books are collections of lesson plans grounded in learning theory, each volume devoted to one of the six frames of the
ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/acrl-releases-framing-information-literacy-six-volume-set">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/acrl-releases-framing-information-literacy-six-volume-set</a><b></b></span></p>
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ALA 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE<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">Extensive programming for public librarians available at ALA Annual Conference<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">2018 ACRL President’s Program at ALA Annual Conference<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">LITA/PLA AvramCamp 2018 – Sign up now<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/2018/05/litapla-avramcamp-2018-sign-now">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/litapla-avramcamp-2018-sign-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">Literary Tastes panel to host award-winning genre and literary authors<br>
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AWARDS AND GRANTS<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">Sara Kelly Johns receives 2018 Norman Horrocks-Rowman & Littlefield Annual Conference Award<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">'Frozen Hours: A Novel of Korean War' by Jeff Shaara wins 2018 W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction<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/2018/05/frozen-hours-novel-korean-war-jeff-shaara-wins-2018-w-y-boyd-literary-award">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/05/frozen-hours-novel-korean-war-jeff-shaara-wins-2018-w-y-boyd-literary-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">EBSCO and ALA award seven scholarships enabling librarians to attend 2018 Annual Conference<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">Carla J. Stoffle wins 2018 Melvil Dewey Medal<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">Ann Schmidt wins a year of free AASL membership<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">Two PLA Conference programs, cancelled in Philadelphia, now offered as free webinars<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/2018/05/two-pla-conference-programs-cancelled-philadelphia-now-offered-free-webinars">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/two-pla-conference-programs-cancelled-philadelphia-now-offered-free-webinars</a><b></b></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">New eCourse: Feminist Librarianship: Re-Envisioning Library Work<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/2018/05/new-ecourse-feminist-librarianship-re-envisioning-library-work">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/new-ecourse-feminist-librarianship-re-envisioning-library-work</a><b></b></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">Free webinar explores online workplace learning<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">New ALCTS monograph discusses issues in electronic resources management<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">Free webinar: A look at the state of school librarianship with Hilda Weisburg<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/2018/05/free-webinar-look-state-school-librarianship-hilda-weisburg">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/05/free-webinar-look-state-school-librarianship-hilda-weisburg</a></span></p>
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