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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2CQ76nO" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">ALA takes responsibility
for past racism, pledges a more equitable association</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The American Library Association (ALA) accepts and acknowledges its role in upholding unjust systems of
racism and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) within the association and the profession.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">We recognize that the founding of our Association was not built on inclusion and equity, but instead was
built on systemic racism and discrimination in many forms. We also recognize the hurt and harm done to BIPOC library workers and communities due to these racist structures.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">We commit to our core values, particularly equity, diversity, and inclusion, and will demonstrate this
commitment by reassessing and reevaluating our role in continuing to uphold unjust, harmful systems throughout the Association and the profession. We will include ALA members, ALA staff, and the profession in our movement forward, and we are developing a plan
toward becoming the inclusive association we aspire to be.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/2CQ76nO" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read more</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/38mhUpt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">ALA Executive
Director Tracie D. Hall says dismantling racism in library and information services is overdue</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">During the inaugural ALA Virtual Event last week, American Library Association (ALA) Executive Director
Tracie D. Hall issued a strong challenge for our nation’s librarians, library professionals and library supporters, calling for support of a workforce that reflects a diverse client base, universal digital access, and a deeper financial commitment to libraries.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Hall outlined a three-pronged platform of priorities for library advocates, including universal broadband,
rapid diversification of the library and information services field, and a commitment from local and federal governments and public and private funders to broaden the philanthropic infrastructure of libraries.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Underlying these three priorities, she said, is the guiding principle of justice.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/38mhUpt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3gfhxjm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">ALA statement
affirming the rights of transgender people</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The American Library Association (ALA), and particularly its Rainbow Round Table, unequivocally and emphatically
stands in solidarity with its transgender staff and members, transgender library workers, transgender library users, transgender authors, and the transgender members of the communities we serve. As an organization committed to social justice, ALA seeks to
support all transgender people, and in particular, those who are vulnerable or at risk of discrimination, including supporting the specific needs and perspectives of transgender people who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, transgender people in sex
work, transgender migrants and asylum seekers, intersex people (who may or may not identify as trans), transgender children and youth, senior transgender people, and transgender people with disabilities.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3gfhxjm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3iaQ7ga" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">American Libraries’
AL Direct e-newsletter goes weekly starting July 8</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Starting July 8, AL Direct, the e-newsletter of American Libraries magazine, will change to a weekly schedule
and showcase an updated design. The newsletter, which is currently mailed on Tuesdays and Fridays, will mail every Wednesday.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3iaQ7ga" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/31xHqa4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Libraries Transform
Book Pick digital reading program returns Sept. 14-28 with an epic saga</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The Libraries Transform Book Pick will return Sept. 14-28, 2020 with its second ebook selection: Lauren
Francis-Sharma’s “Book of the Little Axe,” published by Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic. During the lending period, ebook copies of “Book of the Little Axe” will be available without waitlists or holds through U.S. public libraries using
OverDrive. Readers will only need a library card and the Libby app to borrow and read the ebook.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">A collaboration between the American Library Association (ALA) and OverDrive, the Libraries Transform Book
Pick is a digital reading program that connects book lovers across the country with simultaneous access to an ebook to foster conversation across communities. Free marketing resources like social media graphics and a template press release will be available
later this summer to help libraries promote the program and encourage check outs. A discussion guide and other materials to inspire discussion about the book will also be available.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Ambitious and masterfully wrought, “Book of the Little Axe” is an incredible journey, spanning decades
and oceans from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of warring colonial powers and westward expansion.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/31xHqa4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3ikJBU7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">AASL Shares EDI
Resources for Educators</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has released Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)
resources created by the 2019-2020 Presidential Initiative Task Force. Advised by AASL President Mary Keeling, the committee, hosted office hours, designed informative bookmarks, and presented a webinar on EDI in the school library. The resources can be found
at<span> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/aasl/all/EDI" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style="">www.ala.org/aasl/all/EDI</a>.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3ikJBU7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2NHZBBN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Public Library
Association launches 2021 health insurance enrollment project</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Through the third cycle of its health insurance enrollment and education initiative, Libraries Connecting
You to Coverage, the Public Library Association (PLA) is offering a series of mini-grants of up to $2,000 to support up to 30 U.S. public libraries to become Certified Application Counselor Designated Organizations (CDOs), which are able to certify staff and
volunteers as Certified Application Counselors ahead of the Open Enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The application period opens on July 1 and runs through July 17, 2020. Before the Open Enrollment period, which starts November 1 and runs
through December 15, 2020, awardees will receive training and support to assist patrons with enrolling in health insurance plans, to disseminate information, and to partner with community health groups to make a positive impact.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/2NHZBBN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3ihDcct" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Member manager
sought for YALSA’s blog, The Hub</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The Young Adult Library Services Association seeks a member manager for its collection development and
content curation blog, The Hub for 2020-2021 term.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The member manager will serve a one-year term starting Aug. 17, 2020, with an option to renew based on
performance. Main responsibilities include leading an advisory board to provide oversight in creating, soliciting, and managing content for the blog. Additionally, the member manager will help manage the selected lists blogging teams and the dissemination
of the selected lists, as well as the promotion and technical maintenance of the blog.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3ihDcct" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">AWARDS AND GRANTS</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3if0wrb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Recipients of
the 2020 David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award announced</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/06/valeria-estefan-d-vila-gronros-receives-first-deg-farrelly-memorialalexander" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Valeria
Estefanía Dávila Gronros receives first deg farrelly Memorial/Alexander Street AMIA/FMRT Media Librarian Scholarship</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3ihV32T" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Library History
Round Table (LHRT) announces the winner of the 2020 Justin Winsor Library History Essay</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">ALA PUBLISHING</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2ZiMmNa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Celebrating how
library workers are making a difference for their communities</span></b></a></p>
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Dean of Libraries and Instructional Technology<br>
University of Detroit Mercy<br>
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