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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/36jflp1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">ALA releases list of Top 100 Most Banned
and Challenged Books of the decade</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-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged
Books from the past decade. The list’s release launches Banned Books Week, Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, a vibrant week of programming to rally readers to the cause of First Amendment protections and remind them to remain vigilant about continual threats to our freedom
to read.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/36jflp1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-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/3jsmNCl" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">How Employers Can Support Library Workers
Who Are Caregivers During COVID-19 webinar</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-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">ALA's Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL) will present the free webinar “How Employers Can Support Library
Workers Who Are Caregivers During COVID-19” at 2:30 p.m. Central on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3jsmNCl" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-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/2Scm5wY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Celebrate YALSA’s TeenTober initiative
with new resources</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: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) invites libraries
and teens to celebrate its new teen initiative,<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teentober" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">TeenTober</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><span> </span>this
October with the release of a digital<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/teentober%E2%84%A2-poster-file" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">poster</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">,<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/teentober%E2%84%A2-bookmark-file" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">bookmark</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">,
and<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teentober-toolkit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">toolkit</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/2Scm5wY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">Read
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2GhEF47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Nominees sought for 2021 Coretta Scott
King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement (Practitioner)</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-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">The American Library Association (ALA) is accepting nominations for the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Lifetime
Achievement Award.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">The award is named for award-winning children’s author Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002), recipient of the 1983, 1986 and 1996 Coretta
Scott King Book Award, 1974 National Book Award and the 1975 John Newbery Medal. In 1994, she was awarded the prestigious Hans Christian Anderson Author Award for the body of her work and was named a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
in 1995.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/2GhEF47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-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/3mYNErP" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">United for Libraries to coordinate 15th
annual National Friends of Libraries Week</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-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Friends of the Library groups and libraries across the country will be celebrating the 15th annual National Friends of Libraries
Week Oct. 18-24, 2020.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">National Friends of Libraries Week offers a two-fold opportunity to celebrate Friends – promoting the group in the community, raising
awareness and increasing membership, and giving libraries and boards of trustees the opportunity to recognize the Friends for their help and support of the library.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3mYNErP" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-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/36hi7v3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">United for Libraries to designate Lloyd
Manor a Literary Landmark™ in honor of Jupiter Hammon, first published Black poet</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-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">United for Libraries will designate Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd Harbor, New York, as a Literary Landmark™ in honor of Jupiter Hammon,
the first published African-American poet. The designation will take place at 2 p.m. ET on Saturday, Oct. 17, which recognizes Hammon's 309th birthday as well as Black Poetry Day. This will mark the first Literary Landmark dedication to be livestreamed.<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/36hi7v3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Read
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Dean of Libraries and Instructional Technology<br>
University of Detroit Mercy<br>
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