MORE 'ALA' POSTS
"ALA: Department of Education Withdraws Federal Support for School Libraries"
| Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, School Libraries
Although study after study demonstrates that school libraries make a difference (see below) it appears not to make a difference to the feds. This is not only sad but it also makes no sense if education is such a high priority in the U.S. Of course, science, tech, engineering, and math skills are also critical […]
We Share a Few Thoughts About Digital Literacy After this Announcement From ALA: The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) advisory committee authorized a Digital Literacy Task Force during the 2011 Midwinter meeting. To that end, OITP staff has been working with its advisory committee, AASL, PLA, ACRL, LITA, OLOS’ Committee on Literacy, and the […]
LITA (Library & Information Technology Assn.) has released results from their recent elections and at the same time we’ve learned that several members of the association have been elected as ALA Councilors-at-Large. Congrats, kudos, mazel tov and all the rest to those elected. Newly Elected LITA Board Members (via a LITA Blog Post) Zoe Stewart-Marshall, […]
Congratulations Maureen! From ALA: Maureen Sullivan, an organization development consultant, has been elected to the 2012-13 presidency of the American Library Association (ALA). Sullivan defeated Susan Stroyan, information services librarian at the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill. Sullivan received 5,259 votes. Stroyan received 3,642 votes. [Clip] “I am humbled and honored to have been […]
Digital Preservation: "ARL and ALA File Comments Regarding Federal Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings"
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
You Can Access All of ALA’s and ARL’s Comments in This 7 page Document (PDF) From the Document: The Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association appreciate this opportunity to provide reply comments on the important question of the desirability of bringing under federal protection sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972 (“federalization”). […]
New On OverDrive's Digital Library Blog: "The American Library Association and Digital Content"
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Publishing
Note: The Following is a Portion of Cindy Orr’s Monthly Post on the OverDrive Digital Library Blog. You can read the full text here. Last year, the Council of the American Library Association (ALA) passed a resolution calling for the creation of a Presidential Task Force to study the issues of digital rights management and […]
The “Top Ten” list below is also included in the “State of Libraries 2011” report that we posted about and linked to earlier today. ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) reported 348 challenges during 2010. Here are the Top Ten: And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and […]
The "State of America's Libraries 2011" Report Has Been Released By the ALA
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
The report was made available earlier today and the full text is now available as an HTML or PDF document on the ALA web site. A news release/summary lists several trends found in the State of America’s Libraries 2011 report. They include: Even as budget-cutters take aim at libraries and their services, more than two-thirds […]
Happy National Library Week!
| Associations and Organizations, Libraries, National Libraries, Public Libraries, Publishing
National Library Week 2011 is Underway! INFOdocket wishes everyone a wonderful NLW 2011! We will be sharing NLW and library/librarian related resources throughout the week. We will begin with the following items: Video: National Library Week Honorary Chairman John Grisham Talks Shares Some Library and Librarians Stories Video: Quotes About Libraries A Searchable Database of […]
Congrat's Peter! Peter Suber Wins ALA's L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
| Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
Before we share a portion of the official ALA announcement about Peter Suber winning the Patterson Award we want to commend ALA’s OITP on their choice. Peter Suber’s work has a lot to do with the increased attention that open access publishing has received during the past several years. Attention is one thing but Peter […]
