Dr. Carla Hayden is the 14th Librarian of Congress, and the first woman and the first African-American ever to hold that prestigious pose. Born in…
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In a Toronto library, home to the mad and the marginalized, notes appear, written by someone who believes he is Rigoletto, the hunchbacked jester from…
Never before have I wanted a cataloging presentation to go longer… Ephemeral popular literature has traditionally been under-described in library catalogs. In addition to the…
Want to add your library and/or view entries on a map, use the links at the top of the spreadsheet. You can also go and…
The Wizard of the World Wide Web convenes an emergency meeting of the Elders of the Internet. The burning issue: Libraries! Starring: Nick Offerman Promotional…
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Are you interested in increasing your understanding of transgender issues, changing your use of gendered language, and thinking about how to implement policies of inclusion?…
Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), the quarterly open-access journal published by ALA’s Library Information Technology Association, is looking for contributors for its regular “Public Libraries…
I’ve written in many places about one of the key shifts in librarianship. We are moving from being library-centric to being community-centric. This movement is…