Midwinter Meeting
Dr. Florita Bell Griffin named recipient of Zora Neale Hurston Award for promotion of African-American Literature
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BOSTON — Dr. Florita Bell Griffin, creative director of ARC Communications, LLC, a Texas-based Visual Art Communications and Publishing Company, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston Award, an annual achievement award administered by...
'The Book of Aron: A Novel' named 2016 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature
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BOSTON – The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) announced its selection for the 2016 Sophie Brody Medal, an annual honor bestowed by the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of (RUSA) , Sunday at ’s Midwinter Meeting in...
Multimedia & Technology Reviews selected as 2016 Louis Shores Award winner
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BOSTON — The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app, has selected Multimedia & Technology Reviews as the recipient of the 2016 Louis Shores Award, which recognizes outstanding book and media...
Year’s most Outstanding Business Reference Sources announced by RUSA’s Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)
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BOSTON — The annual list of the most Outstanding Business Reference Sources was announced by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Book and Media Awards Ceremony at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app’s Midwinter Meeting. Each year, the Business...
2016 Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration for Adult Listeners revealed
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BOSTON — The Listen List Council of the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has announced the 2016 selections of the Listen List Committee. The list was announced Sunday during the...
RUSA’s Emerging Technologies Section selects annual list of Best Free Reference Websites
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BOSTON —The annual Best Free Reference Websites list was announced at the Reference and User Services Association’s (RUSA) Book and Media Awards Ceremony at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston on Sunday. The list made its first...
Annual list of Best Historical Materials selected by RUSA’s History Section experts
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BOSTON — The annual list of Best Historical Materials was announced at the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Book and Media Awards Ceremony at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston on Sunday. The list recognizes the...
Business reference experts select annual list of Best of the Best Business Reference Websites
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BOSTON — The annual Best of the Best Business Reference Websites list is hereby announced. The list made its first debut in 2009 in Reference and User Services Quarterly (RUSQ), RUSA’s research journal, and recognizes three websites highly relevant to...
Harvard’s Jonathan Zittrain to lead panel on creativity, innovation and transformation at Midwinter Meeting
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BOSTON – Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder, director, and faculty chair, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, will be a featured speaker, along with °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app () President Sari Feldman and other leadership, in...
Preparing for Today’s Job Market: the Search, the Application, and the Interview session to be presented during ’s 2016 Midwinter Meeting in Boston
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A session entitled Preparing for Today’s Job Market: the Search, the Application, and the Interview will be presented on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., during the Midwinter Meeting in Boston (#alamw16). The session will be hosted...
How to Get Your Bounce Back! Session to be presented during ’s 2016 Midwinter Meeting
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A session entitled How to Get Your Bounce Back! will be presented on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m ., during the Midwinter Meeting in Boston (#alamw16). The session will be hosted by and held in the JobLIST Placement and Career...
How do you do YouTube?
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Panel will discuss how libraries can leverage this versatile medium Washington, D.C. – The internet’s favorite repository for cat videos has undergone an unexpected transformation in the last 10 years. Okay, YouTube is still a repository for cat videos...
From glass half empty to glass half full: evaluating the current ebook environment
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Washington, D.C. – Three years ago, major publishers refused to sell ebooks to libraries, no one knew how to download an ebook file, and the staffs of public libraries were hit with an unforeseen surge of patron interest in ebooks. Now that the dust has...
ALCTS Virtual Symposium on Research Data Management
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CHICAGO —The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) will present a two-day virtual symposium (Jan. 19 and 21) designed to provide a thoughtful, interactive, and actionable introduction to building and delivering research data...
A bevy of new books, products, special events at the Store at Midwinter Meeting
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Longer hours and easy access near the Lounge and Networking Uncommons in the North Lobby, Level 1 of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) make it convenient to shop and browse at the Store at Midwinter Meeting. The Store offers...
Family Care and Workplace Culture: Issues Facing 21st Century Working Women to be presented during the upcoming Midwinter Meeting
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CHICAGO — A session entitled Family Care and Workplace Culture: Issues Facing 21 st Century Working Women will be presented from 9 - 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, during the Midwinter Meeting in Boston (#alamw16). Hosted by the JobLIST...
2016 Morris Award finalists announced
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CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app (), selected five books as finalists for the 2016 William C. Morris Award, which honors the year’s best books written for young adults by a...
Ask the preservation experts at Midwinter
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CHICAGO —Ask the experts your preservation questions at the Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) Forum at the upcoming Midwinter Meeting in Boston. The PARS Forum will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the...
United for Libraries to present ‘Nuts & Bolts for Trustees, Friends and Foundations’ at Midwinter
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BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania - United for Libraries will present “Nuts & Bolts for Trustees, Friends and Foundations” from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 156AB, during the Midwinter Meeting in Boston...
Learn to create out-of-this-world kids’ science programming at ’s 2016 Midwinter Meeting
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BOSTON — Library professionals are invited to a special in-depth learning session, “Creating Out-of-This-World Children’s Science Programming with Free NASA Resources,” at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app () 2016 Midwinter Meeting in Boston. The...