There is a whole world of news happening across the profession. Below are a few links to get you started with some of the exciting things happening in the world of Library Science!

• The scheduler for the Midwinter Meeting in Denver February 2018 is now open!
• Know someone to nominate?? ACRL Women & Gender Studies Section Award for Career Achievement in Women’s Studies Librarianship
• From ITEM: Microsoft Coding Workshops
• House tax plan threatens student workers
• The Swimming Librarian: Making a splash
• Albany library will keep teen poster
• Jamestown library says it needs to sell artworks
• The top 10 gaming trends of 2017
• LC acquires rare Mesoamerican codex
• Academic Outreach Online Roundtable Discussions
• 2018 Shortlist announced for Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
• Minnesota’s Tribal Libraries: Maamigin Achigaazo
• Minnesota’s Tribal Libraries: Professional development
• Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project (MLPP)
• Knowledge Unlatched, scholarly content added to Ebooks Minnesota
• Ebooks Minnesota adds Poisoned Pen Press titles
• Teen behavior and restorative justice
• Adopt a Library will help Caribbean libraries
• 2017 National Book Awards
• A short list of delightful library terms
• Hot off the press: “Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff.” This document outlines the skills all library staff need to effectively serve teens. Download both the full document and the Competencies at a Glance for free here: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/guidelines/yacompetencies
• Set Big Goals, Get Big Results (Free Online Program)
• Please download and enjoy their new article, “Critical Library Management: Administrating for Equity,” here: http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol23/iss2/9/
• Seeking editor for quarterly publication, Interface
• Do you know or could you be the next recipient of the Routledge Distance Learning Librarianship Conference Sponsorship Award?  If so, the Distance Learning Section (DLS) of the ACRL wants to hear from you! For more information about this award and the application form, please visit http://www.ala.org/acrl/awards/achievementawards/dlsaward
• Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology (LITA/OCLC) The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and OCLC, Inc. invite nominations for this prestigious award. The nomination deadline is December 31, 2017.  Submit nominations to the LITA Office via this form.
• Diversity, Inclusion, and Empowerment in Library Makerspaces
  Instructors: Sharona Ginsberg, Learning Technologies Librarian, SUNY Oswego and Lauren Di Monte, Data & Research Impact Librarian, University of Rochester December 6, 2017, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Central time
• We invite you to nominate your business librarian hero for the  BRASS Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship.
• ULS Future of University Libraries Discussion Group Call for Proposals ALA Midwinter 2018  The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2017. Please submit proposals as a Word document via email to Carrie Forbes at Carrie.Forbes@du.edu.
• The National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL) at the Space Science Institute (SSI) is seeking eight public library and museum partner sites to host the inaugural national tour of the interactive traveling exhibition Discover Exoplanets: the Search for Alien Earths. Public libraries and small museum partners in rural areas and those serving rural populations and underrepresented groups are especially invited to apply. Applications must be completed and received by no later than 11:59pm on January 5, 2018. A pre-application webinar will be held on December 6, 2017, click here to register.