Category Archives: Communication

Books, Communication

Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project and Pressbooks

From Minitex news, by Beth Staats

” Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project and Pressbooks

If you missed the introductory webinar on the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project (MLPP) and Pressbooks you can view the recorded webinar.  The MLPP provides online publishing tools and training information to support independent authors and small publishers in the state.  It’s available to all Minnesotans in hopes of promoting experimentation with self-publishing.  Pressbooks uses geolocated IP authentication.  Users must create an account to create, access, and save their book files.  To find out how a fellow librarian and author is using Pressbooks take a look at this recent Minitex News article.”

Communication

Monroe County Public Library named the 2017 winner of the ALA Excellence in Library Programming Award

Contact:

Cheryl Malden
Program Officer
Governance
American Library Association
312-280-3247
cmalden@ala.org

CHICAGO — The Monroe County Public Library (Bloomington, Indiana) has been named the 2017 winner of the ALA Excellence in Library Programming Award for their program series, “Discuss, Meet, & Act: The Power of Words.”

The award, supported by ALA’s Cultural Communities Fund, recognizes a library that demonstrates excellence by providing programs that have community impact and respond to community needs.

The bi-annual event “The Power of Words,” presented by Monroe County Public Library and the Friends of the Library, features an author who writes on important topics of our time: topics that speak to the average citizen’s ability to positively change the world in which we live.  The 2015 The Power of Words event featured Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis, who recently had announced the publication of his graphic novel “March,” accompanied by both of the novel’s co-creators, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, the graphic novelist, who lives and works in Bloomington.

Advocacy, Children's services, Communication

Former Librarian Faces Jail Time for Laugh at Sessions’s Confirmation

from the American Library Association: By

“Activist and former librarian Desirée Fairooz made national headlines last week with the news of her conviction for disruption of Congress, which could land her a year in jail and $2,000 in fines.

The reason for her arrest: laughing during the Jan. 10 Senate confirmation hearing of now Attorney General Jeff Sessions. She was found guilty on May 3 of charges of disorderly and disruptive conduct, and obstructing and impeding passage on US Capitol grounds.

Continue reading Former Librarian Faces Jail Time for Laugh at Sessions’s Confirmation →

Communication, Research

Survey: Awareness of Professional Ethics

“Greetings!

I am writing to you on behalf of Sara Dallas, chair of ALA’s Committee on Professional Ethics with a request for your participation in a survey and for your help disseminating the invitation to any and all librarians. The purpose of this survey is to examine the awareness of professional ethics and principles within the LIS profession.  For the purposes of this survey, we will define professional ethics and principles to include access to information, intellectual freedom, privacy, copyright, and professional conduct.

www.surveymonkey.com/r/professionalethicsawareness

I am sending this survey request to

  • ALA leadership, including councilors, divisions, and round tables (and their staff liaisons)
  • State Chapter Leadership
  • LM-Net, Publib, ARSL, ALISE

Please take a moment, in addition to taking the survey yourself, to share it with the listservs that you are a part of and the library related social media channels that you manage. Specifically, please invite local librarians that may not have professional memberships. Sara would like to be able to review results at Annual Conference so she is asking for a deadline of May 23, 2017.

Sincerely, liaison for the Committee on Professional Ethics,

Kristin

Kristin Pekoll, Assistant Director

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Advocacy, Communication

Build relationships to advance advocacy

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From the ALA District Dispatch:

“A crowd gathered this week outside the El Pueblo Library in South Tucson where Congressman Raúl Grijalva (D) and other library advocates to discuss the possible effects of President Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including the elimination of the IMLS —on libraries in Arizona and nationwide. A statement by ALA Julie Todaro was read at the event, in which the American Library Association thanked Rep. Grijalva for his leadership in fighting for library funding.

A statement by ALA Julie Todaro was read at the event, in which the American Library Association thanked Rep. Grijalva for his leadership in fighting for library funding.

Manager of the El Pueblo Library Anna Sanchez was among those who spoke: “Public libraries play a significant role in maintaining and supporting our free democratic society. They are America’s great equalizers, providing everyone the same access to information and opportunities for success.” Continue reading Build relationships to advance advocacy →