Under the aegis of the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC), the Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group is responsible for "Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book and Special ...

ALA, its Divisions, Round Tables and Affiliates host many conferences, and in-person and online events to showcase cutting-edge developments in library advocacy, information literacy, and many other ...

ALA Executive Committee Consists of the president of the Association (who serves as chair), the president-elect, the immediate past president, the treasurer, and (ex officio) the executive director.

The Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to ...

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the ...

This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally ...

To prepare prospective and current member leaders within the association to serve in ALA member leader positions. To inform ALA’s member leadership pipeline and succession planning. To plan and ...

Because we believe that #LibrariesTransform, we also commit to honest reflection and structural change. We acknowledge that libraries have been—and still are—complicit in systems that oppress, exclude ...

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Upcoming webinars from Core covering the areas of access and equity, assessment, buildings & operations, leadership & management, metadata & collections, and technology.

To develop and maintain a community of practice to share information and foster best practices in campus outreach for academic librarians.

B.8.1 Literacy (Old Number 50.6) Top B.8.1.1 Literacy and State Library Agencies (Old Number 50.6.1) The American Library Association supports the achievement of national literacy through educational ...