If you’ll be in Denver next weekend for ALA Midwinter, be sure to stop by the booths of RUSA’s generous sponsors! We’d like to give an especially big thanks to this year’s RUSA Membership Social sponsors, Penguin Random House, RapidILL, ReferenceUSA and SAGE Publishing! You can thank them at the social…(Read More)
Beginning October 1, 2017, RUSA will open the nomination period for its annual series of achievement awards and grants. Nominations and supporting materials for most awards must be submitted by January 5, 2018*. RUSA encourages members to nominate their colleagues whose work has influenced their thinking and performance and whose outstanding contributions merit recognition by…(Read More)
You may have noticed that some of your bookmarks for the achievement awards are displaying 404 error. In light of a recent agreement to standardize the naming convention for RUSA’s achievement awards, RUSA has undergone some site maintenance and has changed the urls for the award pages. In supporting our effort to increase brand…(Read More)
Take the time to acknowledge & celebrate the contributions and achievements of a member of RUSA’s Emerging Technologies Section (ETS). Nominations are being accepted now through January 5th for this year’s ETS Achievement Award. To nominate someone or to nominate yourself, please complete the nomination form and email to Jason Coleman, coleman@ksu…(Read More)
RUSA has hosted many wonderful award ceremonies at the American Library Association Annual Conference, honoring dozens of talented and remarkable librarians. We would not be a able to do this without the faithful support provided from our sponsors. In the coming year our association needs to adapt to some situational changes in our environment; the…(Read More)
Can you believe it?! The new RUSA Update website is now three months old! While we would love for all of our content to be in place and readily accessible already, every single page takes time to carefully and thoughtfully plan, design, and build to the best of our abilities; we strive for a quality…(Read More)
Stephanie Graves, Director of Learning & Outreach at Texas A&M University Libraries, was selected as the 2017 winner of the ETS Achievement Award, administered by the Emerging Technologies Section (ETS) of RUSA. Graves has been an active member of ETS for many years, starting in 2005 and serving on numerous committees. She has…(Read More)