Raymond Pun, First Year Student Success Librarian at California State University, Fresno was named the 2017 winner of the Emerald Research Grant Award, administered by the Business and Reference Services Section of RUSA. Pun was selected for his project, “Mapping…
The East Side Freedom Library was selected as the 2017 winner of the John Sessions Memorial Award. The award, sponsored by the Department for Professional Employees AFL-CIO, recognizes a library or library system which has made a significant effort…
“The Jacket from Dachau: One Survivor’s Search for Justice, Identity, and Home” Libguide was selected as the 2017 winner of the ReferenceUSA Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services for its well-organized and accessible presentation of information…
Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X (Minotaur, an imprint of Macmillan) is the first author slated to speak at RUSA’s Literary Tastes author panel in June at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Orphan X was selected as the…
Carol P. Gilliam, Black Heritage Librarian at Roosevelt Public Library was selected as the 2017 honorable mention for the Zora Neale Hurston Award, sponsored by HarperCollins Publishers and administered by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of…
Join us for this popular event celebrating the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, which are cosponsored by Booklist and RUSA and supported by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. This year’s program, sponsored…
On January 22, we announced the winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction; The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the fiction medal and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City won the nonfiction…
Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and author of Born a Crime, was named the 2017 recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston Award, an annual achievement award administered by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA…
“The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday, Penguin Random House LLC, was selected as the winner of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” by Matthew Desmond…