**to get email notifications when a new edition is published, click here.** From the Editor Public and academic libraries alike are facing a variety of challenges surrounding information, facts, and trust. These challenges arise from a societal shift that has…
Eleanor Mitchell, Director of Library Services at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Sarah B. Watstein, Dean, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons of Seattle University were selected as the 2018 winners of the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award, the Reference…
The Toledo Lucas County Public Library was selected as the 2018 winner of the Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services, sponsored by ReferenceUSA, for the Spending Smarter page. As a one-stop shop for personal finance, investment and…
March is Women’s History Month and it’s the perfect time to get inspired by some of literature’s greatest contributors. Here are 18 outstanding, masterful titles that have landed on the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medals…
Originally published in Reference and User Services Quarterly (RUSQ) Vol 57, No 2 (2017). Each year, the Business Reference Sources Committee of BRASS selects the outstanding business reference sources published since May of the previous year. This year, the committee…
Please note that this event has been cancelled. RUSA’s Emerging Technologies Section (ETS) is hosting “We Are All User Experience Librarians: Creating Change from the Trenches” preconference at ALA’s Annual Conference in Chicago in June. This ticketed event…
Dec. 2, 2016, Phil Bradley explores why people create fake news stories – and what librarians can do to educate and guide. http://www.infotoday.eu/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Fake-news-the-awful-truth-115109.aspx…