Register for the upcoming Mastering Emotional Intelligence course beginning on September 9, 2019. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is an indispensable skill that can help you and your staff communicate more effectively and help foster a more inclusive library environment. EI is…
Business Reference 101 is for any librarian in-training who wants to gain confidence and knowledge around BizRef topics such as company and industry research, consumer and market research, entrepreneurship topics and more. This 3-week long, asynchronous course allows…
RUSA’s 2019-2020 Leadership As a new membership year begins, Beth German will assume the role of RUSA President with Courtney McDonald as President-Elect. RUSA would like to give a BIG thank you to Ann Brown for the…
Toward Empowerment Reflecting on inclusion in user services By Carrie Smith | June 23, 2019 Does eliminating the reference desk create inequity? When Ann Brown was asked this question at a session several years ago, she promised to bring it to…
Adriana Gonzalez and her team, Jason Coleman, Ryan Otto and Joelle Pitts, from Kansas State University, were selected as the Inaugural winner of the Gail Schlachter Memorial Research Grant. This award offers financial support to an…
The spring, 2019 issue of the Academic BRASS newsletter is now published and can be accessed at http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/brass/publications/academicbrass Special thanks to webmaster Annette Buckley, and to authors Adrienne Brennecke, Sally Armstrong, Tim…
The RUSA-ETS Managing Emerging Technologies Committee and the RUSA-RSS Virtual Reference Services Committee mediated an eForum on the “Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reference & Emerging Technologies” this past February. The forum attracted at least sixty-two…
Since its inception in 2012, the celebration of the winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction has been an ALA Annual Conference highlight. The excitement continues this summer; featured speaker Laura Lippman, award-winning author…
Don’t miss this exciting event from RUSA! Literary Tastes: Celebrating the Best Reading of the Year Sunday, June 23, 8:00 am – 10:00 am Renaissance, Congressional Ballroom, Washington D.C. Details: What could be better than books and…