Please note that this event has been cancelled. RUSA’s Emerging Technologies Section (ETS) is hosting a half-day preconference session on Friday, June 23, 2017, 9am-12pm. This preconference will focus on user testing and experience using discussion, presentations…
A key objective of RUSA’s current strategic plan is to develop a proposal to transition RUSA to a new organizational structure to reduce the complexity of our organization and better serve member needs. The Organization & Planning Committee has…
The Emerging Technology Section’s Services for Systems and Discovery (SSD) ventured into uncharted (for us) territory during the 2017 Midwinter Conference in Atlanta, GA. The committee organized a lively Unconference on the First Year Experience and Technologies with audience…
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…
Months ago, a colleague told me I should apply for ALA’s Emerging Leader (EL) program. I figured, “Why not?”, as the past few years I’ve been trying to say “yes” to all the opportunities that have come my…
On Monday, January 30, ALA President Julie Todaro released an official statement responding to the recent actions put forth by President Trump’s administration addressing specifically issues regarding access to information, discrimination, and intellectual freedom. For resources and more information…
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…
The RUSA ETS Hot Topics in Electronic Reference Discussion Group held their Midwinter conversation at the Georgia World Congress Center on Sunday, January 22, 2017 from 3pm to 4pm. With about 50 participants in attendance, both questions the committee aimed…
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…