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  Wishing you and your family a happy and safe holiday season!   Sincerely,   RUSA Staff (from left to right) Melissa, Jennifer, Susan & Leighann…

A Name Change Task Force was created in March 2016 by then RUSA President Anne Houston to look deeply at the pros and cons of changing the RUSA name. Read the final results here: http://connect.ala.org/node/261419…

Love this RUSQ article and its title: Trickery as Marketing Strategy, by Mallory Arents, RUSQ, volume 56, issue 1, Fall 2016. Sometimes a little subterfuge is necessary to get patrons to think outside the box of what they normally expect…

The Reference and User Services Association will be holding a book drive for the organization Books for Africa during the 2017 ALA Midwinter meeting, January 20-23, in Atlanta, Georgia. Feel free to bring a book with you on the…

Don’t miss the latest letter from RUSA President, Alesia McManus. Includes information on the status of RUSA’s reorganization and a call for volunteers. See more here: http://www.rusaupdate.org/quarterly_update/presidents-note…

Dear RUSA Update readers, Awesome! Innovative! Accessible! Fun! This is what we’re hearing about the new RUSA news website (and we hope you’ll agree). As a part of our commitment to keep things flexible, valuable, and fun, we…

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…

Meet Christina Shutt, Chair of the History Section of RUSA. Listen now…

Ahead of the announcements of the winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, the American Library Association is launching its #ShareTheStory campaign highlighting the six 2017 shortlist titles and how they remind us of the…