By Mansi Nishit Trivedi 2023 BRASS Student Travel Award Winner Mansi Nishit Trivedi is the recipient of the 2023 BRASS Student Travel Award sponsored by SimplyAnalytics and here is what this award means to her in her own words. “I would like to express my deep gratitude to the selection committee of the 2023 BRASS…(Read More)
The complete schedule of RUSA programs and room locations are listed below. Full program descriptions are available on the Annual Conference website. RUSA @ ALA Annual Conference Thursday, June 22, 2023 HS Preconference – Research in the Heart of America: Chicago Area Resources for Genealogy and Local History, 9:00am-4:00pm – Off Site, Harold Washington Library…(Read More)
CHICAGO- The RUSA History Section Preconference: Research in the Heart of America: Chicago Area Resources for Genealogy and Local History will be held on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at the Harold Washington Library. Join us to learn about the rich resources available for genealogy and local history research in and around Chicago, the Heart…(Read More)
The submission site for the 2023 ALA Annual Conference Program Proposals is now open. We encourage all RUSA members to consider submitting a proposal for the 2023 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, please see the schedule below. Please use this submission site to submit content by the deadline of September 16, 2022 12:00…(Read More)
RUSA is sponsoring multiple programs in addition to the President’s Program during the 2022 ALA Annual Conference. Additionally, meetings of the RUSA board, Section boards, committee meetings and discussion groups can be found on the Conference Scheduler here. Saturday, June 25, 2022 A Tiny Library with a Million Volumes: the Open Source Future…(Read More)
The submission site for the 2021 ALA Annual Conference Program Proposals is now open. We encourage all RUSA members to consider submitting a proposal for the 2020 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, please see the schedule below. Please use this submission site to submit content by the deadline of September 30, 2020. Please also…(Read More)
The submission site for the 2020 ALA Annual Conference Program Proposals is now open. We encourage all RUSA members to consider submitting a proposal for the 2020 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, please see the schedule below. Please use this submission site to submit content by the deadline of September 10, 2019 12:00…(Read More)
Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies (Dey Street Books), which was was selected to the 2018 Notable Books List for nonfiction, has been added to the stellar panel of this year’s Literary Tastes event at ALA…(Read More)
Join writer/director Emilio Estevez at ALA’s Annual Conference in New Orleans for a screening of his new film “the public,” also starring Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, and Jeffrey Wright. The film centers on the regular patrons of downtown Cincinnati’s public library, many of whom are homeless and marginalized, and their interactions with…(Read More)