Are you looking to stretch your marketing dollars further? Want to make a special impact on your audience? The RUSA sponsorship and recognition program is designed to highlight those vendor partners who support the work of the organization and the reference professionals we serve. A RUSA sponsorship will enhance attendees’ conference experience, and help underwrite…(Read More)
Bloomsbury is celebrating the launch of their new Digital Resources division as well as their Dartmouth Medal win. They’d love to have RUSA members join them! Help Bloomsbury celebrate and enjoy some wine and appetizers and/or coffee and pastries while you’re at it! Check out the details below and add these two…(Read More)
Julia Quinn, author of Because of Miss Bridgerton, is slated to speak at this year’s Literary Tastes event at ALA’s Annual Conference in June. Because of Miss Bridgerton (narrated by Rosalyn Landor, HarperAudio/Blackstone Audio) was chosen as one of 2017’s Listen List titles for outstanding audiobook narration. Julia Quinn started writing…(Read More)
Dion Graham, multi-award-winning audiobook narrator, and actor, is confirmed to speak at RUSA’s signature Annual Conference event, Literary Tastes: Celebrating the Best Reading of the Year. Graham, the narrator of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Books on Tape, Penguin Random House), has been the voice of…(Read More)
Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X (Minotaur, an imprint of Macmillan) is the first author slated to speak at RUSA’s Literary Tastes author panel in June at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Orphan X was selected as the Adrenaline category winner for the Reading List, an annual Best of List comprised of eight…(Read More)
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 medal. We present to you, dear reader, a thoughtful, engaging discussion guide for each book…(Read More)
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 by NoveList, will include Sara Paretsky, the featured speaker as well as remarks from fiction…(Read More)
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 power of stories. Now through June 1, 2017, readers are encouraged to tell us their…(Read More)
On Sunday, Jan. 22, 5-7pm, RUSA will host their annual Book and Media Awards ceremony to announce the many awards and best of lists in adult reading and reference. The free event, sponsored by NoveList, is open to all ALA Midwinter Meeting attendees and will take place in Rooms B302-B305, Georgia World Congress…(Read More)