ALA Annual Write-Up from this year’s BRASS Student Travel Award winner Vani Sharma From left to right: Wendy Pothier (BRASS Chair), Vani Sharma, and Juan Vasquez (SimplyAnalytics) Reflections on My First ALA Annual Conference Attending the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago was an amazing experience. As a first-time attendee, I am deeply…(Read More)
HD McKay & Michael Groenendyk, named 2026 recipient of the BRASS Research Grant Award Hyun Duck Michael Groenendyk “We are so grateful for this award which will be instrumental in pushing our Dataweb.ai (https://dataweb.ai/) projects forward. This project will help us experiment with more creative and precise approaches to enrich metadata about…(Read More)
Vani Sharma, Master of Information Science Student at Rutgers University and Library Intern at New York University named winner of the 2026 BRASS Student Travel Award sponsored by SimplyAnalytics Vani Sharma “I am honored to be selected as this year’s recipient of the BRASS Student Travel Award. I would like to extend my sincere…(Read More)
Joan D. Delgado, Business Librarian, New York Public Library, is the 2026 winner for the BRASS Public Librarian Support Award. Joan D. Delgado “As an early-career library professional, I am grateful for the opportunity to connect with and learn from fellow information professionals who are dedicated to expanding access to knowledge. One of the…(Read More)
BRASS Excellence in Business Librarianship sponsored by LSEG Data & Analytics names it’s 2026 Winner – Ilana Stonebraker, Head, Sciences and Social Sciences Head, Business/SPEA Library Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington Ilana Stonebraker “Ever since I walked into my first BRASS discussion as a grad student, my life has never been the same. I feel…(Read More)
Nicole Sari Stith, Business Librarian, East Carolina University, named winner of the 2026 BRASS Academic Business Librarianship Travel Award sponsored by Finaeon Nicole Sari Stith “Thank you to the BRASS Committee and Finaeon for supporting me to attend my first ALA Annual in Chicago where ALA is based; it is an honor. I have been…(Read More)
The American Library Association- Reference and User Services Division (RUSA) November/December 2025 CE offerings are blooming with new webinars. Our list of upcoming programming is below: Activating AI Education and Algorithmic Literacy at Toronto Public Library 60-minute webinar on November 5, 2025 A webinar exploring how Toronto Public Library is fostering digital literacy…(Read More)
BRASS 2025 Student Travel Award Winner Hilary Turner is the recipient of the 2025 BRASS Student Travel Award sponsored by SimplyAnalytics and here is what this award means to her in her own words. Pictured – Hilary Turner at the SimplyAnalytics booth Perhaps it goes without saying that, absent the 2025 BRASS Student Travel Award, I…(Read More)
Chicago—The annual Best of the Best Business Reference Websites list was announced today by the Business Reference And Services Section (BRASS) Education Committee. The list made its first debut in 2009 in Reference and User Services Quarterly (RUSQ), RUSA’s research journal, and recognizes three websites highly relevant to information professionals involved in providing…(Read More)