Join us for the next RUSA CODES Convo on Tuesday, November 19th from 10am-6pm EST! Do you want to attract more authors to your library, but you’re not sure how? Do you want to help local or mid-list authors find their audience? Books are still the library’s brand and connecting readers…(Read More)
Join the RA Research & Trends Committee for the next CODES Convo: Reader-Focused Collection Development, Tuesday, April 30, 10am-6pm EST. Readers are flocking to library’s leisure collections. To make smart collection choices, we must look further than circulation statistics and learn what our entire community desires. Join us and special guest moderator…(Read More)
There is an election going on in this country and the results will have a significant impact on your library, your community, and you. I’m not talking about Congressional races or your local school board (though those are important and please vote!). The election that matters to us right now is the one that…(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)
Summer reading is around the corner and we’ve got your next pick for book club: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (Scribner), which won the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. From New York mobsters to the first woman diver at the Brooklyn Naval Station during WWII to the archetypally motley crew of…(Read More)
On Sunday, June 24, 2018 RUSA will host its annual author panel, Literary Tastes featuring authors and narrators that have been named to one or more of RUSA’s annual Best of Lists, selected by readers’ advisory experts that work closely with adult readers. Each panelist will speak about their writing process, books they’ve…(Read More)
We’re gearing up for this year’s celebration of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction and looking back to last year’s winners: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown, Penguin Random House) by Matthew Desmond and The Underground Railroad (Doubleday, Penguin Random House) by Colson Whitehead. Our…(Read More)
Alyssa Cole, author of An Extraordinary Union, will be joining a stellar panel of authors at this year’s Literary Tastes event at ALA’s Annual Conference in New Orleans. As the first book in The Loyal League Series, An Extraordinary Union (Kensington Books) was selected as this year’s Romance category winner on the…(Read More)
Kathleen Rooney, author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St. Martin’s Press), which was named to the 2018 Listen List for Outstanding Audiobook Narration, will be joining this year’s Literary Tastes panel at ALA’s Annual Conference on Sunday, June 24, 2018 in New Orleans. Rooney joins author Thi Bui and narrator Scott…(Read More)