She became the first African American president of the Montana Library Association, the first African American president of the Pacific Northwest Library Association, and the first Montanan to serve on the Executive Board of the American Library Association.
The American Library Association issued a recommendation to libraries still holding Alms for Jihad: "Given the intense interest in the book, and the desire of readers to learn about the controversy first hand, we recommend that U.S. libraries keep the book available for their users."
No Pretty Pictures has also won many awards, including a National Book Award, a Judy Lopez Memorial Medal for Children's Literature, an Orbis Pictus Award, a Golden Kite Award, a Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book, a Booklist editor's choice, a River Bank Review Children's Books of Distinction finalist, an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults citation, and a Gradiva Award for Best Memoir.
Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing Fables as the year's best-illustrated U.S. children's picture book.
:To Satisfy Demand: a Study Plan for Public Library Service in Baltimore County, Baltimore County Public Library's first strategic plan, became the model for the Public Library Association/American Library Association's Planning Process for Public Libraries.
This prize is awarded to reference works (dictionaries, encyclopedias, image banks, etc.) by the American Library Association and it was the first time, that an award has been given to a work in the design sector.
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, published by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association, January 2006, "Outstanding academic title"
In 2007 the book received recognition as a Best Book for Young Adults (Alex Awards) from the American Library Association.
The book Easter Pony received international acclaim and was listed as one of the year's best books by the American Library Association in the year it was published.
The winner of the coveted American Library Association's Choice Magazine Academic Book of the Year Award in 1995, Cloverdale Corporation went on to receive five consecutive annual endorsements from both the Ford Foundation and the National Research Council as a leader in publishing first-book academic authors.
The series is held in many libraries, and was honored by the American Library Association in 1985 as one of the "most distinguished reference titles" of the preceding 25 years.
The publishing house exhibited at major book trade shows, such as the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association, and the Frankfurt International Book Fair, and engaged in fairly large direct-mail campaigns, sending out catalogs and fliers to solicit orders and garner publicity.
The first edition (Brill) appeared in 1995 and was chosen by Choice magazine of the American Library Association as Best Reference Work of 1996.
The American Library Association selected the library as one of the best small libraries in the United States.
Oboler was a longtime member of the American Library Association, and held numerous positions with the ALA and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), one of the largest subdivisions of the ALA.
It was recommended as one of the ten best books of 1995 by the American Library Association.
The Francis Joseph Campbell Award is an annual award given by the American Library Association for any person who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of library services for the blind.
The American Library Association listed Go Ask Alice as number 23 on its list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s.
The awards are presented at a reception hosted by H.W. Wilson Company, held during the American Library Association's annual conference.
The first volume was selected as Bird Book of the Year by the magazines Birdwatch and British Birds, and the fifth volume was recognised as Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, the American Library Association magazine.
Friedrich (published in 1970) was the subject of an American Library Association 1972 ALSC Batchelder Award.
• Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as a “2009 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.
A seminal event in the development of the concept of information literacy was the establishment of the American Library Association's Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, whose 1989 final report outlined the importance of the concept.
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In 2000, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), released "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education", describing five standards and numerous performance indicators considered best practices for the implementation and assessment of postsecondary information literacy programs.
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The Presidential Committee on Information Literacy was formed in 1987 by the American Library Association's president at the time Margaret Chisholm.
In the U.S., Inventing Elliot was nominated for the American Library Association's Best Young Adult Book Award 2004, the Nutmeg Prize and the Heartland Award, whilst New York Public Library has made it a 'book for the teen age' and critic Patty Campbell has described it as 'stunning' and 'heartrending'.
Feeling that the needs of Asian American librarians were unrepresented and under served by the American Library Association, she co-founded the Asian American Librarian Caucus (AALC) in 1975.
In 1922, the John Newbery Medal was created by the American Library Association in his honour; it is awarded each year to the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".
In 1887 he assumed the position of librarian of the Free Public Library of San Francisco, where he oversaw the openings of the system's first branch libraries and hosted the first west coast conference of the American Library Association in 1891.
His compilation trade paperback: "Tag and Bink Were Here" was named one of the top trade paperback books of 2006 by The American Library Association.
Library employees are invited to the International Congress of librarians and friends of the book (Prague, June) and a conference on the 50 th anniversary of the American Library Association (Philadelphia, October).
On February 2, 1961, the American Library Association (ALA) established Amendment V to the Library Bill of Rights to state, “A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views”.
The new act was developed by the American Library Association (ALA) and other library groups.
She was selected by the American Library Association as one of the 100 most important librarians of the 20th century.
The Bechtel Fellowship, awarded by the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, awards a mid-career librarian, with a minimum of eight years experience working with children, $4,000 to spend a month reading and studying at the Baldwin library at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
Mary Wright Plummer (March 8, 1856 in Richmond, Indiana – September 21, 1916 in Dixon, Illinois) was a prominent American librarian who became the second female president of the American Library Association (1915–1916).
Her work has been translated into eleven languages including Bulgarian, Chinese and German and has been awarded numerous honors by such associations as the American Library Association and the New York Public Library.
In 2010, the American Library Association (ALA) selected the Molecularium Kid's Site for inclusion to its Great Websites for Kids.
After serving as a temporary medical clinic for some time, the structure again began welcoming conventions in early 2006, including that of the American Library Association.
The web site was named one of the best free reference web sites in 2003 by the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association.
As President of the American Library Association (ALA) from 1945–1946, Ralph Ulveling served as member of the First U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Chicago: American Library Association; Supplement, 1980 (began with a guide compiled by A. B. Kroeger, 1917; 3rd-6th eds. by I. G. Mudge; 7th & 8th by C. M. Winchell)
In 1994 the American Library Association named it one of the hundred Best Books for Young Adults of the Last 25 years.
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American Library Association 100 Best Books for Young Adults of the Last 25 years
American Library Association and Library of Congress (ALA-LC) romanization tables for Slavic alphabets (updated 1997) are used in North American libraries and in the British Library since 1975.
A 2003 report by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society stated that SafeSearch excluded many innocuous websites from search-result listings, including ones created by the White House, IBM, the American Library Association and Liz Claiborne.
ISBN 13: (978-0-595-28459-7) 2003 (Description from 2009 American Library Association annual conference book listing.)
The American Library Association put The Eye of the World on its 2003 list of Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults.
This book has made the American Library Association's list of the one hundred most frequently challenged books for 1990-2000, due to the use of witchcraft by the children.
Jointly with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association, The New York Times Company sponsors an award to honor librarians "for service to their communities."
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The I Love My Librarian! award was given to ten recipients in December 2008, and presented by The New York Times Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson, Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian, and Jim Rettig, president of the American Library Association.
The American Library Association (ALA) challenged the document removal in court, and in 1987 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the case.
It has been shown in a poster produced by the American Library Association, one of a series of posters where American celebrities such as Paul Newman, Isiah Thomas, and Michael J. Fox implored people to patronize their libraries and read.
The Stupids series of books rank number 62 on the American Library Association's list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009.
Barnes and Ambaum also use this format for the Conference Tips they contribute to the American Library Association's publication COGNotes, the daily newspaper printed at the annual and midwinter ALA conferences.
Their second book, written as DeBerry and Grant, was Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made, was an Essence Bestseller and won the Merit Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, as well as the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the Blackboard Bestseller List/African American Booksellers Conference-Book Expo America.
Many of his books were honoured by the American Library Association, including I Went to the Animal Fair: A Book of Animal Poems (named a notable book of 1958, and on the List of Notable Children's Books of 1940–1959), Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls: Poems (named a notable book of 1964), and The Birds and Beasts Were There: Animal Poems (honoured in 1965).
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Each year ABFFE sponsors Banned Books Week, the only national celebration of the right to read, in conjunction with the American Booksellers Association, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Association of College Stores, and the American Library Association.
It is published jointly by the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK.
In 2005, following parental complaints, Tenenbaum decided to remove Chris Crutcher's book, Whale Talk, which had been chosen by the American Library Association as a "Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults", from the South Carolina Education Department's English reading list for sophomores.
Around the time Mudge came to Columbia the American Library Association asked her to update Guide to Reference Books, which was desperately needing a supplement to go along with the original edition.
Danforth completed a master's degree in Information and Library Science (University of Arizona, 2008), and was one of a dozen hand-selected "gaming experts" who participated in the American Library Association's million-dollar grant-funded project to explore how gaming can be used to improve problem-solving and literacy skills, and to develop a model gaming "toolbox" for gaming in libraries.