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Brooklyn Public Library's Nick Higgins, Amy Mikel, Karen Keys, Jackson Gomes, and Leigh Hurwitz have been named LJ's 2023 Librarians of the
Congratulations to Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned Team who defied rising book challenges by providing free ebook access to teens and young adults across the country.
Today is the last day to vote for your local library branch in the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards! Submit your nominations today and your local branch could win $20,000. Vote here.
Like an Oscar win sparks bigger box office numbers and on-demand rentals, a Caldecott or Newbery Medal means an instant bump in book sales. As soon as the winners are announced on February 12, orders start pouring in to the publishers.
“For our core book market, the demand is immediate and significant,” says John Mendelson, senior vice president of sales at Candlewick.
In the scope of its programs, services, and collections; the incredible reach of its efforts in cooperation with other public agencies, departments, and local businesses; and its work to identify and fulfill needs of both the mainstream and marginalized people of Nashville and Davidson County, the Nashville Public Library (NPL), the Gale/LJ 2017 Library of the Year, is a model for the nation and the world.
Congratulations to Nashville Public Library, the 2017 Gale/LJ Library of the Year: Two other libraries in particular also deserve special mention for featuring the service philosophy and dedication to community that signify a Library of the Year: Chicago P.L. and Orange County Library System, Orlando, FL.
The 2017 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards recognize eight outstanding new libraries and renovations.
AIA/ALA honored buildings that are functional, modest, and respectful of budget, each offering valuable lessons for how libraries can approach their physical presence with relevance.
From the American Library Association: Librarian of Congress Carla D. Hayden is the winner of the 2017 Melvil Dewey Medal. This annual award, presented by the American Library Association (ALA) and sponsored by OCLC, recognizes “creative leadership of high order, particularly in those fields in...
SLJ’s School Librarian of the Year: Nominations Open Four librarian heroes will also be honored.
Todd Burleson, 2016 School Librarian of the Year, on the experience of a lifetime. School Library Journal and partner Scholastic Library Publishing kick off the 2017 School Librarian of the Year program. For more information, visit http://www.slj.com/awards/school-libr...
Winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction were announced on Sunday, January 22, at the Reference and User Services Association’s (RUSA) Book and Media Awards Ceremony at the America Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits conference in Atlanta
The fiction medal winner is Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (Doubleday), a searing reimagining of slavery in the antebellum South that also won the National Book Award. The nonfiction medal winner is Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown), a chronicle of two landlords and several struggling families in Milwaukee that highlights the dangers of those sliding into homelessness in America today. Both books were LJ Best Books.
