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Hooray Tracie❗️

Meet ALA's New Executive Director On behalf of the Executive Board, I’m delighted to announce that Tracie D. Hall will become the American Library Association’s new executive director on February 24, 2020. She’ll take the reins from the very capable hands of Mary W. Ghikas, who has worked for ALA since 1995 and served as execu...

Hooray Sandra❗️🎉

ACRL Member of the Week: Sandra Aya Enimil Sandra Aya Enimil is a the head of copyright services at The Ohio State University. Sandra has been a member of ACRL for 5 years and is your ACRL member of the week for November 4, 2019. Sandra brings her expert knowledge of scholarly communication to academic libraries as a presenter for the A

Congratulations to Omar Poler on receiving the 2019 ATALM Leadership Award, which honors an individual with exceptional abilities to lead and inspire, as reflected in extraordinary accomplishments with broad impact on the field of indigenous culture. "Omar Poler is recognized for his quiet strength, inclusionary spirit, and devotion to Great Lakes cultural institutions. In 2010, as a UW-Madison Information School Outreach Specialist, Omar Poler (Sokaogon Ojibwe) organized the first Convening Culture Keepers gathering of tribal librarians, archivists, and museum curators in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Under his guidance, participants established lasting partnerships with other tribal communities resulting in meaningful contributions to the preservation of Indigenous cultural heritage in the Great Lakes region. In 2013, Omar worked alongside leaders in tribal institutions to identify professional development needs. This culminated in multiple regional professional development institutes and a multi-year effort to develop a community co-curated traveling exhibition aimed at tribal youth. Omar’s significant contributions to strengthening Great Lakes cultures serves as inspiration for many." 🎉🎉🎉 https://www.atalm.org

All Power to the People ✊🏾

Library Exhibit Aims To Show Community Service Of Black Panther Party ‘All Power to the People: Celebrating the Legacy of the Illinois Black Panther Party’ opens Feb. 16 at Woodson Regional Library.

Congrats to the new cohort of Spectrum Scholars! http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2016/06/ala-awards-61-spectrum-scholarships

ALA awards 61 Spectrum Scholarships for the 2016-2017 academic year ALA awards 61 Spectrum Scholarships for the 2016-2017 academic year

hooray Omar!

Academic Movers 2014: In Depth with Omar Poler In the latest of our In-Depth Interviews with Library Journal Movers & Shakers from academic libraries, we caught up with Omar Poler, an Associate Outreach Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS). Omar Poler has a deep and personal connect…

Adventures in Feministory: Maya Angelou | Bitch Media Here is the semi-embarrassing circumstance that resulted in the more-than-semi-embarrassing-realization that I haven't yet written about Maya Angelou for this blog: I was watching the first day of OWN's (Oprah Winfrey Network, duh) new programming with my mom, (...nope. Can't even come up with a sar…

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Dr. Maya Angelou - Love Liberates I do not own this video and do not claim to be the owner of this incredible work. Just trying to make this inspiring message available to as many people as p...

Essential Information Workshop - Chicago | Knowledge Alliance Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago Richard J. Daley Library and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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USA Freedom Act The “USA FREEDOM Act” (H.R. 3361) is now poised for a vote by the full House of Representatives on or about Wednesday, May 21th, barely two weeks since a deal was struck by their Chairmen to spring a new version from the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. As reported in District Dispatch…