I am pleased to report that on September 14, the full House of Representatives voted as part of a large spending package (H.R. 3354) not to make any cuts in federal funding for IMLS. This includes all funding for IMLS programs under the Library Services and Technology Act, and for the Department of Education’s Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) program. Read the…
Received from the American Library Association: If you need a bit of financial help to get through your graduate program, scholarship funds are now available. The American Library Association (ALA) has more than $300,000 available to students who are studying in library science or school library media programs at the master's degree level. Get your application in early. The deadline…
iSchool students! Banned Books Week is Sept. 24-30! During that week, ALA will host the Rebel Reader Twitter Tournament. Complete action items on Twitter using the hashtag #RebelReader to be entered into a drawing to win literary prizes! Feel free to tweet @ ALASC SJSU as well! Here’s how to participate in the drawing (taken from ALA.org):         Take a selfie…
Each week we will spotlight feature one of our executive board officers to introduce them to fellow ALASC members! Role:Â Co-Chair/Webmaster Program:Â MLIS, third semester! Looking forward to: Helping out with and participating in the unique events that ALASC will be involved during this school year! Banned Books Week is especially intriguing to me as well as potential library tours, such as…
Each week we will spotlight feature one of our executive board officers to introduce them to fellow ALASC members! Role: Chair Program: MLIS, hopefully the Data Management Certificate as well. This will be my 3rd and final year! :( Looking forward to: This is a great team, I'm excited to see what we can accomplish. I'm also looking forward to spreading…