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ALA Annual Conference News

Complete event coverage of the American Library Association's (ALA) Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 24�30, from the editors of Library Journal and School Library Journal

ALA 2010, LJ Report: Sweating It Out

By Francine Fialkoff, Barbara Hoffert, Anna Katterjohn, Rebecca Miller, Norman Oder, David Rapp, & Wilda Williams

When the 2010 annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) was assigned to Washington, DC, no one could have predicted that libraries (and the country) would be facing a collective budget crisis. So the

ALA 2010: Short Takes

By Trev Jones, SLJ

Read about some of the hot sessions that took place at ALA annual in Washington, DC. More...

ALA 2010: Message to Schools: Act Now on Ebooks

By Kathy Ishizuka, SLJ

The time is now to implement ebooks in school libraries. That?s according to Douglas Uhlmann, a librarian at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, PA, who presented to a packed house in his June 26 session ?Casting the Ebook Hook,? at the American Library Association conference in Washington DC. More...

ALA 2010: LJ's Pick of Tuesday's Top Tweets--Final Tallies, Red-Shirted Rally, and Tales from the Travel Weary

By Rebecca Miller, LJ

As many weary ALA-ers departed DC, others stayed to keep up the good fight for library funding. More...

ALA 2010: The Changing Face of Books for Beginning Readers

By Henrietta Thornton-Verma, SLJ

Look out Dr. Seuss and Arnold Lobel, there are new books in town. That was the message delivered during "Move Over Dick and Jane: Reconsidering Books for Beginning Readers," a packed session at the American Library Association's annual conference in Washington, DC. More...

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