February 2007
2007 ALA Award Winners Announced
Posted by Max on 26 February, 2007 in ALA, Awards
Congratulations to all of this year’s award winners!
Advancement of Literacy Award
Jacksonville (Fla.) Public Library Foundation
Allie Beth Martin Award
Barry Trott, Williamsburg (Va.) Regional Library
Baker & Taylor Entertainment Audio Music/Video Product Award Grant
L.D. Fargo Library (Lake Mills, Wis)
Charlie Robinson Award
Sandra Feinburg, director, Middle Country Public Library (Centereach, N.Y.)
DEMCO New Leaders Travel Grant
Lise Chlebanowski, Avondale (Ariz.) Public Library
Janet [...]
Goodsearch Does NOPL Good!
Posted by Max on 22 February, 2007 in Public Libraries
A New Orleans-based academic librarian is promoting across discussion lists a new money-raising search engine that benefits the New Orleans Public Library. Goodsearch (www.goodsearch.com) donates a penny per search to a specified charity and is powered by Yahoo! Just go to the site and enter Friends of the New Orleans Public Library as the organization [...]