WASHINGTON — Paul K. McMasters is the recipient of the 2007 James Madison Award, presented by the American Library Association to honor those who have championed, protected, and promoted public access to government information and the public's "right to know."...

Biography: A Democratic Congresswoman from Colorado, Pat Schroeder served for 12 terms, from 1973-1997. The Harvard-educated lawyer worked with Planned Parenthood and the National Labor Relations Board before her election to Congress. A year after retiring from Congress, Schroeder became president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, a book publishing industry trade organization....

CHICAGO -The James B. Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University , New Brunswick , New Jersey , is the 2007 recipient of the John Sessions Memorial Award presented by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)....

PhotoWorksa�, Inc. -a leading online digital photo-publishing company - is bringing its unique, high-quality commemorative photo travel books to the high seas. The company today announced that it will deliver a unique technology solution to help cruise-goers do more with their digital photos as part of the SeaMobile Web Portal, an interactive portal that allows travelers aboard cruise ships ......

WINDSOR, CT — In September 2003, then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft ridiculed the American Library Association for its "breathless reports and baseless hysteria" about a USA Patriot Act provision that allows FBI agents to search library records without a warrant....

iUniverse President and CEO Susan Driscoll was a featured speaker at Mega Book Marketing, a publishing industry conference held in Los Angeles on March 2-4, 2007. The conference attracted approximately 600 attendees. Mark Victor Hansen, creator of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, developed the Mega Book Marketing conference. The limited-seating event brings together authors, ......

CHICAGO — Faith Jones, head of Literature and Language Collection, Mid-Manhattan Library, the New York Public Library, is the 2007 recipient of the ABC-CLIO Online History Award, administered by the History Section of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)....

In the three months since the mainland's publication watchdog banned eight allegedly subversive domestic titles, there has been a storm of self-criticism at the Hainan Publishing House....

CHICAGO - The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), is celebrating the first ever Support Teen Literature Day on April 19, 2007. Support Teen Literature Day will be celebrated in conjunction with ALA 's National Library Week (April 15-21, 2007)....

CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) is presenting an Advocacy Institute at the 2007 Annual Conference of the Kentucky Public Libraries Association (KPLA) and Kentucky Library Trustees Round Table (KLRT) in Florence , Kentucky on Wednesday, April 25, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Hilton Cincinnati Airport ....