World Business Briefing: Europe Is Pressing China on Trade Barriers

Europe's trade chief said that he could start more litigation against China as part of a new push to bring down barriers around the world to European exports and investments. The trade chief, Peter Mandelson, left, said if Chinese authorities failed to bend on intellectual property rights and other market issues, "Europe's patience could wear thin." European companies have complained in the past that the European Commission is not as aggressive as the United States in tackling obstacles ...

CHICAGO -Barry Trott, adult services director, Williamsburg Regional Library, Williamsburg ( Va. ), is the 2007 recipient of the Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award administered by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)....

CHICAGO - The Springfield-Greene County Library, Springfield ( Mo. ), is the 2007 recipient of the Thomson Gale Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services awarded by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)....

CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) is the latest subscriber to the Informed Meetings Exchange (INMEX). INMEX closely researches and analyzes the hotel industry, and will provide information to the ALA that will support the association's efforts to share meeting and convention dollars with hotels that respect their workers and their collective bargaining rights....

The Madison spin on the celebrity READ Poster series has students copying their teachers' good reading habits. The American Library Association created the Celebrity READ Poster series....

"Free people need free libraries and America's libraries are the cornerstones of our democracy," declares the American Library Association's...

According to the American Library Association, the number of libraries offering free internet use increased over a ten year period....

Blogs Get Fit to Go to Print

A publishing company from Iceland is bringing the blogosphere to print. Beginning with a new daily in Boston this month, bloggers will be able to share their musings -- and possibly break news -- in BostonNOW....

CHICAGO - Richard Pearce-Moses is the winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for 2007. The award is sponsored by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)....

CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Eliza T. Dresang is the recipient of the 2007 Scholastic Library Publishing Award....