The Plano Public Library System will join libraries nationwide to celebrate National Library Week with a series of free events and activities beginning today. For this year's celebration, the American Library Association has adopted the theme "Come Together @ Your Library."...

The Lewes Library will celebrate National Library Week the week of April 15-21. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April....

Make Internet TV

The Participatory Culture Foundation has a great site called Make Internet TV with tutorials on making and publishing digital video from equipment to promotion, including a nice one page guide to using Creative Commons licenses. All content on MITV.org is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. There’s currently a call for videos to be used on the site. Note that [...]...

The American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association have announced nine winners of the 2007 Library Building Awards. These biennale honors, jointly sponsored by both associations, recognize the finest in library design....

CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) has posted on its Web site ( www.ala.org ) its online annual report for 2005-2006, covering the year's conferences, partnerships, programs, issues, highlights and more....

CHICAGO - The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) will hold a full-day LITA preconference "Simplifying Complex Projects Using Dotproject for Project Management" on Friday, June 22, 2007, in Washington , DC , in conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference....

CHICAGO - The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to announce that nominations are available for the national Teens' Top Ten (TTT) Vote to take place during Teen Read Week TM , October 14 -20, 2007....

B*tween Productions, home of the Beacon Street Girls, today announced the appointment of Barbara Marcus, most recently president, Scholastic Children's Book Publishing and Distribution, and executive vice president, Scholastic, Inc. to B*tween's Board of Directors....

LEXINGTON, Mass.----B*tween Productions, home of the Beacon Street Girls, today announced the appointment of Barbara Marcus, most recently president, Scholastic Children's Book Publishing and Distribution, and executive vice president, Scholastic, Inc. to B*tween's Board of Directors....

Universal Coin & Bullion wants to help promote the 84th annual National Coin Week, (Week of April 15-21) sponsored by the American Numismatic Association (ANA). The American Library Association (ALA) observes National Library Week during the same period. This convergence of these celebrations prompted Universal Coin & Bullion to give away 1500 books written by Mike Fuljenz an award wining ......