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Awards & PrizesALA 2015: Doerr, Stevenson Win Carnegie Medals
Doerr won for his book All The Light We Cannot See (which also received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), while Bryan Stevenson won for Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
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Conferences
ALA 2015: Sloan, Knight Foundation Grants For Digital Public Library of America
The two new awards, coupled with significant earlier support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will help to establish the growth of DPLA’s "service hubs."
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Conferences
ALA 2015: On a Historic Day, Roberta Kaplan Delivers a Powerful Keynote
Roberta Kaplan, who argued the historic defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, offered a powerful opening keynote speech at the 2015 ALA annual conference in San Francisco, just hours after a historic Supreme Court decision legalized same-sex marriage.
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Common Core
Cut to the Core: Education Reform and Libraries
Another school year is drawing to a close, but amid the celebrations and public festivities, melancholy looms over the library profession.
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Copyright
ALA Questions Bid for Independent Copyright Office
ALA joins a chorus of Internet and tech businesses in questioning a proposal to establish the U.S. Copyright office as its own independent agency.
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Conferences
ALA Annual Conference Kicks Off In San Francisco
The 2015 American Library Association Annual Conference kicks off today in San Francisco with more than 25,000 librarians, publishers and vendors expected to descend on the Bay Area.
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Shows & Events
ALA 2015: Summer of Love
The 2015 American Library Association Annual Conference, set for June 25–30 at the Moscone Center, should be quite a party. More than 20,000 librarians are expected to descend on the Bay Area for the show, which coincides with the city's annual Gay Pride Parade.
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Shows & Events
Fun with Metadata: How RDF Can Vastly Improve Book Discovery
A new format holds promise for significantly better book discovery and accessibility than its forbearer—the MARC record.
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Shows & Events
ALA 2015: Comics: Not Just for Kids
Adult comics collections in libraries have been slow to grow, even as the genre has surged in popularity and gained critical acclaim. We checked in with librarians from across the country to find out why.
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Shows & Events
ALA 2015: Pride and Programming
PW columnist Brian Kenney offers his annual “highly subjective” list of ALA program highlights
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Shows & Events
Hacking Libraries
An abridged excerpt from John Palfrey’s acclaimed new book Bibliotech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
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Content / e-books
What’s Next for Scholarly Publishing? PW talks with John J. Regazzi
The former Elsevier CEO is the author of a new book, Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker
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Shows & Events
All in the Family
As libraries around the country continue to change, a national network of "Family Place" libraries is gaining traction.
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Shows & Events
The Battle to Save the New York Public Library
At the end of 2014, after a groundswell of media attention and public protests, New York Public Library officials abandoned a controversial renovation dubbed the Central Library Plan.
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Conferences
Books in Browsers Conference Goes on Hiatus
Books in Browsers, a small but highly-regarded tech-focused publishing conference, will skip 2015 while organizers consider its future.
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Copyright
Plan for 'Independent' Copyright Office Meets Resistance
AAP officials have called the proposal "a critical first step" toward modernizing the Copyright Office, but a coalition of Internet companies are less enthused.
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Copyright
J.D. Salinger Lawyers Fire Back in Copyright Battle
Attorneys for the Salinger Literary Trust argue that a copyright suit filed by indie publisher, The Devault-Graves Agency is without merit and should be tossed.
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U.S. Book Show
BEA 2015: For E-books in Libraries, Obstacles Remain
A Thursday afternoon panel was officially named "The Power of Partnerships," but as moderator Keith Michael Fiels, executive director of the American Library Association suggested, it should have been called "E-books: The Continuing Saga."
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Content / e-books
Apple Loses Bid to Oust Monitor
In a minor setback, an appeals court has denied the company’s bid to oust its court-appointed monitor, Michael Bromwich.
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Content / e-books
Kobo Hopes Payments Will Boost ABA Partnership
Dubbed “eRead Local” the program will run for 100 days, during which time participating ABA members will receive $5 for every new Kobo customer they deliver.
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