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We’re excited to announce the call for the 2023 PR Xchange Awards Competition! Libraries everywhere are producing creative and engaging promotional materials: newsletters, program announcements, annual reports, advocacy materials, fundraising messages, reading celebrations, and much more. Now is the time to receive recognition for your library’s dedicated and thoughtful work.…Continue Reading
Core is excited to present the 2023 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists, which are composed of notable children’s and young adult science fiction published between November 2021 and October 2022 and organized into three age-appropriate categories. The Golden Duck Notable Picture Books List is selected from…Continue Reading
Applications are open for the 2023 John Cotton Dana Award (JCD), one of the most prestigious awards given to libraries for outstanding library public relations. Up to eight $10,000 awards will be provided by the H.W. Wilson Foundation. The deadline to apply is March 17. Libraries of all types and…Continue Reading
Applications are open for the Core/OCLC Margaret Mann Citation, which recognizes outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification either through publication of significant professional literature, participation in professional cataloging associations, or valuable contributions to practice in individual libraries. The deadline to apply or nominate someone has been extended to February 28. This…Continue Reading
Core is pleased to announce that Karleen Delaurier-Lyle has been selected as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). Delaurier-Lyle serves as the Information Services Librarian at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus where she focuses on indigenous librarianship, library instruction, reference services, and critical indigenous literacy. Delaurier-Lyle says, “I am so excited…Continue Reading
Core is pleased to announce that Rachel Wells has been chosen as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). Wells works as the Reference Librarian at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York where she is responsible for answering reference questions related to all facets of baseball. She also…Continue Reading
Core is pleased to announce that Alexander Dodd has been named as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). Currently working as the Continuing Resources Librarian at the University Libraries at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, Dodd’s areas of focus in libraries include open access and scholarly publishing. “I’m very honored to…Continue Reading
The American Library Association (ALA) has awarded the 2022 Core/OCLC Spectrum Scholarship in Library and Information Technology to Fiona Rae Brown. Brown is currently in the process of receiving a degree in Library and Information Science with a certificate in archives from the Pratt Institute. As a librarian and archivist, she is…Continue Reading
The application for the Core/OCLC Spectrum Scholarship in Library and Information Technology is now available through March 1, 2023. The Spectrum Scholarship Program actively recruits and provides scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Middle Eastern and North African, and/or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students to assist them…Continue Reading
The Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG AI) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has awarded the article “Algorithmic Literacy and the Role for Libraries”, published in the June 2021 issue of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), the 2022 SIG AI Publication of the Year award. Recently established,…Continue Reading
