Beta Phi Mu offers scholarships for LIS studies, School Library Media Study, Continuing Education, Foreign Research and Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. March 15, 2019 is the deadline for most of the scholarships. ...

Terri Gallagher, reference librarian at the Community College of Beaver County and Paula Kelly, director at the Whitehall Public Library, are 2018 I Love My Librarian Award winners! ...

FREE classes from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM): Analyzing News Health News Review: Critically Analyzing Information in the News Health Literacy Establishing a Health Information Literacy Partnership with a Local PublicLibrary Health and Nutrition Literacy:...

Free WebJunction Webinars for You These upcoming webinars are open for registration. If you can’t attend a live session, all WebJunction webinars are recorded and available for free in the Course Catalog. Librarian Evolution: Libraries Thrive When We Change Thursday, November...

The American Library Association has announced the Emerging Leader Participants for the Class of 2019.  Among the leaders are Corey Hall of Palmyra and Robbin Degeratu of Bellefonte.  Read more on the ALA site. ...

The following WebJunction webinars are FREE and eligible for Continuing Education credit for those who work in Pennsylvania’s public libraries! Small But Mighty Library Management and Innovation Monday, November 5, 2018 ♦ 3:00 pm Eastern ♦ 60 minutes Register Innovating....

ALA President Loida Garcia-Febo will host a FREE webinar, The Heart of Librarianship, at 10 a.m. EST on Nov. 14, 2018. To participate, register for the event.  Read more about the webinar. ...

Nominations for the I Love My Librarian Award are open through October 1. Each year 10 librarians are selected and receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque and a travel stipend to attend the awards ceremony and reception in New York City, hosted by Carnegie Corporation of New York. Nominations...

This Poynter article uses PEW research and the recent Gallup/Knight Foundation survey, Views: Trust, Media and Democracy,  to compare journalists and librarians.  The author, David Beard, has also written Welcome to Your Local Library, Which also Happens to be a Newsroom. added...

March 15, 2018 is the deadline to apply for the following Beta Phi Mu scholarships and fellowships. Beta Phi Mu is an International Library and Information Studies Honor Society. Membership is not required to apply. Learn more about Beta Phi Mu. ​Sarah Rebecca Reed –...