IFLA LSSN SECTION NOMINATED FOR 2010 AWARD!

My IFLA Standing Committee, Library Services to People with Special Needs, has been nominated for the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award! Check it out! Our listing is officially under our former Committee name of Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons.

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ALA's Committee on Diversity's Diversity Research Grant

The ALA Office for Diversity and Diversity Research Grants Advisory Committee, a subcommittee of the ALA Committee on Diversity, which is chaired by moi, announced the topics for the 2010 Diversity Research Grants program at our DiversiTEA Event on Sunday January 17that during ALA's Midwinter Meetings in Boston. The topics are:

• Upward mobility of Library Leaders from Underrepresented Populations
• Information Services and Collections for Diverse Children and Young Adults
• Libraries and the Meaning of Multiculturalism

For information on application requirements and deadline date go to:

http://http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/diversity/divresearchgrants/diversityresearch.cfm.

ALA MIDWINTER 2010 IN BOSTON AFTER HOURS EVENT

Had a GREAT time at the ALA After Hours event which was held on Saturday January 16th, 2010 at The Black Rose (An Irish Pub). The young man in this photo WOWED me by asking if he could have his picture taken with moi just as I was ready to leave at around 1:30 AM