Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. This issue ...

The Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (originally approved in January 2000) were rescinded by the ACRL Board of Directors on June 25, 2016, at the 2016 ALA Annual ...

The first Privacy Tool Kit was created by ALA in 2005, and many changes have occurred in the intervening years, most notably the explosion of technology and social ...

ACRL 19th National Conference, "Recasting the Narrative" ...

The American Library Association Institutional Repository (ALAIR) is an open access repository, committed to collecting, permanently storing, and providing digital access to the publications and ...

Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://hdl.handle.net/11213/17165 ...

Lois Lowry_Newbery_The Giver_1994.mp3 (27.65 MB) ...

The Core Competencies for Acquisitions Professionals document outlines competencies that are needed across the span of an individual’s professional career to perform acquisitions functions. The ...

This document defines competencies in broad terms to acknowledge the wide variety of work performed by cataloging and metadata professionals in libraries of all types and sizes, regardless of ...

The annual report of the Association for Library Service to Children for September 2020 through August 2021.

In late 2020, PLA fielded the 2020 Public Library Technology Survey to a national sample of public library directors at the administrative entity level. The survey gathered information about libraries ...

GNCRT Comics Cataloging Best Practices.pdf (2.63 MB) Comics cataloging can be complicated. Libraries serve both community constituencies (public) and highly selective constituencies (school or special ...