Library Commission News & Announcements
The American Library Association (ALA) invites library workers to apply for the Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant, an annual award supporting innovative and meaningful community engagement efforts in libraries...
Leopold "Larry" Berry is average, perfectly average, if you believe the results of his aptitude test given by the pricey college admissions counselor his father hired. And in the Berry household "average" equates to "failure"...
Fortune smiles on the #BookFace! Jump for joy, it's #BookFaceFriday with "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan (Ballantine Books, 1989)! Now considered a "modern classic", Tan didn't have high expectations for her first novel...
Do you hear the music #ThrowbackThursday? Taken around 1925, this photograph shows the Great Cathedral Choir with director John Roseborough on a staircase in the Nebraska State Capitol. The choir was organized by him in 1919...
Applications now open for Penguin Random House and United for Libraries Grants for Friends Groups. Grants of $500 and $1,000, along with book donations and free virtual training, will be awarded to small and rural libraries; applications close Feb. 18...
The E-rate Form 471 application filing window for Funding Year 2025 opened today at noon EST and will close on Wednesday, March 26 at 11:59 pm EDT. You may now log on to the E-rate Productivity Center (EPC) and file your FCC Form 471 for FY2025...
The American Library Association (ALA) invites library workers to apply for the fifth annual Peggy Barber Tribute Grant, a programming grant named after the transformative ALA leader responsible for the creation of National Library Week and the Celebrity READ series...
