New Books, Products, Special Events at the ALA Store at Midwinter Meeting

Make sure to carve out some time in your schedule to shop and browse the ALA Store at the 2019 ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition for products that meet the widest range of your promotional and continuing education/professional development needs – as well as fun gift items. Located in the Atrium Lobby of the Washington State Convention Center, the ALA Store hours are:

Friday, January 25
1:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 26
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 27
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Monday, January 28
8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

A special “popup” mini-Store will operate near the Registration area on Friday, January 25 from 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Remember to stop by early to get your pick of conference t-shirts – they sell out fast!

ALA Graphics will feature a selection of posters, bookmarks, and gifts, plus special conference-only items not available in our catalog. Shop the newest posters and bookmarks including Harry Potter, Constance Wu, Unlimited Squirrels, Research Skills, and more! Prepare for National Library Week in April with a new poster, mini poster, and bookmark highlighting the value of libraries and librarians in strong communities.

Get your copy of Matthew Cordell’s new Wolf in the Snow poster and create a display with a giant double-sided Caldecott medal. Purchase award seal packs in anticipation of the Youth Media Awards.

ALA Publishing is excited to offer several new titles hot off the press, such as Be Opportunity-Minded: Start Growing Your Career Now, by Caitlin Williams, Your Technology Outreach Adventure: Tools for Human-Centered Problem Solving, by Erin Berman, Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World, by Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson, and Records, Information and Data: Exploring the Role of Record-Keeping in an Information Culture, by Geoffrey Yeo. Remember that you can find titles from ALA Editions, ALA Neal-Schuman, Facet Publishing, UK, and the ALA Divisions in the ALA Store, and also get free shipping on all book orders placed in the ALA Store (posters, bookmarks, and other gift-type items are not eligible for this offer).

Prices at the ALA Store automatically reflect the ALA Member discount, so there’s no need to dig out your member number. And remember that every dollar you spend at the ALA Store helps support library advocacy, awareness, and other key programs and initiatives!

So You Want to Podcast…

Are you or your library interested in producing your own podcast? Phil More-hart, American Libraries Senior Editor and host of the magazine’s popular Dewey Decibel podcast (https://soundcloud.com/dewey-decibel-703453552), leads a panel of librarian podcasters in a conversation about podcasting: Why they started their podcasts; why librarians should (or shouldn’t) start one; how to make the case for a podcast; what equipment is needed; what topics to cover in a podcast; and more.

The event will take place during the ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits on Saturday, January 26 from 11:00 – 11:50 a.m. on the PopTop Stage on the Exhibit floor. The panel will also share stories about launching and maintaining their own successful podcasts.

Apply for YALSA’s Doctoral Fellowship Award

YALSA’s new Doctoral Fellowship Award will provide up to $3,000 to one recipient to cover research related expenses (including travel to conferences relevant to dissertation research) and is funded by YALSA’s Leadership Endowment. The award aims to encourage research on teens, learning and libraries, specifically research that aligns with YALSA’s National Research Agenda, and/or research that investigates any aspect of YALSA’s Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff. Learn more and apply by March 1 at www.ala.org/yalsa/doctoral-dissertation-fellowship. Eligibility requirements apply.