Michele Gorman is the winner of the Thinking Big About Advocacy for a teen video series promoting the library, given by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). According to American Libraries, teen services staff involved with the Teen Advocacy Video Project created four videos showcasing testimonials from teenagers about how libraries have made a difference in their lives. Gorman is the teen services director for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in Charlotte, N.C., and is the author of Connecting Young Adults and Libraries, Fourth Edition.

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Is your library up-to-date with current medical information? Cutting-edge resources from the Medical Library Association (MLA) give you the most relevant health and medical information available. Now you can save 20% on your entire purchase when you place a standing order.

Check out the brand-new Medical Library Association’s Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries, Second Edition, an extensively revised edition of the book Library Journal called “the gold standard in its field.” This book brings that invaluable content up to date, tackling important changes in technology and the increasing financial pressures that have affected both the health care and library industries. A companion CD-ROM offers numerous management documents, forms, and live Web links.

And don’t forget to pre-order your copy of The Medical Library Association’s Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences, available this April. Encompassing 35 specialties, plus additional sub-specialties, providing over 1,600 authoritative recommendations, covering both the monographic and serial literature–print, digital, and online formats–this unique guide is an indispensable tool for librarians who must differentiate among the many choices of medical resources.

Other new releases and timeless classics from the MLA include:

The Medical Library Association Guide to Finding Out About Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Health Informatics for Medical Librarians

The Medical Library Association’s Essential Guide to Becoming an Expert Searcher

Answering Consumer Health Questions

Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences

Answers to Health Questions People Ask in Libraries

The Medical Library Association’s Guide to Health Literacy at the Library

…and many more!

If you wish to keep your library’s collection current on future MLA titles, place a standing order and benefit immediately by saving 20% on your whole order! Just click on the link and follow the instructions.

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March 15, 2011—THE TECH SET®, created and edited by Ellyssa Kroski and co-published by Neal-Schuman Publishers and the Library Information Technology Association (LITA), is the winner of the 2011 Greenwood Publishing Group Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, the American Library Association announced yesterday. The Award committee praised the “creative, innovate approach” of this ten-volume primer that shows librarians how to employ new technologies to create, deliver, and market new user services.

The committee further lauded the series for “covering a wide variety of timely topics, providing a way to keep the topics updated and interactive, and for being written in an easy-to-understand manner for readers both at the beginning of their quest for information and those more advanced who want an overview and updated information online.”

THE TECH SET® includes ten printed books, ten wikis, and ten podcasts that cover topics such as social networking, mobile technologies, blogging, webcasts, gaming, and other current technologies that aid and improve libraries. Each of the ten authors is a recognized expert in their field and their expertise in THE TECH SET® has met widespread acclaim. Library Journal wrote, “These books will become well-thumbed, dog-eared references for anyone charged with determining or implementing the next generation of patron services” (June 2010).

Contributing authors include Marshall Breeding (Next-Gen Library Catalogs),  Jason Griffey (Mobile Technology and Libraries), Robin M. Hastings (Microblogging and Lifestreaming in Libraries), Thomas Sean Casserley Robinson (Library Videos and Webcasts), Lauren Pressley (Wikis for Libraries), Sarah Houghton-Jan (Technology Training in Libraries), Cliff Landis (A Social Networking Primer for Librarians), Steve Lawson (Library Camps and Unconferences), Kelly Nicole Czarnecki (Gaming in Libraries) and Connie Crosby (Effective Blogging for Libraries).

Ellyssa Kroski

Kroski is the Emerging Technologies and Web Services Librarian at Barnard College as well as a writer, educator, international conference speaker, and blogger. She is an adjunct faculty member teaching emerging technologies at Long Island University, Pratt Institute, and San Jose University.

“We congratulate Ellyssa and the ten TECH SET® authors on this much-deserved recognition.   There’s no question that the expert guidance in these books is helping librarians across the country use technology to develop new services that strengthen both their library and their community,” said Neal-Schuman Director of Publishing, Charles Harmon.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers

Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York City with offices in London, UK. Neal-Schuman is a leading publisher of professional and academic titles in all areas of library and information studies.

About LITA

As the center of expertise about information technology, the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) leads in exploring and enabling new technologies to empower libraries.

For more information on THE TECH SET® and special pricing on multi-copy orders contact:

Kathryn Suárez

Vice President, Business Development

Neal-Schuman Publishers

100 William Street, Suite 2004

New York, NY  10038

Phone: 212 925-8650

Fax: 212 219-8916

Suarez.kathryn@neal-schuman.com

www.neal-schuman.com

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Congratulations to Kay Cassell, 2011 winner of 2011 winner of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Career Achievement Award!

Cassell’s “exemplary research bridges theory and practice, a core goal of feminist librarianship, inspiring numerous libraries and librarians in public and academic settings all over the world,” said award Chair Kayo Denda. Click here to learn more about Cassell and the award.

Cassell is the co-author of References and Information Services in the 21st Century, published by Neal-Schuman.

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Check out out the new YouTube video featuring The Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries, Second Edition, edited by Margaret Moylan Bandy and Rosalind Farnam Dudden! Save $15 when you purchase this newly released title–just reference coupon code UTUBE at checkout.

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