The Georgia Library Association Awards Committee seeks nominations from academic, public, school, and special librarians in Georgia for the 2017 GLA Awards. Winners will be recognized at the 2017 Georgia Libraries Annual Conference (formerly COMO) in Columbus. GLA has a variety of awards to celebrate individual or team contributions to libraries or to the state… Continue Reading GLA Awards Call For Nominations
Lost in the Stacks, the one-and-only research-library rock’n’roll radio show on WREK Atlanta, is trying something new. After six years of broadcasting, Lost in the Stacks is live on stage for the first time. The theme is “Georgia Blood and Southern Love,” the music is live, and the bar is open. The LITS crew will… Continue Reading See Lost in the Stacks Live! – March 1, 2016
Attention GLA members: As of 10/28/2014 the GLA Listserv is still down. We will post an update as soon as it is running again. For assistance with communications in the interim, please contact Ariel Turner, PR Chair, at aturne93@kennesaw.edu
Georgia Library Association Scholarship Committee invites applications for 2014 The Georgia Library Association awards two scholarships annually to students completing a master’s degree in library science. The Hubbard Scholarship, a $3,000 award, is intended to recruit excellent candidates for librarianship in Georgia and defray some of the costs of their education. The Beard Scholarship, in… Continue Reading Georgia Library Association Scholarships submission deadline – May 21, 2014
By: Sarah Freeman Timothy A. Hand and Juana Farfán perform in HIDDEN AWAY, created by Nicole Livieratos and Phillip DePoy. Photo by Jamie Hopper courtesy of The Lucky Penny. For most of us the public library is a place of reverence and mystique. We visit by day, creeping through the stacks until we find an… Continue Reading HIDDEN AWAY Performance Explores the Library at Night
I am so pleased to announce that you can now join or renew your membership or donate to our scholarship fund with our PayPal link: https://gla.georgialibraries.org/gla_membership.htmYou do not have to pay electronically. You can certainly still pay by mailing a check. I want to thank the GLA PayPal team of Kara Mullen, Cathy Jeffrey, Laura… Continue Reading GLA Now has PayPal Option!
Hampton Park Library Celebrates Grand Opening(3/18/2010 Press release from Hogan Construction, LLC) CUMMING, GA — On March 21, 2010, the Hampton Park Library is celebrating its dedication and grand opening. A construction project ten years in the making, the new Hampton Park Library is the jewel of the Forsyth County Library System, one of the… Continue Reading New Forsyth County Library Opens
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s higher education reporter recently wrote about several Georgia libraries that offer or are considering implementation of services to allow users to text a question. Agnes Scott College and Georgia State, Savannah State and Valdosta State University were mentioned: Library text messaging latest trend on campuses
ACWORTH, GA – On February 25, 2010, Hogan Construction Group broke ground on the new North Paulding Library on Harmony Grove Church Road. Built behind Fire Station 11, which Hogan completed in December 2009, North Paulding Library features five distinct wings and state-of-the-art networking capabilities. The 10,500 square foot library includes Nonfiction, Reference, Children’s, Fiction,… Continue Reading Paulding County Breaks Ground on New Library
The new, state-of-the-art Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library will open in January 2010. The dedication ceremony for the new facility is scheduled for Saturday, January 23 at 11:00 a.m. at the library branch’s new location, 5234 LaVista Rd. (at the intersection of LaVista Road and Lawrenceville Highway in Tucker). The public is invited to join DeKalb… Continue Reading Dekalb County Public Opens LEED Certified Branch