Bob Richardson Memorial Award The Bob Richardson Memorial Award was established by the Executive Board in 1999 in recognition of Bob Richardson’s dedicated service to the Georgia Library Association. It honors those who have given outstanding service to the Georgia Library Association. This year’s winner…
The 2020 GLC with SELA content remains available. The programs, poster sessions and quick takes are available via the Whova platform. This platform will be up and running for another 3 months. whova.com/portal/webapp/glcft_202011/Agenda GLA will be transitioning content to the GLC Archive by the end…
The election results are in! The newly elected officers for the 2021 GLA Executive Board are • Vice President/President-Elect: Karen Manning• Vice-President for Marketing & Branding: Marquita Gooch• Secretary: Jean Mead• ALA Councilor: Angela Glowcheski Thank you to all who ran for office, and all…
The Charles Beard Library Advocacy Award was originally called the Library Advocacy Award. It was renamed in 2003 to honor Charles Beard, Georgia’s strongest library advocate. The Charles Beard Library Advocacy Award is given each year to recognize someone not employed in or by a…
The Library Support Services Award is given each year to recognize someone employed in a library support profession who has furthered library development or who has made outstanding contributions to Georgia libraries as part of his or her job or business. The award winner could…
The Annual Meeting of the GLA Academic Library Division (ALD) will be held virtually on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 from 10am to 11:30am (Eastern Time). All are welcome as our meeting is open to ALD and non-ALD members. We are excited to announce that Dr.…
By Dr. Tina Graham The Union Grove High School Learning Commons is a high school library media center serving over 1500 students in grades 9-12. We are part of the Henry County School System, located in McDonough, GA. Our mission is to ensure success for…
As we mark the 10th anniversary of the Pat Carterette 5k walk/run at GLC, the many colleagues at GPLS and throughout Georgia who knew and loved Pat will once again walk/run in her honor. We continue to be inspired by our memories of her passion,…
The Academic Research Paper competition is an annual event that encourages research on developments in academic libraries that present challenging opportunities for libraries and librarianship throughout the state, region and/or nation.Join us on Thursday, Sept 24th at 2pm as the winners present their papers. Attendance…
By Amber Spratlin Michelle Jones, Head of Reference Services and Professor of Library Science at Columbus State University’s Simon Schwob Memorial Library, took some time to talk about her library journey from part-time Reference Librarian, to Professor of Library Science after a promotion earlier this year. …
