News & Press Releases
2020 DEMCO Award winner, Dr. Shaundra Walker, PhD
BCALA announces our 2020 DEMCO Award winner, Dr. Shaundra Walker, PhD, for the 2020 DEMCO/ALA Black Caucus Award for Excellence in Librarianship. Walker has made remarkable contributions to promoting the African Americans and other people of...
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BCALA and BiblioBoard Announce the 2020 EBook Literary Awards Winners
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. (BCALA) and BiblioBoard announce the winners of the 2020 Self-Publishing EBook Award. Following the model of the current BCALA Literary Awards, the award honors the best self-published...
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BCALA Announces Support for Patty Wong For 2020-2021 ALA President
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association(BCALA) is pleased to announce its support of Patty Wong's candidacy for the 2020-2021 Ameican Library Association presidential term. Her capacity for effective leadership is demonstrated...
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Press Release: Literary Awards 2020
Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. BCALA Literary Awards Contact: Gladys Smiley Bell, 757-727-5185 or [email protected] Press Room – The Pennsylvania Convention Center Press Release For Immediate...
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BCALA Announces Reading is Grand! Grant Winners
Black Caucus of the American Library Association announces Reading is Grand! Celebrating Grand-Families Telling Our Stories @ Your Library grant winners WASHINGTON, DC – During the American Library Association (ALA) Conference and Exhibition,...
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RESPONSE TO YET ANOTHER “LIBRARY WHILE BLACK INCIDENT”
Upon learning of another disheartening incident in which an African American library school student had the police called on her for being in the library which is a public space, I have reached out to the West University library branch to insist...
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