Catholic Library Association

The Children’s Library Services Section of the Catholic Library Association is proud to announce that Ashley Bryan has been awarded the 2011 Regina Medal.  He will receive the award on April 27, 2011, at the Catholic Library Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. Patchin is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and is co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center (www.cyberbullying.us). He has written numerous articles on adolescent behaviors online and co-authored the new book, Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying (Sage Publications).

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity, has done pioneering work in biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her teaching and research focus on questions of biblical and theological epistemology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and the politics of interpretation, as well as on issues of theological education, radical equality, and democracy. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and has been a founding co-editor of the feminist issues of Concilium.

The winner of the 2011 John Brubaker Memorial Award is Fernanda Perrone for her article, “Whose History Is It?  Doing Research in the Archives of Women's Religious Communities,” which appeared in vol. 80, no. 1 (September 2009) of Catholic Library World.  Ms. Perrone will receive a plaque at the CLA Annual Business Meeting in New Orleans in April 2011.

The Academic Library Service Section has a new name... Academic Libraries, Archives, and Library Education Section.

Call for 2011 Convention Proposals is now closed.  Look for information about CLA’s 2012 Convention in early 2011.

Catholic Library Association invites the submission of quality proposals for presentation at its Annual Conferences. CLA meets in conjunction with National Catholic Educational Association during Easter Week each year.