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ALA applauds Congress for passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), H.R. 803, in a bipartisan vote 415-6. The passage of the bill comes after the U.S. Senate passed...

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Save the date: 2.2 billion reasons libraries should care about WIOA

Photo by Dafne Cholet via flickr. On October 27, 2014, the American Library Association will join the Department of Education and the Department of Labor in hosting “$2.2 Billion Reasons to Pay...

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ALA, Depts. of Ed. and Labor to Host Webinar on Workforce Funding

On October 27, 2014, the American Library Association (ALA) will host “$2.2 Billion Reasons to Pay Attention to WIOA,” an interactive webinar that will explore ways that public and community college...

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Webinar archive available: “$2.2 Billion reasons libraries should care about...

Photo by the Knight Foundation On Monday, more than one thousand people participated in the American Library Association’s (ALA) webinar “$2.2 Billion Reasons to Pay Attention to WIOA,” an interactive...

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Have questions about WIOA?

To follow up on the October 27th webinar “$2.2 Billion Reasons to Pay Attention to WIOA,” the American Library Association (ALA) today releases a list of resources and tools that provide more...

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Free financial literacy webinar for librarians

Today, the Department of Labor will host a webinar that will outline and discuss suggested activities states should undertake to comply with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)...

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Some debates don’t have E-asy winners

Tri-bate participants and judges. A major focus of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) of late has been recasting the common perception of libraries among many decision makers and...

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ALA and COSLA submit WIOA comments

Photo by David Wheeler The American Library Association (ALA) filed comments with the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) to the Departments of Labor and Education on the Notice of...

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DOL Extols Benefits of Workforce System Collaboration with Public Libraries

Image Source: Youth Action Project In a Training and Employment Notice (TEN) issued this week by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Assistant Secretary...

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Bring federal job training funding home to your library

Jobseekers at Redding Library job fair. Do you know how to secure funding for job training services and programs in your library? Learn how to secure workforce support funding for your library at this...

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Whiplash – back to Washington, D.C.

Whiplash — going from Midwinter in Atlanta to arriving back in my office in Washington, D.C. and facing a week of policy onslaught. As with much of the nation, I find it hard to know where to begin. Of...

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