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    With libraries under threat, Literarian Award goes to Watts-raised super-librarian Tracie D. Hall

    by Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times Sep 08, 2022 3 minutes
    Tracie D. Hall, executive director of the American Library Association, will receive this year’ s Literarian Award.

    LOS ANGELES -- Tracie D. Hall has spent most of her professional life working in service to others: as a curator, a librarian, an advocate for digital literacy and equitable access — and currently as the executive director of the American Library Association.

    It made her a natural choice for the Literarian Award, bestowed annually by the National Book Foundation, which announced Hall as its 2022 honoree Wednesday morning, for "outstanding service to the American ." But when she found out about it several months ago, Hall couldn't quite believe it. Her first thoughts ran to

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