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 MIT Highlights Distinctive Collections Through “A Lab of One’s Own” Video Game By Lisa Peet There are many ways to showcase special collections: social media, newsletters, and blog posts; online and in-person exhibits; and both physical and digital catalogues and books. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries’ Distinctive Collections has upped the creativity factor with an immersive video game, “A Lab of One’s Own,” that allows players to discover archival materials telling the stories of women from MIT’s history. |
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SPONSORED BY OCLC  Small Changes, Big Results for Your ILL With minor changes, libraries across the globe have quickly increased staff productivity and decreased ILL turnaround time for user requests. Results are impressive. For example, a large university library reported a 40% fill rate increase and a midsize public library saved more than 150 staff hours. Read more library experiences››› |
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| “Maybe it’s a creative way to get them to learn the history of women in STEM. If we’re preparing them at a young age, getting them to engage in these materials and understand that history early on, maybe they’ll feel more confident to pursue that for themselves if that’s what they’re interested in academically.” | | |
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| SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE  The Stakes Are High for University Research. Here’s How Libraries Can Help The stakes are high for researchers, and the institutions that employ them, to showcase their work effectively. Librarians can add significant value for their institutions by collaborating with individual researchers and research office staff to identify new publishing channels, catalog university research and make these works more easily discoverable, among other activities. Read More››› |
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| SPONSORED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
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 2022 NAACP Literary Image Award Winners Announced | Book Pulse By Anita Mechler The 2022 NAACP Literary Image Award winners are announced featuring Long Division by Kiese Laymon and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine. There is news about Leonard Cohen’s posthumous novel, A Ballet of Lepers, being released in the fall and a collaboration between The New Yorker and Celadon to publish a report of the events of January 6th. |
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 ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Environmental Science By LJ Reviews New Climate War, Finding the Mother Tree, Beloved Beasts, and more in environmental science titles: February 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet.
Mann, Michael E.
Public Affairs
2021. ISBN 9781541758230. $29.00 2. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.
Simard, S.
Alfred A Knopf
2021. ISBN 9780525656098. $28.95 3. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction.
Nijhuis, Michelle
W. W. Norton
2021. ISBN 9781324001683. $27.95 |
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 Job Zone utilizes unique job matching technology to help you find the perfect job (and employers find the perfect candidate), whether you’re actively seeking or just keeping an eye out for your possibilities. Log on today and check out our newest features, including automated job and candidate matches, and email alerts. JOB OF THE WEEK Oklahoma Department of Libraries is seeking a State Librarian |
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