View in Web Browser Forward to a Friend December 8, 2016 Experience Success: The ACRL Diversity Alliance| Diversity 2016 By Lisa Peet As higher education grows increasingly more aware of the need to diversify its workforce, academic libraries are developing new strategies to lower barriers in hiring and retain librarians from a wide range of ­backgrounds Time to Change Everything Again…For Generation Z | From the Bell Tower By Steven Bell We were told we needed to change to adapt to Gen X and millennials. Get ready to change again. Gen Z is on the way to our libraries. A new survey offers some insights into what we need to know. Smith College Library Redesign Engages Maya Lin, Shepley Bulfinch By Lisa Peet Architect Maya Lin's plans for the new Neilson Library at Smith College include upgrades to the original building and the replacement of two previous additions.   OU Libraries Help Researchers Build Coding Skills with Software Carpentry By Matt Enis Aiming to help faculty and graduate students learn essential coding skills, the University of Oklahoma Libraries have been offering two-day, hands-on workshops developed by Software Carpentry.   Q & A with Katrina M. Sanders | Diversity 2016 By Henrietta Verma In 2017, database vendor Adam Matthew will release a new collection called Race Relations. Katrina M. Sanders, associate professor, educational policy and leadership at the University of Iowa, served on the advisory board that helped to create the new resource.   SPONSORED BY MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION Patrons Less Aware of How Libraries Are Used It’s no surprise that libraries are acutely aware of changes in how their institutions are used: Keeping accurate records helps them advocate for more resources and determine how those resources should be allocated. Read More...   ALA in ATL | ALA Midwinter Preview 2017 By Meredith Schwartz The American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting sets an ambitious agenda, tackling timely political issues, ongoing social concerns, technological transformation, and assessing our successes and failures.   Nonfiction on Middle Eastern Poetry, Ted Roosevelt Jr., Königsberg, the Great War, Library Budgets, Artists’ Letters | Xpress Reviews By LJ Reviews Reviews of Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia: Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by Al-Isfahani; His Father’s Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr.; The Fall of Hitler’s Fortress City: The Battle of Königsberg, 1945; and more.   The Better Angels: Committed To Defending an Inclusive Society | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller We face a cultural crisis that calls on all who care about creating an inclusive society. There is much to do. We must speak to the rise in unapologetic manifestations of hate during and after the presidential campaign.   SPONSORED BY EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING Beyond Awareness Campaigns: Marketing Library Services Today “We librarians assume that patrons will come to us,” says Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development at Central Michigan University. “In the 1980s, they had to come to us, there was no internet. Today, many people are able to complete their college careers without using the library at all.” Read More...   Collecting Art | Wyatt’s World By Neal Wyatt Art volumes are complicated purchases. However, these tomes illustrate perfectly what a library offers its community—a place where books that may be out of reach for many are easily available.   Deliberate Resistance | Sustainability By Rebekkah Smith Aldrich We've dealt with a lot of disruption as libraries and citizens in the past year. From a pretty insane presidential race to a major nationwide Internet outage caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, we've got disruption in every sector of modern life.   Politics, Sports, & Otis Redding | Nonfiction Previews, May 2017, Pt. 5 By Barbara Hoffert Reviews of Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life; Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom; The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights; and more.     infoDOCKET | SocArXiv Formally Launches in Beta Today and Announces Grants From Open Society and Sloan Foundations Filed by Gary Price From a SocArXiv Blog Post: SocArXiv, the open access, open source archive of social science, is officially launching in beta version today. Created in partnership with the Center for Open Science, SocArXiv provides a free, noncommercial service for rapid sharing of academic papers; it is built on the Open Science Framework, a platform for researchers to upload data and code as well as research results. ALSO ON INFODOCKET Arizona State University’s SolarSPELL Program “Delivers Digital Libraries to Tonga” New From ARL, AAUP, and CNI: “University Press and Library Summit Releases White Paper, Recommendations” More Than 600 Springer Nature Journals Adopt New Data Sharing Policies A New and Significantly Expanded Release of HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features Open Dataset Now Available Harry Ransom Center (U. of Texas at Austin) Acquires Books from Gabriel García Márquez’s Library ON THE LJ BLOGS Our Post-Perspective World | Annoyed Librarian The Disappeared School Librarians | Annoyed Librarian BESTSELLERS BESTSELLERS: Politics and Law By LJ Reviews 1. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Hinton, Elizabeth Harvard University Press 2016. ISBN 9780674737235. $29.95 2. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right Mayer, Jane Doubleday 2016. ISBN 9780385535595. $29.95 3. The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America Dyson, Michael Eric Houghton Mifflin 2016. ISBN 9780544387669. $27 Create Tech Programming that Supports Digital Literacy Over four weeks, this interactive online course will provide you with an understanding of how to run computer programming courses that introduce your patrons to new career paths and technologies. Register before January 6 for special early bird pricing. Learn More››› 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. 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