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African American Archives African American Archives: Preserving History and Increasing Access
By April Witteveen
Several new initiatives will expand African American experiences beyond the archives and make them publicly available.
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By LJ Staff
If you’re looking for drama, you’ll find it in some of the stunning design on display in the 2019 Year in Architecture roundup. Among them:
  • Temple University’s new 220,000 square foot Charles Library, among others, is Taking the Long View

  • The Jack R. Hunt Library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; Princeton University’s Firestone Library; and the Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at Barnard College, NY Bring the Outside In
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Donuts, Dogs, and De-Stressing Donuts, Dogs, and De-Stressing: Library Programs to Ease Student Stress

To help prepare their patrons for the long hours of studying, writing, and prepping, librarians have created anti-procrastination, stress-relieving events that seek to ease the pain of the finals push.

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How to Build a Database How to Build a Database
By Jennifer A. Dixon
Digitizing, organizing, and contextualizing primary sources from libraries and archives presents unique challenges and rich opportunities.
Memorization and Knowledge in the Age of Google Memorization and Knowledge in the Age of Google
By Conn McQuinn
When even the most esoteric information is only a Siri question away, why waste time memorizing anything? Neuroscience can give us some clues as to why.
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MS-13 Barbara’s Picks (MS-13, the Nonlinear Life, the Paradise Fire, Conditional Citizenship, Galileo, & Parenting and Grandparenting), Plus Self-Help and Final Nonfiction Titles: Nonfiction Previews, May 2020. Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert
Veteran journalist Steven Dudley on a notorious street gang, Bay Area reporters Gee and Anguiano on the Paradise Fire, award-winning novelist Laila Lalami on an immigrant’s sense of conditional citizenship, astrophysicist Mario Livio on Galileo defying science deniers, and more.
"Our background is really in book publishing, [which] is quite straightforward and linear. With digital, you’re always having to think in 3-D, and reprogramming yourself to think in a different way, which is a challenge"
Philadelphia’s Temple University Branching Out, November 2019
By Lisa Peet
Philadelphia’s Temple University unveils its state-of-the-art Charles Library; Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning completes the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library; and more new construction and renovation news from the November 2019 issue of Library Journal.
From LJ Reviews:
SOCIAL SCIENCES
All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator
By Barry Levine & Monique El-Faizy
While many of the most shocking incidents discussed here are public knowledge, the significant new material and the book’s usefulness as a single-volume source on the topic make this not only a critical current read but one likely to become even more important in the future.
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
By Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
A compelling accounting of the events that helped ignite #MeToo. Highly recommended for readers interested in social justice and the reporting process.
PREMIUM
Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River
By John Hildebrand
Rivers were once the major highway systems of this country and Hildebrand’s rediscovery of this history feels so foreign to the point of near exposé. A must for Wisconsinites, but a recommended journey for socioculturalists in general.
SCIENCES
PREMIUM

Marfa Garden: The Wonders of Dry Desert Plants
By Jim Fissel & others
Readers will be attracted to the surprising beauty of these dry desert plants and should consider using them to promote water conservation. An appealing choice for garden artists, landscapers, and home gardeners in the Southwest and elsewhere.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
PREMIUM

Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump’s War on the World’s Most Powerful Office
By Susan Hennessey & Benjamin Wittes
This book was completed before the impeachment probe in October 2019 so parts feel outdated. However, serious political readers and presidential studies scholars will derive much from this cogent appraisal.
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By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency; Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940–1976; Sunny Days: Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, and the Children’s Television Revolution; and more.
African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Chemistry
By LJ Reviews

1. African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era
Brown, Jeannette E.
Oxford University Press
2018. ISBN 9780190615178. $34.95

2. Carbon
Ervine, Kate
Polity Press
2018. ISBN 9781509501113. $59.95

3. Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Estreich, George
MIT Press
2019. ISBN 9780262039567. $27.95
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