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| January 31, 2017 |  Not Business as Usual | ALA Midwinter 2017 By LJ In spite of intermittent rain, the mild temperatures of Atlanta, GA, made it a welcome destination for the 2017 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, held January 20–24. Current events—notably the inauguration on Friday of Donald Trump as the 45th president—drove a series of offerings that were definitely not business as usual. |
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 UMass Boston Library Cuts Squeeze Resources By Jennifer A. Dixon Faculty and students returning to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston campus for the Spring 2017 semester will encounter a library with resources noticeably reduced thanks to dramatic budget cuts. |
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| SPONSORED EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING  Practical Research, Practical Marketing What’s the secret to helping your faculty produce academic research that resonates with practitioners, students, policy makers, and other influencers? Think less about theory, and more about practical relevance—that’s the opinion of Thomas W. Kent, Ph.D., professor and chair for the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, School of Business, College of Charleston. Read More››› |
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 A Unified Voice: Confronting an Assault on Information | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller I wrote recently that the rate of media illiteracy is the information crisis of our time, but now that very real issue has nonetheless been trumped by a full-on deliberate assault on the flow of information—from journalism and scientific research to dissemination via social media and traditional channels. |
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 Setting the Standards for Saving Email By Matt Enis The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the U.K.–based nonprofit Digital Preservation Coalition in November 2016 announced the formation of a Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives. |
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| SPONSORED CONTENT  Rethinking the What and How of the ILS Are we spending money wisely? Librarians and administrators ask themselves this question in many ways. It’s inherent in the choices we make between different brands of dry erase marker, different resources covering the same subject area, and in decisions to implement or replace software that helps us do our jobs. Read More››› |
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| "Librarians have always been willing to go rogue in the defense of intellectual freedom." | | |
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 Placemaking and the Public Library | ALA Midwinter 2017 By Stephanie Sendaula “People crave community. Community needs space. Space can create community. If you are not creating community, you are probably not creating places,” explained Michelle Jeske, City Librarian at Denver Public Library (DPL) and a 2005 LJ Mover & Shaker, to an eager crowd. |
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 ILS / LSP in Academic Libraries | Survey Library Journal is conducting a short, five-minute survey to measure academic libraries’ satisfaction with their integrated library system/library services platform, and we would appreciate your feedback. Survey results will appear in an LJ feature in April. |
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 Q&A: RESIST! Cartoonists Respond to the Election By Martha Cornog After Election Day, November 8, 2016, Gabe Fowler had to do something. As owner of Brooklyn’s Desert Island comics shop and editor of the quarterly comics tabloid Smoke Signal, he decided to devote a special issue of that publication to cartoonists reacting against the forces of intolerance. |
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 Q&A: M. Simone Boyd & Onnie I. Kirk Jr. By Christine Sharbrough The Day Sonny Died (see starred review, LJ 2/1/17, p. 55), coauthored by daughter/father writing team M. Simone Boyd and Onnie I. Kirk Jr., is a gritty, poignant, and realistic debut novel about three generations of an African American family struck repeatedly by violent tragedy. |
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 Celebrating Mystery’s Best | Edgar Award Nominees 2017 By Wilda Williams The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) celebrated Edgar Allan Poe’s 208th birthday on January 19 by releasing the nominees for the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television published or produced in 2016. |
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 SLJ Reviews of the YMA Winners | ALA Midwinter 2017 By SLJ At a jam-packed press conference held at the midwinter meeting of the Amercian Library Association in Atlanta last week, the winners of the Youth Media Awards were announced. Here are the SLJ reviews of almost all the titles that received medals or honors. |
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 The Nordic Way to Happy | Wyatt’s World By Neal Wyatt On the heels of calm interventions such as adult coloring books and only keeping possessions that spark joy, a new lifestyle movement is afoot. Hygge (pronounced hue-gah) is a Danish concept that encourages finding meaning in the everyday. |
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| Xpress Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Holly Brown's This Is Not Over is this week's starred fiction title. "This well-written and absolutely compelling suspense novel will appeal to fans of psychological thrillers that pay attention to personal details." In nonfiction, an updated version of Eleanor Roosevelt's Great Depression–era classic, It's Up to the Women, is "highly recommended for academic and school libraries for its importance as a primary resource in American history, women’s history, and as the work of an important leader in the women’s rights movement." Thi Bui's debut, The Best We Could Do, is this week's starred graphic novel. "Be prepared to take your heart on an emotional roller-coaster journey with this thought-provoking account that completely satisfies as the story comes full circle. Highly recommended for teens and adults; an excellent choice for book clubs." And Laura Dane's Diablo Lake: Protected is one of two starred e-originals this week. "In this uniquely positive paradigm of paranormal beings working together, the sympathetic interplay of powers between wolf and witch is exciting and adds to the well-described sexual magic."
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 Libraries and Literacies: Redefining Our Impact Join us March 9-10 in Miami, FL to explore what “literacy” means today, from reading readiness to digital and news literacy and fostering lifelong learning, you’ll learn about innovative programs and services from a series of insightful presentations and collaborative sessions from leading thinkers. |
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