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| June 8, 2017 |  Winds of Change | ALA 2017 Preview By LJ In some ways, the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference’s return to Chicago represents a tried and tested winner. Annual and the Midwinter Meeting alike both frequently revisit ALA’s home ground, where the central location helps ensure a high turnout. In other ways, however, this year’s get-together is all about change. |
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 Creating UX Buy-In | The User Experience By Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit Facilitating meetings that encourage creative strategizing can be a way to move organizational thinking from problem-solving to solution-focused. |
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| SPONSORED BY AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION  American Psychological Association Celebrates 125 years APA’s prestigious scholarly journals are among the most widely circulated, most frequently cited, and most often used publications in the behavioral and social sciences. They are indispensable for researchers, practitioners, librarians, professors, and students. Your library can benefit by adding these important journals, including the flagship journal of the APA, American Psychologist®. Browse Journals››› |
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 Why Social Justice in the Library? | Outreach + Inreach By Margo Gustina and Eli Guinnee Libraries of all types are reevaluating the role they play in their community and on their campus, questioning whether it is still good enough to provide equal access, or if it is time to pursue an active equitable access that focuses on empowering the less powerful and amplifying the voices of the unheard. |
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 Choices: A Historically Black College, or a Predominantly White One? By Wick Thomas Stressing over which college to pick, or whether it’s even financially possible to attend at all, can be enough to crack even the toughest teenager. Add the growing unrest of student activists all across the country, and it can be an even more confusing time. |
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| SPONSORED BY MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION  Guidelines for Conducting Ethical Clinical Trials A clear understanding of how to conduct ethical clinical trials is required for anyone involved in the process. Improper experimentation methods can have devastating and long-lasting negative effects. Just consider the controversy created by Andrew Wakefield when he published a paper in 1998 claiming colitis and autism spectrum disorders were linked to the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine. Read More››› |
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| "I personally felt that the library needed to provide information on protests, demonstrations, knowing their rights as citizens, etc. I didn’t ask permission, I literally just did it." | | |
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 Reading the World | Day of Dialog 2017 By Amanda Mastrull LJ Prepub Alert editor Barbara Hoffert moderated the “Reading the World” panel, which featured representatives from four publishers at the forefront of works in translation—Other Press, Archipelago Books, Europa Editions, and New Directions Publishing. |
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| SPONSORED BY PROQUEST  Revealing Queen Victoria and the Consequences of Sex Depictions of Queen Victoria often make the long-reigning matriarch out to be prudish and matronly. But the BBC Masterpiece Theatre miniseries, Victoria, has enraptured viewers with the passionate love story of her marriage to Prince Albert. Explore marriage, childbirth and the conflicts of sexual desire in the Victorian era. Read More››› |
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 Bookmobile for a Day | Programs That Pop By Kristi Smith The Lane Library at Armstrong State University (ASU) does not have a bookmobile, but on April 12, four librarians fashioned one out of a golf cart for National Bookmobile Day. The location was the entire ASU campus in Savannah. The weather was perfect, with a high of 79°. |
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 LJ Reference Reviews: June 15, 2016 By LJ Reviews A valuable resource for students exploring American history at an introductory level; despite its shortcomings, this volume will be read cover to cover by theater buffs; a welcome addition to the large body of critical analysis on Alfred Hitchcock; Original Sources is a growing database that students will find useful and usable. |
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 People First: Making the Commons Real | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller The movement toward more people-centric civic design has a new tool to put to work. Last month, the Gehl Institute released “A Mayor’s Guide to Public Life”—an inspirational document that showcases breakthrough projects large and small and offers perspective on how to drive such development at the local level. |
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 Karan Mahajan Wins NYPL’s Young Lions Fiction Award By Barbara Hoffert On Thursday, June 1, at a packed event at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street, Karan Mahajan was awarded this year’s Young Lions Fiction Award for The Association of Small Bombs (Viking). |
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 LJ Nonfiction Reviews: June 15, 2017 By LJ Reviews This engrossing read should stimulate lively discussion among Hemingway aficionados; Sancton delivers a highly recommended mix of luring tabloid fare and professionally researched courtroom drama; anyone worried about the planet should check out Goodell’s look at sea-level rise. |
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BESTSELLERS: Social SciencesBy LJ Reviews1. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyThompson, Heather Ann Pantheon 2016. ISBN 9780375423222. $35 2. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of AccelerationsFriedman, Thomas L. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2016. ISBN 9780374273538. $28 3. Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized EraHayes, Danny Cambridge University Press 2016. ISBN 9781107115583. $99.99 |
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 How To Integrate Multiple Literacies Into Your Strategic Plan We have convened some of today’s leading advocates, thinkers, and doers on literacy programming in public libraries to discuss in actionable terms how public librarians are redefining literacy. Don’t wait, register by June 23 to take advantage of our special early-bird rate. Please call 646-380-0773 to inquire about our discounted team rates. |
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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 First Regional Library in Hernando, MS is seeking a Library Director |
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