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August 8, 2017
Albany Public Library’s Bike Fixit Stations Albany Public Library Partners with Transportation Authority
By Lisa Peet
Albany Public Library has formed an alliance with the Capital District Transportation Authority on several innovative programs designed to bring library workers and patrons to its branches by bus and bike.
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By Matt Enis
Students returning to Pennsylvania State University (PSU) this fall will find four new short story dispensing kiosks installed at libraries across the University Park campus, along with a website for submitting their own original stories for distribution through the kiosks.
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Booksellers (l.–r.) Bea and Leah Koch A Special Day for Librarians | RWA 2017
By Bette-Lee Fox
A highlight of the annual Romance Writers of America (RWA) conference is Librarians Day, held this year on Saturday, July 29.
(L.–r.): Sisters Audrey and Brianna Lee Final Thoughts on the Perfect Genre | RWA 2017
By Bette-Lee Fox
With a reimagined Romance Writers of America 2017 schedule, I attended fewer workshops than I might have previously, but each was fresh and worthwhile, as was fully acknowledged by the large and receptive crowds.
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Call for Nominations Library Marketer of the Year: Call for Nominations
Library Journal will honor one library staffer or a library team with its Marketer of the Year award in its October 1 issue. The award, sponsored by Library Ideas, comes with a $2,000 cash prize. Nominations are due today.
"We saw this as a great way to give staff a perk…[and] to get our staff to start using mass transportation."
Make Electronics kit 5 Tips for Makers on a Budget from a Teen Librarian
By Karen Jensen
“Teen Librarian Toolbox” blogger and SLJTeen Live! panelist Karen Jensen shares some ideas and resources for low-budget Maker spaces.
Making Storytime Inviting Beyond Bilingual: Making Storytime Inviting to All English Language Learners
By Rachel G. Payne and Jessica Ralli
We want to encourage parents to read, talk, sing, write, and play—the components of Every Child Ready to Read—in the language they know best, but how can librarians bridge the language divide?
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Higher Ground As Employers Turn to Evidence-Based Hiring, How Can Libraries Prepare Job Seekers? | Higher Ground
By Susanna Williams
Employers are starting to realize that their previous proxies—degrees, keywords, a few hours of conversation, and limited reference checks—are creating a dual problem: there are too many of the wrong applicants for open positions.
CEO Vince Bertram Getting STEM to Take Root: Vince Bertram Leads the Way
By Matt Enis
Project Lead the Way President and CEO Vince Bertram is publishing Dream Differently: Candid Advice for America’s Students (Regnery) this month. He recently spoke with LJ about changing the U.S. approach to STEM education and how libraries can help.
Reshma Saujani Reshma Saujani on Closing the Gender Gap in Tech
By Della Farrell
The CEO of Girls Who Code, and SLJTeen Live! closing keynoter, speaks to SLJ about her latest and upcoming projects.
Pride and Prejudice Celebrating Jane Austen | RA Crossroads
By Neal Wyatt
Welcome to Readers’ Advisory (RA) Crossroads, where books, movies, music, and other media converge and whole-collection RA service goes where it may. In this column, English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) leads me down a winding path.
Careers for Women Summer Reading Final Call | Wyatt’s World
By Neal Wyatt
As August begins the slow slide into fall, back-to-school commercials toll doom for students and the baseball season rounds the corner into an extended homestretch.
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Seeking Sarah ReShonda Tate Billingsley's Seeking Sarah is one of three starred fiction selections this week. "NAACP Image Award winner and best-selling author Billingsley (Let the Church Say Amen) has written another engrossing page-turner about a complicated mother-daughter relationship that readers will enjoy into the wee hours." Robert Leonard Reid's Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West is one of three starred nonfiction titles this week." Reid’s original voice is sure to capture all readers interested in the West. That two of his books are no longer in print makes this fine collection very timely indeed." Magda Szabó's The Door is this week's starred audiobook selection. "Every global citizen with an interest in superb literary fiction will want to open this intriguing Door.... Szabó’s literary achievement is further enhanced by [Siân] Thomas’s narration, utterly visceral, alternating between biting control and emotional outbursts so vivid as to almost see the tightly closed face and feel the flying spittle of desperate dialog." In graphic novels, By Chance or Providence by Becky Cloonan, with illustrations by Cloonan, Lee Loughridge, and Rachel Deering, "is marketed as Mature, [but] young adult readers will enjoy the collection, as will anyone who appreciates whimsical melancholy and bright, energetic illustration." And Barrel Proof, book three of Layla Reyne's "Agents Irish & Whiskey" series, is this week's starred e-original. "Readers looking for M/M titles or romantic suspense that focuses on an FBI partnership as well as a central love affair will be rewarded with delicious, angst-filled energy."

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