In January, Arizona State University (ASU) announced that its Labriola National American Indian Data Center received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to enable the center to better help Tribal nations that want to establish archival collections. The project is called “Firekeepers: Building Archival Data Sovereignty through Indigenous Memory Keeping.”
Top foreign and indie picks this month include dramas from the Australian New Wave and German New Wave, plus a timely examination of women’s healthcare prior to Roe v. Wade.
Visit us at 2023 ER&L annual conference to learn more about Direct to Open—our innovative model for open access. Attend our session “Direct to Open by the Data: Usage, Lessons, and Forecasts from an Equitable Open Access Model in Year One” on Monday, 6th March at 1:30pm.
Women’s history is not confined by borders or dates. It is unfolding in the headlines every day, around the globe. It is in the pages of these books too, which range across time and continents while considering the varied lives and histories of women.
These must-see documentaries offer something for everyone, from a feel-good story about letters to Santa to a coming-of-age sport documentary about hockey in Minnesota. There's even a roller-coaster, rags-to-riches tale about a PEZ candy outlaw.
“In this grant, we are putting forth a model where the community retains ownership and stewardship in all interactions with the library. They get to determine how it will be shared and establish access restriction protocols for the public sphere.”
A gold mine for researchers seeking data on crimes. The price should not deter libraries that have strong criminal justice and sociology collections as well as legal libraries. For those libraries that have the previous editions, this update is a must.
Will be of interest to graduate students, teaching graduate assistants, researchers, and faculty. Due to its lack of an index, traditional nonfiction and professional collections might benefit more than a traditional reference section.
Barber knew everybody in his milieu, and this book reflects that. Scholars will devour this exceptional study, but any music lover will benefit from reading it.
The 2023 NAACP Literary Image Award winners are announced, including Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and Finding Me by Viola Davis. Shortlists for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards are announced.
There are awards announcements for the 43rd Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction longlist, and the Jan Grigson Trust Award shortlist.
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