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| May 8, 2018 |  Alt-Right Activist Disturbs Law Library, Banned From UVA By Lisa Peet Jason Kessler, the alt-right activist who was a primary organizer of the August 2017 Unite the Right rally that ignited violence in Charlottesville, VA, has been banned from the University of Virginia (UVA) campus in Charlottesville after visiting the UVA Law Library on April 18 and again on April 25. |
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| SPONSORED BY SCHOOL OUTFITTERS  From Outdated Library to Modern Media Center The very idea of libraries is evolving. Traditional hushed, book-lined environments are being replaced by contemporary workspaces and becoming hubs of collaboration. School Outfitters had an opportunity to work with a local school to modernize their space, transforming it from a sparsely-populated room to one of the busiest in the building. Download the case study››› |
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 Good Bones | Library Design By Meredith Schwartz The key notes of the Laurel Branch Library—transparency and playfulness—work together. |
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 Reaching Net Zero | Library Design By Lisa Peet Colorado College’s library renovation added space, services, and facilities while achieving ambitious sustainability goals. |
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 Inclusive Restroom Design | Library Design By Meredith Schwartz Until recently, the widespread reexamination of library design principles largely stopped at the bathroom door. But that’s changing as awareness spreads that many patrons identify as transgender, nonbinary, agender, genderfluid, or otherwise don’t fall within the male/female binary. |
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| "That poem on the Confederate flag doesn’t look or feel like satire. It looks and reads just like a zillion racist graphics." | | |
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 Sustainability, Squared: Great Buildings Are Just the Start | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller The six projects that won the 2018 AIA/ALA Building Awards are worth a good look. The awards, presented each year by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) celebrate excellence in architectural design and help identify trends to consider in new buildings or renovations |
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 Meet the Black Women Changing Romance | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt BuzzFeed has an in-depth look at black women working in romance. Annie Proulx wins the 2018 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole (Kensington) wins RT’s Book of the Year. Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo (Catapult) is the Belletrist May book pick. |
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| Xpress Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Sarah Winman's "quiet stunner," Tin Man, is one of three starred fiction titles this week. "As Winman threads together a poignant story comprising past and present, we see vibrant friendship and awful heartbreak bravely borne, delivered in language that’s sure, swift, and gorgeously affecting.... Winman makes the everyday remarkable; readers will want to watch this work unfold." In nonfiction, Timothy Snyder's The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America offers a "compelling blend of scholarship and investigative journalism [that] will appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary politics." And Rebecca Grace Allen's Her Claim is this week's starred e-original. "Readers wanting an erotic romance that is very hot but also features emotional ups and downs and a happy ever after will also be satisfied."
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 Fund Your Library: Tools and Tactics for Getting to Yes! Whether you’re going to voters, city councils, school boards, college board of directors, or any other funder, the fundamental issues are the same: how do you convince the stewards of a limited budget that the library is their best investment? |
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