In 2022 Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned Team began providing free ebook access to teens and young adults nationwide, defying rising book challenges across the country.
In “Spanish-speakers Preferred: How Libraries Can Make Their Workforce Better Reflect Their Communities,” Andrew A. Wakeleea (Fresno City College) and Kim M. Thompson (University of South Carolina) study library employment trends and offer suggestions for how to better foster a more inclusive workforce.
This report highlights how academic libraries apply equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) standards when acquiring digital resources and includes the full data from LJ’s 2022 survey of 220 college/university libraries.
This will be my last editorial for LJ. For me, this news is bittersweet; I’m excited to begin a new role elsewhere in libraryland, as managing editor of CQ Researcher at SAGE Publishing. But I will miss my colleagues, the opportunities I have had here to learn from and collaborate with librarians across the country, and my chance to bend your ear every month.
“We wanted to resituate that conversation about freedom to read and intellectual freedom where it belongs, in public libraries and in schools.”
Virginia Cononie, assistant librarian/coordinator of reference and research at the University of South Carolina Upstate Spartanburg Library, was named one of Library Journal’s 2022 Movers & Shakers for her library advocacy work. LJ recently reached out to Cononie to learn more about her Share Your Story campaign, a collection of success stories from libraries in South Carolina that were compiled into a book and sent to South Carolina lawmakers.
BookMarks collates the major award-winning novels and finalists of 2022. B&N issues “Challenge Your Reading With These Books in 2023.” The U.S. Department of Education investigates the removal of LGBTQ+ books from a Texas school district. Donna Tartt answers 11 questions about The Secret History.
“Today’s library is so many things,” says Jennifer Charzewski, principal at the Charleston-based architecture firm Liollio. “It’s library as gathering place, as museum, as park, as school, as community center.” So, library designers are prioritizing flexibility for unforeseen future functions as they embark on both new builds and renovations.
Tiya Miles wins Schomburg Center’s 2022 Harriet Tubman Prize for All That She Carried. PW names its 2022 People of the Year, including librarians on the front lines of book-banning resistance. LitHub rounds up the biggest literary stories of the year. Hulu’s docu-series The 1619 Project, adapted from essays in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones with the New York Times Magazine, will premiere January 26.
In the Lives of Puppets, by TJ Klune, is a starred SFF selection "Readers who loved Klune’s previous works will find plenty of the author’s trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness, while those looking for more hopeful robot stories, like A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, will find this interpretation of a robot-future different but just as compelling." Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is another starred SFF title. "A nonstop SF adventure from beginning to end." Age of Vice, by Deepti Kapoor, is a starred mystery. "Impossible to put down; Kapoor is the real thing." And also in mystery, Hank Phillippi Ryan's The House Guest is a starred title. "The second half of Ryan’s binge-worthy novel takes readers on a ride with a satisfying end. Seasoned suspense readers may find it predictable, but fans of domestic thrillers will enjoy."
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