Brooks Rainwater recently stepped into his new role as president and CEO of Urban Libraries Council (ULC). LJ caught up with him as he settled in at ULC to find out more about his move to libraries from a career in public policy.
It is crucial that libraries help their communities grapple with pressing current issues. But it’s also important to rest, both individually and collectively.
View the panel discussion from SLJ’s Picture Book Palooza, with Richard Cowdrey, AG Ford, Laura Park, Miki Sato, and Dan Yaccarino on the art of visualizing the text.
Library Journal will honor one library staffer or a library team with its sixth annual Marketer of the Year award in its October 2022 issue. The award, sponsored by Library Ideas, comes with a $2,000 cash prize. The award recognizes the importance of innovative approaches to marketing of library services, the role of marketing in building library engagement, and the value of quality marketing collateral to help build a vibrant sense of the library and define its relevance in the community. Collateral should reflect the diversity of the community and staff in imagery and reflect cultural competency in its language and message.
Abstract: Librarians are feeling the squeeze. As they seek to meet changing patron expectations and a dynamic technological environment, they are often simultaneously faced with budget cuts and leadership looking over their shoulder for evidence of institutional value.
Black Dog by Stuart Woods leads holds this week. Four LibraryReads and twelve Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green. The buyers picks in the August issue of Costco Connection are Jamie Ford's The Many Daughters of Afong Moy and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice.
The Center for Fiction announces its longlist for the 2022 First Novel Prize. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction and the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlists are announced. The Diverse Book Awards longlist is announced. Gilbert Cruz is named NYT's new Books Editor. The forthcoming Marilyn Monroe film, Blonde, based on the book by Joyce Carol Oates, gets buzz and a trailer.
"I had done a lot of work around innovation districts, economic anchors and cultural institutions, and I see libraries sitting directly in that space."
Call for Information: Completed library renovation or construction projects
Library Journal is collecting information about recently completed library construction/renovation projects for our annual Year in Architecture feature. If your institution completed a library construction or renovation project between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022, please tell us about it! The links below will direct you to download a pdf of the form before filling out your responses online.
We have separate links for public and college/university library projects:
Library system analytics can be applied to a wide range of use cases. The integration of a research information management system (RIMS) expands those options. The Weizmann Institution of Science Library transformed analytics results and narratives into faculty-facing communication, integrating context and metadata and supporting scientists in complying with their research grant open access requirements.
Prolific patron-favorite author Stuart Woods has died at the age of 84. Monica Byrne wins the 2022 Wellman Award for The Actual Star. Yale announces the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize finalists, including Tiya Miles, Jennifer L. Morgan, and Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh. Shortlists for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award and the James Cropper Wainwright Prize are announced.
Carrie Soto Is Back is a starred fiction selection. "Reid (Daisy Jones & the Six) has written another knockout of a book. Public libraries will need multiple copies." Also in fiction, Michelle Gallen's Factory Girls is another starred title. "From the author of Big Girl, Small Town, this novel is a wonder; the heroine is cheeky, the humor dark, the dialect thick, the sorrow palpable. Fans of Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and television’s Derry Girls will find much to love." Happyish, by Jeanette Escudero, is another starred fiction selection. "Cuban American Escudero (The Apology Project) writes a sometimes gritty, occasionally hilarious, and mostly heart-wrenching story. A relatable, gripping tale, infused with Latinx culture, that packs an emotional wallop." And Pulitzer Prize finalist Jonathan Dee's Sugar Street is another another starred fiction title. "A story of the desperation and ultimate impossibility of isolation, Dee’s narrative is a spider web of questions that won’t let readers go, questions like where does insanity begin and end?"
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