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 Traveling Together: Central Arkansas Library System Wins 2021 Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize By Lisa Peet and Meredith Schwartz When the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) received an Honorable Mention for the Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize in 2020, the library was in the process of stepping up to meet the goals of a recent strategic plan and become the institution referenced in its new tagline: “The Library, Rewritten.” This year, CALS has seen success with extensive community outreach and many projects that were still in progress in 2020, as well as supporting its public and staff during the pandemic. |
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 Best Books 2021 By LJ Reviews LJ’s Best Books of 2021 celebrate titles to treasure, indelible works that build and shape collections. They offer reads of solace and community, insight and joy. These 144 titles across 15 categories highlight the essential books of the year. |
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 SPONSORED BY MCFARLAND & CO. Trouble Breathing: How Asthma and COPD Work and What You Can Do Even when doctors prescribe medications that bring relief to breathing problems, patients can still be left with unanswered questions about long-lasting treatments. Written by a respiratory therapist with decades of experience, this handbook helps respiratory patients have more productive relationships with their doctors, becoming active participants in fine-tuning their own care. |
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 Center for an Urban Future Report and Forum Call for NYC Libraries to Help City Recover By Lisa Peet Center for an Urban Future released its most recent report, “Branches to Recovery: Tapping the Power of NYC’s Public Libraries to Rebuild a More Equitable City,” on November 30. The report was accompanied by a forum held at the New York Public Library’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library and virtually that invited city library leaders and policy makers to weigh in on how libraries can help ensure an inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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 Movers & Shakers 2022 | Deadline Extended to December 13 The editors of Library Journal need your help identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Movers & Shakers profiles up-and-coming, innovative, creative individuals from around the world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors—who are providing inspiration and model programs for others, including programs developed this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please use this form to let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of. The deadline for nominations has been extended through next Monday, December 13, 2021. |
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SPONSORED BY OCLC  Maximize Your Community Impact As you continue to put your community at the center of everything you do, now there’s a system that does the same. Wise offers the key to unlock your library's potential to anticipate community needs and reach people more effectively. Are you ready to be a Wise library? Learn more about Wise››› |
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 Challenging Times | Editorial By Meredith Schwartz Book challenges are, of course, nothing new to libraries. But they are ramping up in both frequency and intensity, and will take teamwork to resist. |
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| "The library has done a great job in terms of democratizing information and knowledge. I suggested that it’d be good if the library could democratize entrepreneurship." | | |
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| SPONSORED BY SEVERN HOUSE |
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 2021 Librarian Favorites | Reader’s Shelf By Amy Dittmeier, Van McGary, Anjelica Rufus-Barnes, Soon Har Tan, and Vanessa Villarreal In keeping with the December tradition of the Reader’s Shelf, we asked members of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) BIPOC Library Workers Group to share favorite titles from the year. |
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 The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale leads holds this week. Eight Library Reads and ten Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding. LJ, The Guardian, and more publish best books lists. Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult by Faith Jones gets reviewed and coverage. |
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 Marjoleine Kars Wins the 2021 Cundill History Prize for Blood on the River | Book Pulse By Anita Mechler Marjoleine Kars wins the 2021 Cundill History Prize for Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast. Numerous interviews illuminate the thoughts of Percival Everett of The Trees, Anton Hur and Sang Young Park of Love in the Big City, Christopher Gonzalez of I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat, Ariel Henley of A Face For Picasso, Catherine McCormack of Women in the Picture: What Culture Does With Female Bodies, and Faith Jones of Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult. |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts To Set Him Free, by Sarah Weinman, is this week’s starred Law and Crime selection. "An immediately absorbing story of crime, manipulation, and influence." In fiction, The Lady’s Mine, by Francine Rivers, is one of this week’s starred selections. "With nods to The Taming of the Shrew and the musical Oklahoma, this novel is more lighthearted than Rivers’s typical epic sagas but still retains hallmarks such as compassion for the downtrodden and redemption for the sinner. My Heart is a Chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones, is another starred fiction title. "This is a must-have for public library collections." I’m So (Not) Over You, by Kosoko Jackson, is this week’s starred romance. "Jackson jumps from an outstanding YA debut with Yesterday Is History to deliver a delightfully outrageous romantic comedy full of pop culture references, strong families, and a ride-or-die BFF." And The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning, by Ben Raines, is this week’s starred history selection. "Raines effectively blends historical research and journalism into a gripping transatlantic tale of trauma, hope, and reconciliation. An absolutely essential book." See All Reviews››› |
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