Clarkson Receives Grant for “Reckoning with Race and Racism in Healthcare and Medicine” Project By Andrew Gerber Despite its science based and mission-driven underpinnings, U.S. healthcare is subject to great racial disparities. With a $10,000 grant from the Northern New York Library Network, faculty at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, are undertaking a new program called “Reckoning with Race and Racism in Healthcare and Medicine” to help local healthcare practitioners and students better understand the ways that racial biases determine health outcomes. |
Reginald Dwayne Betts on Politics, Poetry, and the MacArthur Fellowship By Eldon Ray James Poet, memoirist, attorney, and MacArthur Fellow Reginald Dwayne Betts recently partnered with artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar on Redaction (Norton), an innovative collection of art and poetry confronting the abuses of the criminal justice system, drawing on his experience of incarceration. Retired researcher/librarian Eldon Ray James spoke with Betts about the collaboration and where politics and poetry meet and about Betts’s Freedom Reads project, through which he plans to install Freedom Library book collections in every residential prison unit in the United States. |
Tell LJ about using Open Source in your library Library Journal is searching for academic libraries using open source software (or developing code) to customize library applications. If this describes your library, please tell us about the platforms used and reasons for turning to open source technology/coding over proprietary software. This very brief survey will take less than 4 minutes of your time. Start survey:https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7073175/Open-Source-Solutions-Survey Our goal is to identify and increase awareness of how academic libraries can take ownership of their software via open source or independent development. |
SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE LIUC University, Italy Implements Ex Libris Esploro
With two different, disconnected systems tracking different aspects of the university’s research activities, the staff of the Mario Rostini Library at LIUC saw an opportunity with Ex Libris Esploro to streamline workflows to comply with Italian laws, and to provide a better service to the university’s community of researchers.
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PERFORMING ARTS Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western By Mia Mask This carefully crafted academic treatment will enhance library shelves, although this book’s conceptual language may challenge lay readers. Still, it’s worth the effort. PREMIUM Why Dance Matters By Mindy Aloff A thoughtful and engaging look at dance and its place in the human experience that will likely appeal to readers with an interest in dance, culture, and forms of human expression. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar By Robin R. Means Coleman & Mark H. Harris A must-have reference with a near encyclopedic, yet readable, survey of nearly 1,000 horror movies containing more than 1,500 appearances by Black characters, from minor, nonspeaking roles to the exploration of Black films that have progressively broadened Black roles in horror and in cinema as a whole. |
SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE University of Liège Deploys Library Mobile App
Patrons have begun to expect 24/7 library services. With Ex Libris Library Mobile, the University of Liège is empowering patrons to access digital services and resources at any time and on any device.
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