From Publishers to Booksellers and Librarians: COVID-19 Accelerates Book Industry Shift to Digital, Interdependence
By Barbara Hoffert
Shuttered libraries and bookstores. Canceled orders and events. Changed workflow, falling revenue, staff layoffs, uncollected metadata, and inability to forecast. Clogged distribution channels, with physical books amassing in warehouses as demand downshifts and orders are returned. These are the challenges now facing the book industry.

IMLS Announces Swift Delivery of CARES Act Funding to COVID-19 Impacted Libraries
By Lisa Peet
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced on April 13 that it would begin steps to distribute the first $30 million appropriated to the agency through the federal Coronavirus Aid Package, or CARES Act.

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Libraries and the Census in the Time of COVID-19
By Meg Brown
Historically, libraries have assisted the U.S. Census Bureau. However, much has changed with the spread of COVID-19 and the closure of thousands of libraries.

IMLS, CDC: On Staff Safety, Handling Paper In COVID-19 Pandemic
By Lisa Peet
Advice abounds on how to treat and disinfect high-touch, nonporous objects such as doorknobs, keyboards, and cell phones to help slow transmission of the novel coronavirus. But for workers in libraries, archives, and other institutions who handle paper and books, there are fewer guidelines.

2020 Hugo Awards Finalists
By Anja Webb
The 2020 Hugo Awards finalists were recently announced, and several titles were previously covered in LJ and SLJ. The following list offers plenty of inspiration for sff reading.

#AuthorsTakeAction and Spread Message to Readers: Stay Home
By Kara Yorio
Padma Venkatraman created #AuthorsTakeAction and middle grade and YA authors joined in the cause to impress upon their readers the importance of following social distancing guidelines.

Two Libraries In One: When Schools and Public Libraries Share Space, All Users Benefit
By April Witteveen
These four carefully planned partnerships resulted in better access to materials and fiscally responsible resource sharing.

Nora Burmeister, Traci Engel Lesneski, Bridget Quinn-Carey, and More Library People News
By Lisa Peet
Nora Burmeister appointed Content Strategy Librarian at University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, Traci Engel Lesneski named CEO and President of MSR Design, Hartford PL Director Bridget Quinn-Carey honored with one of Hartford Business Journal's 2020 Women in Business Awards, and more library people news.

Sarah Pinsker Wins the Philip K. Dick Award; Another Stephen King Adaptation on the Way | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Masked Prey by John Sandford (G.P. Putnam's Sons: Penguin) leads holds this week. People’s Book of the Week is It's Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker wins the Philip K. Dick Award.

Hot off the Presses! 10 New Books/Ebooks Out This Week
By Kiera Parrott
Ready for your next great read? The following novels, cookbooks, memoirs, and nonfiction works come out this week—and all are available as ebooks.

Best Books for Home Breadmaking
By Stephanie Sendaula
Bread was one of the first items people stocked up on at the onset of the coronavirus, according to the Washington Post, which also noted a subsequent increase in breadmaking; as Eater points out, "unlike eggs or milk...if the bread runs out, you can just make your own."

The World of Bees | Science & Technology
By LJ Reviews
This work will engage all readers interested in learning more about birds and natural history; this will be of great interest to birders, naturalists, behaviorists, and enjoyers of wildlife art.

12 Nonfiction Books To Commemorate Earth Day
By Bob Hassett
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with these 12 nonfiction books for elementary, middle school, and high school readers.

Killing Eve and Julian Fellowes Light Up Small Screens; Oprah's Summer Picks | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Killing Eve comes back for a new season and a new Julian Fellowes show debuts. Celeste Ng, Sigrid Nunez, Emily Wilson, Ada Limón, and Valeria Luiselli are among the 2020 Guggenheim Fellows. The first big list of summer reads is out. A lost story by Frances Hodgson Burnett has been discovered.

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