Helping Unify a Changing City, Cranston Public Library Wins 2020 Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize
By Lisa Peet
Rhode Island's Cranston Public Library, promoting equity and cohesion in a rapidly changing city through its deep involvement in civic life, wins the 2020 Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize, developed in partnership with the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation. Also: Central Arkansas Library System, Gwinnett County Library System, Union County Library System Awarded 2020 Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize Honorable Mention

Identifying 1,257 Married Women by their Full Names in Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library Finding Aids | Peer to Peer Review
By Celeste Brewer
It was once accepted practice to call married women by their husbands’ names, with the honorific “Mrs.” attached—for example, “Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” During the library shutdown, archivists at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library began to remedy that issue in their finding aids.

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Internet Archive Digitizes Closed Marygrove College’s Library
By Matt Enis
After initially exploring the donation of some of its library collections to nearby Wayne State University, Marygrove College ultimately decided to give its 70,000 books and 3,000 journal volumes to the Internet Archive, which digitized the collection and made it available via Controlled Digital Lending.

Final Ithaka Academic Library COVID-19 Response Survey Results
By Lisa Peet
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg discuss the fourth and final analysis of their Academic Library Response to COVID-19 survey, “Indications of the New Normal,” looking at the current phases of academic library pandemic reactions.

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ALA Presidential Candidates, New Register of Copyrights, Fresh Leadership in Cuyahoga, and More Library People News
By Lisa Peet
ALA 2022–23 Presidential candidates include Stacey A. Aldrich, Ed Garcia, and Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada; Shira Perlmutter has been selected as the 14th Register of Copyrights; Cuyahoga County Public Library announced the appointments of Pamela Jankowski, Scott Morgan, and Monique Good; and more library people news for October 26, 2020.

Movers & Shakers 2021 | Call for Nominations
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.

LJ Talks to Cartoonist Sophie Yanow
By Emilia Packard
The Contradictions, Sophie Yanow's Eisner-winning webcomic, now a full-length graphic novel, chronicles a youthful examination of conscience through the story of a young woman trying to live her convictions in a complicated world. In a recent email interview with LJ, Yanow shared her influences and process in creating this sharply observed, precisely penned work.

SLJ Summit: Challenging the Classics to Create an Inclusive Curriculum
By Melanie Kletter
At the SLJ Summit presentation “Challenging the Classics,” three founders of the organization DisruptTexts discussed the need to revisit the literary canon and create an equitable and inclusive curriculum that values and amplifies the work of marginalized groups.

Lee Child & Andrew Child Lead Library Holds; Richard Owain Roberts Wins Not the Booker Prize | Book Pulse
By Mary Bakija
The Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child leads holds this week. People’s "Book of the Week" is The Cold Millions by Jess Walter. Publishers Weekly reveals its "Best Books 2020" choices. Hello Friend We Missed You by Richard Owain Roberts wins The Guardian's 2020 Not the Booker Prize.

40 Resources for Raising Awareness of Lesser-Known Chronic Illnesses | Collection Development, Oct. 2020
By Rich McIntyre Jr.
These offerings describe living with chronic illnesses that receive less attention and funding, as a starting point to heighten understanding.

Anna Burns Wins International Dublin Literary Award for Milkman | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Anna Burns wins the International Dublin Literary Award for Milkman. The 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize shortlist is announced. The CWA Dagger Awards are announced. Michael Robotham wins the Gold Dagger for Good Girl, Bad Girl. Agatha Christie and chess take center stage as a number of adaptations arrive.

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