Recently I became acquainted with the creative works of a colleague, Jessy Randall, and I am impressed by the reciprocity between her archival work as the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College and her poetry. Her latest book, Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science, is a union of research and creativity.
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The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 attempts to ban or restrict library resources in K–12, higher ed, and public libraries in all of 2021, targeting 1,597 unique titles—itself the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began keeping track of challenged books more than 20 years ago.
The EveryLibrary Institute, the companion organization of library advocacy group EveryLibrary, commissioned Embold Research, a nonpartisan research firm, to poll 1,223 U.S. voters on book banning. The survey found that nearly all (92 percent) have heard at least something about such censorship, and at least 75 percent will consider the issue of book banning when voting this November. Also in observance of Banned Books Week, intellectual freedom organization PEN America offered an update to its previous report, Banned in the USA: Rising School Book Bans Threaten Free Expression and Students’ First Amendment Rights, published in April.
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“Maybe the draw of archival work is the same as the draw of creative work, for me. You get interested in something, curious about it, and so you read about it and watch films about it and write about it and talk about it with your friends. And sometimes the result is a poem, or maybe a whole lot of poems.”
The 2022 American Poets Prizes are announced. The Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction finalists and the German Book Prize shortlist are announced. The 7th edition of BookNet Canada’s State of Publishing report is released.
OCLC has reimagined how people find libraries online with a new WorldCat.org user experience, including more ways to engage. The completely updated site can help libraries connect with people who may not otherwise visit the library online or in person.
Useful for film scholars or sociologists, yet still accessible for general sci-fi fans, Kotz’s book is a fascinating look at the debut of an extraterrestrial movie menace that’s still popular today.
This volume, partly an economic history but mostly a thorough record of the global economy’s connection with politics, is destined to become a classic in its category. Social sciences and history collections would benefit the most from this book.
This book should be part of library collections on economic and social thought. Liu’s recontextualization of Adam Smith will be of interest to scholars as well as general audiences.
Visceral and readable without ever feeling too steeped in theory or jargon, Raffo’s accessible book helps show that roots matter more than what many see and that change is impossible without a real weeding, a structural dismantling of what people prefer to simply cover up or look away from.
Williams’s concise book effectively synthesizes numeral primary and secondary sources into an excellent overview of the origins of Mardi Gras tribes and the reasons for their continued endurance. Particularly recommended for libraries looking to add to collections on Black American cultural traditions.
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Plagues Upon the Earth, Maladies of Empire, Our History of Addiction, Secret of Life, and more in history of science titles: September 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
1. Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History.
Harper, Kyle Princeton University Press 2021. ISBN 9780691192123 $35.00
2. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Downs, Jim Belknap Harvard 2021. ISBN 9780674971721 $29.95
3. Urge: Our History of Addiction. Fisher, Carl Erik Penguin Books 2022. ISBN 9780525561446 $30.00
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