Great data stories thrive at the intersection of information and emotion, and a handful of approaches can help library staff interpret data in memorable ways for advocacy using data storytelling. The IMLS-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians (DSTL) planning grant project guides users through advocacy arguments, data as evidence, audience attitudes, and narrative strategies to produce a tailored guide for crafting an effective data story.
The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA), based at Northeastern University in Boston, has been bringing together transgender archival materials from institutions of higher education and grassroots collections to a central digital location since 2016. Seven years in, the DTA has collaborated with 76 organizations to build the archive with more than 10,600 items from around the world, focusing on materials originating prior to 2000.
With 23,000+ full-text publications available free to search and download, statistical datasets to leverage, and customization to bookmark favorites and set alerts, make sure every research inquiry starts at the IMF eLibrary. This is global economics at your fingertips.
This month's must-see documentaries include an eye-opening film about Sinéad O’Connor, a look at the use and disuse of scrap metal, and a glimpse of a close-knit group of Doctor Who fans.
This month's top foreign and indie picks feature a revenge-serving restaurant, a single mother struggling to balance her life, and a dig at Britain's rigid caste system.
The Shirley Jackson Award nominees are announced. Robert Macfarlane has won the inaugural Weston International Award. The Orwell Prize goes to Peter Apps and Tom Crewe.
Pulling data from several different sources and making sense of all this information is a significant hurdle for academic librarians. Yet, librarians must be able to do this effectively not only to make sound, evidence-based decisions about their use of campus resources—but also to meet federally mandated reporting requirements (such as IPEDS). Learn how Panorama, a next-gen analytics platform can simplify this process.
This well-researched monograph is a love letter to a unique time and place. It will likely appeal to readers interested in modern art or New York City history.
An intriguing study of Eliot’s complex and ambiguous life and work as it relates to the institution of marriage. Ideal for literary and philosophy scholars.
Groom, who first read The Lord of the Rings when he was 13, provides a fresh study of the impact Tolkien has on contemporary readers’ and viewers’ understanding of good, evil, war, and conflict.
With blunt, entertaining, irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes laugh-out-loud statements, Herriot provocatively explains how the United States came to be and how money-focused, self-serving intentions made it what it is today. Contains important, noteworthy lessons for teen and adult readers.
Professionals and general readers will appreciate this incisive review by a juvenile-court expert. Readers wanting to hear from the system’s victims can pair it with Rikers: An Oral History by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau.
Overall, this is a valuable and detailed book that parenthetically revels the pervasive impact of low intensity conflict and asymmetric warfare. Add to political science, history, and international studies collections.
Enthusiastically recommended for students, scholars, and general readers seeking a thoughtful introduction to a complex and controversial historical moment.
This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger’s volume as a must-have title for librarians, booksellers, collectors, and students of the book arts and book history.
Go deep into punk history with John Malkin’s oral history about the roots of activism in punk rock and Marie Arleth Skov’s art-historical look at the incendiary artworks created by a “no future” punk art movement.
The Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS), a unit of the University System of Georgia, has distributed more than 7,000 Chromebooks and 2,800 Launchpad tablets to libraries throughout the state with the help of $2.3 million provided by the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund via the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
The U.S. Postal Service honors Civil Rights icon and author John Lewis with a new stamp. The 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medals winners are announced. The Academy of American Poets names Ricardo Alberto Maldonado its next executive director and president. Formerly shuttered literary magazine Bookforum announces its return. A new bid is made for Simon & Schuster.
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