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| October 17, 2019 |  Father Columba Stewart on Digitizing Endangered Manuscripts, Provisional Metadata, and Hope By Lisa Peet This year’s National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities was delivered on October 7 by Father Columba Stewart, OSB, who has spent the past 15 years working to digitize documents at risk of theft, damage, and destruction in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and South Asia. |
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 ALA’s eBooksForAll Petition Exceeds 100,000 Signatures By Matt Enis The American Library Association and Public Library Association has launched a public campaign to mobilize opposition to Macmillan’s new eight-week embargo period for library ebook purchases. The campaign has gained traction online, with an eBooksForAll.org petition garnering more than 103,000 signatures at press time. |
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| SPONSORED BY UNITED NATIONS |
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 John Rothman, Electronic Information Pioneer, Dies By Lisa Peet John Rothman, director of the New York Times’ corporate archives and creator of the New York Times Information Bank, an early electronic news repository, died on September 26 of a stroke at the age of 95. |
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 LJ Movers & Shakers 2020: Call for Nominations The editors of Library Journal need your help identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Movers & Shakers profiles 50 or more 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. Let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of. The submission deadline for the Class of 2020 is November 11, 2019. |
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| SPONSORED BY BLOOMSBURY DIGITAL RESOURCES |
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| "You start to get an interesting map of how things move, the flow of text, intellectual exchanges, these little pockets of culture and learning that were visited by travelers ancient and modern. Sometimes I talk about Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Benjamin of Tudela—these guys are going all over the place and having contact with these cultures, and in a sense we're replicating that notion—just as people move, ideas move, and with people and ideas so go the manuscripts.” | | |
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 Barbara’s Picks (From Jennifer Finney Boylan to Jessica Ward), Plus Arts, Science, Business, & Health: Nonfiction Previews, Apr. 2020, Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert By Barbara Hoffert Chantler offers a graphic novel about jazz great Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke, esteemed poet Mark Doty considers forebear Walt Whitman, and art critic Gopnik takes on Warhol. Plus a dog-loving memoir from Boylan, inspiration from two-time National Book Award winner Ward, and more. |
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| Overall, the work presents a commendable treatment of pecuniary matters during this country’s embryonic stages and is recommended for readers interested in fiscal matters and American economic habits. |
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PREMIUM When Reagan Sent in the Marines: The Invasion of LebanonBy Patrick J. Sloyan Complementary to Benis Frank’s thoroughly researched U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982–1984 and John Laffin’s The War of Desperation: Lebanon 1982–1984, this smoothly written assessment of a modern American military disaster will be a worthwhile addition to most history collections. |
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| SPONSORED BY GALE CENGAGE LEARNING |
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 ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Literary Criticism By LJ Reviews 1. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Perry, Imani Beacon 2018. ISBN 9780807064498. $26.95 2. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves: An Anthology Edim, Glory
Ballantine
2018. ISBN 9780525619772. $20
3. Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World Gordon, Lyndall
Johns Hopkins University Press
2019. ISBN 9781421429441. $29.95 |
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