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 Teaching the Teachers: Primary Sources Immersion Program | Peer to Peer Review By Meg Meiman and Dina Kellams The recent approval of the Society of American Archivists/ Association of College and Research Libraries’ Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Joint Task Force on the Development of Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy illustrates the professions' move beyond show-and-tell style teaching. |
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 IMLS Report: State Library Funding Still Suffering By Lisa Peet State Library Administrative Agencies, which coordinate and distribute federal funds to public, academic, research, school, and special libraries, have largely still not recovered from the major decreases in revenue and staffing they experienced during the economic recession. |
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| "We’re really leveraging AI, natural language processing, and then manual curation by a data science unit within Digital Science to do as much of this in an automated way as possible…and then transferring those savings back to the community." | | |
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 Fire & Fury & Ferrante By Barbara Hoffert Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside Trump’s White House is No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction and combined nonfiction best seller lists, having sold nearly 200,000 copies through February 14. |
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 Professional Media | Social Sciences Reviews By LJ Reviews Reviews of Creating a Local History Archive at Your Public Library, Raising the Tech Bar at Your Library: Improving Services To Meet User Needs, and Using Social Media To Build Library Communities: A LITA Guide. |
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 National Book Critics Circle Announces 2017 Finalists By Barbara Hoffert On January 22, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its book awards for the publishing year 2017. Embracing six categories, the 30 finalists were for the most part both solidly recognizable and satisfyingly broad, demonstrating strong cultural reach. |
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 Memoirs with More | Nonfiction Previews, Jul. 2018 By Barbara Hoffert Reviews of A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety; Happily Ever Esther: Two Men, a Wonder Pig, and Their Life-Changing Mission To Give Animals a Home; The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast; and more. |
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 Renoir Reading | Arts & Humanities Reviews By LJ Reviews Highly recommended for all art collections highlighting history and aesthetics; a new look at intimacy within the paintings; this new biography of Renoir shines a fresh light on misconceptions. |
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From the Annoyed Librarian ... |
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BESTSELLERS: U.S. HistoryBy LJ Reviews1. Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?Abu-Jamal, Mumia City Lights 2017. ISBN 9780872867383. $15.95 2. Lincoln and the Democrats: The Politics of Opposition in the Civil War
Neely, Mark E., Jr.
Cambridge University Press
2017. ISBN 9781107036260. $75 3. Maintaining Segregation: Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920–1955
Reynolds, LeeAnn G.
Louisiana State University Press
2017. ISBN 9780807165645. $45 |
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From the Pages of infoDOCKET ... |
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 The Latest Trends in Library Design Hosted in partnership with Salt Lake County Library and The City Library—at SLCo’s Viridian Center—the newest installment of our library building and design event will let you dig deep with architects, librarians, and vendors to explore building, renovating, and retrofitting spaces to better engage your community. |
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 Job Zone utilizes unique job matching technology to help you find the perfect job (and employers find the perfect candidate), whether you’re actively seeking or just keeping an eye out for your possibilities. Log on today and check out our newest features, including automated job and candidate matches, and email alerts. JOB OF THE WEEK St. John's is seeking an Assistant Professor and eScholarship Repository Librarian |
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