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| December 14, 2017 |  FCC Kills Net Neutrality, Fight Likely to Move to Courts By Matt Enis The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today passed the “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” (RIFO), overturning the 2015 Open Internet Order, a regulatory framework established during the Obama administration that gave the FCC the power to enforce “net neutrality.” |
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 2017 ACRL/NY Symposium: The Mission By Lisa Peet The 2017 ACRL/NY Symposium, held on December 1 at Baruch College in Manhattan, led off with an interesting proposition: that thinking creatively about access can offer a new kind of framework for shaping collections. |
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 Making a Name | Office Hours By Michael Stephens For those with a newly minted LIS degree or soon to graduate, it’s never too early to start putting yourself out there. And for those already on course in your professional life, please look for ways to help our next generation of library professionals along. |
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 Historical Perspectives | Nonfiction Previews, Jun. 2018 By Barbara Hoffert Reviews of The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Fortune in the American West; Conan Doyle for the Defense: A Sensational British Murder, the Quest for Justice, and the World’s Greatest Detective Writer; Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power; and more. |
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 A Movable Literary Feast | Albertine Prize Short List Announced By Wilda Williams Book lovers and Francophiles gathered at the historic Payne Whitney mansion in New York City to celebrate the announcement of the shortlist for the 2018 Albertine Prize, a reader’s choice award for the best Francophone fiction translated into English and published in the United States over the past year. |
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| "As libraries draw closer to their goal of connecting patrons to content by reducing friction—keystrokes, time between discovery and access, or impediments to use—the divide between ownership and access is becoming less important to those who use these materials. Patrons don’t need to know who owns what…. Should it matter to libraries?" | | |
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 Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Lecture To Be Published By Barbara Hoffert On December 7, Kazuo Ishiguro delivered the 2017 Nobel Lecture in Literature while in Stockholm accepting the Nobel Prize. On December 12, Knopf will publish his lecture, titled My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs. |
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 A Dictionary Gets a Makeover | Behind the Book By Henrietta Verma Francesca Sterlacci and Joanne Arbuckle are coauthors of Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry (Rowman & Littlefield). The first edition of the dictionary was published in 2007 and the second this past July. |
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 RA Back Pocket: Nonfiction | Wyatt’s World By Neal Wyatt This year saw nonfiction that shaped the national conversation and revealed historical crimes. Here are a few examples to suggest—all of which can be considered key titles for the collection. |
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From the Annoyed Librarian ... |
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1. Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power
French, Howard W.
Alfred A. Knopf
2017. ISBN 9780385353328. $27.95
2. Viêt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present
Kiernan, Ben
Oxford University Press
2017. ISBN 9780195160765. $34.95
3. The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
Bindman, David
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2017. ISBN 9780674504394. $95
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