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| October 18, 2018 |  First Things First By April Witteveen Several librarians share how they approach reference and information literacy instruction across the spectrum of experience and create relationships that will benefit students throughout their postsecondary education. |
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| SPONSORED BY SCHOLASTICA  How Your Library Can Support Academic-Led Journals As corporate APCs continue to rise, more libraries are looking for alternatives to help lower their publishing costs. In this article, we share examples of different ways libraries are publishing and supporting academic-led journals, as well as specific steps you can take to start or build out your library’s publishing program.
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 A Look Inside Barnard’s New Milstein Center By Rebecca T. Miller
“We’ve won the academic lottery with the Milstein Center,” said Linda Bell, provost and dean of the faculty at Barnard College, at the October 3 grand opening of the 128,000 square foot, $137 million building. |
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 Movers & Shakers 2019 | 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. |
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| "Our students can be the best teachers because they know the pitfalls they face better than I can. This also makes it more manageable for me to work one-on-one with the students who need extra support." | | |
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 Fresh Takes on Historic Jamestown | History Reviews By LJ Reviews This well-documented work is recommended for readers of history, especially the precolonial era; for historians interested in the challenges of colonization, this groundbreaking work will be well received. |
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 Librarians React to New Penguin Random House Ebook Terms By Matt Enis Effective October 1, Penguin Random House (PRH) changed its licensing terms for library ebooks—including price hikes for academic libraries—discontinuing its longstanding one-copy, one-user perpetual license model, and establishing a two-year access model. |
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 Three Titles Advance the Life of Frederick Douglass By LJ Reviews Reviews of If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, and The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical Edition. |
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 History in the Making: Nonfiction Previews, Apr. 2019, Pt. 2 | Prepub Alert By Barbara Hoffert Reviews of The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India’s Quest for Independence; Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All To Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War; The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between; and more. |
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 Nonfiction, October 12, 2018 By LJ Reviews Reviews of The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes at Athens; Media U: How the Need To Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education; Generation Priced Out: Who Gets To Live in the New Urban America; and more. |
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BESTSELLERS: Social SciencesBy LJ Reviews
1. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Pinker, Steven Viking 2018. ISBN 9780525427575. $35 2. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
Gordon, Linda
Liveright Publishing Corp
2017. ISBN 9781631493690. $27.95
3. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Manne, Kate
Oxford University Press
2018. ISBN 9780190604981. $27.95 |
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