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| November 7, 2019 |  Open Source FOLIO LSP Nears Launch, as Lehigh U. Library Partners with Index Data By Matt Enis Lehigh University Library has partnered with software developer Index Data ahead of the library’s planned summer 2020 launch of the FOLIO (the Future Of Libraries Is Open) open source library services platform (LSP). Lehigh’s staff will manage the FOLIO install with secondary support and cloud hosting provided by Index Data. |
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| SPONSORED BY BLOOMSBURY DIGITAL RESOURCES |
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 Wake Up, Your House Is on Fire | Sustainability By Rebekkah Smith Aldrich Three hundred thirty-eight days. That’s the length of time between August 2018, when we first saw the news coverage of Greta Thunberg, and September 20, 2019, when global Climate Strike Marches brought an estimated four million young people and their supporters onto our streets to demand meaningful action from adults on climate change. |
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| SPONSORED BY MIT PRESS  MIT Press Direct eBook Collections 2020 Pricing Now Available DRM-free with unlimited simultaneous users and tiered pricing based on library budget/FTE, MIT Press Direct is the best way for libraries to offer MIT Press eBooks to their patrons. Libraries can access the complete collection, with more than 3,000 eBooks and approximately 150 added each year, or subject-specific collections. Read More››› |
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| "The more we connect, take action, and demonstrate the impacts of contingency and precarity on workers, institutions, the field, and our communities, the harder it becomes to ignore." | | |
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 Barbara’s Picks (Bailyn, Dallek, Jerkins, Van Meter), Plus American History, World War II, and the Big Picture: History Previews, May 2020, Pt. 3 | Prepub Alert By Barbara Hoffert Celebrated historian Bernard Bailyn offers a career retrospective, Robert Dallek assays the presidency, Morgan Jerkins retraces her family’s steps during the Great Migration, and Matthew Van Meter recaps Duncan v. Louisiana, a significant case of the Civil Rights era. |
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| SPONSORED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
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 Zombie Video Games, Laser Cut Pumpkins, Temple's Bookbot | Around the Web, Nov. 1, 2019 By LJ Each week, the hardworking editors of LJ scour the web for the best library news and views. This week was strong on the spooky: a zombie video game helps Dalhousie University students hone their library search skills, the University of Nevada–Reno’s DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library partners with the Queer Student Union to make laser cut jack-o-lanterns, and more. |
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| By Susan Hennessey & Benjamin Wittes
This book was completed before the impeachment probe in October 2019, so parts feel outdated. However, serious political readers and presidential studies scholars will derive much from this cogent appraisal. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
PREMIUM Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by RiverBy John Hildebrand This history feels so foreign to the point of near exposé. A must for Wisconsinites, but a recommended journey for socioculturalists in general. |
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 On Reclamation | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller When you think about climate change, what do you feel? I asked my daughter, Harper, who is ten, that question last month. Despite how often we discuss the climate, this was the first time I had actually asked her that. Her answer was not surprising, but it was painful to hear. |
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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 Kanawha County Public Library (WV) seeks a Library Director |
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