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 Music City Meetup | PLA 2020 Preview By Lisa Peet & Meredith Schwartz This year’s Public Library Association (PLA) Conference will be held in Nashville, from February 25–29—the first time PLA has been held in the Southeast in 20 years. The show promises a diverse and forward-thinking lineup of offerings. |
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| SPONSORED CONTENT  Libraries Play a Key Role in Campus OER Adoption
Open educational resources (OER) have emerged as a viable alternative to pricey commercial textbooks, offering a means of more affordable learning — and libraries are taking on a key leadership role in encouraging their use across campus. Read More››› |
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 Cornell University Library Offers Suite of Privacy Services By Lisa Peet Cornell University Library has put together a suite of privacy services for students and faculty. These include digital literacy workshops, confidential privacy risk consultations, public computers configured to ensure anonymity, and pro-privacy advocacy that will potentially feature a dataset of vendor policies. |
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 From Non-Voters to New Voters | ALA Midwinter 2020 By Stephanie Sendaula From Non-Voters to New Voters: How Libraries Can Engage Their Communities in the 2020 Elections and Beyond, offered strategies on voter engagement to a well-attended audience of public, school, academic, and state librarians. |
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| "The more we can be looking for where can user content be generated to make our library collections more personal and meaningful to them, is probably gold." | | |
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 Stepping Up | Editorial By Meredith Schwartz My time at LJ wearing a variety of hats, most recently as executive editor, has built strong working relationships with my colleagues, and has given me many chances to connect to and learn from leaders in the field. Nonetheless, taking the helm presents an opportunity—even an obligation—to take a step back and reexamine what we do, how, and why. |
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 Library of the Year 2020 | Call for Nominations All libraries are good, some are great. LJ is looking for role-model libraries to vie for the honor of being the 2020 Library Journal/Gale Cengage Learning Library of the Year. Along with a $10,000 prize, the winner is featured in an LJ cover story in June and honored with a gala reception at the American Library Association Annual Conference. Learn more and submit your nominations here. |
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 Survey Shows No Discernible Progress Diversifying Publishing By Kara Yorio Lee & Low Books released the results of its updated survey on diversity in the publishing industry last week. It gathers gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability information on publishing staff, literary agents, and reviewers. |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  One of this week's starred graphic novels, Big Black: Stand at Attica, by Frank “Big Black” Smith and Jared Reinmuth, with illustrations by Améziane, presents an "unflinching depiction of the brutal price the Attica inmates paid for demanding civil rights in a style evocative of the 1970s Hollywood Renaissance aesthetic. Sure to be one of the most discussed books this year." Ben Passmore's Sports Is Hell is another starred graphic novel. "A lacerating, darkly hilarious howl against racism, sports fandom, and tribalism in general by an artist with a distinct and necessary vision." In nonfiction, An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to Riverbeds, by Jean-Christophe Bailly and others, is one of this week's starred selections. "Besides appealing to general readers who enjoy cartography, art, and “superlative” books, such as the Guinness Book of World Records, this is also well suited to academics and students of history, geography, and art." And the National Geographic Atlas of the National Parks, by Jon Waterman, is another starred nonfiction selection. "The quality of this tome and its emphasis on current features make it worth a purchase even where libraries own National Geographic the National Parks: An Illustrated History."
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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 Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Foundation seeks an Executive Director |
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