The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) recently commissioned Ithaka S+R to examine how academic research libraries in Canada and the United States help their institutions achieve strategic priorities, what can be done to advance this work, and how university leaders gauge expectations of their libraries.
Gale's new addition to the Archives and Sexuality of Gender introduces the “Hell” segment of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, an infamous private collection of “forbidden books” established in the 1830s.
Recent months have been active for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which will celebrate its 10-year anniversary in 2023. In May 2021, the organization announced an agreement with Amazon Publishing that would make the company’s ebooks available for libraries to license for the first time.
The merger of two major Taiwanese universities was the perfect opportunity to upgrade from siloed systems to a single, shared network with the cloud-based Ex Libris platform.
From U.S. government secrets to power plays throughout history to pirates as rebels against empire.
“If you like our defaults, that’s great, but we want you to understand them. Is this good for your end users? If not, here’s how to change things—something as simple as enabling full-text search as a default [for example]. The user can still change settings on the front end, but let’s optimize it best for what your users are [typically] doing.”
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An educational resource comprised of 100-plus exclusive articles by scholars from 25 countries, a four-volume collection of critical readings on historiography, and 60+ scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s catalog.
Jennifer Down wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Bodies of Light. Amazon names its Literary Partnership grant recipients. The Premios Kelvin winners are announced along with the Sidewise Awards nominees.
The FIFA World Cup 2022 is scheduled to take place in Qatar from November 21 to December 18 and in anticipation, many libraries should consider building a small collection or updating the collection they currently have.
The winners of the 2022 Orwell Prize and the Whiting Foundation’s Literary Magazine Prize are announced. Also, the Mo Siewcharran Prize longlist is out.
At the University of Surrey, an innovative Student Curator program built on the Ex Libris Leganto course reading list solution has positioned the library as a leading campus voice in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
During the United States’ current tumultuous times, it is important to remember and revisit the forgotten injustices of the previous century. Hochschild succinctly does so here.
Despite its limited coverage of amendments, this adds to the content in Bloch and Jackson’s and Vile’s works, and will interest general readers as well as students of political science, government, and teacher education.
Super Volcanoes, Song of the Earth, How the Mountains Grew, and More in geology titles: July 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
1. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond. Andrews, Robin George W. W. Norton 2022. ISBN 9780393542066. $27.95
2. Song of the Earth: Understanding Geology and Why It Matters. Ervin-Blankenheim, Elisabeth Oxford University Press US 2021. ISBN 9780197502464. $44.95
3. How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America. Dvorak, John Pegasus Books 2021. ISBN 9781643135748. $29.95
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