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 Opera Expert | Cool Library Jobs By Lisa Peet Tanisha Mitchell’s love of music enabled her to connect two roles, as curator and consultant for the Metropolitan Opera Music Library and reference librarian and performing arts coordinator for the Freeport Public Library, NY, where she brings rich classical music programming to a popular audience. |
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SPONSORED BY MIT PRESS  What Can We Learn from 3000 Years of Crime and Punishment? We live in the most orderly era of human history, so why does fear of crime dominate modern politics? “Historians, criminologists, and those with a strong academic interest in policing and criminal justice will learn a great deal from [ Command and Persuade].”— Library Journal Read Now››› |
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 Best Social Sciences of 2021 By Stephanie Sendaula The story of a family keepsake, a forgotten utopia, and the evolution of a neighborhood. The best social science books of 2021. |
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 Portico Prize Announces Debut-Heavy Shortlist | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene The Portico Prize announces its shortlist. Patrick Radden Keefe, will donate £10,000 of his McKinsey-sponsored prize money for his book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. Plus, Granta will publish an Orwell Estate–approved feminist retelling of 1984. |
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PREMIUM A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks OutBy Luisa Capetillo Recommended for readers interested in early 20th-century Puerto Rican and Caribbean history and the history of feminism and labor movements in Latin America. | | |
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 Movers & Shakers 2022 | Call for Nominations The editors of Library Journal need your help identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Movers & Shakers profiles 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, including programs developed this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please use this form to let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of. The deadline for nominations has been extended through next Monday, December 13, 2021. |
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 ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: History of Science By LJ Reviews Latinx Photography, Finding the Mother Tree, Inside an Artistic Revolution, and more in history of science titles: December 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History. Ferrer, Elizabeth University of Washington Press 2020. ISBN 9780295747620. $99.00 2. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.
Simard, Suzanne
Alfred A Knopf
2021. ISBN 9780525656098. $28.95 3. How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age.
Grundberg, Andy
Yale University Press
2021. ISBN 9780300234107. $40.00 |
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