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| | | | SPONSORED CONTENT Library Funding: ARPA in Action
The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief legislation passed by Congress in March contains a significant amount of money for libraries to help their communities. In response, many companies are highlighting products that can be purchased with recovery funding.
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| | | | Library Marketer of the Year | Call for Nominations
Library Journal will honor one library staffer or a library team with its sixth annual Marketer of the Year award in its October 2021 issue. The award recognizes the importance of innovative approaches to marketing of library services, the role of marketing in building library engagement, and the value of quality marketing collateral to help build a vibrant sense of the library and define its relevance in the community. Nominations are due August 6, 2021. |
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| How I Use Padlet for Teen Programs
By Jenna K. Ingham
The online resource Padlet can be a very useful and creative tool for librarians. Here, a teen librarian shares different ways she uses this platform for her programs. |
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| | "Since we could not have people in to browse, we brought the shelves to them. On Tuesdays, two of our librarians walked patrons through the new shelf, highlighting their favorites of the week and then panning [the] camera over other titles available." | | From "The Readers’ Advisory Survey | RA by the Numbers" |
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| Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas leads holds this week. One LibraryReads selection and two Indie Next picks arrive. People's book of the week is Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin. The 2021 Comedy Women in Print Award Longlists is announced. Interviews arrive with Leila Slimani, Akash Kapur, and Mena Suvari. Plus, LeVar Burton starts Jeopardy! guest hosting duties. |
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| | | Call for Information: Completed library renovation or new construction projects
Library Journal is collecting information about recently completed library construction projects for inclusion in our upcoming architecture issue. If your library completed a library construction or renovation project between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, please tell us about it! We are especially interested in any special features or design elements of your project (e.g., green, flexible design, etc.). Submitting high quality images of completed projects is encouraged. If you have questions, please email Laura Girmscheid at Lgirmscheid@mediasourceinc.com. The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 27, 2021. There are separate links for public and college/university library projects:
Public libraries: www.LibraryJournal.com/PublicArch2021
Academic libraries: www.LibraryJournal.com/AcademicArch2021 |
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| | Susanna Clarke, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and C.L. Polk Are Finalists for the World Fantasy Awards | Book Pulse
By Anita Mechler and Kate Merlene
Susanna Clarke, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and C.L. Polk are finalists for the World Fantasy Awards. Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are publishing a book. Glory Edim, founder of the book club Well-Read Black Girl, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR book critic, suggest books for the summer. NPR’s Morning Edition address the toll of the pandemic on authors and book discovery. |
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| | Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, by Andrés Reséndez, is this week's starred history title. "A vivid tale of adventure and discovery that will draw in all history lovers. Reséndez’s skillful writing is fast-paced, inviting, and descriptive, setting this book apart." Adam Harris's The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How To Set Them Right is this week's starred education selection. "Profound and thought-provoking, this work is recommended for anyone who wants to understand the structural inequities of the U.S. educational system." King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel De Visé, is this week's starred performing arts selection. "With this fast-moving, informative, evenhanded, and exhaustive biography, de Visé vividly captures King’s life." Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, is this week's starred literature title. "Gilbert and Gubar, renowned for their 1979 work of feminist literary theory The Madwoman in the Attic, here examine 70 years of work (1950–2020) by American women writers and theorists of feminism’s second wave.... Highly recommended for anyone interested in American literature or women’s studies." And Boo Walker's The Singing Trees is this week's starred fiction title. "Ideal for book groups and for readers who enjoyed Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & the Six, Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s Dance Away with Me, or Nicholas Sparks’s novels."
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