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image Good Leaders Ask Good Questions | Leading from the Library
By Steven Bell
New and aspiring leaders may think they’re supposed to have all the answers. It turns out that leaders perform better when they acknowledge what they don’t know and take time to ask good questions.
image 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards | Reading Responsibly
By Barbara Hoffert
On March 23, the Cleveland Foundation (CF) announced the winners of the 82nd annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, established in 1935 by Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf to honor literary works that confront racism and celebrate diversity
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image The Voices of Islam | Collection Development
By Sandra Collins
Libraries have a unique opportunity to inform users of the rich and varied experiences of the Islamic world. These 35 sources should be available in most libraries.
image Chaos & Caring | Office Hours
By Michael Stephens
I’ll own this: I’ve been pretty emotional since the election in November. I spent my holiday break practicing self-care, including stepping back from social media, cuddling with my dogs Cooper and Dozer, and bingeing on old sitcoms.
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By Wilda Williams
After working her way up the editorial and managerial ranks in the College Department to vice president and publishing director, she became the company’s sixth president and the first woman to hold that position.
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image Publishing Factual Books in an “Alternative Facts” World | Opinion
By Jason Low
The concept of alternative facts is not new. George Orwell’s novel 1984, published in 1949, called it “newspeak.” We might also call it propaganda or, more simply, lies.
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image The Templars, McKinley, & More | History Previews, Sept. 2017
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist, The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes To Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan To Outlaw War Remade the World, and more.
image Labdisc: A Data-logging STEM Device with Maker Potential |SLJ Review
By Phil Goerner
Billed as an all-in-one STEM lab, the handheld Labdisc Gensci by Globisens is a useful tool to measure and record data for a wide range of experiments
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Reviews of T he Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are; Thurberville; and The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams.
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From the Pages of infoDOCKET ...

• University of Rochester Libraries Acquire Unknown Susan B. Anthony Letters Found in Old Barn

• Funding: JSTOR Receives $50,000 NEH Grant to Support Research on High-Quality Digitization, Digital Preservation of Arabic-Language Scholarly Journals

• IMLS, NSF, NEH and 13 Other Funding Organizations From Around the Globe Announce Worldwide Winners of the 2017 T-AP Digging into Data Challenge

• Cal State Northridge Students Campaign to Keep Geography Map Library Together

• Intellectual Property: “New Bill Would Let Trump Pick the Next Register of Copyrights”

 

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