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 Circ Disrupted | 2021 Materials Survey By Barbara Hoffert Pandemic, protests, politics: 2020 was a year like no other, its consequences strongly felt in the library world as in life’s every nook and cranny. With libraries shuttered for at least part of the year, emerging slowly for curbside service and tentative reopening, circulation was particularly hard hit, with LJ’s annual Public Library Materials Circulation Survey reporting a 25.7 percent collapse and only 10 percent of respondents seeing increases. |
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 Where Are We: The Latest on Library Reopening Strategies By Erica Freudenberger As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the country (and around the world), public libraries are continually recalibrating and reinventing services, plans, and procedures to keep up with a roiling landscape. |
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 Library Associations, Agencies, Workers Advocate for Early Vaccination Priority By Lisa Peet When the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out in mid-December 2020, their distribution was immediately complicated by a shortage of doses and widespread uncertainty about who would be given priority. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued suggested guidelines for phased allocation. Many library workers, leaders, and associations began advocating for public facing library workers to be vaccinated as soon as feasible. |
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| SPONSORED BY SOURCEBOOKS  Virtual Book Club Program Addresses Key Needs for Librarians Libraries often struggle to provide high-quality programming for their constituents, especially as many librarians are spread thin working on multiple tasks. Now, a new virtual book club program from independent publisher Sourcebooks and book distributor Baker & Taylor helps librarians address both of these key hurdles — access and programming — at the same time. Read More››› |
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 Marketing Survey for Public Libraries Library Journal is fielding a survey to learn more about how public libraries promote their programs, services, resources, and general brand to their communities. The survey includes questions about target marketing, message frequency, and how marketing effectiveness is appraised. All respondents completing the survey will receive a summary of the overall results. |
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| "It’s interesting that the big drop in demand is in DVDs, while books remain more constant. We also see increased use on the digital side, but perhaps a smaller percentage increase because our digital collection was already well established. Streaming video is an exception." | | |
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 Books and Authors To Know: Poetry Titles To Watch 2021 By Barbara Hoffert Complementing LJ’s “Books and Authors To Know: Titles To Watch 2021,” which focuses on fiction and nonfiction, the nearly 100 key poetry titles featured here represent some of the most important and dynamic writing being done today. |
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 Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb Leads Holds This Week | Book Pulse By Mary Bakija Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb tops hold lists this week. The March Indie Next list is up, and the No. 1 pick is We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker. The February Barnes and Noble book club pick is Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan. Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen, My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee, and Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad are getting a lot of buzz. |
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 Bloomsbury Human Kinetics Library | Reference eReviews By Rob Tench Providing authoritative information on physical activity and sports, the Human Kinetics Library consists of 150 ebooks, as well as 200 videos of demonstrations of exercise movements, drills, and key physical activity concepts. |
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 Deacon King Kong and Fathoms Win Carnegie Medals | Book Pulse By Mary Bakija Deacon King Kong by James McBride wins ALA's 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs wins the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The RUSA/CODES Book and Media Awards are also announced. |
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 Remembering Seoud Makram Matta By Maurice J. Freedman Seoud Makram Matta, Dean Emeritus of the School of Library & Information Science (now the School of Information) at Pratt Institute, died November 24, 2020, at the age of 83 due to complications of COVID-19. Matta excelled as a scholar, consultant, and teacher. |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps, edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, is one of this week's starred travel and geography selections. "This impressive selection is highly recommended for geologists or for anyone with an interest in what lies beneath our feet." In cooking and food, The Tahini Table: Go Beyond Hummus with 100 Recipes for Every Meal, by Amy Zitelman and Andrew Schloss, is one of this week's starred titles. "The photos in the book beautifully showcase the recipes, through which Zitelman has accomplished her goal to make cooking with tahini more accessible for all home cooks. A must-have resource." The Problem of Alzheimer’s: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease Into a Crisis and What We Can Do about It, by Jason Karlawish, is one of this week's starred health and medicine titles. "As science and medicine continue to study Alzheimers, Karlawish suggests, advances in technology, assisted living arrangements, and other lifestyle changes can be used to help people live well with the disease. A must-read on an important subject." And The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die, by Katie Engelhart, is another starred health and medicine selection. "A must-read for anyone concerned about quality of life at the end of life." See All Reviews››› |
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