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 LibraryIQ Platform’s Electronic Collections Analysis is a game changing feature that enables comprehensive collection management. Join our webinar on 7/21 @ 2 PM ET to learn how LibraryIQ makes it easy to compare physical and electronic circulation, understand patron engagement and ROI across all collections and more.
Library Journal will honor one library staffer or a library team with its sixth annual Marketer of the Year award in its October 2022 issue. The award, sponsored by Library Ideas, comes with a $2,000 cash prize. 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. Collateral should reflect the diversity of the community and staff in imagery and reflect cultural competency in its language and message.
Bullies. We've gathered new books and old, in an attempt to equip children for a perennial troublemaker who, adults know, shows up outside of childhood as well.
"Once you build your searches, you can have the data come to you. And as a librarian, you could also be helping people in your realm create their [own] alerts, have them put in their email, and now you’re pushing data that they actually want."
Multiple news outlets cover the sale of DAW books to Astra Publishing House. News on a murder inquiry for Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing. The July EarlyWord GalleyChat is out. Arriving on the bestsellers lists this week are: Rising Tiger by Brad Thor, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger, and Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD by Jason Kander.
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.
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva leads holds this week. Frances Stonor Saunders wins the PEN Ackerley Prize for The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border. The 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival announces its speaker lineup, including Janelle Monáe, Nick Offerman, Nyle DiMarco, Geraldine Brooks, and more. Five LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week.
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. Authors Joan Lingard, Susie Steiner, and Ivana Trump have died. Interviews abound in conversation with authors K-Ming Chang, Lara Einzig, Liz Michalski, CJ Hauser, Kamau Bell, Kate Schatz, Ronny Jackson, Tom Perrotta, Ken Auletta, Ada Calhoun, and Chrysta Bilton.
In a new insights report from Gale, academic thought leaders discuss their role in championing EDI on campus—and provide advice to help other colleges and universities develop effective, sustainable programs.
Global Class: How the World’s Fastest-Growing Companies Scale Globally by Focusing Locally, by Aaron McDaniel and Klaus Wehage, is this week's starred business and management title. "Business readers will enjoy learning more about how their favorite companies operate on a global scale. Recommended as a first purchase for all public and academic library collections." In literatureA Woman’s Battles and Transformations, by Édouard Louis, is a starred selection. "Moving and beautiful. The book falls between genres, so it may be slow to be picked up but is worth highlighting." And Margaret A. Burnham's starred history title By Hands Now Known examines how "racial violence in the Jim Crow South shaped many Black people’s relationships with the law and the courts in the first half of the 20th century.... Readers interested in the long history of the civil rights struggle should definitely read this."
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