For the work it has done to create a robust community hub through responsive services and strong partnerships, the Mendocino County Library Round Valley Branch, CA, is the recipient of LJ’s 2024 Best Small Library in America Award, sponsored by Ingram Library Services. Honorable mentions go to Northfield Public Library, MN, and Valley of the Tetons Library, ID.
Perhaps one of the truest versions of life in America’s small and rural communities can found each day in their public libraries, where residents connect.
This month’s top indie and foreign films feature entwined lives within the Peking Opera, a disquieting Holocaust film exploring the banality of evil, and mindful eating taken to an extreme.
The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying emerging talents in the library world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors who are providing inspiration and model programs for others. Our 23rd annual round of Movers & Shakers will profile up-and-coming individuals from around the world who are innovative, creative, making a difference fighting against censorship, and helping improve their workplace. From librarians and non-degreed library workers to publishers, vendors, coders, entrepreneurs, reviewers, and others who impact the library field—Movers & Shakers 2025 will celebrate those people who are moving all types of libraries ahead. Deadline to submit: October 18, 2024
Key documentaries explore the storied history of flight attendants, photography at its finest, and beloved Jewish grandmother and a successful pornographer, Chelly Wilson.
“The challenge is, how do you transition from that insular, homesteader idea of ‘I can take care of my own place,’ to recognize that we’re all in this together? This is sustainability, this is resiliency, to create these relationships with one another, and relationships with the structures of the world that you live in.”
Upcoming DVDs and Blu-rays include a quartet of films from French director Patrice Leconte, a pair of oft-banned films from Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, and a searing meta-docudrama about sexual assault.
The Kirkus Prize finalists are announced. Tracey Slaughter wins the Moth Short Story Prize. Time previews the most anticipated books of this fall. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Hannah Grace’s buzzy book Daydream. Leonard Riggio, founder and longtime head of Barnes & Noble, has died at the age of 83.
The LJ editors are seeking nominations for the 36th annual Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award, sponsored by Baker & Taylor, to honor a professional librarian for outstanding achievement and accomplishments reflecting the loftiest service goals of the library profession. Deadline to submit: October 23, 2024
Winners of the Christianity Today Book Awards and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards are announced. National Book Awards longlists will be announced between September 10 and 13, finalists will be announced October 1, and winners will be announced November 20. Bookshop.org launches a buy-back scheme for second-hand books that will pay royalties to the authors. Plus new title bestsellers.
Love Prodigal, by Traci Brimhall, is a starred poetry selection. "Brimhall follows up Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod with a deep plunge into the pain of love lost through divorce and the slow scramble to recovery.... Brimhall addresses life’s everyday suffering in astonishing language that will attract a wide range of readers. Highly recommended." The De Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens, by Laurent Bouzereau, is a starred nonfiction selection. "Bouzereau persuasively shows readers the substance behind De Palma’s style while revealing how he connected to these films as a young gay man." And in romance, Lightning in Her Hands, by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, is a starred selection. "This sequel to Gilliland’s first romance, Witch of Wild Things, is sure to be just as popular."
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