Librarians' 2018 Favorites | The Readers' Shelf
By Neal Wyatt
In keeping with this column’s end-of-the-year tradition of sharing favorites, students learning to become librarians, collection development librarians working in the field, and two notable librarians who retired this year each share a book they have deeply enjoyed in 2018.

Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt

Today in Book Pulse: Run Your Week: Big Books, Sure Bets, & Titles Making News, Jan. 14, 2019

 

In case you missed it:

• Page to Screen, Jan. 11, 2019
• New to the Bestseller Lists, Jan. 10, 2019
• SFF, Literary Picks, & Poetry Lead the Day, Jan. 9, 2018
• The Costa Awards Crown Sally Rooney, Jan. 8, 2019

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DPLA and the Punk Rock Future of Public Libraries

“To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.”-Patti Smith

When the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched in 2013, it felt like a DIY library moment of the best kind. DPLA has done the hard work of creating a platform and agenda that has community at its core. In 2019, DPLA is tackling the new challenges libraries face in providing fair and equal access to digital collections and eBooks.

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Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert

• Midwinter Galley Roundup 2019
• Hage, Marlantes, Nesbø, and Rakim & Toure: Barbara's Picks, July 2019, Pt. 2

Xpress Reviews
By LJ Reviews

• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• Graphic Novels
• E-Originals

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A conversation with Chris Cander author of The Weight of a Piano

For fans of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, Amanda Coplin's The Orchardist comes The Weight of a Piano, a tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse.

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