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 Amid Discord, Niles-Maine District Library Board Compromises on Contentious Budget By Lisa Peet On July 21, the Board of Trustees of the Niles-Maine District Library (NMDL), IL, walked back several items in a contentious FY22 budget proposal. Following a three-hour public comment meeting the night before, community protests, and a complaint filed with the Illinois Labor Relations Board on behalf of library workers’ recently joined union, the board adopted a compromise budget—but some feel the concessions are too little and too late. |
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 Most Academic Librarians Are Sexually Harassed at Work | Peer to Peer Review By Candice Benjes-Small, Jennifer Knievel, Jennifer Resor-Whicker, Dr. Allison Wisecup, and Dr. Joanna Hunter In the #MeToo era, we reflected on how widespread sexual harassment felt in our field, and we wanted to know whether that feeling was supported by evidence. A research team consisting of three academic librarians and two sociologists who specialize in data analysis decided to find out. |
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 SPONSORED CONTENT Library Funding: ARPA in Action
The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief legislation passed by Congress in March contains a significant amount of money for libraries to help their communities. In response, many companies are highlighting products that can be purchased with recovery funding. Read More››› |
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| "When the patron was waiting for me outside after my shift, a long glare from the head of security, who walked me to my car, was enough to send him scurrying. I don’t want to know what would have happened if I didn’t have a security escort." | | |
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 Call for Information: Completed library renovation or new construction projects Library Journal is collecting information about recently completed library construction projects for inclusion in our upcoming architecture issue. If your library completed a library construction or renovation project between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, please tell us about it! We are especially interested in any special features or design elements of your project (e.g., green, flexible design, etc.). Submitting high quality images of completed projects is encouraged. If you have questions, please email Laura Girmscheid at Lgirmscheid@mediasourceinc.com. The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 27, 2021. There are separate links for public and college/university library projects: Public libraries: LibraryJournal.com/PublicArch2021
Academic libraries: LibraryJournal.com/AcademicArch2021 |
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 Inaugural BCALA Children and Youth Literary Awards Winners Announced By SLJ Staff The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and SLJ announced the inaugural BCALA Children and Youth Literary Awards winners. The awards honor "phenomenal works of fiction and nonfiction by Black authors" in four categories: first novelist, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel. |
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 Top Film Picks on DVD/Blu-Ray By Jeff T. Dick LJ’s film columnist picks the month’s top indie, foreign, and classic films, now available on DVD and Blu-ray. |
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SPONSORED CONTENT  Art Books for Culture-Starved Times While most of the art world has had to cope with the complications of museum closures and re-openings over the past 15 months, patrons have been growing hungrier for arts and culture. “We’ve seen an uptick in our audience getting their art fix—and a connection to beauty—via books,” says Thames & Hudson assistant editor Elizabeth Keene. “ Read More››› |
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 Stephen King’s Billy Summers Tops Library Holds Lists | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene Stephen King reigns over holds lists this week with Billy Summers. Three LibraryReads and fourteen Indie Next selections publish this week. People's book of the week is The Turnout by Megan Abbott. The August Costco Connection is out with picks Billy Summers by Stephen King and The Guest List by Lucy Foley. Interviews arrive with Jason Reynolds and Rebecca Donner. Anthony Veasna So's posthumous debut Afterparties gets critical attention. |
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 Library Marketer of the Year | Call for Nominations Library Journal will honor one library staffer or a library team with its sixth annual Marketer of the Year award in its October 2021 issue. 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. Nominations are due August 6, 2021. |
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 New Zora Neale Hurston Essay Collection Releasing in 2022 | Book Pulse By Anita Mechler A new Zora Neale Hurston essay collection, You Don’t Know Us Negroes, will be coming out in 2022, and there is a sneak peek of John Le Carré’s final novel Silverview. Interviews with: Cody Alan of Hear’s the Thing: Lessons on Listening, Life & Love, Rahul Raina of How to Kidnap the Rich, Phillip Lopate, Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett of The Very Nice Box, and Marcello Di Cintio of Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers. Adaptations are in the works for Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  In starred education titles, Adam Harris's The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How To Set Them Right is "profound and thought-provoking. This work is recommended for anyone who wants to understand the structural inequities of the U.S. educational system." See All Reviews››› |
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