Northeastern University Library Launches Boston Research Center
By Adam Lipkin
Northeastern University has launched the Boston Research Center, an addition to its library that will focus on interdisciplinary studies of Boston’s history.

Get It Right: Responding to Social Media Complaints | From the Bell Tower
By Steven Bell
Social media platforms serve as a virtual complaint window for angry consumers. Higher ed is no different when community members share concerns and voice anger in online public spaces. Academic librarians need to know how to handle these situations.

Protecting Library Workers’ Discourse around Social Justice | ALA Annual 2018
By Lisa Peet
Many people researching pervasive microaggressions in higher education, faced with the resultant backlash, found that their institutions were not ready to back them up.

Linguistic Diversity in Libraries | BackTalk
By Felicia A. Smith
Racial literacy requires critical thinking to assess situations or texts for inequalities, which is part of comprehensive information literacy skills.

The Long Journey | Collection Development
By Rebekah Kati
These three narrative present firsthand or historical accounts of what it means to reconsider the place one calls home.

Books on Borders | Collection Development
By Rebekah Kati
The migrant situation at the United States-Mexico border is complicated, fluctuating, and has its origins in many areas including history, politics, and economics. This list aims to provide guidance to librarians and general readers with resources to contextualize current events.

Free Speech Debate Erupts with ALA’s Inclusion of Hate Groups in Revision of Bill of Rights Interpretation
By Kara Yorio and Lisa Peet
Are hate groups the same as sports, religious, social, civic, partisan political organizations? When it comes to using a public library’s meeting room, the ALA says, “Yes.”

From Mel Brooks to Beyoncé | Arts Previews, January 2019
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.; Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter; The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ’n’ Roll; and more.

Higher Ground: Getting College Ready in the Library
By Carly Berwick
From essay support to portfolio help, school librarians can support students with the application process—and help them thrive once they get to college.

Nonfiction: Feminism, the 1960s, Road Trips, Masculinity, the Romanovs, April Ryan, Facebook | Xpress Reviews
By LJ Reviews
Reviews of A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women; Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine; Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man; and more.

A School Librarian’s Mock Interview Program Preps Teens for “Face Time”
By Kara Yorio
At the high school library, administrative staff and local business people help students prepare for college and job interviews.

Houston, McColl, & Dog Rescuers | Memoir Previews, January 2019
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers; An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex; Hero Dogs: How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America’s Greatest Disaster-Search Partners; and more.

BESTSELLERS: European History
By LJ Reviews

1. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Gessen, Masha
Riverhead Books
2017. ISBN 9781594634536. $28

2. Gorbachev: His Life and Times
Taubman, William
W.W. Norton
2017. ISBN 9780393647013. $39.95

3. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
Applebaum, Anne
Doubleday
2017. ISBN 9780385538855. $35t.

Design Institute is heading to Minneapolis

Hosted in partnership with Hennepin County Library at the Minneapolis Central Library—the newest installment of our library building and design event will bring you the latest trends in library design.

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