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| June 18, 2019 |  In Win for Advocates, New York City Libraries Secure $33 Million Funding for FY20 By Lisa Peet On June 14, Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Council reached an early agreement on the FY20 executive budget that included $33 million in additional funds for the city’s three library systems—Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library—after they joined forces on a citywide advocacy campaign pushing back against more than $11 million in proposed cuts. |
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 Indiana University Libraries Hosts First AV Archival Summer School By Matt Enis Establishing what archivists hope will become a recurring, comprehensive training program, the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive hosted the first Biennial Audio-Visual Archival Summer School, May 13–26, in collaboration with the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations. |
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 Making the Make Book | BookExpo 2019 By Stephanie Sendaula Making the Make Book has become a fixture of BookExpo in recent years. The (almost) annual panel, which details how publishers have led a debut or midlist book to success, often draws crowds of publishing executives, booksellers, and librarians. |
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 Rankine’s The White Card Debuts at NYPL By Vanessa Willoughby On June 6, poet, essayist, playwright, and 2016 MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine launched the New York premiere of her first published play, a new one-act called The White Card, at the New York Public Library's Steven A. Schwarzman building. |
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 Deadline Extended: LJ Seeks New Landmark Public Libraries Library Journal’s latest round of the New Landmark Library series, which celebrates projects that set new standards for library design, is now accepting submissions through June 24, 2019. The award is open to any public library in the United States (including U.S. territories) and Canada that completed new construction, expansion, or significant renovations between January 2016 and March 1, 2019. |
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| "[Libraries] are essential, and a great tool for our city leaders to be able to—at relatively small investments, given everything else they have to pay for—have a major impact on people’s lives, especially those most in need." | | |
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 Editor's Picks for ALA Annual By SLJ Staff The American Library Association Annual conference is June 20-25 in Washington, D.C. Here are just a few of the sessions, speakers, and events SLJ's editors are anticipating most. |
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 Best Small Library in America: Call for Nominations Library Journal's annual award for the Best Small Library in America, made possible by sustaining sponsor Baker & Taylor, was founded in 2005 to encourage and showcase the exemplary work of these libraries. The nomination deadline is July 2, 2019. |
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 Page To Screen | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt Remakes and continuations mark adapations this week. Naomi Wolf’s book is getting delayed by her publisher. Nicholas Sparks responds to the lawsuit claiming he "fostered a discriminatory environment." |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Riley Sager's latest thriller, Lock Every Door, is one of this week's starred fiction selections. "Likable characters, great writing, just enough twists, and a Rosemary’s Baby vibe will make this a summer hit. Purchase for Stephen King and Gillian Flynn fans." The Forbidden Harbor, by Teresa Radice, with illustrations by Stefano Turconi, is one of this week's starred graphic novels. "From the married creative team of writer Radice (Disney Fairies) and artist Turconi (“Agatha: Girl of Mystery” series) comes a tale that’s far from forbidding. Radice’s flowing prose and Turconi’s fanciful pen invite even the utterly uninitiated to delve into the delight of a sailor’s tale." In Religion and Spirituality, Marilyn McEntyre's starred selection, When Poets Pray, "will appeal to religious readers who might be reticent to read poetry as well as those who enjoy it. Strongly recommended for all libraries." And Ruha Benjamin's Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code is this week's starred nonfiction selection. "Benjamin’s work is ideal for anyone who is unafraid to look at the historical intersections of racial injustice, technology, and where these topics inform possible solutions for the future."
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