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Ohio Senate Restores Library Budget
By Lisa Peet
Ohio libraries tend to be well funded, both locally and via a solid base of state government support. This year, however, they found themselves forced to advocate for the portion of their funding administered by the Ohio Public Library Fund, which distributes a percentage of the state’s income and sales tax receipts among the state’s 251 public library systems. |
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UNC Libraries’ Machine Learning Project Analyzes State’s Jim Crow Laws
By Catherine Lundoff
On the Books: Using Algorithms of Resistance to Expose North Carolina’s Jim Crow Laws is a machine learning and collections as data project of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Libraries. Where does the “resistance” come in? Since 2019, the project team has been building an algorithm and searchable database for Jim Crow legislation signed into law in North Carolina between 1866 and 1967. |
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ALA Annual in the Cloud | 2021 Preview
By LJ Staff
For the second year, the American Library Association (ALA) takes to the web to host its annual conference safely during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking place June 23-29 on a monitor near you. Exhibits will be open June 23–26 and, much like their analog counterparts, will feature activities to keep things fun and lively, including yoga, a magic show, and a bunny break. Here, you’ll find LJ editors’ personal picks from the more than 200 sessions on offer. |
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Utah State Creates Outdoor Gear Ephemera Archive
By Elisa Shoenberger
When people get catalogs from Patagonia or REI in the mail, most throw them out or recycle them. But Utah State University’s Special Collections wants to collect these catalogs, magazines, and other ephemera to preserve the history of outdoor gear. |
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The Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize | Call for Nominations
The Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize, developed in partnership between the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation and Library Journal, was created in 2019 to recognize the public library as a vital community asset. When libraries, civic entities, organizations, and the people they serve become close partners, their communities thrive. One winning library will receive $250,000 in unfettered grant monies from the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation. Deadline: July 19, 2021. |
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ALA Virtual Galley Guide Ready Now
By Barbara Hoffert
Library Journal’s galley guide for the 2021 American Library Association annual conference is now ready. From Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle and Sutton Foster’s Hooked to Zoraida Córdova’s The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina and Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck’s Underwater Wild, this guide highlights more than 150 titles at the virtual booths of key publishers. Sponsored by Sourcebooks. |
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Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman Wins Pulitzer Prize | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded with The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich winning the top prize for fiction. Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, and Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain are also winners. |
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The Listen List: More Great Audiobooks | The Reader’s Shelf
By Christa Van Herreweghe, Janice M Derr, Ron Block, Sarah Hill, and Sarah Hashimoto
Every year, the American Library Association’s Listen List Council releases a juried list of outstanding audiobooks that highlights extraordinary narrators and listening experiences. The past year was an incredible year for audiobooks, and the seven librarian experts who make up the council had many favorites, some of which didn’t make the final list. Here are some additional picks, sure to enthrall, delight, and inspire. |
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Tia Williams’s Seven Days in June Headed To TV | Book Pulse
By Anita Mechler
Tia Williams’s Seven Days in June is getting adapted for television while films and TV shows based on comics fill this weekend and beyond. Interviews are out with Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, Lisa Taddeo of Animal, Julianna Margulies of Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life, Tia Williams of Seven Days in June, and Kellye Garrett of Like a Sister. |
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In the Heights Read-Alikes
By Abby Johnson
Teens who love this adaptation of the Broadway musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes should find common themes, character-driven stories, and spirit in these books. |
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