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| March 6, 2018 | Paralibrarian of the Year 2018: Orquidea Olvera
By John N. Berry III
Children and teachers alike love Orquidea Olvera, who speaks Spanish and English fluently, improving the ability of Monterey County Free Libraries to serve the county’s large Spanish-speaking population. It’s part of the reason Olvera is LJ’s 2018 Paralibrarian of the Year, sponsored by DEMCO. |
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Music for (All of) the Ages | Music Matters
By Stephanie Klose
Whether the vagaries of early spring temperatures are keeping energetic kids indoors or parents are thinking ahead to summer road trips, music that can be enjoyed by every member of the family is worth its weight in gold. |
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Elizabeth Strout Wins 14th Annual Story Prize
By Lisa Peet
The 14th annual Story Prize, given to the top short story collection published in 2017, went to Elizabeth Strout for Anything Is Possible. Strout, who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her collection Olive Kitteridge, will take home $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl. |
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AI, Personalization, and Privacy: Top Tech Trends | ALA Midwinter 2018
By Matt Enis
The Library Information Technology Association’s (LITA) Top Tech Trends Panel, held during the American Library Association’s 2018 Midwinter conference in Denver, CO, included discussions of AI, drones, personalization and privacy, the embedding of libraries in academic learning processes, and more. |
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| "She epitomizes what you want customer service to be. For her it doesn’t matter if you are a four-year-old child or an aging retiree, or if you are someone who doesn’t speak English, she will give you that very high level of customer service all the time." | | From "Paralibrarian of the Year 2018: Orquidea Olvera" |
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LJ Study: Electronic Resources Continue Steady Gains in Academic Libraries
By Matt Enis
More than one-third (37%) of academic library materials budgets go to database subscriptions and electronic reference materials, followed by journals and serials (23%), print books (22%), ebooks (11%), and media/streaming media (5%), according to the Academic Library Collection Development Survey 2017. |
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The Harry Potter Exhibition Goes Online | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
The British Library’s Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition is now online. Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater and A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole get attention. |
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Creating Change in the Cataloging Lab | Peer to Peer Review
By Violet Fox
Overworked catalogers, besieged by staff reductions and constantly changing standards and systems, can feel that other staff aren’t interested in what they do. But in my experience, other librarians are keen to learn more about what shapes the catalog records they use every day. |
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Intersectional Feminism | Collection Development
By LJ Reviews
Today’s intersectional feminism focuses on solidarity among social justice movements as well as shared responsibility for equality. These 27 resources will energize any collection. |
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New Best Sellers | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Fifty Fifty by James Patterson and Candice Fox and Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover hit the bestseller lists while Sweetbitter gets a trailer and news breaks that the BBC is looking to adapt Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” novels. Sherman Alexie responds to allegations of harassment. |
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Xpress Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA Natasha Bell's debut novel, Exhibit Alexandra, is one of two starred fiction selections this week. "Bell’s psychological thriller explores some big questions about relationships and art while being absolutely impossible to put down. Highly recommended." In nonfiction, Jeffrey Pfeffer's Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It "should be in every business or management collection in university, public, and special libraries." In graphic novels, Alexander Utkin's debut, The King of Birds, is a "classic mythology told for modern readers [that] will appeal to anyone with an interest in the subject. No previous experience with traditional Slavic legends is required." And in e-originals, Lia Riley's Virgin Territory, the third book in the "Hellions Angels" series, "is another love-at-first-sight tale with some social issues tacked on, in this case domestic violence. Fans of the series will once again get heat both on and off the ice.
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GonzoFest 2018 Literary Journalism Contest
Together with the Louisville Public Library and BiblioBoard, we're celebrating the national expansion of the GonzoFest Literary Contest and invite all public libraries, their independent authors, and writer communities to enter a single piece of literary nonfiction journalism in the tradition of the late Hunter S. Thompson. The call for entries is now open, and a $1,000 Prize will be granted to the Literary Winner. |
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