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April 26, 2018
Periodicals Price Survey 2018 Death By 1,000 Cuts | Periodicals Price Survey 2018
By Stephen Bosch, Barbara Albee, & Kittie Henderson
Flat budgets, price increases, and a reliance on status journals for tenure and promotion keep familiar pressures on the serials marketplace.
Steven Bell Sports As a Model for Library Leadership Learning | Leading from the Library
By Steven Bell
Sports and librarianship rarely come up in the same conversation, but when it comes to learning about leadership there may be common ground between the two.
MaryKay Dahlgreen Oregon Governor Fires State Librarian
By Lisa Peet
In a decision that caught many members of the Oregon library community by surprise, Gov. Kate Brown fired Oregon State Librarian MaryKay Dahlgreen on March 13. The State Library provides information services to over 37,000 state government employees, circulates materials in audio and Braille format, and provides grants and assistance to Oregon's libraries.
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Richard Diebenkorn Nonfiction: Maps, the Politics of “Christian,” Cycle Touring, and Richard Diebenkorn | Xpress Reviews
By LJ Reviews
Reviews of Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias; Christian: The Politics of a Word in America; Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings; and more.
Q&A with Jennifer Egan Q&A with Jennifer Egan, New PEN American President
By Lisa Peet
On March 1 PEN America, a literature and human rights organization that advocates for freedom of expression, named Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jennifer Egan as its new president.
"What draws many of us to sports is our love of underdog teams that reach the pinnacle of success against all odds…. As much of our academic library work is team based, connecting with sports team leadership makes perfect sense for our occasionally underdog profession."
A Higher Loyalty James Comey Makes Book
By Neal Wyatt
A Higher Loyalty is outselling Fire and Fury and Hillary Clinton’s What Happened by 3:1 and 2:1 margins.
PBS The Great American Read Discovering America’s Favorite Novel | PBS Announces The Great American Read
By Barbara Hoffert
On Friday, April 20, at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) introduced The Great American Read, an eight-part multiplatform series that will culminate in what PBS calls the first-ever national vote for America’s favorite novel.
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Invisible Top Biography & History / Nonfiction Previews, Oct. 2018
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life, and more.
Suicide of the West Nonfiction on Lincoln the Lawyer, Beer Travel, American Politics, Babies, Women’s Resistance | Xpress Reviews
By LJ Reviews
Reviews of Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency; Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy; We Rise To Resist: Voices from a New Era in Women’s Political Action; and more.
BESTSELLERS: Literary Criticism
By LJ Reviews

1. The Origin of Others
Morrison, Toni
Harvard University Press
2017. ISBN 9780674976450. $22.95

2. Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Walls, Laura Dassow
University of Chicago Press
2017. ISBN 9780226344690. $35

3. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books
Nel, Philip
Oxford University Press
2017. ISBN 9780190635077. $29.95
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