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By Lisa Peet
The University of Pittsburgh’s University Library System has acquired the archives of pioneering horror filmmaker George A. Romero (1940–2017), including correspondence, scripts, footage, promotional material, and props from his legendary films.
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By Matt Enis
The Panorama Project this week announced the launch of “Panorama Picks,” a free program offering librarians, publishers, and booksellers a topline assessment of regional demand for recently published ebook titles.
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By Joyce Valenza
The two-year research partnership led by ISKME, the nonprofit Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, and Florida State University School of Information, funded by IMLS, involved case studies of school librarians and school leaders in five states.
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Projects looking at the music of Jay-Z and the impact of place in the short fiction of Edward P. Jones are among the first works from a digital publishing initiative at the University of Illinois.
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"[Horror] has not really been seen as a serious scholarly pursuit. We think that we have an opportunity to fill that need. We'll start with this collection and we'll grow it, and we'll work with the [Dietrich] School of Arts and Sciences, to provide the kernel to bring scholars and instructors and students to use it, and begin to make it a disciplined study."
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I Wish for Change: Unleashing the Power of Kids To Make a Difference
By Kyle Schwartz
Inspiring and instructive, this well-researched work is a must-read for teachers as well as administrators, parents, coaches, and mentors.

SOCIAL SCIENCES
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From Sabotage to Support: A New Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the Workplace
By Joy L. Wiggins & Kami J. Anderson
Useful for human resource managers, individuals involved in hiring processes or staff training and development, and those who address gendered inequities in the workplace, as well as readers interested in how gendered oppression and feminist responses to it has shaped organizational cultures.

PREMIUM
Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation
Ed. Dionne Ford & Jill Strauss
A thoughtful collection providing additional insight into new perspectives on slavery.

SPORTS & RECREATION
PREMIUM

The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance
By Adharanand Finn
Finn’s account of ultrarunning is a gripping read for the casual runner to the experienced athlete.

BIOGRAPHY
PREMIUM

The The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
By Janny Scott
Scott’s account reads as lyrical nonfiction and extends beyond her own family to shed light on America’s elite from the Gilded Age through the present day.

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