Placements & Salaries 2019
By Suzie Allard
LJ's 2019 Placements & Salaries survey looked at grads entering the LIS field. Check out this landing page for features on trends in analytics, work settings and skills, job search strategies, jobs by region, and more.

Julius Jefferson on Convening the Conversation
By Lisa Peet
Julius C. Jefferson Jr., section head of the Library of Congress’s Congressional Research Service, is the American Library Association president-elect for 2020–21.

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ALA’s eBooksForAll Petition Exceeds 100,000 Signatures
By Matt Enis
The American Library Association  and Public Library Association last month launched a public outreach campaign in an effort to mobilize opposition to Macmillan’s new eight-week embargo period for library purchase of ebooks. An eBooksForAll.org petition demanding the cancellation of the embargo had more than 103,000 signatures at press time.

Time for a New Position in the Academic Library? | From the Bell Tower
By Steven Bell
As academic libraries open their doors to the public, they’ll experience some of the same challenges as public libraries. Should we follow their lead when it comes to staff social workers?

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A Conversation with Afia Atakora, Author of Conjure Women

Penguin Random House spoke with author Afia Atakora about her novel Conjure Women, a dazzling debut that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and the conjuring of curses.

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LJ Librarian of the Year Award: Nomination Deadline Extended to October 21
The LJ editors are seeking nominations for the 31st annual Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award to honor a professional librarian for outstanding achievement and accomplishments reflecting the loftiest service goals of the library profession. Submit your nominations by October 21.

What College Students Want (in the library), Lasers!, and Going Fine Free | Around the Web
By LJ
Each week, the hardworking editors of LJ scour the smorgasbord that is the internet to bring you the juiciest morsels of library news and views. This week, many feathers were ruffled and opinions shared about a story in The Atlantic on college students just wanting plain, old-fashioned shush factories.

Page to Screen | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
The Addams Family hits screens today, and is followed by comics and Shakespeare. The committee picking the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature did itself no favors last week. Ninth House is off to Amazon Studios.

LJ Movers & Shakers 2020: Call for Nominations
The editors of Library Journal need your help identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Movers & Shakers profiles 50 or more up-and-coming, innovative, creative individuals from around the world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors—who are providing inspiration and model programs for others. Let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of. The submission deadline for the Class of 2020 is November 11, 2019.

Getting Better: YA lit reflects a more nuanced representation of mental health | Great Books
By Kelly Jensen
Not only is the representation of various mental illnesses in YA literature expanding, but so is the sensitivity of their portrayals. Here are 13 standout titles.

Run Your Week: Big Books, Sure Bets, & Titles Making News | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
The Guardians by John Grisham leads holds this week. People’s “Book of the Week” is Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators gets focused coverage.

John Rothman, Electronic Information Pioneer, Dies
By Lisa Peet
John Rothman, director of the New York Times’ corporate archives and creator of the New York Times Information Bank, an early electronic news repository, died on September 26 of a stroke at the age of 95.

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WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA

Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever, by Gavin Edwards, is one of this week's starred nonfiction selections. "All readers will find inspiration in this uplifting book, particularly in today’s complex world. Pair with Maxwell King’s The Good Neighbor for a multifaceted look at an innovator of children’s television." Little Voices, the "fast paced and psychologically complex" starred debut mystery by Vanessa Lillie, "has plenty of twists and turns that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, and Megan Abbott." Chanel Miller's debut memoir, Know My Name, relates "her experience as both Chanel Miller and Emily Doe, two overlapping yet separate identities, during the span of 15 months as her sexual assault case went to trial—and lingered there.... A much-needed memoir giving voice to those who must be heard. Miller’s writing stands apart." And in Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, a starred autobiography by Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton, "Andrews chronicles the peaks and valleys of her life and career. This event-packed memoir is a must for fans of Andrews’s life and work, students of cinema history, and anyone who is curious about musical film production."

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