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Author Gerry Smyth on Why Sea Shanties Are Sweeping TikTok
By Lisa Henry
Smyth, a professor of English literature at Liverpool John Moores University, discusses his book Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas and ponders the newfound popularity of the art form on social media. |
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SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS How Libraries Can Become Essential Partners in Academic Research
A university’s research output is only beneficial when others can easily find it. This is where libraries can add tremendous value to the research process: By leveraging their expertise in collecting, organizing, and making information easily discoverable, academic libraries can help raise the profile of their institution’s research.
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| "We know that the pieces and parts of what we want to accomplish exist in many different places. In some cases, the things that we want to do have already been done, but just not at the scale that we want to do them. In some cases the things that we're going to need haven't been attempted yet or are just waiting to be built" | | From "Big Ten Academic Alliance Plans BIG Collection Across 15 Libraries" |
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HISTORY
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
Ed. by P. Gabrielle Foreman & others
A must for all students, researchers, and general readers with an interest in Black lives, this essential overview of the CCP’s legacy offers fresh understanding of the history of organized Black activism and commitment to community efforts for equal rights. Highest recommendation. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Engineering & Technology
By LJ Reviews
User Friendly, a World With No Off Switch, the Inside Story of Instagram, and more in engineering and technology titles: January 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
1. User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play.
Kuang, Cliff
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2019. ISBN 9780374279752. $28.00
2. Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World With No Off Switch.
Denardis, Laura
Yale University Press
2020. ISBN 9780300233070. $32.00
3. No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram.
Frier, Sarah
Simon & Schuster
2020. ISBN 9781982126803. $28.00 |
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Tompkins County Public Library (NY) seeks a Library Director IV |
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