ProQuest Debuts Rialto, Enhancing Selection and Acquisition for Alma Libraries
By Matt Enis
On November 6, ProQuest announced the development of Rialto, which will integrate the features and capabilities of Ebook Central, OASIS, and Leganto within the Ex Libris Alma cloud-based Library Services Platform.

Helping Students Be Happier: Where the Library Fits In | From the Bell Tower
By Steven Bell
College students report high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. And that’s before they even walk into the library to do research. Could what we know about happiness help us make using the academic library an experience that delivers it?

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Get Your Library Involved In Academic-Led Publishing

Today, corporate publishers threaten to raise the cost of OA publishing to unsustainable levels. But the academic community has the power to change that. In this eBook, we cover examples of scholars, university libraries and institutions launching successful academic-led journals. Publishing an academic-led journal has never been easier – this guide will show you how.

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Novel Collections
By Ian Chant
Reference collections can have a reputation as fusty or mundane. Still, every rule has its exceptions—as these four collections illustrate.

Program Helps CT Kids Aspire to College
By Kara Yorio
As the New Britain, CT, elementary schoolers high-five and fist-bump their way down a line of college administrators, faculty, and students, Nelba Márquez-Greene says a little prayer to herself that they each will “finish the race.”

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The journey of embracing equality, diversity, and inclusion

As part of Emerald’s real impact commitment, we are leading the way in sparking debate, demonstrating leadership, and celebrating inclusion and diversity with our books and journals.

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Movers & Shakers 2019 | 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.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 9

Libraries, Museums, Poets, & STEM | One Cool Thing
By Lisa Peet
Who says poetry and science don’t mix? Not Poets House, the national poetry library and literary center in downtown Manhattan, which recently launched its newest initiative, Field Work: Aligning Poetry and Science.

Nonfiction, November 2, 2018 | Xpress Reviews
By LJ Reviews
Reviews of City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300, A Rock Between Two Rivers: Fracturing a Texas Family Ranch, The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy, and more.

Engage, Empower, Equip: Transformative Change with The Lilead Project | SLJ Summit 2018
By Daryl Grabarek
In 2012, when Ann Carlson Weeks was professor of practice at the University of Maryland, she became part of a team that launched the first survey of district supervisors since the 1960s.

Stories of Our Times: Nonfiction Previews, May 2019, Pt. 1 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of The Words of My Father: A Son of the Intifada Remembers, Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, Bitcoin Billionaires, and more.

Mixed Success, but No Library Wave in Midterms 2018
By Lisa Peet
Voters turned out at the polls in record numbers on Tuesday, November 6, for the 2018 midterm elections, but strong voter turnout did not drive support for libraries at the voting booth.

Financial Ratings Series | Reference eReviews, Nov. 1, 2018
By Brett Rohlwing
Financial Ratings Series is a valuable resource for a variety of users. Those new to investing and finance will find this a clear, inviting guide, while more sophisticated users will appreciate the detail and currency.

BESTSELLERS: Biology
By LJ Reviews
1. Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation
Lehoux, Daryn
Johns Hopkins University Press
2017. ISBN 9781421423814. $44.95

2. Endangered Species: A Reference Handbook
Randall, Jan A.
ABC-CLIO
2018. ISBN 9781440848995. $60

3. Biology and Feminism: A Philosophical Introduction
Nelson, Lynn Hankinson
Cambridge University Press
2017. ISBN 9781107090187. $89.99

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