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Call for Information: OA/OER Survey
Library Journal is currently fielding a survey about Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resource (OER) collections in academic libraries. We need your response to help us accurately report how academic institutions may be curating and aiding discovery of these resources.  

All respondents completing the survey will be eligible to receive a copy of the results and be included in a drawing to win one of three $100 Visa® electronic gift cards. The survey is estimated to take up to five minutes to answer. There are no numbers to look up.

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Join us for MUSE Meets 2022 April 5-6, 2022

Register now for MUSE Meets 2022, a virtual meeting that connects the publisher, librarian, and researcher communities that we serve. Registration for the virtual event is free, and all sessions will be open to any individuals with an interest in digital scholarship.

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Diane Dallis-Comentale Named Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University
From Indiana University (IU) Bloomington Libraries: Diane Dallis-Comentale, who has served as Interim Dean of IU Libraries since July 1, 2021, has been named the new Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University effective April 15, subject to approval by the IU Board of Trustees.

PubMed Central Website (PMC) Has a Fresh Look: First Step in Ongoing Modernization Complete
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce an update to the user interface of its PubMed Central (PMC) digital archive—a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles. PMC’s fresh look and feel is the first step in an ongoing effort to modernize PMC, create a more accessible user experience across NLM literature databases, and enhance the long-term stability of the PMC infrastructure. 

The update, informed by user feedback, includes a reorganized homepage, easy-to-navigate help documentation, and streamlined article display. You will notice a similar look and feel between features in PMC and PubMed, NLM’s biomedical literature citation database. Article pages in the new design link to a new section in the PMC User Guide that shows how to access features in the new article page layout. 

Research Tools: Historic England Launches New Map Revealing a Century of England From the Air, Over 100 Years of Aerial Photography Available
On March 22, Historic England launched its new Aerial Photography Explorer—which for the first time allows users to search and explore an online map showing aerial photographs of England over the past 100 years.  

New imagery available online includes the remains of ancient archaeology such as a Neolithic long barrow near Broughton, Hampshire, as well as remains of Iron Age forts such as Pilsdon Pen in Dorset and medieval villages such as Old Sulby in Northamptonshire; Second World War anti-invasion measures such as anti-aircraft obstructions (ditches and earthworks) at Hampton Court Palace in 1941, and images from the same year of RAF Kenley showing camouflaged runways; and more. 

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BULCO and The University of Amsterdam Library: Leveraging Mobile Apps to Engage Patrons

Two early adopters of the Ex Libris Library Mobile app, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (BULCO) in France, and the University of Amsterdam Library in the Netherlands, are leveraging their apps to make library resources more readily available and to enhance digital library services.

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13-Year Research Collaboration Explores Untapped Hemingway & The Hemingway Bibliography
In the fall of 2009, four University of St. Thomas English students, their professor, and a librarian met in a far corner of O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library to begin what would become a 13-year collaboration creating an annotated bibliography on the life and art of the most celebrated American author of the 20th century: Ernest Hemingway. 

Princeton University Library Acquires the Chris Theodotou Collection of Byzantine Coins
Princeton University Library’s Numismatic Collection nearly tripled its Byzantine coin collection when it acquired 11,256 Byzantine coins from the estate of Dr. Chris B. Theodotou on March 8. The acquisition adds to the 5,280 Byzantine coins of the Peter Donald collection, acquired in 2016. Both collections were acquired with support from the Friends of Princeton University Library and the Seeger Hellenic Fund, and, together with previous holdings, Princeton now has the largest Byzantine coin collection in the world.   

The coins, which are primarily issues of the Byzantine Empire between C.E. 500 and 1453, were collected by Theodotou between 1979 and 1987. According to Curator of Numismatics Alan Stahl, Theodotou was both a friend and collecting rival of Donald. 

Research/Reference Management: Zotero 6 Released, Biggest Upgrade in Zotero History
From a Zotero Blog Post:  We’re thrilled to announce the release of Zotero 6, the next major version of Zotero and the biggest upgrade in Zotero’s history. Zotero 6 introduces an array of new features to transform how you do research, including a completely new way of working with PDFs and notes. 

SCIENCES
PREMIUM
The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate
Ed. by Amy Brady & Tajja Isen 
These personal testimonies detail the effects of climate change on the writers and their communities now. Concerned readers may be inspired to take action.

PREMIUM
Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
By Sarah Fay  
This would be a good purchase for collections with large memoir, consumer mental health, and medical sociology sections. 

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
By Rachel E. Gross  
Libraries catering to readers interested in history, anthropology, anatomy, and women’s and gender studies will want to add this insightful and dynamic book to their collection. 

HISTORY 
PREMIUM
Patton’s Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton’s Rise to Glory
By Stephen L. Moore  
Readers interested in World War II and the books of James Holland and Alex Kershaw will enjoy this tale of the American victory in North Africa under Patton.  

PREMIUM
A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
By Ralph H. Hruban & Will Linder  
While this is an easy-to-read collection of selective biographies, it will mainly be of interest to those interested in Johns Hopkins.  

PREMIUM
The Last Survivor: The Incredible Story of the Man Who Survived Three Concentration Camps and a Major Maritime Disaster Near the End of World War II
By Frank Krake  
Accounts of the experiences of different groups targeted by the Nazis remain important and continue to be relevant today. Krake’s contribution is written in an accessible style, suitable for both academic collections and AP high school collections.

ECONOMICS 
PREMIUM
Sell More with Science: The Mindsets, Traits, and Behaviors That Create Sales Success
By David Hoffeld  
A good book for those with a serious interest in the selling process.

PREMIUM
Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle To Take Down Netflix
By Dade Hayes & Dawn Chmielewski
This will appeal to readers of business and media books as it reports on the difficult launches of several streaming services. Recommended.

ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Philosophy
By LJ Reviews 

Enlightenment, Black Aliveness, Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism, and more in philosophy titles: March 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 

1. Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790.
Robertson, Ritchie
HarperCollins
2021. ISBN 9780062410658 $45.00 

2. Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being.
Quashie, Kevin Everod
Duke University Press
2021. ISBN 9781478011873 $99.95 

3. Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.
Rorty, Richard and Eduardo Mendieta
Belknap Harvard
2021. ISBN 9780674248915 $27.95 

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