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May 3, 2018
Reaching Net Zero Reaching Net Zero | Library Design
By Lisa Peet
Colorado College’s library renovation added space, services, and facilities while achieving ambitious sustainability goals.
Alt-Right Activist Disturbs Law Library Alt-Right Activist Disturbs Law Library, Banned From UVA
By Lisa Peet
Jason Kessler, a primary organizer of the August 2017 Unite the Right rally that ignited violence in Charlottesville, VA, has been banned from the University of Virginia (UVA) campus after visiting the Law Library in April.
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Credo Reference Credo FYE Guide Releases Tips for Improving Library Assessment

Assessment is critical to understanding and communicating the impact of library services on the campus community. Credo’s latest FYE Guide section release explores tools and techniques for all types of assessments, and outlines strategies to help you get the most out of the data you collect.

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Inclusive Restroom Design Inclusive Restroom Design | Library Design
By Meredith Schwartz
Until recently, the reexamination of library design principles largely stopped at the bathroom door. But that’s changing as awareness spreads that many patrons identify as transgender, nonbinary, agender, genderfluid, or otherwise don’t fall within the male/female binary.
image Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries | The First Complete English-Language Publication of a Major Literary Work
By Barbara Hoffert
The novel spans a watershed year in American and world history, presenting events of earthshaking significance with you-are-there immediacy. At the same time, the narrative parallels events from Gesine’s early life in 1930s Germany, recalling the rise of the Nazi Party.
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Improving Research Workflows Improving Research Workflows

Supporting cutting-edge research is critical to the mission of universities. But all too often, the various steps in the research lifecycle are disjointed. This leads to inefficiencies that make the process harder than it has to be, costing universities—and individual researchers—valuable time, money, and even recognition for their work.

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We Can’t Breathe Current Concerns | Nonfiction Previews, Oct. 2018
By Barbara Hoffert
We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival; The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America; The Next American City: The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros; and more.
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image Biogs of George Sand, Atticus Finch, Robin Williams, plus Spring Poetry, Soccer Picks, Parenting for First-Timers | Review Alert: May 15, 2018
By LJ Reviews
Thematically diverse poetry from both veteran and newcomers; in time for the 2018 World Cup, these picks will engage and inform amateur and seasoned soccer fans alike; an excellent choice for popular history readers interested in women rulers.
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Infinite Wonder Outer Space, Inner Peace, & Camille Paglia | Nonfiction Previews, Oct. 2018
By Barbara Hoffert
Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest To See the Unseeable; Infinite Wonder: An Astronaut’s Photographs from a Year in Space; Provocations: Collected Essays; and more.
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BESTSELLERS: Chemistry
By LJ Reviews

1. Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Won’t Tell You
Farmer, Steven C.
John Wiley
2017. ISBN 9781119265269. $54.95

2. Chemistry: Our Past, Present, and Future
Do, Choon Ho
CRC Press
2017. ISBN 9789814774086. $49.95

3. Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
Shapiro, Paul
Gallery Books
2018. ISBN 9781501189081. $26
image Fund Your Library: Tools and Tactics for Getting to Yes!

Whether you’re going to voters, city councils, school boards, college board of directors, or any other funder, the fundamental issues are the same: how do you convince the stewards of a limited budget that the library is their best investment?
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