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| July 18, 2017 |  Hit Refresh | User Experience By Matt Enis The World Wide Web is always evolving, and user expectations respond to prevailing trends. Navigation habits become conditioned by content management system (CMS) templates, common screen layouts, search bar locations, and menu designs that shape how people use popular websites. And libraries have to keep pace. |
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 International, Interactive Innovation | Next Library 2017 By Rebecca T. Miller Engagement was the name of the game at the Next Library conference held in Aarhus, Denmark, June 11–14. Some 350 librarians from 36 countries gathered at the city’s Dokk1 library to learn and continue to build a global network. |
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| "Libraries have so much to offer, and we tend to want to give it all to our users, but we have to do it in a thoughtful way that minimizes the choices that you need to make at each step." | | |
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 OITP’s Report from the Swamp | ALA Annual 2017 By Lisa Peet Panelists at the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy session “Report from the Swamp: Policy Developments from Washington” discussed the need for ongoing vigilance—and promising avenues for advocacy |
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 The Power of Nonneutral Librarianship | ALA Annual 2017 By Mahnaz Dar While some believe that libraries should remain entirely objective, several speakers at an ALA annual conference panel stressed the importance of using exhibits and programs to express political opinions and take a stand. |
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 Digital Inclusion Week at SFPL | Field Reports By Wenwen Shi The San Francisco Public Library planed Digital Inclusion Week with key local representatives to raise awareness of the digital divide, provide tech training opportunities, and promote collaboration among government, community organizations, and private enterprise. |
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 Preserving the Personal Past | Programs That Pop By Melissa Eastin In August 2016, the Greater Baton Rouge, LA, region was impacted by flooding. The archival community worked to educate the public on how to halt degradation of damaged items. Then, Operation Photo Rescue came to repair the mementos. |
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 Academic Librarians Have Something to Sell | From the Bell Tower By Steven Bell Salesmanship is rarely considered the work of academic librarians. Librarians responsible for outreach and building connections with students and faculty might benefit from embracing the idea they have something worth offering and then selling it. |
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 10 Toys That Teach By Linda Rodgers Top picks from librarians who incorporate toys into their programs. |
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 SLJ’s Guide to Pride: 20 Titles Spotlighting LGBTQA+ Experience By Ashleigh Williams Though LGBTQA+ Pride Month is over, these great resources are perfect all year round! Below are 18 YA fiction titles featuring LGBTQA+ protagonists who fall for mermaids, join NASA, process lost love, try to save the world, and much more. |
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 Domestic Affairs | Wyatt’s World By Neal Wyatt Tales of families never fail to fascinate. Whether a story of zany characters or of bonds unraveled, how mothers, fathers, and siblings navigate their unions is always rich reading. |
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| Xpress Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  In fiction, Shelly Stratton's Between Lost and Found is a book for "readers who enjoy heartfelt women’s stories, a heroine with an inner dilemma, and nonexplicit romance. Stratton also writes as Shelly Ellis (Lust and Loyalty)." In nonfiction, while Linda Simon's Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper is "a good springboard for further investigation and deeper research, [it] bites off more than it can chew but introduces readers to a dazzling cast of flappers and proto-flappers and their observers and admirers." Ink in Water: An Illustrated Memoir; or, How I Kicked Anorexia’s Ass and Embraced Body Positivity, by Lacy J. Davis with illustrations by Jim Kettner, is this week's starred graphic novel. "A beautifully realized biographical comic that tackles a tough subject head-on while offering no easy answers or stultifying platitudes." And in e-originals, Beth Dranoff's Betrayed by Blood is a "charming tale of vampires, demons, and multiple animal-shifters intersecting with characters of various sexual orientations, set in a harmonious local bar, [reflecting] a powerful urban fantasy that rings true to life. Highly recommended."
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 TechKnowledge: Creating Equity Through Technology Join Library Journal and School Library Journal on October 18 for our day-long virtual conference as we bring together thousands of library professionals and leaders in digital transformation from around the globe to address how technology solutions are supporting equity and inclusion among libraries’ diverse communities. |
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 Job Zone utilizes unique job matching technology to help you find the perfect job (and employers find the perfect candidate), whether you’re actively seeking or just keeping an eye out for your possibilities. Log on today and check out our newest features, including automated job and candidate matches, and email alerts. JOB OF THE WEEK UC Davis is seeking an Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning |
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