RDMLA Offers Free Online Research Data Management Course
By Lisa Peet
Simmons University School of Library and Information Science has partnered with seven academic health sciences and research libraries and science publisher Elsevier to establish the Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA), a free online professional development program. RDMLA launched on October 7.

Leading the Library that Leads the Way in Innovation | Leading from the Library
By Steven Bell
Innovation comes in different forms. Library leaders support staff to achieve innovation that establishes the library as an organizational or community innovator. Using the right terminology makes a difference.

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“The Old Models Are Not Working”: SAGE Announces OA Pilot with UNC-Chapel Hill

 “SAGE’s history and commitments align with our values as a public institution to ensure that scholarship serves the public good…That’s very important to us.” –Elaine Westbrooks, Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Read a two-part interview on the partnership

Best of the Buchmesse | Highlights from the Frankfurt Book Fair
By JL Morin and Stephan Theo
Award-winning authors and the movers and shakers of the publishing world came together for this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Here are a few highlights.

As Inequities in Higher Ed Grow, So Does the Need To Address Them | Editorial
By Rebecca T. Miller
LJ editorial director Rebecca Miller sees libraries and librarians as a vital part of the solution for equity, starting in the early years, continuing throughout high school, and into the first-year experience on campus.

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LJ Talks to Erik Nielson & Andrea L. Dennis, Authors of Rap on Trial
By Mahnaz Dar
Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics and Guilt in America, by Erik Nielson, who teaches on hip-hop and African American literature at the University of Richmond, and Andrea L. Dennis, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law and former public defender, examines how lyrics have been weaponized against rappers.

Making the Cut: Great Directors | Film Reviews, Oct. 2019
By LJ Reviews
A wonderful biography of a memorable man, and a worthy addition to all libraries; though at times too congratulatory, an otherwise strong account of a talented and uncompromising director.

SCIENCES
PREMIUM
Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention
By Kathryn D. Sullivan
An accessible, engaging read for students of engineering and the history of technology and generalist readers interested in NASA history.

PREMIUM
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
By Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant
Kuang and Fabricant offer accessible and thought-provoking insights into the ways that user-friendly design has influenced our lives, along with a contextual history of technology not available in many other books.

SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race To Revolutionize the Way We Build
By Jonathan Waldman
Fans of applied iterative trial and error, common to all innovation work, will appreciate this latest piece of popular science and technology.

HISTORY
PREMIUM
Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
By Anna Mae Duane
A must-read for those interested in antebellum African American life and education.

World War II Map by Map
Casual and serious readers alike will find the engaging cartography of this superb, data-rich volume conveys the exceptional range, duration, costs, and intensity of a war that dramatically altered history.

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Groups, Parties, and Organizations That Shaped America: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection
By Scott H. Ainsworth & Brian M. Harward

General readers, high school students, and undergraduates will find this outstanding resource well illustrates the divergent genesis and nature of our political culture and landscape.

Anonymous Leads Forthcoming Book News | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
The author of the anonymous NYT op-ed, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” is writing a book called A Warning. The shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction is announced.

“The People Who Helped Me the Most Were the Librarians” — Rep. Elijah Cummings
By SLJ Staff
Congressman Elijah Cummings, in this brief clip, recalls the time he spent as a child at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.

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