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| October 29, 2019 |  Driven by Civic Goals, Sacramento Public Library Wins Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize By Meredith Schwartz Sacramento Public Library (SPL) enriches its community in a way that’s vital locally and imperative in today’s divided times. The winner of the inaugural Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize, developed in partnership with the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation, SPL exemplifies the singular power of the public library to be a fully integrated and critically valuable community asset. |
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 Responding to Congress, ALA Denounces Amazon, Macmillan By Matt Enis Dated October 15, the American Library Association's report to Congress summarizes challenges facing the library field with regard to ebooks, streaming content, the pricing of digital academic journal subscriptions, anti-competitive behavior in digital textbook publishing, and the publishing industry’s capture and use of student data. |
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| SPONSORED BY DREXEL UNIVERSITY  Inform a Better World With Drexel's New Master's in Information Drexel University's MS in Information provides the technology skills, perspective & expertise necessary to succeed in today’s information driven economy. Offered online and on campus, the MSI program features graduate majors in digital content management, library and information science (ALA accredited), and human-computer interaction & user experience (UX).
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 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. |
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 LJ Movers & Shakers 2020: 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. Let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of. The submission deadline for the Class of 2020 is November 15, 2019. |
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| "Our library system is known for seeing a community need and reaching out to the right partners to develop solutions." | | |
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 As Inequities in Higher Ed Grow, So Does the Need To Address Them | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller Paul Tough’s new book, The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us illustrates how the promise of higher education as a tool for social mobility is failing. The system he depicts—fed by testing, college admissions processes, and financial aid models—reinforces economic and social divides. |
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 LJ Talks to Erik Nielson & Andrea L. Dennis, Authors of Rap on Trial By Mahnaz Dar In their book, Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics and Guilt in America, Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis explain that aspiring or amateur rappers have fallen victim to a corrupt justice system as prosecutors twist lyrics into evidence of murder, assault, drug trafficking, and other crimes. |
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 Q&A: Cat Sebastian | Romance Preview 2019 By Eve Stano Since the 2016 release of her debut historical romance, The Soldier’s Scoundrel, Cat Sebastian has been increasingly winning over readers with each new title published. |
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 Page to Screen and Book Awards | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt Colson Whitehead, Saeed Jones, and Jerry Craft win the Kirkus Prize. The CWA Dagger Award Winners are announced. Christmas arrives on screen this week, while Halloween gets another nod. Paste names “The 25 Best Horror Novels of the 2010s.” |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Failure To Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn’t Grown Up...and What To Do About It, by Mark McConville, PhD, is one of this week's starred nonfiction selections. “McConville is well qualified to guide parents through the challenges that many face but are less frequently examined. A valuable go-to resource for parents and teens alike.” Pamela Paul & Maria Russo's new social sciences title, How To Raise a Reader: Fostering a Love of Books, from Birth to Teens, is another starred nonfiction title. "Bold and bright illustrations combine with varied recommendations for instilling a love of reading in children of all ages; a must-purchase for all collections." In reference, Political Groups, Parties, and Organizations That Shaped America: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection, edited by Scott H. Ainsworth & Brian M. Harward, is another starred nonfiction selection. "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." And World War II Map by Map, published by DK, is a starred history selection. "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."
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