Celebrating Skye Patrick, Librarian of the Year | ALA Midwinter 2019
By Lisa Peet
Spirits were high on the evening of Friday, January 25, when LJ celebrated 2019 Librarian of the Year Skye Patrick with a reception at Seattle’s Hotel Theodore.

Berkeley PL Launches Cards for Patrons Without Fixed Address
By Lisa Peet
On December 1, 2018, Berkeley Public Library, CA, rolled out its new Easy Access Cards, designed for library customers without a fixed address.

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Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library Transforms Collection Management

Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL) is an important community resource for the 180,000-person community of Vanderburgh County, Indiana. In addition to its eight well-used library branches, EVPL has a ninth facility that provides wellness support for nonprofits and small businesses in the greater Evansville area.

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Celebrating Culture Through Comics | 2019 Schomburg Center Black Comic Book Festival
By Annalisa Pešek
On January 18–19, more than 10,000 comics fans, creators, publishers, and community members gathered for the Seventh Annual Black Comic Book Festival at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.

MIT’s Grand Challenges Issues Final Report
By Lisa Peet
A Grand Challenges–Based Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication and Information Science was released December 18.

ProQuest Launches ProQuest One Academic
By Matt Enis
ProQuest announced the launch of ProQuest One Academic, a new resource that utilizes a single user interface to offer access to ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online, and the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global database.

LAPL Stepped Up During Teacher's Strike
By Kara Yorio
Mayor Eric Garcetti announcing the end of the L.A. Unified School District teachers' strike on Tuesday was reason enough to celebrate. Then Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) City Librarian John Szabo heard something that made him even happier.

Merci Suárez Wins Newbery, Hello Lighthouse, the Caldecott; The Poet X Takes Printz at Youth Media Awards | ALA Midwinter 2019
By Kara Yorio
Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X was a big winner, while Meg Medina and Sophie Blackall earned Newbery and Caldecott Medals, respectively, at the 2019 Youth Media Awards ceremony during the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Check out SLJ's reviews of these 2019 winners here.

Claire Hartfield and Ekua Holmes Win Coretta Scott King Book Awards | ALA Midwinter
By Kara Yorio
Claire Hartfield won the 2019 Coretta Scott King Author Award for A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, and Ekua Holmes earned the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for The Stuff of Stars.

NBCC Announces Finalists for 2018 Awards
By Barbara Hoffert
On January 22, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced the finalists for its 2018 book awards, trumpeting books that seem both surprising and obvious.

Jay Asher, Author of 'Thirteen Reasons Why,' Sues SCBWI for Defamation
By SLJ Staff
Jay Asher, author of Thirteen Reasons Why, is suing the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the group’s executive director, Lin Oliver, for making false and defamatory statements.

Page to Screen | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
E. L. James is writing a new book. The CNN reporter Jim Acosta is too. The PEN Award finalists are announced, and Jamel Brinkley wins The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.

What Library Leaders Can’t Fake | Leading from the Library
By Steven Bell
One school of thought in leadership suggests those who do it well can role play some area of their work for which they are less than authentically passionate.

2019 Heavy Medal Award Winner Announcement
By Roxanne Hsu Feldman
After two more rounds (via email and ballot forms) of voting, the 2019 Heavy Medal Award Committee finally came to consensus and picked the winning title published for children in 2018.

New to the Bestseller Lists | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Liar Liar by James Patterson leads four new bestsellers onto the bestseller lists. Bill Clinton will write a new memoir. Endpapers get notice and Nancy Drew is headed back to TV.

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WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA

Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You: Stories is one of two starred fiction selections this week. "Canadian Leung’s exquisitely sublime collection marks her Stateside debut; its well-deserved success should also give her 2013 novel, The Wondrous Woo, southern exposure." In nonfiction, Craig Morgan Teicher's We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress; Essays is one of three starred titles. "Highly recommended for lovers of reading and thoughtful critiques of 20th- and 21st-century poetry." Natalie Nourigat's I Moved to Los Angeles To Work in Animation is this week's starred graphic novel. "Thoughtful and beautifully done, this is a great introduction for anyone seeking a job in animation, or looking for encouragement to try something new." And in TA Moore's e-original Skin and Bone, book two in the "Digging up Bones" series, "the mystery is complex, the relationships are developing, and readers familiar with the characters will want to know what happens next."

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