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March 29, 2018
image VR Meets the Real World | Technology in Focus
By Matt Enis
Virtual reality is fast reaching a mainstream tipping point, with libraries already facilitating next-generation learning environments that use it.
Steven Bell A Library Leaders Need Productive Distraction | Leading From the Library
By Steven Bell
If leaders are overwhelmed with day-to-day details, they never get time to reflect on others’ leadership stories or think about big picture issues. Getting distracted may help.
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College Students Prefer Print College Students Prefer Print for Long-form Reading, Ebooks for Research | LJ Survey
By Matt Enis
Most college students prefer to read print books for pleasure, but almost two-thirds now prefer ebooks or express no format preference for research, according to LJ’s 2018 Academic Student Ebook Experience Survey, sponsored by EBSCO.
eReviews News Roundup CLIR Grants, Privacy & Social Media, NEA News, & more | eReviews News Roundup
By Henrietta Verma & Gary Price
LJ’s InfoDocket regularly highlights news that will be of use to reference staff in academic and public libraries. Here are a few of the news items and resources.
Identity Democracy & Fascism | Four Key September 2018 Titles
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth, Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athens to Our World, and more.
"Instead of accessing text…you’re visiting a historic site, you’re viewing a fossil that’s been 3-D scanned, or you’re accessing architecture in Europe—you’re giving the public access to things that are far away, or too big or too small, or [otherwise] too hard to access."
Toxic Inequality The Myth of the American Dream | Collection Development: Income Inequality
By Vanessa Hughes
Income inequality continues to be a global problem, but perhaps nowhere is it more glaringly obvious than in the United States. These 33 resources offer background, in-depth analyses, and calls to action.
Black Flags Eliza Hamilton, Mohandas Gandhi, & Pirates | History & Biography Previews, Sept. 2018
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity; Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates; The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War; and more.
Lauren Hilgers LJ Talks to Journalist Lauren Hilgers
By Stephanie Sendaula
Lauren Hilgers lived and worked in Shanghai, China, for six years. Hilgers won a MacDowell Fellowship to complete her debut book, Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown.
Heart Talk New Projects and Poets | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Tracy K. Smith is appointed to a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate and more from Book Pulse.
The One Device Nonfiction: Economics, WWII Resistance, iPhone, Netanyahu, Ukrainian Revolt, Meriwether Lewis | Xpress Reviews
By LJ Reviews
Reviews of Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide; The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe; The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone; and more.
Bernini When in Rome | The Reader’s Shelf
By Neal Wyatt
Reviews of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome; Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World; Bernini; and more.
The Silence of the Girls Beevor, Kubica, Ruiz Zafón, & More | Barbara’s Picks, Sept. 2018
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of WWII, Leadership in Turbulent Times, These Truths: A History of the United States, and more.
Hamid Sulaiman Publisher Shifts Focus to Comics | LJ Talks to Interlink Books
By Martha Cornog
Interlink Books has added graphic novels to its already well-rounded roster of fiction and nonfiction, many with a Middle Eastern slant.
 
1. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Rothstein, Richard
Liveright: W.W. Norton
2017. ISBN 9781631492853. $27.95

2. Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
Davis, Heath Fogg
New York University Press
2017. ISBN 9781479855407. $25

3. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Grann, David
Doubleday
2017. ISBN 9780385534246. $28.95

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