Much like the races for the House, Senate, and state leadership, the 2022 midterm elections were a mixed bag for libraries. Most library ballot questions succeeded: As of November 10, more than 70 percent of the more than 55 tracked by library PAC EveryLibrary passed.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a searchable collection of more than five million dissertations and theses from universities worldwide. Now a breakthrough new feature makes it even easier for users to find high-quality information about the topic they’re studying.
In 2020, partner schools Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and Penn State University in the United States decided that a friendly baking competition involving the two universities would hit all the outreach notes they wanted, spotlighting cookbooks from both schools’ collections and fostering worldwide connections during a stressful time. Now in its third year, the Great Rare Books Bake Off is a hit worldwide.
Hiveclass, a startup company building a “digital encyclopedia of youth sports training,” has been partnering with libraries throughout the United States to offer teens and youth access to its mobile-friendly database of professionally shot, athlete-led instructional videos on soccer, basketball, tennis, dance, self-defense, volleyball, and more.
The pandemic has inspired people to learn new hobbies and skills as a strategy for coping with isolation. It’s also prompted readers to seek out advice on how to manage wellness as the events of the last few years have taken a huge toll on our collective mental, spiritual, and emotional health.
Library Journal is fielding a survey to learn how public libraries are providing resources and programming for job seekers and budding entrepreneurs. An article based on the results will share success stories and programming tips, and advocate for libraries’ influence on economic development in their communities. Survey sponsored by EBSCO.
“It’s really powerful to see that an 18th-century pie recipe that I adapted is now something that’s in someone’s regular repertoire of cooking in their home, and that someone reading that might have learned something about the history of food.”
The restaurant cookbook is a classic subgenre. This menu of titles is designed to highlight recent restaurant cookbooks that include a true sense of place and impressive recipes. The books evoke memories of restaurant visits past with their beautiful photography, and also share their locale, as they center the communities that influenced them.
The Mütter Museum’s less famous upstairs is equally fascinating—and it’s now open to non–medical professionals without an appointment. The library, an independent collection of books and ephemera related to the “history of medicine and medical humanities,” according to its mission statement, recently announced that it is now open to the public on weekends, included in the price of admission for the Mütter.
The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying emerging talents in the library world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors who are providing inspiration and model programs for others. Our 21st annual round of Movers & Shakers will profile up-and-coming individuals from around the world who are innovative, creative, and making a difference fighting against censorship, and helping improve their workplace. From librarians and non-degreed library workers to publishers, vendors, coders, entrepreneurs, reviewers, and others who impact the library field—Movers & Shakers 2023 will celebrate those people who are moving all types of libraries ahead! Please let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of. The deadline for submissions has been extended, and will now close on November 21, 2022.
From the earliest days of the novel, works of fiction have attempted to pass themselves off as nonfiction. These fictional works all imitate that most popular form of nonfiction, true crime.
The World Fantasy Awards winners and Golden Poppy finalists are out. The court decision regarding the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster is released. Flying to the top of the best-sellers lists are Going Rogue by Janet Evanovich, Triple Cross by James Patterson, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono, and The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan.
The December Loan Stars list is out, with A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley in the #1 spot. Christian Léourier wins the Prix Joël-Champetier Award. A U.S. judge explains why she blocked the PRH/S. & S. merger. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Desert Star by Michael Connelly. Interviews arrive with the 2022 National Book Award finalists. Interviews with Joanna Gaines, Dani Shapiro, Percival Everett, Joe Meno, J. Hope Stein, Tracy Deonn, Andrew Weiss, and Matthew F. Delmont make the news.
Best-selling royal biographer Andrew Morton's The Queen: Her Life is a starred social sciences selection. "Published so soon after the queen’s death, Morton’s biography will be popular as a new generation of British royals takes the stage." In nonfiction, Duke Riley: Tides and Transgressions, by contemporary multimedia artist Duke Riley and Anne Pasternak, is a starred title. "A handsome addition to any fine art collection. It’s imaginative work with substantive themes of ecological advocacy and maritime history, all executed with a fine hand and a piratical sense of humor." Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation is another starred nonfiction selection. "Dynamic film commentary from a contemporary legend that is essential reading for cinephiles." And Claire Keegan's Foster is a starred fiction selection. "Keegan offers further evidence of her facility at imbuing short fiction with immense feeling and invoking a deceptively grand scale; a rich, compassionate work that will appeal to a wide range of readers."
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