Academic Movers Q&A: Virginia Cononie, Tireless Advocate for Libraries of All Kinds By Amy Rea Virginia Cononie, assistant librarian/coordinator of reference and research at the University of South Carolina Upstate Spartanburg Library, was named one of Library Journal’s 2022 Movers & Shakers for her library advocacy work. LJ recently reached out to learn more about her Share Your Story campaign, a collection of success stories from libraries in South Carolina that were compiled into a book and sent to state lawmakers. |
Experiencing the Big Easy | LibLearnX 2023 Preview By LJ Staff While this is the second outing for the American Library Association’s Library Learning Experience (LibLearnX), it’s the first time that attendees will convene in person for the re-envisioned conference, which replaces the former Midwinter Meeting. |
Best Documentaries of 2022 By Joshua Blevins Peck Delve into 10 wonderful documentaries that made LJ’s Best of 2022 list. They cover subjects as diverse as bees, music, art history, and incarceration. |
Best Science & Technology of 2022 By Jill Cox-Cordova Wasps, bees, and the Milky Way are personified and celebrated in the best science and technology titles of 2022. |
Best Social Science of 2022 By Jill Cox-Cordova In-depth explorations of racism, divorce, and money. The best social sciences titles of 2022. |
SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE LIUC University, Italy Implements Ex Libris Esploro
With two different, disconnected systems tracking different aspects of the university’s research activities, the staff of the Mario Rostini Library at LIUC saw an opportunity with Ex Libris Esploro to streamline workflows to comply with Italian laws, and to provide a better service to the university’s community of researchers.
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FINE ARTS PREMIUM BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art By Zaria Ware This is a welcome new voice to the generally staid conventions of art history. A lively, engaging examination of a serious and under-addressed topic. PREMIUM Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations, 1700–Now By Annie Carlano & others A must for collections supporting fashion, design, theater, or costuming. The insightful, well-researched annotations highlight the historical and cultural context of each garment, including the associated fashion trend, global textile history, designer, and garment construction. The photography, with close-up insets of unique patterns and decoration, is well done. PREMIUM Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China Ed. by Karina H. Corrigan & Stephanie H. Tung Highly recommended for its exhaustive and authoritative treatment of the subject. Scholarly, but accessible to general readers. |
LITERATURE PREMIUM Black and Female: Essays By Tsitsi Dangarembga Dangarembga’s collection is an essential addition to academic collections on race and gender. The moments where she shares her crisis over selfhood as a child and how that search for identity carried over into adulthood are some of the most powerful parts of the book. PREMIUM Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer By Jeremy D. Popkin Popkin paints a discerning portrait of a complex matriarch, while adding nuance to the Jewish American experience in the 20th century. Recommended. |
SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE University of Liège Deploys Library Mobile App
Patrons have begun to expect 24/7 library services. With Ex Libris Library Mobile, the University of Liège is empowering patrons to access digital services and resources at any time and on any device.
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Best Audiobooks of 2022 | Nonfiction By Sarah Hashimoto Nonfiction listeners have a panoply of choices on this year’s best nonfiction audiobooks list. There are several memoirs by stars, a range of crime stories, and even a science book about deadly animals. |
Statista’s Market Research Resources | eReviews By Rob Tench Statista is an outstanding resource offering wide-ranging and robust content, a plethora of ways to find the content, sensible links to key reports, and engaging visuals. Added features and the timely addition of relevant subject matter make it a significant source of consumer and market data. |
HeinOnline’s Water Rights & Resources | eReviews By Gricel Dominguez Part of HeinOnline’s suite of legal-reference databases, Water Rights & Resources provides access to a concentrated collection of resources on the interplay of state and federal laws governing all aspects of water in U.S. society. It is an excellent resource for legal and environmental studies, as well as political science, U.S. history, and related subjects. |
Real Reels | Documentaries To Note By Joshua Blevins Peck From a documentary about a groundbreaking feminist living in exile from Iran to gun violence in the U.S., these documentaries enhance collections and expand understanding. |
The Work Lasts | Editorial By Meredith Schwartz This will be my last editorial for LJ. For me, this news is bittersweet; I’m excited to begin a new role elsewhere in libraryland, as managing editor of CQ Researcher at SAGE Publishing. But I will miss my colleagues, the opportunities I have had here to learn from and collaborate with librarians across the country, and my chance to bend your ear every month. |
ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Physics By LJ Reviews The Life of Electricity, Confronting Climate Gridlock, How Climate Change Is Taught in America, and more in physics titles: December 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life.
Jorgensen, Timothy J.
Princeton University Press 2021. ISBN 9780691197838 $29.95 2. Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future.
Cohan, Daniel S.
Yale University Press 2022. ISBN 9780300251678 $28.00 3. Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America.
Worth, Katie
Columbia Global Reports
2021. ISBN 9781735913643 $16.00 |
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