April 9, 2024

By Henrietta Thornton

Academic librarians are helping both students and instructors navigate the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence.

Display Shelf | Librarian Authors

By Melissa DeWild

National Library Week is celebrated during April, and these multitalented authors have also worked in libraries. Recognize them with a display! See the full list of 34 titles here.

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Prepub Alert: The Complete List | September 2024 Titles

By Melissa DeWild and Neal Wyatt

All the September 2024 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

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“These language models are all based around language, in text primarily, and the academic library world is as well, so [libraries] should be really early adopters and leading the way with it given the nature of their business.”

–From: AI in Academia

National Library Week Kicks Off | Book Pulse

By Kate Merlene

It’s National Library Week, and ALA releases a list of the top 10 most challenged books of 2023, along with the “State of America’s Libraries Report 2024.” The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo leads holds this week. Also buzzing are books by John Sandford, Megan Miranda, Yulin Kuang, and Amanda Montell. People’s book of the week is Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles. James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading, and librarian Mychal Threets discuss book bans, bookstores, and libraries with USA Today.

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Winners of the British Science Fiction Association Awards | Book Pulse

By Sarah Wolberg

The winners of the British Science Fiction Association Awards and the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards are announced. The shortlist is announced for the Stella Prize. Horror novel sales have boomed recently. BookTok-favorite romance novelist T L Swan launches a publishing venture. Plus a report from PLA.

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Claire Jiménez Wins 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for ‘What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez’ | Book Pulse

By Kate Merlene

Claire Jiménez wins the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez. The Windham-Campbell Prizes are announced. Remembrances arrive for writer John Barth, who has died at age 93. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will publish a two-part memoir this fall, and Joan Baez will publish her first book of poetry later this month. LitHub reports on the fallout from the collapse of Small Press Publishing. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez.

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Reese’s Book Club Picks Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had | Book Pulse

By Sarah Wolberg

Reese’s Book Club selects Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had as its next read. Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah is the 2024 pick for the One eRead Canada book club. This year’s Independent Bookstore Day will be held on April 27. Fantasy novelist Sharon Green has died at age 79.

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Usagi Yojimbo: 40th Anniversary Reader, by Stan Sakai, is a starred graphic novel. "An essential collection of intricately plotted, emotionally complex, wonderfully entertaining tales written and drawn by one of the greatest storytellers of our time." Midwestern Gothic, by Scott Thomas, is a starred horror selection. "A must-buy title that updates the enduringly popular form of the gothic novel from a new perspective (as in Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or The Hollow Kind by Andy Davidson), while also adding depth to the horror that unites Thomas’s literary universe, similar to Goblin and Spin a Black Yarn by Josh Malerman." And Amy Ewing's The Irish Goodbye is a starred romance. "The magical atmosphere of Inishmore and its residents will captivate readers in YA author Ewing’s (The Alcazar) adult debut."

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