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January 4, 2024

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Speaking Up: Lisa Varga Is LJ’s 2024 Librarian of the Year

By Lisa Peet

Public and academic libraries in the Commonwealth of Virginia are fortunate to have the Virginia Library Association (VLA) on their side. Among other services, VLA provides continuing education to members, maintains the VLA Jobline and listserv, publishes the Virginia Libraries journal, sponsors several awards and scholarships, advocates for state and local funding, and supports libraries and individuals confronting intellectual freedom challenges. Take a closer look, however, and you’ll see that those wheels are kept turning by one woman: VLA Executive Director Lisa Varga. 

 

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Academic Movers Q&A: Steven Frost Slays It for the City and the Kids

By Amy Rea

Steven Frost, associate chair of undergraduate studies for the Department of Media Studies at the University of Colorado–Boulder, was named a 2023 Library Journal Mover & Shaker for their work collaborating with Boulder Public Library on its makerspace and Slay the Runway event. LJ recently spoke with Steven to learn more about these projects and what they’ve been up to since. 

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SPONSORED BY GALE

 

The World’s Largest Online Historical Archive of Eighteenth Century Studies Turns 20

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Gale’s “Eighteenth Century Collections Online” (ECCO), the largest collection—32 million pages—of 18th-century books, pamphlets, periodicals, and other ephemera in the world. ECCO was revolutionary in providing researchers and students a text-searchable corpus at their desktops 24/7. 

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Bloomsbury Food Library | eReview

By Gricel Dominguez

Drawing from multiple disciplines, the Bloomsbury Food Library enables users to explore niche aspects of food history and their wider implications in historical and sociocultural contexts. 

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Gale Business: Plan Builder | eReview

By Rob Tench

Gale Business: Plan Builder effectively helps budding entrepreneurs, experienced business owners, and nonprofits create realistic business plans and analyze their business concepts. 

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Recollect Helps the University of Georgia Showcase Its Special Collections Online


Colleges and universities often have a hard time effectively showcasing their special collections for the general public. The University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences has solved this challenge with an easy-to-use digital platform called Recollect.

 

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Current Events | Prepub Alert, June 2024 Titles

By Melissa DeWild and Neal Wyatt

Annalee Newitz writes about weaponized stories, while the hosts of Pod Save America suggest ways to engage with politics, at all levels. 

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“These students still struggle with identity, with acceptance, like any teen does, but more pronounced because the world is telling them there’s something messed up with them. But we’re here to turn that around. The Atlas Institute at the University of Colorado supports the workshops, and the library supports the performances. I’m incredibly grateful for that..” 

 

—From “Academic Movers Q&A: Steven Frost Slays It for the City and the Kids”

Science | Prepub Alert, June 2024 Titles

By Melissa DeWild and Neal Wyatt

Amy Stewart returns, this time writing about people who love trees. Also, a renowned ecologist merges science and spirituality, and a volcanologist offers a global tour. 

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Digital Humanities Teaches Students Critical Analysis Skills


Students learn invaluable skills they can apply in a variety of settings and applications. Across the nation, there has been renewed debate over the value of humanities degree programs as campus leaders look to overcome steep budget challenges.

 

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From LJ Reviews:

POLITICAL SCIENCE 

PREMIUM  

Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability

By Michael Kimmage

A compelling and detailed account that reveals some little known facts and a deeply sobering analysis of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, its consequences for Russia, and the many assumptions about European security. 

 

Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy

By Teresa Ghilarducci

This highly recommended book focuses on middle- and lower-income people who do not have millions in their retirement accounts and who are particularly concerned about the retirement possibilities that their children and grandchildren will have. It nicely updates Dora L. Costa’s The Evolution of Retirement and will appeal to fans of Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland. 

 

PREMIUM  

Oceans Rise, Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe

By Gerard Toal 

A thorough, recommended critique of geopolitical business-as-usual and its effects on emissions. The book also contains some guarded optimism about the rapid global spread of renewable power generation. 

HISTORY 

PREMIUM  

Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents—One Queen’s Special Relationship with America

By David Charter

An intriguing narrative that’s remarkable reading about Queen Elizabeth II, her diplomacy, and her relationships with U.S. presidents over the years. 

 

My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

By Sami Hermez 

A timely, powerful book from a Palestinian perspective. For readers who want to gain a deep understanding of the current conflict in Palestine, particularly about life in Gaza and the West Bank.  

 

PREMIUM  

Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

By Harold Holzer

An outstanding and important book on Lincoln and immigration. A must for readers of American history and immigration studies. 

PSYCHOLOGY 

PREMIUM  

Supercommunicators: How To Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By Charles Duhigg 

A how-to-guide and useful overview for readers wanting to communicate more effectively. Along with David Brooks’s recent How To Know a Person, a timely primer for creating deeper connections with others. 

 

The Burden of Sports: How and Why Athletes Struggle with Mental Health

By John Weston Parry

It would be hard to find a current work in this area more thorough and complete than Parry’s. Timely and important, this title has the potential to change the sports industry worldwide. Highly recommended for libraries that have a sports emphasis. 

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Fascinating Photobooks | Photography Roundup

By Michael Dashkin

These photography books illuminate the downtown NYC art scene of the ’70s, an innovator in color photography, peripatetic contemporary street photographers, and Black American studio photographers from the 1850s to the present. 

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From the Pages of infoDOCKET...

 

  • Report: “NIST Tool Will Make Math-Heavy Research Papers Easier to View Online”
  • CBS News: “Inside Some of the Most Unique Collections at the Library of Congress as it Celebrates 224th Anniversary”
  • The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): An Introduction & More New/Updated Report From the Congressional Research Service
  • Report: “Researchers Have a Magic Tool to Understand AI: Harry Potter”
  • A New Online Exhibition: “Making the Greatest Medical Library In America”
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