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Movers & Shakers 2022 | Call for Nominations
The editors of Library Journal need your help identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Movers & Shakers profiles up-and-coming, innovative, creative individuals from around the world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors—who are providing inspiration and model programs for others, including programs developed this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please use this form to let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of. Submissions will close on December 6, 2021. |
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LITERATURE PREMIUM Orwell’s RosesBy Rebecca Solnit Readers of Orwell will find, or rediscover, much material here that will expand their perception of the man. This is a worthy addition to the ever-growing corpus of Orwell studies. |
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PREMIUM Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for StudentsEd. by Keith Lawrence While Greenwood’s three-volume Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature covers more writers, has longer entries, and is more scholarly, this new guide is directed primarily at students (middle school through college) and will be useful to them and to general readers, as well as the teachers and libraries helping them. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE PREMIUM Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to PoliticsBy Keeda Haynes Readers interested in law and systemic racism will come away with greater insight from this highly recommended book. Haynes’s perseverance, compassion, and relatability create a memoir that will stick with readers long after the last page. |
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PREMIUM “Let Us Vote!”: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment By Jennifer Frost This book can be read as a case study of the laborious U.S. legislative process, set against the changing political landscape of the 1960s. Readers interested in U.S. politics will appreciate Frost’s research. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES PREMIUM Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow SouthBy Winfred Rembert & Erin I. Kelly This dynamic book, complete with numerous illustrations, is visually and narratively stunning. Readers interested in the artistic process or mid-20th-century U.S. history, especially the Black experience in the Jim Crow South, will appreciate it. | |
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One-Click America, a History of Financial Bubbles, Innovation Delusion, and more in business and economics titles: November 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
1. Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. MacGillis, Alec Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2021. ISBN 9780374159276. $28.00
2. Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. Quinn, William Cambridge University Press 2020. ISBN 9781108421256. $25.00
3. Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work that Matters Most. Vinsel, Lee Penguin Random House 2020. ISBN 9780525575689. $28.00 |
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