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Women’s Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide Gale | eReviews
By Gricel Dominguez
The collection emphasizes female trailblazers in areas such as pop culture, health care, social work, activism, and more. It is a solid selection for institutions that support advanced research in the humanities, history, gender studies, and other scholarly areas with a focus on women’s lived experiences. |
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SPONSORED BY OCLC The Secret to Maximizing ILL Delivery Speed
Libraries across the globe have quickly increased staff productivity and decreased ILL turnaround time for user requests. Results are impressive. For example, a large university library reported a 40% fill rate increase and a midsize public library saved more than 150 staff hours.
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Academic Librarians View Analytics as Vital, but Want Less Expensive, Easier Tools
By Matt Enis
Ninety-one percent of academic librarians believe that analytics improve their understanding of how students, faculty, and researchers engage with their library, and 85 percent believe analytics can help show the library’s value to administrators and help libraries justify budget decisions, according to a recent national survey of 196 academic librarians conducted by LJ in conjunction with EBSCO. | Rollout Begins: 2022 Movers & Shakers Announced This Week
By LJ
It is our great pleasure to congratulate and welcome the 42 individuals named 2022 Movers & Shakers. They join a distinguished group of academic, public, and special library (and library-adjacent) workers. Advocates, Change Agents, Community Builders, and Innovators have been announced, with Educators coming on Friday, May 6. |
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Legal Abortion in the United States | Recent Reviews in LJ
By LJ Reviews
With the May 3 news that the U.S. Supreme Court may be poised to reverse Roe v. Wade, which held that pregnant Americans have a constitutional right to choose abortion, readers might be looking for titles addressing the topic to contextualize the issue. Here are five titles, all recently reviewed in LJ. |
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PREMIUM
Hitler’s Girl
By Lauren Young
Though it will be primarily of interest to history buffs, this may be a cautionary tale for today. Democratic institutions are fragile and many of the problems roiling the waters of the ’30s are ascendant again. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home
By Kate Mangino
An important purchase that will provide a variety of readers with an informative and actionable understanding of gender inequality in the United States today. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Asian History
By LJ Reviews
Crying in H Mart, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, Sisters in the Mirror, and More in Asian history titles: April 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir.
Zauner, Michelle
Alfred A. Knopf
2021. ISBN 9780525657743. $26.95 2. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir; Trans. by Allan H. Barr.
Ai, Weiwei Crown
2021. ISBN 9780553419467. $32.00 3. Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism.
Shehabuddin, Elora
University of California Press
2021. ISBN 9780520342514. $29.95 |
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