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NSF-Funded Team To Develop Community-Specific Information Literacy Tools
By Lisa Peet
With the help of a $750,000 National Science Foundation grant awarded in September 2021, a team of researchers has launched “Adapting and Scaling Existing Educational Programs to Combat Inauthenticity and Instill Trust in Information,” a study created to understand the information literacy needs of populations usually overlooked in such work, and to test methods of improving information literacy among them. |
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REFORMA Virtual Meeting Harassed by Racist Zoombombers
By Lisa Peet
On January 23, during its virtual National General Membership meeting, REFORMA (the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking) was disrupted by a person or people using racial slurs and misogynistic hate speech. The infiltration highlighted the discrepancies between the association’s desire for an open, inclusive gathering and an increasing need for added security in an online environment. |
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SPONSORED BY OCLC What Could Your Team Do with More Time?
Many libraries are saving considerable processing time with ILL requests for items that are checked out. (So why let them sit in your queue?) One large midwestern university reported a 25% reduction in ILL requests for checked out items and a 20% fill rate increase.
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Public Libraries Tackle Telehealth Challenges
By Sossity Chiricuzio
Telehealth can bridge healthcare accessibility issues, but that leaves out the many who still don’t have reliable broadband access at home. Some libraries, with guidance from university health education and science centers, are stepping up to fill that gap. |
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Inclusive I-Do’s: 15 Resources To Build a Collection
By Kelly Griffin
LGBTQIA+ couples were once completely absent from library shelves. Fortunately, LGBTQIA+ marriage has become much more accepted and legally recognized across the country since June 15, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry. Here are 15 resources to help build a collection. |
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| “Our mission is to go from working in public education to educating the public, to finding all of the places in which people—especially in the United States, but around the world—go for information and searching tasks…. Libraries, healthcare settings, other kinds of schools, town halls, public spaces, and trying to make sure that they have access to resources to help them search effectively.” | | From “NSF-Funded Team To Develop Community-Specific Information Literacy Tools” |
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The Story Prize Finalists Are Announced | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
The Story Prize finalists are announced, including Lily King, J. Robert Lennon, and Brandon Taylor. The 94th annual Academy Award nominations are announced, featuring several adaptations. The 2021 Chesley Awards winners are announced. |
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PREMIUM
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life
By James Curtis
This decade will mark the centenaries of Buster Keaton’s most celebrated features, and Curtis has assembled a biography that will be a go-to source for fans both old and new during the centenary celebration and beyond. |
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PREMIUM
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals
By Christopher M. Reali
Though mired in minutiae and scholarly lingo, Reali’s work successfully shatters misconceptions about soul music and an identifiable Shoals sound and will appeal to academics and music aficionados. |
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PREMIUM
Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency
By Mark K. Updegrove
Updegrove will alleviate, although not quench, general readers’ continual thirst for biographies of JFK. Pair with the likes of Fredrik Logevall’s JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956. |
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PREMIUM
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
By Maud Newton
An engaging and thoroughly researched memoir relaying a family history that is at turns recognizable and abhorrent, as an honest and typical history of American exceptionalism, racism, and misogyny. Will appealing to lovers of memoirs, family secrets, genealogy, and the sociological makeup threading U.S. history. | SCIENCES
PREMIUM
Ever Green: Saving Big Forests To Save the Planet
By John W. Reid & Thomas E. Lovejoy
This absorbing book provides an in-depth treatment of these boreal and tropical forests and why their preservation is a crucial step to mitigate climate change. | PREMIUM
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
By Dan Werb
Great for those who want to understand the science of fighting pandemics while trying to avoid conspiracy theories and politicization. |
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Inclusive Family Planning: Eight Resources To Build Collections
By Kelly Griffin
While information about how to change a diaper or childproof a home may be the same for any parent, LGBTQIA+ parents must navigate other challenges, like securing legal protections for their family, that largely do not exist for heterosexual parents. Here are eight resources to build collections. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Chemistry
By LJ Reviews
Phosphorus, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, Chemistry for Breakfast and more in chemistry titles: February 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
1. Phosphorus: Past and Future.
Elser, James J.
Oxford University Press
2021. ISBN 9780199916917. $29.95
2. Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science.
Orens, Jeff
Pegasus Books
2021. ISBN 9781643137148. $28.95
3. Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life; Trans. by Sarah Pybus .
Nguyen-Kim, Mai Thi
Greystone Books
2021. ISBN 9781771647489. $26.95 |
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