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ALA: 2022 Likely to See More Books Than Ever Banned and Challenged By Lisa Peet The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 attempts to ban or restrict library resources in K–12, higher ed, and public libraries in all of 2021, targeting 1,597 unique titles—itself the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began keeping track of challenged books more than 20 years ago. |
New Research: Book Bans Are Political, but Most Voters Don’t Support Them By Meredith Schwartz The EveryLibrary Institute, the companion organization of library advocacy group EveryLibrary, commissioned Embold Research, a nonpartisan research firm, to poll 1,223 U.S. voters on book banning. The survey found that nearly all (92 percent) have heard at least something about such censorship, and at least 75 percent will consider the issue of book banning when voting this November. Also in observance of Banned Books Week, intellectual freedom organization PEN America offered an update to its previous report, Banned in the USA: Rising School Book Bans Threaten Free Expression and Students’ First Amendment Rights, published in April. |
The 2022 American Poets Prizes Are Announced | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene The 2022 American Poets Prizes are announced. The Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction finalists and the German Book Prize shortlist are announced. The 7th edition of BookNet Canada’s State of Publishing report is released. |
SOCIAL SCIENCES Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures By Susan Raffo Visceral and readable without ever feeling too steeped in theory or jargon, Raffo’s accessible book helps show that roots matter more than what many see and that change is impossible without a real weeding, a structural dismantling of what people prefer to simply cover up or look away from. PREMIUM Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices By Kristin Hass Hass offers a powerful exposé of the persistence of race in the ongoing public dialogue about citizenship and belonging. PREMIUM Mardi Gras Indians By Nikesha Elise Williams Williams’s concise book effectively synthesizes numeral primary and secondary sources into an excellent overview of the origins of Mardi Gras tribes and the reasons for their continued endurance. Particularly recommended for libraries looking to add to collections on Black American cultural traditions. |
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SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE Five Questions That Can Elevate Your Library - Part 2: Agility and Adaptation
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: History of Science By LJ Reviews Plagues Upon the Earth, Maladies of Empire, Our History of Addiction, Secret of Life, and more in history of science titles: September 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. Harper, Kyle
Princeton University Press
2021. ISBN 9780691192123 $35.00 2. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine.
Downs, Jim
Belknap Harvard
2021. ISBN 9780674971721 $29.95 3. Urge: Our History of Addiction.
Fisher, Carl Erik
Penguin Books
2022. ISBN 9780525561446 $30.00 |
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