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Library Associations, Agencies, Workers Advocate for Early Vaccination Priority
By Lisa Peet
When the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out in mid-December 2020, their distribution was immediately complicated by a shortage of doses and widespread uncertainty about who would be given priority. When it was not yet clear who would be next, many library workers, leaders, and associations began advocating for public facing library workers to be vaccinated as soon as feasible. |
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Books and Authors To Know: Poetry Titles To Watch 2021
By Barbara Hoffert
Complementing LJ’s “Books and Authors To Know: Titles To Watch 2021,” which focuses on fiction and nonfiction, the nearly 100 key poetry titles featured here represent some of the most important and dynamic writing being done today. |
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Remembering Seoud Makram Matta
By Maurice J. Freedman
Seoud Makram Matta, Dean Emeritus of the School of Library & Information Science (now the School of Information) at Pratt Institute, died November 24, 2020, at the age of 83 due to complications of COVID-19. |
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Bloomsbury Human Kinetics Library | Reference eReviews
By Rob Tench
Providing authoritative information on physical activity and sports, the Human Kinetics Library consists of 150 ebooks, as well as 200 videos of demonstrations of exercise movements, drills, and key physical activity concepts. This is an excellent resource for anyone with an interest in exercise science, fitness, health, nutrition, and sports. |
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SCIENCES
PREMIUM
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
By Roland Ennos
This engaging natural history will draw in fans of Mark Kurlansky’s Cod and Vince Beiser’s The World in a Grain. It does a fantastic job of elevating humble wood to its rightful place alongside stone, bronze, and iron as a key resource in leading humanity to its dazzling achievements. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
PREMIUM
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By Anthea Butler
While the history Butler shares will be familiar to many scholars, her clear and forceful synthesis provides a useful entry point for evangelicals and non-evangelicals alike seeking to learn the history and contemporary reality of white evangelical political power in the United States. |
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SPONSORED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The Changing Role of Medical Librarians in a COVID-19 World
It’s evident that the role of medical libraries and librarians has changed considerably since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The degree to which this has happened is discussed by Siemensma with Rolf Schafer and Elle Matthews, Library Manager and E-services Librarian, respectively, from St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney.
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2021 Dublin Literary Award Longlist Announced | Book Pulse
By Mary Bakija
The 2021 Dublin Literary Award longlist is up, and features 49 books nominated by librarians from around the world. The class-action lawsuit against Amazon over ebook pricing now includes the Big Five publishers as defendants, added as "co-conspirators" after an amended complaint was filed. |
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Abbot Public Library (MA) seeks a Library Director |
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