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SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS PART OF CLARIVATE Queensland Health Libraries Network: Bringing It All Together
Alma has provided a different vision of the future of health libraries, allowing the Queensland Health Libraries Network to explore services and functions beyond what they’d previously considered or been able to afford. digital objects and create collections not previously considered part of a health library’s role.
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Rick Pender on the Challenge and Opportunity of Summing Up Stephen Sondheim
By Gregory Stall
With tributes to the late Stephen Sondheim coming thick and fast in the wake of his late November death, Rick Pender, author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, discusses his new book, his research process, what it was like corresponding with Sondheim, and the enduring appeal of the Broadway composer. |
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Honoring the Core | Editorial
By Meredith Schwartz
The field needs to support innovation to meet our changing communities’ needs—but focus on invention can lead to taking essential duties, and the people who do them, for granted. |
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SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS A PROQUEST COMPANY Three Trends Shaping the Future of Libraries
Libraries have experienced dramatic changes in the last several years as a result of COVID and other external forces. As librarians look ahead to the future, here are three key trends that will shape their needs going forward.
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Costa Awards Announce Category Winners | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
The Costa Award Category Winners are announced. Kathryn Heffner is awarded The Peter Nicholls Essay Prize by the Science Fiction Foundation. Chicago Review Press acquires Interlude Press. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
What My Bones Know
By Stephanie Foo
Foo’s writing is shrewdly insightful. In telling her story so compellingly, she joins authors such as Anna Qu and Ly Tran in adding nuance to the “model minority” myth, if not actively subverting it. Highly recommended. |
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The Nineties: A Book
By Chuck Klosterman
From politics to Prozac, a fascinating exploration of Generation X from the perspective of those who lived it and witnessed it. Readers will be raiding closets for mom jeans and drawers for scrunchies after reading this nostalgia-inducing book. |
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PREMIUM
God: An Anatomy
By Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Stavrakopoulou demonstrates scholarly acumen and popular flair. | SCIENCES A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By Sara Manning Peskin
A captivating and convincing study that should bring hope and confidence to general readers as well as general practitioners, and to the millions living with neurodegenerative illness and their families. An exemplary work in the relatively new field of narrative medicine. | PREMIUM
Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
By Christopher Kemp
Chock-full of scientific information conveyed by a skilled storyteller, Kemp’s book is recommended for readers interested in the neurological differences between those who have an internal compass and those who get hopelessly lost. | PREMIUM
Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong
By Greg Brennecka
Brennecka successfully tackles a niche corner of the popular science genre where anthropology meets astrophysics. His knowledge and wit come together in an excellent debut that will appeal to readers of Munroe, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan. |
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Best Media 2021: Top Audiobooks and DVDs
By LJ Reviews
This year’s top audiobooks and DVDs, selected by LJ’s editors, columnists, and reviewers, represent the best media of the past year. In a year that has seen reader, listener, and viewer engagement soar, these picks provided vehicles for escape, moved us, and made us think critically and reflect upon the society in which we live. |
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Anthem by Noah Hawley is B&N January Book Club Pick | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez gets a rave review in the Washington Post. 2022 preview lists arrive, along with interviews from Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, Jean Chen Ho, Daphne Palasi Andreades, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Sean Thor Conroe, Jonathan Greenblatt, and bell hooks. |
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