Reference librarians in small academic libraries do a little of everything, from seeing synergies to creating workarounds for staff, collection, facilities, and budget gaps.
Emma Molls, currently the director of open research and publishing for the University of Minnesota Libraries, was named a 2021 Library Journal Mover & Shaker for their work with open research. LJ followed up with Molls to learn what they’ve been up to since then.
On June 26, the eve of Emily Drabinski’s ALA presidency, campaign workers, school librarians, activists, colleagues, friends, and family members gathered in her suite in the Chicago Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue. Against the backdrop of boats slowly moving across Lake Michigan, she addressed supporters. “Tonight we’re celebrating library wins,” she said. “In our communities, against censorship, and for the common good.”
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been a hot topic ever since it debuted to the public seven months ago. So much so that the American Library Association’s (ALA) Core division decided to forgo its traditional wide-ranging approach to its Top Tech Trends panel and focus exclusively on the potential benefits and problems of generative artificial intelligence (AI) during the “Core Top Technology Trends: Libraries Take on ChatGPT” session at the ALA Annual Conference, held June 22–27 in Chicago.
Pulling data from several different sources and making sense of all this information is a significant hurdle for academic librarians. Yet, librarians must be able to do this effectively not only to make sound, evidence-based decisions about their use of campus resources—but also to meet federally mandated reporting requirements (such as IPEDS). Learn how Panorama, a next-gen analytics platform can simplify this process.
Library Journal is collecting information about library projects completed over the last year for our annual Year in Architecture feature. If your institution completed a library construction or renovation project between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023, please tell us about it! The links below will direct you to download a pdf of the form before filling out your responses online.
The Collector by Daniel Silva leads holds this week. The Shirley Jackson Awards are announced, with Best Novel going to The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias and Where I End by Sophie White, in a tie. The New American Voices Award longlist is announced. Thousands of authors, including Nora Roberts and Margaret Atwood, sign an open letter to AI companies. People’s book of the week is Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead.
Library Journal will honor one library staffer or a library team with its Marketer of the Year award in its October 2023 issue. The award, sponsored by Library Ideas, comes with a $2,000 cash prize. The award recognizes the importance of innovative approaches to marketing of library services, the role of marketing in building library engagement, and the value of quality marketing collateral to help build a vibrant sense of the library and define its relevance in the community. This year's deadline for nominations is July 31.
Helen Le, author of the forthcoming Vegan Vietnamese and creator of the YouTube channel Helen's Recipes, talks with LJ about designing cookbooks, crafting flavors, and starter recipes.
Whether readers are stocking up for vacation or looking to travel vicariously, these romances, thrillers, memoirs, and histories all feature memorable road trips and would make a great display.
Erin Langston's debut romance, Forever Your Rogue, is a starred selection. "Wonderfully constructed from start to finish, with high notes of grace and humor, Langston has written a novel that romance fans will treasure." Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance, by Jeremy Eichler, the Boston Globe's chief classical music critic, is a starred performing arts selection. "An absorbing read for serious music lovers that may well become a classic in music criticism." And The Naked Tree by Park Wan-suh with illustrations by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim is a starred graphic novel. "A murmured wartime memory that speaks volumes about the difficult depths of the solitary human condition."
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