This month’s must-see documentaries include a behind-the-scenes look at Johannes Vermeer, a study of extreme wildfires, and a history of Black professional baseball.
Colleges and universities often have a hard time effectively showcasing their special collections for the general public. The University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences has solved this challenge with an easy-to-use digital platform called Recollect.
If there’s one thing librarians can agree on it’s that library education could use some shaking up. Enter the Radical Librarianship Institute, which strives to “redefine the role of librarians, centering principles of inclusion and social justice.”
Many memoirists are dipping their writing tools into the waters of self-disclosure about their feelings and issues ranging from immigration and illness to work and witchcraft. These selections deliver raw honesty, poetic language, and sharp prose.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Gale’s “Eighteenth Century Collections Online” (ECCO), the largest collection—32 million pages—of 18th-century books, pamphlets, periodicals, and other ephemera in the world. ECCO was revolutionary in providing researchers and students a text-searchable corpus at their desktops 24/7.
This month’s top indie and foreign films feature a frustrated yet hopeful detective, pilgrims seeking healing at Lourdes, and two Cameroonian youths making their way in a bleak world.
“You have a discussion that lasts for three days, and you hear everything from fear to ‘Oh my gosh, let’s do this.’ People are excited and curious and cautious. It’s a giant Pandora’s box.”
The 2024 Philip K. Dick Award nominees are announced, along with the finalists for the Story Prize. Bobby Finger wins Crook’s Corner Book Prize for The Old Place.
Students learn invaluable skills they can apply in a variety of settings and applications. Across the nation, there has been renewed debate over the value of humanities degree programs as campus leaders look to overcome steep budget challenges.
An exceptional resource in which readers get a real flavor of the exciting and troubling times throughout the Village Voice’s run and the opportunity to draw their own conclusions about its rise (and fall in 2017). Recommended for academic libraries and comprehensive journalism collections.
The topic may appear arcane, but Cline makes it relevant and tells a compelling, original, and fruitful story. This title has significant meaning in an overstressed world. For more than just history buffs.
A thoughtful and recommended exploration of the often-contradictory office of U.S. First Lady. General readers interested in learning more about Jill Biden will especially enjoy this title.
Fascinating. Powerful. Important. This book is an illuminating profile of Zelensky’s courage and an expert study of the fraught relationship between Russia and Ukraine.
Scholarly but engrossing, this book captures the lingering uncertainty that has characterized the COVID pandemic, while assessing its global effects and likely future challenges. This vital title has breadth.
PBS Books has launched the national PBS Reader’s Club, featuring inaugural pick Horse by Geraldine Brooks. The Writers’ Prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, announces its shortlist, including titles by Zadie Smith and Paul Murray. Jeremy McCarter is named literary executor of playright Thornton Wilder’s estate.
After a year spent enduring book challenges and politically charged barbs, no one can blame the profession for entering 2024 shell-shocked and exhausted. Yet, in the face of this trauma, we still find librarians and library workers who are resolute in their commitment to library values. Tired, yes, but smart about the ways in which they can provide important library service within the political context of their unique community and situation.
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