Collection Development | Memoirs By Barrie Olmstead 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. |
SOCIAL SCIENCES 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed By Eric Klinenberg 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 Launches Multi-Platform National PBS Reader’s Club | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene 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. |
Inspired by Community | Editorial By Hallie Rich 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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The McArthur Library is seeking a Youth Services Supervisor. |
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