A growing number of libraries are beginning to see the appeal of open-source integrated library systems (ILS) and library services platforms (LSP) such as Koha, Evergreen, and FOLIO.
Dr. N.S. ‘Ilaheva Tua’one, assistant professor of Native American and Indigenous studies in the Women’s and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), has been named the inaugural Storytelling Professor at the Kraemer Family Library. The three-year rotating endowed professorship will give Tua’one the opportunity to celebrate and diffuse storytelling into the culture of Colorado Springs through an interdisciplinary lens.
Join the Big Ten Academic Alliance, Johns Hopkins University Libraries, University of Toronto Libraries, and 100 more institutions that have shifted from buying MIT Press paywalled monographs for a single collection to funding them once, open access, for the world through Direct to Open (D2O).
The 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards and Christy Awards finalists are announced, as is the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals longlist. The Center for Fiction awards Sarah McGrath, editor in chief of Riverhead Books, with the 2022 Medal for Editorial Excellence. Vivian Gornick will receive the 2023 Hadada Award from The Paris Review. Padma Lakshmi is named master of ceremonies for the 2022 National Book Awards.
The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying emerging talents in the library world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors who are providing inspiration and model programs for others. Our 21st annual round of Movers & Shakers will profile up-and-coming individuals from around the world who are innovative, creative, and making a difference fighting against censorship, and helping improve their workplace. From librarians and non-degreed library workers to publishers, vendors, coders, entrepreneurs, reviewers, and others who impact the library field—Movers & Shakers 2023 will celebrate those people who are moving all types of libraries ahead! Please let us know about anybody you think we should be aware of.
“I love archives, but I also know that archives are fallible—texts can be ruined by sun, fire, and water. We need to value these other kinds of knowledge creating and knowledge passing.”
The 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize announces its women-dominated shortlist, and the 2022 Richell Prize shortlist is announced. Abduljalil al-Singace is named PEN’s International Writer of Courage.
Extensive research with primary-source materials makes this a monumental achievement that will be valuable to scholars and general readers interested in Judaism, religion, and art history.
This guide for the socially conscious writer will be helpful for those writing about marginalized communities. It’s also a solid collection of American perspectives on social-sciences writing.
Thousands of comics adapt books, short stories, epic poems, plays, musical productions, political documents, TV shows, essays—even podcasts. The graphic novel adaptations here offer readers a different, wonderfully illustrated path into stories.
The LJ editors are seeking nominations for the 34th annual Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award to honor a professional librarian for outstanding achievement and accomplishments reflecting the loftiest service goals of the library profession. Nominations for Librarian of the Year are sought and welcome from the entire profession as well as from trustees, administrators, officials, colleagues, and library users. Nomination postmark or email deadline is October 29, 2022.
Mapping Nature Across the Americas, For a New Geography, Radical Cartography, and more in geography titles: October 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
1.Mapping Nature Across the Americas Editor: Kathleen A. Brosnan and James R. Akerman University of Chicago Press
2021. ISBN 9780226696430 $70.00
2. For a New Geography; Trans. by Archie Davies. Santos, Milton University of Minnesota Press
2021. ISBN 9781517909079 $112.00
3. New Directions in Radical Cartography: Why the Map Is Never the Territory Editor: Phil Cohen Rowman & Littlefield 2021. ISBN 9781538147191 $120.00
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