| Forward to a Friend UCCS Kraemer Family Library Inaugurates First Storytelling Professorship By Lisa Peet 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. |
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Finalists Named for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards and Christy Awards | Book Pulse October 13, 2022 | By Kate Merlene 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. |
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Movers & Shakers 2023 | Call for Nominations 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. |
SPIRITUALITY & RELIGION The Devil’s Atlas: An Explorer’s Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds By Edward Brooke-Hitching A great choice for public libraries and high school and undergraduate art, history, and religion collections. PREMIUM Cain’s Act: The Origins of Hate By Massimo Recalcati Though brief, this book is a rich interpretation with a depth of ethical implications, expressed clearly in Will Schutt’s translation. The Kabbalistic Tree By J. H. Chajes 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. |
LITERATURE PREMIUM Craft and Conscience: How To Write About Social Issues By Kavita Das 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. Novelist as a Vocation By Haruki Murakami Although this is a concrete and practical guide, as Murakami intended, it is also a fascinating personal and professional memoir. |
Graphic Novel Adaptations | Brilliant Visual Retellings By Martha Cornog 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. |
2022 LJ Librarian of the Year | Call for Nominations 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. |
ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Geography By LJ Reviews 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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