| Learning from the Past | Periodicals Price Survey 2025 By Siôn Romaine, Barbara Albee, Cynthia M. Elliott, and Stephen Bosch This year, we cast both a look back to see what can be learned from the past, and a look forward to consider what might be heading our way in the coming years. |
| Librarians and Independent Publishers Talk Shop at IndieLib 2025 By Lisa Peet The second Independent Publisher and Librarian Forum—IndieLib for short—was held on April 16 in downtown Manhattan, at New York University’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. The event brought together public and academic librarians, representatives from indie publishers and their distributors, and others across the field to learn more about one another’s work and concerns, and imagine new ways to move forward. |
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| “Book Bans in American Libraries: Impact of Politics on Inclusive Content Consumption” | Research Briefs By Laura Galán-Wells While those in favor of book bans believe children should be protected from content perceived as inappropriate or abusive, those opposed worry about the societal consequences of censoring information and ideas, the infringement of First Amendment rights, and the negative impacts on authors and publishers. Researchers Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan, Naveen Basavaraj, Sabari Rajan Karmegam, Ananya Sen, and Michael D. Smith set out to examine how bans at the district level affect consumption at the national level. |
| 1980s Culture and Society | eReview By James Rhoades This AM resource provides a variety of information originating from an assortment of formats that will surely satisfy anyone interested in 1980s culture and society. Universities and colleges alike will want to consider adding this helpful targeted resource, as most people look back on the decade with both fondness and disappointment. |
| Bloomsbury Visual Arts: Art, Race and Gender Collection | eReview By Gricel Dominguez BVA’s Art, Race and Gender Collection provides access to a niche selection of monographs with an intersectional approach to art studies. A valuable resource for institutions supporting research and scholarship in the areas of art, art history, women’s and gender studies, and visual culture. |
“Last year I was really struck at how many independent publishers weren’t necessarily aware how their books were being offered—what was the model, what’s the price point? If you’re opting into a large number of distribution channels through a third-party distributor, you might not scrutinize that. You might just say, I’m going throw it all out there and just focus on making the books.” —From “Librarians and Independent Publishers Talk Shop at IndieLib 2025” |
| TECHNOLOGY PREMIUM Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji By Keith Houston An excellent read for those interested in history, technology, and the global scale of digital communication. Appropriate for both casual and professional audiences. The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want By Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna Documenting how “mathy maths” AI applications are produced and idealized as useful and thoughtfully critiquing the social, cultural, and technological systems that structure this so-called intelligence, Bender and Hanna have constructed a thorough, witty, and accessible argument against AI that meets the moment. |
| Portrayed in Panels | Graphic Novel Preview By Thomas Batten Biker mice from Mars, a mysterious manuscript that can control the world, and a space-traveling samurai rabbit all play out in the creatively vibrant pages of graphic works this season, filling collections with innovation and engagement. |
| Kao Kalia Yang Wins 3 Minnesota Book Awards for 3 Different Books | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene Winners of the Minnesota Book Awards are announced; Kao Kalia Yang makes history by winning three awards for three different books. Poet and University of Iowa writing program director Christopher Merrill wins the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. The shortlist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize is announced. |
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