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October 24, 2024

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Challenges, Opportunities | Placements and Salaries Survey 2024
By April Witteveen
LJ’s 2024 Placements & Salaries Survey sees new grads grapple with questions of relocation, living wages, and job drift, but eager to begin careers in the field.
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Banned Books and Libraries Under Attack Conference Mobilizes First Amendment Allies
By Bob Sandrick
About 100 lawyers, library professionals, educators, students, and activists attended the Banned Books and Libraries Under Attack Conference at the Cleveland State University College of Law, which featured more than a dozen speakers and panelists.
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Academic Movers Q&A: Tarida Anantachai on Recruiting, Hiring, and Equity
By Amy Rea
Tarida Anantachai, director of inclusion and talent management for North Carolina State University Libraries, was named a 2024 Mover & Shaker for her work rethinking how to approach recruitment and hiring through a more inclusive, diversity-focused approach. LJ recently spoke with Anantachai to learn more about her work in this area.
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Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America | eReview
By Rob Tench
As with the previous modules in the series, this collection of primary resources is exceptional, with unique content and user-friendly features. It is an excellent resource for researchers of gender and women’s studies, LGBTQIA+ studies, cultural studies, and social history.
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Navigating AI’s Future: How Sci-Fi Predicted Today’s Knowledge Challenges


Dr. Ashleigh Faith, MLIS, PhD from EBSCO dives into "Libraries of Future Past," exploring how science fiction predicted today’s AI challenges: navigating information overload, discerning truth, and ethical knowledge pursuits. While AI helps, humans—especially librarians— are crucial in organizing and helping unearth trustworthy information. 

 

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ProQuest One Education | eReview
By Sarah Hashimoto
An excellent resource for those beginning their journey in education or users conducting upper-level searches, this database is highly recommended for any institution with undergraduate or graduate education programs.
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“There’s a lot of research around this that finds women and BIPOC individuals in particular don’t tend to apply for something if they don’t feel they meet at least 80 percent of the requirements. We want to do what we can to remove that. So if I see something that’s 20 bullet points, I say, ‘We need to whittle this down.’” 

 

—From “Academic Movers Q&A: Tarida Anantachai on Recruiting, Hiring, and Equity”
Display Shelf | Indigenous Fiction
By Melissa DeWild
Get ready to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November with a display shelf of fiction from Indigenous authors.
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From LJ Reviews:

SOCIAL SCIENCES
PREMIUM
Magically Black and Other Essays
By Jerald Walker
Walker’s reflections are honest with trappings of anger, regret, and growth. Readers who enjoyed his previous titles will savor this one, as will new readers, who will want to read his previous works.
 
PREMIUM
Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
By Sarah Smarsh
These essays from National Book Award finalist Smarsh are recommended for all collections.
 
PREMIUM
Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment
By Benjamin H. Snyder
Recommended for libraries with an interest in policing, social policy, privacy issues and technology.
HISTORY
PREMIUM
Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul
By Aran Robert Shetterly
Shetterly gives readers a compelling narrative of personal stories about the 1979 Greensboro massacre and its legacy in the context of Greensboro’s history, the Black liberation movement, and political and revolutionary aspirations to end the nation’s racial disparities and exploitation of the working poor.
 
PREMIUM
Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
By Kate Kennedy
This distinctive title gives readers vivid insight into the lives of four fascinating cellists. It also pays homage to the uniqueness of cellos.
 
PREMIUM
The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
By Dan Slater
Slater’s fleet, detail-filled narrative brings Rothstein and Shoenfeld to the forefront. This book will entertain readers of American history, Jewish history, and true crime.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
PREMIUM
The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
By Jessica Pishko
Citizens interested in the far right’s takeover of some parts of local law enforcement in the U.S. will be enlightened.
 
PREMIUM
The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool
By Keith E. Whittington
Highly recommended for any reader interested in American government and politics.
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Essie Chambers’s Swift River Wins Barnes & Noble Discover Prize | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
Essie Chambers’s Swift River wins Barnes & Noble’s 2024 Discover Prize. Ross Perlin wins the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Language City: The Fight To Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.
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Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over Wins Ursula LeGuin Prize | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
Anne de Marcken wins the Ursula LeGuin Prize for Fiction for It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over. Margaret Owen wins the Endeavour Award for Painted Devils. Winners of the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards are announced, and President Biden awards 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals.
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From the Pages of infoDOCKET...

  • Report: “Journals with High Rates of Suspicious Papers Flagged by Science-Integrity Start-Up”
  • Working Paper 3: “Building a Culture for Generative AI Literacy in College Language, Literature, and Writing”
  • The Ethics and Evolution of Truth and Information: Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference (ALISE 2024) Now Available Online
  • NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) Releases FY 2026–30 Strategic Plan Framework Document
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