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March 25, 2024

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QPL Hosts Edit-a-thon to Enhance Wikipedia and Wikidata on Queens
By Henrietta Thornton
On Saturday, March 16, a standing-room-only crowd—especially notable for one of the first warm days of spring and the day of New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade—packed into Queens Public Library's (QPL) Queensbridge Tech Lab, a makerspace in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. Drawing them to the space was the Queens Name Explorer Edit-a-Thon, hosted by QPL’s Memory Project, Wikimedia NYC, OpenStreetMap US, and Urban Archive.
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Baker & Taylor, Library Ideas Announce Exclusive Distribution Partnership for VOX Books
By Matt Enis
Baker & Taylor and Library Ideas, the media publisher behind the Freading ebook and Freegal Music streaming and download services for libraries, and more, have announced an exclusive partnership that will see Baker & Taylor distributing Library Ideas’ VOX and IR [Immersive Reality] Books to libraries and schools. VOX Books are hardcover print fiction, nonfiction, and picture books with permanently attached VOX Readers that transform the titles into all-in-one read-along audiobooks. IR Books are hardcover nonfiction print books featuring virtual reality and augmented reality elements.
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PLA 2024 Galley Guide | Books To Pick Up and Have Signed
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Library Journal’s galley guide for the 2024 Public Library Association conference is now available. Get a jump on reader demand and get in the know; sign up to get a PDF download now.
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Dazzling Fantasy Debuts
By Melissa DeWild, Andrea Dyba, and Matthew Galloway
Check out these starred fantasy debuts about a Trans-Siberian luxury train, an underwater humanity, a department store that sells dreams, and a hotheaded hero with nothing to lose.
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Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press | eReview
By Rob Tench
This user-friendly Gale database contains primary sources from the 19th to 21st centuries that are sure to appeal to people interested in modern counterculture and social histories, along with progressive political and societal movements.
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Wikidata “teaches Google who the person is so they can surface in search engines.”

 

–From: QPL Hosts Edit-a-thon to Enhance Wikipedia and Wikidata on Queens

Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980 | eReview
By Gricel Dominguez
This Gale database offers a distinctive look into the history of American environmental conservation.
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Are Announced | Book Pulse
By Sarah Wolberg
The National Book Critics Circle Award winners are announced. Daniel Finkelstein wins the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival. Chris Newens’s Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals wins the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Food and Drink Writers. Dreamscape’s audiobook program expands its ambit. Plus, Page to Screen.
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National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Honorees | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
The National Book Foundation announces its 2024 5 Under 35 Honorees: Antonia Angress, Maya Binyam, Zain Khalid, Tyriek White, and Jenny Tinghui Zhang. Jonathan Eig wins the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for King: A Life. Tom Crewe, The New Life, wins the Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle. Mary L. Trump will publish Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir. Karin Slaughter will adapt and executive-produce The Good Daughter for a Peacock series starring Jessica Biel.
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Horror Writers Association Announces Its Summer Scares Reading List | Book Pulse
By Sarah Wolberg
The Horror Writers Association announces its Summer Scares reading list, including Jackal by Erin E. Adams, Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison, and This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno. Ebru Ojen’s Lojman wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize for independent-press books. Ajibola Tolase wins the Cave Canem Prize fellowship for Black poets. The shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the longlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize are announced. Primatologist and best-selling author Frans de Waal has died at 75. 
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From the Pages of infoDOCKET...

  • OCLC Global Council Ratifies Plans to Streamline Council Structure, Increase Member Engagement

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The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies, by Lee Alan Dugatkin, is a starred sciences selection. "This fascinating, easy-to-read work describes the how, what, and why of animal behavior, much of which is remarkably similar to humans. A must-purchase, this book presents what is easily the most intriguing, thorough explanation of animal behavior ever produced." Also in sciences, Carol R. Byerly's Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas is a starred title. "This fascinating book is as much of an account of mosquito-borne illnesses, research, and treatment as it is the story of Gorgas’s life. Will draw biography, military history, and medical history readers." And J.T. Geissinger's Fall into You is a starred romance. "Colleen Hoover and Lucy Score fans will be drawn to this deliciously explicit story."

 

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