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Must-Have Databases for Academic and Public Libraries 2020
By Michael Rodriguez
Covering topics such as Black studies, business, history, nature, statistics, and technology, the following databases will help academic and public libraries meet the research needs of patrons—a task that's become even more difficult now that access to physical materials is more limited owing to the pandemic. |
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Best Books 2020: Worst Year, Best Books
In a year that many would call one of the worst in recent memory, we were still rewarded with lots of great books. The LJ Best Books of 2020 feature themes of surviving loss, reckoning with class and caste, loving freely, rewriting history, exploring new worlds, busting the gender binary, seeking justice, preserving nature, and finding one’s way in the world. |
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BIOGRAPHY
PREMIUM
Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
By Evan Osnos
This useful account will help readers understand Biden’s mindset and suggests a blueprint for the next four years. For more in-depth, but pre–2020 campaign accounts, see Steven Levingston’s Barack And Joe and Jules Witcover’s Joe Biden. |
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PERFORMING ARTS
PREMIUM
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
By Laura Tunbridge
Music students and aficionados alike will appreciate this engaging and accessible portrait of the composer. |
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PREMIUM
This Is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz
By Peter Jones
This evocative work conveys the challenges and successes Hendricks experienced and make for an affecting, well-rounded portrait of an underappreciated jazz artist who is ripe for rediscovery. |
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COVID Claims BookExpo | Book Pulse
By Mary Bakija
ReedPop announces it is "retiring" BookExpo, BookCon, and UnBound. Nalo Hopkinson is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's 37th Damon Knight Grand Master. Plus, more best-of 2020 lists from editors of the New York Times and the New Yorker. |
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Movers & Shakers 2021 | Call for Nominations: Deadline Extended to December 15
The editors of Library Journal need your help identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Movers & Shakers profiles up-and-coming, innovative, creative individuals from around the world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors—who are providing inspiration and model programs for others, including programs developed this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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LA Public Library Gets a Turn Hosting the National Book Awards
By Lisa Peet
The 71st National Book Award ceremony, held on November 18, was completely virtual. Rather than holding court at Cipriani, National Book Foundation Board Chair David Steinberger and Executive Director Lisa Lucas broadcast from their respective home bases: Steinberger from the Trustees’ Room at the New York Public Library and Lucas from the Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Computer Science
By LJ Reviews
Big Data, Blockchain, Women in Computing, and More in Computer Science Titles: November 2019 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
1. Big Data: A Beginner's Introduction.
Sarangi, Saswat
Routledge
2020. ISBN 9781138598577. $160.00
2. Inside Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrencies.
Chowdhury, Niaz
Auerbach Publications
2020. ISBN 9781138618152. $59.95
3. Critical Code Studies.
Marino, Mark C.
MIT Press
2020. ISBN 9780262043656. $30.00 |
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