Currently only three American research universities have anthropology libraries: Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California (UC)–Berkeley. This could change as early as 2025, when Berkeley plans to close its George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library and disperse the library’s collections throughout the rest of the university’s library system.
National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's poem from President Joe Biden's inauguration has been restricted to older grades in one Florida school district; New Jersey legislators introduce law to prohibit book banning based on "partisan or doctrinal reasons"; and more in Censorship News.
This month’s must-see documentaries include the mystery of Nazca geoglyphs, hobbies that become a life’s work, the rise of Radio Z100, and an Irish school’s techniques for stopping the cycle of violence.
Forthcoming DVDs and Blu-rays include a weekend getaway gone wrong, a young girl and two dads held hostage by strangers in the woods, and a horror-film actor crossing paths with a sharpshooter.
This month's top indie and foreign picks include toxic relationships, a troubling underground market, and the takedown of a powerful agrochemical manufacturer. Plus, a civil servant lets his hair down, and a freshly enlisted German soldier confronts the brutality of war.
“It 'is not educational and have (sic) indirectly hate messages,' the complaint said, adding that the poem would 'cause confusion and indoctrinate students.'”
Library Journal's annual award for the Best Small Library in America was founded in 2005 to encourage and showcase the exemplary work of these libraries. It honors the U.S. public library that most profoundly demonstrates outstanding service to populations of 25,000 or less (see below for eligibility requirements). The winner will be announced at the 2023 Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL) Conference, and thanks to support from ARSL, will receive a scholarship to attend and the opportunity to speak. The winning library will also receive a cash award, and two finalist libraries will be also be honored.
By Beth DeGeer, Barbara Hoffert, Alene Moroni, and Shari Suarez
Identity by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s) is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
The 2023 Ignyte Awards finalists are announced. Starting their runs at the top of best seller lists are Only the Dead by Jack Carr, Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, King: A Life by Jonathan Eig, and The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings To Amass Power and Undermine the Republic by Stephen Vladeck. There are author interviews with Gene Luen Yang, Luis Alberto Urrea, Laura Tillman, and Suzannah Lessard.
Georgi Gospodinov wins the International Booker Prize for Time Shelter. Haruki Murakami wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award. Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb” has been banned from a Florida K–8 school. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Identity by Nora Roberts. Knopf will publish Gabriel García Márquez’s final novel, Until August, in 2024. Plus, summer booklists arrive.
Biographers International Organization receives $1 million gift from famed biographer Kitty Kelley. Ryan Manucha wins the 2022 Donner Prize for Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups. Mazin Lateef Ali Wins IPA’s Prix Voltaire. The TikTok Book Awards launch in the U.K. and Ireland. Mahmud El Sayed wins 2023 Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy. Andy Serkis narrates a new unabridged audiobook of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. A new Folio Society edition of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy arrives in time for Towel Day on Thursday. The Color Purple gets a trailer, and Japanese Breakfast posts a casting call. Plus, PW has full coverage from this week’s U.S. Book Show.
Cosmic Detective, by Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt, with illustrations by David Rubín, is a starred graphic novel. "This twisty sci-fi/noir mashup...kicks off with the discovery of a godlike being’s corpse in a fleabag motel and only gets stranger from there.... An outstandingly inventive and thrilling cosmic noir." Neil King Jr.'s American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal is a starred travel & geography selection. "Former national reporter and Wall Street Journal editor King presents an account of his 26-day walk—yes, walk—from his home in Washington, DC, to the Ramble, a wooded landscape in New York’s Central Park.... A remarkable addition for all libraries." And Jacob Mikanowski's debut, Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land, is a starred history title. "Combined with the author’s gripping style, his sources make this an informative, deeply engaging take on an ever-shifting region. With Eastern Europe’s traditional nations regrouping into Scandinavia, Central Europe, and Eastern Adriatic, this timely book will appeal to readers seeking a fresh take on European history."
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