A Georgia senate bill aimed at detaching the state from the American Library Association (ALA) could send ripples throughout Georgia’s public library system and the state university that trains librarians.
Library Journal spoke with several education professors whose work spans children’s literature, critical librarianship, education, and policy to explain current research on the reading wars, sift through state policies, and offer advice on the role libraries can play in reading instruction and children’s literacy.
Access research from the International Monetary Fund looking at the intersection of law and economics. Scroll through resources on financial stability and international monetary law, including tax law, anti-money laundering, digital currencies and more. IMF eLibrary offers more than 25,000+ titles and statistical datasets going back to 1946 and other Essential Reading Guides.
Since its founding in 1984, the University of Mississippi’s Blues Archive has collected virtually everything related to the blues, from sheet music, concert tickets, and recordings to record label business files and even clothing. Thanks to a website revamp and a multiyear grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize materials, this year the archive is starting its 40th anniversary in style.
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Finalists for the 44th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are announced; Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jane Smiley will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Claire Dederer will receive the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose for Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma.
“There is a lot of data, dozens and dozens of studies demonstrating that when there is a strong library program and certification, it can move student achievement significantly. You’re dissolving the certification of librarians. I just don’t know that the problem you’re identifying…merits upending a system that’s been shown to really improve student results.”
Pulitzer Prize–winning Strout sets her newest in old surroundings, populated by beloved characters while additional award–winning authors, including Yoko Ogawa and Ismet Prcic, have new novels.
This eye-opening, often terrifying (for democracy advocates) debut work is rich with political history and recent case studies. Highly recommended for readers wanting to understand how millions of Americans have been swept up in the MAGA universe.
Though written for academic audiences, this title is engaging. Movie buffs will appreciate the extra effort Rhodes makes to resurrect films lost to time.
A compulsively readable book about three jazz legends who came together for one glorious moment to produce one of the best, most influential jazz records ever.
Are you looking to broaden your book list? Why not try a book that doesn’t exist? Literature is full of fictional books – books which exist only in other books.
The winners of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books and the Southern Book Prize are announced. Margaret Atwood wins the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Writer in the World Prize.
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