How Vendors Are Working with Academic Libraries in Their Pivot to Digital
By Matt Enis
COVID-19 is accelerating the move to digital amid budget pressures; library vendors share what they hear from customers and how they're meeting rapidly evolving needs.

Expanding Chat Reference During COVID-19 | Peer to Peer Review
By Leah Dodd and Robert Kotaska
When the university moved to virtual instruction in March, Cornell University Library's Virtual Reference Response Team focused on building capacity in the ways we already connected with our remote users.

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Gale's Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision | Reference eReviews
By Gricel Dominguez
The focus of this user-friendly tool on women’s voices provides an important perspective for research, while the emphasis on female authored works makes it stand out from the crowd. An important addition to academic libraries.

Update on REALM Partnership Test Results
By Lisa Peet
UPDATE: When compared to Test 1, which resulted in nondetectable virus after three days on an unstacked hardcover book, softcover book, plastic protective cover, and DVD case, the results of Test 4 highlight the effect of stacking and its ability to prolong the survivability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

From Hanif Abdurraqib and Isabel Allende to Eleanor in the Village and Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico: Cool Nonfiction, Mar. 2021, Pt. 2 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution, Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico, and more.

The Frankfurt Book Fair Plans Virtual Global Book Festival | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Viet Thanh Nguyen has joined the Pulitzer Prize Board. Carolyn Reidy, the late President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, will be honored with the Literarian Award. Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies, is tapped as the next president of PEN America. The Frankfurt Book Fair goes virtual and now includes a free, global book festival day.

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Let My People Vote: My Battle To Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
By Desmond Meade
An uplifting and hopeful chronicle of the power of faith, the rights of the disenfranchised, as well as a call for systemic change within the United States.

The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
By Ellis Cose
Popular history suitable for high school and undergraduate reading that does not provide easy answers and warns that one of our most basic rights is under more serious attack than ever.

HISTORY
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
By Lynne Cheney
Bringing these men together as a group draws attention to how their thought and action unfolded in response to new challenges and dispels any illusion that they were a monolithic bloc. Cheney is an adept writer who makes no wrong steps. Perfect for history buffs, though little new ground is tread.

Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
By Bettany Hughes
A lively work recommended for both researchers and casual readers with an interest in prehistory, ancient history, anthropology, religion, and popular culture.

Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
By Amy Stanley
Essential for anyone interested in 19th-century Japanese history, and a great companion piece to Anna Sherman’s The Bells of Old Tokyo, which compares modern day Tokyo with historic Edo.

SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Camel’s Neighbor: Travels and Travelers in Yemen
By Andrew Moscrop
This combination of memoir and highlights of Yemen history will appeal to readers interested in the culture, history, and landscape of the Middle East.

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By Angela Chen
Most likely to appeal readers of any orientation seeking a general text about asexuality and its place on the wider spectrum of human sexuality.

Code Breakers, Mom Genes, and a Remarkable Bird | Science Previews, Mar. 2021, Pt. 2
By Barbara Hoffert
Science titles are stronger than ever, but Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker rides especially high with a 500,000-copy first printing.

Pandemic Stories: A New Anthology Explores Community and Creativity in the Era of COVID-19
By Annalisa Pešek
From canceled book deals and darkened theaters, to closed churches, libraries, schools, and storefronts, to spikes in suicides and substance abuse, to unemployment claims in the tens of millions—the unprecedented measures taken to "stop the spread" of COVID-19 have forced many writers to question whether civilization itself is in decline.

Openings at Anne Arundel, Edmonton, E. Baton Rouge; Renovations Nearly Finished at University of Southern Mississippi; Big Gift from Bloomberg to Medford | Branching Out
By Lisa Peet
Work is almost finished at the Joseph Anderson Cook Library on the University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM) Hattiesburg campus; Bayport is transforming a convent into a "world-class" library; and more library construction news.

Curricular Correction: Using Resources To Teach Black History and Culture
By Kara Yorio
Revising curricula and using resources from Black Lives Matter at School, the 1619 Project, and more is a key element of addressing systemic racism in education.

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