We Need Diverse Books will launch a multi-pronged effort to fight book banning attempts that are disproportionately impacting diverse books and support educators, students, and authors.
The idea of libraries built in parks or community centers is not new. What is less common, however, is the idea of not just collocating but blending facilities together to create more opportunities for collaboration across governmental units. That idea is being put into place in New Jersey, Virginia, and Colorado, among other places, where public librarians have found ways to join community services and parks and recreation departments to create blended facilities.
There’s power in understanding library performance at all levels - from collection to circulation and patron demographics and engagement. Looking beyond collection data to make decisions leads to better engagement with programs, outreach, services and more. Understanding data that’s already at your fingertips leads to big improvements in community service and engagement.
The American Antiquarian Society has partnered with Gale to offer its American Historical Collections, featuring over six million documents of primary materials from the American Colonial period to the early 20th century.
School Library Journal's 2022 Best Books are here! Download the complete list of the best picture books, chapter books, middle grade, YA, poetry, and graphic novels of the year.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a searchable collection of more than five million dissertations and theses from universities worldwide. Now a breakthrough new feature makes it even easier for users to find high-quality information about the topic they’re studying.
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny leads holds this week. Four Indie Next picks publish this week, including Winterland by Rae Meadows, which gets buzz. People’s book of the week is A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice Daniel. Bren Simmers wins the CBC Poetry Prize. NPR’s Books We Love and NYT’s 100 Notable Books of 2022 are out now.
November 3, 2022, is World Digital Preservation Day - an opportunity to raise awareness to the important cause of digital preservation and to thank all digital preservation experts, advocates, implementers and leaders around the world for their efforts in preserving our cultural heritage.
The Philosophy of Modern Song, by Bob Dylan, is a starred performing arts selection. "This is a fascinating and personalized journey through 20th-century popular music that’s guided by one of its luminaries." Duke Riley: Tides and Transgressions, by Duke Riley and Anne Pasternak, is a starred fine arts title. "A handsome addition to any fine art collection. It’s imaginative work with substantive themes of ecological advocacy and maritime history, all executed with a fine hand and a piratical sense of humor." And in fiction, Claire Keegan's Foster is a starred selection. "Keegan offers further evidence of her facility at imbuing short fiction with immense feeling and invoking a deceptively grand scale; a rich, compassionate work that will appeal to a wide range of readers."
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