In January, the HBCU Library Alliance announced the award of a $1,000,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support its multipart program “Empowering HBCU Libraries with Civil Rights Preservation, Digital Innovation, and Transformative Professional Development.”
The National Museum and Library Services Board, which serves in an advisory capacity to the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), pens a letter to new Acting Director Keith Sonderling outlining which functions it considers essential obligations of the organization.
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Alan Inouye has led advocacy and public policy for the American Library Association (ALA) since 2007, where he’s touched everything from E-Rate to copyright to ebook access, securing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for libraries. His retirement from ALA this month marks a crucial moment for the association, which has weathered significant challenges in recent years and cannot afford to lose ground with relationships in Washington, DC, and across the broader library landscape.
From AI tools to a music encyclopedia to nonprofit financial information, the range of truly excellent free resources on the Internet reminds users of the best intentions of technology—to make knowledge accessible and useful to all.
We are pleased to be contributing to the advancement of medicine and healthcare by publishing open access journal Research Connections from early 2025. Research Connections will support the scientific community by publishing strong foundational research and important contributions to evidence-based medicine practice.
Resources for study, developing knowledge, and exploring issues—created by experts and designed to illuminate—are critical tools. The year in reference showcases how essential facts-based resources are and how they can be harnessed for endeavors as profound as saving lives or as soul-satisfying as fixing a bike.
“When I talk about the HBCU Library Alliance, I talk about it as an organization of capacity—capacity to meet our members’ needs and capacity to adapt as needed. Sustainability, most definitely, is in our thinking all the time.”
Fee-based databases offer scholars and general readers access to authoritative, fact-based research. These tools further study, enable discovery, and highlight key archival collections around the world.
Writing a balanced but heartfelt account that general readers will find riveting, Sheff characterizes Ono as a strong, brilliant, hard-working experimental artist and musician who battled racism and sexism in a largely solitary life.
This volume is a masterclass in historical writing and an essential read filled with factual rigor to illuminate one of the United States’ most transformative periods.
Based on extensive research (letters, diaries, archives, interviews with the subjects’ friends and relatives, even an interview with the one living pilot, age 105), Aikman richly details the stories of these dauntless women.
A highly readable popular science investigation of sex and gender, rich with “did you know” moments for those who love the extraordinariness of nature and human bodies.
An urgent treatment of a crisis in progress, lengthy and dense but accessible to lay readers. This is for anyone interested in sustainable water use, which ought to be everyone.
Artificial intelligence is not a solution—it’s a tech tool that is only useful when it actually solves problems for learners and librarians. AI is everywhere you look today, from the big three search engines to the local library.
Fiona McFarlane wins the Story Prize for Highway Thirteen: Stories. Ann Regan wins the Kay Sexton Award, and Gustavo Bondoni wins the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction and recipients of the Writing Freedom Fellowship are announced.
The winners of the Windham-Campbell Prize and longlists for the PEN America Literary Awards are announced. NYT reports how library advocates are rallying to the defense of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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