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MIT Highlights Distinctive Collections Through “A Lab of One’s Own” Video Game
By Lisa Peet
There are many ways to showcase special collections: social media, newsletters, and blog posts; online and in-person exhibits; and both physical and digital catalogues and books. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries’ Distinctive Collections has upped the creativity factor with an immersive video game, “A Lab of One’s Own,” that allows players to discover archival materials telling the stories of women from MIT’s history. |
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SPONSORED BY OCLC Small Changes, Big Results for Your ILL
With minor changes, libraries across the globe have quickly increased staff productivity and decreased ILL turnaround time for user requests. Results are impressive. For example, a large university library reported a 40% fill rate increase and a midsize public library saved more than 150 staff hours. Read more library experiences››› |
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SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE The Stakes Are High for University Research. Here’s How Libraries Can Help
The stakes are high for researchers, and the institutions that employ them, to showcase their work effectively. Librarians can add significant value for their institutions by collaborating with individual researchers and research office staff to identify new publishing channels, catalog university research and make these works more easily discoverable, among other activities.
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By Riley Black
A real-life, natural history page-turning drama that is necessary reading for almost anyone interested in the history of life. | PERFORMING ARTS
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Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History
By Alessandro Portelli
Dylan fans, and they are legion, will appreciate the backstory and long history that influenced the style, structure, and content of one of his most powerful songs. | PREMIUM
The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music
By Michael O’Malley
A thorough and sometimes surprising lens into how Irish music in the U.S. came to be codified and understood. For Irish music historians and ethnomusicologists, and scholars of the Irish immigrant experience. |
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SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS, PART OF CLARIVATE How Academic Libraries Can Support Research Offices More Effectively
University research offices manage an increasingly complex set of responsibilities. Research has become a several-hundred-million-dollar source of revenue at many institutions, and the role of the research office is to oversee, protect, and further develop this vital enterprise.
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2022 NAACP Literary Image Award Winners Announced | Book Pulse
By Anita Mechler
The 2022 NAACP Literary Image Award winners are announced featuring Long Division by Kiese Laymon and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine. There is news about Leonard Cohen’s posthumous novel, A Ballet of Lepers, being released in the fall and a collaboration between The New Yorker and Celadon to publish a report of the events of January 6th. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Environmental Science
By LJ Reviews
New Climate War, Finding the Mother Tree, Beloved Beasts, and more in environmental science titles: February 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet.
Mann, Michael E.
Public Affairs
2021. ISBN 9781541758230. $29.00 2. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.
Simard, S.
Alfred A Knopf
2021. ISBN 9780525656098. $28.95 3. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction.
Nijhuis, Michelle
W. W. Norton
2021. ISBN 9781324001683. $27.95 |
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Oklahoma Department of Libraries is seeking a State Librarian |
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