Speaking Up: Lisa Varga Is LJ’s 2024 Librarian of the Year By Lisa Peet Public and academic libraries in the Commonwealth of Virginia are fortunate to have the Virginia Library Association (VLA) on their side. Among other services, VLA provides continuing education to members, maintains the VLA Jobline and listserv, publishes the Virginia Libraries journal, sponsors several awards and scholarships, advocates for state and local funding, and supports libraries and individuals confronting intellectual freedom challenges. Take a closer look, however, and you’ll see that those wheels are kept turning by one woman: VLA Executive Director Lisa Varga. |
Academic Movers Q&A: Steven Frost Slays It for the City and the Kids By Amy Rea Steven Frost, associate chair of undergraduate studies for the Department of Media Studies at the University of Colorado–Boulder, was named a 2023 Library Journal Mover & Shaker for their work collaborating with Boulder Public Library on its makerspace and Slay the Runway event. LJ recently spoke with Steven to learn more about these projects and what they’ve been up to since. |
Bloomsbury Food Library | eReview By Gricel Dominguez Drawing from multiple disciplines, the Bloomsbury Food Library enables users to explore niche aspects of food history and their wider implications in historical and sociocultural contexts. |
Gale Business: Plan Builder | eReview By Rob Tench Gale Business: Plan Builder effectively helps budding entrepreneurs, experienced business owners, and nonprofits create realistic business plans and analyze their business concepts. |
“These students still struggle with identity, with acceptance, like any teen does, but more pronounced because the world is telling them there’s something messed up with them. But we’re here to turn that around. The Atlas Institute at the University of Colorado supports the workshops, and the library supports the performances. I’m incredibly grateful for that..” —From “Academic Movers Q&A: Steven Frost Slays It for the City and the Kids” |
Science | Prepub Alert, June 2024 Titles By Melissa DeWild and Neal Wyatt Amy Stewart returns, this time writing about people who love trees. Also, a renowned ecologist merges science and spirituality, and a volcanologist offers a global tour. |
POLITICAL SCIENCE PREMIUM Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability By Michael Kimmage A compelling and detailed account that reveals some little known facts and a deeply sobering analysis of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, its consequences for Russia, and the many assumptions about European security. Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy By Teresa Ghilarducci This highly recommended book focuses on middle- and lower-income people who do not have millions in their retirement accounts and who are particularly concerned about the retirement possibilities that their children and grandchildren will have. It nicely updates Dora L. Costa’s The Evolution of Retirement and will appeal to fans of Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland. PREMIUM Oceans Rise, Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe By Gerard Toal A thorough, recommended critique of geopolitical business-as-usual and its effects on emissions. The book also contains some guarded optimism about the rapid global spread of renewable power generation. |
Fascinating Photobooks | Photography Roundup By Michael Dashkin These photography books illuminate the downtown NYC art scene of the ’70s, an innovator in color photography, peripatetic contemporary street photographers, and Black American studio photographers from the 1850s to the present. |
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