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| October 4, 2018 | Amnesty International To Create Human Rights Archive
By Lisa Peet
Nonprofit human rights organization Amnesty International has chosen digital preservation company Preservica to create a global digital archive that will allow Amnesty to migrate, preserve, and provide access to more than half a century’s worth of records. |
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Eric Klinenberg: Libraries and Social Infrastructure
By Lisa Peet
Sociologist Eric Klinenberg’s newest book, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, suggests that the key to a more equitable society may lie in our shared spaces. |
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Remote Information Literacy | Field Reports
By Derek Malone
At the University of North Alabama, we are quite proud of the first-year library instruction sequence that was built through years of hard work, testing various ideas and components, and constant reflection and assessment. |
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LOC Debuts its National Screening Room
By Joyce Valenza
Nearly 300 motion picture treasures representing a century of cinema history are now available through the Library of Congress’s new National Screening Room. |
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| "One of the grand ambitions of this book is to establish the concept of social infrastructure so we can see it as a class of public goods that needs our support. If we don’t demand that our elected representatives support the library, then [libraries] live or die at the whims of the local political officials" | | From "Eric Klinenberg: Libraries and Social Infrastructure" |
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Nonfiction, September 28, 2018 | Xpress Reviews
By LJ Reviews
Reviews of The Pharaoh’s Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization, The Buddha at My Table: How I Found Peace in Betrayal and Divorce, Your Brain on Plants: Improve the Way You Think and Feel with Safe—and Proven—Medicinal Plants and Herbs, and more. |
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BESTSELLERS: Latin American History
By LJ Reviews
1. Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500–1830
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge
University of Pennsylvania Press
2018. ISBN 9780812249835. $55
2. Sabers and Utopias: Visions of Latin America
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2018. ISBN 9780374253738. $28
3. Neruda: The Poet’s Calling
Eisner, Mark,
Ecco: HarperCollins
2018. ISBN 9780062694201. $35 |
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