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| September 12, 2019 |  Bearing Witness By Jennifer A. Dixon With the growth of rapid news cycles and citizen documentation through social media, careful documentation of civic unrest and natural disasters—in real time or close to it—is a responsibility that public and academic libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions are taking on more and more. |
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 LYRASIS Calls for Greater Collaboration on Accessible Digital Content By Matt Enis Many libraries have established formal or informal policies to ensure the accessibility of licensed and library-created digital content, but libraries also report uncertainty regarding the responsibilities for auditing and enforcing such policies, according to the “LYRASIS 2019 Accessibility Survey Report.” |
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| SPONSORED BY PROJECT MUSE  Start the new semester smarter with MUSE User Guides It’s a new semester, and Project MUSE is here to help you maximize use of our digital journals and books and enhance research outcomes with User Guides including: - How to do a search on MUSE
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 Never Forget: A Look Back at World War II By LJ Reviews Reviews of The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission Impossible, A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre’s Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany, Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission To Defeat the Nazis, and more. |
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| "We know no one is truly neutral, but our objective in the long term is to capture this moment firsthand, with primary source content, from anyone willing to give it to us, and to hopefully be comprehensive, with different perspectives represented." | | |
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HISTORY
PREMIUM Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made HistoryBy Andrew Roberts Roberts briefly distills conservative views on what it takes to be a leader, producing an extremely readable, if sometimes simplified, summation of this aspect of military history. For public libraries and larger academic collections. |
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 Puerto Rico Past and Present | Social Sciences, Sept. 2019 By LJ Reviews For specialists, academic libraries, and those interested in a broader and deeper understanding of the impact of Maria on Puerto Rico; recommended for teen and adult readers interested in Puerto Rican history and the effects of colonialism; particularly important to readers with a connection to Puerto Rico. |
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 Barbara’s Picks (Human Rights, Churchill’s Circle, Madison’s Other Family, and a Rebel Cinderella), Plus More History, with an Accent on World War II; History Previews, Mar. 2020, Pt. 3 | Prepub Alert By LJ Reviews Reviews of I You We Them: Walking into the World of the Desk Killer; Rebel Cinderella: Rose Pastor Stokes: Sweatshop Immigrant, Aristocrat's Wife, Socialist Crusader; The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz; and more. |
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 ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Education By LJ Reviews 1. Parkland: Birth of a Movement Cullen, David HarperCollins 2019. ISBN 9780062882943. $27.99 2. Consent on Campus: A Manifesto
Freitas, Donna
Oxford University Press
2018. ISBN 9780190671150. $19.95 3. Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
Warner, John
Johns Hopkins University Press
2019. ISBN 9781421427102. $27.95 |
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