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California Budget to Increase Library Funding by More than $100 Million
By Lisa Peet
On June 2 the California Senate and Assembly jointly issued a FY21–22 budget for the state’s public libraries totaling more than $500 million. The historic funding package—the largest investment in California’s libraries in state history—includes a one-time increase to the California State Library General Fund of $439 million earmarked for renovation and modernization, $41 million for various broadband connectivity projects, $15 million for English as a Second Language within local library literacy programs, $5 million to provide grants for early learning and after school programs to library jurisdictions, and $3 million to support bookmobiles and vans. |
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Romance Writers of America Rescind Award for Lakota Genocide Redemption Narrative
By Steve Ammidown
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has again found itself embroiled in controversy. This time, the association gave one of its new Vivian awards to At Love’s Command by Karen Witemeyer, a historical romance that most observers saw as glorifying the genocide of Lakota people at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. |
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SPONSORED BY EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY Emporia State University’s Master of Library Science Now Online
ESU now offers a fully online, ALA-accredited Master of Library Science program featuring a competitive out-of-state tuition rate ensuring students will have access to this program from anywhere! If you are interested in learning more about the Master of Library Science from Emporia State University, go to emporia.edu/slim. Learn More››› |
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Library and Health Organizations Partner on Communities for Immunity to Boost Vaccine Confidence
By Lisa Peet
On August 5, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, American Library Association, Association of Science and Technology Centers, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Alliance of Museums, and Network of the National Library of Medicine announced the launch of Communities for Immunity, a partnership that will help support libraries and museums in their work to boost COVID-19 vaccine confidence across the United States. |
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Call for Information: Completed library renovation or new construction projects
Library Journal is collecting information about recently completed library construction projects for inclusion in our upcoming architecture issue. If your library completed a library construction or renovation project between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, please tell us about it! We are especially interested in any special features or design elements of your project (e.g., green, flexible design, etc.). Submitting high quality images of completed projects is encouraged. If you have questions, please email Laura Girmscheid at [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is this Friday, September 3, 2021. There are separate links for public and college/university library projects:
Public libraries: LibraryJournal.com/PublicArch2021
Academic libraries: LibraryJournal.com/AcademicArch2021 |
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Paula Hawkins’s A Slow Fire Burning Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins leads holds this week. The Davitt Awards winners are announced, for the best crime books by Australian women. The Nib Literary Award 2021 longlist is also out. Five LibraryReads and two Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer. |
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Nikki Giovanni Named Toni Morrison Writer-In-Residence | Book Pulse
By Anita Mechler
Nikki Giovanni is named the Writer-In-Resident at the Toni Morrison Writing Program at Prairie View A&M University. Winners are announced for the 2021 James Tait Black prize and the Ned Kelly Awards. Interviews abound with Clarissa Ward of On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist, Kat Chow of Seeing Ghosts, Mary L. Trump of The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way To Heal, Rafia Zakaria of Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, and more. |
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Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks 1941–1995, edited by Anna von Planta, is a starred literature selection. "An exceptional effort to make primary source material on one of America’s best known mystery authors more accessible. Sure to be a resource for future scholars, these annotated diaries will also appeal to fans of Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls and Diane di Prima’s Recollections of my Life as a Woman, offering a frank and detailed account of a woman and writer coming of age." Readers of Kevin Boyle's starred history selection, The Shattering: America in the 1960s, "will find exceptional research and powerful writing in this outstanding history." A Marvellous Light, a starred fiction debut by Freya Marske, "is a delightful blend of Edwardian fantasy and romance, with enough twists and questions to have readers clamoring for the next in the planned series." Poet Warrior, by three-term U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo, is a starred biography. "This poignant read offers a lot of food for thought. Highly recommended for any library, especially for memoir collections." And the starred social sciences selection, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men, by Katrine Marçal, is "a must-read."
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