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 How to Advocate for Closing the Library By PC Sweeney For library workers who are working to convince local governments to close the libraries and continue to pay staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, the best bet is to discuss the issue with their union. For those without a union, here are some advocacy ideas for convincing decision makers to close the library during the pandemic and support the staff. |
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 Macmillan Ends Library Ebook Embargo By Matt Enis Macmillan last week announced that it would discontinue its embargo period, which had prohibited libraries from purchasing ebook licenses for newly published titles for eight weeks. |
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| "Everyone is trying to figure out a new normal but that should not come at the expense of patrons or staff who are still working." | | |
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 Harry Belafonte's Archives Come Home to Harlem Library By Mahnaz Dar In a week of closures and cancelations due to the coronavirus outbreak, the New York Public Library announced some good news: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has acquired artist and activist Harry Belafonte’s personal archives. |
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 Booklist: New to Working from Home By Jennifer Clifton To support library workers and their patrons alike in what may be an unfamiliar adventure, the following titles, all of which are available electronically, will help newly remote workers master a new set of skills, including managing time and creating a work-life balance, as well as managing a team from home. |
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 Publishers Adapt Policies To Help Educators By SLJ Staff As educators move to remote learning, many are worrying and wondering about reading books aloud online and possibly violating copyright laws. In response, many children's publishers have temporarily altered policies. |
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 BookExpo Postponed to July | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt BookExpo is postponed until July 22-26. PRH says they are still not attending. Simon & Schuster is “reviewing its options.” The Lammys will not be held in person this June but the winners will still be announced as planned. |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  A Duke by Any Other Name, by Grace Burrowes, is one of this week's starred romances. "The latest in Burrowes’s stunning 'Rogues to Riches' Regency-era series shines as a standout in the historical romance subgenre but is also a powerful story all on its own. The determined Althea charms readers right alongside the taciturn yet deep down tender Nathaniel." Another starred fiction selection, Take a Hint, Dani Brown, Talia Hibbert’s "follow up to Get a Life, Chloe Brown, featuring [protagonist Danika Brown’s] sister, is another superb and emotionally rich romance. Grief and turmoil are expertly balanced with hilarious wit, making the story both complex and immensely readable." Meryl Wilsner's starred debut romance, Something to Talk About, "is an unputdownable slow-burn romance with well-drawn and incredibly real characters. Wilsner does an amazing job exploring a Hollywood love story in the middle of a #metoo movement." And Simon Hanselmann's Seeds and Stems is this week's starred graphic novel. "Let it be known: this collection of stories taken from various anthologies and limited-edition zines created between 2016 and 2019 proves once and for all that there’s not another living cartoonist as brazenly funny or unflinchingly weird or insightful about mental illness as Hanselmann."
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