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 Change Is Coming | ALA Midwinter Preview 2020 By LJ Staff ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia marks major milestones in the organization’s transformation and supports a field itself evolving to address communities’ new needs. |
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 Coming Clean About “Grit” | Peer to Peer Review By Eamon Tewell Proponents of "grit" claim that developing a combination of passion and perseverance is the most significant factor shaping one’s life. The problem is, this contention ignores a great deal and has unintended negative consequences. |
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 Hip-Hop EDU: Use Music To Spark Students' Creativity and Learning By Marva Hinton At Campbell High School in Smyrna, GA, one of the most popular hangout spots is found in the library. Every day at lunch, students from the large, suburban school 20 minutes outside of Atlanta crowd into a recording studio in the library’s makerspace. Most of them are there to record or produce hip-hop tracks. |
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| "The library is not top of mind for faculty, and they are more likely to turn to the open web for resources, or order a book from Amazon if they can’t immediately find a digital resource they need." | | |
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 Top 20 Best-Selling Philosophy Titles | Academic Best Sellers By LJ Reviews A history of silence as a shaper of the human mind, a study of the ways a pursuit of rationality often leads to irrationality, and a biography of a philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world top the list of best-selling philosophy books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. |
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 Run Your Week: Big Books, Sure Bets, & Titles Making News | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt Big Lies in a Small Town, by Diane Chamberlain, leads holds this week. The National Book Critics Circle announce their finalists for the 2019 award year. The Oscar nominations are out. Joker gets plenty of chances to win. The Critics’ Choice Awards were awarded last Sunday night. |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson with Pushcart Prize editors, is one of this week's starred fiction selections. "Each work shines in its own way throughout this new compilation, which upholds the standards set by preceding volumes in the series beautifully. Required reading for students, writers, and seekers of fine literature." Adam Nicolson's Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels: The Making of Poetry is another starred fiction selection. "Nicolson’s gifts, both as a writer and a scholar, shine brightly, offering readers a thrilling glimpse into the marvelous work that is the 'making of poetry.' Interspersed throughout are beautiful and simple woodcuts by artist Tom Hammick that may inspire readers to take up a pen and do a little making of their own." In cookbooks, starred selection Bosh! Healthy Vegan, by Ian Theasby & Henry David Firth, "has much to offer everyone seeking a healthier lifestyle." And Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's second novel, The Revisioners, is another starred fiction selection. "The dynamics of a brutal past encompassing violence and racial inequality is core here, but the narrative is significant for acknowledging that elements of that past are not completely past and for portraying two fearless women separated by time but both dealing with white women’s racism." See All Reviews››› |
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