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James Madison University’s Furious Flower Poetry Center Receives $2M from Mellon Foundation
By Lisa Peet
With the help of a recent $2 million, four-and-a-half-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Furious Flower Poetry Center’s collection of spoken word and performance videos will receive the necessary support to continue its mission of supporting Black poets in American letters and cultivating poetry appreciation among students of all levels. |
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Our Long Strange Trip Through the Duke Archives | Peer to Peer Review
By Eric Mlyn & Amy McDonald
The first-year seminar “Long Strange Trips: The Grateful Dead and American Cultural Change” is part of a series for incoming students designed to help them be successful and thrive at Duke. One of Eric Mlyn’s primary goals for the class, as course instructor, was to expose students to the rich resources of the university, and to work in the Duke University Archives to learn about the resources of its libraries. |
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SPONSORED BY MIT PRESS Look under the Hood of Our Open Access Model
Our new white paper, The MIT Press Open Monograph Model: Direct to Open, describes a collective model for supporting the open dissemination of scholarly monographs. Explore the model and pledge your support for Direct to Open by June 30, 2022 to receive benefits including immediate access to backlist/archives and trade collection discounts.
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LibLearnX Debuts with Strong Attendance
By Meredith Schwartz & Lisa Peet
The first iteration of the American Library Association’s new LibLearnX conference more than met its attendance goals despite having to debut virtually rather than, as originally intended, in person. Just shy of 2,183 people attended, 109 percent of the goal of 2,000. |
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How-Tos at LibLearnX 2022 Tackle Cultural Change
By Lisa Peet
Several sessions at the American Library Association's inaugural LibLearnX conference, which ran virtually January 21–24, offered practical, actionable approaches to complex situations. Two notables tackled issues of how to improve libraries’ internal culture to benefit their staff. |
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“Archival research takes practice and attention to the process as much as to the content. Students tend to focus on what it will take to assemble a polished final product—they want a checklist to complete to get a good grade—and the idea of simply exploring a body of archival materials without knowing what might develop from the outset is often daunting.”
| | From “Our Long Strange Trip Through the Duke Archives | Peer to Peer Review” |
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments
By Erin L. Thompson
Worthily preceded by Sanford Levinson’s Written in Stone and David Gobel and Daves Rossell’s Commemoration in America, Thompson’s book underlines the need to evaluate public monuments, murals, and exhibits, to make them nexuses of learning rather than reinforcers of past beliefs. |
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LITERATURE
PREMIUM
Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo
Ed. by Rebecca Walker
An eye-opening book with great insights drawn from individual experiences of money, with stories of success and less-than-success. These essays can start conversations going among women who wish to deal openly and honestly with money and finances. Highly recommended. | The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
By Julie Phillips
These constructions are far from new, yet Phillips’s powerfully researched, thoughtful, sensitive examinations will be of interest to literary scholars as well as to general readers grappling with their own oscillating creative and pragmatic selves. | Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun
By Charles J. Shields
This biography substantiates Hansberry’s accomplishments, despite her short life. Recommended for all Hansberry enthusiasts and 20th-century literary scholars. |
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SPONSORED BY EX LIBRIS PART OF CLARIVATE Queensland Health Libraries Network: Bringing It All Together
Alma has provided a different vision of the future of health libraries, allowing the Queensland Health Libraries Network to explore services and functions beyond what they’d previously considered or been able to afford. digital objects and create collections not previously considered part of a health library’s role.
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2022 PEN American Literary Award Finalists Announced | Book Pulse
By Anita Mechler
The 2022 PEN American Literary Award finalists are announced. Interviews explore conversations from Daphne Palasi Andreades of Brown Girls, Imani Perry of South to America, David Sanchez of All Day Is a Long Time, and Dolly Parton, coauthor of Run, Rose, Run. |
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Hannah Lowe Wins Costa Book of the Year Award for ‘The Kids’ | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
Hannah Lowe wins the Costa Book of the Year Award for The Kids. AudioFile announces the February 2022 Earphones Award winners. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Autumn M. Womack talk about Toni Morrison, and The Well-Read Black Girl podcast debuts. Plus, James Joyce’s Ulysses turns 100. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Literary Criticism
By LJ Reviews
Wollstonecraft, Wonderworks, Appropriate: A Provocation, Teaching Archive, and more in literary criticism titles: January 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics.
Tomaselli, Sylvana
Princeton University Press
2021. ISBN 9780691169033. $29.95 2. Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature.
Fletcher, Angus
Simon & Schuster
2021. ISBN 9781982135973. $30.00 3. Appropriate: A Provocation.
Rekdal, Paisley
W. W. Norton
2021. ISBN 9781324003588. $15.95 |
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