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| February 7, 2019 |  Working To Give Libraries More Actionable Information | Peer to Peer Review By Jill Hurst-Wahl America’s approximately 17,000 public library outlets’ staff are focused on meeting the needs of their communities, providing innovative programs, and connecting community members to resources that make a difference in their lives. But all too often they are reinventing these things from scratch. |
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 Space Is the Place | Collection Development: Afrofuturism By Kelly Besser, Roderic Crooks, Dalena Hunter, & Shani Miller Afrofuturist picks from Kelly Besser, Archivist at the UCLA Library Special Collections; Roderic Crooks, Assistant Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine; Dalena Hunter, librarian for the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; and Shani Miller, digital project coordination at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. |
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| SPONSORED BY UNITED NATIONS |
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| "When I talk about ‘we’ and ‘us,’ when I use those terms, I’m talking to the vast majority of people in this room, the vast majority of librarians, and the vast majority of the people sitting at the tables, making decisions that will affect the lives of people who are not at those tables." | | |
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 Inspired and Tenacious | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller As the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries Initiative came to a close at the end of 2018, I joined many in reflecting on the massive contribution of that decades-long investment in libraries and what it now makes possible through its legacy partners. |
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 BESTSELLERS: Psychology By LJ Reviews 1. Our Minds, Our Selves: A Brief History of Psychology Oatley, Keith Princeton University Press 2018. ISBN 9780691175089. $29.95 2. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create Boyer, Pascal
Yale University Press
2018. ISBN 9780300223453. $30
3. The Emotional Foundations of Personality: A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach Davis, Kenneth L.
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