Librarian Volunteers Help WHO Make Sense of COVID Information 
By Mahnaz Dar
Librarians are bringing their information triage, vetting, and organization skills to bear on the current crisis in new ways. Among them, a group of volunteers are indexing vast volumes of information on COVID-19.

Academic Movers & Shakers 2020
The 2020 class of Movers & Shakers features a wide range of library leaders, including 13 academic librarians who are making a difference both inside and out of their institutions:

How Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown Wants Us To Read Poetry
By Barbara Hoffert
Pulitzer Prizes were announced on YouTube on Monday, May 4, by Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy. Here, this year’s poetry winner talks about reading what’s on the page and a love for verse that started in the library.

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Create Remote Book Delivery
By Andrew Mullins III
Sofía Bosch Gómez was preparing to graduate from Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) School of Design before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted her semester. Gómez returned home to Mexico City when the campus shut down, but could not find an important resource she needed through CMU Libraries’ e-resources.

Barbara Rockenbach, Julie Garrison, Brian Hart, and More Library People News
By Lisa Peet
Barbara Rockenbach appointed Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian at Yale University, Julie Garrison elected as ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect, Brian Hart is the new Director of the Forsyth County Public Library, NC, and more library people news.

Resources to Support Home Caregivers
By Mattie Cook
In the age of COVID-19–related quarantines and closures, many new people may be taking on the role of caregiving unexpectedly. These resources will help with navigating the difficult terrain of juggling many simultaneous responsibilities, and offer wisdom and encouragement.

SCIENCES
The How Contagion Works
By Paolo Giordano
Concise explanations of the science and statistics are balanced with poignant reflections on human nature and the way forward in this important, timely work.

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change
By Pramila Jayapal
The model Jayapal is offering would serve as a manual for any young woman hoping to make her way in American politics, and is suitable for young people interested in exploring a political career.

EDUCATION 
Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education
By Douglas N. Harris
Harris effectively presents one side of an ongoing debate; readers interested in K–12 education and charter schools should look to researchers such as Bruce Baker and Andrea Gabor for more critical views of what charters accomplished in New Orleans.

How Sheltering in Place Shows Us a More Accessible World
By Jason Low
Employees with disabilities and chronic illnesses have long fought for basic accommodations now granted to millions of workers from home. Here's what else is needed.

Douglas/Olshaker, Rachel Maddow, & More: Last of the Nonfiction Previews, Nov. 2020, Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert
Tackling issues from contemporary media to murder at Harvard to the impact of Spiro T. Agnew’s crimes.

From Michael J. Fox & John Densmore to Books by or About Harold Bloom, Graham Greene, & Adrienne Rich: Arts Previews, Nov. 2020, Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert
Some key players in film, TV, theater, and music tell their stories and/or the stories of others, and big literary titles loom.

8 Blooming Botanical Gardens To Explore Virtually
By Melanie Kletter
Cherry blossoms, tulips, and rare orchids are in bloom! Take a virtual stroll through nature at these eight botanical gardens.

ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Politics & Law
By LJ Reviews
An astonishing behind-the-scenes chronicle of the New York Times’s bombshell Harvey Weinstein exposé; an important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America; and the first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Native American nations by U.S. expansion top the list of best-selling politics and law books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

1. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Kantor, Jodi & Megan Twohey
Penguin Books. 2019. ISBN 9780525560340. $28.

2. Charged: The New Movement To Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Bazelon, Emily
Random. 2019. ISBN 9780399590016. $28.

3. Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Ostler, Jeffrey
Yale University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780300218121. $37.50.

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