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.

How Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown Wants Us To Read Poetry
By Barbara Hoffert
The 2020 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.

One Academic Library’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Snapshot
By Patricia Brandes
The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa campus was closed to the public but open to faculty and students on March 15. The library closed to all on March 17, but the computer lab remained open on the first floor of Hamilton Library, because the University had moved all classes online for the remainder of the semester, and not all students had access to computers or the internet.

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.

Public library survey: How is COVID-19 impacting your collections?
Library Journal has teamed with The Panorama Project to gather information about how public libraries are shifting resources and providing materials and related services to their communities in response to the current health crisis. Would you please take our survey on behalf of your library? The data collected will help us advocate for public libraries in these unsettled times and reinforce the role libraries play in the book business. The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete.

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Covid-19 insurance rebates fall short of what consumers deserve

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For Kids Who Don’t Have Books at Home, Communities Are Working to Reach Them | Donalyn Mille
By Donalyn Miller
Responding to our local network of families and educators, my family has been sorting, sanitizing, and mailing books and arranging no-contact book exchanges and drop-offs.

Thrilling Communities with Chilling Experiences: Summer Scares 2020 Library Programming Guide
By Konrad Stump
The Summer Scares Programming Guide, created in conjunction with the Summer Scares 2020 initiative, is intended to ease the fears of librarians and provide creative ideas to engage horror readers.

The Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize | Call for Nominations
The Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize, developed in partnership between the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation and Library Journal, was created in 2019 to recognize the public library as a vital community asset. When libraries, civic entities, organizations, and the people they serve become close partners, their communities thrive. One winning library will receive $250,000 in unfettered grant monies from the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation. Deadline: July 15, 2020.

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.

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.

The Ethics of Genome Editing, Climate Change's Impact on Disease, & Big Data in Biology | Academic Best Sellers
By LJ Reviews
A head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body; a critical insight into the scientific, ethical, and political implications of human genome editing; and an in-depth, wide-ranging, first-hand narrative on the world's tropical rainforests top the list of best-selling biology books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

How To Attend San Diego Comic-Con from Home | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
The Goodbye Man by Jeffery Deaver leads holds this week. People’s Book of the week is All Adults Here by Emma Straub. Publishers Weekly issues its Summer Reads 2020 feature. San Diego Comic-Con will offer an “at-home version.”

Hot Off the Presses: Family Dramas, Henry VIII's Ill-Fated 5th Wife, & a Guide to Changing Your Life with Cheese
By Kiera Parrott
Several new works of fiction tackle multigenerational family drama, Tudor expert Alison Weir's new novel stars the naive Katheryn Howard, and a guide to taking your cheese boards to the next level top this week's list of new titles.

Book Expo, BookCon Go Virtual | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
BookExpo and BookCon announce their online schedule. BookExpo from May 26-29 and BookCon from May 30-31. Both will be free and take place on the Facebook pages of each.

A Julie Christie Classic & a Soviet Cinema Landmark | May's Top Indie, Foreign, & Classic DVD/Blu-ray Picks
By Jeff T. Dick
May's top indie, foreign, and classic DVD/Blu-ray picks include a British New Wave classic with a star turn by Julie Christie, the recent Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, and a Soviet cinema landmark.

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WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA

Bix, by Scott Chantler, is this week's starred graphic novel. "Eisner-nominated Chantler utilizes the deliberate cadence of panels alternating with layered multipanel visual bursts to denote musicality and the excitement of life in this nearly worldless graphic biography, a daring and bold experiment that stunningly succeeds." And Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar, by Oliver Craske, is this week's starred performing arts title. "Compelling, informative, and the definitive book on this musical legend."

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