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 ALA Responds to YMA Ceremony Critics | ALA Midwinter By Kara Yorio When the American Library Association announced that it was going to include some affiliate awards in the annual Youth Media Awards ceremony to better recognize diverse children’s literature, it was cause for celebration. But when the moment came on Monday, it was not all they had hoped. |
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 Robin DiAngelo on Confronting White Fragility | ALA Midwinter By Mahnaz Dar Discussing race can feel awkward. But according to antiracist activist and scholar Robin DiAngelo, who presented Loida Garcia-Febo’s President’s Program at the American Library Association’s recent Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, that discomfort is necessary. |
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 Book Publishing Takeaways & Trends 2018 By Neal Wyatt Last year was a banner one for books. Sales in 2018 shot up in several categories, and a number of high-profile titles caught the nation’s attention, each selling millions of copies. |
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| SPONSORED CONTENT Learn the math behind determining the number of congressional seats for each state in the United States from the American Mathematical Society, publisher of Mathematical Moments, a program that promotes appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture.
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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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| "They didn't even ask my permission, just called me after the fact and said, ‘We weren't going to send them out on the street.’ They got food delivered, they stayed the night." | | |
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| SPONSORED CONTENT Presented by LJ and SLJ, the 2019 Public Library Think Tank will convene public library leaders and directors, youth services and young adult librarians as they engage in conversation about co-creation. Learn about this strategic approach and how to embed it in your organization from day one, empowering kids and teens to build skills and make a difference as we collectively shape a stronger library and community.
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 Addressing Book Deserts | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller Sure, many of us could probably stand to pare down our personal libraries. But the brouhaha around the idea of radically limiting the number of books in our home—as some said tidiness consultant and latest Netflix star Marie Kondo suggested—got me thinking. |
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 Page To Screen | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt Stephen King announces his next book. A YA author withdraws hers. Margaret Atwood's newest gets its cover. Three adaptations open, and new book lists arrive. |
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 Space Is the Place | Collection Development: Afrofuturism By Kelly Besser, Roderic Crooks, Dalena Hunter, & Shani Miller The record-breaking popularity of the film Black Panther has catapulted Afrofuturism into media coverage and increased patron demand for more books, graphic novels, film, and even music. |
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 Libraries Can Apply for Infy Makers Award By Kathy Ishizuka Does your organization provide maker programming for kids and teens? It might be eligible for the Infy Makers Award. The annual contest, which bestows $10,000 grants to 10 organizations toward expanding maker opportunities for K–12 students, is open for entries through February 21. |
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 New Bestsellers | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt Crucible by James Rollins leads seven new books onto the bestseller lists. LJ issues its Editors' Spring Picks. There is more Stephen King heading to TV, and an exhaustive Harry Potter podcast wraps up. |
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| Xpress Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Milkman, by Anna Burns, is one of three starred fiction titles this week. "Against the backdrop of Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, the novel’s unnamed community, or 'area,' faces attacks from inside and out—renouncers, informers, the police, 'the opposite religion,' those 'over the water,' and those 'over the border'.... Dark humor pervades" in this winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize. In nonfiction, Adina Hoffman's Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures is "assiduously researched and delightfully entertaining; a solid acquisition for all performing arts and modern Judaica collections." In graphic novels, A Fire Story, by Brian Fies, features "vibrant coloring and fascinating secondary stories [creating] a gripping read that will attract graphic memoir fans and anyone seeking firsthand accounts of surviving a natural disaster." And in e-originals, Nancy Holland's Felyn’s Curse, the second title in "The Witch King Trilogy," is "initially a bit difficult to follow...[but] reads well as a stand-alone. The story line is full of intrigue and will be a hit for those who enjoy slow-burn romances."
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