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| December 4, 2018 | LJ's Best Books 2018
By LJ
This year, LJ eschews our traditional top ten list of best books in favor of a larger and more diverse mix across 20 categories—with 188 titles in total. |
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Pleasant Valley Free Library Regroups After Fire
By Lisa Peet
On the morning of November 6 as residents of Pleasant Valley, NY, were lining up to vote on the town’s first library referendum in eight years, firefighters were battling a two-alarm blaze at the Pleasant Valley Free Library. |
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Library of Congress Launches Crowdsourcing Platform
By Matt Enis
The Library of Congress in October launched crowd.loc.gov, a new crowdsourcing platform that will improve discovery and access to the Library’s digital collections with the help of volunteer transcription and tagging. |
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| "We’ve spent the past year thinking about how we can shift the focus of the Library of Congress to become more user centered. The Digital Strategy…is our vision for what we would like the Library of Congress to look like, in terms of technology, in the next three to five years." | | From "Library of Congress Launches Crowdsourcing Platform" |
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New to the Bestseller Lists | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Five new titles make the bestseller lists. Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, titled The Testaments. LJ names the best books of 2018 and the NYT picks the Kids' Notables list. |
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