In recent months, four public libraries in Colorado's Front Range region have been forced to contend with methamphetamine residue, and the subsequent remediation, in bathrooms and public spaces.
The need for increased accessibility is an ever-growing priority, as is understanding the scope and nuance of the concept. At North Carolina State University (NC State) Libraries, Raleigh, staff from a range of functional areas are working together to address and increase accessibility in their physical spaces, collections, and offerings. In May 2021 they formed an Accessibility Committee to coordinate and implement practices and changes throughout the system.
Documents the African American press in the South from Reconstruction through the Jazz Era. The first-hand reporting, editorials, and features provide a unique journalistic record of the African American experience. Includes complete runs of representative newspapers from the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
As awareness increases about the need to address personal challenges both inside and out of the library, staff and practitioners—from leaders to frontline workers—are sharing their experiences, observations, and views around trauma-informed librarianship.
LJ presents 400+ titles in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to add to collections and TBR lists and to share with readers. The aim is to capture top titles and top trends, and the authors here—literary stars, scholars, and experts—are generally best-selling, award-winning, and/or award-nominated or worthy of being so, perhaps in the coming year.
Professors and librarians at academic institutions sometimes describe certain students—or groups of students—as “not ready for college,” or assume that they “don’t know how to study” or are “at risk of dropping out.” These negative labels are most often given to students who are first-generation, low-income, and/or BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color). These views are called “Deficit Thinking”—blaming students for any failure to excel in a new, unfamiliar academic environment, rather than examining how an institution may be failing those students.
I’m not the first queer person to say that I was really into Matilda (1996) when I was a child. I loved the scenes of Matilda in awe of her public library, enchanted by the escape it offered from her home life. The library was her safe place. My research is mine.
“Currently, we have no computers at our Main Library. We’re going several months without them until the fall when we can get control over the situation and make sure things are safe.”
In “Uprooting Racial Health Disparities: Genealogy as a Community Health Library Service,” Lynette Hammond Gerido, University of Michigan School of Public Health, studies the outcomes and affordances of genealogical and family health history research.
This season the LJ Reviews editors are looking forward to books that delve into history and current events. We are awaiting books that offer respite from hardship and those that provide a new lens to understand and reflect. In the mix too are horror, romances, historical fiction, SFF, and short stories.
The Society of Authors Translation Prize winners are announced. Stephanie Meyer plans two more “Twilight” books. Interviews arrive with Davon Loeb, Joseph Kakwinokanasum, Gayle Brandeis, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, Malcolm Harris, Ibram X. Kendi, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Jack Parlett, Carmela Ciuraru, and Courtney Maum.
If you're looking for display inspiration or need to update your collection, check out these swoonworthy adult romance titles written by authors who also write YA books. Also included, a downloadable spreadsheet of 39 titles to keep your display stocked.
3 Days To Live by James Patterson leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft. Bloomsbury is publishing new editions of Sarah Maas’s “Throne of Glass” series this week. EW previews Ali Hazelwood’s forthcoming Love, Theoretically. The New Yorker unearths a lost interview with Clarice Lispector. Plus, Percival Everett has sold a retelling of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, due out in March 2024.
I Have Some Questions for You, by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rebecca Makkai, is a starred fiction selection. Makkai "knows whereof she writes; she lives on the campus of the boarding school she attended as a teenager, where her husband now teaches and her child is a student. Her lifelong, three-pronged immersion in that culture has resulted in a thought-provoking and delicious tale of life and death and justice that very well may have gone sideways." In self-help, A Woman’s Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard, by Eliza VanCort, is a starred selection. "By turns intimate and inspiring, this title will empower any woman who has ever doubted her worth or her words, giving her new ways to think about why and how she can put herself more boldly in the world." And Michael Robotham's Lying Beside You is a starred mystery. "Written to Robotham’s usual high standard, this terrific read will delight fans of his work."
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