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 Defining Our Times | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller As the year turns, so come the trends discussions and lists. There are certainly many that impact the people libraries serve, directly and indirectly. As I was starting to make my own list, Oxford announced its 2019 word of the year, “climate emergency,” defined as “a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it.” |
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 Kevin Sayar on Taking the Helm at Kanopy By Lisa Peet Kevin Sayar, previously at ProQuest, was named the new CEO of streaming video platform Kanopy in October. LJ caught up with him at the Charleston Library Conference to hear his thoughts on early days at Kanopy. |
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 Monica Harris, Christina S. McGowan, Karyn Temple, and More Library People News By Lisa Peet Monica Harris named Associate Executive Director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS); Christina S. McGowan appointed Dean of the Library and University Librarian at Fairfield University, CT; Karyn Temple leaving the U.S. Copyright Office; and more new hires, promotions, retirements, and obituaries. |
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| "This year’s landmarks committed to community-driven design decisions and have a track record of listening and adjusting to community vision and input. Design sessions for many of the libraries included residents, business owners, social agencies, and city representatives." | | |
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 New Bestsellers | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt Children of Virtue and Vengeance, by Tomi Adeyemi, sees two new books onto the bestseller lists. De’Shawn Charles Winslow wins the 2019 First Novel Prize for In West Mills. More best-of lists—including cookbooks and essay collections—arrive. |
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 Our 2020 Mock Caldecott Results By Travis Jonker Over the past month, K-3rd grade students have been reading, evaluating, and comparing some of the best picture books of the year during our 2020 Mock Caldecott unit. Last week all 455 students voted for the book they thought most deserved to win the Caldecott Medal. |
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 Page to Screen | Book Pulse By Neal Wyatt The next in the Jumanji franchise arrives, as does a dark version of A Christmas Carol. Robert Kirkman has a new comic in the works. The New York Times runs an op-ed with the headline “The Caldecott Medal Needs an International Makeover.” |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Starred fiction title All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Paris Ritz, by Beatriz Williams and others, is "a great choice for anyone looking for clever historical fiction with plenty of drama, action, and surprises in every chapter." In nonfiction, Candacy Taylor's starred selection Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America is "an enriching look at African American history through the lens of the black motorist, and as one of the few books on the subject, this is essential for most collections." Also in nonfiction, the starred social sciences selection, Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage, by Lauren Jae Gutterman, "weaves a thoughtful cultural history that insists on the sexual and relationship agency of midcentury wives and demonstrates that outwardly heterosexual marriages have, at times, indeed contained queer possibilities."
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