| Big Energy, Rescue Rabbits, and the Heart of the Library Community | PLA 2024 By Lisa Peet By all accounts the 2024 Public Library Association (PLA) conference, held April 3–5 in Columbus, OH, was a resounding success. The 7,573 participants—including 5,702 attendees, 1,518 exhibitors, and 353 virtual registrants—packed the show floor, programs, and speaker sessions with palpable enthusiasm. Despite the cancellation of the April 2 welcome reception at Columbus Metropolitan Public Library because of a tornado warning, the mood was upbeat and engaged. Publishers reported running out of galleys, and many of the sessions were standing-room-only. |
| If Not Libraries, Then Who? Conference Programs Address Advocacy, Inclusivity, and More | PLA 2024 By Lisa Peet and Hallie Rich At the 2024 Public Library Association (PLA) conference, held April 3–5 in Columbus, OH, presentations were notably targeted and useful. And, as a number bore out, those concerns overlap in many areas. “Intellectual freedom and diversity, equity, and inclusion—it’s not an either or, it’s an and,” noted PLA President and CEO of Baltimore County Public Library Sonia Alcántara-Antoine. “Both of those concepts exist side by side.” |
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| Vendor News Roundup | PLA 2024 By Matt Enis The Greater Columbus Convention Center’s exhibit halls were full of activity during this month’s Public Library Association (PLA) 2024 conference in Ohio. Here are a few of the topics LJ had the opportunity to discuss in person at the show, as well as other announcements within recent weeks. |
| The First of Many Conversations: Librarians and Independent Publishers Come Together at IndieLib 2024 By Jane Friedman It was the start of a beautiful love story. That’s how Michael Reynolds, editor-in-chief of Europa Editions, described IndieLib, a conference hosted on April 2 by the Independent Publishers Caucus and the Digital Public Library of America. He saw libraries and publishers as star-crossed lovers that have been kept far apart for as long as possible, now finally meeting in one room in Columbus, OH, the day prior to the 2024 Public Library Association Conference. |
| Display Shelf | Sustainable Living By Melissa DeWild Encourage environmentally friendly living with a display full of books that offer ideas on wasting less and helping the planet. Find the full list of 44 titles here. |
| International Booker Prize Shortlist Is Announced | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene The International Booker Prize shortlist and PEN America Literary Awards longlists are announced. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump will write a series of crime novels. How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin and Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra go head-to-head for a chance to be named the new Fallon Book Club pick. Earlyword’s April GalleyChat roundup arrives. Ina Garten previews her forthcoming memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens. Renée Zellweger will return as Bridget Jones in a new adaptation, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, based on the novels by Helen Fielding. |
| Display Shelf | Interior Design By Melissa DeWild Offer some home decorating inspiration with a display full of beautiful books on how to adorn one’s abode. See the full list of 72 titles here. |
| Musical Memoirs | Performing Arts By Dr. Dave Szatmary The daughter of Mama Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas and Blondie guitarist Chris Stein share life stories centered in sound. |
| Spring Stars | Life+Style Top Reads By LJ Reviews The newest edition of Life+Style features key reads across cooking, crafts, fashion, gardening, interior design, self-help, travel, and more. |
| Read-Alikes for The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo | LibraryReads By Joseph Jones, Kimberly McGee, Emily Plagens, and Leigh Verburg The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; LJ starred review) is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book. |
| Winners of the Whiting Award for Emerging Authors Are Announced | Book Pulse By Sarah Wolberg The winners of the Whiting Award for emerging authors are announced. Also announced are the shortlists for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards for British food writing and the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Novel of the Year Awards, the longlists for the League of Canadian Poets Prizes, and the nominees for the Doug Wright Awards for best Canadian comics. |
| Winners of the Oregon Book Award Are Announced | Book Pulse By Sarah Wolberg The winners of the Oregon Book Award are announced, as are the shortlists for the Tolkien Society Awards for excellence in Tolkien scholarship and fandom. PBS News Hour reports on the librarians fighting attempts to ban books. Plus Page to Screen. |
| A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci Tops Holds | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by James Patterson and Candice Fox, Anthony Horowitz, Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, and Sara Paretsky. People’s book of the week is My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr. Salman Rushdie speaks about the attack that almost took his life and writing his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. As Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns 50 this year, fans will re-create his famous motorcycle ride. Plus, NYT celebrates 100 years of Simon & Schuster. |
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