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Ramping Up Remote Reference
By Mahnaz Dar
With colleges and universities across the country shutting down their campuses and moving to distance learning to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, academic librarians are being forced to up their reference game abruptly. |
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How Library Maker Spaces Can #FlattentheCurve
By Amy Vecchione with Gavin Woltjer
As library buildings close, library workers are finding ways to help communities mitigate the COVID-19 crisis—including utilizing maker space tools and tech to create much-needed personal protective equipment. |
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On Pause? Time for Professional Development
By Manda Carr
Turning to continuing education resources can not only help library workers level up their skills for when the doors reopen but also connect those feeling isolated to the larger libraryland community. |
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| "When students reach out to us...many times they’re frustrated, and that frustration is probably on top of all other kinds of life circumstances. I read through all of our chats, and I can see how much students appreciate it when we do try to take the extra time for them and support them.” | | From "Ramping Up Remote Reference" |
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Virtually Visit 8 World-Class Libraries
By Chrissy Bellizzi
For some stuck at home, with travel and everyday library visits alike on indefinite hiatus, virtual tourism has become a lifeline. These eight of the world’s most beautiful—as well as a few of the most out-there—libraries are a click away for now and a bucket list destination for the future. |
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Maison Lesage: Haute Couture Embroidery
By Patrick Mauriès
This volume will most appeal to readers of fashion and costume history. As a look book, anyone with an interest in embroidery will appreciate the technical finesse of Maison Lesage. |
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The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education
By Michael M. Crow & William B. Dabars
Crow and Dabars support their exciting new paradigm for American universities with extensive data, theoretical frameworks, and integration of research in the field, illuminating their argument for a new approach to higher education that will better serve American society and democracy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Undocumented Americans
By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Readers come to see that there is no time for hedging: the personal traumas discussed in the book are compounded by their commonality. A must-read indictment on what it means to be undocumented and what it means to be American. | Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By Kristin du Mez
This timely exploration helps readers place President Trump and his supporters in the context of white Christian America’s reaction to mid-20th-century social justice activism. | This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home
By Lauren Sandler
While Sandler focuses primarily on New York City, her study will resonate widely and is worthwhile reading for all, especially fans of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted. |
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Sustainability at a Social Distance
By Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
Unprecedented. Heartbreaking. Heartwarming. These three words have been most prominent in my mind as I observed and consulted with my colleagues as they make tough decisions about how to keep their communities and staff healthy. |
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Lessons from COVID-19 | Editorial
By Meredith Schwartz
The coronavirus is shining a harsh light on the gaps in our social safety net, how essential libraries are as they try to fill more and more of those gaps, and the limitations of the library as an overstretched catchall solution to inequity. |
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Berkeley Public Library (CA) seeks a Director of Library Services |
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