Find Your Focus: What Kind of Librarian Should You Be?
By Jennifer A. Dixon
Prerequisites for any librarian job include curiosity and a desire to help expand others’ knowledge. But a satisfying library career may take many forms.

Denver Public Library Hosts Virtual Racial Equity Symposium
By Mahnaz Dar
Advancing Racial Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace, a virtual symposium hosted by the Denver Public Library on July 8–10, convened academic and public librarians and others who discussed equity, diversity, and inclusion work, the emotional toll it takes, and barriers such as white supremacy culture.

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The Impact of Remote Learning on Campus Libraries

Shifting instruction and campus services entirely online in a matter of days in response to the COVID-19 pandemic was a near-Herculean feat for the nation’s colleges and universities. But for institutions that have developed robust and forward-looking library programs, the transition has proceeded more smoothly.

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School Libraries Getting Repurposed in Reopening Plans
By Kara Yorio
Many K-12 libraries are being turned into classrooms to provide the required social distancing between students.

News in Brief
By Lisa Peet
UNC Chapel Hill Receives $6.2M Collection, Panorama Project Releases Custom Antiracist List Picks, Library Freedom Institute Announces New Cohort, and more News Briefs.

Marketer of the Year | Library Journal
Library Journal will honor one library staffer or a library team with its third annual Marketer of the Year award in its October 2020 issue. The award, sponsored by Library Ideas, comes with a $2,000 cash prize. The award recognizes the importance of innovative approaches to marketing of library services, the role of marketing in building library engagement, and the value of quality marketing collateral to help build a vibrant sense of the library and define its relevance in the community. Nominations are due August 6.

Remembering National Book Award Winner and Civil Rights Icon John Lewis | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
National Book Award winner and civil rights icon John Lewis has died. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel leads holds this week. People’s “Book of the Week” is What You Wish For by Katherine Center. Margot Harrison, The Glare, writes about Horror and our present times, as we live so much through screens.

Top Summer Reads: 56 New and Favorite Titles Across the Fiction Genres
By ALA RUSA CODES Reading List Council Members
With recommendations across eight fiction genres, from new releases to tried-and-true favorites, there's something in this year's list for every reader.

Too Much and Never Enough Breaks Sales Records | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump sells nearly 1 million copies across all formats. Michelle Obama is starting a podcast. Big forthcoming book news: Seanan McGuire has a new book on the way, Seasonal Fears, the sequel to the Locus award-winning Middlegame.

“Read, my Child, Read!” | Remembering John Lewis
By Kathy Ishizuka
“Read, my child, read!” a schoolteacher urged a young John Lewis. The last of the “Big Six” figures of the civil rights movement and Democratic congressman representing Georgia for the past 33 years until his death last week, Lewis would often share that anecdote from the dais.

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WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA

Fair as a Star, by Mimi Matthews, is one of this week's starred romance selections. "From the best-selling author of the 'Paris Orphans of Devon' series comes a compassionate treatment of a heroine with a condition not commonly addressed in the historical romance subgenre." Borges and Me: An Encounter, by Jay Parini, is a starred fiction selection. "Essential for Borges’s legions of fans, as well as those who enjoy literary memoirs by experimental writers whose works play a bit more loosely with the facts." The Exiles, by Christina Baker Kline, is another starred fiction title. "Both uplifting and heartbreaking, this beautifully written novel doesn’t flinch from the ugliness of the penal system but celebrates the courage and resilience of both the first peoples and the settlers who came after, voluntarily or not, to create a new home for themselves and their children." And Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West, is this week's starred nonfiction selection. "Highly recommended for anyone wishing to navigate successfully the daily deluge of information we are encountering more and more."

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San Jose State University (CA) seeks a Dean of Libraries