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UPDATED POST: Gov. Pritzker Signs Bill Making
#Illinois
First State in the Nation to Outlaw Book Bans
#libraries
#books
#bookbans
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If your book debut has been impacted by COVID-19 (or will be) please reply with your title, author name if it's different from your Twitter handle, and release date or ISBN!
@LibraryJournal
is compiling a list to help collection development librarians. RTs appreciated.
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A bill that explicitly prohibits Illinois libraries from banning books is speeding its way toward passage by the General Assembly, and the Illinois Secretary of State said he wants “every librarian in the country to know we have their backs.”
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@levarburton
of Reading Rainbow (oh & that Star Trek thing)
@librarycongress
for Dr. Hayden's swearing in
#nextLOC
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Good news for libraries! The $1.7 trillion 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed on December 23 includes substantial increases in federal funding for libraries and schools.
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"LeVar Burton Implores Kids to Read Banned Books: 'That's Where the Good Stuff Is' (via
@YahooNews
)
#books
#bannedbooks
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Turkish Garbage Collectors Open a Library from Books Rescued from the Trash (via
@goodnet_org
)
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Prince Harry, Michelle Obama, and Matthew Perry are just some of the names topping the charts.
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Julia Torres, teacher librarian in Denver Public Schools, is a cofounder of
#disrupttexts
, a crowdsourced effort "to challenge the traditional canon in order to create a more inclusive, representative, and equitable language arts curriculum."
#LJMovers2020
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If your library is closed and you can't work from home, LJ is looking for freelance journalists who can work on tight turnarounds to cover the impact of COVID-19. Library work and journalism background preferred. email mschwartz at mediasourceinc dot com if interested
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Citrus County, Florida: County Commission Rejects Plan to Provide Free Digital Access to NY Times For Library Card Holders
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Turkey’s Bookshelf-Shaped Library, An Architectural Marvel (via
@trtworld
)
#libraries
#librarydesign
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“Never Forget That What You’re Doing Matters”: Dr. Jill Biden Closes Midwinter with Encouragement for Library Workers | ALA Midwinter 2021
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Awesome! Dolly Parton Awarded Honorary Membership in the American Library Association (ALA)
#libraries
#books
#reading
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I guess that's the branch manager in the photo? Saskatoon family creates 'stick library' for neighbourhood dogs via
@CBC
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"I will not reopen the library until I can ensure the health and safety of our staff.... We will be slow and deliberate, because for the first time in my 20 years of being a librarian, the decisions I make mean the life or death of my employees."
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Brooklyn Public Library's Nick Higgins, Amy Mikel, Karen Keys, Jackson Gomes, and Leigh Hurwitz have been named LJ's 2023 Librarians of the Year for their work on Books Unbanned.
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40,000 Early Modern Maps Are Now Freely Available Online (Courtesy of the British Library) via
@openculture
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“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language via
@openculture
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Public Library Receipt Shows How Much Money You Saved by Borrowing Instead of Buying Books (via BoingBoing)
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Prince Harry’s memoir SPARE leads library holds lists this week and dominates book news. Plus, remembrances pour in for novelist Russell Banks, who has died at the age of 82.
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New LJ
#StarredReview
for
@MelBrooks
’s memoir ALL ABOUT ME! MY REMARKABLE LIFE IN SHOW BUSINESS
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Recent articles in
@TheAtlantic
,
@NewsHour
,
@guardian
and more have focused on feel-good stories of libraries reopening.
@eminencefont
on what they're leaving out: the not-so-happy situation of many library employees.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy has been in five 'Batman' movies—and donates everything he makes from the films to his hometown library (via
@CNN
)
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#Authors
: Judy Blume to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award For ‘Bravery In
#Literature
’ & More Headlines
#awards
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Council just voted to rename the Melvil Dewey medal after the resolution received overwhelming support at the membership meeting.
#alaac19
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Meet Max, an aspiring library kitty | The Washington Post
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Bertha Seavers, the first Black librarian in Cairo, IL, celebrated as she turns 100 years old.
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"Libraries are not about books, they are about people. We have to change how we serve and engage people,” says Skye Patrick, LJ's 2019 Librarian of the Year.
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13 of the Most Anticipated Books by Indigenous Authors For the Second Half of 2020 via
@bookmarksreads
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Feel-good library news! Actor Michael Ian Black announces that he will donate his $78,000 prize from Fox’s “Celebrity Name That Tune” to the Mark Twain Library.
@michaelianblack
@MTLRedding
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Meet Robin Bradford (
@Tuphlos
), Barrier Breaker, one of LJ's 2018 Movers & Shakers Advocates!
#LJMovers18
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Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain Provides a Preview of What’s Entering the U.S. Public Domain on January 1, 2023
#publicdomain
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Fobazi Ettarh
@Fobettarh
, Undergraduate Success Librarian at Rutgers, coined the term "vocational awe."
#LJMovers2020
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Raymond Pun Wins American Library Association (ALA) 2025-2026 Presidency
#libraries
#librarians
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces New
#OpenAccess
Policy, CC0 For 200,000 Digital Images
#libraries
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#LJMovers2021
Boston-based Research and Instruction
#Librarian
Stacy Collins aims not only to educate others about systems of
#Oppression
but also to disrupt those interrelated systems through her work and scholarship.
#ChangeAgents
@DarkLiterata
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How women invented book clubs, revolutionizing
#reading
and their own lives (via
@wapo
)
#books
#libraries
#bookclubs
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Boston Public Library Announces $1,000,000 Gift to Expand the Library’s
#LGBTQ
+ Programming and Collections & More Headlines
#funding
#libraries
@BPLBoston
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Cool! Washington Capitals Become First NHL Team to Launch Free Little Library
#lfl
#libraries
#books
#hockey
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Dolly Parton library opens in Pittsburgh, providing free books to kids.
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What can you do with a 3-D printer? Subvert the paradigm, maybe: Designer Creates a 3D-Printed Stamp That Replaces Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill via
@openculture
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Happy 218th Birthday, Library of Congress! You've never looked better.
@librarycongress
@LibnOfCongress
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New LJ
#StarredReview
for
@JessikkaAro
’s PUTIN’S TROLLS: ON THE FRONTLINES OF RUSSIA’S INFORMATION WAR AGAINST THE WORLD:
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Brooklyn Public Library’s Viral Books Unbanned Initiative Celebrates New Milestone During National Library Week; Teens In All 50 States Checked Out 100,000 Books from BPL’s Digital Collection Over Last Year
#publiclibraries
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UK: "A well-meaning cleaner who took the opportunity to give a locked-down library a thorough clean re-shelved all of its books - in size order." (via
@BBC
)
#libraries
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The Names of 1.8 Million Emancipated Slaves Are Now Searchable in the World’s Largest Genealogical Database, Helping African Americans Find Lost Ancestors. (via
@openculture
)
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#LJMovers2021
Callan Bignoli started the
#CloseTheLibraries
campaign to encourage reluctant directors to shut down, followed by
#ProtectLibraryWorkers
when some reopened without clear health guidelines.
@eminencefont
#COVID19
#Labor
#ChangeAgents
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An Essential Reading Guide For Fighting Racism (via Buzzfeed)
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Today: Gov J.B. Pritzker Will Sign Bill Preventing Book Bans in
#Illinois
#libraries
#publiclibraries
#legislation
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Coming in November: a book-length expansion of Nikole Hannah-Jonesʼs Pulitzer Prize–winning ʻ1619 Projectʼ—in this weekʼs Prepub Alert:
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"
@K_JeanPierre
shows how and why we all need to participate in democracy and what is at stake if we don’t." Read our starred review of MOVING FORWARD: A STORY OF HOPE, HARD WORK, AND THE PROMISE OF AMERICA
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“Never Forget That What You’re Doing Matters”: Dr. Jill Biden Closes Midwinter with Encouragement for Library Workers | ALA Midwinter 2021
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Here are the 10
#LJBestBooks2021
in
#CrimeFiction
category.
@meganeabbott
@blacklionking73
@gasagasagirl
@WmKentKrueger
@LauraMLippman
@silviamg
@chris_offutt
@LatinaSleuths
@Josh_Stallings
@colsonwhitehead
#NaomiHirahara
#SACosby
#RaquelVReyes
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"A capitalist system inherently values profits over people; libraries do the opposite."
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Amanda Jones, an SLJ School Librarian of the Year, writes about her experiences fighting for the right to read; the finance editor of the New York Times considers Bill Gates.
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Updated Post: LeVar Burton to Lead 2023 Banned Books Week as Honorary Chair
@BannedBooksWeek
#bannedbooks
#libraries
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'Love On The Brain' Tops LibraryReads List | Book Pulse
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Toni Morrison on libraries: "I didn't get far in my career as a librarian, but that experience opened my eyes and shaped my future. That's what libraries do.”
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The Love Hypothesis, a debut romance by Ali Hazelwood (
@EverSoAli
) is “A realistic, amusing novel that readers won’t be able to put down. Highly recommended for all collections.”
#LJStarredReviews
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Standing ovation for Library of the Year, Ferguson Municipal Public Library, and Scott Bonner.
#alaac15
http://t.co/agXklAsFVg
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Meet Jennifer Ferretti (
@CityThatReads
), We Here founder and LJ 2018 Movers & Shakers Community Builder!
#LJMovers18
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Some Good News! Macmillan is RETURNING to the
#Ebook
Pricing Model That Was in Effect on October 31st, 2019 & Lowering Some E-Book Prices on a Short Term Basis
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Meet
@blkgrlarchivist
, an
#LJMovers19
Advocate and university archivist helped create Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented) to centralize access to archives on activism within marginalized student populations.
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Show your library love all over your face! Put Your Nose in a Book: Masks, Library Style
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Stephen Graham Jones’s DON’T FEAR THE REAPER is due out on February 7. Check out our interview with Jones, and don’t forget to place your holds!
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What's More Punk Than Teens Screaming in a Public Library? (via
@nprnews
)
#music
#libraries
#publiclibraries
@LAPublicLibrary
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.
@EveryLibrary
and
@glaad
Partner On a "Playbook to Fight Against Book Bans" & More News Headlines
#bookbans
#libraries
#books
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NPD Group Reports: “Prince Harry’s “Spare” One of the Fastest-Selling Adult Non-Fiction Print Books Since 2004”
#books
#publishing
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Congratulations to
@cuethelibrarian
Karina Quilantan-Garza, Jaime Escalante Middle School’s media specialist and one of this year’s
#LJMovers
Change Agents!
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Arizona’s Page Public Library is considered not just a library but the essential core of the community, and has been named LJ and Ingram's Best Small Library in America 2023.
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Nancy Pearl Receives National Book Foundation’s 2021 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service
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Frights and Delights: 60 Horror Titles To Thrill Readers | Horror Preview 2021
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Congratulations to Jessica Fitzpatrick
@librarianfitz
of Mayde Creek High School, a 2022
#LJMover
and an Innovator!
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Updated Post: LeVar Burton to Lead 2023 Banned Books Week as Honorary Chair
@BannedBooksWeek
#bannedbooks
#libraries
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"The library will remain closed until the young moose decides to move along. Just another day in Colorado’s mountains." – CBS Denver
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Harvard's Houghton Library exhibits 60+ maps from books by authors including N.K. Jemisin, Ursula K. Le Guin, & William Faulkner.
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650 people formed a human chain to move children’s books from one library to another (via WaPo)
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Congratulations to Blake Hopper (
@travguybrarian
), a student-centered librarian at Tazewell–New Tazewell Primary School, TN, and one of this year’s
#LJMovers
Educators!
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A little robot at a library in Helsinki went from reviled to beloved, all because it got a new pair of plastic eyes.
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What's More Punk Than The Public Library Shirts Now Available Online . Proceeds go to the Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library branch of
@dcpl
and (pro tip) at least one LJ editor has ordered theirs!
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Sixty percent of millennials go on to purchase the books they borrow from the library. And more than three quarters—77 percent—later purchase books by the same author."
@penguinrandom
@MacmillanUSA
@HarperCollins
@HachetteBooks
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#LJMovers2021
Shannon Jones, director of libraries and professor at
#MedicalUniversityOfSouthCarolina
, works to
#Mentor
#LibrariansOfColor
& helped launch
#MLAReads
.
#ChangeAgents
@shdejones
#Equity
#Diversity
#Inclusion
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With travel & everyday library visits alike on indefinite hiatus, virtual tourism has become a lifeline. These beautiful libraries are a click away for now & a bucket list destination for the future.
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The Library of Congress Receives Largest Donation of Comic Books in Library History, Includes the Original Storyboards that Document Creation of Mickey Mouse
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Sweden's bokbåten is a floating library that brings books to residents of remote islands
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University of Saskatchewan Library Introducing
Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence Program
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