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End of an era. ALA Midwinter, rebranded as LibLearnX, will be discontinued after 2025. Will the book award ceremonies be moved to the summer conference? The press release says:

As ALA looks ahead, efforts are underway to determine how best to present some of the most beloved celebratory events traditionally held at the January conference: the I Love My Librarian Awards; the RUSA Book & Media Awards, which features the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction; the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunrise Celebration; and the Youth Media Awards.  

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“I can’t emphasize enough how everyone's COVID-19 experience is valuable,” AFC Director Nicole Saylor said. “It’s worth preserving. It doesn’t matter your zip code, your community, whether you contracted it. Everyone has a story.”

Hard to believe it has been almost four years since the pandemic shutdown.

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Never mess with an archivist.

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Willa Cather will be the first Pulitzer Prize winner and the 12th woman represented in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Cather once said in an interview, “I had searched for books telling about the beauty of the country I loved, its romance, and heroism and strength and courage of its people that had been plowed into the very furrows of its soil, and I did not find them. And so I wrote ‘O Pioneers!.’

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Michael Caine is becoming a debut novelist at age 90. "The actor...has long harboured the desire to write a thriller, and was inspired to do so by a news item, says his UK publisher, Hodder’s Rowena Webb, about 'the discovery of uranium by workers on a dump in London’s East End'." 

#michaelcaine #authordebuts #thrillers #firstnovels. 

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What a cool librarian job!

A tribute to a century of filmmaking. Take a tour of the Warner Bros. prop archive.

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After the judge dismissed Wallace, she turned to Heckel, who sat flanked by JCPS attorneys.

“I just want to say I’m so sorry you have to deal with this,” Leibson told Heckel. “I admire your courage. … I wish you had been my librarian when I was a kid.”

Heckel, a 22-year employee of JCPS, declined to be interviewed for this story. She did, however, offer a brief statement before the hearing.

“Books are mirrors and windows,” she told LPM News. “And any reader deserves the right to choose to see themself in what they read.”

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Congratulations to Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned Team who defied rising book challenges by providing free ebook access to teens and young adults across the country.

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“I see it every day,” said Mr. Santillano, 57, a former City Council member. “I see these kids hanging out, doing their homework, doing what they are supposed to be doing. If you take that away from them, you are pushing them to basically hang out in places where they are not supposed to. So instead of helping the community, you are pushing them away, to do crime and things like that.”

Why can’t both public services be important? The people who see the library only as a baby sitter really don’t understand its role and function in a community.

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Brilliant #librarymarketing. #BlackFriday #NYPL

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Giving thanks for the public libraries in our lives.

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The conservation effort — informally named “The Great Decant” — started on April 1, when the first tome, Volume 1 of Reeves’s “History of English Law,” printed in London in 1869, was taken from its place on shelf 1.1., in the Long Room’s upper gallery, which is closed to tourists. The book was dusted with a specially modified vacuum cleaner, it was measured, its physical condition was noted, and its details were checked against the Long Room’s catalog, written in 1872.

The book was then labeled with a radio-frequency identification tag and put in a bar-coded box — the first of more than 700,000 books, manuscripts, busts and other artifacts that will be relocated from the Old Library to a climate-controlled, off-campus storage facility.

If you haven't seen the magnificent Long Room at Trinity College, go now. Starting in October 2023, it will be closed to the public for a three-year restoration project.

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What many public libraries have done, despite Covid and because of it, is consciously enhance their physical presence on the street and in the neighborhood.

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Close up, she's older than her mother, and smaller, her hair hennaed, her eyebrows dyed black. Her glasses are on a bead chain, like a librarian's.--Stewart O'Nan, Ocean State

Why are writers so lazy with the librarian stereotypes? They should know better.

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On March 25th the Ring of Power was destroyed, completing Frodo’s mission and defeating Sauron. Celebrate by reading some Tolkein. This year’s theme is Love and Friendship.