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Aging in the 21st Century
As the vocal baby boom generation gets older, aging itself has become a growing topic of conversation. Libraries—and their raisons d’être—are not immune from this fundamental shift. Libraries...
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Rick Bass Wins The Story Prize
2017 Story Prize finalists (l-r): Rick Bass, Helen Maryles Shankman, Anna Noyes Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan It may have been International Women’s Day, but on the evening of March 8 The Story Prize...
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Jamillah Gabriel, Thinking Outside (and Inside) the Box
As African American studies information specialist and the manager of the Black Cultural Center Library at Purdue University, IN, Jamillah Gabriel has a strong interest in African American culture and...
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New World, Same Model | Periodicals Price Survey 2017
The shifts to online and OA continue apace, but neither is causing a sea change in pricing The shift to digital delivery of serials content has had a profound effect on the information ecosystem....
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Back in the Big Apple | BEA Preview 2017
After zipping over to the windy city last year, Book Expo returns to New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and will run from Wednesday, May 31, through Friday, June 2, with the fourth...
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The Empathy Builders: A More Compassionate World Through Stories | Editorial
When was the last time you read beyond your comfort zone—whether in point of view, genre, or format? Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang has focused on doing just that from his platform as the National...
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New Writers Museum Hosts CCF Benefit | ALA Annual 2017
Nikki Giovanni at the American Writers MuseumPhoto credit: American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) Annual conference, held in Chicago June 22–27, got off to a literary start...
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Hillary Clinton Gives Closing Speech | ALA Annual 2017
Courtesy of ALA An attentive crowd of more than 3,200 listened to Hillary Clinton give the closing keynote for The American Library Association (ALA) Annual conference on June 27. The politician...
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The Academic Mainstream | Streaming Video
Streaming video is becoming a mainstay on college campuses, but discovery and walled-off content create their own challenges Recent trends in technology are dramatically reshaping academic library...
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Meet the “Buzz Whisperer”: Book Pulse Keeps You Up On What’s Trending |...
The book world is always buzzing. But the buzz can be hard to harness for daily, timely application in our libraries. I’m pleased to share that librarians now have a new tool to put to work. Meet LJ’s...
View ArticleWhat’s Hot Now? | Materials Survey 2018
What’s hot, what’s not, and how much does it cost? That’s what LJ first asked two decades ago when it launched its annual book-buying survey of U.S. public libraries. With today’s media mostly on the...
View ArticleElizabeth Strout Wins 14th Annual Story Prize
The 14th annual Story Prize, given to the top short story collection published in 2017, went to Elizabeth Strout for Anything Is Possible. Strout, who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her...
View ArticleOrange City Public Library Pressured to Label, Segregate LGBTQ Material
More than 300 residents of Orange City, IA, have signed a petition urging the Orange City Public Library (OCPL) to label and separate books containing LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and...
View ArticleRoberta Koscielski | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Advocates
Roberta Koscielski has a long history with the Peoria Public Library (PPL)—and with Common Place Family Learning Center, a community education nonprofit on Peoria’s south side, where she trained as an...
View ArticleRobin Bradford | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Advocates
Whether she is tweeting her latest collection find, speaking to the New York Times about diversity in romance, presenting at professional conferences, or pushing libraries to purchase self-published...
View ArticleKristin Treviño | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Community Builders
Kristin Treviño, youth and digital services librarian at the South Irving Library, part of Texas’s Irving Public Library, used her knowledge of the impact that connecting young readers with the right...
View ArticleAngel Jewel Tucker | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Community Builders
The 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin broke Angel Tucker’s heart. Then a young adult librarian at the Central branch of Kansas’s Johnson County Library system, located in...
View ArticleIdeas for Building a Better Relationship with Your Campus Bookstore | From...
As more academic librarians seek to engage with open education resources (OER) and textbook affordability initiatives, there are naturally concerns about the impact on the campus bookstore. Start by...
View ArticleKiara Garrett | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Innovators
When a prospective date asked Kiara Garrett to recommend a book, she suggested Junot Díaz’s This Is How You Lose Her. He mistakenly thought the collection offered relationship advice. Garrett told him,...
View ArticleDeath By 1,000 Cuts | Periodicals Price Survey 2018
Flat budgets, price increases, and a reliance on status journals for tenure and promotion keep familiar pressures on the serials marketplace.
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