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Magazines, Essays, and Some Romance | What We’re Reading
By on June 4, 2013 Leave a Comment
This past week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers went to BEA, and we are still feeling its throws. Guy and myself are going without books for a time, and Bette-Lee got her hands on a new book that will make her fellow romance fans green with envy.
Editors’ Picks Panel | Library Journal’s Day of Dialog
By on June 3, 2013 Leave a Comment
Library Journal’s sold-out 16th annual Day of Dialog, held May 29 at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium, got off to a rousing start with the perennially popular Editors’ Picks panel. Five top editors from leading publishing houses shared their summer, fall, and winter favorites with an enthusiastic and packed audience of librarians eager to identify titles to [...]
Poetry’s Appeal | Library Journal’s Day of Dialog
By on May 31, 2013 Leave a Comment
Stressing that there are no rules when it comes to art, Robert Pinsky says “a poem is not a challenge to say something smart…. A poem should not ‘mean’ but ‘be.’” And if you’re having trouble understanding it, “read it aloud.”
Collection Development 2020 | Library Journal’s Day of Dialog
By on May 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
Ebooks. Self publishing. Platforms, platforms, platforms. It’s hard enough to keep up now; what will collection development librarians’ jobs look like in 2020? At LJ’s Day of Dialog, held May 29 at the McGraw-Hill auditorium in New York City, Christopher Platt, Director, Collections and Circulation Operations, New York Public Library, put that question to a panel of librarians and a publisher.
Writing the Wonders of Science | Library Journal’s Day of Dialog
By on May 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
Take a slightly long table. Cover it in black cloth. Place four chairs along the side that faces out. Invite three men who have published with great success on the endeavors of science. Place one small bottled water, one glass with ice, and one paper napkin on the table in front of each chair. No bunsen [...]
Tear Jerkers, Literary Thrillers, and a Love Song to Video Games | What We’re Reading
By on May 28, 2013 Leave a Comment
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading lots of hot forthcoming books: Elizabeth Wein’s follow-up to Code Name Verity, Marisha Pessl’s noiry Night Film. I’m most intrigued by a novel my colleague Meredith Schwartz just finished, Austin Grossman’s You, which she promises is like (at least a little bit) many of my own favorite books.
Time Will Tell: Librarians on Yahoo’s Acquisition of Tumblr
By on May 24, 2013 Leave a Comment
Perhaps what’s most noteworthy about the Tumblr library community’s reaction to the blogging service’s purchase by web behemoth (and, well, dinosaur) Yahoo is the lack of one. Yahoo, which announced the deal on its own Tumblr blog with a kind-of-awkward gif, purchased Tumblr for $1.1 billion and promised “not to screw it up.” When asked [...]
Pop Culture Advisory: Welcome to Sanditon
By on May 24, 2013 3 Comments
Suggestions for readalikes and watchalikes for fans of Welcome to Sanditon.
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