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Arianne Johnson Quinn, music special collections librarian at Florida State University’s Warren D. Allen Music Library in Tallahassee, received the inaugural Noël Coward Fellowship from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Noël Coward Foundation in February. She will spend the 2022–2023 academic year in New York City with direct access to never-before-seen Coward artifacts for research.
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St. Louis County (Mo.) Library received an Outstanding Local Government Achievement award from the East-West Gateway Council of Governments November 17 for its Pandemic Response through Collaboration of Community Resources project.
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In October the Ohio Library Council named recently retired Dayton Metro Library Executive Director Tim Kambitsch its Hall of Fame Librarian of the Year.
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Milton (Ont.) Public Library Manager of Support Services Kanta Kapoor received the Internet Archive Hero Award in October.
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In October King County (Wash.) Library System received the 2021 Government Technology Special Districts Award for Technology Innovation in the Citizens Category.
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St. Louis University’s Pius XII Memorial Library was named 2021 Missouri Library of the Year by the Missouri Library Association September 29. Other awardees at the event include the following: Taylor Bequette, young adult and adult services librarian at Little Dixie Regional Libraries in Moberly, was named Outstanding New Librarian; Rachel Brekhus, research and instructional services librarian at University of Missouri in Columbia, won Outstanding Professional Librarian; Eric Lyon, children’s programming coordinator at Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City, received the Outstanding Library Employee Award; and Megan Temple, manager of St. Louis Public Library’s Baden branch, won the Show Me Youth Services Award.
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October 4 Patrick Hogan retired as senior acquisitions editor for ALA Editions after 26 years with ALA.
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Jennifer Alvino, director of Windham (Maine) Public Library, and Ed Garcia, director of Cranston (R.I.) Public Library, received the New England Library Association’s Emerson Greenaway Award for distinguished service in librarianship in October.
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Julia Bouwsma, director of Webster Library in Kingfield, Maine, was appointed the state’s poet laureate in August.
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Larry Alford, chief librarian at University of Toronto Libraries, received the Canadian Association of Research Libraries Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship May 18.
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Robin Kear, liaison librarian in research and educational support at University of Pittsburgh, became the first librarian elected university senate president, effective July 1.
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The California Library Association has inducted Michael Buckland, professor emeritus and former dean of University of California, Berkeley; the late poet and former librarian at San Francisco Public Library Hiroshi Kashiwagi; and Bonny White, retired deputy director of Marin County Free Library, into the California Library Hall of Fame.

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Richard Byrne writes: “In the book Outdoor Kids in an Inside World, Steven Rinella presents a lot of ideas for getting kids interested and involved in learning about nature. In the first chapter, he presents a big list of ideas for things that you can do to spark kids’ curiosity before you even head outside. As I was reading through those ideas, it struck me that many could be done or be aided by the use of Google Earth. Inspired by Rinella’s book, here are five Google Earth activities that you can do to get kids interested in learning about the world around them.”

Free Technology for Teachers, May 21
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Yashvi Peeti writes: “Music has been a way to feel connected to the world beyond my existence. This comes in the form of singing in the car, too. Lending music to words also increases their impact. A lot of lyrics end up casually scribbled or earnestly penned in my many, many notebooks. However, music’s most defining quality, for me, is that it isn’t always something I have to ponder. It is something I can simply rejoice in or be comforted by even without actively listening. Everything that music means to me has led me to wanting to read about it. So here’s a list of diverse and brilliant nonfiction books about music.”

Book Riot, May 20
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Sallyann Price writes: “Long before the popularity of true-crime podcasts, there was True Detective, a pulp magazine published from 1924 to 1995 that, at its peak, chronicled real-life crimes for millions of readers. Edward S. Sullivan, an editor for The Los Angeles Examiner and a True Detective correspondent, would arrive at a crime scene with his notebook and camera, find out what he could from law enforcement, and begin his own investigation into what really happened. In early 2020, University of Southern California (USC) Libraries acquired Sullivan’s personal archive of 1,200 photographs and 50 meticulously annotated case files: murders, assaults, stick-ups, forgeries, grifts, kidnappings, and other criminal acts spanning from the 1930s through the 1960s.”

American Libraries feature, May
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Andrew Albanese writes: “While a federal court is now deciding how to dispatch with Maryland’s library ebook law, lawmakers in Rhode Island this week have advanced the state’s own library ebook bill. On May 18, the Rhode Island Senate Education Committee unanimously voted to recommend passage and advanced Senate Bill 2842 out of committee and to the floor for a full vote. Like Maryland’s library ebook law—which was preliminarily enjoined after federal judge Deborah L. Boardman in February ruled that the law is preempted by the federal Copyright Act—Rhode Island’s law would also require that publishers that offer ebook licenses to the general public also offer to license those works to libraries and schools on ‘reasonable terms’ that would ‘permit libraries, schools, and educational institutions to provide their users and students with access.'”

Publishers Weekly, May 20
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Amelia M. Anderson and Abigail L. Phillips write: “The US Census Bureau reported in 2019 that 40.7 million Americans—or about 12% of the population—have some sort of disability. Libraries work hard to meet the needs of patrons and staff with disabilities and make our facilities accessible to all, but there’s one space that’s too often left out of these conversations: the makerspace. Acknowledging that gap, our research team set out to explore the accessibility of public library makerspaces. Every makerspace is different, we learned, but there were some common themes in our discussions with participants.”

American Libraries column, May
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Gretchen Corsillo writes: “High school students around the country could now stand to lose even more as a result of the recent widespread efforts to ban and challenge books. Earlier this month, College Board, the nonprofit that administers testing and college readiness programs such as the SAT, Advanced Placement (AP) Program, and PSAT, released a new set of guiding principles. Titled What AP Stands For, the statement directly opposes censorship and clarifies that schools that remove essential topics or readings from AP classes could lose their official designation.”

Intellectual Freedom Blog, May 18; College Board
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Taylor Healey-Brooks and Michelle Lee write: “Research across many fields has shown that having a mentor can be crucial for people of color. Mentoring can lead to knowledge, experience, networking opportunities, and increased job satisfaction. One of the most important things mentoring offers is a sense of community and emotional support in one’s career. But it can be difficult for new librarians to find such a person with years of training. Because of the lack of diversity in librarianship (in 2020, approximately 83% of credentialed librarians were white) and problems retaining librarians of color, it can be challenging for new librarians to find a mentor with ample experience in the field. Peer mentoring—a relationship in which the participants are at similar points in their career—can help fill this gap.”

American Libraries column, May; AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees, June 10, 2021

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