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Cursed — A Conversation with Karol Ruth Silverstein

Since 2004, ALA’s Schneider Family Book Award has honored an author or illustrator for a title that embodies an artistic […]

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Act to Ensure Libraries Part of Infrastructure Act

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Nicole Glover on Pocket Diaries, Floating Books, and Creating the Fantastical World of her Debut Novel

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Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman on Co-Writing a Novel, Google Doc Etiquette, and Creating the Most Unexpected Relationship of the Summer

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Are We Reaching the End of Library DVD Collections?

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ALA Group Calls on Publishers to Update Pricing Models

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Michael Blanding on Researching the Fascinating Mystery Behind Shakespeare’s Plays

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Twelve Months of Passive Programming

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Make Your Library ADA Friendly, Not Just ADA Compliant

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Why Do We Think Library Services are Free?

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The Library Comic Convention Goes Virtual

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FYI Podcast: Hosting Digital Author Events

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Short Story Dispensers Make Strides, Despite Pandemic

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Jonathan Parks-Ramage on Subverting the Expectations of Genre and the ‘Fever Dream’ of His New Novel

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Brian Broome on Gwendolyn Brooks, Giving Everybody the Benefit of the Doubt, and Why He Loves Writing on the Bus

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Amazon, E-books, Copyright, and Libraries

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COVID-19 Operating Restrictions Ease but Differences Remain

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Ransomware Attacks at Libraries: How They Happen, What to Do

Feature Article May/June 2020 Issue of Public Libraries

Define & Design: The Bookstore Model of Customer Service

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Urge Congress to #BuildLibraries During United for Infrastructure Week

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Learning From Our Statistics

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Online Training: Libraries as Community Hubs for Citizen Science

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Gaining Patron Cooperation on Mask Wearing

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Norman Ohler on the Forgotten Members of the Resistance Movement in World War II

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