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Nonfiction Readers' Advisory | Robert Burgin

It's been a couple of years since I've participated in NF Nov, I'm going to attempt to do so this year. Here's my pile of possibilities. I will consider it a success if I read 3
*We Wish To Inform You That You Will Be Killed With Your Families
*Sacco: Palestine
*Dench: Shakespeare -The Man Who Pays the Rent
*Flanders -The Invention of Murder
*“When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
*Feeding Ghosts
“Ducks-Beaton
*Keefe-Snakehead

TheBookHippie Whew!!! Looks like a lot of good books! 2w

SamAnne Ducks is wonderful, hard hitting. Difficult topics with some humor. I want to do a reread. 2w

CSeydel Oh I read that Rwanda book years ago and it was very good. Heartbreaking but very well written. 2w

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Lcsmcat The Judi Dench book is wonderful! 2w

vivastory @TheBookHippie I am very excited 📚📚 2w

vivastory @SamAnne It's been awhile since I've read a good graphic memoir, so def eager 2w

vivastory @CSeydel I plan on doing audio...still recall crying in theaters when I saw Hotel Rawanda, so bracing myself 2w

vivastory @Lcsmcat I heard about it on a book podcast last year and it just sounded so lively and entertaining 2w

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IriDas

Reference and Information Services: An Introduction | Kay Ann Cassell, Uma Hiremath

Such a nice summer of reading fun books. Now I‘m back to textbooks, and in the wee hours, too. 😊

#backtoschool

kspenmoll Best of luck! Can you enjoy your text books?! 3mo

AmyG Have a great school year! 3mo

TheBookHippie Have a wonderful year! 3mo

IriDas @kspenmoll thanks. For the most part, but they do keep me in reality, which is unfortunate. 😆 3mo

IriDas @AmyG @TheBookHippie Thanks. 3mo

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IriDas

National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries | American Association of School Librarians

Took me all day but I finally came up with three things.

1) The library.
2) Marching band.
3) Swings.

#tlt #threelistthursday

dabbe

dabbe L😍VE these, especially the swings. Thanks for sharing. 💛🤎🧡 3mo

Reggie I was a big band nerd. President of the band my senior year. Allstate. AllDistrict. I miss being part of something like a group of 50-70 people who work together to make something beautiful. 3mo

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boozybookworm

Buying Books: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians | Audrey Eaglen

AMEN...

dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 4mo

Read-n-Bloom They‘re new to me 😁😂🤗 3mo

boozybookworm @dabbe ❤️ 3mo

boozybookworm @Read-n-Bloom right 😉 3mo

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IriDas

LGBTQAI+ Books for Children and Teens: Providing a Window for All | Christina Dorr, Liz Deskins

Crafts my kids did tonight at their queer hangout.

#queer
#family

TheBookHippie I love it! 5mo

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 5mo

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩👍🏼💝💝. 5mo

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shortsarahrose

Records and Information Management, Second Edition | Patricia C. Franks

so-so

Information was fine if a bit boring. Focus was a bit too much on corporate and government records, which is less applicable to me. A new edition just came out that is likely to be more updated, but I was already almost finished with this.

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IriDas

Colon Classification: Basic Classification | S. R. Ranganathan

Not much going on except finals this weekend. I finished my exam this morning. I‘m slogging through my project the next two days. This is one of those classes where I‘ll be glad with an A- (which in my program is 96%).

#chatterday
#mlis
#gradschool
#academia
#finalsweek

AllDebooks

TheBookHippie ♥️ 6mo

kspenmoll Best of luck! 6mo

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ManyWordsLater

The Five Laws of Library Science | Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan

I‘m having difficulty articulating to friends the difference because library curation and banning books.

How do you guys explain the difference?

Thanks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for the inspo.

#unbanbooks #readbannedbooks

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @shortsarahrose Thank you for answering on my post too. 6mo

shortsarahrose Copy/paste what I put on @Riveted_Reader_Melissa post: I‘ll add, as a library worker/person with a masters in library science, collection development has more to do with building a collection that reflects a wide range of viewpoints on any given topic - even those that we may not personally agree with or that the majority of our community may not agree with. Censorship is removing or refusing to purchase items that don‘t align with a certain view. 6mo

shortsarahrose Of course, there is more that goes into collection development than that (I took a whole semester long course on it!), but I think the above gets to the heart of what librarians try to do versus what censors do. Your local library should have a collection development policy that covers why they add/remove some things and not others. 6mo

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shortsarahrose And your local librarians would probably be happy to answer questions about this, too, as long as it was coming from a place of curiosity/good faith rather than hostility. 6mo

ManyWordsLater @shortsarahrose thank you for you explanation. It certainly is coming from a place of curiosity and good faith. (edited) 6mo

shortsarahrose I figured as much from how the question was put 🥰 glad I could help. 6mo

mcctrish I would think in a nutshell they‘d have to encompass a variety of views/voices on subject matters and meet a readership demand - books might be missing but not because they were banned but because of funding or popularity (edited) 6mo

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IriDas

Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People | Sanford Berman