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U.S. Libraries from the southern states up through the east coast were affected by several severe storms in a row: Hurricane Ida, starting on August 29, Hurricane Henri about a week prior, and Tropical Storm Nicholas, which produced rain and flooding on and after September 14. As with other natural disasters, library staff are simultaneously grappling with damage to their own homes and workplaces and serving the needs of their affected communities.

Shortlists are announced for the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Interviews arrive with Alice McDermott of What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction, Amor Towles of The Lincoln Highway, Hope Mohr of Shifting Cultural Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance, Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano of Black, White, and the Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant, Gabrielle Union of You Got Anything Stronger?, Megan Abbott of The Turnout, and Colson Whitehead of Harlem Shuffle. There is adaptation news for Hugh Howey’s Wool.

Kudos to Robbie Morrison for winning the 2021 Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel with Edge of the Grave and to the 2021 winners of the Mo Siewcharran Prize and the German Book Prize shortlist. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, Enemy at the Gates by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke, and Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook by Joshua Weissman top the best seller lists. Features arrive on Sophie Santos of The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) and Maria Tatar of The Heroine With 1,001 Faces. Adaptation newsalso arrives for John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and for Kimberly McCreight’s Friends Like These.

After a year and a half of virtual networking, many public and academic library leaders and employees were looking forward to attending in-person conferences again, while many others remained apprehensive about travel and large group events. As library organizations and associations began finalizing plans for fall and winter conferences, they needed to balance people’s wishes for some semblance of normalcy—in-person sessions and networking, shared meals, hugs and handshakes, tote bags—with a range of safety and liability concerns.

Hyde by Craig Russell wins the 2021 McIlvanney Prize. LJ's Fall Day of Dialog is tomorrow. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, the buzziest book of the week. Lena Waithe and Gillian Flynn start new imprints.  Interviews arrive with Maria Tatar, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Kerry Cohen, Gabrielle Union, Cassandra Peterson, Heather O'Neill, Keyshawn Johnson, Max Chafkin, and Tarana Burke. Plus, Netflix buys rights to the entire Roald Dahl catalog. 

Elaine Rice Bachmann is the new Maryland State Archivist, Ralph Bingham is named Director of LibraryLinkNJ, Allison Grubbs takes the helm at Broward County, and more library people news for September 21, 2021.

Jason Reynolds's term as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature has been extended for an unprecidented third year. The 2021 National Book Festival is underway and runs through September 26th. The German Book Prize releases its 2021 shortlist and the 2021 Neffy Awards winners are announced. Bewilderment by Richard Powers gets critical acclaim. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki gets a 4 star review from USA Today. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s newest novel, The Morning Star, gets coverage as well. Interviews arrive with Craig Johnson, Mai Der Vang, and Brandon Taylor. Chuck Palahniuk starts a Substack newsletter and Gen X comes of (middle) age. Plus, an ‘exceptionally rare’ first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein sells for $1.17M. 

Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa leads holds this week. One LibraryReads selection and four Indie Next picks arrive this week. People's book of the week is L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. The longlist for the National Book Awards is out. The 2021 Ignyte Awards Winners are announced. Emmy winners are also anounced. Interviews arrive with Anderson Cooper, Anthony Doerr, Dave Eggers, Becca Stevens, and Stacey Vanek Smith. Plus, The Guardian Review section, home of its books coverage, has closed. 

The nonfiction and poetry longlist selections for the 2021 National Book Awards and the CBC Prize longlist are announced. Interviews with Phoebe Robinson of Please Don't Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes, Mattie Jackson Selecman of Lemons on Friday, Robert Costa and Bob Woodward of Peril, Anderson Cooper of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, Tarana Burke of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, Porsha Williams of The Pursuit of Porsha: How I Grew Into My Power Purpose, Gabrielle Union of You Got Anything Stronger?, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color, and Kamal Al-Solaylee of Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From offer insights. Martha S. Jones, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, signs a four-book deal with Basic Books. Gary M. Pomerantz's Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn is optioned for television.

The University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently released the syllabus of the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge, focused on libraries and archives, as an open source interactive PDF. The syllabus was created as part of the multipart Reckoning Initiative at University Libraries.

As an increasing number of patrons seek not only new jobs but new career paths, public libraries are upping their own skill sets with creative solutions.

Kudos for the 2021 National Book Awards longlist nominees for translated literature, N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became, for making the Time’s 100 Most Influential List of 2021, and James McBride’s Deacon King Kong being picked for LeVar Burton Book Club by the Fable app. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, Forgotten in Death by J. D. Robb, Matrix by Lauren Groff, Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice by Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss, Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang, and This Bright Future by Bobby Hall top the best sellers list. Audio interviews with Colson Whitehead of Harlem Shuffle, Leila Slimani of In the Country of Others, Maggie Nelson of On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, and Giulio Boccaletti of Water: A Biography are featured. Adaptation news for Don Yaeger’s Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South and Colin Meloy’s Wildwood series.

From the American Library Association: The American Library Association’s Executive Board announced today that LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience scheduled for January 21-24, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas, will take place virtually.

The Booker Prize releases its shortlist. Patricia Smith is awarded the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. The shortlist for the 2021 Polari Prize has also been announced. The Omega Sci-Fi Awards launches the Feminist Futures Award to recognize “an outstanding feminist sci-fi story," and StokerCon 2022 announces its guests of honor. The NYT previews  “The Coming ‘Tsunami’ of Books on Race.” Interviews arrive with Ruth Ozeki, Colson Whitehead, Tarana Burke, Gabrielle Union, Elliot Ackerman, Darla Worden, Jacques Rancourt, and Mary Roach. Tom Perrotta and  Jhumpa Lahiri both announce books for 2022. Catherine Sheldrick Ross, renowned expert in readers’ advisory and one of the academics leading the study of reading and the reading experience, has died.

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead gets critical acclaim. Nonfiction by Mary Roach and Nathaniel Philbrick get reviewed. Richard Powers and his new book Bewilderment are profiled. Sarah Bourke wins 2021 Stanner Award. Interviews arrive with Colson Whitehead, Mary Roach, Tarana Burke, Antoni Porowski, Evan Osnos, Megan Milks, Aimee Wall, Janice Lee and more. Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death get adaptations. Plus, the first Spider Man comic sells for a record-breaking $3.6 million.

Kirkus announces the finalists for the eighth annual Kirkus Prize. Karen Tei Yamashita is awarded the National Book Foundation Medal. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty leads holds this week. Three Library Reads and six Indie Next picks publish this week. People releases its “Must Reads for Fall” highlighting titles from Colson Whitehead, Lily King, Liane Moriarty, Amor Towles, Anthony Doerr, Dawn Turner, Ann Pachett, Laurence Leamer, Qian Julie Wang, Tove Alsterdal, Richard Osman, Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rachel Howzell Hall, and a posthumous work by John le Carré.  Jennifer Grey has a forthcoming memoir, Out of the Corner, due in May 2022. Dorothy Carvello’s Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman's Story of Surviving the Music Industry  will be adapted into a new docuseries.

Winning news for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. Interviews abound with Krystale Littlejohn of Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics, Dr. Yusef Salaam of Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice, Max Porter of The Death of Francis Bacon, Dr. Bruce Perry of What Happened to You?, YZ Chin of Edge Case, Lauren Groff of Matrix, and Sally Rooney of Beautiful World, Where Are You. New books for Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for former president and first lady Trump, with I’ll Take Your Questions Now, Christine Quinn with How to Be a Boss Bitch, and The Official Alien Cookbook by Chris-Rachael Oseland. Lastly, a short story by Stephen King is being used to raise money for the ACLU.

On September 9, Ithaka S+R released the findings from its most recent survey of community college library directors on issues of leadership, strategy, and collaboration during the pandemic, “Library Strategy and Collaboration Across the College Ecosystem.” The survey, fielded in February and March, was the third phase of the Community College Academic and Student Service Ecosystem (CCASSE) project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Susanna Clarke wins the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction with Piranesi. The 2021 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis Winners are announced. A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins and The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock top the best sellers lists. Interviews with Aliza Kelly of This Is Your Destiny: Using Astrology to Manifest Your Best Life, Hannah Brown of God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life’s Best (and Worst) Moments, Lauren Groff of Matrix, Asha Pandya of The Archer, and Alexandra Kleeman of Something New Under the Sun provides more insights.

The National Book Foundation (NBF) announced on September 8 that Nancy Pearl, a renowned librarian and former executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library, is the 2021 recipient of its Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.

Reese Witherspoon picks L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón and Jenna Bush Hager chooses Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang for their September book clubs. The B&N selection is Matrix by Lauren Groff. Nancy Pearl wins the National Book Foundation’s 2021 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service. The Women’s Prize for Fiction will reveal the winner later today. The 2021 Mike Resnick Memorial Award Winner is announced along with the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction, the 2021 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Winner, and the 2021 Dragon Awards Winners, including Andy Weir. The Wainwright prize for nature writing goes to James Rebanks for English Pastoral. 

From remote reference to technology access, libraries across the country are providing a range of services for people and families affected by incarceration.

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney leads holds and coverage this week, including a 4-star review from USA Today. The British Academy Book Prize announces its 2021 shortlist, including Cal Flyn, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Mahmood Mamdani, and Sujit Sivasundaram. Four Library Reads and twelve Indie Next selections publish this week. People's book of the week is Matrix by Lauren Groff, which also gets reviewed. Interviews arrive with Maggie Nelson, Hayley Mills, Michaela Coel, Qian Julie Wang, and Ashley M. Jones. Plus, John Birmingham’s alternate WWII history trilogy, Axis of Time, is being adapted for TV.

AudioFile’s September 2021 Earphones Award Winners are announced. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny, The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger, Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan, Dopamine Nation: Finding a Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke top hardcover best sellers lists, while Billy Summers by Stephen King and Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey are the top audiobooks for September. Interviews with Helen Hoang of The Heart Principle, Jo Lloyd of Something Wonderful, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi of Savage Tongues, and Lauren Sandler of This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home are featured. Salman Rushdie tries his hand at Substack publishing and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover will have an adaptation.

It remains to be seen whether governments that relaxed or eliminated their mask mandates will move as quickly and decisively to put them back in place. But libraries shouldn’t wait for them to do so.

The 2021 Anthony Awards Winners are announced at Bouchercon, including S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland. Readings announces the 2021 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist. Good Morning America selects Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke for its September book club. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for the buzziest book of the week, A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins, which is also the buyer’s pick in September's Costco Connection. The September Loan Stars list is out with #1 pick Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. Plus, interviews arrive with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Rabih Alameddine, Leslie Jordan, James Whiteside, Megan Rapinoe, and Karen Brown.  

Marlon James and Olga Tokarczuk will publish new books early next year and a short story by Toni Morrison will be published in a hardback edition. A new literary prize is announced for small presses in the US and Canada. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones continues to get coverage, while A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins remains aflame. Fall preview lists arrive along with interviews with Marlon James, Hilma Wolitzer, Meg Wolitzer, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Emily Spurr, Suchitra Vijayan, and Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. Plus, NYT takes a tour of New York’s legendary literary hangouts.

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins leads holds this week. The Davitt Awards winners are announced, for the best crime books by Australian women. The Nib Literary Award 2021 longlist is also out. Five LibraryReads and two Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer. Interviews arrive with Sally Rooney, Hilma Wolitzer, Meg Wolitzer, Kendra Allen, and Megan Abbott. Joanna Carl shares her crib sheet for chocolates, and the detectives who love them. Plus, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch will be adapted into a TV series.

On June 2 the California Senate and Assembly jointly issued a FY21–22 budget for the state’s public libraries totaling more than $500 million.

Nikki Giovanni is named the Writer-In-Resident at the Toni Morrison Writing Program at Prairie View A&M University. Winners are announced for the 2021 James Tait Black prize and the Ned Kelly Awards. Interviews abound with Clarissa Ward of On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist, Kat Chow of Seeing Ghosts, Mary L. Trump of The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way To Heal, Rafia Zakaria of Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, Anna Qu of Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, Charles Person of The Buses Are A Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider, and Nawaaz Ahmed of Radiant Fugitives.

On August 5, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, American Library Association, Association of Science and Technology Centers, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Alliance of Museums, and Network of the National Library of Medicine announced the launch of Communities for Immunity, a partnership that will help support libraries and museums in their work to boost COVID-19 vaccine confidence across the United States.

The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has again found itself embroiled in controversy. This time, the association gave one of its new Vivian awards to At Love’s Command by Karen Witemeyer, a historical romance that most observers saw as glorifying the genocide of Lakota people at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.

Bloodless by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Complications by Danielle Steel, The Noise by James Patterson and J. D. Barker, Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy, and The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way To Heal by Mary L. Trump top the best sellers lists. The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory by Roxane van Iperen and S. J. Perelman: Writings by Adam Gopnik get attention. There is a first look at Sabaa Tahir’s newest, All My Rage, and adaptation news for The Changeling by Victor Lavalle. Interviews with Dr. Anna Lembke, author of Dopamine Nation: Finding a Balance in the Age of Indulgence and Katie Crouch, Embassy Wife, give insights. Joan Lubin is named the 2021 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow.

From the Federal Communications Commission: The Federal Communications Commission today announced that it has received requests for $5.137 billion to fund 9.1 million connected devices  and 5.4 million broadband connections as part of the $7.17 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund Program. In view of outstanding demand and the recent spike  in coronavirus cases, the FCC will open a second application filing window for schools and  libraries to request funding for connected devices and broadband connections for off-campus  use by students, school staff, and library patrons for the current 2021-22 school year.

Oprah picks The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers as her latest book club pick, sending the title up the Amazon sales ranks. Books by Louise Penny, Pat Barker, Chandler Baker, David Philipps, Deborah Levy, and Matthew FitzSimmons get reviewed. Fall book lists arrive, along with interviews with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Kat Chow, Nichole Perkins, David Philipps, and Ruth Ozeki. Oblivion Song by Robert Kirkman is getting adapted for a feature film and Spider-Man: No Way Home gets a trailer. Plus, Dorothy Parker returns to New York City.  

On August 16, Hachette Book Group (HBG) and Workman Publishing announced that they have entered into a binding agreement for Hachette to acquire Workman. The transaction is expected to close this fall after regulatory approval by the Justice Department.

The American Book Awards have been announced. Winners include Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar, These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card, Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody, Desert Notebooks by Ben Ehrenreich, Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong, Dunfords Travels Everywheres by William Melvin Kelley, plus many more. The 2021 Kirkus Prize judges are announced. The 2020 Asimov’s Readers’ Awards Winners are announced. The 2021 Splatterpunk Awards Winners are announced. Benedict Cumberbatch and George Saunders give readings. New Beatles lyrics  will be revealed in Paul McCartney's forthcoming book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. Plus, Belt Publishing founder Anne Trubek, raises money for Afghan refugees.

On the evening of August 20, Indianapolis Public Library (IndyPL) CEO Jackie Nytes announced that she would step away from her role, effective at the end of August, in response to accusations that IndyPL leadership has perpetuated systemic racism throughout the system. 

The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny leads holds this week. One LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks arrive. September’s issue of Entertainment Weekly is out with a "must list" that includes A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins and Matrix by Lauren Groff. People's book of the week is Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow. Myriam J. A. Chancy, author of the forthcoming What Storm, What Thunder, about the 2010 Haiti earthquake, implores us, “do not look away.” Interviews arrive with Kat Chow, Laurence Jackson Hyman, Meghan O'Gieblyn, and #Merky Books Prize Winner, Jyoti Patel. The books of HBO’s hit show, White Lotus are trending, as are recent online sales of in-demand ARC’s. Plus, Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes series is coming to television. 

The 2021 Harriet Tubman Prize finalists are announced, and Gene Wolfe becomes part of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s 2021 class of inductees. George Floyd’s aunt, Angela Harrelson, is coming out with a book, Lift Your Voice: How My Nephew George Floyd’s Murder Changed the World to be released in February 2022 . Walter Mosley is writing a new The Thing series for Marvel. First looks for Isaac Fitzgerald’s Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional set to come out May 2022 and Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Interviews with Dorinda Medley of Make It Nice, Cai Emmons of Sinking Islands, Willa C. Richards of The Comfort of Monsters, Jaime Cortez of Gordo, James Whiteside of Center, Center: A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet, Ross Gay of The Book of Delights are featured.

Libraries of Stevens County (LOSC), WA, was honored to create a community program called Trail Tales in partnership with two other rural library districts in Northeast Washington. LOSC, North Central Washington Libraries, and Pend Oreille County Library District joined with the Colville National Forest and Upper Columbia Children’s Forest to create a reading experience to be enjoyed in the great outdoors.

From the International Federation of Library Associations: It all started with an endowment of 6,000 books in 1785. Today, Deichman Bjørvika in Oslo has been named as the world’s best new public library.

Awards news for the 2021 Odyssey Scholarship and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Vortex by Catherine Coulter, The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism by Tucker Carlson, and Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP by Mirin Fader top the bestsellers lists. First looks for Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour and Joma West’s Face. Cixin Liu will have his short stories adapted in graphic novels. Khaled Hosseini reflects on his birthplace of Afghanistan and Laurent Binet, Civilizations, imagines an Incan invasion of Europe in the 16th century. Interviews with Eyal Press of Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, the cast of Nine Perfect Strangers, and Deesha Philyaw of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies are featured.

Economic measurements almost always exclusively focus on the materials offered by libraries. But what about all the intangible services that library workers provide, such as children’s story hour, makerspace trainings, ESOL, citizenship preparation, job search help, and on-demand reference consultations? How might we communicate the value of all of the other services libraries provide beyond materials?

On January 20, his first day in office, President Joe Biden issued Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had already begun its own process in September 2020, when it established an Internal Task Force on Racism following the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent increased focus on issues of racial injustice.

From the American Library Association: Today, the American Library Association (ALA) Executive Board released the following statement opposing initiatives to censor information resources, curriculum, and programs addressing racial injustice, Black American history, and diversity education.

NPR releases results of the Summer 2021 Poll along with “Your 50 Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade.” D.G. Compton wins the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award. QueerSciFi.com Flash Fiction Contest winners are announced, with Ava Kelly, L.S. Reinholt, and Emilia Agrafojo receiving top three honors. Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia continues to get critical attention. Interviews arrive with Nichole Perkins, Billie Jean King, and Chandler Baker. Plus, Danny DeVito contributes to new comic anthology. 

Megan Rapinoe launches inclusive book club, The Call In, with first pick, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke. The National Endowment for the Humanities announces new grants. Hachette is going to buy Workman for $240 million. The ceremony for the Dutch literary prize, Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, is cancelled after comments made by winner Astrid Roemer. The September LibraryReads list arrives with Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune claiming the top spot. Bob Woodward finishes his Trump trilogy with Peril. Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish reveal Clanlands Almanac UK and US cover art. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn is headed for television. Plus, Judy Blume's Forever finally comes to audio. 

The Shirley Jackson Awards Winners are announced with Stephen Graham Jones winning top prizes for both best novel and novella. Other winners include R.A. Busby and Kathe Koja. Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women wins the prize for best edited anthology. The Gordon Burn Prize shortlist is announced, including books by Sam Byers, Doireann Ni Ghriofa, Hanif Abdurraquib, Jenni Fagan, and Tabitha Lasley. The Noise by James Patterson and J. D. Barker leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads selections and one Indie Next pick publish this week. People's book of the week is The People We Keep by Allison Larkin. Barbra Streisand has been working on a memoir. Plus, Impeachment: An American Crime Story gets a trailer. 

Award finalists announcements are made for the 2021 WSFA Small Press Award and the 2021 Dragon Award. There are first looks for Harvey Fierstein’s I Was Better Last Night and Samantha M. Bailey’s newest Watch Out For Her. Interviews abound featuring Steph Cha of Your House Will Pay, Nawaaz Ahmed of Radiant Fugitives, Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi of Savage Tongues, LaTanya McQueen of When the Reckoning Comes, Joe Keohane of The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World, Michael LaPointe of The Creep, Cecily Strong of This Will All Be Over Soon, and Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta of The View Was Exhausting. Adaptation news for Uzma Jalaluddin’s Hana Khan Carries On, Carol Leonnig’s Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, and Kent Babb’s Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City is shared.

Dolly Parton and James Patterson join together to write Run, Rose, Run, and Parton creates an accompanying album. The 2021 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize shortlist is announced. Billy Summers by Stephen King, We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz, and Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown top the bestsellers lists. Interviews with Cecily Strong of This Will All Be Over Soon, Billie Jean King of All In, Madeleine Westerhout of Off the Record: My Dream Job at the White House, How I Lost It, and What I Learned, George Packer of Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, Emily Oster of The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years, Nghi Vo of The Chosen and the Beautiful, and Shelley Parker-Chan of She Who Became the Sun are featured.

Kate Clanchy will rewrite Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me amid criticism while Andrew Cuomo's book becomes a cautionary tale for publishers. The American Booksellers Association responds to multiple controversies too. Don Winslow’s City on Fire is delayed until 2022 due to Covid. Huma Abedin’s forthcoming memoir, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds gets a preview and cover art. Robin’s bisexuality becomes canon in a new comic.

ALA, Public Knowledge, the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition praised the U.S. Senate's vote to pass the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which includes $65 billion for broadband.

The 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Awards are announced, with Samuel R. Delany and Michio Kaku receiving special awards. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand announces the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Winners. Overdrive will sunset the legacy OverDrive app to focus on Libby, and there is more news from Digipalooza. Key findings of the July NPD Book Scan indicate sales momentum is slowing. Time highlights author extortion scams and review bombing on Goodreads. Plus, interviews arrive with Kate Zambreno, Cecily Strong, YZ Chin, Louis Edwards, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. 

When we talk about web usability, we are talking directly about our patron’s experiences in a library’s digital space, so rethinking how we do this work through the lens of antiracism is important.

Reveal Digital, part of Ithaka’s not-for-profit digital arm JSTOR, has launched a new project, American Prison Newspapers 1800­–2020: Voices from the Inside. The initiative aims to digitize newspapers published in prisons from nearly every state in the United States and make them available on an open access (OA) basis—the first time these documents have been assembled in one place. Development of the collection began in July 2020, with new content added regularly.

Vortex by Catherine Coulter leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and two Indie Next selections publish this week. People's book of the week is Billy Summers by Stephen King. The Romance Writers of America (RWA) rescinds the VIVIAN award for At Love's Command by Karen Witemeyer amid controversy. Profiles and interviews arrive with Leila Slimani, Wendy Dio, Deborah Copaken, and Katie Kitamura. Anthony Veasna So is remembered by his agent and editor. Plus, Tor debuts a new genre podcast.

OverDrive is preparing to launch Readtelligence, a suite of new features for ebook selection and curation developed using artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning tools to analyze every title in the company’s inventory.

The American Library Association’s Government Documents Roundtable highlights the standout publications of a unique year.

In June, the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library announced the formation of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Institute for New York City History, Politics, and Community Activism. Part of the Institute will be an archive focusing on community activism and movements.

The 2021 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award Shortlist is announced and Claire Wilcox wins the 2021 PEN Ackerley Prize for Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes. Cover reveals, excerpts, and more for Start Without Me (I’ll Be There in a Minute) by Gary Janetti, Linden MacIntyre’s The Winter Wives, and The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy. Interviews are out with Karen Jennings of An Island, Alexandra Kleeman of Something New Under the Sun, Nina Mingya of Small Bodies of Water, and Tia Williams of Seven Days in June. In more news, Michie Mee, the Canadian hip-hop artist, plans a memoir; Jenny Mollen plans a debut novel, City of Likes; and a new adaptation is planned for Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor.

Shortlists are out for both the Age Book of the Year and the Wainwright Prize. The 2021 Climate Imagination Fellows are announced. Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena, Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas, Claimed by J.R. Ward, and The Authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro top the best sellers lists. A new Mel Brooks memoir, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business, will be published on November 30. Adaptation news arrives for The Lord of the Rings, Shibumi by Trevanian, and The Shining by Stephen King. Interviews with Peter L. Bergen of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Michael Knox Beran of WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy, and Nadia Owusu of Aftershocks arrive as well.

Reese Witherspoon picks We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz and Jenna Bush Hager picks The Turnout by Megan Abbott for August book clubs. The 2021 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists are announced. Read-alikes, reviews, and interviews roll in for the buzziest book of the week, Billy Summers by Stephen King. Interviews arrive with Cecily Strong, Tracey Lange, Deborah Copaken, Halimah Marcus, Charlotte McConaghy, Nneka M. Okonaabout, Naomi Hirahara, Melissa Shapiro, Anna Qu, James Lapine, and Sarah Ferguson. Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun and Twilight saga books will be reissued with new covers in 2022. Plus, Mercedes Lackey’s ‘Valdemar Universe’ fantasy series will be adapted for TV.

B&N's August book club pick is Sandie Jones's The Guilt Trip while Good Morning America picks The Husbands by Chandler Baker. The August 2021 Earphones Award Winners arrive at Audiofile. The 2021 Vivian Award winners were announced, courting controversy. The 2021 New England Book Award (NEIBA) announces finalists. Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson, Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman, and Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander Vindman get reviewed. Profiles and reviews of the late Anthony Veasna So continue. Interviews arrive with Chandler Baker, Dolly Alderton, Alexander Vindman, and Sara Kamali. Plus, Reese Witherspoon's company Hello Sunshine sells for $900 million. 

On July 21, the Board of Trustees of the Niles-Maine District Library, IL, walked back several items in a contentious FY22 budget proposal. Following a three-hour public comment meeting the night before, community protests, and a complaint filed with the Illinois Labor Relations Board on behalf of library workers’ recently joined union, the board adopted a compromise budget—but some feel the concessions are too little and too late.

 LJ ’s first readers’ advisory (RA) survey in eight years found that RA is a growing practice, but librarians want more training and tools to do it better, particularly in genres they don’t read for pleasure. Can crowdsourcing help RA keep up?

Stephen King reigns over holds lists this week with Billy Summers. Three LibraryReads and fourteen Indie Next selections publish this week. People's book of the week is The Turnout by Megan Abbott. The August Costco Connection is out with picks Billy Summers by Stephen King and The Guest List by Lucy Foley. Interviews arrive with Jason Reynolds and Rebecca Donner. Anthony Veasna So's posthumous debut Afterparties gets critical attention.

A new Zora Neale Hurston essay collection, You Don’t Know Us Negroes, will be coming out in 2022, and there is a sneak peek of John Le Carré’s final novel Silverview. Interviews with: Cody Alan of Hear’s the Thing: Lessons on Listening, Life & Love, Rahul Raina of How to Kidnap the Rich, Phillip Lopate, Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett of The Very Nice Box, and Marcello Di Cintio of Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers. Adaptations are in the works for Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.

In the #MeToo era, we reflected on how widespread sexual harassment felt in our field, and we wanted to know whether that feeling was supported by evidence. A research team consisting of three academic librarians and two sociologists who specialize in data analysis decided to find out.

The National Book Awards will be held as an in-person event with some virtual elements. Honors for The Sisters in Crime Australia shortlist authors, 2021 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist, and Ursula K. La Guin with a U.S. Postal Service Forever stamp. Black Ice by Brad Thor, False Witness by Karin Slaughter, and I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker top the best sellers list.  Interviews with Ed Simon of An Alternative History of Pittsburgh, Laia Jufresa of Umami, Melinda Wenner Moyer of ​​How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes: Science-based Strategies for Better Parenting—From Tots to Teens, Pik-Shuen Fung of Ghost Forest, and Matthew Specktor of Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California.

The Ned Kelly Awards 2021 shortlists announced. August book club picks include Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford, Wayward by Dana Spiotta, and We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz. Read-alikes arrive for Devil in Disguise. The August Loan Stars list is out with #1 pick The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny. Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires by Jaime Lowe and The Great Peace by Mena Suvari get coverage. Interviews arrive with Dana Spiotta, Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray, Sandra Cisneros, David Steinberg, and Andrés Cerpa. Molly Shannon will release a new memoir, Hello, Molly! in April 2022. 

COVID-19 added new urgency and faculty awareness to the equity and access issues Open Educational Resources are designed to address.

The 2021 Booker Prize longlist is announced. The 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards and The 2021 Mary Gilmore Award shortlists were announced.  Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder continues to get attention. Scott Snyder will co-create eight titles for Amazon’s ComiXology Originals.  Interviews arrive with Mena Suvari, Emilia Clarke, Hermione Hoby, Francine Prose, Richard Lange, Emily Adrian and Jeannette Winterson. Trevor Noah will executive produce new docuseries 'The Tipping Point.'  Plus, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker, and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild join Pokemon and The Exorcist in getting adaptations.

Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas leads holds this week. One LibraryReads selection and two Indie Next picks arrive. People's book of the week is Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin. The 2021 Comedy Women in Print Award Longlists is announced. Interviews arrive with Leila Slimani,  Akash Kapur, and Mena Suvari. Plus, LeVar Burton starts Jeopardy! guest hosting duties today.

Susanna Clarke, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and C.L. Polk are finalists for the World Fantasy Awards. Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are publishing a book. Glory Edim, founder of the book club Well-Read Black Girl, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR book critic, suggest books for the summer. NPR’s Morning Edition address the toll of the pandemic on authors and book discovery. Adaptations of Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, and William Gibson’s The Peripheral make news. The adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story “Drive My Car” wins best screenplay at Cannes. Dune gets a new trailer.

The Cellist by Daniel Silva tops the fiction bestseller lists while political books dominate the nonfiction lists. The Agatha Awards and the Kitschies are announced. The August Loan Star titles are out with The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny at No. 1. The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee is the Late Summer YA book club pick by Reese Witherspoon.

Forthcoming books by Ocean Vuong, Viola Davis, Kelly Ripa, and Douglas Stuart are announced. The Immersive Media & Books 2020 Consumer Survey highlights cross-industry research from The Panorama Project. Interviews arrive with Katie Kitamura, Kaveh Akbar, Rachel Yoder, Julie K. Brown, and Quentin Tarantino. Marvel's Blade gets a director and The Last Duel gets a trailer. 

Prince Harry will publish an “intimate and heartfelt” memoir. The 2021 ESFS Awards Winners, 2021 Premio Italia Winners, and 2021 Prix Utopiales Shortlists are announced. Samantha N. Sheppard and J.E. Smyth were named 2021 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. LJ's January 2022 Prepub Alert: The Complete List is out now. Rep. John Lewis and Anthony Veasna So are featured and forthcoming books by Emily St. John Mandel, Amber Tamblyn, and Jillian Cantor are previewed.  The Tonight Show Book Club pick is The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Plus, Grady Hendrix’s The Final Girl Support Group gets series treatment for HBO Max.

On June 4, Joy Bivins was named Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division of The New York Public Library. LJ caught up with her as she settled into her new role to discuss the overlap between collecting for museums and libraries, what has changed in the past year and a half, and what the Schomburg’s users can expect.

ALA announces the distribution of $1.25 million in COVID-19 relief funds, IMLS is accepting FY22 proposals for National Leadership Grants for Libraries and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program, Library and Archives Canada Foundation has funded the purchase of 70 contemporary Canadian Judaica items, and more news briefs.

Black Ice by Brad Thor leads holds this week. Six LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. August’s issue of Entertainment Weekly arrives along with the August LibraryReads list. People's book of the week is Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training by Adam Stern. The Millions shares its “Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2021 Book Preview.”  Jimmy Fallon will reveal the official Tonight Show Fallon Summer Reads pick tonight. Plus, the Ursula K. Le Guin postage stamp hits post offices July 27th. 

Library gardens help address food insecurity, ease environmental impact, provide stress relief, and serve as pandemic-safe space for community connection.

The American Booksellers Association has apologized for including “an anti-trans book” in a recent promotional shipment to members. The 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize longlist is announced, Li Kotomi wins the Akutagawa Prize, and Patricia Highsmith’s diaries will be available to the public, published in November. Interviews abound with: Tiffany McDaniel of Betty, Stephen King of Billy Summers, Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, Savala Nolan of Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body, Jasmine Guillory of While We Were Dating, and Sophia Benoit of Well, This is Exhausting. Adaptation news for Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Vanessa Riley’s Island Queen, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, and Basketful of Heads by Joe Hill.

Amanda Lohrey wins the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Labyrinth and also, the 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows and 2022 International Booker Prize Judges are announced. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, Falling by T.J. Newman, and Nine Lives by Danielle Steel top the best sellers lists. Interviews arrive with Kyle Lucia Wu of Win Me Something, Pik Shuen-Fung of Ghost Forest, T. L. Huchu of The Library of the Dead, P. Djèlí Clark of A Master of Djinn, and Tia Williams of Seven Days in June. Vanessa Lachey has a new book, Life From Scratch: Family Traditions That Start With You, set to come out this fall. Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem audiobook will be released as a podcast.

The 2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards Nominees are announced. The 2021 Deutsche Science Fiction Preis Finalists are also announced. The International Booker Prize names its 2022 Jurors. Read-alikes arrive for The Cellist, by Daniel Silva. Katie Kitamura and Anuk Arudpragasam get reviewed. Interviews arrive with Helen Ellis, Tim Gunn, Katie Crouch, Kiese Laymon, Beth Morgan, Carol Anderson, Kenny Xu, Sheera Frenkel, and Cecilia Kang. LeVar Burton is re-issuing his 1997 speculative novel Aftermath as an audiobook. Emmy Nominations are out, with several adaptations getting a nod. Plus, Jack Antonoff performs a track he wrote with Zadie Smith. 

Queen of None by Natania Barron wins the 2021 Wellman Award. Colorado Authors' Hall of Fame Announces is 2021 inductees, including Kevin J. Anderson, W. Michael Gear, Sandra Dallas, and more. Interviews arrive with Katie Kitamura, Marie Benedict , Michael Pollan, Pik-Shuen Fung, Tahmima Anam, and Elizabeth Greenwood. Paula Hawkins's audiobook A Slow Fire Burning gets a narrator. Plus, C. Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Ben H. Winters’s The Last Policeman get TV adaptations.

Barack Obama releases his annual Summer Music and Reading Lists. Raven Leilani wins the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for Luster. The International Association of Culinary Professionals announces the finalists for the 2021 IACP awards. The 2021 Prometheus Awards Winners are also announced. Hanif Abdurraqib has been named an Editor-at-Large at Tin House. The Cellist by Daniel Silva leads holds this week. Six LibraryReads and six Indie Next picks publish this week. People's "book of the week" is Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light: Essays by Helen Ellis. The July 2021 Earphones Award Winners are posted and the July Loan Stars list is out. Miranda Cowley Heller's novel The Paper Palace is Reese Witherspoon's July Book Club Pick. Plus, Vogue asks “Why Is Everyone Talking About the 'Cat Person' Short Story Again?”

At Emory University, Atlanta, students in Assistant Professor Maria Montalvo’s U.S. History Seminar class “Slavery and the Archive” learn how to excavate historical records: making connections between disparate sources and questioning not only what they find, but what they don’t.

“New digital technologies are bringing changes that are much more rapid and comprehensive than in the past to the way we live, work, and interact with one another. The idea that the recent advancement in digital technologies has reached qualitatively distinct stage of digital revolution is becoming more widely accepted,” explained Bohyun Kim, chief technology officer and professor for the University of Rhode Island Libraries, Kingston, during the "New Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: AI, IoT, Robotics, and Beyond” on demand presentation at the American Library Association's 2021 Annual Conference.

The all-virtual format of the American Library Association (ALA) 2021 Annual conference, held June 23–29, meant new options for attendees who previously hadn’t been able to travel to the event, and also allowed ALA to put together an impressive roster of speakers.

The 2021 ParkScore rankings, conducted annually by the Trust for Public Land, show a significant shakeup. It’s not because of major changes to the parks in the past year, but to the scoring: this year the Trust added equity to its decision matrix, which includes access, investment, amenities, and acreage. The resulting change in the lineup of top-scoring park systems shows how inadequate measuring overall access is for learning whether everyone is well served.

The Council of the American Library Association (ALA), meeting virtually at the Annual Conference, chose to take more time to consider several key proposals. Most notably, while the resolution to review the core values and one to require round tables to have at least 150 members both passed, the more ambitious of the Forward Together Resolutions Working Group’s outputs, which would restructure the committees and Council itself, were not voted on. 

The creative problem solving that allowed Anaheim Public Library to weather the pandemic while meeting pre-pandemic goals have earned it the 2021 Gale/LJ Library of the Year award.

Ali Smith wins the 2021 Pleasure of Reading Prize, and more winners for the 2021 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Finalists and the 2021 CWA Dagger Award. Interviews with: Jasmine Guillory of While We Were Dating, T.J. Newman of Falling, Ashley C. Ford of Somebody's Daughter, Carolina De Robertis of The President and the Frog. New books coming out for Chrishell Stause with Under Construction: Because Living My Best Life Took a Little Work, Zosia Mamet for My First Popsicle, an anthology of stories about food to publish in Fall 2022 and the second book, scheduled for Fall 2023 to be a personal essay collection, and Jennifer Egan with The Candy House. Adaptation news for The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman and City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg.

Joy Williams has won the 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The 2021 Clarke Award Shortlist and Shirley Jackson Award nominees are announced. Interviews are out with the following authors: T.J. Newman of Falling, Jessica Hopper of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, Chelsea Wald of Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet, Michael Bender of Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, Yasmeen Adutaleb and Damian Paletta of Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History, Daisy Hernández of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease, Dr. Lucy Foulkes of Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness, Pedro Mairal of The Woman from Uruguay, and Brandi Carlile of Broken Horses. Dr. Wendy Osefo, of The Real Housewives of Potomac, is coming out with Tears of My Mother: The Legacy of my Nigerian Upbringing published by S. & S. imprint Gallery Books in May 2022. Michael Hirst will be adapting Anna Reid’s Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 for TV.

The Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) President's Program at the 2021 American Library Association (ALA) Annual conference continued the theme of social justice prevalent in many of the conference offerings. The session’s title, Community Driven Justice in Our Work: Library and Archival Workers of Color Advocating for Self-Preservation, Solidarity, Change, and Justice in Communities, Workplace, and in the Profession at Large, proposed a wide cross-section of work; panelists kept the focus on their own advocacy efforts within their libraries.

During the American Library Association (ALA) Virtual Annual Meeting, Lauren Geiger, metadata librarian, and Emily D. Harrison, digital projects specialist, both from Mississippi State University Libraries, discussed how to ensure that accessibility in digital collections is not limited to discoverability.

UPDATE: On June 30, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council announced the final $98.7 billion New York City budget for FY22, which will restore full funding to the city's libraries. “In an understandably uncertain budget year, we are incredibly thankful to Mayor de Blasio, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Finance Chair Daniel Dromm, Cultural Affairs and Libraries Chair Jimmy Van Bramer, the budget negotiating team, and the entire City Council for keeping New York City’s public libraries strong as we all move forward into our next chapter,” directors of the three systems said in a statement. 

“The importance of providing equal access to information and learning experiences is nothing new, yet we consistently find that digital resources and technologies fall short” of accessibility for patrons and students with print and other disabilities, Trisha Prevett, eLearning librarian for Southern New Hampshire University said to open the "Born Accessible: Creating Equal Digital Learning Experiences for All" panel at the American Library Association (ALA) 2021 Annual Conference and Exhibition, held virtually from June 23–29. “We must ensure that libraries are providing resources that are truly accessible for all.”

A $380,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), secured by University of Maryland Libraries and Georgia State University Library, will fund a three-year project to digitize records on the labor movement’s connections to the civil rights movement.