Despite the constantly changing landscape that academic institutions have seen in the past several years, libraries have remained critical in the lives of the faculty and students they serve.
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Using the hashtag #BookTok, readers and writers come together on TikTok to discuss and review books. The #BookTok hashtag currently has over 29 billion views, with thousands of content creators participating.
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Point of View: Author Susan Orlean
OverDrive’s Steve Potash talks with author Susan Orlean about her new book, On Animals.
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Since its launch in 2017, the Ear Hustle podcast has given listeners a glimpse into the daily realities of life inside San Quentin State Prison.
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Opened in 2016 through a grant from the Boulder Library Foundation, BLDG 61 is a free community workshop dedicated to hands-on learning and the cultivation of purposeful experiences through making.
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Zakiya Dalila Harris has taken the literary world by storm with her debut novel, The Other Black Girl. The title was an instant New York Times bestseller and has received critical acclaim from every corner of the internet.
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For two years ending in July 2021, Karen Craigo — author of the full-length poetry collections Passing Through Humansville and No More Milk as well as the mini-collections Escaped Housewife Tries Hard to Blend In, Stone For an Eye, and Someone Could Build Something Here — served as Missouri’s poet laureate.
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It’s a common misconception that people who borrow books from libraries do so to avoid paying for them. The truth is that the Venn diagram of book borrowers and book buyers is much closer to a singular circle.
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Did your favorite read make the list of 2020’s most-borrowed digital books?
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We are dedicated to engaging in ongoing publisher advocacy seeking to deliver a digital book lending model that satisfies and balances the interests of all our partners. Have we reached the “Holy Grail?” Not yet, but our quest continues.
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