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| A Librarian Looks at Oscars 2023: Blockbusters, Big Names, and Underrated Gems |
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by Jessica Hilburn
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For 2022, the Venn diagram of movies that made money and movies recognized during awards season is excitingly larger than usual. Of the 18 top-grossing movies, five are in the awards conversation, and three were nominated for Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It certainly didn't hurt that the release dates of these buzzy movies were spread out over the course of the year in a way we don't normally see among those with awards chatter. ... The early release dates allowed each to grow in popularity, and most importantly, gave them a chance to get eyeballs on them for months. Getting these films into circulation at the library without a glut of competition was certainly an exciting change of pace. This spread also gives the casual movie viewer the ability to look at the nominations the morning they are announced and actually see titles they recognize. Revolutionary! |
| Celebrating Oscars 2023 at the Library |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| Every year, NewsBreaks covers the Academy Awards (aka the Oscars, held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). You'd think this topic wouldn't have much to do with libraries, but a quick Google search will show that it's actually very common for them to acknowledge each year's Oscars in some way, whether by posting about the nominees on their blog or hosting movie nights or other programming. After all, booklovers tend to be movie lovers (not always, but often!). It makes sense that librarians like to call attention to the Oscar-nominated movies they have in their collections and to the books the Oscar-caliber movies are based on. As you'll see in this Spotlight, books about the Academy Awards themselves are also good options for creating programming. |
Weekly News Digests |
| Clarivate's Preprint Citation Index Joins the Web of Science |
| Clarivate added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science, enabling researchers to discover and link to preprints alongside other content in the Web of Science. |
| Taylor & Francis Signs 3-Year OA Deal With Tokyo Tech |
| Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) entered into a 3-year transformative partnership with Taylor & Francis in order to increase the publication of OA articles by Tokyo Tech researchers. |
| The Library of Congress Updates the Federal Library Directory |
| The Library of Congress (LC) launched the free Federal Library Directory's updated second edition, which "profiles federal libraries and information centers in the United States and abroad." |
| OpenAthens Studies Access to Digital Content in Academic Libraries |
| OpenAthens released a report, "Library User Experience: Removing Barriers in the Search for Knowledge," which reviews "the common challenges that users and researchers face and how they could be resolved." |
| ZDNet Offers Tips for Limiting Your Phone Usage |
| Christina Darby, ZDNet's associate editor, writes the following in "5 Simple Ways to Ditch Doomscrolling and Beat Screen Fatigue": "Taking the day—or every day—off of doomscrolling doesn't require some elaborate scheme or deleting [an] app altogether. Rather, it's the implementation of a few small practices I've started to incorporate that make for big results." |
NewsBreaks |
| The Pitfalls of Publishing Personal Letters |
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by Anthony Aycock
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Several news outlets reported in December 2022 that Donald Trump plans to release a book this year that reprints his private correspondence with celebrities—Elton John, Michael Jackson, Princess Diana, etc. Perhaps the book will be good; perhaps not. One thing I wonder is whether Trump will seek permission from these celebrities or their estates to publish letters written by them. He should, because U.S. law is clear on this matter: The copyright for these letters rests with the writers, not Trump himself. |
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