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50 Years of Peter Benchley's Behemoth, Jaws
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by Anthony Aycock
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Next year will be the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the movie that changed movies. This year, that honor goes to the novel on which it was based. The beach read of the summer of 1974, Peter Benchley's Jaws captured "the angst of a generation." It became a bestseller and changed the public's attitude toward sharks, a fact that filled the conservationist Benchley with regret in later years. Here are some of the best information sources for Jaws, sharks, and the ocean.
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The Footsore Searcher Visits ALA Annual 2024
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by Marydee Ojala
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The exhibit hall at ALA's annual conference is always overwhelming. This year in San Diego was no exception, with 602 companies, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies eager to show their best faces to the 8,000-plus librarians in attendance. For attendees, the advice to "wear comfortable shoes" was never more appropriate. Resurrecting the nom de plume of the Footsore Searcher, I embarked on a journey of discovery in the vast Library Marketplace, as ALA calls its exhibit hall.
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Springer Nature Enters Into First OA Book Agreement in the Middle East
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Springer Nature's agreement with Qatar National Library "enables authors affiliated with any institute of higher education or non-profit research institute within Qatar to receive funding for book processing charges (BPC) when publishing their book OA with Springer Nature."
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IFLA Selects Astana, Kazakhstan to Host the Next World Library and Information Congress
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Planned for Aug. 18-22, 2025, the World Library and Information Congress "will provide an exceptional opportunity for discovery and learning for colleagues in a unique region of the world with a rich cultural history."
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SirsiDynix Unveils CloudSource+ to Streamline Content and Discovery Services for Libraries
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SirsiDynix launched CloudSource+, a new content and discovery services solution that is now available to libraries around the world.
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EveryLibrary Spreads the Word About Project 2025
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The EveryLibrary Institute issued a report on Project 2025, which "is broadly seen as a roadmap for the next Republican administration and has deep implications for libraries across the nation. In its opening sections, the Project 2025 report is filled with allegations of criminal conduct by librarians, publishers, authors, and educators and argues in favor of criminal charges and incarceration."
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Former Presidents and First Ladies Join America250 Initiative as Co-Chairs
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"The America250 initiative brought on former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and former first ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama to serve as honorary national co-chairs of the organization. ..."
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HBCUs and Tribal Institutions Gain Free Access to Path to Open Titles
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In the U.S., "Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are now able to provide their more than 300,000 students and faculty with immediate access to the diverse, groundbreaking university press books being published on JSTOR as part of Path to Open."
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HARRASSOWITZ Becomes Certified Partner of OA Switchboard
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"HARRASSOWITZ, a leading provider of scholarly periodicals and e-resources for academic libraries," became "a Certified Partner of OA Switchboard, a safe place for publication metadata which simplifies the sharing of information between publishers, institutions and funders."
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Now Hear This: Enhanced Audio Technology Can Improve ESL Learning
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by Terry Ballard
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In most cases, when getting people's stories, I can operate from a comfort zone because I was a librarian for decades and did some teaching at colleges and universities. Recently, however, I found out about an elementary school teacher in California who did a study on how improved audio equipment could impact the effectiveness in teaching the English language to immigrant children in the U.S. I wasn't familiar with this idea at all, so I was eager to learn more about the situation this teacher was in.
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