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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
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Game On! Celebrating International Games Month
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by Patti Gibbons
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November is International Games Month (IGM) and time to test your wits, sharpen your gaming skills, and have some fun! IGM is an annual international initiative that helps libraries promote the educational, social, and recreational value of all forms of games.
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AM Releases the First Module of Its American Committee on Africa Collection
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AM published Module I of its new primary source archive, American Committee on Africa (ACOA), which is a comprehensive resource for researching African liberation movements in the mid-to-late 20th century during the first decades of ACOA's work.
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Exact Editions Adds Institutional Subscriptions to Jacobin and Catalyst
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Exact Editions is now offering institutional subscriptions to Jacobin, "a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture" and to Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a peer-reviewed academic journal.
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Thomson Reuters Expands Partnership With Oracle for Better E-Invoicing
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Thomson Reuters "is enabling turnkey integration with ONESOURCE Pagero and Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)."
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Library of Congress Gets an Archive of Burt Bacharach's Personal Papers
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The Library of Congress (LC) acquired the papers—plus photographs, letters and telegrams, passports, and more—of the late venerated songwriter Burt Bacharach, giving the institution its first collection from a Gershwin Prize for Popular Song winner.
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Sage Acquires Cambridge Business Publishers
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To continue building its business and management portfolio, Sage acquired Cambridge Business Publishers, a college textbook and technology provider specializing in accounting and finance courses.
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hoopla Digital Partners With IMPACTFUL for New BingePass
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hoopla Digital joined with IMPACTFUL to bring its mental health literacy platform to libraries via hoopla's BingePass option.
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OverDrive Integrates Digital Content Into Ex Libris LSPs
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OverDrive and Ex Libris began a new integration to allow academic institutions to discover OverDrive ebooks and e-audiobooks within Ex Libris' Alma and Primo library services platforms (LSPs).
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ProQuest One Sustainability Offers Curated Content for Sustainability Research
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Clarivate introduced ProQuest One Sustainability, a curated, multiformat collection of content geared to meet the demand for sustainability curricula in research and education.
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Book Banning Behind Bars: The Quietly Insidious Censorship in American Prisons
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by Jessica Hilburn
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While access champions are racing to put out fires set by radical legislators in the public sphere, materials bans have been smoldering in state and federal prisons for decades with little to no recourse for those adversely affected. Just as lawmakers attempt to control minors by banning what they do not wish them to know, state and federal carceral systems prioritize power and control over rehabilitation. Nowhere is this fact more obvious than in prison-sanctioned book banning.
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