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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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A Librarian Looks at Oscars 2025: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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by Jessica Hilburn
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The 2024 movie year was a weird one. There was no one Barbenheimer to rule them all, leaving the field of award hopefuls wide open in "Phase Two"—the post-nominations portion of the campaign—of the Oscar race. Some contenders have surged to the front based on previous wins, and others are only now beginning to rev their engines through late wide releases. Whether you like movies based on famous books, original stories, body horror, or severely misguided movies operating under the guise of progressive representation, this slate has something for everyone.
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The 2025 Oscar Season at the Library
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by Brandi Scardilli
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The 97th Academy Awards will honor some of 2024's greatest movies on March 2, and public libraries are celebrating by hosting various programs. Read on to see what libraries are doing to bring awareness of the nominees to their patrons and what they think of this year's crop of Oscar hopefuls, including the 10 Best Picture contenders.
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Oscars 2025: 12 Records That Were Already Broken and 25-Plus That Could Be Broken in March
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VegasInsider has collected a list of 12 records that were already broken after the nominations announcement and a list of more than 25 records that could be broken during the Academy Awards ceremony on March 2.
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Researchers Seeking to Increase the Impact of Their Research Have a New Avenue With the Cassyni-ScholarOne Integration
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by Barbie E. Keiser
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Cassyni, the world's leading platform for research seminars, now integrates directly with ScholarOne Manuscripts, allowing "journals to deliver seminars as a new author service, automatically and at scale."
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AUPresses Signs the Declaration to Defend Research Against US Government Censorship
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"As a global organization of mission-driven publishers dedicated to the cultivation of knowledge, the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) has signed the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship."
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HeinOnline Releases National Defense University Press Database
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"HeinOnline, a product of William S. Hein & Co., Inc., is pleased to announce the release of its newest database, National Defense University Press Publications."
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EveryLibrary Spreads the Word About the Data Rescue Project
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"A small team of data librarians has been actively searching for data assumed at risk and sending the datasets and documentation to ICPSR's DataLumos, a crowd-sourced repository for government data."
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Katina Shares Info About a Database of LGBTQ+ Primary Documents
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Billie Cotterman writes in "Securing the Story of Global LGBTQ+ Activism": "LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture (SJ&C) is an index and a repository for documents, including activist videos, audio, blogs, zines, government reports, conference presentations, and more, created by members of the global LGBTQ+ community between 1980 and the present."
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