Roll Librarian: #ShareAbook challenge

Our Top Circulation Librarian just shared to us a challenge on #ShareAbook challenge. She nominate the Top Five Library Librarians and her followers. For those who are reading this, I nominate you to take the #ShareAbook Challenge. For further information about the challenge, go check out the blog of our Top Circulation Librarian (http://topcirculationlibrarian.blogspot.com/2016/03/shareabook-challenge.html)

As a library representative, I take the challenge of one of our users in the library:

One of our paintings attached beside in our General Collections wall.

5 Steps to Great Cover Art

Jay Swanson (@jayonaboat) has shared to us his cover art that unify's through his post, but let’s consider this “5 Steps to Commissioning Great Art”.

1. Research Your Artist

2. Reach Out to Your Artist

3.Communicate with Your Artist—Then TRUST Your Artist

4. Pay Your Artist Well

5. Give Your Artist the Recognition They Deserve

(...read the full article at https://janefriedman.com/5-steps-great-cover-art/)

The Mass-Market Edition of To Kill a Mockingbird Is Dead?

           Harper Lee’s estate will no longer allow publication of the inexpensive paperback edition that was popular with schools.

          On Monday, February 29, a judge in Monroe County, Alabama sealed Harper Lee’s will from public view. The motion was filed by the Birmingham law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, which was acting on behalf of Tonja Carter, Lee’s lawyer and the executor of her estate. 

             The decision to seal the will became public last Friday, and it was immediately controversial. This has been true of every legal move involving Lee and Carter over the last few years, even before the furor following the announcement, in February of last year, that Carter had “discovered” a lost sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. 

             (...read the full article on the link below).

source: https://newrepublic.com/article/131400/mass-market-edition-kill-mockingbird-dead

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The book of Harper Lee entitled "To Kill a Mockingbird" is one of the best books in year 2015 ("A collection of best books of 2015 lists" -> http://topcirculationlibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-collection-of-best-books-of-2015-lists.html). We don't have any choice to the author's decision but to respect what he wants. Their is no problem for rich libraries to obtain and purchase the book. However, for libraries that has minimal budget for acquisitions, it could affect the needs of the library users since most of our users are aware of this popular book.  

Happy International Women's Day everyone!

March is a month of adventure. 

The sun's out again, spring break is here, and the world is ready to be explored! 

Take a look of this new books for this month!

 

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz (March 1; Simon & Schuster)

 

 "Slippery" is the best adjective to describe the main character of this book — a woman who sheds her identity again and again. As you follow her across the country, in and out of names and hotel rooms, you'll be questioning her motives every step of the way. Why would she flee after her husband's death, when she had nothing to do with it? Who is the mysterious voice she calls to get a new name? And what is she really running from? Thrilling and addictive, this is the thriller you've been longing for.

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (March 8; Riverhead Books)

 

 Helen Oyeyemi is a literary genius, and it shows in this fantastic collection of short stories. Glowing with imagination, each piece feels like you're stepping into an entirely new universe. With characters that will welcome you, push you, and surprise you, Oyeyemi's writing takes you past your expectations. As locks and keys weave their way throughout these stories, you'll find yourself opening up in new ways.

An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao (March 15; Flatiron Books)

This collection of stories is centered on the 1947 division of India and Pakistan, and the mass displacement of families that resulted because of it. Each piece tells its own unique story, ranging from India, Pakistan, the United States, Italy, and England. Rao delivers a remarkable and empathetic exploration of a historical moment's powerful ability to resound across generations.

 

Hold Still by Lynn Steger Strong (March 21; W.W. Norton)

 

The mother-daughter relationship in this debut novel will tie your heart in all kinds of knots. When a mother's good intentions go catastrophically wrong, she and her daughter must find a way to mend their fractured relationship. Pushed forward by its amazingly crafted characters, you're going to hold on tightly to Hold Still. 

 

The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson (March 7; University of Kentucky Press)

 

From the award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street, this sweeping novel will take your breath away. Centered on several generations of women who live in a black Southern township called Opulence, this book is set apart by the strength of its characters and its lyrical style. From the reputable Goode-Brown family's struggle to overcome dark secrets to single mother Francine Clark's journey to raise her daughter, this novel is fueled by relationships intense and complex.

 

source: http://www.bustle.com/articles/140527-15-of-the-best-books-of-march-2016-that-will-make-your-literary-kite-soar

 

-TECHNICAL LIBRARIAN-