The latest episode of Shelf Care is up. This is the podcast that brings you:
"all things readers’ advisory, collection development, and reference right to your earbuds. Hosted by Susan Maguire, Senior Editor, Collection Management and Library Outreach, each episode of Shelf Care will introduce you to rock star librarians, hot topics in publishing, and books you need to know from colleagues at Booklist." (from the podcast landing page)
This episode features Kelly Jensen from Book Riot, the woman behind their excellent and necessary censorship coverage. Jensen is a former librarian and is leading the charge nationally on both informing the world about the dire situation in regards to book challenges and offering useful action steps.
If you work with books in any way, with any age of user, you MUST listen to this. Below is the information from the landing page for the podcast as well as the show notes with links.
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In this episode of Booklist’s Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to Kelly Jensen about the current state of book banning, what’s behind the recent slate of challenges, and what to do when collection development policies are not enough. Then, Rebecca Vnuk of LibraryReads joins Susan to share some forthcoming titles that they think your patrons are going to want to know about.
Here’s what we talked about:
Book Riot’s coverage of book censorship
Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe, art by the author
Shutter, by Ramona Emerson
The Lost Ticket, by Freya Sampson
By the Book, by Jasmine Guillory
If the Shoe Fits, by Julie Murphy
Mad about You, by Mhairi McFarlane
I Remember You, by Brian Freeman
Lark Ascending, by Silas House
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