I Love Libraries

For this installment of our book reviews from Booklist, we have Alan Moores’ review of “So Young, So Great: Bob Feller Electrifies Baseball and America” by Jim Ingraham.

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Our latest update of book bans and challenges happening across the U.S.—and efforts to stop them—includes news from Tennessee, Arizona, and Texas.

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Kristi Holmes, PhD, associate dean for knowledge management and strategy and director of Northwestern University’s Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center, has been named the 2026 Medical Librarian of the Year by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine, a nonprofit devoted to increasing public awareness and use of the National Library of Medicine. The award honors individuals who demonstrate exceptional leadership, innovation, and sustained contributions to the advancement of health sciences librarianship at the local, national, and international levels.

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On May 14, Acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen announced the latest round of recordings that will join the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress for 2026. The 25 acts were selected as audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical, or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.

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For this installment of our book reviews from Booklist, we have Carol Haggas’s review of “Under the Falls” by Richard Russo.

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“I don't think we should be taking these books out. Leave it up to the librarians. I want my kid to read. Want to know why? Books start conversations. Know what we’re not having enough of in this country? Conversations! I don't think so honey!”

Jenna Bush Hager Gives Impassioned Rant Against Book Banning on ‘Las Culturistas’ Podcast “I don’t think so, honey. Don’t ever get me started on that again.”

The library media center at Vernon Hills High School in Illinois—just north of the American Library Association’s Chicago home—has been named National School Library of the Year.

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For this installment of our book reviews from Booklist, we have Allie Stevens' review of “Red and the Wolves” by Cherry Zong.

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Award-winning podcast "On our Minds" returns with another season!

You can find new episodes every Wednesday wherever you listen to podcasts.

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In this episode of the “How I Library” podcast, show host Phil Morehart speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus about his latest book, “Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World.”

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