Joeri Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)

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Kirsten Clark, "Practical Project Management for Librarians" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Librarians continue to work under budget constraints while still needing to increase the user experience and remove barriers to library resources. Learning to evaluate the best options for managing projects to accomplish goals while balancing with the reality of day-to-day work n ...  Show more

Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon, "Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis" (NYU Press, 2026)

Reading Media: How to do Textual Analysis reinvigorates one of media and cultural studies’ most foundational methods at a moment when it is most needed, showing its continuing vitality by adapting it to new media environments, cultural objects, and scholarly questions.The volume ...  Show more

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