{"id":91492,"date":"2015-04-07T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=91492"},"modified":"2015-04-02T22:44:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T03:44:37","slug":"title-awareness-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=91492","title":{"rendered":"Title Awareness in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Title Awareness in the 21st Century<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>by <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=86543\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Iannucci<\/a>, Senior\u00a0Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/LisaIannucci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-77774 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/LisaIannucci-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"LisaIannucci\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/LisaIannucci-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/LisaIannucci.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As a public librarian working part-time hours, I am constantly up against time constraints. Because one of my many responsibilities is collection development, it\u2019s essential for me not only to remain current as far as what\u2019s happening in the book industry but to stay abreast of the daily headlines. It\u2019s not enough to be familiar with titles; collection development requires an awareness of current events, issues and trends not just within the book industry but in the world at large. This is where developing and staying on top of a fine-tuned list of blogs, tumblrs, listservs, email subscriptions, and good old-fashioned magazines, newspapers and even word of mouth is critical.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Blogs &#8211;<\/b> The email client we use at work offers RSS subscription as part of its array of services. I\u2019ve subscribed not just to the blogs on librarianship (<a href=\"http:\/\/librarianinblack.net\/librarianinblack\/\">Librarian in Black<\/a>) and book reviews (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stackedbooks.org\/\">Stacked<\/a>) but on archival collections (the <a href=\"http:\/\/si-siris.blogspot.com\/\">Smithsonian Collections Blog<\/a> is my favorite) and weirdness found in the stacks (<a href=\"http:\/\/awfullibrarybooks.net\/\">Awful Library Books<\/a> is always entertaining, and the user comments are priceless).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Listservs<\/b> \u2013 Since I\u2019m also doing some archives and local history work, I am subscribed to a couple of local history and archives listservs for my home state of New Jersey. For smaller, community-based events like lectures and exhibits, it\u2019s really the only way to find out what\u2019s going on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Email Subscriptions<\/b> \u2013 I have email subscriptions to the <i>New York Times Book Review<\/i>, <i>Library Journal<\/i> (they have several excellent book preview subscriptions to choose from), among others, and always enjoy reading reviews and book previews for my favorite authors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Print journals and trade magazines<\/b> \u2013 Live, physical versions of magazines are still important. I go through periodicals like <i>BookPage<\/i>, <i>Library Journal<\/i> and Baker &amp; Taylor\u2019s various trade publications on a monthly basis. You can get a sense of what vendors are promoting, what they expect to be \u201chot,\u201d publisher trends, and there are also author interviews and still more book reviews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Daily newspapers<\/b> \u2013 Call me old-fashioned, but I believe the best way to get a fix on daily headlines is to scan the front page of the (print) paper. It\u2019s not self-selected news like what you get in your email, and it\u2019s interesting to take note of what different papers put in the headlines. My library receives two local and two national papers, so I feel like I have it covered. People like to read about what\u2019s in the news, and for me, there is really no substitute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Tumblr &#8211;<\/b> When you have 15 minutes until lunch and don\u2019t want to work on that monumental project another minute, library- and book industry-related tumblrs are perfect. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/book+riot\">bookriot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nprbooks.tumblr.com\/\">nprbooks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/viking+penguin+books\">vikingpenguinbooks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/powells\">powells<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/harpercollins\">harpercollins<\/a> pass the time while also developing title awareness, and I stay on top of my archives stuff with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/today%27s+document\">todaysdocument<\/a>. For great visuals there are always<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/literary+cat\"> theliterarycat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/book+porn\">bookporn<\/a>, and there are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/librarian+wardrobe\">librarianwardrobe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/iworkatapubliclibrary\">iworkatapubliclibrary<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/all+things+library\">allthingslibrary<\/a>, for general library stuff, but the tumblrs I really look forward to (and usually find myself saving for last) are the truly hilarious gif-based ones like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/library+moments\">librarymoments<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/librarian+problems\">librarianproblems<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally\u2026.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Patrons<\/b> \u2013 Talk to your patrons and find out what they\u2019re reading, what they\u2019re doing, and what\u2019s going on around town. You can\u2019t be everywhere at once, so they are truly your eyes and ears in the local community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In our fast-paced media landscape, it\u2019s essential to harness the power of technology in order to be conversant with what\u2019s going on not just in the world of books, but in the world at large. \u00a0But don\u2019t be afraid to go low tech too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title Awareness in the 21st Century by Lisa Iannucci, Senior\u00a0Editor As a public librarian working part-time hours, I am constantly up against time constraints. Because one of my many responsibilities is collection development, it\u2019s essential for me not only to remain current as far as what\u2019s happening in the book industry but to stay abreast&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=91492\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":77774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,3903,5076,10,3659,3660,5894,168,5442,6835,6371,111,211],"class_list":["post-91492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-blogs","tag-books","tag-inalj","tag-inalj-maryland","tag-inalj-massachusetts","tag-inalj-virtual","tag-library","tag-lisa-iannucci","tag-newspaper","tag-senior-editor","tag-tips","tag-tumblr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/LisaIannucci.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-nNG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}