The Collection Connection

Happy Autumn! As the air chills and leaves start falling, it's time to curl up with a good book. In this issue, we have some "unbeleafably" good titles. Improve life and work skills by choosing from among new non-fiction titles in workplace issues, parenting, and health and wellness. Want to check out the latest bestseller fiction? We have that too! Also in this issue, we highlight our interlibrary loan service, discuss Banned Books Week, and spotlight our JSTOR research database.

See something of interest? Click on the hyperlinked title to be taken to the item record in our catalog, sign in, and click Send to My Office. If the title is also available as an eBook/audiobook, you can click on the blue View button to be taken to KY Libraries Unbound for check out. Only like general and genre fiction? We also have all types of fiction in large print and audiobooks, as well as plenty of fiction eBooks/audiobooks through Kentucky Libraries Unbound.

Bestsellers

• Clive Cussler's Hellburner by Mike Maden
• A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• Desperation in Death by J. D. Robb
• Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin
• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown

• Verity by Colleen Hoover
  

  
  

Employee Wellness & Workplace

Health/Wellness

• How to Be a Patient : The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine by Sana Goldberg
  
• The Minimalist Home : a Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life by Joshua Becker
  
• Multiple Sclerosis for Dummies, 2nd Edition by Rosalind Kalb et.al.
• Permission to Feel : the Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success by Mark Brackett, Ph.D.
  
• So You Need to Decide by Beth Lapides

Parenting

• Dads for Daughters : How Fathers Can Give Their Daughters a Better, Brighter, Fairer Future by Michelle Travis
  
• The Gentle Sleep Book : Gentle, No-Tears Sleep Solutions for Parents of Newborns to Five-Year-Olds by Sarah Ockwell-Smith
  
• Special Needs Trusts : Protect Your Child's Financial Future by Kevin Urbatsch and Michele Fuller
  
• Taking Charge of ADHD : The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents, 4th Edition by Russell Barkley, Ph.D.
  
• Welcome to the Foster Lane : Parenting Advice From a Coach Who's Been There by Sarah Salisott
  

Technology

• Adobe Animate : 2021 Release by Russell Chun
  

• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic by Rafael Concepcion

• G Suite For Dummies by Paul McFedries
  

• Microsoft SharePoint for Dummies by Rosemarie Withee and Ken Withee
  

• Rituals for Virtual Meetings : Creative Ways to Engage People and Strengthen Relationships by Kursat Ozenc and Glenn Fajardo

Workplace

• Biased : Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L Eberhardt
  
• Leading From Anywhere : The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams by David Burkus
  
• Lessons From the Navy : How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence by Mark Brouker
  
• Managing Generation Z : How to Recruit, Onboard, Develop, and Retain the Newest Generation in the Workplace by Robin Paggi and Kat Clowes
  
• Wait, I'm Working with Who?!? : The Essential Guide to Dealing with Difficult Coworkers, Annoying Managers, and Other Toxic Personalities by Peter Economy

Kentucky Highlights in Fiction and Non-Fiction

• Changing the Game : My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing by Jim Host
• The Kentucky Trace : A Novel of the American Revolution by Harriette Simpson Arnow
  
• Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Kentucky as Seen through Postcards by Charles H. Bogart
  
• Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel by James Markert
  
• Working It Off in Labor County : Stories by Larry D. Thacker
  

The State Library is dedicated to meeting the informational and training needs of Kentucky's state government employees. Materials in the State Library are selected to support state employees' work, wellness, and professional development. However, if we do not have an article, book, or audiobook that you want, we’ll try to borrow it for you from a library that does. There are a few caveats that you should know.

To begin with, the item must support your work, research, or health and wellness needs. We cannot request entertainment oriented items like the latest Nicholas Sparks novel, but we can get you a book on any health and wellness, career, or parenting topic for example. We can also request scholarly articles needed for research projects that cannot be accessed through our research databases. These articles usually can be obtained within a day and are emailed to you as a PDF. For physical items though, it can take longer to receive your interlibrary loan (ILL), up to 2-3 weeks, depending on how far away the material is being shipped. Moreover, we cannot request eBooks or eAudiobooks due to licensing issues. Finally, we do not determine the due date for the item. The lending library does that, although we can request an extension.

If you would like to request an interlibrary loan, there are two ways to do so. If you find an item that interests you while searching our WorldCat Discovery catalog, and we do not hold that item, there will be a box on the right-hand side of the item record entitled Access Options. In that box, there will be a blue button, State Employees: Request Interlibrary Loan. You can click on that button, fill out the form, and we will contact you once your request has been submitted for consideration by other libraries. You can also send citation information via our Ask a Librarian form.

If you have any questions about our interlibrary loan services, please email Deborah.Hibbard@ky.gov or Robert.Fitzsimmonds@ky.gov or call 502-564-8306.

Censorship affects us all, in all areas of life. Without open access to information and the freedom to seek and express ideas, democracy dies. Books reach across boundaries and build connections between readers. Censorship, on the other hand, creates barriers. Book banning is one of the the most widespread forms of censorship in the United States. In fact, book banning in US schools has reached an all-time high, with 1,145 books having been banned by school districts between 7/1/21 and 3/31/22 according to data collected by PEN America. The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 challenges to library, school and university materials and services in 2021, resulting in more than 1,597 individual book challenges or removals. The good news though, is that in a majority of book challenge cases, the books have remained available. This happens only thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, students, and community members who stand up and speak out for the freedom to read.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. Designed to “ 'emphasize that imposing information restraints on a free people is far more dangerous than any ideas that may be expressed in that information,' the week highlights banned works, encourages citizens to explore new ideas, and provides a variety of materials to promote free speech events." Susan Webb, Book Banning, The First Amendment Encyclopedia, 2009. In honor of Banned Books Week, challenge yourself to read one of the top ten most challenged books of 2021 available at KDLA:

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
  
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez

JSTOR was conceived in 1994 by William G. Bowen, then-president of the Mellon Foundation, to help university and college libraries provide adequate space for an ever-increasing amount of published scholarship. In 1995, following a pilot launched under the direction of the University of Michigan, JSTOR was established as an independent not-for-profit organization. In 2009, JSTOR merged with and became a service of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. JSTOR’s current mission is to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world by providing free or low-cost access for low-income countries, pursuing long-term preservation, and supplying open access to early journal content (prior to 1924 in the United States and prior to 1876 elsewhere).

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Explore millions of high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more, as well as collections in the arts, sciences, and literature from the world’s leading museums, archives, and scholars. Open content available consists of:

• a curated set of more than 39,000 research reports from more than 140 policy institutes selected with faculty, librarian, and expert input
• full runs of more than 2,800 top scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
• more than 100,000 eBooks from 250+ renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journals and primary sources on JSTOR
• an extensive image resource for educational and scholarly use
  
• thematic collections focusing on emerging areas of research and containing multiple types of content, including journals and research reports
  
• more than 2 million primary sources across four collections

If you would like to learn more about using JSTOR for research, we have an archived webinar which can be found here.

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