• Librarian of Congress Names Ada Limón the Nation’s 24th U.S. Poet Laureate

According to this press release “Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Ada Limón as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2022-2023. Limón will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season on Sept. 29 with a reading of her work in the Coolidge Auditorium...”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• Peer Review Week 2022 to explore the importance of peer review in supporting research integrity

• Nominations for Candidates for the 2022 HathiTrust Board of Governors Now Open

• Report: “Book By Very Old Book, This CNY Librarian is Helping Preserve the Ancient Tomes in Ireland’s Most Famous Library”

• LSCM Pilot Project Participant Selected for Pilot Project Opportunity 2: University of North Texas Libraries (via FDLP)

• Springshare partners with PowerNotes to bring LibChat into the research process

• A New Report From BookNet Canada: “Listening In: Audiobook Use in Canada 2021”

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, & WEBINARS

Building Community Partnerships Through Digital Literacy Workshops Webcast – “Join ACRL from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central on Thursday, August 11 for the Online Learning webcast “Building Community Partnerships Through Digital Literacy Workshops.”
Do you provide digital and information literacy instruction that could be disseminated to a broader community? Are you interested in building a robust and cohesive digital literacy curriculum? If so, this interactive webinar is for you...”

GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2022: call for presentations – “The 12th GW Ethics in Publishing conference will be held in October 2022 as a hybrid event, with in-person and virtual presentations and attendees, on October 14 (planned), at the George Washington University in Washington, DC (date and location to be confirmed).
The theme of the 2022 Ethics in Publishing Conference is “Ethics in Action,” and the call for presentations/papers is available here.
The GW Ethics in Publishing conference is organised by the George Washington University Master of Professional Studies in Publishing program. This is a joint call for papers for the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing...”