(December 5, 2013). Individuals and organizations interested in submitting a nomination for the Opening Minds INNOVATION Awards, sponsored by Follett, have until Friday, Dec. 13 to apply online. The Opening Minds USA awards seek to recognize innovations that are advancing the field of early childhood education to better the lives of young children and their families.

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    Author: Mott, Jason,

Mirta Ojito won a shared Pulitzer for national reporting in 2001 for a New York Times series of articles about race in America. Her new book turns to the topic of immigration reform. It is a nonfiction account of a group of teenagers who killed an Ecuadoren immigrant one November night 5 years ago in the small town of Patchogue, New York, on Long Island.

For more — NPR recently did an excellent, short interview with the author and posted an excerpt from the book. It was interesting to me that Ojito was drawn to the story after one of her students at Columbia Journalism School produced a documentary on the case. 

For a YA novel on the same topic, point your readers to Lie by Caroline Bock. 

* OJITO, Mirta. Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town. 280p. bibliog. notes. Beacon. 2013.Tr $24.95. ISBN 9780807001813; ebk. ISBN 9780807001820.  

Adult/High School–Late on an autumn evening in 2008 in the town of Patchougue, New York, a group of bored teenaged boys set out, as they often did, to find some immigrants to harass and beat up. When they came upon a pair of Ecuadorian men walking near the train station, they proceeded to surround them. One of the men took off his belt and began swinging it to keep the boys away. Surprised by his resistance (a man they’d accosted earlier that night had run away), the boys closed in, one of them brandishing a knife with which he stabbed and killed Marcello Lucero. Coming as it did within a week of the election of Barack Obama, and after months of televised vitriol about illegal immigrants from pundits such as Bill O’Reilly and Lou Dobbs, the murder became emblematic of America’s profound and often tragic struggle with immigration. Ojito goes behind the headlines of the murder to reveal the complex issues that confront immigrants and the communities into which they are trying to assimilate. She weaves together interviews with family and friends of the victim and community residents, politicians, and activists as well as with the families of the perpetrators to create a disturbing portrayal of the nightmare that accompanies pursuit of the American Dream. Hunting Season is a remarkable contribution to American sociology and deserves reading by anyone seeking a better understanding of the human conditions that shape this country’s immigration issues. This book belongs in every high school library.–John Sexton, Greenburgh Public Library, NY

(December 5, 2013). LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, in Dakar, Senegal, has gone live on LibLime Koha 4.14 as their new ILS.CODESRIA looks forward to taking advantage of the rich functionality in LibLime Koha 4.14, including enhanced circulation policies, the Solr search engine, full faceted support in the OPAC, an embedded New Titles list, additional functionality for expired & cancelled holds, and support for RDA. As with all versions of LibLime Koha since 4.8, the entire application resides in the Plack environment for enhanced performance.

(December 5, 2013). ProQuest's unique relationship with the National Security Archive – an award-winning research institute, library and publisher of declassified documentation based at The George Washington University – is enabling researchers to explore nearly a half-century of counternarcotics cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico – an issue of persistent U.S. domestic, regional and national security concern. Digital National Security Archive: Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013 encompasses newly declassified records from the Nixon administration through the first term of the Obama presidency, tracing the often-contentious relations between the hemisphere's largest consumer of illegal drugs and a principal producer and transit point for those substances, a topic with implications for U.S. ties to the rest of Latin America.

(December 5, 2013). ByWater Solutions announced that the libraries at Graceland University are now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

(December 5, 2013). Ex Libris announced that BIBSYS, the Norwegian national provider of library services, has selected the Alma library management service. BIBSYS will use Alma in conjunction with Ex Libris Primo to provide next-generation library services for a consortium of over 100 institutions that includes all Norwegian universities, colleges, the National Library and a number of research libraries.

(December 5, 2013). I august måned indgik KOMBIT kontrakt med Dantek A/S om udvikling, udrulning, drift og videreudvikling af det nye Fælles Bibliotekssystem, som 88 kommuner har tilsluttet sig.

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(December 4, 2013). SirsiDynix announced that the 3M Cloud Library has been integrated with eResource Central, bringing more than 200,000 titles and hundreds of publishers to the eRC ecosystem. Libraries using eRC and the 3M Cloud Library can update their local title metadata with one click; they can also sync thousands of titles to their catalog in minutes. Library users at eRC-enabled libraries see in-catalog availability for 3M Cloud Library titles, and they can check titles out to their devices from the library catalog. Library users can access their content on their computer, iOS or Android device, or on major ereader devices.