Readers' Advisory

Start A Revolution: Stop Acting Like A Library
by Ben Bizzle with Maria Flora (2015)

Bizzle and Flora present students, academics, and librarians working in a variety of contexts with a comprehensive guide to reinventing and radically marketing library services based on the author’s experience in reinvigorating the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library in Arkansas. The authors have organized the bulk of their text into eight chapters, including a prelude telling the Jonesboro story, and an interlude telling the story of the Crooked Valley Regional Library. The eight chapters cover a variety of related topics, including digital library services, mobile library services, Facebook advertising and marketing, and many others. (Summary by: protoview.com).

Readers' Advisory

The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander Novel
by David Lagercrantz (2015)

Lagercrantz's worthy, crowd-pleasing fourth installment in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium saga opens in Sweden, where some intellectual property developed by artificial intelligence genius Frans Balder has been stolen by a video game company with ties to Russian mobsters. Crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who's casting about for a new investigative project, is about to meet with Balder when an intruder kills the scientist and puts Balder's autistic eight-year-old son in danger. Meanwhile in the U.S., the National Security Agency is hacked, and its chief of security, Edwin Needham, vows revenge. Lisbeth Salander plays a central role in both plot lines, and the pleasure resides in watching Lagercrantz  corral an enormous cast of characters into an intricate story revolving around the larger-than-life hacker and her desire to right wrongs, including corporate espionage, a government spying on its own citizens, and violence against the defenseless. (PW Annex Reviews).