Works for Me: Focus Your Job Search with Labor Market Research
If you are looking for a job, or you are considering training for a specific career path, you need to know where the jobs are right now, where the jobs are growing in the future and which jobs will pay you enough to meet your personal and family goals. This knowledge is attainable with labor market data. Librarians at CLP’s Job Career and Education Center stay abreast of trends in the labor market to inform our job seeking patrons of the best options available to them.
Vintage Library: Opposing Viewpoints in Context
If you ever had to do a research paper or senior project in high school, you most likely came in contact with the Opposing Viewpoints series for researching those sometimes … Continued
Logan‘s Final Run
It’s been almost two decades since Hugh Jackman appeared as Logan/Wolverine in Bryan Singer’s X-Men. Today, he hangs up the adamantium claws with the release of James Mangold’s Logan.
The New Edition Story
Late last month, BET aired a 3 part miniseries about R&B super group, New Edition. The miniseries is called The New Edition Story. It aired over 3 nights and I … Continued
Inspirational Girls
Marley Dias started 1000 Black Girl Books and has been an inspiration to me (also, her website is an amazing book resource!). She exemplifies how much we—not only as individuals, but as groups—can do to help and support others, starting from a young age. I feel as though so often many of us feel that we have to wait until we grow up to do something extraordinary. I thought that it was important to talk about someone who inspired me and didn’t wait until she grew up to do it.
Maggie Nelson Reading List
I wanted to write a blog post about Maggie Nelson. About how her books are genre- and gender-defying works of incredible, articulate genius. How her sentences are so meticulously edited … Continued
Short Lives: Gary Younge’s Newest Essay Collection is a Plea to Readers
In his 2016 collection of essays, Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge takes on the high death rates of young people in America. As a parent, he has become acutely aware of, and troubled by, the statistics surrounding the gun-related fates met by an average of seven American children per day. Here, he offers the reader a somber snapshot comprised of ten deaths that occurred over a single twenty-four hour period: November 23rd, 2013.
Meet the Author: Shana Keller
Local author Shana Keller visited CLP – Squirrel Hill to read her new book, Ticktock Banneker’s Clock.
On Fires, Then and Now (Reflections on The Fire This Time)
Widely regarded as an influential work of literature, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time gives voice to the personal nature of injustice while sounding an alarm about the intensity of race relations in the United States. Although it has been 54 years since its publication, Baldwin’s work has particular urgency and resonance in the aftermath of the murders of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Sandra Bland. Given the current political climate in the United States, The Fire Next Time is especially relevant.
Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women of Color
I read a lot of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Seriously, A LOT. Growing up, I cut my teeth on Anne McCaffery’s Dragonriders of Pern series and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon. Later, it was The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Sadly, many people still think Science Fiction and Fantasy novels are written mostly by white anglo-saxon men for white anglo-saxon men (think J. R. R. Tolkein or George R. R. Martin). However, there are a number of fantastic female authors of color rocking both genres today.