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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Grapes of Wrath is celebrating
75 years in print.</span> I think it’s a challenging book to read,
though not in its vocabulary or diction. <span style="font-weight:
bold;">Its depiction of poverty are bleak and personal. That’s a
challenge to readers.</span> <a
href="http://www.npr.org/2014/04/14/301833421/grapes-of-wrath-is-75-but-its-depictions-of-poverty-are-timeless">“Part
of the shock, initially, was resistance to believing that there was
that kind of poverty in America,”</a> says NPR.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">That discomfort makes me think of
current conversations about Street Lit.</span> It’s gritty. It often
includes violence or sexual content. It’s popularity is quickly rising.
Does it reflect the lived experience for some of our patrons? Is it a
window some readers can use to learn how others live, or will some
readers use it as evidence of the depravity of life on the streets?</p>
<p>I don’t know the answer. There is no single answer, because there
is no single audience. We don’t know who will pick up a book or how they
will respond, but we buy books in anticipation that someone will pick
them up. Books aren’t judged solely on their merits but also on whether
we think there’s an audience for a book in our local patrons. That’s a
difficult task when we consider the diversity of our patrons in age,
gender, class and race. </p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leigh Mauer is leading </span><a
style="font-weight: bold;"
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=1923&lib=">a
webinar on Street Lit on May 22nd</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span>
She’s got information to share, but she’s also hoping you’ll bring your
perspective about the genre, about collection development, and about
how to keep these titles from “walking off.” It’s free for SWON
Supporting Members, too, so <a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=1923&lib=">sign
up today</a>.</p>
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<li>Nathan Swartzendruber, SWON Technology Educator</li>
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<h2 id="innovation:usedata.startwithcommunityneeds">Innovation: Use
Data. Start with Community Needs</h2>
<p>How does a library decide when to offer something new? What about
tweaking existing collections and services? Can a library have it all
figured out? Join Tim Diamond and Anastassia Diamond Ortiz, from the
Cleveland Public Library for an afternoon discussing data driven
innovation processes and decision-making informed by design thinking.
We’ll consider how these ideas can benefit your libraries and your
communities.</p>
<p>Come to lunch and learn about Data Driven Innovation, stay for
SWON’s Membership Meeting on May 20th at the MidPointe Library in West
Chester. Register: <a href="http://bit.ly/data-driven-mtg">http://bit.ly/data-driven-mtg</a>.</p>
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Storytelling: A How-To for Children’s Librarian</a></strong> -
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Lab: Introducing Cloud Services</a></em></strong> - (4/29/2014) - SWON
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