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From the Editor Library/ Publishing/ Archives World Editing every March issue of Catholic Library World (CLW) is exciting work because I learn about the Association award winners as they are decided, and conference planning as it takes shape. Of course the editing work also always provides me with a large number of titles to add to my “to read” list of books. More than one hundred book reviews, articles, and interviews in CLW suggest excellent reading material. This issue has prompted me to add three titles in particular to my list of books to read.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 (Delacorte Press, 1995) is an award- winning book by this year’s Regina Medal recipient, Christopher Paul Curtis. Curtis has written a number of award-winning books, and this one has received twenty-five.

The Virgin of Prince Street (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) by Sonja Livingston is another title that I have added to my list. CLW readers have requested more author interviews and longer book reviews, Charlotte Zolotow Award as well as the inclusion of more books published by university presses. Cheryl Minnema received the Jen Cullerton Johnson provides both an interview and an introduction 2020 Charlotte Zolotow Award to a book from a university press in this issue, introducing an author for Johnny’s Pheasant, written worthy of reading. by Minnema and illustrated by Julie Flett. Mercy in the City is the third book I plan to read, and it was written by The award is given by the Kerry Weber Lynch, who gave the keynote address during the fall 2019 Cooperative Children's Book Center CLA conference. Her keynote address can be read on page 182. In it, and (CCBC), a library of the School in her book, she writes about mercy, and reminds us that we can carry of Education at the University of out corporal works of mercy in our everyday vocation as librarians. Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to book recommendations, this issue is full of awards. The Sophie Brody Medal Charlotte Zolotow Award, the Sophie Brody Medal, and the Jewish The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Fiction Award have been named as well as the ALA Youth Media Awards Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz by Thomas on pages 165-170. The Catholic Library Association’s own awards Wolf. Published by Pegasus Books. are announced as part of the schedule for the Spring 2020 Virtual Conference on pages 171-172. I look forward to joining other CLA members at our virtual conference on April 2.

I hope this March issue gives every reader a list of books to read, to buy for a library, and to recommend to other readers.

Sigrid Kelsey, CLW General Editor

Catholic Library World ~ 165 ~ March 2020 Honorable Mentions: Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen. Published by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman. Published by Simon & Schuster. The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and 2019 ALA Youth Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent. Published Media Awards by Scribner, an imprint Recognized worldwide for the high of Simon & Schuster. quality they represent, American The Sophie Brody Medal was first Library Association awards guide awarded in 2006, and is given parents, educators, librarians, and others in selecting the best to encourage, recognize, and Randolph Caldecott Medal commend outstanding achievement materials for youth. Selected by judging committees of librarians The Undefeated; by Kwame in Jewish literature. Works for Alexander; illustrated by Kadir adults published in the United and other children’s literature experts, the awards encourage Nelson; Versify, an imprint of States in the preceding year are Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. eligible for the award. original and creative work. For more information on the ALA Jewish Fiction Award youth media awards and notables, Caldecott Honor Books visit the ALA website at ala.org. Bear Came Along; by Richard T. On Division, by Goldie Goldbloom Morris; illustrated by LeUyen Pham; (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is the Little, Brown and Company, a recipient of the 2020 Jewish Fiction division of Hachette Book Group. Award, awarded by the Association John Newbery Medal of Jewish Libraries. The Flight Double Bass Blues; by Andrea J. New Kid; written and illustrated Loney; illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez; Portfolio by Julie Orringer (Knopf) by Jerry Craft; HarperCollins is the Honor Book winner. Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Children’s Books, a division of Random House Children’s Books, HarperCollins Publishers. a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Newbery Honor Books The Undefeated; by Kwame Going Down Home with Daddy; by Alexander; illustrated by Kadir Kelly Starling Lyons; illustrated by Nelson; Versify, an imprint of Daniel Minter; Peachtree Publishers. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Coretta Scott King (Author) Scary Stories for Young Foxes; Book Award by Christian McKay Heidicker; New Kid; written and illustrated illustrated by Junyi Wu; Henry by Jerry Craft; HarperCollins Holt and Company, an imprint of Children’s Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing Group. HarperCollins Publishers. Other Words for Home; by Jasmine Warga; Balzer + Bray, an imprint King Author Honor Books of HarperCollins Publishers. The Stars and the Blackness Between Genesis Begins Again; by Alicia D. Them; by Junauda Petrus; Dutton Williams; Atheneum Books for Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Simon Random House LLC. & Schuster Children’s Publishing Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in Division, a Caitlyn Dlouhy Book. the Sky; by Kwame Mbalia; Disney- Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group.

Volume 90 No. 3 ~ 166 ~ Catholic Library World Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks; by Jason Reynolds; Atheneum Books for Young Children’s Books, a division of Schneider Family Book Award Readers, an imprint of Simon & Penguin Random House LLC. for Middle Grades (ages 11-13) Schuster Children’s Publishing Song for a Whale; by Lynne Kelly; Division, a Caitlyn Dlouhy Book. Coretta Scott King–Virginia Delacorte Press, an imprint of Hamilton Award for Lifetime Random House Children’s Books, Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Achievement a division of Penguin Random Book Award Mildred D. Taylor House LLC. The Undefeated; by Kwame Alexander; illustrated by Kadir Michael L. Printz Award Schneider Family Honor Book Nelson; Versify, an imprint of Dig; by A.S. King; Dutton Books for Middle Grades Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. for Young Readers, an imprint of Each Tiny Spark; by Pablo Cartaya; Penguin Young Readers, a division Kokila Penguin Young Readers King Illustrator Honor Books of Penguin Random House. Group, an imprint of Penguin The Bell Rang; written and illustrated Random House LLC. by James E. Ransome; Atheneum Printz Honor Books Books for Young Readers, an The Beast Player; by Nahoko Schneider Family Book Award imprint of Simon & Schuster Uehashi; translated by Cathy for Teens (ages 13-18) Children’s Publishing Division, Hirano; Godwin Books/Henry Holt, Cursed; by Karol Ruth Silverstein; a Caitlyn Dlouhy Book. an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Charlesbridge. Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Publishing Group. Journey from World War II to Peace; Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Schneider Family Honor Book written and illustrated by Ashley Me, by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated for Teens Bryan; Atheneum Books for Young by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, The Silence Between Us; by Alison Readers, an imprint of Simon & First Second/Macmillan Children’s Gervais; Blink. Schuster Children’s Publishing Publishing Group. Division, a Caitlyn Dlouhy Book. Alex Awards Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir; by Sulwe; by Lupita Nyong’o; illustrated Nikki Grimes; Wordsong, an A Boy and His Dog at the End of the by Vashti Harrison; Simon & imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane. World; by C.A. Fletcher; Orbit, a Schuster Books for Young Readers, division of Hachette Group. Where the World Ends; by Geraldine an imprint of Simon & Schuster Do You Dream of Terra-Two?; by Children’s Publishing Division. McCaughrean; Flatiron Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers. Temi Oh; Saga Press/Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Author Award Schneider Family Book Award Dominicana; by Angie Cruz; for Young Children (ages 0-10) Flatiron Books, an imprint of Genesis Begins Again; by Alicia D. Macmillan Publishers. Williams; Atheneum Books for Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Young Readers, an imprint of Simon Be You; by Sonia Sotomayor; Gender Queer: A Memoir; by & Schuster Children’s Publishing illustrated by Rafael López; Philomel Maia Kobabe; Lion Forge, an Division, a Caitlyn Dlouhy Book. Books, an imprint of Penguin imprint of Oni Press. Random House LLC. High School; by Sara Quin and Coretta Scott King –John Steptoe Schneider Family Honor Book Tegan Quin; MCD, a division of New Talent Illustrator Award Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an for Young Children What Is Given from the Heart; by imprint of Macmillan Publishers. Patricia C. McKissack; illustrated by A Friend for Henry; by Jenn Bailey; April Harrison; Schwartz & Wade illustrated by Mika Song; Chronicle Books, an imprint of Random House Books LLC.

Catholic Library World ~ 167 ~ March 2020 In Waves; by A.J. Dungo; Nobrow. for Young Readers, an imprint Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Middlegame; by Seanan McGuire; of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Tor.com Publishing, an imprint of Played the Piano for President Lincoln; Tom Doherty Associates, a division Do Fish Sleep?; by Jens Raschke; by Margarita Engle; illustrated by of Macmillan. illustrated by Jens Rassmus; Rafael López; Atheneum Books for The Nickel Boys; by Colson translated from the German Young Readers, an imprint of Simon Whitehead; Doubleday, a division by Belinda Cooper; Enchanted & Schuster Children’s Publishing of Penguin Random House. Lion Books. Division. When Spring Comes to the DMZ; Red, White & Royal Blue; by Casey Belpré Illustrator Honor Books McQuiston; St. Martin’s Griffin, a written and illustrated by Uk-Bae Across the Bay; written and division of St. Martin’s Publishing Lee; translated from the Korean by illustrated by Carlos Aponte; Group, an imprint of Macmillan Chungyon Won and Aileen Won; Penguin Workshop, an imprint Publishers. Plough Publishing House. of Penguin Random House LLC. The Swallows; by Lisa Lutz; Odyssey Award My Papi Has a Motorcycle; by Isabel Ballantine Books, an imprint of Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Quintero; illustrated by Zeke Peña; Random House, a division of Found My Father, and Dealt with Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Penguin Random House. Family Addiction; by Jarrett J. Random House LLC. Krosoczka; narrated by the author, Children’s Literature Legacy Award Jeanne Birdsall, Jenna Lamia, ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market; Kevin Henkes Richard Ferrone and a full cast; written and illustrated by Raúl produced by Scholastic Audiobooks. Gonzalez; Versify, an imprint of Margaret A. Edwards Award Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Steve Sheinkin Odyssey Honor Audiobooks Pura Belpré Author Award Redwood and Ponytail; by K.A. Holt; 2020 ALSC Children’s Literature narrated by Cassandra Morris Sal and Gabi Break the Universe; by Lecture Award and Tessa Netting; produced by Carlos Hernandez; Disney-Hyperion, Dr. Rudine Sims Hachette Audio. an imprint of Disney Book Group. Mildred L. Batchelder Award Song for a Whale; by Lynne Belpré Author Honor Books Kelly; narrated by Abigail Revasch Brown; by Håkon Øvreås; illustrated Lety Out Loud; by Angela Cervantes; with the author; produced by by Øyvind Torseter; translated from Scholastic Press, an imprint of Listening Library, an imprint of the Norwegian by Kari Dickson; Scholastic Inc. the Penguin Random House Enchanted Lion Books. Audio Publishing Group. The Other Half of Happy; by Rebecca Balcárcel; Chronicle Books. Batchelder Honor Books We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga; The Beast Player; by Nahoko by Traci Sorell; narrated by Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian Uehashi; illustrated by Yuta Onoda; Lauren Hummingbird, Agalisiga and Storyteller Pura Belpré; by translated from the Japanese by (Choogie) Mackey, Ryan Mackey, Anika Aldamuy Denise; illustrated Cathy Hirano; Godwin Books/ Traci Sorell, and Tonia Weavel; by Paola Escobar; HarperCollins Henry Holt, an imprint of Macmillan produced by Live Oak Media. Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers. Children's Publishing Group. We’re Not from Here; written The Distance Between Me and by Geoff Rodkey; narrated by Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz the Cherry Tree; by Paola Peretti; Dani Martineck; produced by Sáenz and the Great War; written illustrated by Carolina Rabei; Listening Library, an imprint and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh; translated from the Italian by of the Penguin Random House Abrams Books for Young Readers, Denise Muir; Atheneum Books Audio Publishing Group. an imprint of ABRAMS.

Volume 90 No. 3 ~ 168 ~ Catholic Library World Genesis Begins Again; by Alicia D. Robert F. Sibert Informational Stonewall Honor Books Williams; Atheneum Books for Book Award Pet; by Akwaeke Emezi; Make Me a Young Readers, an imprint of Simon Fry Bread: A Native American Family World, an imprint of Random House & Schuster Children’s Publishing Story; by Kevin Noble Maillard; Children’s Books, a division of Division, a Caitlyn Dlouhy Book. illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal; Penguin Random House LLC. There Will Come a Darkness; by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Like a Love Story; by Abdi Nazemian; Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings. Katy Rose Pool; Henry Holt, an Balzer + Bray, an imprint of imprint of Macmillan Children’s HarperCollins Publishers. Sibert Honor Books Publishing Group. All in a Drop: How Antony van The Best at It; by Maulik Pancholy; YALSA Award for Excellence in Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible Balzer + Bray, an imprint of World; by Lori Alexander; illustrated HarperCollins Publishers. Nonfiction for Young Adults by Vivien Mildenberger; Houghton Free Lunch; by Rex Ogle; Norton Mifflin Harcourt. Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Young Readers, an imprint of Stop! Bot!; written and illustrated W.W. Norton & Company. This Promise of Change: One Girl’s by James Yang; Viking, Penguin Story in the Fight for School Equality; Young Readers. YALSA Award Finalists by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance; Levy; Bloomsbury Children’s Books. Geisel Honor Books written and illustrated by Lynn Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir; by Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot!; Curlee; Charlesbridge Teen. Nikki Grimes; WordSong, an imprint written and illustrated by Cece Bell; A Light in the Darkness: Janusz of Highlights. Candlewick Press. Korczak, His Orphans, and the Hey, Water!; written and illustrated Flubby Is Not a Good Pet!; written Holocaust; by Albert Marrin; by Antoinette Portis; Neal Porter and illustrated by J. E. Morris; published by Alfred A. Knopf, an Books, Holiday House. Penguin Workshop, an imprint of imprint of Random House Children’s Penguin Random House. Books, a division of Penguin The Excellence in Early Learning The Book Hog; written and illustrated Random House. Digital Media Award by Greg Pizzoli; Disney-Hyperion, an A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Molly of Denali; produced by imprint of Disney Book Group. Airwomen of the Soviet Union in PBS Kids. World War II; by Elizabeth Wein; William C. Morris Award Balzer + Bray, an imprint of The Excellence in Early Learning The Field Guide to the North American HarperCollins Publishers. Digital Media Honor Recipients Teenager; by Ben Philippe; Balzer Seek; produced by iNaturalis. Torpedoed: The True Story + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins of the World War II Sinking States of Matter by Tinybop; Publishers. of ‘The Children's Ship;’ by produced by Tinybop, Inc. William C. Morris Finalists Deborah Heiligman; Henry The Candle and the Flame; by Nafiza Holt, an imprint of Macmillan Stonewall Book Award-Mike Children’s Publishing Group. Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s Azad; Scholastic Press, an imprint & Young Adult Literature Award of Scholastic. Asian/Pacific American Award When Aidan Became a Brother; Frankly in Love; by David Yoon; G.P. for Literature Putnam’s Sons Books for Young written by Kyle Lukoff; illustrated by The Picture Book Category Kaylani Juanita; Lee & Low Books. Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Queen of Physics: How Wu The Black Flamingo; by Dean Atta; Penguin Random House. Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the illustrated by Anshika Khullar; Secrets of the Atom; by Teresa Hodder Children’s Books, an imprint Robeson; illustrated by Rebecca of Hachette Children’s Group, part Huang; published by Sterling of Hodder and Stoughton. Children’s Books.

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Picture Book Honor Title Middle Grade Honor Titles We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga; by Bilal Cooks Daal; by Aisha Saeed; Anya and the Dragon; by Sofiya Traci Sorell (Cherokee); illustrated illustrated by Anoosha Syed; Pasternack; Versify, an imprint of by Frané Lessac; Charlesbridge. Salaam Reads/Simon & Schuster Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Raven Makes the Aleutians; adapted Books for Young Readers, an Games of Deception: The True Story from a traditional Tlingit story imprint of Simon & Schuster of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball and illustrated by Janine Gibbons Children’s Publishing. Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s (Haida, Raven of the Double-Finned The Children’s Literature Category Germany; by Andrew Maraniss; Killer Whale clan, Brown Bear House); Sealaska Heritage. Stargazing; by Jen Wang; First Philomel Books, an imprint of Second, an imprint of Macmillan Penguin Random House. Middle Grade Book Winner Children’s Publishing Group. Young Adult Category Indian No More; written by Charlene Children’s Literature Honor Title Someday We Will Fly; by Rachel Willing McManis (Umpqua/ DeWoskin; Viking Books for Young Confederated Tribes of Grande I’m Ok; by Patti Kim; Atheneum Ronde) with Traci Sorell (Cherokee); Books for Young Readers, an Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House. cover art by Marlena Myles (Spirit imprint of Simon & Schuster Lake Dakota, Mohegan, Muscogee Children’s Publishing. Young Adult Honor Titles Creek); Tu Books / Lee & Low. The Young Adult Literature Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Middle Grade Book Honor Titles Category Ginsburg’s Life and Work; by Victoria I Can Make This Promise; by Christine They Called Us Enemy; by George Ortiz; Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Day (Upper Skagit); cover art by Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Michaela Goade (Tlingit, Kiks.ádi Scott; illustrated by Harmony Sick Kids in Love; by Hannah clan, Steel House); HarperCollins. Becker; Top Shelf Productions, Moskowitz; Entangled Teen, an imprint of IDW Publishing. an imprint of Entangled The Grizzly Mother; by Hetxw’ms Publishing LLC. Gyetxw (“Brett D. Huson,” Gitxsan); Young Adult Literature Honor Title illustrated by Natasha Donovan Frankly in Love; by David Yoon; G. American Indian Youth Literature (Métis Nation of British Columbia); P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Award, administered by the Highwater Press. Penguin Young Readers, a division American Indian Library The Young Adult Book Winner of Penguin Random House LLC. Association (AILA) Hearts Unbroken; Cynthia Sydney Taylor Book Award The Picture Book Category Leitich Smith (Muscogee); Presented by the Association Bowwow Powwow: Bagosenjige- Candlewick Press. of Jewish Libraries niimi’idim; by Brenda J. Child (Red Young Adult Book Honor Titles Picture Book Category Lake Ojibwe); translated into Ojibwe Surviving the City; by Tasha Spillett by Gordon Jourdain (Lac La Croix (Nehiyaw-Trinidadian); illustrated by The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch First Nation); illustrated by Jonathan from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Natasha Donovan (Métis Nation of Thunder (Red Lake Ojibwe); British Columbia); Highwater Press. Literature for Generations to Come; Minnesota Historical Society Press. by Sue Macy; illustrated by Stacy Reawakening Our Ancestors’ Innerst; Paula Wiseman Books, an Picture Book Honor titles Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional imprint of Simon & Schuster. Fry Bread: A Native American Family Tattooing; gathered and compiled Picture Book Honor Titles Story; by Kevin Noble Maillard; by Angela Hovak Johnston (Inuk); illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal; photography by Cora De Vos (Inuk); Gittel’s Journey; by Lesléa Newman; Roaring Brook Press, a division of Inhabit Media. illustrated by Amy June Bates; Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings. Abrams Books for Young Readers. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the Birdsong; written and illustrated United States for Young People; by The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda by Julie Flett (Cree-Métis); Debbie Reese (Nambé Owingeh) and Her Music; by Debbie Levy; Greystone Kids. and Jean Mendoza; adapted from illustrated by Sonja Wimmer; At the Mountain’s Base; by the adult book by Roxanne Dunbar- Kar-Ben Publishing, a division of Ortiz; Beacon Press. Lerner Publishing Group. Traci Sorell (Cherokee); illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre Apple in the Middle; by Dawn Middle Grade Category (Tongva/Scots-Gaelic); Kokila/ Quigley (Ojibwe, Turtle Mountain White Bird: A Wonder Story; by R. J. Penguin Random House. Band); North Dakota State Palacio; Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint University Press. n of Penguin Random House.

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4:30 p.m. ST. KATHARINE DREXEL AWARD Closing Remarks Dr. Lesley J. Farmer Dr. Lesley Farmer, professor at California State University–Long Beach, is the 2020 St. Katharine Drexel Award recipient. Registration: CathLA.org At CSU, Long Beach, Farmer coordinates the Teacher Librarianship program and manages the Zoom: Web Conferencing California State University ICT Literacy Project. Sign up in advance for Zoom She earned her M.S. in library science at the at https://zoom.us/. Convention University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and participation instructions will be received her doctorate in adult education from e-mailed prior to the event. Temple University. Farmer has worked as a Times noted are Eastern time. teacher-librarian in K-12 independent and public The sessions will be recorded and school settings as well as in academic, public, and CLA members will have access to special libraries. She has chaired the International the full recordings at no charge. Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) School Libraries Section, serves as the International Association of School Librarianship’s Library Education Special Interest Group chair, and is a Fulbright scholar. Among other awards, she was honored with the ALA Beta Phi Mu Award for contributions to library education, and the Library Instruction Round Table

Catholic Library World ~ 171 ~ March 2020 Librarian Recognition Award. A frequent presenter and institutions. He has studied at the University of Fribourg writer for the profession, including for Catholic Library (Switzerland) and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. For World, Farmer’s research interests include information the last thirty years, he has been at the Marian Library and digital literacy, technology equity issues, and of the University of Dayton, teaching in the International assessment. Farmer’s most recent books include Marian Research Institute. His academic interests Managing the Successful School Library (American include liturgy, Marian devotion, and ecumenism. Library Association, 2017), Library Improvement through The Jerome Award, established in 1992, is presented by Data Analytics (American Library Association, 2016), the Academic Libraries, Archives, and Library Education and Information and Digital Literacies: A Curricular Guide Section through the Jerome Award Committee. Named for Middle and High School Librarians (Rowman & after St. Jerome (331-420), Doctor of the Church, and Littlefield, 2015). patron of librarians, it is awarded in recognition of The St. Katharine Drexel Award was established in outstanding contribution and commitment to excellence 1966 under the title Certificate of Merit and renamed in in scholarship which embody the ideals of the Catholic 2002. Presented by the High School and Young Adult Library Association. Library Services Section through the St. Katharine Drexel Award Committee, the St. Katharine Drexel Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the MARY A. GRANT growth of high school librarianship. VOLUNTEER JEROME AWARD SERVICE AWARD Mariological Society Elyse Hayes of America Elyse Hayes is the 2020 Mary The Mariological Society A. Grant Volunteer Service of America (MSA) is CLA’s Award recipient. Hayes has 2020 Jerome Award been the Director of Library Recipient. The MSA is and Information Services a Catholic theological at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in association dedicated Huntington, New York, since 2002. Previous to this role, to studying and making she was the Review Editor of The Seat of Wisdom, and known the role of the was the Public Services Librarian at both Huntington Blessed Virgin Mary in the Public Library and South Huntington Public Library. mystery of Christ and in the Hayes received her M.A. in theology at the Seminary of Church and in the history the Immaculate Conception and her M.L.S. at St. John’s of salvation. Through University in Queens, New York. its annual meetings and Hayes is currently a Board member-at-large with the in its publications, the Catholic Library Association, her term ending in 2022. society seeks to promote She previously served in this role in the 2014-2018 comprehensive and term. In addition to being an active member of CLA, integrated study of the she is a member of the Ad Hoc Catholic Periodical and person and the role of the Literature Index (CPLI) Digitization Committee, the CLA Virgin Mary so as to foster Conference Planning Committee, and the CLA Academic a well-informed and Section. She was also a member of the CLA Scholarship theologically sound devotion and spirituality. Committee from 2005 to 2006. The Mariological Society of America was founded Hayes has also been involved with the American by Fr. Juniper B. Carol, OFM, in October 1949. The Theological Library Association (ATLA), where she charter members gathered for the first meeting in was a facilitator of the Roman Catholic Denomination Washington, D.C., in January 1950. Since that time, Group in 2004-2006, an officer of the World Christianity the MSA has met annually in various cities throughout Interest Group in 2009-2010, and a committee member the United States. In 1954, the society was recognized for digitization of McCabe’s Critical Guide to Catholic as a corporation “organized exclusively for charitable, Reference Books. Hayes is a member of the New York religious, educational, and scientific purposes.” Listed area chapter of ATLA, where she currently serves as in the Official Catholic Directory as one of the national recording secretary. She served as secretary for the organizations of the United States Catholic Conference, Long Island Council of Academic Library Directors it is recognized as a tax-exempt organization. Since in 2003-2004. She has also been involved with the 1979, the office of the executive secretary of the Suffolk County Library Association, where she served MSA has been located at the Marian Library of the as secretary in 2001-2002, chaired the Professional University of Dayton. Concerns Committee in 2000-2001, launched the new Fr. Tom Thompson, SM, will accept the award on behalf Excellence in Library Service Award (ELSA) in 2000, and of the MSA. Thompson is a member of the Society was co-chair of the ELSA Committee in 2004. of Mary (Marianists) and is the secretary/treasurer The Mary A. Grant Volunteer Service Award was of the MSA. Since entering the Marianists, he has established in 1996 and is presented by the CLA taught at high schools and colleges and has always Executive Board in recognition of outstanding volunteer been associated with the libraries at his respective service to the association by a CLA member. n

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March 2020 In the Biographical Vignettes from VINEYARD the World of Catholic Print Culture

of the by Thomas Dousa WORD Metadata Analyst Librarian The Joseph Regenstein Library University of Chicago

Arthur Preuss Prominent German American Catholic Journalist, Editor, Translator, and Author

Arthur Preuss was an influential its definitive title in 1912), which he translated into English a number German American Catholic published for the next forty years. of German theological works, journalist of the late nineteenth and Initially conceived of as “a German most notably Joseph Pohle’s2 early twentieth centuries. Born in St. paper in English dress,” the Review monumental twelve-volume Manual Louis on March 22, 1871, he was the became a platform for Preuss’s of Dogmatic Theology, sometimes son of Eduard Friedrich Reinhold views on the state of the Catholic referred to as the Pohle-Preuss Preuss (also known as Edward Church in the United States and its Manual or the Pohle-Preuss Series Preuss) (1834 -1904), a theologian relation to American culture. Deeply of Dogmatic Textbooks. Preuss trained in the Lutheran tradition influenced by theKulturkampf wrote books on Freemasonry as who had converted to Catholicism in Germany and concerned well as a critique of Socialism. after imigrating to America in 1868 about what he saw as a cultural He also served as literary adviser and became a leading journalist in environment inimical to Catholicism to the Society of the Divine Word the German American community in the United States, Preuss Press in Techny, Illinois, where as editor of the Catholic newspaper propounded highly conservative The Fortnightly Review was, for a Die Amerika. Arthur Preuss elected views of Church affairs, espousing time, printed, and contributed to follow in his father’s footsteps ultramontanism, strongly opposing articles to other English-language and arranged his studies at Canisius Americanist accommodation to Catholic periodicals. College in Buffalo and Quincy contemporary culture, condemning Preuss died on December 16, 1934, College in Quincy, Illinois, to theological liberalism, and attacking in Jacksonville, Florida, at age prepare himself for the vocation Freemasonry. At the same time, he 63. His most notable contribution of Catholic journalist. In 1892, he was a fierce advocate for German to American Catholic journalism, became editor of the Chicago- Catholics in the United States, a The Fortnightly Review, ceased based German-language weekly sharp critic of American anti- publication the following year. Das Katholisches Sontagsblatt [The Catholicism, a supporter of fairer Catholic Sunday Paper], as well as treatment of African Americans editor of the Indianapolis-based within the Catholic Church, a newspaper Die Glocke [The Bell], proponent of Heinrich Pesch’s 1 positions that he held until 1896, “Solidarist” economic interpretation when he returned to St Louis to of Catholic social teaching, and an 1 help his father edit Die Amerika. early voice for liturgical reform. Fr. Heinrich Pesch, SJ, (1854-1926) was a German Jesuit economist whose theories In 1894, Preuss founded his own In addition to his journalistic work, exerted a profound influence on Catholic English-language newspaper, The Preuss was literary editor for a social thought in the twentieth century. Fortnightly Review (originally known major German American Catholic 2 as The Review and, later, the Catholic publishing house, the Herder Book Fr. Joseph Pohle (1852-1922) was a Fortnightly Review before receiving Company. In this capacity, he prominent German theologian whose academic career included a five-year stint (1879-1884) in the United States as professor of apologetics at the Catholic University of America.

Volume 90 No. 3 ~ 174 ~ Catholic Library World Periodicals Edited by Alfred Preuss Books Written by Alfred Preuss Die Amerika (St. Louis, Mo., 1872-1924); edited A Study in American Freemasonry. St. Louis, Mo.: B. 1902-1905 and 1920-1921. Herder, 1908. [2nd edition: 1908; numerous reprints] Katholisches Sonntagblatt (Chicago, Ill., 1891-1909?); The Fundamental Fallacy of Socialism: An Exposition of edited 1892-1896. the Question of Landownership: Comprising an Authentic Die Glocke (Indianapolis, Ind., 1882-1905); edited Account of the Famous McGlynn Case. St. Louis, Mo./ 1892-1896. Freiburg (Baden): B. Herder, 1908. [2nd edition: 1909] The Fortnightly Review (Chicago, Ill., 1894-1896; A Dictionary of Secret and Other Societies. St. Louis, Mo./ St. Louis, Mo., 1896-1935); edited 1894-1934. London: B. Herder Book Co., 1924. Title history Works About Alfred Preuss The Review, 1894-1904. Rory T. Conley, “Arthur Preuss: German-Catholic Exile in America.” U.S. Catholic Historian, 12(3), 1994: 41-62. The Catholic Fortnightly Review, 1905-1912. Rory T. Conley, Arthur Preuss: Journalist and Voice of The Fortnightly Review, 1912-1935. German and Conservative Catholics in America, 1871-1934. New German-American Studies, Vol. 16. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Photo Credits Both photos are taken from Internet Archive.

The purpose of this column is to bring some of the The author invites readers to suggest favorite, lesser-known contributors to Catholic print culture to relatively little-known figures in Catholic literature the attention of readers of Catholic Library World and (in the widest sense of the term) whom they would so to foster greater awareness of the richness and like to see featured in future columns. He can be vibrancy of this culture among its stewards in the reached at [email protected]. library, archive, and classroom.

Catholic Library World ~ 175 ~ March 2020 Kathy Harty Resource & Education Services Librarian, Leo Dehon Library Sacred Heart Seminary & School of Theology, Franklin, Wisconsin

Describe your career as a librarian and where you work. I am the Resource & Education Services Librarian at Sacred Heart Seminary & School of Theology, in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sacred Heart is a national seminary run as an apostolate of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (SCJ), an international order founded by Ven. Leo John Dehon in 1878. We have a seminary division that accepts students from dioceses and religious orders around the country, and a Master of Arts division that trains laity and seminarians for ministry in various parts of the Church. I’ve been at Sacred Heart since 1982 and have enjoyed pretty much every day!

My current duties include answering questions; helping faculty and students with research; co-teaching a first-year course (Theological Research & Writing) for all incoming Masters of Divinity students; being the library webmaster; creating LibGuides; assisting with inter-library loan; assisting faculty in using Populi, our learning management system; filming, streaming, and editing video for special events; learning more about online teaching; basically, many of the public services. In addition, the library staff is first-tier technical support for students, faculty, and staff — a nice variety of things, never a chance for boredom! Share something about yourself not related to librarianship. My husband and I have three children and two grandchildren. I also teach fourth grade religious education at our parish. • • • How does your faith inspire or fit in with your work? It’s a marvelous fit between the two because I don’t have to hide or suppress WITH my faith; it’s a part of helping to train future priests and lay people for ministry in the Church. It has also given me the opportunity to get a second master’s CATHOLIC degree in theology, and for attending conferences and other continuing education sessions. And I love to hear the faith journeys of our students, LIBRARY both lay and future ordained. ASSOCIATION When and why did you get involved in the CLA? I got involved with CLA through our local Wisconsin chapter. I had been MEMBERS encouraged by my library director to get involved locally, so I found out about WCLA and CLA. I served as the chair of the Academic/Library Education Section from 1991 to 1993, on the Executive Board from 1993 to 1995 as membership chair, and was the convention program editor from 1994 to1996. What has been your most rewarding experience with the CLA? I think my time on the board was wonderful, because CLA was going through a transitional time, and seeing how board members and members worked so hard to preserve this resource was inspiring. And to see how it’s been kept up is encouraging. What do you hope for the future of the CLA? CLA provides a much-needed forum, focus, and resource, particularly for those smaller libraries at the elementary and high school levels, which allows the librarians to form their students well. It’s also a place in which librarians in specifically Catholic situations, or who are Catholic, can discuss issues that are pertinent in a helpful atmosphere. n

Do you know a remarkable CLA member who we should learn about? To nominate a CLA member to be featured in CLA 920, e-mail the editor at [email protected].

Volume 90 No. 3 ~ 176 ~ Catholic Library World 2020 Regina Medal Recipient Christopher Paul Curtis

By Ebony McDonald

hristopher Paul Curtis is an award-winning African American author of children’s books. He was the first African American male to receive Cthe Newbery Medal for his second novel BUD, Not BUDDY, in 2000. It also was the first novel to receive the Newbery and the Coretta Scott King awards in the same year. He is best known for prompting young readers to engage and empathize with racially charged historical events, often tragic and disturbing, through the use of humorous first-person narratives of fictional pre-pubescent African American males. He is receiving the 2020 Regina Medal for his continued, distinguished contributions to regular nightmares children’s literature. about the factory, Curtis often situates his work within his hometown or waking and seeing of Flint, Michigan. He was born there on May 10, 1953, the door-hanging fixture at the to Herman E. Curtis, a chiropodist, and Leslie Curtis, a foot of my bed…I finally let it go because of an homemaker and, later, teacher of African American history. overwhelming desire I had to do anything, anything other He was the second of five children. Although his father was than put another damned door on another damned Buick” a doctor, many of his patients were poor and unable to afford (McDonald 2019). While continuing with school, he took treatment, so Dr. Curtis filled in this income gap through on various low-paying jobs that he hated, such as unloading work at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1. trucks in a warehouse (Levin 2006, 8). After graduating from Flint Southwestern High Like his parents, Curtis had always been a great reader, School in 1971, Curtis spent his summer touring Europe, but had also known from a very early age that he would performing the work of Langston Hughes with the Suitcase become a writer. “I can remember being nine or ten years Theatre group out of Lansing, Michigan. He then returned old and telling my brother and sisters, ‘One day I’m going to Flint and, despite being accepted to the University of to write a book and make a lot of money’” (McDonald 2019). Michigan-Flint, spent the next thirteen years of his life at His opportunity to write full-time came in 1993 with the this same plant as his father because the work paid so well. encouragement of his wife Kaysandra Sookram, a nurse with whom he has a son and daughter. She convinced him Curtis worked the assembly line at the plant, hanging to take a year off to focus on further crafting his gift. eighty-pound car doors on Buicks for ten hours per day while also working toward his political science degree In this year, he took a writing class at the University of part-time in night school. During his downtime on the line Michigan, where he entered short stories, an essay about (about every thirty minutes he and a coworker alternated leaving his factory job, and a novel (that was then titled hanging the doors), Curtis read works from his favorite The Watsons Go to Florida) into a contest for the Hopwood authors such as Toni Morrison, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Awards. The novel and essay won first place, earning him a and Zora Neal Hurston. He also wrote stories of his own. prize of $4,000. Using directories at the local public library Eventually, he left the plant because he found it extremely where he often wrote, he found two publisher-sponsored unpleasant. “I quit because I was so worn out from the contests and submitted the novel to them. Delacorte Press

Catholic Library World ~ 177 ~ March 2020 signed him and eventually published his first book have an outline or anything. I don’t know where the story’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 in 1995. going to go. I don’t know who’s going to be telling the story The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 earned more so when the narrator comes to me, I keep a list of character than twenty-five major awards, including the Newbery traits to be consistent” (Johnson 2001). Still, he does not Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor awards; has been think of himself as a children’s or young adult author and, translated into eleven languages; and, in 2013, was adapted while cognizant of who reads his works, does not actively into a Hallmark movie. The story centers on the Watson allow his audience to influence his writing process because family of Flint, who, prompted by the ill behavior of he writes purely for the love of writing. the oldest son Byron, take a trip south to Birmingham, Curtis is nonetheless conscious that his works are telling Alabama, during the summer of 1963. The parents intend African American stories by an African American male to leave Byron with his strict grandmother for the summer and that there is a dearth of this kind of representation in and possibly the following year. Their visit coincides with children’s literature. “One of the sad reasons The Watsons is the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, a historical so successful is there are so few Young Adult books — or any tragedy that resulted in the death of four little girls (to books, comparatively speaking — by African American men” whom he dedicated the work). Kenny, Bryon’s younger (Morgan 2002). Like his favorite author Toni Morrison, he brother who is ten years old, narrates the story and is the understands the desire to develop narratives exclusively same age as Curtis was when this real event occurred. for black audiences. His editor suggested that he include Inspiration for Curtis’s novels originate from more more white characters in The Watsons so that the book than just historical events. They also come from his could be more relatable to white audiences. Yet, growing life experiences, which is also why they emphasize the up, his interactions with whites were limited and not part importance of family, one of Curtis’s deeply held values. For of his own personal experience. “As a writer, I don’t think instance, his grandfathers, Earl “Lefty” Lewis and Herman of the audience in those terms: I don’t consciously say, I’m E. Curtis, and Herman’s band, The Dusky Devastators of the targeting this book at this particular group. I think what is Depression, informed his second novel BUD, Not BUDDY most important, if you have a story to tell, is that you tell (1999). Bud is a ten-year-old orphan in Flint during the your story…” (Morgan 2002). Great Depression who, using clues left by his mother, runs The most impressive element of Curtis’s fiction is away from his foster home to locate his father in Grand the way in which he encourages young readers of all Rapids, Michigan. These clues include old promotional backgrounds to empathize with historical tragedy through flyers for a performance by Herman E. Calloway and his deep character development and the use of humor. He Dusky Devastators of the Depression, a jazz band in the insists upon his young readers understanding how history history of the novel. Bud believes the legendary bandleader affects ordinary people whom they like and can relate to, to be his father and optimistically crosses the state in hopes such as the Watsons, Bud, or Elijah. He hopes that his of being embraced as a long lost son. works spark their curiosity about these events and motivate His novels also uniquely capture the African American them to continue to read. “My biggest hope is that my experience for a young audience. Elijah of Buxton (2007) younger readers will feel a sense of curiosity when they is the first in a trilogy based in Buxton, Ontario, a historic finish one of my books. I hope I’ve piqued their interest settlement created for and by former African American in whatever I’m writing about and that will lead them to slaves who escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. further investigation of the subject. Ideally, they’ll seek out It tells the story of eleven-year-old Bud, the first child a nonfiction book and see where my story sits historically” born free there, who discovers the horrors that his family (McDonald 2019). endured as slaves. Curtis uses this story to dramatically Christopher Paul Curtis received a Bachelor of General highlight the impact of the n-word based on his own Studies degree from the University of Michigan-Flint experience as a young boy attending his first integrated in 2000. He currently lives in Windsor, Canada, with school. “I did something in this novel that I usually try to his wife and two children. His most recent novel, avoid: I tried to teach... I went out of my way to try to give The Journey of Little Charlie (2018), is the third book a lesson to young readers, to let them see the evil behind in the Buxton trilogy. n this (and many other) words” (Rochman 2008). Elijah won the Coretta Scott King Book Award, a Newbery Honor Book Ebony McDonald is the African and African-American designation, and a Scott O’Dell Award. Studies Diversity Librarian and first participant in the Although Curtis never intended to become a children’s Diversity Residency Program at Louisiana State University author (that decision was made by the publisher of The Libraries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She assists with library Watsons), his writing technique involves letting the child communications and publications while also supporting narrators come to him rather than searching for them. He research and learning in her subject area. She received her hears their voices and allows their stories to inhabit and Master of Science in Library Science from the University of manifest through him. “When I am writing a story I don’t North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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1995 The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963 Delacorte Press 1999 BUD, Not BUDDY Delacorte Press 2004 Bucking the Sarge Wendy Lamb Books 2016 2005 Madman of Piney Woods Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money Scholastic Press Yearling, an imprint Book 2 in the of Random House Buxton Trilogy Children’s Books 2018 2007 The Journey of Little Mr. Chickee’s Messy Mission Charlie Yearling Scholastic Press Book 3 in the 2007 Buxton Trilogy Elijah of Buxton Scholastic Press Book 1 in the Buxton Trilogy 2012 The Mighty Miss Malone Wendy Lamb Books

References List Barker, Jani L. 2013. “Naive Narrators and Double Narratives of Racially Motivated Violence in the Historical Fiction of Christopher Paul Curtis.” Children’s Literature 41, no. 1: 172-203. 41, no. 1: 172–203. Christopher Paul Curtis. n.d. “Biography.” Videos of Christopher Paul Curtis. Accessed February 10, 2020. https://nobodybutcurtis.com/biography Johnson, Nancy J., Cyndi Giorgis, and Christopher Paul Curtis. 2000. “2000 Newbery Medal Winner: A Conversation with Christopher Paul Curtis.” The Reading Teacher 54, no. 4: 424. Lamb, Wendy. 2000. “Christopher Paul Curtis.” Horn Book Magazine 76, no. 4: 397. Levin, Judy. 2006. Christopher Paul Curtis. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group. McDonald, Jennie. 2019. “Interview with Christopher Paul Curtis.” Collaborative Circle Blog. Center for the Collaborative Classroom. Published May 3, 2019. https://www.collaborativeclassroom.org/blog/interview-with-christopher-paul-curtis/ Morgan, Peter E. 2002. “History for Our Children: An Interview with Christopher Paul Curtis, a Contemporary Voice in African American Young Adult Fiction.” MELUS, no. 2: 197. Rochman, Hazel. 2008. “The Booklist Interview: Christopher Paul Curtis.” Booklist. Schneider, Dean. 2008. “Talking with Christopher Paul Curtis.” Book Links 18, no. 2: 14.

Catholic Library World ~ 179 ~ March 2020 An Interview with Author Sonja Livingston By Jen Cullerton Johnson

CULLERTON  The Virgin of Prince Street inspires so many readers to consider their connections and reconnections to the Catholic Church. You have traveled to several places to explore Catholicism in action. What are the unexpected connections the book has brought forth for you and others? Which connections from your journeys were most surprising? LIVINGSTON  In many ways, the book took shape because of how shocked I was to discover my deep and ongoing connection to Catholicism even after years away. Each essay explores a specific point of connection— such as the missing statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the fading sacrament of Reconciliation, or the history of my struggling urban church in Rochester, New York. What ties these various threads together is my curiosity about the changing nature of tradition, in general, and the idea of devotion, more specifically. The writing led me to some fascinating people— such as Father Michael Champagne, who runs a mobile confessional booth in St. Martinville, Louisiana, and Mary Holland, who purchased one of the seventy-seven Catholic churches that closed in Buffalo in the mid- 2000s and transformed it into a sanctuary to preserve religious artifacts from closed worship sites. There were many connections like this, but besides making a series of physical expeditions, I traveled through time to revisit old stories which introduced me to people from the past, such as Sister Lilian Marie McLaughlin, a 26-year-old teacher who lost her life in a 1967 church fire. Some of the most surprising interactions have been with readers. When I wrote an article about searching for the missing statue for America magazine, a man in Sonja Livingston’s latest California wrote to share his memory of praying before book, The Virgin of Prince Mary on his lunch breaks while he was a student at the Street: Expeditions into Eastman School of Music in the 1960s. It turns out Devotion, uses an unexpected that his Mary was also my Mary and it was wonderful to return to her childhood read of his memory of the exact statue that, fifty years church as an occasion to travel later, I’d been looking to find. The most unexpected through space and time to connection came from the copy editor who e-mailed to explore the changes in the say that editing my book for publication reminded him of larger Church and in her own all he’d loved about Catholicism and had sent him back life. The result is a generous to church! but unflinching look at the shifting Roman Catholic Church and changing concepts of devotion. Livingston is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and teaches in the postgraduate program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and in the Gap Creek Writers Studio. She is married to the artist Jim Mott.

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CULLERTON  What does it mean to be a Catholic CULLERTON  Catholicism celebrates life. There writer in this complicated moment we live in? How does are many moments of joy and revelation in your writing. being a Catholic writer expand your perspective both Which essay brought you the most joy to write? locally and globally? LIVINGSTON  That’s a wonderful but tough LIVINGSTON  I’ll get to the larger part of this question! Each essay—even the difficult subjects— wonderful question in a moment, but first want to rendered some unexpected moments of revelation. I’m acknowledge that one of Catholicism’s gifts is its thinking of my meditation on a Corpus Christi procession revelation of the power and beauty of language. Even in Ireland, which begins with a discussion of the fading as a kid from a family that couldn’t afford books, I tradition, but, by the end, becomes a wash of language soaked in the rhythms and possibilities of language at and a celebration of the incarnational aspects of faith. Mass once a week, sometimes more. I learned to pay Another essay, “Litany for a Dying Church,” confronts attention to words and noticed their ability to elevate the sad reality of church closings, but takes a sudden experience, to connect us to something larger than our turn to joy by imagining all the lives brought together individual lives or limited understanding. Pat Conroy said and touched by a particular church. I try to consider it beautifully: “Because I was raised Roman Catholic, a hundred years of weddings and funerals, all the I never feared taking any unchaperoned walks through coffee hours, 50/50 raffles and potlucks—a century the fields of language. Words lifted me up and filled me of confessions and first Communions and sung prayers. with pleasure.” In a strange way, returning to a tradition that’s often Beyond this deep-rooted attention to language, being in the news for all the wrong reasons these days brought a Catholic writer means being anchored in a sense of me the greatest joy. Don’t get me wrong, it also brought the sacred in the everyday. For Catholics, the simplest plenty of doubt and fear— but returning to a tradition objects are saturated with mystery and significance. I’m so clearly troubled expanded my capacity to hold on to thinking of holy water as it lands in droplets on the skin, what’s good (in myself and others) even as I struggle the swinging censer at funerals or the collective voices with its flaws. My usual pattern of walking away to look singing psalms each and every week at Mass. The sheer for the perfect job, the perfect relationship, the perfect physicality of the Catholic tradition sharpens (and almost church was challenged. There is no perfect church, I demands) the recognition of the sacred in the ordinary. realized. There is no perfect anything. I don’t mean to This profoundly influences the way I see and write. If the suggest that we should accept or excuse bad behavior, water is holy at Mass, for instance, it’s not a stretch to only that I discovered that there’s an astounding amount see it as holy when I’m walking along the James River or of goodness waiting to be found, often exactly where looking for birds at Lake Ontario. If I’m able to shake the we are. hand of the person beside me during the sign of peace CULLERTON  Is there anything book groups at Mass, or hold it during the Our Father—though she should know? may not share my political preferences, neighborhood or skin color—it’s similarly possible to extend a hand LIVINGSTON  I love to visit book groups and to people who are different from me at work, in my classrooms and often do so via Skype or telephone. community, or in places I’ve never been. This may seem For the next few months, I’m offering Virgin Mary like a relatively minor matter, but we’re living in a time keychains (the cover image from the book) for groups of such massive disconnection (between ourselves and with eight (or more) members who adopt the book! I also others, between ourselves and the natural world) that give readings and book talks around the country and am the ability to locate beauty and goodness in the world always glad to be invited to universities, churches, and around us opens radical possibilities. community groups. n Sonjalivingston.com | Twitter: @sonjalivingston FB: /sonjalivingston | Instagram: sonjalivvy

Jen Cullerton Johnson lives and writes in Chicago. Her most recent publication is a children's book titled The Story of an Environmentalist (Lee & Low, 2019). jencullertonjohnson.com

Catholic Library World ~ 181 ~ March 2020 CLA Fall 2019 Virtual Conference Keynote Presentation — Kerry Weber Lynch

Presented October 17, 2019

KERRY WEBER LYNCH is an executive editor of America, where she has worked since 2009, and author of Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job (Loyola Press), which received a 2014 Christopher Award, as well as awards from the Catholic Press Association and the Association of Catholic Publishers. Her writing and multimedia work have earned several awards from the Catholic Press Association, and in 2013 she reported from Rwanda as a recipient of Catholic Relief Services’ Egan Journalism Fellowship recognizing excellence in the Catholic media. She is a graduate of Providence College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. From 2004 to 2005, Weber Lynch volunteered through the Mercy Volunteer Corps as a special-education teacher on the Navajo reservation in St. Michael’s, Arizona. She has been a Mercy Associate since 2012. She is a board member of the Ignatian Solidarity Network.

Volume 90 No. 3 ~ 182 ~ Catholic Library World or many years my mother wrote a weekly helping people write column in our diocesan newspaper. When books. These are I was eight years old, she offered up her all good things. Our column space to allow me to write about ultimate aim is to how I felt about making my first Communion, preach the Gospel. We as well as how it felt to be a kid and what want to nourish people. FGod means to me. I began the section on my first We want to work for Communion with this stunning lead: “Alleluia, Alleluia, justice and peace. Praise the Lord for I am making my first Communion Social media, the Web, April 28, 1990.” I followed that by saying I was very video, and radio, all can excited. Actually, what I wrote was that I was very, help us to do this. It very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very excited— just depends on how using ten verys. we use them. We as a For good measure, the section on being a kid Church cannot afford included a series of complaints about how I’d eaten only to just completely home fries and milk for lunch, but that I wished I had write off any new forms also ordered a hot dog, and how I was upset that my of communication, because in doing so brother didn’t help me clean the family room. In writing Libraries become a about God, I said, “When I say my own prayer it goes we might write off the like this: ‘Dear God, please don’t let anything bad ever people they reach. And ministry for others when happen, and if anything does please make it better what we want is to invite they inspire people right away.’” people in. Now, in my prayer life since, I can’t say I’ve entirely In his World to read not just for moved away from asking God to make things better right Communications Day themselves, but because away, but I am happy to say that my understanding of our message a few years back, Pope Benedict faith—and of its elements of service, dialogue, prayer, they hope that what they and discernment—has grown somewhat since then. wrote that social media And I’m happy to report, to this group especially, that a needs “the commitment read might transform large part of that growth has come from reading great of all who are conscious how they treat others. books. Whether picking up a children’s Bible, the works of the value of dialogue, of Dorothy Day or G.K. Chesterton, or my colleagues at reasoned debate, and America, Catholic books especially, time and again, have logical argumentation; helped me to worry less about what I had for lunch or of people who strive to cultivate forms of discourse and who cleaned which room, and a bit more about doing expression which appeal to the noblest aspirations of my part to make things better—if not right away, at those engaged in the communication process.” These least eventually. are lofty words for digital spaces often dominated by cat pictures. Yet it isn’t always easy, especially these days, to focus on the lessons I’ve learned through these books. But he’s right. We need that. And we need that Each day our brains are bombarded with information, in all spheres. But how do we actually help to form coming in at faster speeds than ever, yet perhaps of people capable of encountering information in that far more variation of quality than ever. So it is often way? People capable of true charity, hope, and love difficult to figure out what exactly is worth our time. while in conversation in the digital world or in person? We are reading constantly, but often it is only snippets How do we make sure people are, in fact, entering of thoughts or online conversations or Facebook posts into conversation at all? How do we keep people from that, while not without their value, don’t necessarily spending all their time scrolling without ever stopping satisfy in the same way as something more permanent, to truly start thinking? Well, no pressure, but a big part deliberate, thoughtful. You know, like books. of this may be up to you: because what you do, as librarians, is to promote the value of information, of Now I’m not a Luddite, and, as I said, digital truth, of that dialogue and noble discourse, often one technology and social media and YouTube can have book at a time. real value. I literally wrote parts of my own book on the notepad function on my iPhone while riding the subway As we learn more about where digital developments and then e-mailed them to myself so that I could copy can take us—or how they might distract us—we must them into my Google document. I shared status updates always be mindful of the needs of the person interacting about my progress on Facebook and was encouraged with them. Is there an underlying message in their by friends and family. There are now apps devoted to tweets and Facebook posts and Instagram photos

Catholic Library World ~ 183 ~ March 2020 or even research methods, that tells us what people show pity or charity or justice. I read Hard Times actually are yearning for below the surface? So when by Charles Dickens, and learned about the tragedy we think about sharing books and information and how of poor working conditions, and the dangers of taking it might resonate with others, we must have in mind a Utilitarianism too far. I entered into the many mansions sense of what so many people are trying to find in the of St. Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle, where she argued midst of the business and distraction of our days. We that the “Lord does not care so much for the importance want to be of use. We want to be seen. We want to help, of our works as for the love with which they are done.” to inform, to be informed, to connect, to feel a little bit Now reading books such as these can be a way less alone in our struggles and joys. Libraries become a to become really good at trivia, or to become a more ministry for others when they inspire people to read not impressive conversationalist at cocktail parties. But, just for themselves, but because they hope that what more than anything, it can help to make us better they read might transform how they treat others. people. And libraries can help to provide a community The good news is that study after study shows that in which to process all these ideas, along with one’s people who read any books are well positioned to be own doubts, fears, and hopes. In a world filled with exactly the sort of person Pope Benedict describes. You distraction, the library setting can help people to can find studies that say that people who read books focus on what is important. And the foundation built are nicer. They are the best people to fall in love with. there allows people to continue to be part of these They are more successful, more empathetic, more discussions, to ask questions long after walking out thoughtful. They are leaders. the doors. And thankfully these discussions are ongoing Since having my children a few years ago, I have had and great writers and thinkers and theologians continue to make very deliberate decisions about how I spend my to move and change the world today. And as of late, time. I have had to let go of some things I loved to make perhaps no one has fueled these discussions and sure I had time for my family. And in doing this, I have captured the world like Pope Francis. come to realize that books, the reading of them, the Now, one of the major themes of his papacy is writing of them, remain worthy of my time. And not only mercy. Now mercy sometimes gets a bad rap, as a that, they are crucial to helping build the sort of home kind of letting someone off the hook when they turn in and world I want my children to experience. a paper late. But Francis has reminded us that mercy So much of my own growth through the years has is not simply a grace requested in supplication and been a result of people pointing me to books that urge passively received. It is a motivating force, furthering me to look more closely at the people around me. I the work of justice and love. “[T]he ministers of the remember arriving at college, newly independent. I knew Church must be ministers of mercy above all,” Francis I was still sorting out exactly what I believed in, and why said in the interview published in America. This is not a I believed it, and then trying to determine, crucially, what request from which we can opt out. Mercy, in Francis’s action was required to demonstrate these beliefs. At world, calls us, allows us, requires us to become better. college, I had my first chance to truly study things like And it is a call to all people of good will. But how should the history that has shaped our society’s views on race we begin? and class, the literature inspired by revolutions, or the The answer, perhaps, can be found in another part theology fueling our care for the poor. of that interview, in a wonderfully invented word from And what I found out was that, as it turns out, I Pope Francis: mercy-ing. In turning the noun into a verb, wasn’t the first person to consider these questions. a sentiment into an action, Francis calls us not only to One of the most beautiful aspects of the library is that have mercy or to show mercy, but to embody mercy. The it contains within it a wide range of subjects that cover word emphasizes the active element of mercy, as a our collective past and that provide meaningful context force that binds us, compels us, and enables us to love for our world right now. Librarians can point people one another more fully—just people acting justly. toward books and other resources that will help people Mercying is a call to allow ourselves to be moved, think more deeply about those basic questions of our to proceed deliberately and with compassion. In short, own lives, questions of service and community and the mercying is a call to listen to one another with love. It greater good. allows us to realize the power of words, clearly and My time reading in the library at college introduced lovingly spoken, and of the Word of God, humbly lived. me to Aristotle, who theorized that the just person Pope Francis has made clear that, in whatever we is produced by doing just acts in the way that a just pursue, being merciful means we must make an effort to person would do them. I met St. Thomas Aquinas who, see people first—“individual persons, one at a time,” he apparently, was pretty good at asking and answering says. And libraries offer as many chances to do this as questions himself. He asked questions about what it there are people who walk through those doors. You see means to be merciful and virtuous, what it means to patrons not as numbers or statistics, but as individuals.

Volume 90 No. 3 ~ 184 ~ Catholic Library World And you work hard to Following graduation from college, I joined the Libraries can point meet visitors where they Mercy Volunteer Corps and taught special education are, as they are. on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. One afternoon people toward books and While writing my one of the students in my class wasn’t feeling well. other resources that will book, I committed She was nonverbal, so she sometimes had difficulty forty days to a spiritual communicating to us how she was feeling. On this day help people think more experiment during which she was too ill to tell us anything at all and she got sick all over herself. All over. I took her to help her get deeply about those basic I tried to do each of the corporal works of cleaned up, and I was feeling both a bit grossed out and questions of our own mercy: feed the hungry, a bit noble, I suppose for taking this on. She was quite give drink to the thirsty, small, so when I knelt down I was at about eye level with lives, questions of service visit the sick, visit the her. She put her hand on my shoulder to steady herself and just looked at me expectantly, knowing that I would and community and the imprisoned, clothe the naked, shelter the help her and with this look that sort of just said, “Okay, greater good. homeless, and bury the go ahead, and do what you’re supposed to do.” And I dead. But I’ve found just knew right away that what I was doing did not make that that effort to think me special. It was just exactly the sort of attention and deliberately about these care for others that I needed to be showing, in some things has lasted far beyond one particular season and form, every day. I have never felt so clearly that I was has seeped into my life in surprising and enduring ways. looking into the face of Christ as when I saw her looking at me that day. That’s how I picture God, someone who Because, in the end, the question at the heart of my puts a hand on your challenge as I wrote about it wasn’t, “How do I meet the shoulder and says, minimum standard for being merciful?” but rather, “How But Francis has reminded “Okay, let’s go.” Do what do I do these works of mercy sincerely and in a way that you’ve been called to is meaningful and fosters relationships with the people us that mercy is not do — and that is what around me and with God?” This is an eternal challenge we’re all called to do: simply a grace requested for all of us. to love and to serve. Many people might not immediately associate these in supplication and As librarians you acts with libraries, but the connection is easy to make. have opportunities each passively received. It In public libraries today, the space provided is often a day to truly see each literal refuge, where someone can escape the heat or is a motivating force, person—people coming cold and settle down with a good book or do research on with their doubts and job opportunities, or meet with other parents of young furthering the work of insecurities, coming children to socialize, or meet with other teens to stay from messy situations justice and love. out of trouble. In college, they can offer quiet, infinite and trying to make research opportunities, a new community, or even just sense of new ideas, refuge from an annoying roommate. new concepts—and to Librarians everywhere satiate the hunger and thirst treat them as an “individual person one at a time,” as of people yearning for knowledge, they offer people a Francis says. You have the power—whether through peace-filled destination, and then further direct them to enhancing information literacy, ordering great Catholic new subjects or histories or far-off lands through books books, hosting conversations about faith and reason, or that can help people to escape from the imprisonment just helping them find the right books—to put a hand of isolation or fear or monotony or ignorance. Librarians on someone’s shoulder and help them do what they’ve help to clothe people in the knowledge that they are been called to do. part of a long line of curious people striving to learn But in order to be good guides for others, we more about themselves and the world and to make ourselves need to be oriented toward God. St. both better. Librarians help us to remember and value Ignatius talks about the need to recognize and let voices long dead but resurrected each time someone go of “attachments” or “unfreedoms,” those things begins browsing their words and ideas. Librarians can that keep us from readily loving God. These things help people to feel at home in the world and shelter can be anything—obsession with money or fame or from the storms of distraction or division that so often relationships or material possessions or fears. As bombard us. we determine the best way to serve others where we are, we are called to proceed in a spirit of Ignatian detachment. In everyday life we tend to think of detachment as meaning that we are coldly removed from something or that we don’t care about something.

Catholic Library World ~ 185 ~ March 2020 But in the context of Ignatian spirituality it means that The sixth is getting our priorities straight. If we say we will accept with care and gratitude whatever it is that our ultimate goal is to do God’s will for us, how do our we receive from God. It allows us to find peace. daily decisions reflect that? Ignatius writes: “God has Of course there are as many ways to live mercy created me out of love, and my salvation is found in in our world as there are people wanting to try to do my living out a return of that love. All my choices, then, so. And so each of us must discern how to proceed must be consistent with this given direction in my life.” and how God is calling us. Ignatius offers attitudes or Finally, St. Ignatius urges us not to confuse qualities needed for an authentic discernment process. the ends with the means. We must recognize that And these are very well distilled by the Jesuit Warren friendships and relationships and jobs and talents all Sazama, SJ, in Some Ignatian Principles for Making are not ends in themselves, but are ways in which we Prayerful Decisions and they are important to keep serve and love God. These things are manifestations in mind, because they’re also good qualities to try to of our larger goal of living out God’s will, obeying God’s cultivate in anyone working to serve others and to serve commandment to love one another as God has loved God, as you are. It’s so easy to get bogged down by the us. In this obedience we find freedom to be more open, politics of a university or a city or your institution or the present, and generous with each other. budget constraints and the limits that may have been But no matter how you choose to live out mercy in placed on you. Developing an attitude of discernment your work and in your world, the good news is that your helps us to make deliberate decisions about how we will work is already inextricably linked with one of the most respond in merciful ways when the opportunity arises. radical, powerful forces on the planet: books. So often The first is openness. We can’t truly discern if we talk about curling up with a good book, but the reality we enter into the process simply trying to convince is that to read a book is to take a stand. It says “this is ourselves that God wants the thing for us that is easiest. worth my time.” Reading a physical book is an activity We can’t say I am discerning finding a new job that that must be chosen over all other actions. It is nearly could be more satisfying, but only if it will also make impossible to read a book and do anything else well. me a millionaire. We have to be open to change, to the Reading says “I am willing to learn, to listen, to grow.” unexpected, to the God of surprises. Books start revolutions. They provide comfort, escape, The second is generosity. To be open, we need to foundations, and educations, all of which are much be willing to give fully of ourselves, to sometimes allow needed now, as they always have been. God to tell us how much and when to give, rather than In a time of distraction and division, good books deciding ahead of time and placing our own limits. and good libraries truly have the potential to help The third is courage. Discernment is a risk. change—and maybe save—the world. And here are a We might be called to change in ways that are few reasons why. uncomfortable at first. We have to be brave to let go. Libraries offer opportunities for surprise. All too The fourth is interior freedom. This comes back often we, whether intentionally or mistakenly, try to lock to those attachments and “unfreedoms” I mentioned God out of our lives, not by becoming atheists, but by earlier. It is easy to be distracted by all the goods in our refusing to see Christ in those around us, by sometimes lives that mean that we never get around to thinking arguing, as Thomas might have, “THIS isn’t how I about what is most important and what God really expected God to show up!” wants of us and how to be truly present. To truly make Yet good books help us to acknowledge that God a prayerful decision we have to be willing to have no might appear in our lives in unexpected ways and strings attached. Ignatius talks here about trying not to might speak to us through someone very different from be someone who is all talk and no action or all action ourselves. And we must remember that what we hear or and no focus. see or experience might jar us, challenge us, surprise us. The fifth is creating a habit of prayerful reflection. Good librarians have the opportunity to surprise Prayerful decision making is especially difficult if we’re readers through helping to guide their choices. To not actually praying. And I’ve done this myself, worried offer the work of a fellow person of faith on a different so much about something and then realizing that I topic or perspective from their usual beat or to offer hadn’t prayed about it at all, in part because I had a a nuanced and thoughtful perspective that can help hunch that I might be moved to do something that I readers to see all people as, well, people, with depth didn’t really want to do. But this is where that Examen and complexity. can be really important and useful. This is where we Libraries offer a chance for reconciliation in a pay attention to what Ignatius calls our consolations world that often encourages division. Libraries have and desolations. the opportunity to bring together people from across all backgrounds, ethnicities, faiths, and socioeconomic backgrounds for discussion, whether that is through

Volume 90 No. 3 ~ 186 ~ Catholic Library World lecture series, art On the road to Emmaus, Jesus arrives in the But no matter how you exhibits, study groups, midst of daily life. His presence there reminds us that or something else. sometimes that thing we had hoped for is what is choose to live out mercy And if you end up in a happening right this moment, if only we would recognize in your work and in your debate with someone, it. If only we could recognize that burning in our hearts you’ll have all the for what it is and follow it. If only we could continue to world, the good news is resources you need to become more like ourselves, even as we are not yet fully prove you’re right, right who we are meant to be. that your work is already in front of you. Yet this is not easy. We are busy. We are tired. inextricably linked with In some ways, the We are scared. We think we will do these things element of surprise I imperfectly. We resist grace. Yet we are also part of a one of the most radical, mentioned before may community of believers that is called to break down powerful forces on the be a helpful step toward barriers; and at the center of that community is the uniting a sometimes Word, the Word made flesh, the Word known to some planet: books. fractured Church and for the first time or met for the millionth time through world. Surprise is an the words that you publish, words that move us to act emotion that disarms. as Christ in the world and to search for the presence of When we are caught off Christ in others, words that encourage us to seek the guard, we become vulnerable, and often it is in our most grace to accept those graces acting on us, which brings vulnerable times that we are most open to accepting me to my last point. grace, and to truly treating one another with mercy, Libraries can help us to build community and in to accepting mercy, to truly being changed, to saying, doing so, to grow in our humanity. True community as Thomas did upon recognizing Christ, “My Lord means coming together on behalf of each other, both and my God.” in spite of our differences and in celebration of our Libraries empower people to seek the truth. differences. It means that we step out of our usual As librarians, you have the chance to offer people an habits and patterns. We let each other know that they opportunity to overcome self-doubt, to feel empowered are welcome, that all people are at home here in our about learning, to open their minds and hearts. In a Church, in our world. In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis time of so much “fake news” it helps to be able to writes that “an evangelizing community is filled with joy; discern the truth. You help people to understand what it knows how to rejoice always. It celebrates every small it means to be a reliable source of information and victory, every step forward…. An evangelizing community you serve as just that yourselves. 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Theology/Spirituality The God Who Acts in History: Conscious Contact with God: The The Significance of Sinai...... 196 Psalms for Addiction and Recovery...... 202 2 Kings...... 188 Hans Urs von Balthasar on A Course in Desert Spirituality: Agnostic at the Altar: the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises: Fifteen Sessions with the Searching for Transcendence An Anthology...... 196 Famous Trappist Monk...... 203 in the Story of the Prophets...... 188 Hearers of the Word: Praying Eight Ways of Loving God: American Parishes: & Exploring the Readings As Revealed by Love Himself...... 203 Remaking Local Catholicism...... 188 for Advent & Christmas: Year A...... 196 Faithful Friendships: Avery Dulles: Essential Writings Hearing John’s Voice: Insights Embracing Diversity in from America Magazine...... 189 for Teaching and Preaching...... 197 Christian Community...... 204 Becoming New: Finding God Interpreting the New Testament: The Flowing Grace of Now: within Us and in Creation...... 189 An Introduction...... 197 Encountering Wisdom through the Weeks of the Year...... 204 Birth of a Dancing Star: Jesus Wasn’t Killed by the Jews: My Journey from Cradle Reflections for Christians in Lent...... 197 Francis of Assisi: Catholic to Cyborg Christian...... 189 Messenger for Today’s World...... 204 Mark...... 198 Building Bridges in Sarajevo: Giving Thanks and Letting Go: Mary in Different Traditions: The Plenary Papers Reflections on the Gift Seeing the Mother of Jesus from CTEWC 2018...... 190 of Motherhood...... 205 with New Eyes...... 198 Catholicity and Emerging Glimpses of the Gospels: On Creation, Science, Personhood: A Contemporary Theological, Spiritual & Disenchantment, and the Theological Anthropology...... 190 Practical Reflections...... 205 Contours of Being and Knowing...... 198 Christ and the Common Life: Habits for a Healthy Marriage: The Psalms as Christian Praise: Political Theology and the A Handbook for Catholic Couples...... 205 A Historical Commentary...... 199 Case for Democracy...... 191 The Handbook for The Rhetoric of Pope Francis: Church As Dynamic Catholic Moms...... 206 Critical Mercy and Conversion Life-System: Shared Ministries and for the Twenty-First Century...... 199 Happiness in God: Memories Common Responsibilities...... 191 and Reflections of the Theological Territories...... 199 Compassionate Christ, Father Abbot of La Trappe...... 206 Compassionate People: Liturgical Toward a catholic Christianity: How We Love: A Formation Foundations of Christian Spirituality...... 191 A Study in Critical Belonging...... 200 for the Celibate Life...... 206 The Doctor of Mercy: The Vision of Vatican II: Jesus Speaking: The Sacred Treasures of Its Fundamental Principles...... 200 Heart to Heart with the King...... 207 St. Gregory of Narek...... 192 Vulnerable and Free: Live Big, Love Bigger: Drop Your Nets and Follow Jesus: An Encouragement for Those Getting Real With BBQ, How to Form Disciples for the Sharing in the Life of Jesus...... 200 Sweet Tea, and a Whole Lotta Jesus...... 207 New Evangelization...... 193 When the Disciple Comes Pray Fully: Simple Steps for Eating Together, Becoming of Age: Christian Identity in Becoming a Woman of Prayer...... 207 One: Taking Up Pope Francis’s the Twenty-First Century...... 201 Call To Theologians...... 193 Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know...... 208 The End of the Beginning: Pastoral Joshua & Judges...... 193 Teachings for an Unbelieving Art and Architecture for World: Newly Discovered Faith and Evolution: Congregational Worship: Reflections on Paul’s Sermon A Grace-Filled Naturalism...... 194 The Search for a Common Ground...... 201 at the Areopagus...... 208 Full of Your Glory: Becoming An Ordinary Mystic: What Does the Bible Say Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation...... 194 Spirituality for the Rest of Us...... 202 About…? Old Age...... 208 Go Forth: Toward a Community A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms...... 202 of Missionary Disciples...... 195 Catholic Hipster: The Next God, Mystery, and Mystification...... 195 Level: How Some Awesomely Obscure Stuff Helps Us Live Our Faith with Passion...... 202

Catholic Library World ~ 229 ~ March 2020 Professional Coaching Copyright...... 215 The Magical Bookshop...... 222 The Culture of Digital Scholarship My Shoes and I: Crossing in Academic Libraries...... 215 Three Borders/Mis Zapatos Y Yo: BIOGRAPHY Cruzando Tres Fronteras...... 222 The Data Wrangler’s The Radical Gospel of Handbook: Simple Tools My Wild Cat...... 223 Bishop Thomas Gumbleton...... 209 for Powerful Results...... 216 Pixie Pushes On...... 223 Sharing Life: Stories of Design Thinking...... 216 L’Arche Founders ...... 209 A Queen in Jerusalem...... 223 Leadership: Strategic Thinking, St. Gianna: Her Life of Joy Thank You!...... 224 Decision Making, Communication, and Heroic Sacrifice...... 209 and Relationship Building...... 216 Together We Can!...... 224 Stronger than Death: The Library Workplace Idea Tomorrow I’ll Be Kind...... 224 How Annalena Tonelli Defied Book: Proactive Steps for Terror and Tuberculosis in Watch This! A Book Positive Change...... 217 the Horn of Africa...... 210 About Making Shapes...... 224 Mapping the Imaginary: Thea Bowman: What If...? Then We...: Supporting Creative Writers Faithful and Free...... 210 Short, Very Short, through Programming, Shorter-than-Ever Possibilities...... 225 Prompts, and Research...... 217 CHURCH HISTORY Overdue: A Dewey Decimal NONFICTION Many Tongues, One Faith: System of Grace...... 217 A History of Franciscan The Boy Who Touched the Stars/ Parish Life in the United States...... 210 The Public Library El Niño Que Alcanzó las Estrellas...... 225 Director’s Toolkit...... 218 Upper West Side Catholics: From Farmworker to Astronaut: Liberal Catholicism in a Seamless Youth Services My Path to the Stars Conservative Archdiocese: for Every Age and Stage...... 218 De Campesino a Astronauta: The Church of the Ascension, Techniques for Electronic Mi Viaje a las Estrellas...... 225 New York City, 1895-2020...... 211 Resource Management: TERMS Like a Lizard...... 226 and the Transition to Open...... 218 Voice of Empathy: A History The Middle Ages: New of Franciscan Media in the Conquests and Dynasties...... 226 United States...... 211 REFERENCE Plastic: Past, Present, The American Women’s Almanac: and Future...... 226 HUMANITIES 500 Years of Making History...... 219 Erich Przywara and Postmodern The Handy Christianity RELIGIOUS Natural Law: A History of the Answer Book...... 219 Metaphysics of Morals...... 212 Brother Lorenzo’s Pretzels: Prayer and the Holy Trinity...... 227 The Hundredfold: SOCIAL SCIENCE Songs for the Lord...... 213 YOUCAT for Kids: Revolution of Values: Reclaiming A Catholic Catechism for The Sound of Beauty: Public Faith for the Common Good...... 220 Children and Parents...... 227 A Classical Composer on Music in the Spiritual Life...... 213 Children Young Adult LIBRARY SCIENCE FICTION FICTION 53 Ready-to-Use At the Mountain’s Base...... 221 Kawaii Craft Projects...... 214 Mean...... 227 Academic Libraries for Count Me In...... 221 Commuter Students: Cyril and Pat...... 221 Research-Based Strategies...... 214 If You Played Hide-and-Seek Be Opportunity-Minded: Start With a Chameleon...... 222 Growing Your Career Now...... 214 Advertiser Index Ignatius Press...... 162 Visible Ink Press...... 219

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