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Led by the American Library Association, the U.S. library system is in furious transition. At the association’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston, BiblioBoard’s pivot reflected libraries’ new roles as enabling hubs of community culture.

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Among North America’s most professionally produced author events, the 2015 Writer’s Digest Annual Conference dances into New York this week, as Manuscript WishList tells writers just what moves literary agents are looking for.

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As the new SELF-e program gives indie authors a curated pathway into libraries for their ebooks, Library Journal opens a contest in four genres of submissions.

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As more than 800 authors converge on Boston’s The Muse and The Marketplace Conference, a new avenue into library collections is being hailed by a bookless library — in San Antonio, Texas.

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At Charleston’s PubSense conference for writers, attendees learn about the free SELF-e service from Library Journal. The program, free for authors, has begun curating independently published ebooks for harried librarians both at the state and national level.