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Welcome to Check Your Shelf. With the return of socializing in-person comes the return of illnesses. Thankfully, I am not the one who is sick, but several people in my circles are, and yeah…it stinks.

Let’s library.

Libraries & Librarians

News Updates

With its acquisition complete, HarperCollins is changing the library eBook terms for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles.

This may be one for the record books: a library book 300 years overdue has been returned to the Sheffield Cathedral in England.

Cool Library Updates

This New Jersey library hosted an adorable pet parade to encourage reading.

NYPL is offering free book kits to help keep kids engaged over the summer.

Worth Reading

Makerspaces in libraries: On challenges to our democratic values.

How to confront challenges to other library resources.

Recruit, retain, and engage: how to cultivate younger library advocates.

Book Adaptations in the News

The Obamas’ production company is developing Blackout, a film and TV “event” that is being adapted from six different love stories, each one written by a different author, including Dhonielle Clayton, Nicola Yoon, Tiffany D. Jackson, and more.

Defending Jacob becomes the first Apple TV+ show to get a DVD/Blu-ray release.

AMC is developing a thriller series called Dark Winds, which will be based on the Leaphorn & Chee mysteries by Tony Hillerman.

Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key is getting an adaptation.

Kumail Nanjiani is starring in the limited series adaptation of Homeland Elegies.

C. Pam Zhang’s novel How Much of These Hills is Gold is being adapted for TV.

Netflix has ordered a YA drama based on Ali Novak’s YA novel, My Life With the Walter Boys.

Javier Bardem is starring in the adaptation of the classic children’s book, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, proving once again that reality is just a giant Mad-Lib.

Here’s a look at the upcoming Pretty Little Liars reboot on HBO.

Here’s the trailer for The Witcher, season 2.

Books & Authors in the News

A look at why the short story “Cat Person” is going viral again.

(TW: transphobia) Zeiger Elementary (WA) faces backlash for putting the book Felix Ever After, which features a transgender hero, on display.

Loudoun County Public School review committees have recommended that the school keep the novels Monday’s Not Coming and #MurderTrending on the shelves after parents complained about the books back in May.

(TW: transphobia) Amazon employees are petitioning (and in some cases quitting) over the company’s decision to continue selling Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.