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Trade Publication Article
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2021
Overview
Yet as librarians sought new ways to serve their constituents, especially given increased demand for social justice and political science titles, ebook circulation rose 29.2 percent. Meeting demand for online materials, particularly in tandem with the increased interest in antiracism titles fueled by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, led many librarians to push forward with cost-per-circ (CPC) and metered models. OverDrive, which saw a 33 percent increase in digital circulation for its clients, confirms that digital social justice and BIPOC/#OwnVoices materials achieved 165 percent circulation growth in school and public libraries. [...]many of this year's fiction winners take us to other worlds—a welcome respite from sheltering in place—while thrillers are often realistically grounded in current anxieties, from war to child kidnapping to, yes,
