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	Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches by Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson, and Rebecca Uhl 2024 \| ALA Editions / Core This volume provides librarians and catalogers with practical approaches to reparative cataloging as well as a broader understanding of the topic and its place in the technical services landscape. Practitioners from across the field are questioning long-held library authorities and standards, and undertaking a critical and rigorous re-examination of so-called “best” practices and the decisionmakers behind them. Among other things, readers will gain an understanding of the theoretical underpinning for the actions that create our history and be challenged to reconsider their perspectives, as well as learn about the important role of the library catalog in the real-world.
	All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us by Mike Duggan 2024 \| Reaktion Books From cave paintings to Google, a thought-provoking investigation of how maps do not just reflect the world around us, but shape the way we live.
	Drink Maps in Victorian Britain by Kris Butler 2024 \| Bodleian Library Publishing What is a “drink map”? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed to shock and shame people into drinking less.
	The Globe: How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam 2024 \| Reaktion Books An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement.
	The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of the Global Sea Trade by Nicholas Nugent 2024 \| Brandeis University Press A first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce. This wide-ranging account of a fascinating period of global history uses original maps and contemporary artists’ views to tell the story of how each port developed individually while also encouraging us to consider contrasting points of view of the benefits and the damages of the maritime spice trade.
	Shelter: An Atlas Crowdsourced 2023 \| Guerrilla Cartography Shelter: An Atlas is a collection of maps on the theme of shelter, collaboratively created by the Guerrilla Cartography community. The “An Atlas” series is a trilogy of the three basic needs for survival: food, water, shelter. The earlier two volumes (Food: An Atlas and Water: An Atlas) have previously been reviewed in CP.

	Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches by Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson, and Rebecca Uhl 2024 \| ALA Editions / Core This volume provides librarians and catalogers with practical approaches to reparative cataloging as well as a broader understanding of the topic and its place in the technical services landscape. Practitioners from across the field are questioning long-held library authorities and standards, and undertaking a critical and rigorous re-examination of so-called “best” practices and the decisionmakers behind them. Among other things, readers will gain an understanding of the theoretical underpinning for the actions that create our history and be challenged to reconsider their perspectives, as well as learn about the important role of the library catalog in the real-world.
	All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us by Mike Duggan 2024 \| Reaktion Books From cave paintings to Google, a thought-provoking investigation of how maps do not just reflect the world around us, but shape the way we live.
	Drink Maps in Victorian Britain by Kris Butler 2024 \| Bodleian Library Publishing What is a “drink map”? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed to shock and shame people into drinking less.
	The Globe: How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam 2024 \| Reaktion Books An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement.
	The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of the Global Sea Trade by Nicholas Nugent 2024 \| Brandeis University Press A first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce. This wide-ranging account of a fascinating period of global history uses original maps and contemporary artists’ views to tell the story of how each port developed individually while also encouraging us to consider contrasting points of view of the benefits and the damages of the maritime spice trade.
	Shelter: An Atlas Crowdsourced 2023 \| Guerrilla Cartography Shelter: An Atlas is a collection of maps on the theme of shelter, collaboratively created by the Guerrilla Cartography community. The “An Atlas” series is a trilogy of the three basic needs for survival: food, water, shelter. The earlier two volumes (Food: An Atlas and Water: An Atlas) have previously been reviewed in CP.

Books for Review

Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches

All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us

Drink Maps in Victorian Britain

The Globe: How the Earth Became Round

The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of the Global Sea Trade

Shelter: An Atlas

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