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The Walter Scott Prize shortlist is announced. The Association of American Publishers has filed an amicus brief in Meta AI copyright case. Interviews arrive with Melinda French Gates, Marie Bostwick, and Kevin Nguyen. Tennis legend Serena Williams will executive-produce a Netflix series adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back. Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach will also be adapted for television.
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Awards & News
The Walter Scott Prize shortlist is announced. The Bookseller has coverage.
The Association of American Publishers files an amicus brief in Meta AI copyright case, Publishers Weekly reports. Publishing Perspectives also have coverage.
Reviews
NYT reviews What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis by Malcolm Harris (Little, Brown): “Whatever the world was in which it was possible to imagine American policy approaches to global problems—a world in which we debated the relative merits of Bidenomics versus Indigenous revolution—it is no longer ours”; The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter (Knopf): “Like Yates, Porter writes in a style that is lucid and unadorned; in outfitting his prose, he skipped the metaphor shop, though he does make an 
occasional segue into lyricism to capture moments of repose amid the discord”; and Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, tr. by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove): “Blending speculative fiction, horror and black comedy, Vanishing World removes some Jenga blocks to watch social structures come crashing down, in a radical look at the way the imperative to procreate has shaped civilization.”
Plus, there is a paired review of two books about attempts 
to standardize English orthography: Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts To Make English Easier To Spell by Gabe Henry (Dey Street) and Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words by John McWhorter (Avery).
Washington Post reviews Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet tr. by Sam Taylor (Farrar): “Translated into chatty and colloquial English by Sam Taylor, Binet’s prose crackles with the energy of an art history class, and the author takes an infectious delight in the unique qualities of Renaissance Florence.”
The Guardian rounds up crime and thrillers of the month.
Briefly Noted
LitHub highlights 24 new books for the week.
Vulture reports that New York–based bookstore McNally Jackson is starting a book festival.
Shelf Awareness shares the top-selling self-published titles.
BookRiot highlights the most popular celebrity book club books on Libby the past month.
Electric Lit shares “7 Campus Novels That Break the Mold.”
Slate talks with NYT critic A.O. Scott about poetry.
Actress and director Bryce Dallas Howard recommends books from her nightstand in Bustle.
Melinda French Gates discusses her new book The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward (Flatiron) with USA Today. Time shares an excerpt.
People shares an excerpt from The Glory in Your Story: Activating a Fearless Faith To Change Your Life, Your Career, and the World by Monique Rodriguez (Thomas Nelson).
Marie Bostwick previews her forthcoming book, The Book Club for Troublesome Women (Harper Muse; LJ starred review), in People.
The Atlantic’s “Books Briefing” asks: “Who Are We, Really?”
Authors on Air
Kevin Nguyen discusses his novel Mỹ Documents (One World) on B&N’s Poured Over podcast.
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Carrie Soto Is Back (Ballantine; LJ starred review) will be a TV series at Netflix, with Serena Williams to executive-produce. Deadline has the story.
Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach (Random; LJ starred review) will get a series adaptation at Netflix starring Lucy Hale, Deadline reports.
Roy Choi, The Choi of Cooking: Flavor-Packed, Rule-Breaking Recipes for a Delicious Life (Clarkson Potter), visits GMA today.
Hailee Catalano, By Heart: Recipes To Hold Near and Dear (DK), appears on Today.
Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo, How To Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously (Simon Element: S. & S.), visit with Drew Barrymore.
Ashlee Piper, No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity (Celadon; LJ starred review), joins Live with Kelly and Mark.
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Is it possible to get the Mean and Standard Deviation values you used across the key metrics for the LJ 2022 star ratings of libraries in the $10M-$29.9M with a LSA of 100k-250k? If I use the posted data for star libraries reported, using your formulas, I don't get anywhere near the same scores. I assume it is because I am using a small sample of 13 libraries to calculate the Mean and StdDev.
For example if I calculate the Mean & StdDev for the libraries in the $10M-$29.9M category with a LSA of 100k-250k (13 libraries) and use that for the calculations
(((Lib data -Peer Pop Mean) / Peer Pop StdDev) +8) *100 I get a Score of 1,551 for Naperville instead of the 2,669 in the report. I do sum the scores for each category before I add the 8 as shown below
Naperville Public Library
Physical Circulation 22.52
Minus Physical Circulation Mean 11.73
= 10.79
Divided by Physical Circulation StdDev 6.98
score for circulation = 1.551
Circ Score 1.55 Em Score -0.05 Visit Score 2.71 Prog Attnd Score 1.09 Comp Use Score 1.82 Wi Fi Session Score 0.39 ER Score Raw 2.14 Score Sum 7.51 + 8 = 15.51 x100 = 1551
And so on for each key category. The results for each category are added up, 8 is added and that sum multiplied by 10 as per your 7 Step "Score Calculation Algorithm"
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