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| Alena Jones | |
Alena Jones has been promoted to director of buying and content at the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Chicago, Ill., a newly created position, and will oversee buying, purchasing, section taxonomy and curation, and the Co-op's relaunched podcast, Open Stacks, for which she will serve as the host. She was formerly manager of the Seminary Co-op and has worked at the Co-op since 2015 in a variety of roles, including inventory management, assistant manager and operations manager. Before that, she was a bookseller at Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is also a freelance editor and last month, in a Lithub essay "Toward a Definition of Contemporary Bookselling," argued for the cultural work of bookselling.