The Best of BookSmack!: The Word on Street Lit: Unique, Wahida Clark, & Iceberg Slim
Welcome to a new series that aims to open your eyes to unique, cutting-edge book and author coverage in BookSmack!, LJ’s free semimonthly e-newsletter. Our avid readers tell us it’s both entertaining and informative, especially for its core audience of...
Office Hours: Can We Handle the Truth?
If you haven't read the 2010 Project Information Literacy Progress Report from Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, you should. “Truth Be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age” is for anyone who plans for or se...
What Numbers Can’t Tell Us | Editorial
For the past two days, my head has been spinning with numbers. As Andrew Beveridge, who started it all on the Oxford University Press (OUP) blog, said, I might have done better to listen to Mark Twain: “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies, a...
LJ’s 2011 Paralibrarian of the Year | Gilda Ramos
Photo by Matt Carr/Getty Images
They had to create the right job to bring Gilda Ramos on full time at the Patchogue-Medford Library (PML), NY. The first to be hired in a new civil service category called “Spanish Speaking Library Assistant,” approved...
Arts and Humanities Reviews, October 15, 2010
Arts
Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil. Menil Collection, dist. by Yale Univ. Nov. 2010. 344p. ed. by Josef Helfenstein & Laureen Schipsi. illus. index. ISBN 9780300123777. $65. FINE ARTS In this lavish tribute to the de Menils—H...
People
Mohamed Abou El Seoud has been appointed Middle Eastern/African Studies Librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He previously was Lead Library Assistant for Technical Services at the Library of Santa Monica College, CA.Sarah Ann Long h...
Pierce County Library, WA, Plans for Future Expansion
Expansion within budget constraints20-year facilities master planPlans for future fiscal optionsFor the past several weeks, the Pierce County Library System (PCLS), Tacoma, WA, has been gathering ideas and opinions from thousands of people for its 20-year...
Publishers Once Again Seek Federal Law To Fight 'Libel Tourism';
Publishers renew battleHouse bill passed last year not good enoughProtections needed for publishers in Internet ageGo back to the
Academic Newswire for more storiesThe Association of American Publishers (AAP) last week urged Congress to once ...
Major Audio Releases
Carlin, Peter Ames. Paul McCartney: A Life. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Tantor Media. ISBN 978-1-4001-4385-6. $79.99; 12 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital (2010). BIOGSimultaneous release with the Touchstone print editio...
Wyatt's World: Summer Reading Last Call-Continuing Paranormal Pleasures
Frostbitten (Women of the Otherworld, first is Bitten) by Kelley Armstrong (Bantam)Bone Crossed (Mercedes Thompson, first is Moon Called) by Patricia Briggs (Ace)Dark Slayer (The Carpathians, first is Dark Prince) by Christine Feehan (Berkley)Skin Trade (...