Q&A With Cleveland's Andrew Venable Norman Oder - 05/15/2008
This continues the Q&A with Andrew Venable, retiring director of the Cleveland Public Library, that appeared in the 5/15/08 print edition of Library Journal.
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Book News: Webcast Tackles Large Print Issues Michael Rogers - 05/06/2008 LJ’s Best Practices in Large Print webcast clearly proved that there is far more to the subject that “do you have large print or not.”
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LJ Reviewer Profile By Anna Katterjohn - 05/06/2008
A California girl and ten-year LJ reviewer of Asian American fiction, Shirley N. Quan collects pigs and rubber stamps, loves inspirational chick lit and novels set in Hawaii, and considers the value and shortcomings of Amy Tan’s influence in the United States.
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Book News: Bantam Giving Libraries Free Copies of L’Amour Book Michael Rogers - 05/06/2008
To celebrate Louis L’Amour’s centennial, his long-time publisher Bantam Books is “offering a complimentary copy” of a new hardcover edition of his volume Education of a Wandering Man “to every one of the more than 100,000 free libraries in the U.S.
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Book News: Guillermo del Toro Directing The Hobbit Michael Rogers - 04/29/2008 New Line Cinema April 24 announced that Guillermo del Toro indeed has signed on to direct The Hobbit as well as a sequel detailing the action during the time period between The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
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In the Bookroom Michael Rogers, Infotech Editor, Library Journal May 13, 2008 Indiana Jones: Golden Idol
The legend goes that in May of 1977 Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were hiding out... More