The latest news in publishing; author Q&As; Behind the Books; and other literary illuminations.
Q&A: Stieg Larsson By Wilda Williams - 06/15/2009
When journalist Stieg Larsson died in 2004, he left an impressive record of fighting right-wing extremism in his native Sweden and three crime novels. Although he lived to enjoy the Swedish publication of the first book, the posthumous international success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo may have surprised him. More
Across the Reference Universe By Mirela Roncevic - 06/15/2009
Austin, TX-based company Paratext has been getting a lot of attention on convention floors across the country, owing mostly to a product that promises to help librarians make better use of what they have (and may not even know they have) in their ever-expanding reference collections. Eric Calaluca, who founded the company in 1993 after six years in various roles with Chadwyck-Healey, sheds ligh...
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QuickView Reader Updates Edited by Josh Hadro - 06/15/2009
Ebook platform provider ebrary has updated its QuickView Reader with a number of new features. First, the company has added citation management software integration for RefWorks and EndNote to the InfoTools menu in the reader, giving users quick access to store bibliographic information about the item being viewed.
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Springer Exemplar Puts Keywords in Context Edited by Josh Hadro - 06/15/2009
Journal publisher Springer, in conjunction with the Australia-based Centre for Biomedical and Health Linguistics, has released Exemplar, a new “free linguistic tool” to give researchers insight into context surrounding keywords of interest. Based entirely on the Springer content found in more than 1900 scholarly journals, the service provides Google-like sentence snippets of betwee...
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In the Bookroom Bette-Lee Fox, Managing Editor, June 24, 2009 Recommending Romance
When it comes to romances, I consider myself fairly well read. In fact, of the RUSA R... More
In the Bookroom Wilda Williams, , Library Journal June 1, 2009 BEA09: First Impressions
As we have to close the June 15 issue this week, I am slowly sorting through my notes... More
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