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In the Good Old Summertime: Cool Women's Fiction By Neal Wyatt - 06/15/2009
With its long hot days, summer cries out for books to sink into and savor. These six women authors—variously classified as writers of chick lit, romance, and women's fiction—know how to create novels that fit the season perfectly. Their delightful tales seduce readers into setting and scene and sustain interest with characters and dialog that are always as funny as they are charming. More
NoveList Select Puts Readers' Advisory In OPACs Edited by Josh Hadro - 06/15/2009
In order to grab the attention of library patrons more effectively, EBSCO Publishing's NoveList has introduced NoveList Select, a product that embeds the NoveList readers' advisory tool's recommendations directly into the OPAC. The service provides recommendations based on a user's search term, cross-checking it against a database of information on more than four million fiction and nonfiction ...
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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
Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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