Reviews of Reference books, highlights of essential titles and newer resources from Library Journal.
For Future Reference Traci Avet, West Palm Beach, FL - 05/01/2008
Spring is just blooming with new resources on multicultural studies. ABC-CLIO's The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political Social and Military History is a four-volume set boasting 750 alphabetical entries, over 500 images, and a stand-alone volume profiling 150 primary-source documents related to Arab-Israeli issues.
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Publishers Sue Georgia State University Over E-Reserves Andrew Albanese - 04/16/2008
One of the most contentious issue between libraries and publishers to emerge in the digital age landed in an Atlanta federal court yesterday, as a group of publishers filed the first lawsuit over a university’s electronic course content. Georgia State University officials have yet to comment.
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Book News: Rowling Getting Star Treatment in Court Michael Rogers - 04/15/2008 Author J.K. Rowling won a Galaxy British Book award, and now she’s hoping to win in an American court. Rowling is set to testify today in Manhattan’s U.S. District Court in a copyright suit she and Warner Bros. studio filed against RDR Books to stop the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon written by librarian Steve Vander Ark.
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E-Reviews: Oldies but Goodies By Gail Golderman & Bruce Connolly - 04/15/2008
While we certainly don't have the scholarly chops to give these “old books” resources a thorough workout, we are inclined to rank them among the most wondrous products we have had the opportunity to examine. The scale here is almost beyond comprehension. The Readex offering, Early American Imprints I and II, a complementary pairing that includes over 70,000 titles and almost seven m...
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Reference 04/15/2008
Bass, Jennifer Durham . World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth & Twenty-First Centuries . 2d ed. 2 vols. Grey House . 2008. 800p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-1-59237-118-1 . $195. REF Many of the 550 people profiled here—at least the Americans, like Elvis Presley, Eubie Blake, and Oprah Winfrey—are more cultural icons than cultural leaders.
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Interactive Library of Congress Experience Debuts Norman Oder - 04/14/2008
With interactive technology, digitized documents, and much AV material, the Library of Congress (LC) has launched the “Library of Congress Experience,” along with a companion web site.
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Author J.K. Rowling won a Galaxy British Book award, and now she’s hoping to win in an American court. Rowling is set to testify today in Manhattan’s U.S. District Court in a copyright suit she and Warner Bros. studio filed against RDR Books to stop the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon written by librarian Steve Vander Ark.
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