Translation addressed, Stanley reassessed, newcomers repressed
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Chicago PL Hosting LJ's Design Institute '07: Going Green
The Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Center December 11 will host LJ's Design Institute 2007: Going Green, a free all-day seminar open to librarians considering a new building project or renovation, in the fundraising or pre-bond stage, or in the early building process. Join architects, designers, vendors, and LJ editors for new solutions.
OULS Selects SFX
Oxford University Library Services (OULS) has installed Ex Libris's SFX link resolver to manage its 22,500+ journals and larger collection of ebooks.
MBFI and BEA Sponsor Translation Marketplace Summit
The Miami Book Fair International (MBFI) and BookExpo America (BEA) are jointly presenting the Translation Marketplace, a one-day summit on world literature and translation, including a Críticas panel on Latin American lit.
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Do you serve Spanish speaking patrons? If so, look below for Críticas Connection, the newsletter of CriticasMagazine.com: an English Speaker's Guide to the Latest Spanish-Language Titles. |
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Wyatt's World: Music and Meaning
- How To Listen to and Understand Great Music, Robert Greenberg (The Teaching Company)
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, Daniel J. Levitin (Plume)
- The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross (Farrar)
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks (Knopf)
- Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, Rob Sheffield (Crown)
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 Jeal, Tim.
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer.
Yale Univ. 2007. 608p. illus. maps. bibliog.
index. ISBN 978-0-300-12625-9. $38. BIOG
Henry Morton Stanley is known as the brutal African explorer who colluded with King Leopold of Belgium and supposedly asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley should, however, be remembered as the man who solved the great mysteries of the source of the Nile and Congo Rivers, circumnavigated two of Africa's three huge lakes, railed against the East African and Atlantic slave trades, and created the myth of Livingstone as saint. Using information obtained from previously closed collections of Stanley's letters, diaries, etc., at the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale in Brussels, Jeal's meticulous biography puts to rest many of the controversies and accepted "truths" about Stanley (e.g., that he was a racist, a homosexual, and a Congo land swindler, and was
violent and paranoid). Jeal argues convincingly, against all previous biographies, that Stanley, born John Rowlands in Wales, never met Henry H. Stanley of New Orleans, whom he claimed as his adoptive father. In addition to such lies, which crippled his autobiographical impulses, Stanley also had an unfortunate tendency to exaggerate to get attention. Yet he hated actual public notice, and his own exaggerations have been used ever since to bludgeon his reputation. Besides rescuing Stanley from an unfair but accepted caricature, Jeal skillfully illuminates Stanley's work and its morality and separates him from King Leopold's exploitation and oppression of the Congo. This excellent reassessment of Stanley's life is essential for all libraries.
—Margaret Atwater-Singer, Univ. of Evansville Libs., IN
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| FICTION |
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
- The Quickie
James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
- The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
• Full List
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| NONFICTION |
- Eat, Pray, Love
Gilbert, Elizabeth
- 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Don Piper
- The Lost Boy
Dave Pelzer
• Full List |
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• Down With E-Reserves
Though students love e-reserves, academic libraries offering them walk the perilous tightrope between fulfilling their institution's educational mandate and charges of copyright abuse that could lead to litigation.
• COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT: It's All in Your Head
Academic librarian and author Lisa A. Ennis's roundup of 32 print, DVD, and online neuroscience resources is a no brainer.
• EDITORIAL: Librarians: Too Traditional?
LJ's recent job satisfaction survey shows that librarians are comfortable in their jobs and with technology but also reveals a disconnect between veterans and newcomers and the disheartening feeling that implementing change is impossible.
• ONLINE DATABASES: Living the Virtual Library Life
Social sites like Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace can be fun ways for librarians to interact, but they also can be used for new and innovative library services. Tenopir offers a list of print and electronic guides.
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