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Reference 2008
Print remains viable, but e-content is publishers' prime focus.
Reference Into the Future
And that future is bright with promises of enhanced searchability, greater customization/adaptability, more navigable interfaces and flexible purchase options, and content in multiple delivery systems and formats.
Salem Press Distributing Schlager Reference Titles
The Schlager Group is tapping Salem Press as the international print and online distributor for its recently launched Milestone Documents reference series.
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Last Call: Design Institute 2007—Going Green
Join LJ editors, architects, library consultants, designers, and vendors December 11 in Chicago for Design Institute 2007: Going Green, a free, full-day seminar where panelists share the latest developments, address cost concerns, and offer cutting-edge solutions. Participants also will break out into smaller groups led by architects to focus on specific design challenges based on real-life projects attendees submit. Limited to 100 invitees, the seminar is for those considering a new building project or renovation, in the fundraising or pre-bond stage, or in the early building process. Register by November 26.
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Biblica: The Bible Atlas.
Barron's Educational. 2007. 578p. ed. by Barry J. Beitzel.
illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-7641-6085-1. $50. REF
It's hefty, but it's worth its weight. Handsomely produced, intensely informative, it's much more than an atlas. But let's start with the maps: there are 125 of them, far more than in recent offerings from Oxford or National Geographic. Almost all are physical maps and all are in color. Ranging from a full to one-quarter page in size, they often note terrain and, variously, climate, vegetation, and other criteria. Each labels the sites relevant to the related discussion (e.g., "Origins of the Judges of Israel"), and many offer small boxed pointers to the locations of particular biblical characters/narratives, e.g., "Philip meets an Ethiopian eunuch...." Missing, however, are chapter:verse citations, so it's left to the reader to find the specific biblical citation
within the text. Readers and browsers will feast on 650 color art photos across the same size range as the maps and including far more than the usual Old and New Testament subjects. (The book remains within the Old and New Testament worlds, i.e., there is no discussion of other evolving religions.) There are eight main sections: "Geography and History of Bible Lands" is followed by five sections tracing the Old Testament and its social, historical, physical, and archaeological context. Then come "The Life of Jesus of Nazareth" and "Spreading the Word." An early section acknowledges the "intermingling of history and faith," the very matter that can send mixed messages when contributors include a mix of theologians, historians, and archaeologists—26 contributors in total under editor
Beitzel's oversight (OT & Semitic languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity Sch.).
On the whole, this book succeeds handsomely, especially for the informed lay reader, in treading that ground shared by history and faith. The OT is handled both as a Jewish text and a predictor of Jesus' coming. For the NT, Jesus and his disciples similarly are arrayed across earthly and resurrection considerations. The back matter contains "Bible References," e.g., tables of rulers and their dates; a bibliography, subdivided by the atlas's main sections (there are no web sources); a glossary; 12 pages of "Scripture References" to specifically quoted and not simply mentioned portions; a gazetteer, which is a geographical index rather than a geographical dictionary; and the index proper. Quotes throughout come from The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Standard Revised Version (2001).
BOTTOM LINE Given its size, this tome is absolutely ideal for library reference sections, where it will serve—even inspire—a broad array of readers, from biblical studies newcomer to the more informed, whether or not believers. Highly recommended for high school, public, and academic libraries.
—Margaret Heilbrun, Library Journal
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