The fiber-optic price, Shackleton on ice, pregnancy advice
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January 22, 2008 |
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Library Leaders Join Digital Preservation Task Force
A cadre of library leaders, scholars, and technologists has joined the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, a two-year international effort.
ProQuest Springing Forward with CSA Illustrata: Technology
ProQuest this Spring will expand its CSA Illustrata product with a Technology module focusing on aerospace, engineering, high tech, and materials science.
Saletan Named Houghton/Harcourt Adult Trade Publisher
Following a 2007 buyout of Harcourt, Becky Saletan has been made the publisher of the combined Houghton/Harcourt Adult Trade line.
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Wyatt's World: Five Fiction Selections from ALA's Notable Books
- Away by Amy Bloom ( Random)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
- An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (Algonquin)
- Finn by Jon Clinch (Random)
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Dell)
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Xpress Reviewers Needed
LJ is seeking librarians to write online-only book reviews on a range of subjects, especially genre fiction (mystery, suspense, fantasy, sci-fi), memoir, consumer health, performing arts, self-help, child rearing, history, politics, and religion. Please send a résumé and sample book review to Heather McCormack, Managing Editor, LJ Book Review.
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 Shackleton, Ernst.
Escape from the Antarctic.
Penguin Pr.: Penguin Group (USA) (Great Journeys). 2007.
89p. maps. ISBN 978-0-141-03211-5. $32.95. CATEGORY
A volume in Penguin's wonderful new "Great Journeys" series, this excerpt from Shackleton's 1919 South: The Endurance Expedition is one of the most harrowing narratives ever produced. Marooned on the Antarctic's Elephant Island after their ship Endurance is crushed by ice packs, Shackleton and his British explorers must escape before the lethal winter hits. Shackleton leads a team of five others on an 800-mile journey across a combination of murderous seas in a small boat and a trek over a near impenetrable frozen landscape to secure help for the men left behind. Along the way they endure bone-chilling cold, hunger (a savored treat is a "cold penguin leg"—yuck!), frostbite, foul weather, darkness, and more. Miraculously, they all
survived. Shackleton tells the story well in a fluid style reminiscent of Melville. This true adventure and testament to human commitment and endurance is a more remarkable page turner than any best-selling thriller.
—Mike Rogers, LJX/LJ
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| FICTION |
- The 6th Target
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
- Play Dirty
Sandra Brown
- Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
• Full List
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| NONFICTION |
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
- The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
- Confessions of a Video Vixen
Karrine Steffans
• Full List |
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• 20 Years and Counting
LJ's first 19 Librarian of the Year Award winners still are going strong. Catch up with past honorees.
• COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT "Pregnancy": A Healthy Delivery
These 30 print and online resources and deep, even breaths are all any pregzilla needs to prepare for the blessed event.
• EDITORIAL: Seeing Green
Library offerings always have been the public's access point to education, technology, and entertainment, but now the buildings themselves can be the vanguard of a green future.
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