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January 29, 2008 |
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Job of the Week
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The Board of Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia is seeking an outstanding leader as its next President and Director, succeeding Elliot Shelkrot who is retiring after 20 years of distinguished service.
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UK Study: "Google Generation" Web Illiterate
A joint British Library/JISC survey reveals that the so-called "Google Generation" lacks web skills and is impatient and overdemanding—and that libraries need to react accordingly.
EBSCOhost Embraces Visual Learners
EBSCO is offering two new interfaces to its EBSCOhost product, adding Visual Search options and extra clusters to provide visual learners with graphical approaches to locating information.
Library Aiding Univ. of Pittsburgh Press Digital Publishing
The University of Pittsburgh Press is taking the epublishing plunge in a joint project with the school's library, which is digitizing the books being mounted on the press's homepage.
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Wyatt's World: The ALA Notable Book List—Nonfiction
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman (Norton)
- The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier (Houghton)
- Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell (Farrar)
- Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli (Nan. A Talese: Doubleday)
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (St. Martin's)
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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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 Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Children of Húrin.
8 CDs. unabridged. 9 hours. HarperCollins
AudioBooks. 2008. $49.95. FANTASY
Based on a manuscript begun by father J.R.R. in 1918 and reworked throughout his life, son Christopher, spent decades shaping the story’s many drafts, which was released as an illustrated hardcover in 2007. This audio version is equally alluring, featuring both a booklet with all of top Tolkien artist Alan Lee’s illustrations, a fold-out map of Middle-earth, and an intro read by Christopher Tolkien. Equally glorious is the reading by actor Christopher Lee, already associated with Tolkien through his performance as Saruman in the film adaptation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Lee is in fine form, and his deep voice brings the proper sense of woe to this dark tale. A nice extra is that listeners inadvertently receive an
introductory course in the proper pronunciations of the player and place names in the author’ mythical world. The plot unfurls the lives of Túrin and Niënor, son and daughter to Húrin, a great warrior held captive by Morgoth, the Dark Lord, whose malice extends through the generations to doom his enemy’s children as well. The audio adaptation of Tolkien’s The Children of Húrin is a perfect package. Highly recommended.
—Mike Rogers, LJ/LJX
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| FICTION |
- Dark of the Moon
John Sandford
- The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
- The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold
• Full List
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| NONFICTION |
- 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Don Piper
- Power to the People
Laura Ingraham
- It's All About Him
Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn
• Full List |
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• A Michigan Model
The Chelsea District Library is the 2008 Best Small Library in America—high five!
• EDITORIAL: Two NYPLs or One?
Significant property sales and personnel shifts decided in private are undermining the library's public appeal for staff, politicos, and, especially, its patrons.
• REFERENCE BACKTALK: Stupid Reference Tricks
Newbie Michael Bemis takes a sober look at certain puzzling reference publishing practices and asks why?
• Librarians Win LJ's ALA Spa Day Giveaway!
Three librarians and a MLS student each snagged LJ's $250 Spa Day giveaway at ALA Midwinter by using our Aisle by Aisle guide. A big congrats to Bridget Schumacher, student, SUNY at Buffalo, NY; Ellen Brewer, Ocean County Library, Toms River, NJ; Marge Shaffer, Easton High, Easton, MD; and Jayne Beline, Parsippany Library, Parsippany, NJ.
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