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February 5, 2008 |
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PLA Board Proposes New Bylaws
The Public Library Association has proposed new bylaws replacing committees with virtual “communities of practice,” and downsizing its board of directors.
OCUL Signs for Springer eBooks
Springer Science+Business Media is supplying the 20-member Ontario Council of University Libraries with a complete Springer eBook Collection 2005–2008, making “over 12,000 Springer eBooks available to nearly 400,000 students and faculty.”
ProQuest Gets Its Irish Up
ProQuest has expanded its international coverage by adding the Irish Times and the Weekly Irish Times to its Historical Newspapers collection. |
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LJ Reviewer Profile: Rosellen Brewer |
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 Review Count: 425
From her oeuvre:
Rue McClanahan’s My First Five Husbands...and the Ones Who Got Away
Rosie O’Donnell’s Celebrity Detox: The Fame Game
Alan Alda’s Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Rosie O’Donnell, Rue McClanahan, and Alan Alda may not be the most literary memoirists, but their sagas are embraced by Rosy Brewer, a branch manager for Sno-Isle Libraries near Seattle, who’s been reviewing gushy tell-alls for LJ for nearly a decade. She began reviewing first novels for us in 1975, during her first library job, before moving over to performing arts books.
Keeping her finger on the pop-culture pulse (with two TiVo®s, no less) takes a bit of creativity: “I read at the gym. Reading gets me to go there. I put on my iPod, and I have this really cool little device, it’s a plastic thing you hook on the elliptical or the bike and it holds the book open.” She’s been reading Shirley MacLaine’s Sage-ing While Age-ing, which she dug until the three chapters on UFOs. And what does she listen to while reading at the gym? “Mostly 1970s and 1980s rock. The classics: Jackson Brown, Joni Mitchell, Journey,” she says with a laugh.
She calls celeb autobiographies her guilty pleasure (MacLaine’s book wasn’t even an LJ assignment). “As soon as I start reading one, I know where it’s gonna go. But they’re not all the same. True stories are actually more dramatic and interesting than novels because that’s life. You can always tell the ones that are ghost written. They’re not better. They don’t tell everything—kind of like a puff piece—or they’re too overdramatic.” Wait and see what this ace has to say about Julie Andrews’s forthcoming Home: A Memoir of My Early Years. |
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Wyatt’s World: The Alex Awards—Cool Adult Books with Teen Appeal
Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden (Delacorte)
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (Scribner)
The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman (Soho)
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly (Gotham )
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
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Liebling, A.J.
World War II Writings.
Library of America. 2008. c.1089p. maps. ISBN 978-1-59853-018-6. $40. HIST
This book gathers The Road Back to Paris, Mollie and Other War Pieces, Normandy Revisited, and Uncollected War Journalism into a single exhaustive volume. Liebling’s journalism assignments sent him to both Europe and North Africa, so he saw a fair amount of the war, which he vividly details, including his dismay at how little fellow Americans were concerned over Europe before the bullets started flying and they were pulled in. Great stuff.
—Mike Rogers LJ/LJX
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13. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
14. Creation in Death
J.D. Robb
15. Home to Holly Springs
Jan Karon
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13. Born Standing Up
Steve Martin
14. The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
15. Lone Survivor
Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson
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• Collection Development: Best Consumer Health Books 2007
These 24 titles covering specific illnesses and general health care for infants through seniors are just what the doctor ordered (and so should you).
• Take This Job and Love It
LJ’s Job Satisfaction survey hones in on academic librarians, who like their gigs but feel overworked and underpaid.
• HOW DO YOU MANAGE: Interference
If a mother is hitting her child in the library, do you let it slide or have her hide?
• Tag Team Review
LJ’s newest feature is a book review smackdown with two librarians squaring off over the same title.
• DVD Resource
DVDs are hot, hot, hot, so get the scoop from Video Business magazine and LJ on more than 100 new DVD titles being released in coming months, and sign up for a trial subscription.
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