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February 20, 2008 |
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Kansas City, Kansas Public Library system located in the Greater Kansas City area, seeking qualified candidates for the position of BRANCH MANAGER at the Argentine Library an original Carnegie building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Woman’s Day Highlights Female Entrepreneur’s Library Starts
Magazine essay focuses on four women who used their library’s resources to start successful businesses.
Ingram Digital Group Makes eContent’s Top 100 List
eContent Magazine has declared the fledgling Ingram Digital Group one of the “100 companies that matter most.”
Recorded Books Launches Science Fiction Imprint
To meet fans growing demand, Recorded Books has created a science fiction imprint available to public libraries. |
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RA Crossroads No. 2 |
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As Lewis Carroll’s Alice so aptly points out, “What is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?” Welcome to RA Crossroads, where books, movies, music, and other media converge and whole-collection reader’s advisory service goes where it may. In this column, Masterpiece Classic: The Complete Jane Austen leads me down a winding path.
 For the past few Sundays, my friends and I have been watching the Masterpiece Classic Jane Austen fest on PBS. The series is a blast, not just for the stories but also for the litany of moments when we, renowned Austen scholars that we are, cry out, “That’s not in the book!”
Still, overlooking the fact that Persuasion’s Anne Elliot would not have gone running along the street in Bath or the fact that, as lovely as it looked, she and Wentworth did not end the novel waltzing on the yard of a tidy estate, the series has become a TV event. Naturally, a once-a-week dose is not sufficient, and a quest for more Austenesque experiences is inevitable.
If you want to stay in the cinematic world of Austen, then start with Ang Lee’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, which follows the book, thanks to Emma Thompson’s Oscar-winning screenplay, and features the same delightful moments of detail and dialog as the PBS films. Thompson’s The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries serves as an extended liner note to the movie and makes for great parallel reading. Persuasion, starring Amanda Root is another good choice, as it holds tight to the book and is beautifully shot.
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Wyatt’s World: The Culture of Social Thought
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely (HarperCollins)
A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity, John Henry Clippinger (PublicAffairs)
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (Pantheon)
Rengen: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer—and What It Means to Your Business, Patricia Martin (Platinum)
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, Lee Siegel (Spiegel & Grau)
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 Doubilet, Peter M., M.D. & others.
Your Developing Baby, Conception to Birth: Witnessing the Miraculous 9-Month Journey.
McGraw. May 2008. c.208p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-07-148871-6. pap. $18.95. HEALTH
Ultrasound has become a common practice in pregnancy, both to confirm the fetus’s health and to provide gender information to the prospective parents. Using 250 diagnostic ultrasound images, Harvard radiology professors Doubilet and Carol B. Benson present a marvelous book charting the growth of babies in the womb. Readers are taken through the entire reproductive process, from ovulation through the third trimester. Each of the images is paired with a mirroring line drawing that clarifies the image through labels, helping the reader to “see” even the smallest nuance. Multiple pregnancies earn a chapter; other diagnostic testing, such as amniocentesis, is mentioned. The authors well explain the different types of ultrasound and their medical uses, especially the 3D images that show the baby’s outer surface and the 2D images revealing the internal development of organs. This virtual tour of a life in the making will attract future parents in droves.
—Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital, Tampa, FL
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4. Playing for Pizza
John Grisham
5. You’ve Been Warned
James Patterson and Howard Roughan
6. Stone Cold
David Baldacci
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4. Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
5. Become a Better You
Joel Osteen
6. God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens
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• Enforcing Copyright
Copyright in the digital age is a beast of another color with librarians acting as suppliers and security guards of electronic information. Here’s what you need to know.
• Editorial: Gender Matters
Librarians are a prime example of the women’s movement’s success at leveling the professional playing field.
• The Transparent Library: Insights from the Front Lines
To institute change at your job, constructive criticism backed by evidence will make your case, while constant negativity fails. The Michaels tell how. |
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