Library Journal articles from April 2003

Library Journal archives from April 2003

Talking Freedom in Fayetteville: the library is a neutral zone in a world of battling true believers. (Editorial).
April 1, 2003... "A remarkable gathering" is what Charles Broadwell, editor and publisher of the Fayetteville Observer, called the forum at the Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center, the public library of Fayetteville, NC, and environs. The...

Recruits from Canada. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... I was outraged to read Michael Rogers's "Tackling Recruitment" (LJ 2/1/03, p. 40-43), about the difficulty of attracting new librarians. Most upsetting was the statement "librarians increasingly find themselves at a loss to attract new...

Silly Gorman. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... Well, the February 15 LJ finally got through the routing to my desk, and I can't believe you published the letter from Michael Gorman ("Unusable Google hits," p. 10). Does he realize how silly this makes him look? Google does not search by...

Condescending prattle. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... I am a reference librarian, and I wondered how you could print such a saccharine and outdated portrait of the profession as the one in Julia Alvarez's poem "Why I Am In Love with Librarians" (LJ 1/03, p. 58). In the real world of...

Ex-ZOO-berance. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)(Poem)
April 1, 2003... Ex-ZOO-berance The party at the circ desk Was a veritable zoo, A lettered Panda-monium A bookish ballyhoo. A Muntjac and a Meercat Reviewed the Life of Pi, A Tsetse checked out Nietzsche To a patron...

Oprah launches classics book club. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Oprah Winfrey has delivered a bit of good news to the slumping publishing industry: she plans to start a new book club, this one devoted to the classics, including works by contemporary authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison....

House passes LSTA reauthorization. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The House of Representatives March 6 passed the reauthorization of the Museum and Library Services Act of 2003, which contains Library Services and Technology Act funding, by a vote of 416-2. The bill authorizes $215 million for libraries in...

Hawaii State Librarian under fire. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Hawaii State Librarian Virginia Lowell is being severely criticized by Gov. Linda Lingle and several senators, who are angry because Lowell cut library schedules to five days and 40 hours weekly in response to a $500,000 budget cut. Critics...

QBPL's Strong to head UCLA library. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Gary Strong, director of the Queens Borough Public Library (QBPL), Jamaica, NY, for more than eight years, has been named University Librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), effective September 1. From 1980 to 1994, Strong...

Appeals court nixes COPA, again. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Asked a second time to review the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), a federal appeals court ruled March 6 that the law is unconstitutional. COPA, the successor to the Communications Decency Act (CDA), would bar operators of commercial web...

Supreme Court justices appear highly divided in CIPA case: some liken Internet filters to materials selection, others dismiss government's analogy; disabling provision debated. (News).
April 1, 2003... A clearly divided U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments March 5 on the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) of 2000, which has been blocked by legal challenges brought by the American Library Association (ALA) and others. CIPA would...

Florida librarians protest Bush plan: hold rally around state library building, contemplate lawsuit. (News).
April 1, 2003... Unconvinced by a letter of explanation from Florida governor Jeb Bush, librarians, historians, and genealogists in the state rallied in Tallahassee March 4 to protest the proposed deal to move the state library's circulating collection to Nova...

EBSCO/divine deal almost complete: is there any money left for libraries and publishers? It looks unlikely. (News).
April 1, 2003... EBSCO Industries March 6 announced it has completed an agreement to acquire divine, Inc.'s collapsed U.S. subscription business RoweCom, Inc., which includes the operations of Dawson, Dawson Information Quest, Faxon Company, Turner Subscription...

Bill offers patriot act exemption: measure would protect library and bookstore records from FBI. (News).
April 1, 2003... The Freedom To Read Protection Act, introduced in Congress March 6, would exempt libraries and booksellers from certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the primary sponsor of the legislation, appeared at a press...

States, localities cut PL budgets: funding suffers in OH, MA, SC; Minneapolis project may stall. (News).
April 1, 2003... As states and localities adjust their budgets, public services suffer, including libraries. LJ's roundup below covers only some of the more prominent situations. Forced to trim state spending by $162 million in the current fiscal year, the...

State libraries feel the squeeze: MT, WA agencies under fire; specialized libraries also targeted. (News).
April 1, 2003... While Florida governor Jeb Bush's plan to dismantle the State Library of Florida has received the most attention (see News, p. 17), other states are also seeing their libraries squeezed. Montana legislators seem to be singling out the...

Cleveland PL seeks tax hike: asks public to embrace 5.8 mill levy in May elections. (News).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Cleveland Public Library (CPL) is asking voters to embrace a five-year, 5.8 mill tax levy that will appear on the May ballot. Critics, however, assert the millage, which would more than double the amount paid by homeowners, is too high and...

Dunedin Public Library. (Public Libraries).(will allow political or religious orgianzations to meet)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The city of Dunedin, FL, has backed off from the restrictive meeting room policy set for the Dunedin Public Library and has agreed to pay the legal fees of the group that sued it (see News, LJ 2/15/03, p. 21). According to the St. Petersburg...

Multnomah County Library. (Public Libraries).(hopes to curb DVD thefts )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR, is known for its AV collection, but its DVD holdings may be too popular. As the Oregonian reports, DVDs are frequently stolen, especially since, under the new "hands-on holds" program, materials are...

Washington, DC. (Public Libraries).(new main branch proposed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Washington, DC, chief planner Andrew Altman has proposed a $150 million new main branch on the vacant site of the old convention center, and the library director and board chair have backed him. However, the Washington Post reports, fans of the...

Fairfax County. (Public Libraries).(Virginia; library funding)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Fairfax County, VA, has come up with an innovative way to raise funding for public services, including libraries. Now included in the real estate and personal property tax forms mailed to citizens twice a year are additional papers soliciting...

Enoch Pratt Free Library. (Public Libraries).(Baltimore, Maryland)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Carla Hayden, director of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library, appeared before the Maryland Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee at a State House hearing in late February to discuss the facility's governance, which has...

Lemon Grove Library. (Public Libraries).(hopes of raising money to build a new library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Lemon Grove, CA, officials are looking for creative ways to raise the roughly $3.5 million more needed to construct a new library, and offering the lead donor to name the Lemon Grove Library is a strong possibility. The library has already...

Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County. (Public Libraries).(150th anniversary: library services)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The 150th anniversary of the Cincinnati area's library services is commemorated with the publication of Free & Public: One Hundred and Fifty Years at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County 1853-2003. Beginning with the book's launch...

SPARC. (Academic Libraries).(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has announced partnerships resulting in the addition of two more journals to its collection of affordable, peer-reviewed works. Neuro-Oncology, a print and electronic journal...

Dartmouth College. (Academic Libraries).(Dartmouth College library: operating budget increased)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Dartmouth College Provost Barry Scherr has added $250,000 from contingency funds to supplement the library's operating budget for FY04. According to the Dartmouth, the college's student newspaper, the funds appear to have been awarded to...

United Nations' Decade of Literacy. (National/International News).(global literacy )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The United Nations' Decade of Literacy project, to which the United States is supplying $333 million, aims to increase global literacy 50 percent by 2015, with a special emphasis on educating women and girls. Although New York Public Library...

World Library and Information Congress. (Academic Libraries).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The World Library and Information Congress is the new name of the General Conference and Council of IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. The new title is designed to ensure that the event has a greater...

BiblioMondo Release "Zones" in on library portals: new suite of products for children and adults offers highly attractive interface, personalization, and easy searching. (Industry News).
April 1, 2003... BiblioMondo has introduced what might be the next level of portal development for libraries. Dubbed the Zones "family" of products, the suite has applications for adults and children. The initial Zone-I release consists of LibraryZone, MyZone,...

Classical.com music service: subscription offers 10,000 musical recordings and background online. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Librarians with limited budgets for audio CDs or frustrated by stolen discs should investigate Classical.com, a music database containing more than 10,000 classical music selections for downloading. The subscription-based service's recordings...

Vernon/TAGSYS supply deal: will offer RFID tags to North American libraries. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Vernon Library Supplies has signed a partnership agreement with TAGSYS to become the North American supplier of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to libraries. Along with the standard cataloging information for each item, TAGSYS RFID...

SFX moves into Canadian univs.: Universities of Montreal and British Columbia are country's first users. (Installations).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... It's Canada from coast to coast for Ex Libris's SFX OpenURL linker, which has landed its first northern customers with the signing of the Universite of Montreal and the University of British Columbia. The Montreal site is one of Canada's...

New Australian contract for Sirsi: multibranch Gold Coast City Council Library signs for Unicorn. (Installations).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Sirsi Corporation's Australian operation has successfully signed the 14-branch Gold Coast Council Library for the vendor's Unicorn system. The library's Jan Grew said that a new system would greatly increase the speed and number of online...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
April 1, 2003... The correct URL for accessing Columbia University Press's Guide to Digital Publishing (Infotech, LJ 2/15/03, p. 23) is www.digitalpublishingguide.com. The publisher of Supreme: The Story of the Year was incorrectly listed in Graphic...

Innovative scores another academic: Hope College replacing aging ILS solution with modern Millennium. (Installations).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Innovative Interfaces Inc. has added another academic library to its list of customers: Hope College, Holland, MI, has signed to replace its existing 15-year-old automation solution with Innovative's state-of-the-art Millennium system. The...

Maine Chooses endeavor system: state library and university partner for ENCompass & LinkFinderPlus. (Installations).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The State of Maine Library and the University of Maine, Orono, are partnering to provide state residents and students with access to online digital resources through Endeavor Information System's ENCompass for Resource Access and LinkFinderPlus...

Web watch. (Infotech).
April 1, 2003... CLICKING ON THE WEB... Increasingly, people are seeking to adopt. Close to 120,000 children were adopted each year throughout the 1990s. Still, adoption remains a complex undertaking. The paths that prospective adoptive parents take today are...

Are online librarians teachers? (Online Databases).
April 1, 2003... In my column "The Age of Online Instruction (LJ 9/1/02, p. 36,38), I made the bold assertion that "in this age of online libraries, librarians in all types of libraries are online educators." I should know better than to make an assumption...

Connected in the City: after a recent resurgence, the New Haven Free Public Library must cope with cuts, but it's still a home for books and much more. (A day in the life: urban libraries).
April 1, 2003... IT'S THURSDAY afternoon in late February at the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL), CT. A pleased patron tells the checkout desk clerk he'll return tomorrow. Sorry, he's told cordially; the library is now closed on...

Putting pay first: two years after launching a new movement to improve library workers' salaries, the task force considers what it has achieved and the task ahead. (Recruitment & Retention).
April 1, 2003... THERE IS NOTHING new about people who work in libraries, most of them women, getting paid low salaries. But there is a new movement to make that change, and it is beginning to deliver results. Two years ago, during his run for president of the...

Medicine's library lifeline: librarians in the new role of "informationist" can help doctors and researchers stay ahead of the curve and may help save lives along the way. (Focus on: special libraries).
April 1, 2003... Imagine a librarian in surgical scrubs or white lab coat, working as a seamless part of the medical team, in both clinical and research environments. Just such a new species of health information' professional, an "informationist," is emerging...

The competition heats up: migrations from legacy systems will accelerate. (automated system marketplace 2003).
April 1, 2003... IN 2002, THE MOVE AWAY from outdated systems fueled sales in the library automation market. Companies with legacy systems pulled out all the stops to retain customers and entice them to migrate to their replacement systems. This year we'll take...

The show must go on at the library. (Theater Arts).(Bibliography)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2003... IN CITIES AND TOWNS across the country, thousands of people, both amateurs and professionals, are staging plays; some are directing and acting; others are designing costumes and building sets. Yet theater types are chronically underrepresented...

How do you manage?(Column)
April 1, 2003... CASE STUDY A Candidate for Trouble "WAY TO GO, big guy," said Doug Kawecki, patting a puzzled Herb McDonald, assistant director at the Navarino Public Library, on the back as he crossed the facility's main floor on the way to the...

Prepub alert.(Aug 2003 fiction, nonfiction)(Directory)(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2003... COMING IN AUGUST 2003... lots of thrillers from the likes of Gerritsen, Iles, and Kellerman and hardly a literary novel in sight, though publishers often use August to launch promising titles that might get lost in the Christmas rush. Those...

Focus on serials.(EBSCO)(Company Profile)(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2003... Recent events have caused understandable anxiety regarding the reputations of serials vendors. From time to time when turmoil in our industry has caused concern, we have chosen to speak out to share our position and comment on the subscription...

Poetry best sellers.(top 20)(Illustration)
April 1, 2003... 1 Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth [HC] Alice Walker. Random. 2003. ISBN 0-375-50904-6. $22.95. 2 100 Best Love Poems of All Time [P] Leslie Pockell, ed. Warner. 2003. ISBN 0-446-69022-8. $9.95. 3 Quilting the Black Eyed...

Kingsbury, Karen. One Tuesday Morning.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Zondervan. May 2003. c.352p. ISBN 0310-24752-7. pap. $12.99. CF It is just another ordinary Tuesday morning. The day is clear and beautiful, the sky a bright blue. Eric Michaels, a busy and ambitious executive from Los Angeles, is attending...

Wingate, Lisa. Good Hope Road.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Accent: NAL. May 2003. c.304p. ISBN 0-451-20861-7. pap. $12.95. CF "On the afternoon of July 29, the entire town of Poetry, Missouri, was cast to the wind. The town rained down around me for what seemed like an eternity as the tornado...

Gulley, Philip. Signs and Wonders: A Harmony Novel.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... HarperSanFrancisco: HarperCollins. Apr. 2003. c.256p. ISBN 0-06-000633-1. $17.95. CF In the fourth installment of Gulley's popular series (Home to Harmony; Just Shy of Harmony; Christmas in Harmony), the colorful and eccentric residents of...

Parker, Gary E. Highland Grace.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Bethany. (Blue Ridge Legacy, 3). May 2003. c.400p. ISBN 0-7642-2454-9. pap. $12.99. CF Drawing on his family history, Parker here concludes his popular Blue Ridge Legacy trilogy (Christy Award finalist Highland Hopes; Highland Grace). A...

Parr, Delia. Home to Trinity.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... St. Martin's. Apr. 2003. c.320p. ISBN 0-312-27098-4. $24.95. CF Historical romance writer Parr continues her foray into the inspirational genre with this second volume in her Americana series (after A Place Called Trinity). Although she...

Whittington, Brad. Welcome to Fred.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Broadman & Holman. Apr. 2003. c.256p. ISBN 0-8054-2555-1. pap. $12.99. CF When Mark and his family arrive in Fred, TX, from Fort Worth after a brief stay in Ohio, they find "six buildings of note: a general store, an elementary school, a...

Bagdon, Paul. The Stranger from Medina.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Revell. (West Texas Sunrise, Bk. 3). May 2003. c.192p. ISBN 0-8007-58358. pap. $11.99. CF When Reverend Tucker is shot to death by unknown assailants, the Texas town of Burnt Rock must find a replacement. Duncan Warner, a graduate of the...

Leanne, Shelly. Joshua's Bible.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... WalkWorthy: Warner. Apr. 2003. c.369p. ISBN 0-446-53032-8. $23.95. CF In her first novel, Leanne tackles a rich but little-known piece of African American history: the role of black American missionaries in Africa in the early 20th...

* The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers: the Definitive Practical Guide.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... DK. 2002. 720p. ed. by Christopher Brickell & Trevor Cole. photogs, index. ISBN 0-7894-8993-7. $60. REF Although the editors are British and Canadian, respectively, this revised and expanded volume focuses on American plants rather than on...

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: the Twentieth Century, 1912-2000.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... M.E. Sharpe. 2003. c.798p. ed. by Lily Xiao Hong Lee & A.D. Stefanowska. ISBN 0-7656-0798-0. $109.95. REF Picking up where Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (1998) left off, this monumental reference...

A Dictionary of Quotations in Mathematics.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... McFarland. 2002. 314p. permanent paper. ed. by Robert A. Nowlan. bibliog. index. LC 2002005268. ISBN 0-7864-1284-4. pap. $45. REF Nowlan (mathematics, Southern Connecticut State Univ.) here gathers nearly 3000 mathematical quotations for...

Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Facts On File. (Science Library). 2003. c.450p. ed. by Harry Henderson. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8160-4373-6. $82.50. REF This latest offering from technical editor and writer Henderson (Career Opportunites in Computers and Cyberspace;...

A new historical literacy? Editor Gary B. Nash on Encyclopedia of American History.(Interview)
April 1, 2003... When Facts On File decided to publish a new encyclopedia on U.S. history, it was taking a big risk. Dozens of solid resources on the subject already exist; was there room for yet another? And if so, what approach would it take? After talking to...

The Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Sage. 2003. c.416p, permanent paper. ed. by Marilyn D. McShane & Frank P. Williams III. bibliog, index. LC 2002015866. ISBN 0-7619-2358-6. $125. REF One measure of a good reference book is how long its material will be pertinent for the...

Geo-Data: the World Geographical Encyclopedia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... 3d ed. Gale. 2003.704p. ed. by John F. McCoy. maps. index. LC 2002010926. ISBN 0-7876-5581-3. $195. REF The third edition of this wide-ranging resource to the physical geography of every country in the world features notable improvements in...

* The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... 4 vols. Greenwood. 2002. 2400p. permanent paper. ed. by M. Thomas Inge & Dennis Hall. illus, bibliog, index. LC 2002071291. ISBN 0-313-30878-0. $400. REF Since the "lively arts" were formally defined in the early part of the 20th century,...

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... 2 vols. Macmillan Reference: Gale. 2002. 1071p. ed. by Robert Kastenbaum. photogs. index. LC 2002005809. ISBN 0-02-865689-X. $240. REF In this two-volume set, noted scholar Kastenbaum (The Psychology of Death) strives to present a...

Moore, Elaine A. with Lisa Moore (text) & Marvin G. Miller (illus.). Encyclopedia of Alzheimer's Disease with Directories of Research, Treatment and Care Facilities.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... McFarland. 2003. 401p. permanent paper. illus, index. LC 2002012202. ISBN 0-7864-1438-3. $55. REF Alzheimer's is an immensely complex disease affecting about 35 percent of the older population. Although no cure is yet available, ongoing...

Public Records Online: the National Guide to Private & Government Online Sources of Public Records.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... 4th ed. Facts on Demand, dist. by National Bk. Network. 2002. 518p. ed. by Michael L. Sankey & Peter J. Weber. ISBN 1-889150-37-1. pap. $20.95. REF Now fully revised and updated, this guide to thousands of private and government online...

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... 9th ed. 2 vols. Wiley-Interscience: Wiley. 2003. 3898p. permanent paper, ed. by Glenn D. Considine & Peter H. Kulik. illus. ISBN 0-471-33230-5. $350. REF It has been seven years since this well-known science reference has been updated, and...

Amery, Colin & Brian Curran Jr. The Lost World of Pompeii.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Getty Museum. 2002. 192p. illus, maps. index. LC 2002108745. ISBN 0-89236-687-7. $45. FINE ARTS Pompeii. Riverside. 2002. 408p. ed. by Filippo Coarelli. tr. from Italian by Riverside Book Company. illus, bibliog. ISBN 1-878351-59-1. $100....

Art in the Making: Underdrawings in Renaissance Paintings.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Yale Univ. 2003. 176p. ed. by David Bomford. illus, bibliog. ISBN 0-300-09225-3. pap. $30. FINE ARTS Infrared reflectography's ability to look beneath the surface of paintings and reveal their graphic foundation is a remarkable addition to...

Blagojevic, Ljiljana. Modernism in Serbia: the Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... MIT. Jun. 2003. c.290p, illus, index. ISBN 0-262-02537-X. $34.95. ARCHITECTURE This is a very interesting book on a very narrow subject--modern architecture in Serbia between the world wars. Because of the author's postmodern "gaze," it...

Cruickshank, Dan (text) & John Parker (photogs.). The Story of Britain's Best Buildings.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Firefly. 2003. c.256p, photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-55297-748-X. pap. $24.95. ARCHITECTURE This volume highlights eight remarkable buildings--Durham Castle, Windsor Castle, Tower Bridge, Holyrood House, Blenheim Palace, Cardiff Castle,...

An Enduring Vision: 17th- to 20th-Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Univ. of Washington. 2003.320p. ed. by Lisa Rotondo-McCord. illus, bibliog, index. LC 2002107151. ISBN 0-89494-087-2. $60. FINE ARTS The Gitter-Yelen Collection is one of the most distinguished assemblages of paintings from the Edo period...

Goffen, Rona. Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Yale Univ. 2002. 521p. illus, bibliog, index. LC 2002001026. ISBN 0-300-09434-5. $39.95. FINE ARTS Claiming that rivalry was an important part of Renaissance culture, Goffen (art history, Rutgers Univ.; Giovanni Bellini) traces the key...

Gonick, Gloria Granz & others. Matsuri!: Japanese Festival Arts.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Univ. of Washington. (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile, No. 6). Apr. 2003. 256p. illus, maps. bibliog. index. LC 2002028793. ISBN 0-93074-191-9. $75; pap. ISBN 0-930741-92-7. $40. FINE ARTS Based in Shinto ritual, matsuri...

Greenberg, Clement. Clement Greenberg: Late Writings.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Univ. of Minnesota. 2003. c.232p, permanent paper, ed. by Robert C. Morgan. ISBN 0-8166-3938-8. $29.95. FINE ARTS Gathered here for the first time are the late writings (1970-94) of one of the seminal thinkers about American abstract art....

Icons of Photography: the 19th Century.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Prestel. 2002. 127p. ed. by Freddy Langer. tr. from German by John D. Gabriel. photogs. ISBN 3-7913-277 l-2. $29.95. PHOTOG Following the publisher's parallel volume, Icons of Photography: The 20th Century, this introduction to 19th-century...

McPhee, Sarah. Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Yale Univ. 2003. 353p. permanent paper. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 0-300-08982-1. $60. ARCHITECTURE Perhaps best known for his design of the Piazza di San Pietro (1656-67), with its elliptical space and converging colonnades, Gianlorenzo...

Marable, Manning & Leith Mullings. Freedom: a Photographic History of the African American Struggle.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Phaidon. 2002. 512p. photogs. bibliog.. index. ISBN 0-7148-4270-2. $59.95. Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle. Phaidon. 2002. 512p. photogs, bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7148-4270-2. $59.95. PHOTOG Freedom...

Moss, Eric Owen. Eric Owen Moss: Buildings and Projects 3.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Rizzoli, dist. by St. Martin's. 2002. 304p. photogs, bibliog. ISBN 0-8478-2260-5. $75. ARCHITECTURE Rizzoli produces quality architecture books-well-designed works with striking visuals and effective text that place architecture in context...

* New Material as New Media: the Fabric Workshop and Museum.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... MIT 2003. 319p. ed. by Kelly Mitchell. photogs, index. LC 2002151201. ISBN 0-262-19489-9. $50. FINE ARTS Accompanying a 25-year retrospective exhibition, this title ranges far beyond the topic of artists working with fabric; it's a highly...

Rudnick, James (photogs.) & Thomas Mellins (text). Gotham Restored: the Preservation of Monumental New York.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Monacelli. 2003. 184p. photogs. ISBN 1-58093-085-9. $50. PHOTOG New York City is in a state of continual revision, which Brooklyn-based photographer Rudnick ably documents in his images of the restoration of four of its enduring icons....

* Andreas-Salome, Lou. You Alone Are Real to Me.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... BOA, dist. by Consortium. 2003. tr. from German by Angela yon der Lippe. ISBN 1-929918-32-1. $22. LIT The brilliant, Russian-born, and still mesmerizing Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) was a cosmopolitan and indomitable thinker who became both...

Becker, Jillian. Giving Up: the Last Days of Sylvia Plath.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... St. Martin's. May 2003. c.80p. ISBN 0312-31598-8. $14.95. LIT In this slim memoir, Becker (The PLO; Hitler's Children) recounts her final memories of the extraordinarily talented yet notoriously depressed poet Sylvia Plath. The book is...

Calvino, Italo. Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Pantheon. 2003. c.272p, tr. from Italian by Martin McLaughlin. ISBN 0-37542184-X. $23. LIT One of the most important and influential Italian writers of the 20th century, Calvino is best known for his inventive novels. This collection, put...