Library Journal articles from April 2008

Library Journal archives from April 2008

Tag team review: two librarians, one book.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... "Jordan Wright had a similar experience at age ten with an RFK button, which subsequently inspired a life spent collecting the multitudinous forms of campaign memorabilia he documents in this visually stimulating entertainingly informative;...

Digital libraries: Roy Tennant's blog.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... "Growing up on a farm, you learn to fix just about anything with bailing wire, Later, duct tape came onto the scene.... Digital librarianship isn't all that different. It helps having a few basic tools in your repertoire.... I can do just about...

Memoir or make-believe? Jones and Defonseca follow in the steps of Frey.(Margaret B. Jones, Misha Defonseca and James Frey)(Editorial)
April 1, 2008... WHEN JOHN FREEMAN, OUTGOING PRESIDENT OF the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC), introduced the fiction category at the NBCC awards March 6, he jokingly called it "the truer than true category." The remark alluded to two stories that had...

The two Davids.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... The New York Public Library (NYPL) has traded an excellent library for half of a first floor and two cellars that they say will be a "state-of-the-art library" (Francine Fialkoff, "Two NYPLs or One?" Editorial, LJ 2/1/08, p. 8). That is...

Poverty of vision.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... I read Francine Fialkoff's editorial "Two NYPLs or One?" (LJ 2/1/08, p. 8), nodding my head in agreement and dismay.... For years I've written letters to NYPL and government officials regarding a very long list of problematic management and...

Berry's last rant.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Offering choices to busy library patrons will never endanger libraries. Letting staff move from routine chores to more responsible duties will never endanger librarians. Your inability to distinguish between a purely functionary relationship...

Barren landscape.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Your wonderful, well-timed essay succinctly states what is wrong with libraries today (John Berry, "The Vanishing Librarians," Blatant Berry, LJ 2/15/08, p. 10). It's like the second coming of Herb White. I second its observation about the...

Do architects have the answer to the future of the library?(front desk)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... "How Do You Build a Library in the Age of Google?" was the question Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski asked in a slide show/essay last month surveying some major libraries. On the popular tech site Slashdot, one wag responded, "I...

Vancouver Public Library and its happy users.(front desk)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Featured on the homepage of the significantly redesigned Vancouver Public Library, BC, web site (www.vpl.ca), which launched in February, is a rotating cast of eight diverse library users.

Nicholson Baker loves it.(front desk)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... "Without the kooks and the insulters and the spray-can taggers, Wikipedia would just be the most useful encyclopedia ever made. Instead it's a fast-paced game of paintball." --"The Charms of Wikipedia," New York Review of Books, March 20,...

Wired on the road.(STAT WATCH)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... 41% The growing proportion of adult Americans who have logged onto the Internet while away from home or work either with a wireless laptop connection or a handheld device. Source: The Pew Internet Project's Mobile Access to Data and...

[Cartoon].(front desk)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dave Coverly's cartoon has been such a hit with librarian, it's now available as a poster. See www.speedbump.com/librarian.html

NYPL announces $1 billion makeover: gift of $100 million helps fuel overhaul of flagship 42nd Street library.(lj news)
April 1, 2008... The New York Public Library (NYPL) on March 11 announced a $1 billion transformation plan, sparked in part by a $100 million gift from private equity fund billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman, that involves new hub libraries, an expansion of...

Bodleian library gets $10 million: record-setting million-dollar gift will open some Oxford collections to public.(lj news)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Oxford University's Bodleian Library announced March 8 it has received a 5 million [pounds sterling] gift ($10 million), the largest single cash donation ever made to a UK university library. Oxford officials said the donation, from stalwart...

GAO, arbitrator criticize EPA: decision to close not justified; reopening plan in process.(lj news)(Government Accountability Office and Environmental Protection Agency)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... A report issued March 13 by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plan to close and reorganize regional and research libraries--owing to a new focus on e-materials and an expected...

New Orleans debuts ambitious plan.(lj news)(New Orleans Public Library )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Leaders of the long underresourced New Orleans Public Library (NOPL), which was devastated by the effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, aim to produce a "world-class library system" by 2030, following a $650 million drive for capital and...

Librarian price leaves Ask.com: retreat from search engine market shows Google's dominance.(lj news)(Gary Price)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Last month, Ask.com announced that it was essentially giving up on its plans to become a serious player in a search engine market overwhelmingly dominated by Google, saying it would lay off roughly 40 employees. Those departing include...

TN librarians vs. Memphis mayor: more fallout for hiring two non-librarians to run Memphis library.(lj news)(Willie Herenton)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... In an open letter to Memphis mayor Willie Herenton, the Tennessee Library Association (TLA) called his recent dismissal of longtime Memphis Public Library and Information Center director Judith Drescher "a slap in the face" to library staff,...

Boston mayor seeks more say: in new clash with library head, trust fund oversight at issue.(lj news)(Thomas Menino and Bernard Margolis)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The clash between Bernard Margolis, president of the Boston Public Library, and Mayor Thomas Menino, who engineered Margolis's departure as of June 2008 (see News, LJ 12/07, p. 16), was ratcheted up last month. The mayor has sought greater...

Library Journal & parent RBI for sale.(lj news)(Reed Business Information )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Reed Elsevier on February 21 announced plans to sell Reed Business Information (RBI), the parent company of Library Journal and sibling publications Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Criticas. In a statement, Reed Elsevier CEO...

NBCC honored as winners named.(lj news)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Junot Diaz's first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, took the fiction prize at the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) awards ceremony March 6 in New York City. The group's other wide-ranging winners included Tim Jeal's revisionist...

IMLS report boosts libraries: declares that librarians are trusted, valuable information providers.(lj news)
April 1, 2008... A new report sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), "InterConnections: A National Study of Users and Potential Users of Online Information" (interconnectionsreport.org), "provides evidence that public libraries and...

Kent state LIS program to Ohio State library.(lj news)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... For 30 years, the Kent State University (KSU) School of Library and Information Science, located in the northeast sector of Ohio near Akron, has offered a program in the capital city of Columbus, located in the state s center, at Ohio State...

Bush library gets go-ahead at SMU.(lj news)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation has announced what has been expected for well over a year--that Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, will be home to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, consisting of a library,...

Teens win NJ library love contests.(lj news)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... When the New Jersey State Library (NJSL) asked teens to show them some love, more than 40 kids statewide did just that in the form of videos and comic strips. Two--Courtney Wu of Basking Ridge and Elena Ordille of Hammonton--took top prize in...

Book Exchange Centre to close.(lj news)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The 35-year-old Canadian Book Exchange Centre (CBEC), a resource-sharing service provided by Library and Archives Canada, is closing down, as Library and Archives Canada (LAC) says more efficient and economical ways are available to support...

Calendar.(lj news)(Brief article)(Calendar)
April 1, 2008... APRIL 29-May 1--New Jersey Library Assn., Long Branch www.njla.org 29-May 2--Utah Library Assn./ Mountain Plains Library Assn., Salt Lake City www.ula.org MAY 6-9--Massachusetts Library Assn., Falmouth www.masslib.org ...

Concordia University.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Gerald Beasley has been appointed University Librarian at Concordia University, Montreal, effective July 1, 2008. He comes from Columbia University, New York, where he was Director of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.

Brodart Books & Automation.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Bonnie Dieffenbacher has joined Brodart Books & Automation as Director of Data and Collections Management. She most recently was VP of Purchasing and Collection Development for BWI.

University of California.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Brenda Johnson has been appointed University Librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She previously was Associate University Librarian at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Ingenta.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Rebecca Lenzini has joined Ingenta as Director of Business Development, Publisher Services. She most recently was President and Publisher of the Charleston Advisor. She earlier was President and COO of Carl Corporation, Denver.

California State University.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Coleen Martin has been appointed Coordinator of Outreach Services Librarian at California State University, Northridge. Martin was a part-time librarian there and also an on-call Children's Services Librarian at the Altadena Library District,...

Naperville Public Library.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... John Spears is the new Manager of the 95th Street Library, Naperville Public Library, IL. He was Manager of Community Branches and Adult Programming for the St. Charles City-County Library District, St. Peters, MO.

Manitowoc Public Library and Manitowoc-Calumet Library System.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Patty Dwyer Wanninger is the new Director of the Manitowoc Public Library and Manitowoc-Calumet Library System, WI. She previously was Director of the Blue Island Public Library, IL.

Louisiana Tech University.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... W. Walter Wicker, Head of Prescott Memorial Library at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, has retired. He served as Director of Library Services from 1986 to 1996 and 2004 to 2006 and as Dean of Library Services in 2007.

Santa Clara County Library.(people)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Barbara Morrow Williams has joined Santa Clara County Library, Los Gatos, CA, as Community Librarian for the Saratoga Library, replacing the retiring Dolly Barnes. Williams was Public Services Librarian at the Daniel Boone Regional Library,...

Obituary.(people)(Bea James)(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Bea James, former Head Librarian at the Bergenfield Public Library (BPL), NJ, died recently at the age of 99. She spent 46 years at BPL, beginning as a page in 1925. James was past president of the New Jersey Library Association and until...

Ingram digital ramps up: to meet its growing needs, the firm creates four biz units and support team, adds ebook content.(infotech)
April 1, 2008... Though barely two years old, Ingrain Digital has skyrocketed to the top of the e-content marketplace for libraries, growing it seems in every direction and being dubbed by eContent Magazine as among the "100 companies that matter most" (see...

EBSCO Open Science Directory.(infotech)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... EBSCO Information Services is working in tandem with Belgium's Hasselt University Library and the IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange) program of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO to...

ProQuest adds British content.(infotech)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... A partnership between ProQuest and Britain's JISC Collections makes more than a century of House of Commons Parliamentary papers available free to UK universities. ProQuest said that the collection, covering from 1901 to 2004, includes 187,809...

Ouachita Parish goes Polaris.(infotech)(Ouachita Parish Public Library partners with Polaris Library Systems)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Polaris Library Systems has thrown a lucky seven, inking a deal with the Ouachita Parish Public Library, Monroe, LA, to install its ILS system in the facility's main building and six branches. "Our primary focus was finding an ILS partner who...

UK/Euro libraries get Vubis Smart.(infotech)(Infor Library and Information Solutions )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Infor Library and Information Solutions (Infor) has announced new contracts in the UK and Europe. Scottish Borders Council has gone live with the vendor's Vubis Smart system in 12 libraries. Infor said the system also will support six mobile...

Web widgets help searchers.(ONLINE DATABASES)
April 1, 2008... WIDGETS ARE INTERACTIVE, single-purpose applications for displaying and/or updating information. They can bring newsfeeds, weather forecasts, and more to a desktop or mobile web platform. Variants known as "web widgets" (or sometimes modules or...

Opportunity out of turmoil: as the industry consolidates, competition heats up to provide next-generation catalogs, and open source enters the mainstream.(AUTOMATION MARKETPLACE 2008)(Cover story)
April 1, 2008... The dramatic shifts that redefined the industry in 2006 precipitated turmoil in 2007, which made companies that avoided major business transitions more attractive and sparked explosive interest in open source alternatives. Some companies held a...

Auto-Graphics, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Auto-Graphics, Inc. Pomona, CA; 800-776-6939 www.auto-graphics.com Auto-Graphics specializes in library automation and resource sharing products for public libraries and ranks as one of the few public companies in the industry....

Book Systems, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Book Systems, Inc. Huntsville, AL; 800-219-6571 www.booksys.com Book Systems, a midsized, privately owned company, increased its workforce in 2007 from 50 to 57 personnel, a 12% increase. The company made 159 sales of its...

Care Affiliates.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... CARE Affiliates Blacksburg, VA; 866-340-9580 www.care-affiliates.com CARE Affiliates was formed in June 2007 to support open source library software. The company focused on start-up activities, especially on forming partnerships...

Civica Pty Limited.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Civica Pty Limited Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; +61 3 8676 4400; www.civica.com.au Civica, a well-established company in Australia and the UK, revamped its U.S. presence by establishing an office here in December 2007. The...

COMPanion Corp.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... COMPanion Corp. Salt Lake City, UT; 801-943-7277 www.goalexandria.com COMPanion ranks as a distant second to Follett in the K-12 school automation sector. The company employs 67, up two from last year. The company made 980 sales...

CyberTools, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... CyberTools, Inc. Harvard, MA; 978-772-9200 www.cybertoolsforlibraries.com CyberTools for Libraries is a small private company, employing five. The vast majority of the its clients are medical libraries, with academic libraries...

EOS International.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... EOS International Carlsbad, CA; 800-876-5484 www.eusintl.com EOS International, a private company established in 1981, focuses on special libraries, mostly those in Fortune 500 corporations and law firms. In 2007, a number of...

Equinox Software.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Equinox Software Norcross, GA; 877-673-6457 www.esilibrary.com Equinox Software was established in early 2007 primarily to support the Evergreen library automation system originally developed by the Georgia Public Library Service...

Ex Libris Group.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Ex Libris Group Jerusalem, Israel; +972-2-6499100 www.exlibrisgroup.com Ex Libris Group specializes in developing automation products for academic and research libraries as well as large consortia. The company came under the...

Follett Software Company.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Follett Software Company McHenry, IL; 815-344-8700 www.fsc.follett.com Follett Software Company (FSC), a business unit of Follett Corporation, offers a variety of products related to educational resource management. Revenues of...

Index Data.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Index Data West Hartford, CT; 866-489-1568 www.indexdata.dk Index Data has been involved in developing and supporting open source software for libraries since its founding in 1994 but has stayed out of the ILS arena, except to...

Infor Library and Information Solutions.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Infor Library and Information Solutions Framingham, MA; 800-825-2574 www.vubis-smart.com Infor Library and Information Solutions carries on the legacy of Geac, one of the pioneers of the library automation industry, and operates...

Infovision.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Infovision Williamsport, PA; 800-849-1655 www.infovisionsoftware.com Infovision, based in Australia, offers content management and library automation products to libraries worldwide. Amlib, the company's library automation...

Inmagic, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Inmagic, Inc. Woburn, MA; 800-229-8398 www.inmagic.com Inmagic specializes in products for corporate and other special libraries. These include Inmagic Presto for enterprise research asset management, as well as Genie and...

Innovative Interfaces, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)
April 1, 2008... Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Emeryville, CA; 510-655-6200; www.iii.com Innovative Interfaces ranks as the second largest company in the industry. Still independent and owned by original founder Jerry Kline, it has avoided the private...

ISACSOFT Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... ISACSOFT Inc. Montreal, Quebec; 514-282-7073, x252 www.isacsoft.com ISACSOFT, a public company, focuses on library automation products sold primarily in Canada and France. The company was assembled in 2004 through the acquisition...

Kelowna Software Ltd.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Kelowna Software Ltd. Kelowna, BC; 800-667-3634; www.L4U.com Kelowna Software, a privately owned company in operation since 1985, offers the L4U Platinum automation system. The company also sells a media booking module for L4U,...

Keystone Systems, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Keystone Systems, Inc. Raleigh, NC; 919-782-1143; www.klas.com Keystone Systems is a private company in business for over 20 years; it offers the KLAS automation systems designed especially for special libraries that serve remote...

LibLime.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... LibLime Athens, OH; 888-564-2457 www.liblime.com LibLime was established in early 2005 to support the Koha library automation system and other library-oriented open source applications. The company has seen steady growth both in...

The Library Corporation.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)
April 1, 2008... The Library Corporation Inwood, WV; 800-325-7759 www.tlcdelivers.com Founded in 1974, The Library Corporation (TLC), a private, family-owned company, provides automation products for public libraries. It employs 191, a 10%...

LibraryWorld, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... LibraryWorld, Inc. San Jose, CA; 800-852-2777 www.libraryworld.com LibraryWorld, formerly known as CASPR., offers its hosted LibraryWorld service as a low-cost option for library automation. Libraries can use LibraryWorld for 30...

Mandarin Library Automation, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. Boca Raton, FL; 800-426-7477, xO www.mlasolutions.com Mandarin Library Automation (MLA) offers Mandarin Oasis, a centralized web-based system geared toward school libraries. The company had 55 new...

MuseGlobal, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... MuseGlobal, Inc. San Francisco, CA; 415-896-6873 www.museglobal.com MuseGlobal produces technology components widely deployed in the library automation arena as part of other federated search environments sold to libraries. In...

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Organization overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Dublin, OH; 800-848-5878; www.oclc.org OCLC, a nonprofit membership organization, offers many different services to libraries, including a number of automation products. In recent years, OCLC...

Polaris Library Systems.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Polaris Library Systems Syracuse, NY; 800-272-3414 www.polarislibrary.com Polaris Library Systems is a midsized private company primarily focused on automation systems for public libraries. The company employs a total of 69, a 4%...

Serials Solutions.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Serials Solutions Seattle, WA; 866-737-4257 www.serialssolutions.com Serials Solutions, while not in the ILS part of the library automation arena, offers products in almost all other product categories. It is a division of...

SirsiDynix.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... SirsiDynix Huntsville, AL; 256-704-7000 www.sirsidynix.com SirsiDynix ranks as the largest company in the library automation industry, a consolidated company that hosts the remnants of many earlier firms, including Sirsi, Dynix,...

Softlink America Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Softlink America Inc. Los Angeles, CA; 877-454-2725 www.softlinkint.com Founded in 1983, Softlink International is a global company based in Australia whose library automation products are used in 108 countries; it claims the...

Surpass Software.(Company Profil)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Surpass Software Calhoun, GA; 708-825-5399 www.SurpassSoftware.com Surpass, a small private company in business since 1985, offers Centriva, its centralized system for school districts and multibranch libraries, introduced in...

SydneyPLUS International.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... SydneyPLUS International Richmond, BC; 604-278-6717 www.sydneyplus.com SydneyPLUS, like other companies focused on the corporate and legal library sector, has shifted its emphasis from traditional models of library automation to...

Talis Information Limited.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Talis Information Limited Birmingham, West Midlands, UK; +44 (0) 870 400 5000; www.talis.com Tails continues to focus its business exclusively in the UK, though the company promotes Web 2.0 concepts in the United States. Talis employs...

VTLS Inc.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... VTLS Inc. Blacksburg, VA; 540-557-1200 www.vtls.com A midsized company specializing in automation solutions for complex library environments, VTLS stands as a veteran of the industry in operation since 1984. In 2007, the company...

WebFeat.(Company Profiles)(Company overview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... WebFeat Old Brookville, NY; 888-757-9119 www.webfeat.org The big news about WebFeat came in early 2008, with its acquisition and merger into Serials Solutions (see Serials Solutions profile). WebFeat focuses its energies...

Lifecycle librarianship: giving up the information illusion will keep librarians and libraries relevant for a lifetime.(Viewpoint essay)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In a time when information self-service and enhanced competition have sent libraries of all types into an oftentimes desperate search for a renewed sense of purpose, a fundamentally important question takes center...

Library advocacy x2: LJ interviews the ALA presidential candidates.(LJ Q & A: ALA CANDIDATES)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Library advocacy in one of two directions is the top priority of both Camila Alire and J. Linda Williams, the candidates campaigning to capture the 2009-10 term as president of the American Library Association (ALA)....

Building rainbow families.(Collection Development: Gay Parenting)(Bibliography)
April 1, 2008... While gay parenthood has existed from time immemorial, it has only emerged as a viable means of family building within the past 20 years. Celebrities like Melissa Etheridge, who had children with ex-partner Julie Cypher and sperm donor David...

The blog hog.(CASE STUDY)
April 1, 2008... "I CAN'T BELIEVE HE DID IT AGAIN," growled Susan Merkle, a librarian at the White Hills Public Library. "I wrote a blog no more than ten minutes ago, and Jack just put one up and knocked mine off the front page before anyone even got a chance...

Talk to Jack.(ANALYSIS I)
April 1, 2008... In this situation, there appears to be a lack of direction on the part of management, or confusion as to procedure on the part of staff. First, it is surprising that the White Hills Public Librry staff seem to have access to the library's web...

Talk to supervisor.(ANALYSIS II)
April 1, 2008... Blogging, like Web 2.0, is an interactive environment where information is continually updated. Unlike a newsletter or an email, the goal of a blog is to have new material regularly posted, while allowing readers to respond instantly. Jack...

The librarian as bibliotherapist.(BACKTALK)
April 1, 2008... A CELEBRATED INTERNATIONAL matchmaker was once asked how she went about satisfying her clients. "I ask them what they want," she said, "but I give them what they need." If you think about it, this prescription offers an interesting...