Library Journal articles from August 2003

Library Journal archives from August 2003

The disarray of defeat: there is a small victory for free access in our CIPA setback.(Editorial)(Children's Internet Protection Act)(Editorial)
August 1, 2003... That confusing, multifaceted decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that found the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) constitutional was sure to cause a few false steps by the American Library Association (ALA) forces who mounted the attack....

MLS: minimal prerequisite.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... Like Rob Geiszler ("No need for an MLS," Letters, LJ 7/03, p. 10), I too entered the profession after earning a master's degree in another field at one of the nation's leading universities. I must respectfully dissent from his assessment of the...

Challenging MLS.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... I take offense at Rob Geiszler's statement that "any reasonably competent 11th grader would have cruised through the MLS program" ("No need for an MLS," Letters, LJ 7/03, p. 10). I don't know where he obtained his MLS, but pursuing mine proved...

Meaningless ILL data.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... Was I the only one who noticed that the table "ILL Use in Public Libraries" in Saul Amdursky's "ILL: Sacred Cow or Vital Service" (LJ 6/1/03, p. 79) is nonsense? The column in the table called "ILL Demand" is actually the sum of the average...

Proud partners.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... In your article on the "Library of the Year: Las Vegas-Clark County Library District" (LJ 6/15/03, p. 32-35), you attribute our distance LIS master's degree to the wrong university. Through a partnership with the University of Nevada-Las Vegas...

ACLU: DOJ misleading about Patriot Act.(Late Bulletins)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last month charged that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has deliberately misled the American public about the USA PATRIOT Act. "Seeking Truth from Justice"...

B&T sold to Willis Stein.(Late Bulletins)(Baker & Taylor)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Willis Stein & Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired mega-book wholesaler Baker & Taylor (B&T) from parent The Carlyle Group for a reported $255 million. Richard Willis, who has more than 20 years' background in media and manufacturing,...

ProQuest acquires SIRS Publishing.(Late Bulletins)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... ProQuest Information & Learning has acquired SIRS Publishing Inc., which produces database products such as SIRS Researchers, SIRS Discover, and SIRS Enduring Issues. Ron Klausner, president of ProQuest Information & Learning, said that SIRS's...

Univ. of Miami hires NYPL's Walker.(Late Bulletins)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The University of Miami (UM), FL, last month named William D. Walker, the New York Public Library's senior VP and Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries, director for libraries. UM's Otto G. Richter Library recently underwent a...

Oprah pick boosts Eden.(Late Bulletins)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Oprah Book Club's brief hiatus didn't curtail the alchemy it performs on sales. Penguin, the exclusive publisher of John Steinbeck's East of Eden, the first title in Oprah's revamped book club, initially ordered 600,000 copies but went back...

CIPA fallout: ALA cancels meeting with filter makers: divided court reinterprets law to allow easy disabling; ALA reevaluates strategies, libraries look at their policies.(News)(Children's Internet Protection Act)
August 1, 2003... The U.S. Supreme Court's surprising decision June 23 upholding the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) not only left libraries scrambling to either reevaluate or reaffirm their Internet policies, it also forced the American Library...

Budgets bouncing up and down; Minneapolis faces major cuts; better news in Nashville, L.A. County.(News)
August 1, 2003... The economy continues to wreak havoc with many library budgets. There is good news from several precincts, but Minneapolis still faces losing a massive portion of its budget. The Cumberland County Public Library, Fayetteville, NC, will...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ...(News)(author morphed into action figure)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Nancy Pearl? Author, columnist, and radio personality Pearl, executive director of the Washington Center for the Book and editor of LJ's Reader's Shelf column, is likely the only librarian in the profession's history to be morphed into an...

Libraries welcome Harry Potter novel; circulation and reserves brisk for Rowling's much-awaited Phoenix.(News)
August 1, 2003... Libraries across the country joyfully joined legions of fans in welcoming the publication of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which sold an estimated five million units in the United States during its first weekend. With budgets...

Bills would boost the public domain; publicly funded research and expiring copyright affected.(News)
August 1, 2003... Two copyright-related bills have recently been introduced in Congress, both of which have been welcomed by librarians. In late June, Congressman Martin Sabo (D-MN) introduced the Public Access to Science Act (HR 2613), which would require that...

NERL stresses price control; call for level serials pricing in 2004; Elsevier's increase is 6.5%.(News)(Northeast Research Libraries Consortium)(Elsevier prices)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The members of the Northeast Research Libraries (NERL) Consortium have released a set of principles to guide their digital acquisitions. The nine Principles for Electronic Journal Licenses provide a framework for NERL libraries and also...

ULC holds virtual members' meeting; conference call a success after ALA gathering canceled.(News)(Urban Libraries Council )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Although the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) canceled its activities at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Toronto in the face of fiscal constraints, the group carried on business and held its elections in a virtual...

Mysterious Press Chief Freed dies: top editor and library champion succumbs to leukemia at age 57.(News)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
August 1, 2003... The mystery genre lost one of its modern champions June 25 when Sara Ann Freed, editor in chief of Mysterious Press, died of leukemia. She was 57. Since coming to Mysterious Press in 1985, Freed signed many of the genre's crop of star authors,...

IMLS awards training grants; other grants support Native Americans and Alaskan Native villages.(News)(Institute of Museum and Library Services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency that supports the nation's libraries and museums, has awarded $880,254 in grants under the institute's National Leadership Grants program in the Education and Training...

Minneapolis "most literate" city: report ranking municipalities includes libraries among indicators.(News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Minneapolis is the most literate city in the nation, with Miami, FL, offering the highest ratio of public and school library services per population, according to "America's Most Literate Cities" (www.uww.edu/cities), a study undertaken by Jack...

Marcum associate librarian at LC.(News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Deanna B. Marcum, formerly president of the Council on Library and Information Resources, has been named associate librarian for library services, Library of Congress (LC). She succeeds Winston Tabb, who in June 2002 was named dean of libraries...

COA announces accreditation actions.(News)(American Library Association's Committee on Accreditation )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The American Library Association's (ALA) Committee on Accreditation (COA) has announced accreditation actions taken at the 2003 ALA annual conference under the 1992 Standards for Accreditation of Master's Programs in Library and Information...

Passaic Public Library.(Public Libraries)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The city of Passaic, NJ, is considering outsourcing management of the Passaic Public Library (PPL) to Library Systems & Services (LSSI). Passaic's city council president and mayor, who support outsourcing, offered to add an extra $50,000--about...

Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Foundation.(Public Libraries)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Thanks to million-dollar donations from the Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation and the Simon family, the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Foundation has exceeded its $18 million fundraising goal and qualifies for a challenge grant from the...

Pueblo City-County Library District.(Public Libraries)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Former Pueblo City-County Library District (PCCLD), CO, Director Richard Lee, who claims he was fired because he questioned former library board president Glenn Ballantyne's business dealings with the library (see News, LJ 6/1/03, p. 22), has...

San Antonio Public Library.(Public Libraries)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Laura Isenstein, director of the San Antonio Public Library, was placed on indefinite administrative leave with pay on July 21, after a 90-minute closed library board session and with little public explanation. The board's decision was 7-2....

Mesa Public Library.(Public Libraries)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Former library volunteer coordinator Janice Gennevois is suing Mesa Public Library, AZ, Director Patsy Hansel along with two city supervisors and the city itself, claiming that she was sexually harassed by Hansel and that city authorities...

Open Society Institute.(Academic Libraries)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Open Society Institute (OSI), along with SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), has announced three new publications (www.soros.org/openaccess) for developers and publishers of open access journals. All three...

University of Iowa.(Academic Libraries)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... A bequest of more than $900,000 from Arlene Kitching French, a 1929 University of Iowa (UI) graduate, will establish the Arlene French Memorial Funds at UI to provide financial resources for UI's main library and its biological sciences...

Florida State Library.(National/International News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... One of the three top deputies at the Florida State Library was fired June 6 as part of a reorganization. Debra Sears, chief of the Bureau of Library and Network, was an 18-year veteran. "I am concerned about the reorganization and the loss of a...

Iraq.(National/International News)(condition of libraries in Iraq after war, 2003)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... A preliminary glimpse at the condition of Iraq's libraries paints a grim situation after the war to remove Saddam Hussein. According to LeMoyne College (Syracuse, NY) professor Keith Watenpaugh, one of a group of historians who recently...

Triumph in Toronto: vendors hail ALA conference a success; quality over quantity as annual meeting attracts upper-level librarians; few product announcements made.(Conference Report)(American Library Association conference, Toronto, Ontario)
August 1, 2003... The American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Toronto (June 19-25) will long be remembered as the conference that almost wasn't. The lagging economy, the threat of SARS infection, the World Health Organization's travel advisory,...

Dynix releases Horizon 7.3; system integrated with Information Portal and Reciprocal Borrowing.(Conference Report)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Possibly the biggest product announcement at ALA was made by Dynix, which debuted Horizon 7.3, the latest edition of its core system. Many of the new features were incorporated following feedback from librarians. According to the vendor, the...

EBSCO acquires abstract databases; Information Today's ISTA and IPCA added; biomedical refs beefed up.(Infotech)(EBSCO Publishing, Information Science and Technology Abstracts, Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... EBSCO Publishing has acquired the Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA) and Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts (IPCA) databases from Information Today, Inc., for an undisclosed sum. Published nine times a year, ISTA includes...

ProQuest licenses new resources; Johns Hopkins titles, Snapshots, and Canadian newspapers added.(Infotech)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... ProQuest has cut deals with several publishers for new resources to include in its large list of database offerings. The company's Information and Learning unit now is distributing 47 titles from Johns Hopkins University Press in its Research...

OCLC/RLG form Metadata group; preservation project seeks long-term retention of digital files.(Infotech)(Online Computer Library Center, Research Libraries Group)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... OCLC and RLG are joining forces for PREMIS, a working group "developing recommendations and best practices" for implementing preservation metadata, which they define as the "information necessary to carry out, document, and evaluate the...

Endeavor partners with Luna Imaging; Insight imaging software added to ENCompass system.(Infotech)(Endeavor Information Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Partnering in the library automation industry continues: Endeavor Information System and Luna Imaging, Inc., have an arrangement that will create "a premium content gateway between the ENCompass system and Luna's Insight software for working...

Inmagic adds XML standard; DB/Text WebPublisher and DB/Text for Libraries improved.(Infotech)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Inmagic has added XML support to its top product with the newest release of DB/Text WebPublisher PRO 7.0 and related wares for the special libraries market. The company said that incorporating XML into its line will let customers edit over the...

Web watch.(Infotech)(health information Web sites)
August 1, 2003... CLICKING ON THE WEB... Anthrax, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Monkeypox--the list of infectious diseases in the news seems to grow longer every month. Library patrons, concerned about their health, most want to know, "Do I have...

Open source goes mainstream.(Digital Libraries)(open source software products and resources for libraries)
August 1, 2003... A FEW YEARS AGO, I wrote about the role of open source software (OSS) in libraries (LJ 1/00, p. 36). At the time, there were indications that OSS would be important, but there were few library-specific applications to point to as proof. Now...

Gordon Anderson is now Scandinavian Area Studies/Western European Social Sciences Librarian, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis (UM-M).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Gordon Anderson is now Scandinavian Area Studies/Western European Social Sciences Librarian, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis (UM-M). Innocent Afuh is now Science Librarian, Magrath Library. Linda Eells is now...

Southern Adirondack Library System.(Sara Dallas)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sara Dallas has been appointed Director, Southern Adirondack Library System, Saratoga Springs, NY, upon the retirement of Miriam Meier. Dallas was Deputy Director and Manager of Outreach Services, Upper Hudson Library System, Albany, NY.

Milwaukee Public Library System.(Cathy Markwiese)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Cathy Markwiese has been named to the new position of Cataloging/Metadata Management Librarian, Milwaukee Public Library System. She has been with the library since 1985.

Roseville Public Library.(Susan Nickerson retires)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Susan Nickerson has retired as Director, Roseville Public Library, CA, after 22 years with the library.

Taylor Ruhl, an academic librarian for nearly 30 years, has been appointed University Librarian.(Wilson Library, University of La Verne)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Taylor Ruhl, an academic librarian for nearly 30 years, has been appointed University Librarian, Wilson Library, University of La Verne, CA, succeeding Marlin Heckman. Ruhl was Director of Library and Media Services, Community College of...

Omaha Public Library.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Rivkah K. Sass, a 2002 LJ Mover & Shaker, has been selected as Director, Omaha Public Library, beginning September 1. She is currently Reference and Information Services Coordinator, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR.

Adams County Library System.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Michael Sawyer is now Director, Adams County Library System, Thornton, CO. He was Director, Northwestern Regional Library, Elkin, NC, which was recognized with the Library of the Future Award by the American Library Association in 2002.

South Carolina State Library.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Anne Schneider, Director of Information Services, South Carolina State Library, Columbia, since 1985, has retired after a 32-year career with the library.

Gary D. Wolfe, Deputy Secretary of Education and Commissioner for Libraries.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Gary D. Wolfe, Deputy Secretary of Education and Commissioner for Libraries, PA, has retired as State Librarian.

Cortland Free Library.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Kay Zaharis has been appointed Director, Cortland Free Library (CFL), NY, following the retirement of Warren S. Eddy, who had been Director since 1964. Zaharis was Supervising Archivist for History Associates Incorporated on the IBM archives...

Obituaries.(People)(Miriam Matthews)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Miriam Matthews, Los Angeles's first black librarian and an expert on black history, Los Angeles Public Library (1927-60), died on June 23 at the age of 97.

Fair use under fire: ALA's copyright expert gives her take on the challenges digital rights management presents for end users--and librarians.
August 1, 2003... A LIBRARY CUSTOMER checks out a new DVD from the library only to discover that it won't play on her Linux operating stem at home. Another, who is blind, borrows an e-book from the library and finds that his text-to-voice software cannot "read"...

A CIPA toolkit: answers to the most frequently asked questions about the Supreme Court's June ruling that upheld the filtering requirement in the Children's Internet Protection Act.(Children's Internet Protection Act )
August 1, 2003... IT'S THE ISSUE that many librarians wish would just go away, or at least remain a local decision, with each community free to develop its own policy. But the Supreme Court placed filtering at the top of the "to do" list for many public library...

Exceeding expectations: attendance was cut down by the SARS scare, but those who came were enthusiastic, buoying exhibitors and vindicating the welcoming hosts.(2003 Conference Reports ALA)
August 1, 2003... THE ATTENDANCE FIGURES and the accomplishments achieved at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) and Canadian Library Association (CLA) held in Toronto, June 19-25, were surely less than planners would have hoped for a...

Uncertainty breeds determination.(2003 Conference Reports SLA)
August 1, 2003... UNDER ACTIVE DISCUSSION and planning for three years, the proposal to give the Special Libraries Association (SLA) a new name disintegrated in less than five minutes at SLA's June conference in New York City, unable to get the votes it needed....

Mapping the reference maze.(Literature Reference)
August 1, 2003... ROLAND BARTHES once said, "Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it." Many frustrated students mired in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land...

Focus on serials.(EBSCO)(Advertisement)
August 1, 2003... The collapse of RoweCom and the uncertainty it caused for many libraries and publishers over the past months damaged the reputation of subscription agents and shook the trust of librarians. Now that EBSCO has concluded the purchase of the...

Making personnel studies work.(Your Money's Worth)
August 1, 2003... HERE'S A NIGHTMARE for a hardworking library administrator: getting caught in a mandated personnel study involving a consultant who knows little or nothing about library services. The consultant was hired by the library's parent jurisdiction...

Prepub alert.(Bibliography)
August 1, 2003... COMING IN DECEMBER 2003... just in time for last-minute holiday shopping, big names like Collins, Koontz, and McMillan. The latest from James, set for December, when she always seems to be published, is being pushed up to November and has...

Prepub best sellers: week ending July 26, 2003.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... 1 The Teeth of the Tiger [F] Tom Clancy. Pumam. Aug. 0-399-15079-X. $27.95. 2 Guinness Book of World Records 2004 [NF] Guinness Book of World Records Eds. Time, Inc. Aug. 1-892051-20-6. $27.95. 3 Street Dreams [F] ...

Reviewers on review: LJ honors an outstanding group of dedicated professionals.(Inside Track)
August 1, 2003... The hundreds upon hundreds of reviewers, mostly librarians, who assess some 6000 titles a year for Library Journal are masters of the genre. They have such total command of the books they've read that they can encapsulate each one, critique it,...

The secret of romance's success.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... It's no secret that romances are popular: they account for well over a third of all popular fiction sales and more than 54 percent of total mass-market paperback sales. The question is, Why? What is it about this often maligned and more often...

Carr, Josephine. The Dewey Decimal System of Love.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... NAL: Putnam. Sept. 2003. c.272p. 0-451-20971-0. pap. $12.95. CONTEMPORARY Ally Sheffield, 40-year-old spinster librarian, woefully inexperienced, and 15 years celibate, is finally in love! So what if the object of her adoration is a world...

Dempsey, Diana. Catch the Moon.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Signet: NAL. Aug. 2003. c.416p. 0-415-20945-1. pap. $6.99. CONTEMPORARY Beautiful, brainy, and the best prosecutor in the Monterey County D.A.'s office, Alicia Maldonado has had to fight prejudice and jealousy every step of the way. But...

Feehan, Christine. Shadow Game.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Jove. Sept. 2003. c.352p. 0-515-13596-8. pap. $6.99. PARANORMAL Dr. Peter Whitney is the driving force behind a new government experiment aimed at enhancing the psychic abilities of a select group of volunteers in order to turn them into...

Foster, Lori. Unexpected.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Brava: Kensington. Sept. 2003. c.288p. 0-7582-0548-1. pap. $14. CONTEMPORARY A beautiful, female, Rambo-type mercenary is not at all what Eli Conners had in mind when he contracted with Ray Vereker to rescue his brother from a Central...

Grant, Susan. The Star Princess.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Love Spell: Dorchester. Aug. 2003. c.384p. 0-505-52541-0. pap. $6.99. FUTURISTIC Compelled by family duty and royal obligation to marry within six months, Prince Che Vedla, heir apparent to one of the eight founding families of the...

Hern, Candice. Once a Scoundrel.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Avon. Aug. 2003. c.384p. 0-06-050563-X. pap. $5.99. HISTORICAL Appalled to learn that the Ladies' Fashionable Cabinet he has just won in a card game is not a piece of furniture but a popular women's magazine, Anthony Morehouse decides to...

Howell, Hannah & others. His Immortal Embrace.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Kensington. Sept. 2003. c.352p. 0-7582-0475-2. pap. $12. PARANORMAL Dark and sexy vampire romances are now all the rage, and this trade paperback collection of four novellas features a wide array of styles and historical settings. Veteran...

King, Susan. Waking the Princess.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Signet: NAL. Sept. 2003. c.352p. 0-451-20883-8. pap. $6.99. HISTORICAL Half in love with the ethereally lovely "sleeping princess" in the painting that hangs on the wall of his study, Aedan MacBride, Laird of Dundrennan by birth and civil...

Kleypas, Lisa & others. Where's My Hero?(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Avon. Sept. 2003. c.384p. 0-06-050524-9. pap. $7.50. HISTORICAL Bowing to readers' requests for "follow-up" stories about notable peripheral characters, three best-selling writers have teamed up to produce a stunning anthology of historical...

Lake, Amy. Lady Pamela.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Five Star: Gale. Aug. 2003. c.288p. 0-7862-4232-9. $26.95. REGENCY Something is festering between Lord Torrance and Lady Pamela Sinclair, and Lady Amanda Detweiler is going to find out exactly what it is. After all, it's obvious to everyone...

Laurens, Stephanie. A Gentleman's Honor.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Avon. Oct. 2003. c.416p. 0-06-000207-7. pap. $7.99. HISTORICAL Although impoverished, Alicia Pevensey is determined to give her young sister a proper come out, even if she has to pose as a married woman so that Adriana can have a "proper"...

Law, Susan Kay. A Wedding Story.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Avon. Oct. 2003. c.384p. 0-06-052518-5. pap. $5.99. HISTORICAL Widowed and financially bereft, Kathryn Bright Goodale knows that her one chance to avoid joining the governess or companion ranks is to win the Great Centennial Race and claim...

Lovelace, Merline. A Savage Beauty.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Mira: Harlequin. Sept. 2003. c.384p. 1-55166-707-X. pap. $6.50. HISTORICAL While scouting out and charting sections of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, Rifle Sgt. Daniel Morgan suddenly finds himself responsible for a French...

Scott, Regina. Perfection.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Zebra: Kensington. Sept. 2003. c.320p. 0-8217-7486-7. pap. $5.99. REGENCY In London to search for her stolen fortune and disguised as a governess to her younger brother, Celia Rider suspects her shallow, flighty stepmother of the theft....

Stanhope, Niqui. Changing the Rules.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... St. Martin's. Oct. 2003. c.352p. 0-312-98623-8. pap. $6.50. MULTICULTURAL When Marcel Templeton's boyfriend of 11 months dumps her over the phone and on her 30th birthday, too, it's the final straw in a hayload of bad romantic choices....

Stuart, Anne. Into the Fire.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Mira: Harlequin. Aug. 2003. c.384p. 1-55166-694-4. pap. $6.50. ROMANTIC SUSPENSE Desperate for answers surrounding the year-old murder of the adored cousin she had grown up with, Jamie Kincaid impulsively leaves Rhode Island and heads to...

Reprints of interest.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Lisa Jackson's 1999 title, Whispers, has been substantially revised and repackaged; it will be released by Zebra this month. Several older works, often series romances, by current popular writers are also appearing this fall. Coming in...

American Presidential Campaigns and Elections.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... 3 vols. Sharpe Reference: M.E. Sharpe. 2003. 1157p. ed. by William G. Shade & Ballard C. Campbell. illus. maps. bibliog. index. 0-7656-8042-4. $325. REF Despite no mention of political parties in the U.S. Constitution and a warning about...

Cassell, Dana K. & Noel Rose, M.D. The Encyclopedia of Autoimmune Diseases.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Facts On File. (Library of Health and Living). 2003. 364p. bibliog. index. 0-81604340-X. $71.50. REF Approximately 22 million Americans have an autoimmune disease (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis and lupus). For some reason, their immune...

*The Chicago Manual of Style: the Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... 15th ed. Univ. of Chicago. Aug. 2003. c.976p. illus. bibliog. index. 0-226-10403-6. $55. REF Since 1906, the incomparable Chicago Manual has been the reference for writers, editors, copyeditors, publishers, and anyone else working with...

Dictionary of American Family Names.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... 3 vols. Oxford Univ. 2003. 2816p. bibliog. ed. by Patrick Hanks. 0-19-508137-4. $295. REF Lexicographer Hanks greatly expands upon his earlier work, A Dictionary of Surnames (1989), in this three-volume guide to 70,000 of the most...

Djupe, Paul A. & Laura R. Olson. Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Facts On File. 2003. 512p. photogs. bibliog. index. 0-8160-4582-8. $85. REF Religious views have played important roles in forming and structuring specific policy objectives in the political arena. Here, political science professors Djupe...