Library Journal articles from August 2010

Library Journal archives from August 2010

25 reasons why academic publishing is sexier think.(ON THE WEB)(Quotation)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... "Awash as we are in ungrammatical blogs and tweets, we need The Chicago Manual of Style more than ever. The 16th edition boldly addresses the electronic environment and offers more rules than the 15th, which abounded in take-your-pick...

Xpress reviews first look at new books.(ON THE WEB)(Quotation)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Verdict: The author of three historical mysteries but a newcomer here, Mountain is a writer to watch. She is on par with such leading historical authors as Alison Weir and Philippa Gregory. Her fourth novel is...

Register today LJ's virtual ebook conference.(ON THE WEB)
August 1, 2010... School, public, and academic librarians will all find valuable discussion at "Ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point," a virtual conference on Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Don't miss keynote speakers Raymond Kurzweil and Kevin Kelly. For a...

Credits for free: ALA should offer no-cost certification to practitioners by practitioners.(American Library Association)(Editorial)
August 1, 2010... HOW'S THIS FOIL A CONVOLUTED PROCESS? If you're a library support staff person--someone who works in a library without an MLS, whether you go by paraprofessional, paralibrarian, or another term--then you may be eligible for the American...

Correction.(feedback)(Correction notice)
August 1, 2010... In "New Directions for Collections" (Online Databases, LJ 16/1/10, p. 24), the name of Jill Emery, head of acquisitions, University of Texas Libraries at Austin, was misspelled. We apologize for the error.

Major PL broadband grants.(newsdesk)(public libraries)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Some state libraries and governmental organizations will receive tens of millions of dollars to help libraries by upgrading public computer centers and extending broadband access. In many cases, a significant local match is supported by the Bill...

Drastic cuts mitigated in NYC; service to suffer.(newsdesk)(New York City, New York)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... While New York City's three library systems escaped a proposed $75 million cut, they must absorb a loss of perhaps $15 million and are in most cases seeing service reduced to five days a week. The Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Library...

NJ state funding cuts: 43%.(newsdesk)(New Jersey)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... After the proposed 74 percent cut in state support for libraries in New Jersey generated a groundswell of protest, the result has been a 43 percent reduction, a loss of $6.1 million. This includes a halving of per capita state aid to libraries...

Budget roundup: Newark, Indianapolis, Camden.(newsdesk)(Indiana)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Faced with decreased tax revenues and certain deficits, as well as a community outcry over closing branches, the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library (IMCPL) will cut materials by 20 percent, eliminate positions and summer Sunday hours, and...

Aid to 105 TX rural libraries.(newsdesk)(texas)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Thanks to a $1.6 million grant from the Wichita Falls, TX-based Robert and Ruby Priddy Charitable Trust, the University of North Texas Department of Library and Information Sciences, Denton, will launch a three-year project, Promoting &...

In CA, another LSSI battle.(newsdesk)(California; Library Systems & Services, LLC)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... The combination of a budget squeeze and some dismay over past library leadership has led San Joaquin County, CA, to consider outsourcing management of the Stockton--San Joaquin County Public Library to Library Systems & Services, LLC (LSSI),...

New generation of researchers.(STAT WATCH)(Survey)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Never used Interlibrary Loan: 36% / 25% Gen Y / Older Students Never consulted subject specialist librarians: 57% / 42% Gen Y / Older Students Source: Researchers of Tomorrow study commissioned by the British Library and JISC;...

Charlotte seeks help.(newsdesk)(Charlotte Mecklenberg Library)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... The Charlotte Mecklenberg Library, NC, which has been slammed by budget cuts, is recruiting volunteers; its "top need" is for Circulation Assistants who can donate two or more hours a week for six months. Also, 18 local booksellers last month...

Big grant for distance learning, telemedicine.(newsdesk)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... A $62.5 million federal broadband grant to a group of national research and education networking organizations will link libraries, schools, and other groups, offering the capacity for high-bandwidth applications like telemedicine and distance...

PA library support drops.(newsdesk)(Pennsylvania)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Libraries in Pennsylvania, which last year saw a 27.9 percent cut in state support, are bracing for additional reductions in hours, staff, and materials, after the legislature passed a 9.1 percent drop in subsidies for public libraries. Because...

Research on scanned books.(newsdesk)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Google will dispense $479,000 this year to 12 universities to support research on material it has scanned in its 12 million-volume Google Books project. According to Google's Jon Orwant, engineering manager for Google Books, magazines, and...

Former Lexington CEO Imhoff sues PL board.(newsdesk)(Lexington Public Library chief executive officer Kathleen Imhoff; public libraries)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Former Lexington Public Library, KY, CEO Kathleen Imhoff, who on July 15, 2009, was dismissed without cause but after significant local controversy, has sued the library board and its former chair for breach of contract, lost career...

Copyright case could threaten library lending.(newsdesk)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Why is the Library Copyright Alliance (LEA) interested in a legal battle between watch manufacturer Omega and big-box retailer Costco? Because a pending Supreme Court case may threaten the "first sale doctrine" in the Copyright Act, which allows...

Move to change Boston PL board controversial.(newsdesk)(Boston Public Library)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... The Boston City Council on June 30 quickly approved a "home rule petition" to expand the number of mayor-appointed Boston Public Library (BPL) trustees to 13 from nine and to give them the ability to fundraise. The petition was expected to gain...

Database woes in LA.(newsdesk)(Louisiana)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Louisiana is facing drastic cuts in state revenue; the state Board of Regents (BoR) announced June 25 that it would withdraw the $2.7 million it was scheduled to provide to the Louisiana Library Network (LOUIS), the statewide multi-type library...

New roles at LJ.(newsdesk)(Library Journal)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... There have been several job changes at Library Journal over the past few months. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Josh Hadro has been named Associate Editor, Reference, Ebooks, and Digital, a newly created position. He continues as editor of the LI...

Google digitization also involves Europeana.(NEWSDESK)(Google Inc.)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... After signing agreements with national libraries in Italy and Austria, Google has announced a partnership with the National Library of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), to supplement the latter's digitization work by scanning...

Talking book center in Illinois won't close.(NEWSDESK)(Voices of Vision Talking Book Center)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... The DuPage Library System, Geneva, IL, which was scheduled to end its role administering a Voices of Vision Talking Book Center (TBC) on July 1 because of delayed funding from the State of Illinois, will instead keep the center open another...

OCLC and LYRASIS join forces.(NEWSDESK)(Online Computer Library Center)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... OCLC, long established as the world's largest library cooperative, and the recently formed LYRASIS, which quickly became the country's largest regional library membership organization, have announced a partnership agreement for "the next...

LAPL tax plan delayed.(NEWSDESK)(Los Angeles Public LIbrary)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Los Angelenos hoping for a restoration of six-day library service may have to wait a good deal longer. While the Board of Library Commissioners of Los Angeles sought a citywide Library Parcel Tax on the ballot for November, the city council said...

Top innovations awards for urban libraries.(NEWSDESK)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Twelve library projects have been identified by the Urban Libraries Council as 2010 Top Innovations. Among them: * Brooklyn Public Library, NY: Today's Teens, Tomorrow's Techies (T4) volunteer program * Calgary Public Library: It's a...

Tennessee Tech University.(people)(Douglas Bates)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Douglas Bates was appointed Dean of Library and Learning Assistance at Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville. He was University Librarian at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Laie.

University of Oklahoma.(people)(Cecelia Brown)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Cecelia Brown is now Director of the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman. She was a faculty member.

Wayne County Public Library.(people)(Jimmie Epling)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Jimmie Epling, Regional Consultant for the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, is now Director, Wayne County Public Library, Wooster, OH, replacing the retiring Greg Lubelski.

Kirkwood Public Library.(people)(Sarah Sorrells Erwin)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Sarah Sorrells Erwin has been named Director, Kirkwood Public Library, MO, after serving as Acting Director.

Martha Esch.(people)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Martha Esch has retired from her position as Director of Kent District Library, Comstock Park, MI, a position she held since 2001. She was Michigan Library Association's 2010 Librarian of the Year.

Worthington Libraries.(people)(Chuck Gibson)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Chuck Gibson is the new Director of Worthington Libraries (WL), OH, replacing Meribah Mansfield, who retired. Gibson directed the South Georgia Regional Library System, Valdosta. WL was the 2007 Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year.

Linda E. Johnson will serve a one-year fixed term as Interim Executive Director at the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL).(people)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Linda E. Johnson will serve a one-year fixed term as Interim Executive Director at the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL). She succeeds Dionne Mack-Harvin who left at the end of her three-year term. Johnson, who has advanced degrees in law and...

Connie Kearns McCarthy.(people)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Connie Kearns McCarthy retired recently as Dean of University Libraries at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Under her leadership, the Earl Gregg Swem Library expanded more than 100,000 square feet.

Fresno County Library.(people)(Laurel Prysiazny )(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Laurel Prysiazny has been appointed County Librarian of the Fresno County Library, CA, replacing Karen Bosch Cobb, who retired in April. Prysiazny was Deputy Director for the Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix Public Library.

Warren County Public Library.(people)(James Stevens )(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... James Stevens is the new Director, Warren County Public Library, Warrenton, NC. He previously directed the Osceola Library System, Kissimmee, FL.

Boston Library Consortium.(people)(Melissa Trevvett )(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Melissa Trevvett has been named Executive Director, Boston Library Consortium, an association of 19 academic and research libraries. She was VP and Director of Programs and Services for the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago.

Acton Public Library.(people)(Michele Van Epps )(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Michele Van Epps is the new Director of the Acton Public Library, CT. She has served as Young Adult and Research Librarian at Acton since 2004. She replaces the retiring Janet Crozier.

OCLC's cloud-based ILS enters next phase.(infotech)
August 1, 2010... Little more than a year ago, OCLC unveiled its ambitious cloud-computing-based integrated library system (ILS) project, Web-scale Management Services (WMS). That project has now moved into an early implementation stage at a handful of libraries,...

Roy Tennant: marginalized librarians?(infotech)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On his LJ Digital Libraries blog, Roy Tennant noted a recent Webjunction (webjunction.org) survey on how often its members--a group made up of mainly library staffers--used online tools, including blogs, as well as...

Cengage learning fuses Gale, other units.(INFOTECH)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Gale parent company Cengage Learning is consolidating. Two former business units--Gale and the Academic and Professional Group (APG)--will now operate as a single group along with the company's international operations. Though Gale will cease...

First GPO preservation librarian, from Yale.(INFOTECH)(Government Printing Office hires David Walls )(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) announced July 14 that it has hired Yale University preservation librarian David Walls as its first preservation librarian, to aid the GPO'S ongoing digital initiatives. Walls will be involved with...

Internet archive lends copyrighted ebooks.(INFOTECH)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... The Internet Archive (IA), as part of its Open Library initiative (openlibrary. org), announced in late June that it had made available nearly 200 ebook versions of out-of-print but in-copyright works, as part of a new e-lending program. Over...

Overdrive programs aim to ease concerns.(INFOTECH)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Digital content provider OverDrive serves as the de facto ebook access point for millions of patrons nationwide. But being on top isn't easy: "success begets stress," as director of marketing David Burleigh diplomatically put it to LJ at the...

Losing libraries/saving libraries: a national snapshot of cuts and advocacy responses.(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Sometimes we have to know what is at risk before we can engage in saving it. This summer, as public libraries continued to get budget hit after budget hit across the country, several readers asked for a comprehensive picture of the ravages of...

At the tipping point: four voices probe the top ebook issues for librarians.(EBOOK SUMMIT PREVIEW)(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... In preparation for the daylong virtual summit Ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point, on September 29, from Library Journal and School Library Journal, LJ's editors have gathered just a few of the many voices exploring the problems and potential...

Libraries, ebooks, and competition.(EBOOK SUMMIT PREVIEW)
August 1, 2010... People keep writing articles about how valuable libraries are, even with ebooks and the Internet and all. Well, doh. Of course libraries are important. What people are overlooking is that the reason libraries are having such fits dealing with a...

Ebooks and the Retailization of Research.(EBOOK SUMMIT PREVIEW)
August 1, 2010... It seems as if every day brings another breathless announcement about the advance of ebooks. Most recently, Amazon crowed that it's selling more ebooks than hardcovers. (It sells far more paperbacks than ebooks, but that's not man-bites-dog...

Ebook sanity.(EBOOK SUMMIT PREVIEW)
August 1, 2010... Treating the digital like the physical is insanity of the highest order. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: publishers that restrict content in an attempt to control it in the same way as they can control a print book are fighting a...

E-texts for all (Even Lucy).(EBOOK SUMMIT PREVIEW)
August 1, 2010... If digital literacy is exploding, the visually disabled are taking the shrapnel. I would wager that most librarians consider ourselves committed to accessibility and make individual and organizational efforts to comply with (and often exceed)...

Sweating it out: in DC, librarians regroup and recharge.(LJ REPORT WASHINGTON, DC ALA 2010)
August 1, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the 2010 annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) was assigned to Washington, DC, no one could have predicted that libraries (and the country) would be facing a collective budget crisis. So the...

Not ready for boot hill.(Collection Development: Westerns)
August 1, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Western fiction is unique among the major fiction genres recognized by public libraries (which would include...

When personality vanishes.(BACKTALK)
August 1, 2010... EVERY MONDAY FOR THE PAST three years I have turned the front of the community college library where I work into a coffee shop. Popular vindication for my efforts has been slow, but it's been peaking ever since I started putting up humorous...

Butcher, Jim. Changes.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... * Butcher, Jim. Changes. 13 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 15 3/4 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4498-1662-9. $123.75; 13 CDs. retail ed. Penguin Audio; Playaway digital; digital download. F This excellent 12th entry in Butcher's...

Coonts, Deborah. Wanna Get Lucky?(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Coonts, Deborah. Wanna Get Lucky? 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 1/2 hrs. Brilliance Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4418-4379-1. $79.97; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Coonts...

UK-based media company AudioGo recently acquired BBC Audiobooks America (BBCAA) and its parent company, BBC Audiobooks.(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... UK-based media company AudioGo recently acquired BBC Audiobooks America (BBCAA) and its parent company, BBC Audiobooks. (BBC Worldwide will retain a 15 percent stake in the business.) Going forward, BBCAA will trade as AudioGo but will continue...

A David LeDoux-narrated unabridged recording of Freedom, Jonathan Franzen's follow-up to the National Book Award winner The Corrections (2001), will be available from BBC Audiobooks America and Macmillan Audio in September.(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... A David LeDoux-narrated unabridged recording of Freedom, Jonathan Franzen's follow-up to the National Book Award winner The Corrections (2001), will be available from BBC Audiobooks America and Macmillan Audio in September. An early review of...

Audio Publishers Association's 2009 Sales Survey.(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... The results of the Audio Publishers Association's 2009 Sales Survey, which polled both the library and consumer markets, are in. Among the findings: while hard goods (cassettes, CDs, preloaded units) currently represent 71 percent of audio...

Recorded Books, in partnership with Transparent Language, has released Byki Mobile Community Edition.(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Recorded Books, in partnership with Transparent Language, has released Byki Mobile Community Edition, an extension to Byki Online for Libraries and Byki Online for Education available as an iPhone app and shortly also...

Tantor Audio.(Brief article)
August 1, 2010... Tantor Audio has so far this summer released new recordings of three Ray Bradbury classics: The Martian Chronicles, read by Scott Brick, Something Wicked This Way Comes, reed by Kevin Foley, and Long After Midnight, read by Michael Pritchard....

Downs, Tim. Wonders Neverr Cease.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Downs, Tim. Wonders Hover Cease. 7 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 8 hrs. Oasis Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-1-59859-730-1. $27.99; digital download. F Book 2 of Christy Award winner Downs's "Berinfell Prophecies" series, following Plague Maker (2007),...

Faulks, Sebastian. A Week in December.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Faulks, Sebastian. A Week in December. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 3/4 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-71409-1. $100; 10 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. F Seven Londoners interact in surprising and often...

Giordano, Paolo (b. 1982 - ). The Solitude of Prime Numbers.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Giordano, Paolo. The Solitude of Prime Numbers. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. Brilliance Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4418-3672-4. $89.97; 6 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/ retail eds.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Just as a...

Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child. Fever Dream.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... * Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child. Fever Dream. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 1/4 hrs. Hachette Audio from BBC Audiobooks America. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60788-531-3. $114.99; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; 12 CDs. retail ed. Hachette Audio; 6 CDs....

Vine, Barbara. Gallowglass.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Vine, Barbara. Gallowglass. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 3/4 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2010. ISBN 978-0-7927-7043-5. $89.95; Playaway digital; digital download. F Edgar Award-winning crime writer Ruth Rendell's fourth pseudonymous...

Winspear, Jacqueline. The Mapping of Love and Death.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... * Winspear, Jacqueline. The Mapping of Love and Death. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2010. ISBN 978-0-7927-7120-3. $94.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Alexander, Larry. In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... * Alexander, Larry. In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 1/2 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4001-4625-3. $69.99; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. HIST ...

Top-selling recorded books audios for the month of June.(TOP AUDIO)(Brief article)(List)
August 1, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 Dead in the Family. Charlaine Harris. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 3/4 hrs. ISBN 978-1-4407-9352-3. $92.75; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Book ten in Harris's No. 1 New York Times...

Burnett, Carol. This Time Together.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Burnett, Carol. This Time Together. 5 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 5 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-73469-3. $30; 5 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. AUTOBIOG [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Burnett, one of the most...

Culbert, Samuel A. with Lawrence Rout. Get Rid of the Performance Review!(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Culbert, Samuel A. with Lawrence Rout. Get Rid of the Performance Review! 6 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. Hachette Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60788-175-9. $26.98; digital download. BUS Culbert (management, UCLA; Beyond Bullsh*t), together...

Elkins, Katherine L. The Giants of French Literature.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Elkins, Katherine L. The Giants of French Literature. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 lectures. Modern Scholar: Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4407-2607-1. $98.75; Playaway digital. LIT In 14 short lectures, Elkins (humanities, Kenyon...

Alter, Jonathan. The Promise: President Obama, Year One.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... * Alter, Jonathan. The Promise: President Obama, Year One. 18 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 21 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISDN 978-1-4498-1907-1. $123.75; 18 CDs. retail ed. S. & S. Audio; digital download. BIOG/POL SCI [ILLUSTRATION...

Remnick, David. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... * Remnick, David. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. 20 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 23 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-73435-8. $50; 20 CDs. retail ed.; Random Audio; digital download. BIOG/POL SCI [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Hardyment, Christina. The Pleasures of the Garden.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Hardyment, Christina. The Pleasures of the Garden. 4 CDs w/20-page booklet, retail ed. unabridged. 5 hrs. Naxos AudioBooks. 2010. ISBN 978-184-379-359-5. $28.98; digital download. LIT/POETRY This is an anthology of 65 garden-themed literary...

McDonough, Jimmy. Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... McDonough, Jimmy. Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 1/4 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4417-2665-0. $59; 1 MP3-CD. library ed; Playaway digital; digital download. MUSIC McDonough...

Richards, Susan. Saddled: How a Spirited Horse Reined Me in and Set Me Free.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... * Richards, Susan. Saddled: How a Spirited Horse Reined Me in and Set Me Free. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4001-4576-8. $59.99; 7 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download....

Vandenbroucke, Russell. Atomic Bombers.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Vandenbroucke, Russell. Atomic Bombers. 2 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 1 /2 hrs. L.A. Theatre Works. 2010. ISBN 978-1-58081-619-9. $25.95; Playaway digital; digital download. DRAMA Following excerpts of letters and other written material from...

Warner, Judith. We've Got Issues.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2010... Warner, Judith. We've Got Issues. 8 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 9 1/4 hrs. HighBridge Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-1-61573-083-4. $29.95; Playaway digital; digital download. PARENTING The very passion driving Warner's (www. judithwarneronline.com)...

Guns on the Clackamas.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2010... Guns on the Clackamas. color. 80 min. Bill Plympton, dist. by Microcinema, 415-447-9750; www.microcinema.com. 2009. DVD ISBN 978-0-9652075-7-7. $19.95. F Multi-award-winning animator Plympton, Oscar nominee for his 1987 animated short Your...

Murdoch Mysteries. Season 2.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2010... Murdoch Mysteries. Season 2. 4 discs. color. 598+ min. Paul Fox & others, ITV Global in assoc, with Shaftesbury Film, dist. by Acorn Media, 888-870-8047; www.acornonline. com. 2010. DVD ISBN 978-1-59828-381-5. $59.99. SDH subtitles. F The...

Ride with the Devil.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2010... Ride with the Devil. color. 160+ min. Ang Lee, Gramercy Pictures & Good Machine Prod., dist. by Criterion Collection c/o Image Entertainment, www.image-entertainment. com. 2010. DVD ISBN 978-1-60465-249-9; Blu-ray ISBN 978-1-60465-248-2....

We'll Meet Again.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2010... We'll Meet Again. 4 discs, colon 679 min. Tony Wharmby & others, dist. by Acorn Media, 888-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2010. DVD ISBN 978-1-59828-383-9. $59,99. F It's 1943, and the 525th Bomb Group has established a base in Market...

James Castle: Portrait of an Artist.(Our City of Dreams)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2010... James Castle: Portrait of an Artist. 53 min. Jeffrey Wolf, Fdn. for Self-Taught Artists. DVD UPC 7-20229-91380-5. Our City of Dreams. 85+ min. Chiara Clemente, Di San Luca Films. DVD UPC 7-20229-91381-2. ea. vol: color & b/w. dist. by...

Helvetica.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2010... Helvetica. color. 95+ min. In German w/ English subtitles. Gary Hustwit, Plexifilm, plexiflm.com. 2010. DVD UPC 0-82354-00422-4. $20; Blu-ray UPC 0-82354-00432-3. $34.99. GRAPHIC ARTS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Are you font-sensitive? Whether...