Library Journal articles from August 2012

Library Journal archives from August 2012

Too Many Ebook Cooks: Ineffectual Committees Aren't Fast Enough to Ensure Robust Access
August 1, 2012... HOW MANY COMMITTEES DOES IT TAKE TO COME up with an ebook strategy for public libraries? It seems you can't have too many. I won't go into a litany of American Library Association [ALA] working groups, except to mention the unfortunately named...

Add Substance to Style: ULC's New Leadership Brief Neglects Public Library Values
August 1, 2012... IT ISN'T A FATAL FLAW, BUT THE THIRD IN THE URBAN Libraries Council (ULC) series of "knowledge briefs," Library Leaders Owning Leadership, would have been stronger with substantive content on the values of librarianship. That would have given...

LA Eliminates State Aid to Public Libraries
August 1, 2012... The FY13 Louisiana budget signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal on June 15 eliminates almost $896,000 in state aid to libraries. Rebecca Hamilton, state librarian of Louisiana, told LJ, "The State Aid to Public Libraries program was eliminated from this...

Michigan Libraries Seek to Curb Guns
August 1, 2012... On July 11, the Michigan Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a case over whether libraries can ban weapons. The case, Capital Area District Library (CADL) v. Michigan Open Carry Inc., was decided in the library's favor last May by the...

Pew: Patrons Still Don't Know Libraries Have Ebooks
August 1, 2012... Of Americans aged 16 and over, only two percent have borrowed an ebook from a library in the past year, the Pew Internet Project announced at the American Library Association (ALA) conference in Anaheim, CA. Only 12 percent of ebook readers have...

ALTAFF to Support Itself; Changes Name
August 1, 2012... The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF) is losing its $56,000 subsidy from the American Library Association (ALA). The subsidy currently makes up more than ten percent of ALTAFF's approximately $450,000...

Story Sailboat Takes Books to the Bay
August 1, 2012... By day, Librarian Patrick "P.C." Sweeney manages two libraries for San Mateo County, CA; by night and weekend, he and partner Joey Elle Lehnhard live on one sailboat and sail another, a Santana 22 named Sailboat Jerry. Sweeney got the idea to...

NYC Politicians Urge Ban on Sex Offenders
August 1, 2012... New York public advocate Bill de Blasio and council member Peter F. Vallone Jr. of Queens asked the New York State legislature to pass a law barring sex offenders from children's reading rooms in libraries. In addition to proposing a city...

Salt Lake Audit Preps for a Permanent Director
August 1, 2012... The Salt Lake City Council and Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL) Board received a briefing in mid-July on the library's recently completed performance audit. The audit was initially proposed on October 29, 2011, when the board accepted...

NYC Libraries Consider Common Card
August 1, 2012... Distribution of new "common" library cards to more than one million schoolchildren in New York City this summer is viewed as progress toward the more far-reaching goal of creating the first unified, seamless library experience for residents in...

Librarian Gains Benefits for Same-Sex Spouse
August 1, 2012... Starting in July, Washington County, MD, librarian Bill Taylor's husband, Mark Noble, will receive the same benefits that spouses of librarians in opposite-sex marriages get. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Taylor, who has worked for the Washington...

NYPL, BPL Test Ebook Pilot with Penguin, 3M
August 1, 2012... Big Six publisher Penguin Group, the New York Public Library (NYPL), the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), and 3M Library Systems have announced a pilot project to make Penguin ebooks available to NYPL and BPL patrons six months after initial...

Cleveland Public Library Debuts TechCentral
August 1, 2012... As part of its broader effort to make its main branch a destination for residents living, working, and visiting downtown Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library (CPL) in June unveiled TechCentral, a new $1 million technology center that features 90...

Califa Lands $325,000 in Ebook Project Funding
August 1, 2012... The San Mateo-based Califa Group, which is the largest library network in California, has made major strides in its effort to create an ebook ownership model along the lines of that used in Colorado's Douglas County Libraries. Califa has...

Colorado Consortium Explores DDA
August 1, 2012... In May, nine libraries from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries launched a demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) ebook pilot program. The consortial effort, which is being run with YBP Library Services, EBook Library (EBL), and ebrary, may...

Iowa City Library Launches Local Music Project
August 1, 2012... When the Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) launched its Local Music Project at music.icpl.org, an effort that makes the music of local musicians freely available to Iowa City library cardholders, it may not have expected the nationwide interest it...

Bibliotheca Debuts Ebook Division on DCL Model
August 1, 2012... Library technology company Bibliotheca is entering the ebook market by developing a solution for libraries that want to follow the model of Douglas County Libraries (DCL), Castle Rock, CO, for direct ebook ownership rather than licensing content...

Open Source LibraryBox Project Growing
August 1, 2012... Librarians are finding new uses for the open source LibraryBox project led by Jason Griffey, head of Library IT at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and an LJ Mover & Shaker. The do-it-yourself devices, which consist of a...

Seattle Public Library Partners with KEXP Radio
August 1, 2012... The Seattle Public Library (SPL) has partnered with the University of Washington's acclaimed KEXP radio (90.3 FM) to offer access to KEXP's collection of approximately 3200 live, in-studio performances recorded at the station. The...

Hungry for Sf: Genre Crossovers Retain Fans and Attract New Readers
August 1, 2012... It's not your typical New Yorker cover: a spaceman, a robot, and a sea monster break through a wall to crash a literary cocktail party. Marking the magazine's first sf issue in its 87-year history, the June 4 and June 11, 2012, cover titled...

In the Shadow of Ebooks: The Technologies Librarians Want but Can't Get Drove the Most Buzz at ALA's Annual Conference
August 1, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hot-button topics going into this year's American Library Association (ALA) conference in Anaheim, CA, included what the Georgia State e-reserves decision means for the future of fair use, what librarians will use to...

All Hat, No Cattle: A Call for Libraries to Transform before It's Too Late
August 1, 2012... In too many venues, particularly around the issue of ebooks and publishers, librarians are doing a lot of whining lately. Mostly, it's to one another. We tell ourselves how important we are while at the same time complaining that too few other...

Inspiring Library Leaders: David Bendekovic & LJ Help Today's Leaders Prepare Themselves for Tomorrow's Challenges
August 1, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2004, David Bendekovic began developing a program to help shape leaders who could handle the rapid changes and challenges confronting the library world. It was based on seven years of research conducted by the...

Viewing the Environment
August 1, 2012... Back in 1967, visionary designer Buckminster Fuller employed in his work the metaphor that we are all aboard "Spaceship Earth." Now that concept seems prophetic, as humans are said to be exceeding the limits of Earth's resources and carrying...

Degreed and Jobless
August 1, 2012... HERE WE ARE: THE SPANKING-NEW class of degreed librarians. For the past year or two or more, we have memorized our profession's code of ethics, role-played the reference interview, and practiced AACR2 to impractical depths. We have defended...

Hachette Audio VP Anthony Goff: Spreading the Audiobook Word through Award-Winning Titles and Top Authors
August 1, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A little background on yourselves. Do you specialize in any genre, or de you release titles across the board? Hachette Audio publishes titles across a wide spectrum. There's truly something for everybody to enjoy...

Trailers: What's Coming on DVD/Blu-Ray
August 1, 2012... Ballplayer: Pelotero. color. 77 min. In English & Spanish w/English subtitles. Ross Flnkel & others, dist. by Strand Releasing. Sept. 2012. DVD UPC 712267320523. $24.99. SPORTS How Dominican Republic baseball players get their start....

Home Field Advantage
August 1, 2012... Many gamers are avid sports fans. "Sports-only" players are a huge subset of video gamers, and lots of them eventually branch out to discover other genres. Sports games are a valuable tool for media advisory and can lead to some heavy...

Prepub Alert: The First Word on Titles and Trends
August 1, 2012... THRILLERS Connolly, John. The Wrath of Angels: A Charlie Parker Thriller. Atria: S. & S. Jan. 2013. 416p. ISBN 9781476703022. $26. THRILLER Cook, Robin. Nano. Putnam. Jan. 2013. 432p. ISBN 9780399160820. $26.95; CD: Penguin Audio....

Mysterious Galaxy
August 1, 2012... * Mysterious Galaxy Redondo Beach. CA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Visiting Los Angeles recently, I drove over to the Redondo Beach area to case out Mysterious Galaxy (mystgalaxy.com), a year-old satellite of the San Diego-based mother store,...

Series Lineup
August 1, 2012... Andrews, Donna. Some Like It Hawk: A Meg Langslow Mystery. Minotaur: St. Martins's 2012. c.244p. ISBN 9761250007506. $24.99. M [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Meg Langslow's little town, Caerphilly, is foreclosed, and the lender is ready to take...

Cowboy Up
August 1, 2012... As a genre, the Western has always been closely aligned with romance in my mind. But romance columnist Kristin Ramsdell is right in her discussion of the subject on page 74; the influence has drifted into all other genres, creating intriguing...

Newsworthy
August 1, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 2012 winners of the prestigious Locus Awards were announced in Seattle during the annual Locus Awards Weekend, June 15-17, 2012. Some of...

Barrett, Elisabeth. Deep Autumn Heat
August 1, 2012... e Barrett, Elisabeth. Deep Autumn Heat. Loveswept: Random. (Star Harbor, Bk. 1). 2012. c.300p. ISBN 9780345534330. EPUB $2.99. CONTEMPORARY In her debut (and first in the "Star Harbor" series), Barrett introduces the inhabitants of Star...

Becker, Anne Marie. Avenging Angel
August 1, 2012... e * Becker, Anne Marie. Avenging Angel. Carina: Harlequin. (Mindhunters, Bk. 2). Aug. 2012. c.252p, eISBN 9781426894152. EPUB $5.99. ROMANTIC SUSPENSE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following Only Fear, Becker's second "Mindhunters" title depicts...

Gaines, Alice. Storm Bound: A Cabin Fever Novella
August 1, 2012... e Gaines, Alice. Storm Bound: A Cabin Fever Novella. Avon Impulse. 2012. NAp. eISBN 9780062210586. EPUB $1.99. EROTIC ROMANCE Christie Lovejoy has designs upon two very attractive men: Wolf Martin and Jon Carlson, potential investors in the...

Kwan, Coleen. Asher's Invention
August 1, 2012... e Kwan, Coleen. Asher's Invention. Carina: Harlequin. 2012. c.94p. eISBN 9781426893988. EPUB $3.99. STEAMPUNK ROMANCE England, 1870s. Miss Minerva Lambkin's father has been kidnapped, and in order to save him she must now ask for help from...

Lawson, Corrina. Luminous
August 1, 2012... e Lawson, Corrina. Luminous. Samhain. (Phoenix Institute, Bk. 2). 2012. 125p. eISBN 9781609288365. EPUB $3.50. PARANORMAL Noir is invisible and can glow with an intense light, giving her a two-pronged superhero edge. She is Subject Six to...

Navarre, Laura. by Royal Command
August 1, 2012... e * Navarre, Laura. By Royal Command. Carina: Harlequin. 2012, 998Kb. eISBN 9781426894008. EPUB $5.99. HISTORICAL Katrin of Courtenay, niece to the King of England, has been forced into a loveless marriage simply to secure English alliances....

Randol, Anna. A Most Naked Solution
August 1, 2012... e Randol, Anna. A Most Naked Solution. Avon Impulse. 2012. NAp. eISBN 9780082121721. EPUB $1.99. HISTORICAL [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lord Camden Grey is the Justice of the Peace only under protest; he would much prefer to he working on...

Roberts, Teresa Noelle. Fox's Folly
August 1, 2012... e Roberts, Teresa Noelle. Fox's Folly. Samhain. (Duals & Donovans: The Different). 2012, 132p. eISBN 9781619211049. EPUB $3.50. PARANORMAL, LGBT This prequel to Foxes' Den takes place approximately eight years before the events of that...

Reader Challenge! Ladies Love Cowboys
August 1, 2012... Life in the American West has long been popular fiction fodder. From James Fenimore Cooper's "Leather-stocking Tales," Owen Wister's iconic The Virginian, and Zane Grey's adventurous tales to the more recent offerings of Larry McMurtry and...

Xpress Reviews: WWW.Libraryjournal.Com
August 1, 2012... LJ's free weekly web evaluations for the weeks ending July 6, july 13; and July 20, 2012. Go to reviews.libraryjournal.com/tag/xpress-reviews E-ORIGINALS Adair, Marina, Tucker's Crossing eKensington. Adams, Dee J. Dangerously Close....

Q&A: Margaret Dilloway
August 1, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Inflexible and uncompromising, science teacher Galilee Garner divides her time away from work between her rose-breeding hobby and her outings to the hospital for dialysis treatments. But her structured life is...

Africa Bibliography
August 1, 2012... Africa Bibliography Cambridge University Press http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFB; for free trials please go to: http://africabibliography.cambridge.org/ CONTENT This online guide to African studies works is...

Ebrary's Medical Library Packs
August 1, 2012... Ebrary's Medical Library Packs Ebrary; ebrary.com Title preview available at ow.ly/cdWVI CONTENT Ebrary has recently released three ebook packages aimed at medical students and practitioners: the Medicine pack, the Nursing & Allied...

Research in Jeopardy!
August 1, 2012... The entertaining and invariably challenging television show Jeopardy! first aired in 1964 and currently attracts a reported 10 million viewers daily. Librarians can appreciate the enormous amount of reference research required to produce the...

The Books Most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries
August 1, 2012... [lj bestsellers] The books most borrowed in U.S. libraries LAST RANKING/ FICTION LAST ...