Library Journal articles from February 2011

Library Journal archives from February 2011

Q&A: Damon Murray, Drawings from the Gulag.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Interview)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The son of an 'enemy of the people,' Danzig Baldaev (1925-2005) was forced by the NKVD--predecessor to the KGB--to work as a warden in the infamous prison, Kresty. His work eventually took him across the USSR, where he...

Xpress reviews: first look at new books.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Manga Impact! The World of Japanese Animation)(Brief article)(Book review)
February 15, 2011... "Verdict: This is an essential and manga collection, It caters to new fans and supplies more than enough detail for the diehards out there. Readers will come away from it swimming in glorious amounts of information Highly, recommended."--from...

New series: Best of BookSmack!(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)
February 15, 2011... Beginning with this issue, each month we'll be highlighting unique; cutting-edge book and author coverage from BookSmack!, our free semimonthly e-newsletter. See p. 40 for Devon Thomas s overview of a controversial romance subgenre.

Can bankers keep our books? In tough times or good, libraries need librarians at the helm.(Editorial)
February 15, 2011... LAST MONTH BROUGHT NEWS THAT CHARLES BROWN was leaving his job as director of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (CML), NC, effective June 30. The announcement took library directors around the country by surprise, especially since it was accompanied...

Eroding ALA democracy: virtual participation must not be second-class membership.(blatant berry)(American Library Association)
February 15, 2011... IT'S ALREADY OBVIOUS THAT VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION in meetings and conferences of the American Library Association (ALA) would make ALA governance more transparent, broaden open access to ALA sessions, and increase the number of active,...

Regional systems at risk in California.(news desk)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... California's public librarians are concerned that if Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal to eliminate all state funding for public libraries were to pass, that it could grievously harm a subtle but vital ecosystem that underpins statewide library...

Texas state budget draft decried by librarians.(news desk)
February 15, 2011... The first draft of the state budget submitted to the Texas House on January 18 proposes cutting state funding for local library aid and resource sharing programs essentially to zero. The Senate and Gov. Rick Perry (R) have yet to weigh in on...

Libraries seen as important community asset.(news desk)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... The latest OCLC report on Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Content and Community, presented by Cathy De Rosa at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting, helped to buttress the argument that libraries are essential community...

Stat watch.(news desk)(e-book surveys)(Survey)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... STAT WATCH Percentage of respondents to an international survey who said they had not purchased ebooks in the last 12 months Germany 86% United States 80% United Kingdom 83% Netherlands 93% SOURCE: TURNING THE PAGE: THE...

ALA Midwinter Conference Report.(American Library Association)(Conference notes)
February 15, 2011... More than 10,000 alert, bustling, literate inhabitants of the library world roamed the San Diego Convention Center, January 7-11, at the American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, exploring new frameworks for everything from ebooks...

William Boarman.(people)(CEO of the Government Printing Office )(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... William Boarman has been sworn in as the 26th Public Printer of the United States, serving as CEO of the Government Printing Office (GPO). He began his career at the GPO in the 1970s and most recently was President of the Printing, Publishing...

Creskill Public Library.(people)(Rita Browning)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Rita Browning, Adult Services Librarian, Creskill Public Library, NJ, will become the next Director, subject to expected mayoral and city council approval. She replaces Alice Chi, who spent 12 years in the position.

Anchorage Public Library (APL).(people)(Michael Catoggio)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Michael Catoggio, Special Collections Librarian, Anchorage Public Library (APL), AK, has retired. He most recently was APL's Alaskana Librarian and Humanities Librarian. He had previously served as President of the Alaska Library Association...

Sussex County Department of Libraries.(people)(Carol Fitzgerald)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Carol Fitzgerald, Director, Sussex County Department of Libraries, Georgetown, DE, is retiring after 25 years in the position. Her duties included managing three libraries and countywide interlibrary loan and providing services for 11...

Old Dominion University.(people)(George Fowler)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... George Fowler is the new Associate University Librarian for Information Resources and Technology at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, effective January 25. He was Head, Library Systems Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Framingham Public Library.(people)(Jeanne Kelley)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Jeanne Kelley is the new Director, Framingham Public Library, MA, after serving in an interim capacity. Assistant Director for the past six years, she succeeds Mark Contois, who became Director, Worcester Public Library, MA, last July.

Copyrights.(people)(Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, has retired after 16 years in the position. Maria Pallante, Senior Adviser to the Librarian of Congress, has been appointed Acting Register of Copyrights.

Queens Library.(people)(Bridget Quinn-Carey)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Bridget Quinn-Carey will join Queens Library, NY, as Chief Operating Officer on April 4, 2011. She succeeds Maureen O'Connor, who retired in July 2010. Quinn-Carey has been Director of Buffalo and Erie County Public Library since 2008.

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.(people)(Edwin Schroeder)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Edwin Schroeder has been appointed Librarian of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Associate University Librarian, a five-year appointment, at Yale University, New Haven, CT. He has been Head of Technical Services since 2004.

ALA Midwinter 2011: A Tech Overview
February 15, 2011... Library tech company executives and librarians talked about collaboration, increased engagement of libraries with their users, patron-driven acquisition, and cloud-based services at the 2011 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting,...

LITA streaming controversy hits ALA Midwinter.(INFOTECH)(Library & Information Technology Association)
February 15, 2011... A disagreement regarding an attempt to broadcast over the Internet a meeting of ALAs Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) Board of Directors at ALAs Midwinter Meeting has sparked controversy anew over the implications of ALA'S...

Top tech trends: e-content and the device divide.(INFOTECH)
February 15, 2011... The LITA Top Tech Trends (TTT) moderated discussion at Midwinter was a somewhat subdued but thoughtful affair--focusing mainly on the uses of e-content and less on gadgets than the last TTT panel at ALA's 2010 annual conference in Washington,...

ProQuest acquires ebrary.(INFOTECH)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... There's often a flurry of business activity in the run-up to any ALA meeting, and this year was no exception. In a press release from ProQuest, the aggregator and search company announced that it had purchased ebrary, a longtime player in the...

Sarah Houghton-Jan, the digital futures manager at San Jose Public Library (SJPL), CA, a 2009 LJ Mover & Shaker, and author of the Librarian in Black blog, announced in January that she had accepted a new position as assistant director at San Rafael Public Library, CA.(INFOTECH BRIEFS)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Sarah Houghton-Jan, the digital futures manager at San Jose Public Library (SJPL), CA, a 2009 LJ Mover & Shaker, and author of the Librarian in Black blog, announced in January that she had accepted a new position as assistant director at...

SAGE announced the launch of its SAGE Research Methods Online service at ALAs Midwinter Meeting.(INFOTECH BRIEFS)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... SAGE announced the launch of its SAGE Research Methods Online service at ALAs Midwinter Meeting. The service makes available 120,000 pages of SAGE books and reference materials on research methods and includes tools such as a visual "methods...

Cengage Learning's launch of Gale News Vault enables cross-searching of Gale's entire range of historical newspaper and periodical collections from a single interface.(INFOTECH BRIEFS)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Cengage Learning's bunch of Gale News Vault enables cross-searching of Gale's entire range of historical newspaper and periodical collections from a single interface. Libraries owning any Gale historical newspaper or periodical collection will...

Metadata from Morgent is the latest addition to EBSCO Discovery Service's Base Index.(INFOTECH BRIEFS)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Metadata from Mergent Ls the latest addition to EBSCO Discovery Service's Base Index. The content from Mergent's Annual Reports Database includes 300,000 annual reports from publicly traded companies worldwide.

OCLC, HathiTrust unveil prototype interface.(Online Computer Library Center)(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... OCLC and HathiTrust announced a new prototype WorldCat Local interface for the HathiTrust Digital Library, its digital repository containing some eight million volumes from more than 50 academic and other research libraries. The two institutions...

Liverpool's discovery: a university library applies a new search tool to improve the user experience.(LJ SERIES: THE BIG TOOLS)(University of Liverpool)
February 15, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's the energy at the Sydney Jones Library--the University of Liverpool's arts and humanities library--that a visitor can't miss. Throughout the day, waves of students flow through the front doors of this UK...

Editors' spring picks.(Recommended readings)
February 15, 2011... While we do not represent the rainbow of reading tastes American public libraries accommodate, we Book Review editors--now nine strong--are a wildly eclectic bunch. One look at our bedside tables and ereaders would reveal very little crossover....

Uphill battle: exciting developments even as budgets stay at rock bottom.(BOOK BUYING SURVEY 2011)(Survey)
February 15, 2011... Let's not panic. We knew the news would be bad. Respondents to LJ's annual book buying survey of public libraries nationwide reported that adult book budgets were down eight percent overall, the largest plunge recorded since the survey began in...

Bodice rippers without the bodice: ten male-on-male romances for a core collection.(Book review)
February 15, 2011... One of the hottest growing segments of the romance genre is male-on-male, or M/M romance--gay romantic fiction mostly written and read by straight women. Featuring traditional romance conventions, including mistaken identities, star-crossed...

Tablet crazy: at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, touch-screen tablets took on the iPad. Are they the future of ereading?
February 15, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ereaders are so last year. Tablets were the watchword at this year's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 6-9. This year, the show set new records, with some 2700 companies from around the...

Seek a challenge.(OFFICE HOURS)
February 15, 2011... DANIEL CHUDNOV, LIBRARIAN and programmer in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of congress, recently blogged "Advice to a Library School Student" at One Big Library (bit.ly/dSXcly). Dan writes: The best advice anybody ever...

Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Playing the Game.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... * Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Playing the Game. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. Macmillan Audio from AudioGO. 2010. ISBN 9780792773313. $84.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; 10 CDs. retail ed. Macmillan Audio; Playaway digital; digital download....

Butcher, Jim. Side Jobs.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Butcher, Jim. Side Jobs. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 1/4 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 9781449840921. $123.75; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. Penguin Audio. F For fans of Butcher's (www.jim-butcher. com)...

When Flo Gibson died on January 7 at the age of 86, she was halfway through recording--"give or take a title or two," as per the New York Times--what would have been the 1,134th audiobook of her career.(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... When Flo Gibson died on January 7 at the age of 86, she was halfway through recording--"give or take a title or two," as per the New York Times--what would have been the 1,134th audiobook of her career. In 1983, having narrated for organizations...

The winner of Findaway World's "Picture This" contest (see Audio NewsBriefs, LJ 12/10), which called on public libraries to submit the most creative display of the company's flagship product, Playaway[R] preloaded digital audiobook players, is the Westside Regional Branch of Rapides Parish Library (RPL), Alexandria, LA, for its "Playaway Cafe".
February 15, 2011... The winner of Findaway World's "Picture This" contest (see Audio NewsBriefs, LJ 12/10), which called on public libraries to submit the most creative display of the company's flagship product, Playaway[R] preloaded digital audiobook players, is...

The following unabridged Dreamscape Audio titles will be available in April--through Dreamscape's distributor partner, Midwest Tape, or through various retail outlets--on CD and as a digital download.(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... The following unabridged Dreamscape Audio titles will be available in April--through Dreamscape's distributor partner, Midwest Tape, or through various retail outlets--on CD and as a digital download: Vincent Bugliosi's Divinity of Doubt, Scott...

Child, Lee. Worth Dying For.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... * Child, Lee. Worth Dying For. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 3/4 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307749451. $45; 11 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; NA CDs. retail ed. abridged. NA hrs.; digital download. F Child's (www.leechild.com)...

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. 13 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 15 1/2 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400149612. $35.99; 13 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. CLASS'C LIT The story...

L.A. Theatre Works: sound productions.(BEHIND THE MIKE: AUDIO PUBLISHERS SPOTLIGHT)
February 15, 2011... Describe an audiobook as a recorded book and you might as well call all films documentaries--today's audiobooks comprise recordings of everything from academic lectures and roundtable discussions to radio programming and live theater...

Franklin, Tom. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... * Franklin, Tom. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781441763426. $50;'8 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Edgar Award...

Humphreys, C.C. Vlad: The Last Confession.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Humphreys, C.C. Vlad: The Last Confession. 14 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 16 hrs. Bolinda Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781742148304. $118.95. F Listeners won't find a bloodsucker here, but they will be excited to meet the real Prince of Wallachia,...

Lackberg, Camilla. The Ice Princess.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Lackberg, Camilla. The Ice Princess. tr. from Swedish by Steven T. Murray. 12 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 15 hrs. HighBridge Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781615735464. $39.95; Playaway digital; digital download. F Erica Falck returns to her hometown of...

Le Carre, John. Our Kind of Traitor.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Le Carre, John. Our Kind of Traitor. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 1/2 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307876485. $29.95; 9 CDs. retail ed. Penguin Audio; Playaway digital; digital download. F Former British Foreign Service agent le...

McGuane, Thomas. Driving on the Rim.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... McGuane, Thomas. Driving on the Rim. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 3/4 hrs. AudioGO. 2010. ISBN 9?80792774396. $74.95; digital download. F Rosenthal Award winner McGuane's (tommcguane.com) tenth novel is his first to be recorded on...

Xu Ruiyan. The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... * Xu Ruiyan. The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 1/2 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400149322. $83.99; 9 CDs. retail ed.;1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; Playway digital; digital download. F [ILLUSTRATION...

Breyer, Stephen. Making Our Democracy Work.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... * Breyer, Stephen. Making Our Democracy Work. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 1/4 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 9781449831271. $102.75; Playaway digital; digital download. POL SCI Supreme Court Justice Breyer, appointed by President Clinton...

Bryson, Bill. At Home.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Bryson, Bill. At Home. 13 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 16 1/2 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307707376. $45; 13 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; Playaway digital; digital download. HIST Popular UK-based writer Bryson...

Buettner, Dan. Thrive.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Buettner, Dan. Thrive. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. Dreamscape Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781611200010. $44.99. SELF-HELP In this follow-up to his New York Times best-selling The Blue Zones (2008)--also available from Dreamscape Audio and...

Colton, Larry. No Ordinary Joes.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Colton, Larry. No Ordinary Joes. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400147991. $95.99; 12 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. HIST Colton, whose Counting Coup (2000) was...

Fragments.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Fragments. ed. by Stanley Buchthal & Bernard Comment. 2 CDs. retail ed. abridged. 3 hrs. Macmillan Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781427211675. $19.99; digital download. AUTOBIOG [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Some 50 years after Marilyn Monroe's tragic...

Harris, Sam. The Moral Landscape.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... Harris, Sam. The Moral Landscape. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 6 3/4 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 9781449818708. $72.75; 7 CDs. retail ed. S. & S. Audio; digital download. SCI Neuroscientist Harris, author of the 2005 PEN/Faulkner...

Moliere. Tartuffe.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... * Moliere. Tartuffe. tr. from French by Richard Wilbur. 2 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 1 3/4 hrs. L.A. Theatre Works. 2010. ISBN 9781580817776. $25.95; digital download. DRAMA This is an audio recording of a live stage performance of Pulitzer...

White, Betty. Here We Go Again.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
February 15, 2011... White, Betty. Here We Go Again. 3 CDs. library ed. abridged. 3 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 9781442339699. $21.75; 3 CDs. retail ed. S. & S. Audio; digital download. AUTOBIOG At 89, actress White is enjoying a resurgence in popularity...

Lytton's Diary: Complete Collection.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... Lytton's Diary: Complete Collection. 4 discs. colon 597 min. Herbert Wise & others, Thames Television, dist. by Acorn Media, 688-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2010. DVD ISBN 9781598284256. $59.99. F Neville Lytton (Peter Bowles) leads a...

Prayers for Bobby.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... Prayers for Bobby. color. 91+ min. Russell Mulcachy, Once Upon a Time Films in assoc. with Sladek/Taaffe Prods., dist. by Lifetime c/o New Video, 800-314-8822; www.newvideo.com. 2010. DVD ISBN 9781422910542. $19.95. Closed-captioned. F/GENDER...

The Leach Pottery, 1952.(A Year in the Life)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... The Leach Pottery, 1952. b/w. 32+ min. w/booklet. Marty Gross Film Prods., 416-536-3355; www.martygrossfilms.com. 2010. DVD UPC 089949300595. $100. Public performance. A Year in the Life. color. 24+ min. Atom Burke Prods., 319-331-6638;...

Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black. color. 94+ min. Adam Dubin, Black Humor, Inc. & Triage, dist. by History Channel, 800-933-6249; shopaetv.com. 2010. ISBN 9781422992531. $19.95. Closed-captioned. HUMOR Comedian Lewis Black's...

Daily views of YouTube videos presently exceed two billion, nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. broadcast networks combined.(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Daily views of YouTube videos presently exceed two billion, nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. broadcast networks combined. Considering the rate at which new content is uploaded to the site and existing content is...

Sears Holdings Corporation recently launched an online streaming video service, Alphaline Entertainment, which makes movies and TV shows available for rent or purchase on the day of their DVD/Blu-ray release.(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Sears Holdings Corporation recently launched an online streaming video service, Alphaline Entertainment, which makes movies and TV shows available for rent or purchase on the day of their DVD/Blu-ray release. There is some skepticism surrounding...

JFK Library and Museum.(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... In January, the JFK Library and Museum unveiled a new digital archive of historic multimedia materials relating to John F. Kennedy's presidency that were previously accessible only by a physical visit to the library. The archive features 72...

Facts On File recently enhanced its American History Online database with a video gallery, making available over 1000 reels of news footage as well as updated content from the revised edition of Gary Nash's award-winning Encyclopedia of American History (LJ 4/1/10).(Brief article)
February 15, 2011... Facts On File recently enhanced its American History Online database with a video gallery, making available over 1000 reels of news footage as well as updated content from the revised edition of Gary Nash's award-winning Encyclopedia of American...

GV9: Soulful Ways: The DJ.(GV11: Don't Believe Da Noize! Voices from Hip-Hop Undaground)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... GV9: Soulful Ways: The DJ. 45 min. DVD UPC 6624250011834. GV11: Don't Believe Da Noize! Voices from Hip-Hop Undaground. Pt. 1.55 min. DVD UPC 662425011827. ea. vol: Bob Bryan, Bryan World Prods., www.graffitiverite.com. 2010. $19.95; public...

Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... * Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. color & b/w. 91+ min. Peter Miller, dist. by 7th Art Releasing, 323-845-1455; www.7thart.com. DVD $129; acad. libs. $350. Public performance. SPORTS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Baseball...

The Queen & I.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... The Queen & I. colon 90+ min. In English & Farsi w/English subtitles. Nahid Persson Sarvestani, Real Reel Doc, dist. by Walking Shadows, www.walking-shadows.com. 2010. DVD UPC 798304090383. $24.95. am Empress Farah Pahlavi, exiled...

The Back Nine.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... * The Back Nine. colon 65+ min. Ron Vignone & Jon Fitzgerald, Right Angle Pictures, dist. by Magnolia Home Entertainment, www.magpictures.com. 2010. DVD UPC 876964003735. $26.98. SPORTS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is the story of...

Tom Watson Lessons of a Lifetime.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... Tom Watson Lessons of a Lifetime. 2 discs. 105 min. with book. Tom Watson Prods., dist. by AV Caf6, 877-228-2233; www.theavcafe.com. 2010. DVD UPC 654367067994. $49.95. SPORTS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Golf legend Tom Watson's first...

Army of Shadows.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... Army of Shadows. color. 145+ min. In French w/English subtitles. Criterion Collection, dist. by Image Entertainment. 1969. Blu-ray ISBN 9781604653717. $39.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] French Resistance fighters (Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre...

The Complete Metropolis.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... The Complete Metropolis, 2 discs, b/w. 148+ min. K/no Intl. 1927. DVD UPC 738329069025. $29.99; 1-disc Blu-ray UPC 738329071325. $39.99. Fritz Lang's influential sf classic presents a future world where the oppressed underground masses toil...

Cronos.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... Cronos. color. 92+ min. In English & Spanish w/English subtitles. Criterion Collection, dist. by Image Entertainment. 1993. DVD ISBN 9781604651836. $29.95; Blu-ray ISBN 9781604651843. $39.95. Guillermo del Tore (Pan's Labyrinth) shows...

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... Map of the Sounds of Tokyo. color. 107 min. In English & Japanese w/English subtitles. IFC Films, dist. by MPI Home Entertainment. 2009. DVD ISBN 9780788613470. $24.98. Seeking vengeance against the boyfriend (Sergi Lopez, Pan's...

The Sicilian Girl.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... The Sicilian Girl. color. 110 min. In Italian w/English subtitles. Music Box Films. 2010. DVD UPC 705105743653. $29.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Seventeen-year-old Rita (Veronica D'Agostino) turns to an encouraging magistrate in order to...

Freakonomics: The Movie.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... * Freakonomics: The Movie. color. 93 min. Alex Gibney, Chad Troutwine Presentation in assoc, with Gold Fusion Media & Green Film Co., dist. by Magnolia Home Entertainment, www.magpictures.com. 2011. DVD UPC 876964003564. $26.98; Blu-ray UPC...

More Time To Teach: Working with Challenging Parents.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... More Time To Teach: Working with Parents, color. 23 min w/tchr's. guide ChildSense, LLC, 651-353-4959; www.childsense.net. 2010. DVD ISBN 9780984179817. $79.95. Public performance. ED One might believe that a mill exists that produces...

Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi. color. 84 min. Ian Olds, HBO Documentary Films, dist. by Passion River, 732-321-0711; www.passionriver.com. 2010. DVD UPC 728028033199. $24.98. INT AFFAIRS Ajmal Naqshbandi was working for an Italian...

The Age of Stupid.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... The Age of Stupid. 2 discs, color. 89+ min. Franny Armstrong, Spanner Films, dist. by Docurama c/o New Video Group, 800-314-8822; www.newvideo.com. 2010. ISBN 9781422987674. $29.95, ENVIRONMENT One hopes that another documentary about the...

A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW. color. 35+ min. David Donnenfield & Kevin White, Video Project, Filmmakers Collaborative Inc., 415-546-0155; www.filmmakerscollaborative.org. 2010. DVD. $29.95; acad. libs. $74.95. Public performance....

French Polish Like a Pro! with Vijay Velji.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
February 15, 2011... French Polish Like a Pro! with Vijay Velji. colon 30 min. ShellacFinishes, 858-780-2865; www.shellacfinishes.com. 2009. $24.95 + $5.10 s/h. HOME IMPROVEMENT French polish is a technique that provides a beautiful, glossy mirror finish using...

Gamification and libraries.(GAMES, GAMERS, & GAMING)
February 15, 2011... Gamification. Marketers love it, game developers love to hate it. I hardly know what to make of it. At its most basic definition, it is the application of game-play mechanics in nongame settings. It is increasingly used by marketers to sell more...

Music for the masses.(NEXT ISSUE)
February 15, 2011... Matthew Moyer (Popular Media Dept., Jacksonville PL, FL) has previously surveyed popular albums, artists, and defining moments in the history of various music genres as well as interviewed music critics, vendors, and librarians. NEXT UP: A...

Prepub alert.(Book review)
February 15, 2011... Abbott, Megan. The End of Everything. Reagan Arthur Bks: Little, Brown. Jul. 2011. 256p. ISBN 9780316097796. $23.99. Download: Hachette Audio. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie's best friend has disappeared, and as family and police hunt for her,...

Romance.(Book review)
February 15, 2011... SMALL-TOWN SETTINGS in romance are all the rage lately. Cities, of course, continue to be in vogue for certain sub-genres (e.g., urban romantic fantasy), but for contemporaries in particular it seems as if everyone is headed for small-town or...